Chapter 3: Setting Up Your SAS Session

  1. Correct answer: b
    You can create HTML output using programming statements on any SAS platform. In addition, on all except mainframe platforms, you can use SAS windows to specify HTML as a result format.
  2. Correct answer: d
    As long as you specify an informat with the correct field width for reading the entire date value, the YEARCUTOFF= option does not affect date values that have four-digit years.
  3. Correct answer: a
    A SAS engine is a set of internal instructions that SAS uses for writing to and reading from files in a SAS library. Each engine specifies the file format for files that are stored in the library, which in turn enables SAS to access files with a particular format. Some engines access ...

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