A00-215 Exam Dumps : SAS Certified Associate: Programming Fundamentals Using SAS 9.4

The SAS program provided includes a PROC FORMAT step that defines a numeric format called Syn and applies this format to the variable answer in the PROC PRINT step. The format maps the value '0' to 'No', '1' to 'Yes', and all other values to 'Unknown'.

However, there is a syntax error in the PROC FORMAT step: it uses a dollar sign before Syn, which is used to indicate character formats, but the format is defined for numeric values (0 and 1). Therefore, when applying this format to the answer variable in PROC PRINT, it should not have a dollar sign, it should be format answer Syn.; instead of format answer $yn.;.

The correct output based on the given code, assuming the error with the dollar sign is corrected, would be as follows:

• For numeric values 0 and 1, 'No' and 'Yes' would be displayed, respectively.
• For any other numeric value, 'Unknown' would be displayed.
• For character values, the format would not apply and the actual values would be displayed.

Given that the values in the 'answer' column are numeric, the program will format them according to the defined Syn format. Thus, the report corresponding to Option D, which shows numeric values unformatted, would be the one created. This indicates that the format was not applied because of the syntax error with the dollar sign.

References:

• SAS 9.4 documentation for the FORMAT procedure and statement: SAS Help Center: PROC FORMAT

To create SAS date values, the correct syntax involves specifying the date in a string format followed by the letter 'd'. This indicates to SAS that the string should be interpreted as a date value. Therefore, the correct answers are:

• A. "10/19/2019"d - This format directly specifies the month, day, and year, enclosed in quotes followed by 'd', which SAS correctly interprets as a date value.
• C. "19Oct2019"d - This format uses a three-letter abbreviation for the month combined with the day and year, also followed by 'd'. This is another valid way to specify a date in SAS.

Option B, mdy(10, 19, 2019), is incorrect because while the MDY function does create date values from month, day, and year components, the function itself should be used within a DATA step or another context where SAS functions are evaluated, and it doesn't directly create a date literal in the same way as options A and C.

Option D, mdy(19, Oct, 2019), is syntactically incorrect because the MDY function expects numeric arguments for the month, day, and year, and "Oct" as a literal month name is not a valid numeric argument.

References: SAS 9.4 Language Reference: Concepts.

In the provided image of the SAS code for the PROC PRINT step, the following statements are present:

• proc print data=sashelp.cars; - PROC PRINT step beginning
• var Make Model MSRP MPG_City MPG_Highway Horsepower Weight; - VAR statement to specify variables to print
• format Weight comma8.; - FORMAT statement to apply a format to a variable
• The final run; statement which would be necessary to execute the PROC PRINT step is not visible in the image, but it can be inferred to be there since every PROC step must be ended with a run; or quit; statement.

Thus, there are four statements related to the PROC PRINT step.

References:

• SAS 9.4 Language Reference: Concepts, "PROC PRINT"
• SAS documentation on "VAR Statement" and "FORMAT Statement"