1. Kim is a Bi developer at food mart inc. his manager has ask him to create a new sas enterprise guide project for the company.Add a local sas table named fm_orders to the project, and run a task against the sas table to generate frequency counts for Character columns, summary statistics for numeric columns and basic graphs for the table. Kim then needs to save the project as fm.egp. Kim has planned to perform the following steps to accomplish the task1. Open the sas Enterprise Guide.2. Select new project from the Welcome screen.3. Add the sas table fm_orders to the project a. Select File>open>data......From the menu bar. b. Select the local computer icon. c. Navigate to the location of the required data. d. Select the fm_orders table and select Open.4. Run the summary statistics task on the fm_orders table: a. Select describe>summary statics.... to open the task wizard. b. Run the task and examine the result.5. Save the project as FM.egp.Analyze the above steps and identify whether he will be able to successfully perform the assigned task. If not, they why?

ANS.2 No, Kim will not be able to perform the task at hand. He should have run the characterize data task against the table.

2. Which of the following SAS application allows you to save auto generated sas code that can later be executed in a batch environment?

Ans2. Sas Enterprise Guide.

3. Which of the following option enables you to assign a value to a new column based on the values of an existing column?

Ans2. Recode

4. Which of the following information is displayed by the data grid within the sas Enterprise guide project workspace?

Ans1. A snapshot of a few rows of the current data source.

5. Which of the following roles in the task roles pane of the summary statistics task is a variable whose values for rows is used to calculate variances and sums?

Ans2. Relative Weight variable

6. Name the constraint for which an index will be created when a constraint is added?

Ans4. Primary key

7. Where does the sas intelligence platform store the sas table attributes, such as the table name, the server on which the Table resides, and the number of rows and column of the table?

Ans3.table properties

8. Which of the following statistics is displayed by default as an output of the summary statistics Task?

Ans1. Standard deviation

9. Maria has been asked to write an sql query that fetches the details of the person who gets the lowest salary in the company.Identify the sql query that Maria should implement.

Ans1. Select eno, ename, deptno, Sal from emp where Sal in (select Min (Sal) from emp);

10. Which of the following sas application allows to work with sas code and access the power of sas without learning the sas programming language?

Ans2. Sas Enterprise Guide

11. Which of the following outputs CANNOT be produced by a sas Enterprise Guide query?

Ans4.data set

12. Which of the following is the default outputs format for the task executed in sas Enterprise Guide?

Ans2. HTML

13. Which of the following options in the query Builder can be used to eliminate duplicate rows?

Ans 4, select data tab

14. Identify all the operators used for applying comments in oracle9i?

Ans 4, //

15. Which of the following is the correct way to end sas program statements?

Ans 4. ;

16. Which of the following is a comparison operator that evaluates an inclusive range?

Ans 1, Between

17. Which of the following sas statements provides sas with a shortcut name or a pointer to a storage location in the operatingEnvironment where sas file are stored?

Ans 1, LIBNAME

18. Which of the following options is a placeholder for data values in a query’s SQL WHERE or SQL HAVING clause?

Ans. Parameter

19. You are working in SQL*Plus. You are asked to customize the environment by changing the values of environment variables. What command should you implement here?

Ans2. Set

20. Which of the following is the correct syntax to provide a comment in SAS programs?

Ans3. /*Hello*/

21. Which of the following options allows you to specify combinations of classification variables for Summary Statistics task?

Ans3. Advanced View

22. Which privilege is assigned by default to a user after using CREATE USER statement?

Ans1. No privilege is assigned by default.

23. Which of the following is the correct role of the OPTIONS statement in SAS Programming language?Ans1. It enables the user to control various aspects of the SAS session.

24. Lagrange is a type of ______ chart.

Ans2. Line chart.

25. Which of the following is the correct command to change the password of user SCOTT from TIGER to LION?

Ans2. ALTER USER SCOTT IDENTIFIED BY lion;

26. Which of the following are the main SAS Client applications?

Ans4. Desktop Applications and Web browser Applications.

27. Elizabeth is creating a report for the Human Resources department that contains the data of annual salary of each employee or the organization. To create the desired report, Elizabeth needs to create a query in which she has added a new computed column, Annual Salary, with an expression multiplies the value in the salary column with 12 and displays the output in the report. The steps in random order to perform the same are:i. In the computed columns window, select New -> Build Expression

ii. In the computed columns window, select Calculation-> Rename. Type Annual Salary.

iii. Select computed columns.iv. Select close.v. Begin to create expression, Salary *12, by verifying that the Data tab is active.

Which of the following option is the correct sequence of steps to add a new column to the query?

Ans3. Step3-> Step1 -> Step5 -> Step2-> Step4.

28. How does the SAS information Map helps business users by hiding the complexities of the underlying data?

Ans1. By allowing to organize and reference data in business terms.

29. Which of the following are the SAS desktop applications?

Ans4. SAS information Map Studio and SAS Management Console.

30. Rita is creating a report that displays the quantity ordered of both continued and discontinued products. To get the desired output in the report. Rita needs to apply a right outerjoin on two tables, products and orders. Assume that the products table is the current data source.She has been provided the following steps in random order to perform the task.

i. Select modify join.ii. Select add tables in the query builder window and select orders table->Ok.

iii. Select ok-> closeiv. Right-click on the join between the products and orders tables.v. Select all rows from the right table (right join) radio button under the join type

pane in the modify join dialog box.

vi. In the tables tab, join the products and orders tables by clicking once on the product id column in the products table and dragging the cursor over the productid column in orders table.

Which of the following option is the correct sequence of steps to apply the desired join on the above-mentioned tables?

Ans 2. Step 2------>step6------>step4--------->step1----------->step5---------------->step3

31. Which of the following options is the correct purpose of using libraries in a sas environment?

Ans 4. To identify physical storage locations and map them to the intelligence platform environment.

32. Identify the function that does not belong to an Oracle group function.

Ans 4. ROUND

33. Which of the following architecture enables the sas application to exchange metadata and allows centralized management of the organization's metadata resources?

