SAS® Base Certification Exam Prep Workshop trains the Business Analysis professionals to write SAS® programs, build proficiency in data manipulation techniques and subsequently succeed in attaining the certification – SAS® Certified Base Programmer for SAS® 9.

SAS® Certified Base Programmer for SAS® 9course includes two books – SAS®Programming 1: Essentials and SAS® Programming 2: Data Manipulation Techniques. Participants learn how to navigate the SAS® windowing environment; read various types of data into SAS® data sets; enhance listing and summary reports; and combine and validate SAS® data sets.

This Base SAS® certification and training program additionally imparts the skills required to control SAS® data set input and output; perform DO loop and SAS® array processing; andtransform character, numeric, and date variables. After completing the SAS® Certified Base Programmer for SAS® 9 course, candidates can work as SAS® Developers, Business Analysts, ETL Specialists, Securities Analysts and Statisticians.

Successfully completing the SAS® Certified Base Programmer for SAS® 9 certification makes participants eligible for the Advanced SAS® Programmer Certification.

Course Content–

SAS® Programming 1: Essentials

Introduction to SAS® foundation
Introduction to SAS® programs
Accessing SAS® Data
Producing Detail Reports
Formatting Data Values
Reading SAS® Data Sets
Reading Spreadsheet and Database Data
Reading Raw Data Files
Manipulating Data
Combining SAS® Data Sets
Creating Summary Reports
SAS® Programming 2: Data Manipulation Techniques

Introduction
Controlling Input and Output
Summarizing Data
Reading Raw Data Files
Data Transformations
Debugging Techniques
Debugging Techniques
Restructuring a Data Set
Combining SAS® Data Sets