SAS® Certified Platform Administrator for SAS®9

This accelerated SAS® Certified Platform Administrator for SAS®9 course is designed to assess your knowledge and understanding of securing SAS configurations on each server machine, checking server status and operating servers, monitoring server activity and administering logging, establishing formal, regularly scheduled backup processes, adding users and managing their access, and more.

SAS Certifications are among the most globally accepted credentials in the industry. The SAS Certified Professional – Advanced Programming Using SAS 9.4 credential validates your professional skills and expertise. This exam demonstrates a high level of knowledge in SAS programming expertise in the candidates. Significant topics include SQL processing with SAS, the SAS macro language, advanced SAS programming techniques, and optimizing SAS programs, as well as a unique chapter on building functions with PROC FCMP.

In just 2 days, you’ll learn to secure the SAS configuration on each server machine. You’ll also learn how to:

• Check status and operate servers.
• Monitor server activity and administer logging.
• Establish formal, regularly scheduled backup processes.
• Add users and manage their access.
• Establish connectivity to data sources.
• Set up and secure metadata folder structures.
• Administer repositories and move metadata.
• Understand the interaction between SAS servers and operating systems.

At the end of this course, you’ll sit the SAS exam, and achieve your SAS® Certified Platform Administrator for SAS®9 certification. Through Firebrand’s Lecture | Lab | Review methodology, you’ll get certified at twice the speed of the traditional training and get access to courseware, learn from certified instructors, and train in a distraction-free environment.

Audience

This course is ideal for:

• Data Analysts
• Senior Healthcare Economics Analysts
• Senior Healthcare Economics Consultants
• Campus Undergraduate Finance Data Science Interns
• Data Scientists

Module 1: Managing the SAS Environment

• Secure a SAS platform configuration.
• Update SAS Software
• Work with the SAS Metadata Server
• Promote metadata and associated content

Module 2: Monitoring, Logging, and Troubleshooting SAS Servers

• Monitor SAS servers.
• Administer SAS server logging and modify logging configurations.
• Troubleshoot basic SAS server issues such as server availability.
• Identify the properties and functionality of SAS servers

Module 3: Backing Up the SAS Environment

• Backup and restore the SAS environment
• Backup and restore Metadata

Module 4: Administering Users

• Manage connection profiles.
• Register users and groups in the metadata.
• Determine when to store passwords in the metadata.
• Give users access to processing servers and data servers.
• Manage internal SAS accounts.
• Identify SAS server authentication mechanisms.

Module 5: Administering Data Access

• Register libraries and tables in the metadata.
• Update table metadata.
• Pre-assign a library.
• Troubleshoot data access problems.
• Use the metadata LIBNAME engine.

Module 6: Managing Metadata

• Identify how the metadata authorization layer interacts with other security layers.
• Identify where, how, and to whom metadata permissions are assigned.
• Determine the outcome of metadata authorization decisions.
• Use metadata permissions to secure metadata.
• Create and use Access Control Templates.

At the end of this accelerated course, you’ll sit the following exam at the Firebrand Training centre, covered Certification Guarantee:

SAS® Certified Platform Administrator for SAS®9 A00-250 Exam

• Duration: 110 minutes
• Format: Multiple-choice questions
• Number of questions: 65 multiple-choice questions
• Passing score: 66 % correct to pass

Before attending this accelerated course, you should have:

• The SAS Certified Base Programmer for SAS 9.4 Credential before taking the SAS 9.4 exam.

Your accelerated course includes:

• Accommodation *
• Meals, unlimited snacks, beverages, tea and coffee *
• On-site exams **
• Exam vouchers **
• Practice tests **
• Certification Guarantee ***
• Courseware
• Up-to 12 hours of instructor-led training each day
• 24-hour lab access
• Digital courseware **

* For residential training only. Accommodation is included from the night before the course starts. This doesn't apply for online courses.
** Some exceptions apply. Please refer to the Exam Track or speak with our experts.
*** Pass first time or train again free as many times as it takes, unlimited for 1 year. Just pay for accommodation, exams, and incidental costs.

Seven reasons why you should sit your course with Firebrand Training

• Two options of training. Choose between residential classroom-based, or online courses
• You'll be certified fast. With us, you’ll be trained in record time
• Our course is all-inclusive. A one-off fee covers all course materials, exams**, accommodation* and meals*. No hidden extras.
• Pass the first time or train again for free. This is our guarantee. We’re confident you’ll pass your course the first time. But if not, come back within a year and only pay for accommodation, exams and incidental costs
• You’ll learn more. A day with a traditional training provider generally runs from 9 am – 5 pm, with a nice long break for lunch. With Firebrand Training you’ll get at least 12 hours/day of quality learning time, with your instructor
• You’ll learn faster. Chances are, you’ll have a different learning style to those around you. We combine visual, auditory and tactile styles to deliver the material in a way that ensures you will learn faster and more easily
• You’ll be studying with the best. We’ve been named in the Training Industry’s “Top 20 IT Training Companies of the Year” every year since 2010. As well as winning many more awards, we’ve trained and certified over 135,000 professionals

*For residential training only. Doesn't apply for online courses
**Some exceptions apply. Please refer to the Exam Track or speak with our experts

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