Ans 1. Sas open metadata Architecture

34. You need to create a summarized report that contains the data related to the total units sold in the past five years. The report should display the individual total sales of the four quarters of the past five years .you have decided to use the summary statistics task of Sas Enterprise Guide to accomplish the same. In the summary Statistics task wizard, you plan to perform the following steps:1. Place the desired variables under the Analysis variable and classification variable task roles.2. Select the show statistics check box.3. Select the save statistics to data set check box. After performing the preceding steps in summary statistics wizard, you generated the report but could not get the desired output. Which of the following options should have been performed to get desired output in the report?

ANS3, you should clicked the edit button to select the sum statistic.

35. Where does the number of objects selected or the number of objects contained in the currently, selected folder in the `SAS` Management console is displayed in addition to the machine and port number of the active metadata server.

ANS1. The status line at the bottom of the `SAS` management console window. 37 which of the following group function does not ignore `NULL` values?

ANS1. Count {*}

38. Which of the following `SAS` applications enable you to manage the process of Extraction, Transformation, and loading of data into a data warehouse or data marts?

ANS2. SAS data integration studio

39 Samantha has created a sales report of the past five years to compare the sales of the products in each year. In the report, she has included bar chart to represent the data. For more clarity on the data, you now want to modify the bar chart and display the data as a pie chart. In addition, the chart should display the percentage of sales in each year. The steps in random order for accomplishing the task are:1. Change the values in the percentage filed from none to inside to display the percentage of sales corresponding to each slice2. Right click on the bar chart 3. Select ok4. From the pop- up menu, select chart type------> pie.5. right-click on the pie chart and select pie properties.Which of the following option is the correct sequence of steps to modify the bar chart?

Ans2. steps2--->steps4----->steps5------>steps1---->steps3

40. What will the display areas display if you select a server definition in the navigation tree?

Ans 2. The display area list all of the connection that have been defined for the server

41. Which of the following sas application is used to set up a hierarchy of repositories on the metadata server?

Ans 2, sas management console

42. Catherine is working as an executive in haggle mart inc. she has to generate a report where in the details of those employees are displayed whose salary exceeds the values specified by the consumer of the report. To display the output as per the value specified by the user, Catherine needs to create a parameterized query that would prompt the user to give a input value and will display the details of the employee's according to the input specified.The step in random order to create the required parameter for the query is:]1. Select add and close---> close2. In the add new parameter window, select the general tab and defined the display name, sas code name, and select the type of parameter3. In the query builder window, select parameter, and then click on the add button4. In the data type and value tab, select the parameter option and then select the check box for ''a value is required run time ''

Which of the following option display the correct sequence of steps for creating the above mentioned parameter?

Ans 1. step3--->step2--->step4--->step1

43. Which of the following menu item provides selections that are valid only for the current plug-ins?

Ans 1. Action menu

44. Which of the following is a sas program that is hosted on a server and described by the metadata?

Ans 1. A stored process

45. Sam works as a sales executive .His manager has asked him to create a define a sas metadata library. For this, he planned to perform the following steps:1. Expand the data library manager plug-in available in the display area.2. Right-click on sas program and select library .........from the pop menu to open the new library wizard.3. Select sas base engine library as the type of library to define.4. Select next and enter the name for the library as sales 2008.5. Select next and specify the properties of the library, such as:a. Enter lib ref name as 08-sales.b. Accepts the default value (BASE) in the engine field.c. Specify the desired path and move it to the selected items list.7. Select SASMAIN as the application server.8. Select finish after previewing the settings for the desired library.Analyze the above -mentioned steps and help Sam to identify if the execution of these steps will lead to the successful creation of a SAS library or not, then Why?

ANS1. Lib ref name cannot start with a numeric value.

46. Which of the following defines the port number for connecting to the metadata server and name of the metadata repository to connect to?

Ans1. Metadata profile

47. Sam works as a sales executive. His manager has asked him to define a SAS metadata library. For this, he has planned to perform the following steps:1. Expand the data Library Manager plug-in available in the display area.2. Right-click on SAS Library and select new library.......from the pop-up menu to open the library Wizard.3. Select SAS base engine library as the type of library to define.4. Select next and enter the name for the library as sales-2008.5. Select next and specify the properties of the library.

6. Select next and verify that SASMAIN is the Application server.7. Select next and verify finish after reviewing the settings for the desired library.However, Sam’s manager has informed him that these steps with not enable him to accomplish the task at hand identify from the following option, the reason for the same.Ans3. The SAS server was not selected manually before moving on to the next step.48. Which of the following information is contained within the server definitions?

Ans 3, details of where a process is executive and how to connect to it.

49. Which of the following plug-in is used to identify and manage data resources in SAS Management Console?

Ans 2, Data Library Manage Plug-in

50. Sam is working as a SAS administrator. His manager has asked him to define a SAS metadata library containing sales data for the year 2008 by using the sas management console.For this, he has planned to perform the following steps.1. Expand the BI manager plug-in available in the display area of the SAS Management console.2. Right-Click on the sas libraries option in the pop-up menu and select New Library…. From the pop-up menu to open the new library Wizard.3. Select sas base Engine Library as the type of Library .4. Select next and enter the name for the library a Sales-2008.5. Select next and specify the properties of the library.6. Select Next to Select SASMAIN as the SAS Application Server.7. Select next and select Finish after reviewing the settings for the desired library.Analyze the above-mentioned steps and helps Sam to identify if the execution of these steps will lead to the successfully creation of a SAS library or not. If not, then Why?

Ans1.No, Sam will NOT be able to perform the planned step successfully to define the library. This is because the plug-in that he plans to select is not correct. It should be data library manager plug-in.

51. Identify the correct statement to remove an index.

Ans2. DROP INDEX name

52. Which of the following SAS application contains the data quality transform templates, which enables to increase the value of data through data analysis and data cleansing?

