EMT Practice Test

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Question1: Given the contents of the raw data file 'EMPLOYEE.TXT'

Which SAS informat correctly completes the program?

Question2: The following program is submitted:
proc sort data=SASUSER.PROJECTS out=PSORT;
by Code descending Date Cost;
run;
Which of the following is true concerning the submitted program?

Question3: The following output is created by the FREQUENCY procedure:

Which TABLES option(s) would be used to eliminate the row and column counts and just see the frequencies and percents?

Question4: The SAS data set EMPLOYEE_INFO is listed below:
IDNumber Expenses
2542 100.00
3612 133.15
2198 234.34
2198 111.12
The following SAS program is submitted:
proc sort data = employee_info;
run;
Which one of the following BY statements completes the program and sorts the data sequentially by descending expense values within each descending IDNUMBER value?

Question5: Which one of the following SAS procedures displays the data portion of a SAS data set?

Question6: The following SAS program is submitted:
data work.new;
length word $7;
amount = 7;
if amount = 5 then word = 'CAT';
else if amount = 7 then word = 'DOG';
else word = 'NONE!!!';
amount = 5;
run;
Which one of the following represents the values of the AMOUNT and WORD variables?

Question7: The following SAS program is submitted:
data work.month;
date = put('13mar2000'd,ddmmyy10.);
run;
Which one of the following represents the type and length of the variable DATE in the output data set?

Question8: Which one of the following statements is true regarding the name of a SAS array?

Question9: Consider the following data step:
data WORK.NEW;
set WORK.OLD;
Count+1;
run;
The varaible Count is created using a sum statement.
Which statement regarding this variable is true?

Question10: The Excel workbook REGIONS.XLSX contains the following four worksheets:
EAST
WEST
NORTH
SOUTH
The following program is submitted:
libname MYXLS XLSX 'c:\ data\ regions.xlsx';
Which PROC PRINT step correctly displays the NORTH worksheet?

Question11: Given the SAS data set WORK.EMP_NAME:

Given the SAS data set WORK.EMP_DEPT:

The following program is submitted:

How many observations are in data set WORK.ALL after submitting the program?

Question12: Given the following SAS data set WORK.EMPDATA:

Which WERE statement would display observations wit Job_Title containing the word "Manager"?

Question13: A SAS programmer assigns a library reference to an existing Excel workbook named exceldata.xlsx. Using a DATA step, the programmer attempts to create a worksheet named outdata in this Excel workbook. However, the Excel workbook already contains a worksheet named outdata.
What will happen?

Question14: The following SAS program is submitted:
proc format
value score 1 - 50 = 'Fail'
51 - 100 = 'Pass';
run;
proc report data = work.courses nowd;
column exam;
define exam / display format = score.;
run;
The variable EXAM has a value of 50.5.
How will the EXAM variable value be displayed in the REPORT procedure output?

Question15: Given the SAS data set WORK.ONE:

And the SAS data set WORK.TWO:

The following program is submitted:

What is the first observation in the SAS data set WORK.BOTH?

Question16: The following SAS program is submitted:
data work.test;
set work.staff (keep = jansales febsales marsales);
array diff_sales{3} difsales1 - difsales3;
array monthly{3} jansales febsales marsales;
run;
What new variables are created?

Question17: Which ODS statement option terminates output being written to an HTML rile?

Question18: This question will ask you to provide a segment of missing code.
Given the SAS data set WORK.ONE:

The following SAS program is submitted:

The data set WORK.TWO is created, where Day would be the day of the month:

Which expression successfully completed the program and creates the variable Day?

Question19: Given the SAS data set WORK. PRODUCTS:

The following SAS program is submitted:
data WORK. REVENUE (drop=Sales Returns);
set WORK. PRODUCTS (keep=ProdId Price Sales Returns); Revenue-Price* (Sales-Returns); run; How many variables does the WORK.REVENUE data set contain?

Question20: Given the SAS data set ONE:
ONE
ObsDte
-------------
109JAN2005
212JAN2005
The following SAS program is submitted:
data two;
set one;
day = <insert expression here>;
format dte date9.;
run;
The data set TWO is created:
TWO
ObsDteDay
109JAN20051
12JAN20054
Which expression successfully completed the program and created the variable DAY?

