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A00-280 Practice Exam Questions with Answers Clinical Trials Programming Using SAS 9 Certification

Question # 6

Given the following data set (AE):

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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?

A.

if day > 14 then week = 3 ;

else if day > 7 then week = 2 ;

else if day > 0 then week = 1 ;

B.

if day > 0 then week = 1 ;

else if day > 7 then week = 2 ;

else if day > 14 then week = 3 ;

C.

select ;

when (day > 0) week = 1 ;

when (day > 7) week = 2 ;

otherwise week = 3 ;

end ;

D.

select ;

when (day > 14) week = 3 ;

when (day > 7) week = 2 ;

otherwise week = 1 ;

end ;

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Question # 7

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

A.

Independent Programming

B.

Peer Matching

C.

Identical Programming

D.

Peer Review

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Question # 8

The following SAS program is submitted.

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What result is displayed for the variable COUNT?

A.

1

B.

2

C.

3C.3

D.

4D.4

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Question # 9

This question will ask you to provide a missing option.

Given an existing work data set (DM), the following code is submitted:

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A.

MPRINT

B.

SYMBOLGEN

C.

MLOGIC

D.

MRECALL

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Question # 10

Given the SAS data set WORK.BP

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What is the result?

A.

WORK.HIGHBP has 1 observation

WORK.NORMBP has 1 observation

WORK.INVESTBP has 3 observations

B.

WORK.HIGHBP has 1 observation

WORK.NORMBP has 1 observation

WORK.INVESTBP has 4 observations

C.

WORK.HIGHBP has 1 observation

WORK.NORMBP has 1 observation

WORK.INVESTBP has 2 observations

D.

WORK.HIGHBP has 2 observations

WORK.NORMBP has 2 observations

WORK.INVESTBP has 3 observations

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Question # 11

Given the following entry in the SAS log:

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Which alternate method could you use to?

• Transpose all data

• Not produce a warning message in the log

A.

Use PROC TRANSPOSE with a WHERE clause to omit records with missing VISIT values

B.

Use PROC COPY with SELECT statements

C.

Use PROC DATASETS with SELECT and MODIFY statements

D.

Use a DATA step with conditional OUTPUT statements

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Question # 12

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

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

A.

if indm ne indisp then output 'MERGE ISSUE: ' subjid indm indisp ;

B.

if indm ne indisp then put 'MERGE ISSUE: ' subjid= indm= indisp=;

C.

%if indm ne indisp %then %put 'MERGE ISSUE: ' subjid= indm= indisp=;

D.

if indm ne indisp then put 'MERGE ISSUE: ' _all_ ;

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Question # 13

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

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What is the cause of this error message?

A.

The ARRAY declaration is syntactically incorrect.

B.

The IF statement is syntactically incorrect.

C.

The DO loop tries to get a value from a variable which does not exist.

D.

The IF statement tries to get ARRAY elements which are not declared.

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Question # 14

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.

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Which program was used to produce WORK.DATA_BB?

A.

proc sort data=cm out=data_bb (keep=usubjid cmstdtc cmtrt);

by usubjid CMSTDTC;

where cmtrt in('BLOCKER');

run;

B.

proc sort data=CM (keep=usubjid cmstdtc cmtrt) out=data_bb;

by usubjid CMSTDTC;

where cmtrt contains 'BLOCKER';

run;

C.

data data_bb;

set cm (where=(find(cmtrt,'BLOCKER','i')>0));

by usubjid CMSTDTC;

run;

D.

data data_bb;

set cm (keep=usubjid cmstdtc cmtrt);

by usubjid CMSTDTC;

where cmtrt in('BLOCKER');

run;

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