Ans2. SAS data integration Studio

53. Lewis is a sas system administrator. He wants to provide the read permission to the sales team of the northern region to enable them to view tables in the specific library

sales-2008.Therefore,he has planned to perform the following steps by using SAS Management Console:1. Right-click sales-2008 library and select properties.2. Select the Authorization tab in the properties Window.3. On the Authorization tab, select SAS Administrator and grant the read permission by selecting the appropriate checkbox.4. Select the ok button.However, the sales team reported back that they are still not be able to access with the described data library. Analyze the given steps and identify the reason for the same.

Ans2. Lewis should have explicitly added the sales group under the Authorization tab and granted the read permission to that group.

54. Lee is a Sales Manager in ABC Corp. He wants his executives to collaboratively edit and manage files on remote Web server in order to produce report from the entire sales region. Which of the following entities will enables the executives to accomplish this task?

Ans 1. WebDav

55. Sam is working at sunny sales inc. as a data integration expert currently; he needs to create a new SAS Library, Target Tables Library within existing logical grouping named libraries in sas data integration studioTo accomplish the same, sam plans to perform the following steps in sas data integration studio.1. Right-click on the libraries group and selected new object2. In the new object Wizard select Library as the Type of objected to be created.3 under sas libraries choose sas base engine4 type "target table library" in the name field.5. Type "target” in the lib ref field and verify base is selected as the engine type.6. Click the new button and provide a path for the new library in the new path specification dialog box.8. Verify that the sas main is listed as the available server.9. Select library as the folder where in the new library should be created.10. Review the information and select finish. However when Sam’s manager got to know about the steps that Sam is planning to perform ,he told Sam that these steps will not accomplish the task at hand. Analyze the planned steps will not accomplish the task at hand .analyze the planned steps and planned steps and identify why Sam’s manager thinks the steps will add the new library?

Ans3, sas main was not specifically selected and highlighted in the library wizard page.

55. Consider the following statement;Statement a: Management information system in easy to automate.Statement b: Executive information system is a type of management information system.Which of the following options is correct?

Ans1, statement A is true statement B is false.56 Sam has declared a field called amt, which has data type of number(s, 2) what will the output be, if he passes a value 23241.421 to the field amt?

Ans3, system will return an error.

57. Sam works as a sales analyst in an organization. He wants to present his report with the help of interactive statistical graphics and methods for data analysis which of the following will him to accomplish this task?

Ans 3. Jmp

58 consider the following statements;Statement a: Transaction processing system collects and stores information about transactions.Statement b: Batch transaction system and online transaction processing system are two types of transaction processing system.Which of the following options is correct?

Ans2. Both, statement a and statement b is true.

59 you want to write a query that selects records where first name begins with 'Ro' and last names does not begin with 'R'. Identify the correct option from the list given below.

Ans 4. Select fname, lname from student where fname LIKE ‘Ro%'; and lname NOT 'R%';

60. Kim has used a physical data source and represent the columns in business terms to enable the business user to understand the information easily. Now he wants to surface the same in the organization's website. Which of the following interface will enable Kim to accomplish the task at hand?

Ans3. SAS information delivery portal

61. Consider the following statements.Statement a: The operational management receives information from the next non management employees on the actual achievements.Statement b: The operational management receives informatoin form the middle management to create the plans for future activities.

Which of the following option is correct?

Ans2: Both statement A and statement B are true.

62. Your company asks you to write a query that selects employees whose salary in the range 7000 to 9000 range. Identify the correct Select statements that satisfy the above criteria.

Ans1. SELECT ename FROM emp where esal between 7000 and 9000;

63. Sam is working as a sas administrator in Doors inc. He needs to administer various sas object such as information maps, stored process, report and custom folders. Which of the following plug ins will allow Sam to manage these objects in sas management console?

Ans1. BI manger plug in

64. Consider the following statements. Statement a; Online Analytical Processing enables users to view data from different dimensions.Statement b; Online Analytical Processing enables complex analysis in a user-friendly mode. Which of the following option is correct?

Ans2. Both statement A and statement B is true.

65. Sue is a sas system administrator in Tera Info Tech inc. She wants to access and change the physical location of the data sources without changing the application that use the data for security purpose. Which of the following plugs-ins will allow sue to accomplish this task?Ans4. Data library manager plug in

66. Consider the following statement;Statement a; In the BI process, the data is gathered from different data sources.Statement b; After gathering the information, data is analyzed and presented in BI process.Which of the following option is correct?

Ans1. Statement A is true, statement B is false.

67. Sam has a team of software engineers and works for small it concern that has its offices around the city. The CEO of the organization has asked him to implement the software architecture that can effectively be supported in distributed client/server architecture. The CEO also wants that there should be no compromise on performance and scalability. Which of the following types of software architectures should Sam suggest as a solution?

Ans3. Three-tier architecture.

68 consider the following statements;Statement a; The data in the ware house pertains to a period of time .Statement b; The data in the warehouse is updated dynamically by providing historical data for analysis.Which of the following option is correct?

Ans1 statement A is true, statement b is false.

69 what is true when considering the number of the indexes to create on a table ?

Ans3. Columns that are part a of a where clause are candidates for an index.

70 Sam works as a business analyst. His management wants to change the existing software architecture to the one that can respond more quickly and business and cost effectively to change market conditions. In addition, it should be provide a high reusability of existing legacy system of the organization. Which of the following software architecture should Sam suggest for these set of requirements?

Ans4. Service-oriented architecture.

71 consider the following statement Statement a; load manager is responsible for extracting and transforming the data.Statement b; load manager creates indexes, views, and partitions of the base data.

Ans1. Statement A is true, statement B is false.

72 Sam works as an executive with xyz Inc. His manager asked him to produce a sales report for the last quarter. To make the report look impressive, Sam wants to change the existing style of the report to a different predefined style which of the following option should he access to change the look of the report?

Ans1 .Style manager

73. Consider the following statements; Statement a; In the bottom up approach the data ware house is created first and then dependent data marts are created.Statement b; The bottom up approach starts and ends with data marts.Which of the following options is correct?

Ans3. Statement A is false, statement B is true.