Question21: Given the following raw data record:
07Jan2005
Which INFORMAT reads this raw data and stores it as a SAS date value?

Question22: The following SAS program is submitted:
data work.products;
Product_Number = 5461;
Item = '1001';
Item_Reference = Item'/'Product_Number;
run;
Which one of the following is the value of the variable ITEM_REFERENCE in the output data set?

Question23: Given the contents of the raw data file EMPLOYEE:
----|----10----|----20----|----30
Alan
19/2/2004
ACCT
Rob
22/5/2004
MKTG
MaryJane
14/3/2004
EDUC
The following SAS program is submitted:
data emps;
infile 'employee';
input@1 name$
@15 date <insert INFORMAT here>
@25 department$;
run;
Which INFORMAT correctly completes the program?

Question24: The contents of the raw data file FURNITURE are listed below:
--------10-------20-------30
chair,,table
chair,couch,table
The following SAS program is submitted:
data stock;
infile 'furniture' dsd;
input item1 $ item2 $ item3 $;
run;
Which one of the following is the value of the variable named ITEM2 in the first observation of the output data set?

Question25: Given the SAS data set WORKAWARDS:
WORK.AWARDS
FNAMEPOINTSMONTH
----------------------------------
Amy24
Amy17
Gerard33
Wang33
Wang112
Wang18
The following SAS program is submitted:
proc sort data = work.awards;
by descending fname points;
run;
How are the observations sorted?

Question26: The following SAS program is submitted:
options pageno = 1;
proc print data = sasuser.houses;
run;
proc means data = sasuser.shoes;
run;
The report created by the PRINT procedure step generates 5 pages of output.
What is the page number on the first page of the report generated by the MEANS procedure step?

Question27: The following SAS program is submitted:

What is the initial value of the variable Total in the following program?

Question28: The following SAS program is submitted:
data work.pieces;
do while (n lt 6);
n + 1;
end;
run;
Which one of the following is the value of the variable N in the output data set?

Question29: Given the SAS data set PERM.STUDENTS:
PERM.STUDENTS NAMEAGE
---------------- Alfred14
Alice13
Barbara13
Carol14
The following SAS program is submitted:
libname perm 'SAS data library';
data students;
set perm.students;
file 'file specification';
put name $ age;
<insert statement here>
run;
The following double-spaced file is desired as output
Alfred 14
Alice 13
Barbara 13
Carol 14
Which statement completes the program and creates the desired file?

Question30: The following SAS program is submitted:
Data WORK.COMPRESS;
ID = '1968 05-10 567';
NewID = compress (ID, "-");
run;
What will the value of NewID be in the WORK.COMPRESS data set?

Question31: The following SAS program is submitted:

If the value for the Alumcode is: ALUM2, what is the value of the variable Description?

Question32: Which statement specifies that records 1 through 10 are to be read from the raw data file customer.txt?

Question33: Given the SAS data set WORK.ONE:

The following SAS program is submitted:

The data set WORK.TWO is created, where Day would be 1 for Sunday, 2 for Monday, 3 for Tuesday, ... :

Which expression successfully completed the program and creates the variable DAY?

Question34: Given the SAS data set WORK.ORDERS:

Ship_date is a numeric variable containing a SAS data value. A programmer would like to create a new character variable Ship_date-char that represents the ship date as a character string, such as "February 2,2009' Which statement will create the new variable Ship_date_char as a character value with a format such as "February 2, 2009"?

Question35: The following SAS program is submitted:

What new variables are created?

Question36: The SAS data set named WORK.SALARY contains 10 observations for each department, and is currently ordered by Department.
The following SAS program is submitted:

What is the value of the variable Total before the first iteration of the data step?

Question37: The following SAS program is submitted:
data work.total;
set work.salary(keep = department wagerate);
by department;
if first.department
then payroll = 0;
payroll + wagerate;
if last.department;
run;
The SAS data set named WORKSALARY contains 10 observations for each department, and is currently ordered by DEPARTMENT.
Which statement is true?

Question38: The SASDATA.BANKS data set has five observations when the following SAS program is submitted:
libname sasdata 'SAS-data-library';
data allobs;
set sasdata.banks;
capital=0;
do year = 2000 to 2020 by 5;
capital + ((capital+2000) * rate);
output;
end;
run;
How many observations will the ALLOBS data set contain?

