QUESTION NO: 1
When mean imputation is performed on data after the data is partitioned for honest assessment, what is the most appropriate method for handling the mean imputation?

A. The sample means from the validation data set are applied to the training and test data sets.
B. The sample means from the training data set are applied to the validation and test data sets.
C. The sample means from the test data set are applied to the training and validation data sets.
D. The sample means from each partition of the data are applied to their own partition.

Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 2
An analyst generates a model using the LOGISTIC procedure. They are now interested in getting the sensitivity and specificity statistics on a validation data set for a variety of cutoff values.
Which statement and option combination will generate these statistics?

A. Scoredata=valid1 out=roc;
B. Scoredata=valid1 outroc=roc;
C. mode1resp(event= ’1′) = gender region/outroc=roc;
D. mode1resp(event”1″) = gender region/ out=roc;

Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 3
In partitioning data for model assessment, which sampling methods are acceptable? (Choose two.)

A. Simple random sampling without replacement
B. Simple random sampling with replacement
C. Stratified random sampling without replacement
D. Sequential random sampling with replacement

Answer: A,C

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QUESTION NO: 4
In order to perform honest assessment on a predictive model, what is an acceptable division between training, validation, and testing data?

A. Training: 50% Validation: 0% Testing: 50%
B. Training: 100% Validation: 0% Testing: 0%
C. Training: 0% Validation: 100% Testing: 0%
D. Training: 50% Validation: 50% Testing: 0%

Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 5
A confusion matrix is created for data that were oversampled due to a rare target.
What values are not affected by this oversampling?

A. Sensitivity and PV+
B. Specificity and PV
C. PV+ and PV
D. Sensitivity and Specificity

Answer: D

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QUESTION NO: 7
An analyst has a sufficient volume of data to perform a 3-way partition of the data into training, validation, and test sets to perform honest assessment during the model building process.
What is the purpose of the test data set?

A. To provide a unbiased measure of assessment for the final model.
B. To compare models and select and fine-tune the final model.
C. To reduce total sample size to make computations more efficient.
D. To build the predictive models.

Answer: A

QUESTION 1
The following SAS program is submitted:
Data sasuser.history;
Set sasuser.history(keep=state x y
Rename = (state=ST));
Total=sum(x,y);
Run;
The SAS data set SASUSER.HISTORY has an index on the variable STATE. Which describes the result of submitting the SAS program?

A. The index on STATE is deleted and an index on ST is created
B. The index on STATE is recreated as an index on ST
C. The index on STATE is deleted
D. The index on STATE is updated as an index on ST

Answer: C

QUESTION 2
The following SAS program is submitted:
%macro one(input);
%two;
%put the value is &date;
%mend;
%macro two;
data _null_;
call symput(‘date’,’12SEP2008′);
run;
%mend;
%let date=31DEC2006;
%one(&date)
What is the result when the %PUT statement executes?

A. A macro variable DATE with the value 12SEP2008 is retrieved from the local symbol table for
the ONE macro
B. A macro variable DATE with the value 12SEP2008 is retrieved from the local symbol table for
the TWO macro
C. A macro variable DATE with the value 12SEP2008 is retrieved from the global symbol table
D. A macro variable DATE with the value 31DEC2006 is retrieved from the global symbol table

Answer: C

QUESTION 3
Which SET statements option names a variable that contains the number of the observation to read during the current iteration of the DATA step?

A. OBS=pointobs
B. POINT=pointobs
C. KEY=pointobs
D. NOBS=pointobs

Answer: B

QUESTION 4
When reading a SAS data file, what does the NOBS=option on the SET statement represent?

A. A variable that represents the total number of observation in the output data set(s)
B. A variable that represents a flag indicating the end of the file
C. A variable that represents the total number of observations in the input data set(s)
D. A variable that represents the current observation number

Answer: C

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QUESTION 5
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The following SAS program is submitted:
%macro check(num=4);
%let result=%sysevalf(&num+0.5);
%put result is &result;
%mend;
%check(num=10)
What is the written to the SAS log?