74. Kim who works as an executive needs to create an inventory report for the retail outlets of the northern region of his organization. However he wants to increase the font size of the existing report style. Which of the following option should he access to accomplish the same?

Ans. Style Editor

75 consider the following Statement a; Federate approach enables you to put large quantity of homogeneous data warehouse, data marts and package application collectively.Statement b; The goal of federated approach is to integrated existing analytic structure wherever possible.Which of the following option is correct?

Ans3. Statement A is false, statement B is true.

76. John works a sales manager he has created a task for which he wants to access the responding sas code that has been generated in the task background how he can the access the code generated for the task?

Ans4. By selecting the task by name tab in the task window

77. Consider the following the statement.Statement a; the multidimensional data views are referred as cubes. Statement b. OLAP enables business analyst to analyst the data in the two dimensional structure and store the data in the multidimensional structure.Which of the following option is correct?

Ans1. Statement A is true, statement B is false.

78 Sam is a report administrator he wants to control every aspect of a page layout including text font and styles and style color margins and images. Which of the following controls following file of a page layout?

Ans1 CSS file

79. John has created a report using the sas enterprise guide however he wants to make some change in the output of the report. To implement the changes he has opened the code node, which was generated at a time of execution of the task in the background. He needs to edit the code for his current requirement. Which of the following option will be true when john tries to edit the code?

Ans2. A message will be displayed stating that the code is read only and whether a copy should be created for modifying the same or not.

80 Sam works as a sales analyst for Food Mart Pvt. Ltd. His manager has asked to him to add the products tables to the current projects in sas enterprise guide and run characterize data against the table.The tables contain the following character and numeric columns:Product name Unit price

Total quantity sold Identity the columns that for which the output will contain frequency counts and summary statistics?

Ans2. Frequency counts for product name column and summary statics for Total quantity sold and unit price.

81. Jordon is a bi user in superstore inc .His manager has asked him to create a new sas enterprise guide project for company add a local SAS Table, ss_product to the project, and run a task on the table that display frequency amounts and standard deviation in a report. Jordon is then required to save as project as product_2008.egp. Jordon plans to execute the following steps.1 . Open the sas enterprise guide .2. Select new project .3 . Add the sas table ss_products to the project. a. select file ->open ->data ...from the menu bar . b. select the local computer icon. c. navigation to the location of the course data . d. select the ss_products table and select open .4. Run the characterize data task on the ss_product tables . a .select describe ----> character data ... to open the task wizard . b .run the task and examine the results .5. Save the project as product _2008.However, Jordan’s manager has informed him that the planned steps will not allow him to accomplish the task at hand. Analyze the above steps and identity the reason for the same.

Ans 2. He should run the summary statics task to create the report.

82 Sam works as a BI user at superstore statics task to create the report. The organization has changed some of its suppliers and therefore their addresses need to be updated or changed. These changed are required to be done in respective data file supplier.xls. However his manager asked him to add the excel sheet to the new project in sas enterprises guide. The excel sheet has two columns, namely, suppliers name and supplier addresses. To add the excel worksheet, he performed the following steps:1 . Created a new project in sas enterprise guide.2. Selected file------> open ------>data----- from the menu bar and selected local computer to locate data source.3. Navigated to the location of the file the data and double clicked supplier.xls.4. Added the supplier worksheet to the project by selecting the suppliers check box and selecting open.5. Selected "select this option if you want to view the file as is ';6. Saved the project.However, Sam was not able to make changes to the imported data. Analyze the situation and identity what should Sam have done to make the data updatable.

Ans2. He should have Selected Data -------->Read-Only to disable the read-only mode.

83. Kim is a BI user at Megamart inc. He wants to add fixed-width text file named items to his existing project Products.egp as a SAS data set. The file contains sequential columns named Columns 1, Columns2, Columns3, Columns4, Columns5, Columns6, and Columns7 of the products. He needs to create a table named items.sas7bdat with the fixed-width file as its data sources.The table:a. should not contain Columns 1b. should display Columns 4 and Columns 5 as currency ,which otherwise is displayed as a numeric filled in the sources file .To accomplish the preceding task, Kim plans to perform the following steps:1. With products as the active project select file-------> open------>data... from the menu bar2. Select local computer icons and browse to the location of the data.3. Select items.txt and Click open to begin according the text file.4. In the open data window, Select 'select this option if you want to open the file as a SAS data set'.5. Select text format in the selection pane and select fixed width in the format pane.6. Select column options in the selection pane and Columns1 and select No for include in output column property.7. Highlight column4 and click on the '......' button displayed against the Display format option.8. In the Display format dialog box, select Currency under the categories pane and then select Dollarw.d under the format pane.9. Click the ok button.10. Highlight Columns 5 and click on the '......' button displayed against the Display format option.11.In the Display format dialog box, select currency under the Categories pane and then select Dollar.wd under the Format pane .12. Save the project.Analyze the above steps and identify whether Kim will be able to add data from a fixed-width text file or not.Ans1, yes, Kim will be able to add data from items .txt to the sales project.84. Which of the following SAS application is used to modify existing SAS programs by using the color coded syntax editor?Ans1, SAS Enterprise Guide85. Kim works as a BI developer. He has been asked to create a dashboard for the sales department. He is required to include a visualization mechanism that indicates how the KPIs behave over a period of time, such as when a KPI is moving away from the target , and is constant. Which of the following types of visualization should be use for this requirement?ANS 2. Trend icons.

86. Sam works as a BI developer wit h XYZ Corp. He has been asked to create a dashboard for the Accounts department of the organization. He is required to implement a

visualization mechanism that indicates the relative financial growth of the organization. Which of the following types of the visualization should he implement to accomplish the required task?

ANS4, Progress bar

87. John works as Bi developer .he has been asked to create a dashboard for the credit card department. He is required to implement a visualization mechanism that indicates the system state, such as whether or not an application is online. Which of the following types of visualization should he implemented the required task?

ANS 1, Alert icons.

