EMT Practice Test

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Question1: What is the main focus of 21 CFR Part 11?

Question2: This question will ask you to provide a line of missing code.

Which line of code would produce the blue notes in the log?

Question3: Which name is a valid SAS V5 variable name?

Question4: The VISIT data set is multiple records per subject, sorted by usubjid vistdtc vistm and contains the following variables:

The DEATH data set is one record per subject, sorted by usubjid vistdtc vistm and contains the following variables:

Which program will combine the DEATH and VISIT data sets by matching records?

Question5: Given the SAS data set containing subject's phone numbers

What is the value of PHONE2 for subject 005?

Question6: You want 90% confidence limits for a binomial proportion from a one-way table with PROC FREQ. Which option must you add to the TABLES statement?

Question7: Where would you store a value collected on a case report form but not defined in an SDTM domain?

Question8: The following SAS program is submitted:
% let Av=age;
% macro LABD(Av=weight);
% let Av=gend; %mend;
% LABD(Av=height)
% put Av is &Av;
What will be written to the SAS log?

Question9: Define.xml is an XML-based submission of a clinical study's:

Question10: This question will ask you to provide a line of missing code.

Which statement must be added to the following program to create a page break in the report after each RACE grouping?

Question11: Given the following SCORE data set:

Based on the concept of Last Observation Carried Forward, what will be the value for SCORE for the Week 12

Question12: Given the following data set:

Which type of clinical trials data is this?

Question13: Which function would be used to determine the number of elements in an existing array?

Question14: Given the following data set:

Which program was used to prepare the data for this PROC PRINT output?

Question15: Study day is defined as DCMDATE minus RFSTDTC +1

Which statement will compute the study day correctly without producing notes for missing values in the log?

Question16: Given the following entry in the SAS log:

Which alternate method could you use to?
* Transpose all data
* Not produce a warning message in the log

Question17: From the Statistical Analysis Plan, patients age is calculated as an integer relative to date randomized divided by 365.25. Given the following annotated CRF:

Which programming code defines the patient's age?

Question18: Given the following data set DEMOG:

Which selection below would be considered hard-coding?

Question19: The following SAS program is submitted:

If the value for the variable Subjcode is "WGT2", what is the value of the variable Description?

Question20: Which statement correctly describes an aspect of a Phase II clinical trial?

Question21: The data set CM has eight variables including CMTRT and is sorted by STUDYID USUBJID CMSEQ.
DATA_BB is created by selecting records from CM where the character string "BLOCKER" is included in CMTRT.

Which program was used to produce WORK.DATA_BB?

Question22: SIMULATION
This question will ask you to provide a line of missing code.
Given the following data set LABS(only first 10 lines shown):

In the space below, enter the statement that completes the program to produce the desired output (Case is ignored. Do not add leading or trailing spaces to your answer.).

Question23: Given two data sets with the following variables:

Why is the blue note showing in the log?

Question24: The following SAS program is submitted:

What is the value of the variable day when the data step completes?

Question25: SIMULATION
This question will ask you to provide a line of missing code.
The following SAS program is submitted:

In the space below, enter the statement that completes the program correctly (Case is ignored. Do not add leading or trailing spaces to your answer.).

Question26: The following SAS program is submitted:

Which types of variables are DayofMonth, MonthofYear, and Year?

Question27: Given the following data set:

Which type of clinical trials data is this?

Question28: A Treatment-Emergent Adverse Event (TEAE) is commonly defined as any event that occurs on or after the date and time of:

Question29: Identify the CDISC model with the following characteristics:
* XML-based content and format standard
* facilitates the archive and interchange of the metadata and data for clinical research
* provides an accurate audit trail that is 21 CRF Part II compliant

Question30: Given the following data at WORK DEMO:

Which SAS program prints only the first 5 males in this order from the data set?
A)

B)

C)

D)

Question31: Given the VITALS data set:

Question32: Given the following output from the TTEST Procedure: Variable:

What is the t-test p-value?

Question33: Given the following partial output data set:

Which code was used to create AGECAT?

Question34: The following SAS program is submitted:

How many data sets are created and how many observations are in the data set(s)?

