SAS Certified Professional Prep Guide

Chapter Quiz

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

1. If you specify a CREATE TABLE statement in your PROC SQL step, which of the following happens?

   1. The results of the query are displayed, and a new table is created.
   2. A new table is created, but it does not contain any summarization that was specified in the PROC SQL step.
   3. A new table is created, but no report is displayed.
   4. Results are grouped by the value of the summarized column.
2. Which of the following PROC SQL steps creates a new table by copying only the column structure (but not the rows) of an existing table?

   1. proc sql; create table work.newpayroll as select * from certadv.payrollmaster; ...