88. Mathews is a SAS administrator in Hot Corporation. His profile require him to register and then age the metadata for the information maps, stored process and SAS data integration Studio custom folders created by the various user in the organization .analyze the task to be performed by him and suggest which of the following plug in should be access in the SAS Management Console in order to accomplish the same?

ANS 4, BI manager plug in.

89. Mathew works as a SAS platform administrator in HOTG Corporation. He needs to access and change the physical location data of the source without changing the application that uses it. He also wants to source, table, report and stored processes by user and by group. Analyze the task to performed by him and suggest which of the following plug-ins should be in the used in order to achieve this?

ANS2, Data library manager plug in

90. John needs to define as SAS data library by using the SAS management console. To accomplish the same, he has planned to perform the following steps:i. Select (+) to expand a SAS data library manager plug in.ii. Right -click on SAS libraries and select new library.iii. Select SAP library and select next.iv . Enter the library name and specify the properties for the library and accept the default value BASE in the engine field.v . Select SASmain as the SAS application server .vi . Select finish after reviewing the settings for the library.However, john’s manager has informed john that these steps will not enable to create a SAS library. Analyze the steps and identify what john should do to create the SAS library successfully?ANS 2, john should select a SAS Base engine library because the library selected in steps iii does not create a SAS library.

91. Which of the following statement is not true about NULL values?

ANS 3, NULL =0

92. Sam has defined a SAS data library for the SAS user in the organization by using the SAS management console. He now needs to verify the physical location to which the library maps to. Which of the following option should Sam perform to verify the same?

ANS 1. Sam should right-click the created library and select display libname option.

93. Predict the output of the following statement;SELECT TRIM ('S' FROM 'SSMITH') FROM DUAL;

ANS 3, MITH

94. You want to convert a given string to a date by specifying the format. Which of the following conversion function will be the most appropriate to implement?

ANS 2, TO_DATE

95. When will you get a Cartesian product while joining tables?

Ans 2, when a join condition is omitted. 96. Which statement is true regarding enabling constrains?

ANS 2, enabling a constraint applies to all the data in the table.

97. Which of the following statement about a synonym is not true?

ANS 3, there can't be more than three synonym or a join view.

98. Don Allen is a analyst of a leading automobile company has created a cube that provide huge volume of information on various business process of the organization such as sales, marketing, finance and HR, generated for the past five year. For the past one year the top management of the automobile company is planning some proactive marketing strategies that will retain its competitive edge in the market and also attract new customers. In order to achieve this target, the management now wants to view the sales information from this cube for the past year and for each quarter of the current year only. Also, the management wants to restrict the access of data from certain departments including the HR and finance. This is essentially to secure the information stored in this cube. What should Don do?

ANS4, Don should create a new cube partition based on the given requirement and restrict access to that partition.

99. You have three different cubes, which have a dimension called Time. Currently all of the three dimension have the same levels. As per the corporate policy, during analysis time must be defined evenly in all cubes. Which of the following would have been a valid approach to accomplish the same?

ANS 2, make the time dimension a shared dimension.

100. Jack is the chief supervisor to whom Wilbur and John report. Both Wilbur and John are supervisors. Smith and Jill report to John, While Mary reports to Wilbur. Such type detail can be stored in which kind of dimension?

Ans 4, parent -child

101. Which of the following assertion about a TRUNCATE statement is not correct?

ANS4, TRUNCATE can be rolled back.

102. This District level of the Region dimension has a member property Daily Temperature that identifies the daily average temperature of a region. An analyst now wants to use an additional dimension named Average Daily Temperature, in a cube containing the Region dimension. He wants this to do without creating a new one. How can the analyst achieve this?

ANS 1 By creating a virtual dimension named Average Daily Temperature in centigrade, using the Daily Temperature member property.

103. Will any line of the following code fire an error? If yes, then which line?Line 1; SELECT s.sno, s.name, c.course Line 2; FROM student s, course cLine 3; WHERE s.courseid = c.courseidLine 4; ORDER BY 1, 2, 3;

Ans 4, No error will be fired

104. A dimension is required to be created from a schema. This schema consists of four dimension tables and one fact table. One of the dimension table is linked to another dimension table than a fact table. Which kind of schema is this?

ANS 2, Snowflake schema. 105. Which of the following about Cartesian is not true?

ANS4, if Cartesian join is made between a table having m rows and another table have n rows, the resulting query will have m+n rows.

106. identify the number that has an error .

Line 1; Select p.prodname, o.orderid Line 2; FROM product p.orderidLine 3; WHERE p.prodid = o.prodid (4)Line4; OR o.custname (+) LIKE 'C%';

ANS 4, LINE 4

107. Linda is creating a new table called new_emp from an existing table emp. What is the SQL query that Linda should write to create a new table from an existing table?

ANS3, CREATE TABLE new_emp AS SELECT*FROM emp;

108. Which line of code has an error?line1; CREATE TABLE tempLine2 ;( Book code number (2),Line3; Dateofpurchase DATE (10),Line 4; Book name Varchar2 (30);

ANS3 Line 3

109. Fill in the blank with appropriate option...............................................processes directly generated revenue as part of the expected output.

ANS2, Value -Adding

110. Identify from the following, the operational process of the airline industry.

ANS 2, Airport Billing

111. Identify from the following, the line employees of the airline industry.

ANS2, Pilots

112. Consider the following the statement regarding efficient and effective output in an enterprise;Statement A; The basic criteria that form the basis for evaluating the performance of an organization are the effectiveness and efficiency of the output of the processes of the organization. Statement B; The basic criteria that from the basis for evaluating the performance of an organization are the number of supplier and customers of the organization.Which of the following is correct, with to the above statements?

ANS1; Statement A is true and statement B is false.

113. Determine the output of the following MDX QUERY;

SELECT {[Unit Sales]} on COLUMNS,TopCount {[product].[product category].Members, 10, {[Unit sales]}} on ROWS FROM SALES

ANS4, the query would display the members of the top 10 selling product category based on the Unit Sales in the descending order.

