SAS Certified Professional Prep Guide

Quiz

Select the best answer for each question. After completing the quiz, check your answers using the answer key in the appendix.

1. Which of the following is false?

   1. A %LET statement causes the macro processor to create a macro variable before the program is compiled.
   2. To create a macro variable that is based on data calculated by the DATA step, you use the SYMPUTX routine.
   3. Macro functions are always processed during the execution of the DATA step.
   4. Macro variable references in a DATA step are always resolved before DATA step execution.
2. The SYMPUTX routine cannot do which of the following things?

   1. be used to assign a data set variable as a value to a macro variable
   2. create a series of macro variables in one ...