Question39: The SAS data sets WORK.EMPLOYEE and WORK.SALARY are listed below:
WORK.EMPLOYEE WORK.SALARY
fname age fname salary
Bruce 30 Bruce 25000
Dan 40 Bruce 35000
Dan 25000
The following SAS program is submitted:
data work.empdata;
merge work.employee
work.salary;
by fname;
totsal + salary;
run;
How many variables are output to the WORK.EMPDATA data set?

Question40: The contents of the raw data file AMOUNT are listed below:
--------10-------20-------30
$1,234
The following SAS program is submitted:
data test;
infile 'amount';
input @1 salary 6.;
if _error_ then description = 'Problems';
else description = 'No Problems';
run;
Which one of the following is the value of the DESCRIPTION variable?

Question41: The contents of two SAS data sets named EMPLOYEE and SALARY are listed below:
EMPLOYEE SALARY
name age name salary
Bruce 30 Bruce 40000
Dan 35 Bruce 35000
Dan 37000
Dan .
The following SAS program is submitted:
data work.empsalary;
merge work.employee (in = inemp)
work.salary (in = insal);
by name;
if inemp and insal;
run;
How many observations will the data set WORK.EMPSALARY contain?

Question42: Which statement is true concerning the SAS automatic variable _ERROR_?

Question43: The following SAS program is submitted:
footnote1 '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?

Question44: When SAS encounters a data when reading from a raw data file, which action will occur?

Question45: The SAS data set BANKS is listed below:
BANKS
name rate
FirstCapital 0.0718
DirectBank 0.0721
VirtualDirect 0.0728
The following SAS program is submitted:
data newbank;
do year = 1 to 3;
set banks;
capital + 5000;
end;
run;
Which one of the following represents how many observations and variables will exist in the SAS data set NEWBANK?

Question46: Unless specified, which variables and data values are used to calculate statistics in the MEANS procedure?

Question47: A SAS program is submitted and the following SAS log is produced:
2 data gt100;
3 set ia.airplanes
4 if mpg gt 100 then output;
22 202
ERROR: File WORK.IF.DATA does not exist.
ERROR: File WORK.MPG.DATA does not exist.
ERROR: File WORK.GT.DATA does not exist.
ERROR: File WORK.THEN.DATA does not exist.
ERROR: File WORK.OUTPUT.DATA does not exist.
ERROR 22-322: Syntax error, expecting one of the following: a name,
a quoted string, (, ;, END, KEY, KEYS, NOBS, OPEN, POINT, _DATA_, _LAST_, _NULL_.
ERROR 202-322: The option or parameter is not recognized and will be ignored.
5 run;
The IA libref was previously assigned in this SAS session.
Which one of the following corrects the errors in the LOG?

Question48: The following SAS program is submitted:

Which statement is true about the output data set?

Question49: The following SAS DATA step is submitted:
data work.accounting;
set work.department;
length jobcode $ 12;
run;
The WORK.DEPARTMENT SAS data set contains a character variable named JOBCODE with a length of 5.
Which one of the following is the length of the variable JOBCODE in the output data set?

Question50: A user-defined format has been created using the FORMAT procedure.
How is it stored?

Question51: The following SAS program is submitted:
data WORK.DATE_INFO;
X="01Jan1960" D;
run;
What variable X contains what value?

Question52: The following program is submitted:

Why does the program fail?

Question53: Given the SAS data set ONE:
Given the SAS data set WORK.ONE:

The following SAS program is submitted:

Which report is produced?

Question54: The following SAS program is submitted:
data test;
set chemists;
jobcode = 'Chem2'
then description = 'Senior Chemist';
else description = 'Unknown';
run;
The value for the variable JOBCODE is:
JOBCODE
-------------
chem2
What is the value of the variable DESCRIPTION?

Question55: The following SAS program is submitted:
data _null_;
set old (keep = prod sales1 sales2);
file 'file-specification';
put sales1 sales2;
run;
Which one of the following default delimiters separates the fields in the raw data file created?