114. Consider the following statement regarding business and leisure passenger of the airline industry;Statement A; Business passenger are those who are charged high -priced tickets.Statement B; Leisure passengers are those who opt for cheap tickets.Which of the following is correct, with respect to the above statements?

Ans 2, both statement A and statement B are true.

115. Don Allen, an information Specialist in food mart inc. needs to provide a report to the management which would display the top 5 selling product categories based on the unit sales. Which MDX query should he use?

Ans 3, select {[unit Sales]} on columns,TopCount ([product]. [Product category].Members, 5, {[unit sales])) on ROWSFrom sales

116. Determine the output of the following MDX query:

SELECT {[Unit sales]} on columns,TopPercent([product].[Brand name].Member, 60, [unit sales]) on ROWSFROM SALES

Ans 4, The query returns the smallest number of items that make up 60 percent of the total unit sales. The query display the product brands on the query result's rows, along with their total unit sales value.

117. Charlie Brown is a recent recruit at SuperSpeed Airways a leading airline operator .His works details-presenting and publishing data in response to a question from the senior management-preparing cubes to dull data from the data warehouse,-Creating fact and dimension tables from the data Warehouse into data marts-identifying the type of stroge architecture-Running the final query on to the data martsSelect the option that identifies the role Charlie is fulfilling at SuperSpeed Airways.

Ans 4, MIS Specialist

118. Don Allen needs to generate an MDX query Which returns the smallest number of items that make up 60 percent of the total unit sales(the items that have the largest

numbers of unit sales).The query should then display the product brands on the query result's rows, along with their total Unit Sales value. Which MDX query should he use?

Ans 2, SELECT {[Unit Sales]} on columns, TopPercent ([product].[Brand Name].Members, 60, [Unit Sales]) on ROWS FROM SALES

119. Don Allen needs to generate an MDX query Which returns the largest number of items that make up 25 percent of the total unit sales(the items that have the smallest numbers of unit sales).The query should also eliminate any brands that have no Unit Sales.Which MDX query should he use?

Ans 1, SELECT {[Unit Sales]} on columns,NON EMPTY BottomPercent ([product].[Brand Name].Members,25,[Unit Sales]) on ROWS FROM SALES

120. Consider the following statementsIn the previous month several flights of Jet lines inc. had many vacant seats during flights in the autumn season. To avoid this situation, the airline needs to devise a strategy that would fill all the seats. For this, the airlines need to carefully analyze the demand for flight economics and the passenger's profile.Which department would devise which strategy to ensure all the seats of Jet lines inc. are filled up?

Ans 3, The sales and marketing department would devise the overbooking strategy.

121. Consider the following scenario. For the past three months, XZ airlines received several complaints from passengers on mishandled and lost baggage. To combat the situation, the airlines introduced a new Technology wherein tags help to locate baggage.Which of the following information system did XZ airline introduce?

ANS4, The Radio frequency identification tag.

122. The management at freefall, a global beverage major , recently embarked on an information analysis to determine ''which flavor of beverage sells most during summer months” upon being, given the relevant parameters, the MIS Specialist at freefall performed the following function to extract the relevant information from the data warehouse:-Query formation-Query running-Cube Dimension formation- Results publishing

However the result wasn't successful select the option that identifies the correct sequence in which the MIS Specialist should have performed the function

Ans 1, Cube Dimension formation; query formation; query running; result publishing

123. Consider the scenarioAC Airlines is a major airline, which fly 80,000 passengers each day. The airline offers various modes of booking air ticket, such as websites, travel agents, and directly through the airline counter. Most passengers tend to book ticket through travel agents. This leads to a huge expense for the airline because travel agents issue a major chunk of tickets. Therefore, the airline determines the market share of travel agencies and pay commissions and payments of overrides to them.Which of the following list of parameters will help the airline to determine the market share of travel agencies?

Ans 4, Agency name, contact details, total number of tickets, total ticket fare, airline name, class of ticket, gross fare, selling fare, and commission.

124. Consider the following statementsSky Airline stores passenger’s information in the airline database. In case the booking is the through travel agents. They use one of the main reservation systems to store passenger data. Mr. Robert miles is a regular passenger of sky airlines. He books an air ticket from Spokane to Orlando with a single stopover at Denver.Identify the correct data transmission of Robert miles, for booking a ticket through a travel agent.

ANS 2, the travel agent updates the data to the travel agents server, and data is transmitted from the server to the GDS as an XML TAIR file. From the GDS, data is transmitted to the airlines OLTP.

125. Identify the event that led to loyalty programs.

ANS 1, Computerization

126. Which of the following statement is not true for a hub?

ANS 2, Hubs are the routes that aircrafts take from the central airport .

127. Consider the following statements regarding Enterprise information Architecture (EIA) in an enterprise.Statement A: EIA is micro view of information-related components for all requirements in an organization. It conveys a detailed understanding of each component, and explains how these components relate to each other.Statement b: EIA is a macro view of information-related components for all requirements in an organization .It conveys an overall understanding of each component, and explains how these components relate to each other.

Which of the following options is correct in context of preceding statements?ANS 4, Statement A is false and statement B is true

128. Which one of the following information users deals with department wise information?

ANS 1, Middle Management

129. Which one the following information systems support planned workflow processes?

ANS 3, Transaction Processing Systems

130. Consider the following statements regarding peak seasons to the airline industryStatement A: During low season, the airlines try to fill the seats by offering low fares to passengers.Statement B: Fares are high on certain days of week.Which of the following options in correct in the context of the preceding statements?

ANS 4, Statement A is false and statement B is true

131. Which one of the following information systems is generally not well equipped to meet the changing needs of the business?

ANS 2, Managements information systems

132. Which one of the following information systems can be described as Management Information Systems at the enterprise level with the focus on top managements?

ANS 1, Executive Information Systems

133. Consider the following statements regarding the technological components of CRM used in certain airlines:Statement A: The Self-Service CRM comprises the contact Managements and the Distribution Management Software.Statement B: The Sales Force Automation comprised the contact Management and the Lead Management Software.Which of the following in correct, with respect to the above statements?