Question35: Which statement will create a report footnote that identifies the date and time that the SAS program was executed?

Question36: The following SAS program is submitted:

You want to store all calculated means and standard deviations in one SAS data set.
Which statement must be added to the program?

Question37: SIMULATION
Given the following work data set containing Treatment-Emergent Adverse Events:

In the space below, enter the numeric value of x for "Severe" events under HEADACHE.

Question38: SIMULATION
This question will ask you to provide a line of missing code.
You want to present a column header that contains breaks within the header as indicated below.

In the space below, enter the option that completes the program (Case is ignored. Do not add leading or trailing spaces to your answer).

Question39: A Statistical Analysis Plan defines study day as the number of days between the visit date and the date of randomization plus one day.
The following SAS program is submitted using a macro from the project's library:

How is the STUDYDAY macro defined?

Question40: SIMULATION
Which CDISC filename contains the following items?
* Variable attributes
* Controlled terminology
* Computational methods
Enter your answer in the space below (Case is ignored. Do not add leading or trailing spaces to your answer.).

Question41: Given the following SAS program:

Which statement correctly identifies invalid values in the variable TRT, if only the values 'A', B', 'C are valid?

Question42: A report that you are working on will require the following header lines:

Which code adds the second line of the header "Adverse Events"?

Question43: This question will ask you to provide a line of missing code.
Given the dataset RAWBP that is sorted by SUBJECT TEST WEEK:

Which statement must be added to the program to calculate relative change in percent (percent change) from baseline?

Question44: Review the following procedure format:

What is the required type of data for the variable in this procedure?

Question45: Given the data set HE:

What will the values be of variable HOSPDURD for the two subjects?

Question46: Given the SAS data set WORK.BP

What is the result?

Question47: Given the file sites.csv:

Which option would you need to add to the INFILE statement to clear the notes from this log?

Question48: Given the following data set (AE):

Data will be reported by onset week. Day 1 ?7 is Week 1, Day 8 ?14 is Week 2. Events beyond Day 14 are assigned Week 3 and will be reported as Follow-up events.
Which statements properly assign WEEK to each event?

Question49: Identify the data structure with the following characteristics:
* Contains one or more records per subject, per analysis parameter, and per analysis timepoint.
* May be derived from findings, events, interventions and special-purpose SDTM domains, or other ADaM datasets.
* A record can represent an observed, derived, or imputed value required for analysis.

Question50: A Statistical Analysis Plan describes a clinical trial as "A 12 week, double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized, multi-center study." Double-blind refers to which groups in this study?

Question51: Which CDISC standard is concerned with the development of simplified case report forms?

Question52: Given the following data set WORK.DM:

Which subjects will appear in the LOG file?

Question53: The following SAS program is submitted:
proc sort data=SASUSER.VISIT out=PSORT;
by code descending date cost;
run;
Which statement is true regarding the submitted program?

Question54: SIMULATION
The following question will ask you to provide a line of missing code.
The following program is submitted to output observations from data set ONE that have more than one record per patient.

In the space below, enter the line of code that will correctly complete the program (Case is ignored. Do not add leading or trailing spaces to your answer.).

Question55: The following SAS program is submitted:

Which value does variable X contain?

Question56: Which option for PROC COMPARE will list all observations and variables found in only one of the two data sets being compared?

Question57: Which validation technique involves two programmers writing separate programs to produce the same output, then comparing the result?

Question58: Which statement assigns the current date to the character variable CURRDT?

Question59: A SAS program is submitted and the following log is written.

What is the cause of this error message?

Question60: Which statement will produce report output that can be opened in Microsoft Word?

Question61: The following SAS program is submitted.

What result is displayed for the variable COUNT?

Question62: You want to calculate the p-value of Fisher's exact test for a 3x3 table. Which option must you add to the TABLES statement of PROC FREQ?

Question63: This question will ask you to provide a section of missing code.
Given the input SAS data set LABRAW:

Which DO LOOP will create the output SAS data set WORK.LAB_NEW?

Question64: A patient received at least one dose of study medication prior to withdrawing from a study. Which analysis population would always include this patient?