Question56: The following SAS DATA step executes on Monday, April 25, 2000:
data newstaff;
set staff;
start_date = today();
run;
Which one of the following is the value of the variable START_DATE in the output data set?

Question57: The following SAS program is submitted:
data combine;
prefix='505';
middle='6465 ';
end='09090';
<insert statement here>;
run;
Which statement successfully completes the program so that TOTAL has a value of 505-6465-09090?

Question58: The following SAS program is submitted:

What types of variables are DayOfMonth, MonthOfYear, and Year?

Question59: A user-defined format has been created using the FORMAT procedure. Where is it stored?

Question60: The contents of the raw data file TEAM are listed below:
--------10-------20-------30
Janice 10
Henri 11
Michael 11
Susan 12
The following SAS program is submitted:
data group;
infile 'team';
input name $15. age 2.;
file 'file-specification';
put name $15. +5 age 2.;
run;
Which one of the following describes the output created?

Question61: The following SAS program is submitted:
data test;
infile 'file specification';
input name $ amount@@;
run;
Which of the following is true?

Question62: The following SAS program is submitted:
libname temp 'SAS-data-library';
data work.new;
set temp.jobs;
format newdate mmddyy10.;
qdate = qtr(newdate);
ddate = weekday(newdate);
run;
proc print data = work.new;
run;
The variable NEWDATE contains the SAS date value for April 15, 2000.
What output is produced if April 15, 2000 falls on a Saturday?

Question63: A SAS PRINT procedure output of the WORK.LEVELS data set is listed below:
Obs name level
1 Frank 1
2 Joan 2
3 Sui 2
4 Jose 3
5 Burt 4
6 Kelly .
7 Juan 1
The following SAS program is submitted:
data work.expertise;
set work.levels;
if level = . then
expertise = 'Unknown';
else if level = 1 then
expertise = 'Low';
else if level = 2 or 3 then
expertise = 'Medium';
else
expertise = 'High';
run;
Which of the following values does the variable EXPERTISE contain?

Question64: This question will ask you to provide a missing option. Given the following SAS program:

Which option needs to be added to wrap the labels to the next line whenever it encounters an asterisk?

Question65: What describes the SAS automatic _ERROR_ variable?

Question66: The following SAS program is submitted:
proc contents data = sasuser.airplanes;
run;
Which one of the following is produced as output?

Question67: Given the SAS data set WORK.PRODUCTS:

How many variables does the WORK.REVENUE data set contain?

Question68: A realtor has two customers. One customer wants to view a list of homes selling for less than $60,000. The other customer wants to view a list of homes selling for greater than $100,000.
Assuming the PRICE variable is numeric, which one of the following PRINT procedure steps will select all desired observations?

Question69: The following SAS program is submitted;
data combine;
country = 'Italy, Russia, ireland';
found = find(country, 'i');
run;
What is the value of the variable FOUND in the output data set?

Question70: How many of the following SAS data set names are valid?

Question71: The following SAS program is submitted:

What is the value of the variable Prod in the output data set?

Question72: Given the SAS data set WORK.ONE:

What value will SAS assign to Total?

Question73: The SAS data set WORK STAFF has three variables:
The following SAS program is submitted:

What is the length of the Name variable in the data set WORK STAFF_UPDATE?

Question74: By default, which variables and data values are used to calculate statistics in the MEANS procedure?

Question75: Which statement correctly computes the average of four numerical values?

Question76: Read the table:
Given the SAS data set SASUSER.HOUSES:
Obsstylebedroomsbathspricesqteetstreet
1CONDO21.5800501200MAIN
2CONDO32.5793501300ELM
3CONDO42.51271501400OAK
4CONDO22.01107001100FIFTH
5TWOSTORY43.01072502100SECOND
6TWOSTORY21.0556501600WEST
7TWOSTORY21.0692501450NORTH
6TWOSTORY42.5102950 2000SOUTH
The following SAS program is submitted:
proc report data = sasuser.houses nowd headline;
column style price;
where price It 100000;
<insert DEFINE statement here>
define price / mean width = 9 format = dollar12.;
title;
run;
The following output is desired:
- style price
- CONDO$79,700
- TWOSTORY$62550
Which DEFINE statement completes the program and produces the desired output?