ANS 4, Statement A is false and statement B is true

134. Which of the following BI system components enables the user to analyze and extract the intelligence required to make strategic decisions?

ANS 1, Decision support tools

135. In recent years, Musicull, a leading record croel, has experienced a dip in the number of artistes availing the services of their recording studio in fact the studio is currently running to losses and eating into the profitability margin other areas of Musicull generates.To address this issue the management at Musical is focus move on improving their efficiency and lowering the cost of customer services while retaining profitability. They have envisioned a strategy that has the goal of building an integrated relationship by linking together all the front-office operations that invoice customer contacts:To this end, they have chalked out some strategies that will eventually indentify potential customers, Processes, and application architectures and have prepared an implementation blueprint for the same.Select the option that best identifies the strategy the management at Musicull have adapted.

ANS 2, Customer Relationship Management

136. Consider the scenario, where the published fare for a round route from Charleston to Miami is $1000 in May. On the other hand, the published fare from Charleston to Austria is $850 in September. Identily the reason for the difference in fare for the two routes:

ANS 3, The variation in fares is due to the low occupancy in the Charleston to Austria sector.

137. The management at Soistice Inc. a leading retail chain has recently installed a system has been designed to extract relevant information from the extensive data collected by the various business systems over time. These Systems are being used by the organization to provide insights that enable the decision-making process. Additionally, these systems combine related data disciplines, such as data mining, statistical analysis, forecasting, reporting and querying, OLAP, and data visualization.The installations of these systems have ensured that the information analysis process has become much more accurate and extensive.Select the option that best identifies the information systems installed by the managements at Solstice Inc.

ANS 4, business intelligence system

138. Consider the following statements:Statement A: The entity relationship model depicts the relationship among the entities.Statement B: The entity relationship model is a multidimensional model.Which of the following options is correct in context of the preceding statements?

ANS 1, Statement A is True, Statement B is False.

139. Blue line Airline is one of the major airlines of the world. It operates, more than 100 all crafts to more than 100 destinations worldwide, and generates annual revenue of more than $ 4 billion. A major part of the revenue is generated from a certain segment of passengers. These passengers are charged a higher fare based on certain parameters:Mr. Howard has booked the flight at 10:00 A.M from Los Angeles, a few hours prior to the departure, on Friday. His ticket also allows him to reschedule and change flight dates and stopovers during the journey given the nature of his high-flying job. He has been accorded certain privileges because of his profile.Identify the correct list of parameters that blue line airline considers while determining the published fare for Mr. Howard,

ANS 3, Last-minute reservation, flexibility in schedule, flight time, no Saturday say over, refundable, class, and frequent flyer.

140. Consider the following statements.Statement A: Multidimensional model supports end user queries in a data warehouse.Statment B: Multidimensional model is a logical design technique.Which of the following options is correct?

ANS 2, both Statement A and Statement B are true.

141. Consider the following statements:Statement A: Star schema and snowflake schema are the types of schemas used in multidimensional modelingStatement B: Star schema is a relational database structure.Which of the following options is correct?

ANS 2, Both Statement A and Statement B are True.

142. Consider the following statements:Statement A: The smallest unit of cube is a dimension.Statement B: a cell a cube stores the aggregated value of measures.Which of the following options is correct?

ANS 3, Statement A is false and Statement B is true.

143. Consider the following statements.Statement A: cube partitions help to secure the information from the certain rolesStatement B: cube partitions optimize the processing of a cube the against the large amount of data Which of the following options is correct?

ANS 2, Both Statement A and Statement B are True.

144. Family stores inc .is a leading retail chain of the U.S. having more than 100 retail outlets spread across the entire U.S. Each year, the organization generates revenue of up

to 1 billion dollars. However, for the past one year, the organization is suffering some issues and due to this its customer base has decreased significantly in order to improve this situation, the management is planning some proactive marketing strategies that will increase its customer base. For this, The management requires gender-wise and marital status-wise information of all its customers.A family store uses its own data warehouse for analysis. In this warehouse, there is a cube called customers containing two dimensions Gender and marital status. Both dimensions contain only one level with the same nameYou have to identify the correct MDX query that will display the consolidated Gender-wise marital status of all its customers

ANS 4, SELECT {[GENDER].MEMBERS}ON COLUMN{[MARITAL STATUS].MEMBER} ON ROWS FROM CUSTOMERS.

145. ABC stores is a lead in retail chain of the U.S. having more than 100 retail stores spread across the entire region. The senior management of the organization wants a list of top three profitable retail stores based on the sales of product, as well as, its top three most profitable customers in each of these stores. This will help them to identify the reason for poor sales performance in other stores. The business analyst of the organization has to create the relevant MDX to produce the desired result for the management.ABC stores uses he food mart 2000 data warehouse that contains several cubes and one of them sales. This cube has many dimension, Two of them are store and customers the store dimension has a level called name the cube also has a measure called unit Sales.Which of the following MDX queries will display the top three and in each of these stores the top three customers?

ANS 1, SELECT {[UNIT SALES]} ON COLUMNS,({TOPCOUNT({STORE].[STORE NAME] MEMBERS},5,[UNIT SALES]}}*{TOPCOUNT({[COSTOMERS].[NAME].MEMBERS},5,[UNIT SALES])}] ON ROWS FROM SALES

146. The data warehouse of a leading food chain, Food centre inc., contains a cube called sales this cube has many measure two of them are store sales and store cost. The cube also has a dimension store with a level store name the senior management of the organization wants sales information of all the stores based on their cost and sales. The business analyst of the organization has to the stores, on the basis of their cost and sales?

ANS 2, SELECT {[MEASURE].[STORE COST],[MEASURE].[STORE SALES]}ON COLUMNS,{[STORE].[STORENAME].MEMBER} ON ROWS FROM SALES

147. The senior management of abc stores inc, is a leading food chain of the U.S., having close to 100 retail stores spread across the entire region. Each store has its own warehouse that provides stock and inventory information of that store to the head office in New York. Each store is connected to the head office through a well-established information system management.

