SAS Certified Clinical Trials Programmer Using SAS 9 Accelerated Version (A00-281) Free Practice Test

Question 1

The following SAS program is submitted:

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

A. divertic

B. a missing value

C. No variables are created.

D. diverticulosis

Correct Answer: A

Question 2

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.

A. General Data Structure (GDS)

B. Event Level Analysis Data Set (ADAE)

C. Basic Data Structure (BDS)

D. Subject Level Analysis Data Set (ADSL)

Correct Answer: C

Question 3

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

What is the cause of this error message?

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

B. The ARRAY declaration is syntactically incorrect.

C. The IF statement is syntactically incorrect.

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

Correct Answer: A

Question 4

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?

A. data data_bb;
set cm (keep=usubjid cmstdtc cmtrt);
by usubjid CMSTDTC;
where cmtrt in('BLOCKER');
run;

B. proc sort data=cm out=data_bb (keep=usubjid cmstdtc cmtrt);
by usubjid CMSTDTC;
where cmtrt in('BLOCKER');
run;

C. proc sort data=CM (keep=usubjid cmstdtc cmtrt) out=data_bb;
by usubjid CMSTDTC;
where cmtrt contains 'BLOCKER';
run;

D. data data_bb;
set cm (where=(find(cmtrt,'BLOCKER','i')>0));
by usubjid CMSTDTC;
run;

Correct Answer: C

Question 5

CORRECT TEXT
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.).

Correct Answer:

DEFINE.XML,DEFINE.PDF,DEFINE

Question 6

The following SAS program is submitted: What will be the result when the program executes?

A. num3 assigned a value of 0

B. num3 assigned a value of 1

C. An error due to mixed variable types in the assignment statement.

D. num3 assigned a missing value

Correct Answer: D

Question 7

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

A. ods rtf file='report.rtf';

B. ods type='word' file='report.doc';

C. ods doc file='report.doc';

D. ods rtf='report.rtf';

Correct Answer: A

Question 8

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?

A. If RFSTDTC^='' and length(DCMDATE)=8 then STUDYDAY=input(DCMDATE,yymmdd8.)input(RFSTDTC,date9.)+1;

B. STUDYDAY=input(DCMDATE,yymmdd8.)-input(RFSTDTC,date9.)+1;

C. If RFSTDTC^='' and length(DCMDATE)=8 then STUDYDAY=input(DCMDATE,date9.)input(RFSTDTC,yymmdd8.)+1;

D. STUDYDAY=DCMDATE-RFSTDTC+1;

Correct Answer: A

Question 9

Given the SAS data set containing subject's phone numbers

What is the value of PHONE2 for subject 005?

A. 2156319494

B. (215) 631-9494

C. 631-9494

D. (215) 6319494

Correct Answer: A

Question 10

Given two data sets with the following variables: Why is the blue note showing in the log?

A. One of the two data sets has multiple observations with the same value for SUBJI

B. The variable VISIT occurs in both data sets but is not included in the BY statement.

C. There are multiple observations with the same value for SUBJID in both data sets.

D. There are no observations with matching values for SUBJID in either data set.

Correct Answer: C

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