Question77: CORRECT TEXT
Given the SAS data set WORK.EMP_NAME:

Given the SAS data set WORK.EMP_DEPT:

The following program is submitted:

How many observations are in data set WORK.ALL after submitting the program?
Enter your numeric answer in the space below.

Question78: The following SAS program is submitted:

If the value for the variable Jobcode is: PILOT2, what is the value of the variable Description?

Question79: Given the SAS data set WORK.P2000:

And the SAS data set WORK.P2008:

The following output is desired:

Which SAS program correctly combines the data?

Question80: Given the raw data file EMPLOYEE:
----I----1 0---I----20---I----30
Ruth 39 11
Jose 32 22
Sue 30 33
John 40 44
The following SAS program is submitted:
data test;
infile 'employee';
input employee_name $ 1-4;
if employee_name = 'Ruth' then input idnum 10-11;
else input age 7-8;
run;
What value does the variable IDNUM contain when the name of the employee is "Ruth"?

Question81: 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?

Question82: The following SAS program is submitted:
data WORK.ONE;
Text='Australia, US, Denmark';
Pos=find (Text,'US','i',5);
run;
What value will SAS assign to Pos?

Question83: Which one of the following SAS statements renames two variables?

Question84: The contents of the raw data file EMPLOYEE are listed below:
--------10-------20-------30
Ruth 39 11
Jose 32 22
Sue 30 33
John 40 44
The following SAS program is submitted:
data test;
infile 'employee';
input employee_name $ 1-4;
if employee_name = 'Sue' then input age 7-8; else input idnum 10-11;
run;
Which one of the following values does the variable AGE contain when the name of the employee is "Sue"?

Question85: The following SAS program is submitted:
data WORK.PRODUCTS;
Prod=1;
do while (Prod LE 7);
Prod + 1;
end;
run;
What is the value of the variable Prod in the output data set?

Question86: The following SAS program is submitted:
data work.test;
array items{3} _temporary_;
run;
What are the names of the variable(s) in the WORKTEST data set?

Question87: The following SAS program is submitted:
data work.company;
set work.dept1(keep = jobcode)
work.dept2(rename = (jcode = jobcode));
run;
Which one of the following is the result?

Question88: The following SAS program is submitted:

How will the Exam variable value be displayed in the FREQ procedure output?

Question89: Given the contents of the raw data file TYPECOLOR.DAT:

The following SAS program is submitted:

What are the values of the variables Type and Color?

Question90: The following SAS program is submitted once:

Which procedure output will appear in test.html?

Question91: Given the following raw data records in DATAFILE.TXT:

Which output is correct based on the submitted program?

Question92: The following SAS program is submitted:
data work.retail;
cost = '20000';
total= .10* cost
run;
What is the result?

Question93: The following SAS program is submitted:
proc print data = sasuser.houses;
run;
proc means data = sasuser.shoes;
run;
Which one of the following OPTIONS statements resets the page number to 1 for the second report?

Question94: The Excel workbook REGIONS.XLSX contains the following four worksheets:
EAST
WEST
NORTH
SOUTH
The following program is submitted:
libname MYXLS pcfiles path='c:\regions.xlsx';
Which PROC PRINT step correctly displays the NORTH worksheet?

Question95: The following SAS program is submitted and reads 100 records from a raw data file:
data work.total;
infile 'file-specification' end = eof;
input name $ salary;
totsal + salary;
run;
Which one of the following IF statements writes the last observation to the output data set?

Question96: When the following SAS program is submitted, the data set SASDATA.PRDSALES contains 5000 observations:
libname sasdata 'SAS-data-library';
options obs = 500;
proc print data = sasdata.prdsales (firstobs = 100); run;
options obs = max;
proc means data = sasdata.prdsales (firstobs = 500); run;
How many observations are processed by each procedure?

Question97: The following SAS program is submitted:
data work.test;
First = 'Ipswich, England';
City_Country = substr(First,1,7)!!', '!!'England';
run;
Which one of the following is the length of the variable CITY_COUNTRY in the output data set?

Question98: The following SAS program is submitted:
data work.test;
Author = 'Agatha Christie';
First = substr(scan(author,1,' ,'),1,1);
run;
Which one of the following is the length of the variable FIRST in the output data set?