Currently, the senior management of the organization requires information on the warehouse sales and cost of all the retail stores in the U.S. This will help the management to plan some proactive strategies to increase the warehouse profit generated from each store.ABC Stores used the food mart 2000 data warehouse for analysis. In this warehouse there in cube called warehouse that contains Several dimensions, two of them are time and store. The Time dimension has two members, 1997 and1998, and the store dimension has a level All stores. This cube also contains two measures, Warehouse sales and warehouse cost. What will be the MDX query to display the total warehouse sales and cost for the years 1997 and1998 for all USA-based stores?

ANS 2, SELECT {[TIME].[1997], TIME][1998]} ON COLUMNS,{[MEASURES].[WAREHOUSE SALES].[MEASURES][WAREHOUSE COST]}ON ROWS FROM WAREHOUSE WHERE ([STORE].[ALLSTORES].{USA]}

148. Which of the following instructions allows you to control the appearance of data values for analysis?

ANS 3, Format

149. Which of the following components of a SAS thable describes the characteristifcs of any entity?

ANS 3, Column

150. Which of the following options is a specific type of analysis that can be performed against data in a project?

ANS 1, Task

151. Which of the following options of a task dialog allows you to add custom and descriptive footnotes in SAS Enterprise guide reports?

ANS 2, Titles pane

152. Which of the following options allows you to access the available directories when opening data from the SAS Server?

ANS 2, Files icon

153. How can the SAS results and the SAS features be customized by using the features that are not available in the SAS Enterprise Guide point-and-click interface?

ANS 1, By modifying the programming code

154. Which of the following windows should be accessed to view an example and description of the selected menu items in SAS Enterprise Guide?

ANS 3, what is window

155. How are the various servers and file management tasks, such as deleting copying or renaming files performed in a SAS Enterprise Guide?

ANS 1, By right-clicking on the items in the server list window 156. Which of the following options allows you to access the predefined folders containing SAS of DBMS data sources?

ANS 2, Libraries icon

157. Which of the following options is the correct way to handle the missing values in a one-way frequency report?

ANS 3, By selecting the option to specify whether or not missing values should be included in calculations and whether or not frequencies should be shown to them.

158. Which of the following window enables you to combine the HTML results from multiple tasks in your project into a single HTML page?

ANS 2, Document builder

159. Which of the following options is used to produce simple descriptive statistics for numeric variables?

ANS 4, Group Analysis By

160. Which the following options enables the control aspects such as output destinations and the efficiency or program execution in the SAS session?

ANS 1. OPTIONS

161. John works as a developer at blue InfoTech Pvt.Ltd. He was assigned the job to create a report to display some information. After reviewing the report his manager suggests him to change the existing font and background color or the report in order to make it more attractive. How can John make this change in his existing report?

ANS2, By using the Style Editor

161. Cyril works as a SAS developer in Super solutions Inc. His manager has asked him to modify the sequence of the processes defined in the process flow pane on his current

project, However, Cyril got confused while manually modifying the sequence of the processes defined in the process flow. Suggest him with another technique through which he can easily perform this task.

ANS 2, Cyril should access the Ordered list window to specify the new sequence. 162. Kim works as a SAS developer at bright Solutions Pvt. Ltd. He inserted an existing code in his current project to include similar functionality provided by the code in the project. However, whenever he makes changes to the code in the project, those changes are also included in the original.sas file that contains the existing code. Further, when he makes changes to this.sas file, these changes are then included in the project.Kim does not want this behavior and interdependency between the project and sas file. Suggest Kim with a solution that should eliminate this problem.

ANS 1, Kim should change the properties of the code Node and select the Embed option.

163. John works a sales manager at superstore Pvt. Ltd. His manager has asked him to create a sales report for the last five years for this, he produced a summary statistics. After review, his manager suggested him to change the default text of the title of the report help him to find the correct way from where he can change the default text of the report title.

Ans 1, Clear the "use default text" check box at List Data------------------>Titles----------->Report Titles

164. Pine solution is a small placement organization that provides jobs and trainings to various registered users. it has a strength of twenty employees who manage all the specific internal processes manually. However, with the increase in the number of registered users, it is becoming difficult to manually manage the processes. Therefore the organization has decided to automate its process. However, the organization does not want to invest heavily at the initial stage. The organization has simple querying and reporting requirements only. Which of the following software architecture should the organization implement with the respect to the above mentioned conditions?

ANS 3,Single-Tier-Architecture

165. Collkafe is a small coffee house that has its ten outlets across the city. It has a strength profile, employee who manage all the specific internal process manually. However, with the increasing popularity and customer base throughout the different regions, it is becoming difficult to manually handle the orders and generate various reports. Therefore the organization has decide to automate processes. They need a software architecture that allows to centrally store the data at one location and then allows to access the centrally located system from multiple locations. There are a limited number of transactions that take place and there is no requirement for creation of complex queries for running the business

Which of the following software architecture should the organization implement with the respect to the above mentioned conditions?

ANS 3.Two-Tier-Architecture

166. Quick pick is popular e-shopping website. It provides a wide range of product to its customer. With the increasing popularity and large number of customer base, It is becoming difficulty for the website manager to handle request and queries because the system are getting overloaded. Therefore, the managers have to decided to separate all the layers of their web application on different system. In addition, they want that if any changes or update is made to any of the layer, it should not impact the other layers of the software architecture.Which of the following architecture should Quick pick adopt in this regard?

ANS 2, N-Tier-Architecture

167. Lisa has to create a tabular summary report for finance department by using SAS Enterprise Guide. The report should contain the percent of total profit generated from the sales of each product category for each country. In addition ,the report should have labels for rows, column and page totals.The following are the steps in a random order that allows creating a tabular summary report.(i) choose the numeric columns to analyze and then select the statistic to be performed for each selected column.(ii)select Describe--->Wizard--->Summary tables from the menu bar of SAS Enterprise Guide.(iii) Choose to include and label row,column,and page totals.(iv) select finish.