A. 0.5
B. 10
C. 10.5
D. 10+0.5

Answer: C

QUESTION 6
The following SAS program is submitted:
%micro test(var);
%let jobs=BLACKSMITH WORDSMITH SWORDSMITH;
%let type=%index(&jobs,&var);
%put type = &type;
%mend;
%test(SMITH)
What is the value of the macro variable TYPE when the %PUT statement executes?

A. 0
B. Null
C. 6
D. 3

Answer: C

QUESTION 7
The following SAS program is submitted:
%macro check(num=4);
%let result=%eval(&nm gt 5);
%put result is &result;
%mend;
%check (num=10)
What is written to the SAS log?

A. result is true
B. result is 10 gt 5
C. result is 1
D. result is 0

Answer: C

QUESTION 8
The following SAS program is submitted:
data temp;
length 1 b 3 x;
infile ‘file reference’;
input a b x;
run;
What is the result?

A. The data set TEMP is not created because variables A and B have invalid lengths
B. The data set TEMP is created, but variable X is not created
C. The data set TEMP is not created because variable A has an invalid length
D. The data set TEMP is created and variable X has a length of 8

Answer: C

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QUESTION 8
The following SAS program is submitted:
%let dept=prod;
%let prod=merchandise;
The following message is written to the SAS log:
The value is “merchandise”
Which SAS System option writes this message to the SAS log?

A. %put the value is “&&&dept”;
B. %put the value is “&&&dept”;
C. %put the value is “&&&dept”;
D. %put the value is %quote(&&&dept);

Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 1
The SAS data set SASUSER.HOUSES contains a variable PRICE which has been assigned a permanent label of “Asking Price”. Which SAS program temporarily replaces the label “Asking Price” with the label “Sale Price” in the output?

A. proc print data = sasuser.houses; label price = “Sale Price”; run;
B. proc print data = sasuser.houses label; label price “Sale Price”; run;
C. proc print data = sasuser.houses label; label price = “Sale Price”; run;
D. proc print data = sasuser.houses; price = “Sale Price”; run;

Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 2
The following GAS program is submitted:
data work.empsalary;
set work.people (in = inemp)
work.money (in = insal);
if insal and inemp;
run;
The SAS data set WORKPEOPLE has 5 observations, and the data set WORKMONEY has 7 observations. How many observations will the data set WORK.EMPSALARY contain?

A. 0
B. 5
C. 7
D. 12

Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 3
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

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QUESTION NO: 4
Given the SAS data set SASDATA.TWO:
SASDATA.TWO
XY
—-
52
31
56
The following SAS program is submitted:
data sasuser.one two sasdata.three;
set sasdata two;
if x = 5 then output sasuser.one;
else output sasdata two;
run;
What is the result?

A. data set SASUSER.ONE has 5 observations
data set SASUSER.TWO has 5 observations
data set WORK.OTHER has 3 observations
B. data set SASUSER.ONE has 2 observations
data set SASUSER.TWO has 2 observations
data set WORK.OTHER has 1 observations
C. data set SASUSER.ONE has 2 observations
data set SASUSER.TWO has 2 observations
data set WORK.OTHER has 5 observations
D. No data sets are output.
The DATA step fails execution due to syntax errors.

Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 5
The following SAS program is submitted:
footnote 1 ‘Sales Report for Last Month’;
footnote2 ‘Selected Products Only’;
footnote3 ‘All Regions’;
footnote4 ‘All Figures in Thousands of Dollars’;
proc print data = sasuser.shoes;
footnote2 ‘All Products’;
run;
Which footnote(s) is/are displayed in the report?

A. All Products
B. Sales Report for Last Month All Products
C. All Products All Regions All Figures in Thousands of Dollars
D. Sales Report for Last Month All Products All Regions All Figures in Thousands of Dollars

Answer: B

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