Question65: Given the SAS data set WORK.VS1:

Which value will be assigned to variable TOTAL?

Question66: Given the following vital signs data:

Baseline is defined as the last non-missing value prior to Day 1.
What is the value for the change from baseline for Week 1 for Subject 2?

Question67: Which SAS program will apply the data set label 'Demographics' to the data set named DEMO?
A)

B)

C)

D)

Question68: This question will ask you to provide a missing option.
Given an existing work data set (DM), the following code is submitted:

Question69: Which clause allows macro variable creation on a select statement in PROC SQL?

Question70: The following SAS program is submitted:

What is the value of the second variable in the data set WORK.DIGESTL?

Question71: The following SAS program is submitted, but fails due to syntax errors.

What is the cause of the syntax errors?

Question72: What information can be found in the SAS Dictionary tables? (Choose two.)

Question73: Which LIBNAME statement is valid?

Question74: This question will ask you to provide a line of missing code.
The following SAS program is submitted:

Which statement is required to produce this output?

Question75: The purpose of the ADaM model is to provide a framework that:

Question76: This question will ask you to provide a line of missing code.
The following SAS program is submitted:

Which macro call prints all records from each dataset in library DB?

Question77: This question will ask you to provide lines of missing code.

Which ODS statements, inserted respectively in the two locations indicated above, create a report stored in a PDF file?

Question78: This question will ask you to provide lines of missing code.
Given the following SCORE data set:

Variable LOCF contains the imputed score that would replace the missing SCORE value (based on last observation carried forward method). Which SAS statements complete the program?

Question79: Which statement correctly adds a label to the data set?

Question80: SIMULATION
The following question will ask you to provide a line of missing code.
Given the following data set work.vs:

The following SAS program is submitted to create a new data set that carries forward the previous value of sbp when the value is missing.

In the space below, enter the line of code that completes the program (Case is ignored. Do not add leading or trailing spaces to your answer.).

Question81: Which statement correctly creates a SAS date variable from a character variable?

Question82: Given the following two data sets EX and AE:

Which output data set is produced by the submitted SAS program?

Question83: The following SAS program is submitted:

Which alternative program creates an equivalent BASE_BP data set?

Question84: A Statistical Analysis Plan (SAP) defines the selection process for baseline records. This instructs the programmer to choose the last non-missing analyte value prior to first study drug administration (date/ time).
The DEMO data set contains the date/time of first study drug administration for subject:

What will be the resulting baseline values, as selected per the SAP instructions?

Question85: A subject reports a medication started in March of 2007 but cannot recall the day number. What is the value stored in the SDTM domain CM.CMSTDTC variable?

Question86: The following SAS program is submitted:

What will be the result when the program executes?

Question87: The following output is displayed:

Which SAS program created this output?

Question88: Given the following data set:

Which SAS program produced this output?

Question89: Which program will report all created output objects in the log?

Question90: The following SAS program is submitted: data WORK.ALL;

How will the data sets ONE and TWO be combined?

Question91: Given the following log entry:

Which SAS system option adds the blue highlighted lines to the log?

Question92: An action plan that describes what will be done in a drug study, how it will be conducted, and why each part of the study is necessary is called:

Question93: Given the data set WORK.BP with the following variable list:

Which output will be created by the program?

Question94: Given the following demographic dataset:

Which program will generate a report where observations will appear in order by SITE SUBJECT and display column headers for each variable defined in the column statement?

Question95: A SAS report procedure results in the log below.

What should you add to the PROC REPORT to address the blue note in this log?

Question96: This question will ask you to provide a missing option.
The following program is submitted to create a transport file for multiple data sets:

Which option will limit the files that are copied to type data?

Question97: What is an international ethical and scientific quality standard for designing, conducting, recording and reporting trials that involve the participation of human subjects?

Question98: You have been asked to import an Excel spreadsheet. What will lead to substantial differences between the original Excel spreadsheet and the resulting SAS data set?

Question99: You have acquired an existing program from a coworker which uses a macro. It is not immediately clear to you what this macro is doing. Which OPTION can be used to put the SAS statements generated by the macro execution into the LOG?