SAS Certification

The SAS Certified Professional Program was launched by SAS Institute, Inc. in 1999 to recognize users who can demonstrate an in-depth understanding of SAS software. The program consists of five certifications across a number of functional areas. There are several SAS courses which prepare users for the certification exams. To date manyprogrammers have taken these courses, some experienced users just take the exams, and there are many other SAS savvy professionals who are experienced but not SAS certified!
This paper will review the benefits and limitations of the Certification Program for new SAS users as well as those who are more experienced and investigate whether it meets the needs of the user community. Why get certified?
Eg:
Question: 1
The following SAS program is submitted:
data work.accounting;
set work.dept1 work.dept2;
jobcode = ‘FA1’;
length jobcode $ 8;
run;
A character variable named JOBCODE is contained in both the WORK.DEPT1 and
WORK.DEPT2 SAS data sets. The variable JOBCODE has a length of 5 in the WORK.DEPT1
data set and a length of 7 in the WORK.DEPT2 data set. What is the length of the variable
JOBCODE in the output data set?
A - 3
B - 5
C - 7
D - 8
Answer: B