Commonly Asked SAS Interview Questions with Answer (ST) : 1 - 5

Ques (ST) 1: What are the basic steps for data mining in SAS Enterprise Miner ?

Ans : The basic step for data mining in SAS Enterprise Miner is SEMMA. It is a short form of five processes which are given below :

  • Sample   (S
  • Explore   (E)
  • Modify    (M)
  • Model     (M)
  • Access   (A)



Ques (ST) 2: What is SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office ?

Ans : The SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office is a Component Object Model (COM) which provides access to SAS Datasets from MS-Excel, MS-Power Point, MS-Word and MS Outlook.

It also allows SAS Stored Processes to be run on server and the result to be returned to either MS-Word or MS-Excel.



Ques (ST) 3: What is Change Management feature in SAS DI Studio ?

Ans : The Change Management feature in SAS DI Studio allows multiple users to work on same metadata repository at the same time without overwriting each other's change.


  • If Change Management is enabling for specific user then user could see pop-up with Check-in and Check-out.



  • If a metadata object has been checked out by one user, it means that metadata object is locked so that it could not be updated by other user until the specific object has been checked back in by that user.




Ques (ST) 4: What is SAS OLAP Cube Studio ?

Ans : The SAS OLAP Cube Studio is to build and define OLAP Cubes in SAS. It is a Java interface tool.

OLAP - Online Analytical Processing is a software technology which allows us to analyze the data from multidimensional database tables dynamically.

CUBE - A Cube is a specific set of data which is organized, structured in a hierarchical and multidimensional manner with various dimensions and stages of data. Cubes also contains measures which are numeric analysis of input tables



Ques (ST) 5: What are the SAS Stored Process Desktop Clients ?

Ans : There are many Desktop clients by which we can access or execute the SAS Stored Process.
Few names are given below :

  1. SAS Enterprise Guide
  2. SAS Information Map Studio
  3. SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office

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  1. Hello Uma Shankar..Thanks for sharing all...concpet clearing material..really very much helpful for a beginer.

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