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SAS - Certified Platform Administrator for SAS®9
Overview
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
Benefits
Other accelerated training providers rely heavily on lecture and independent self-testing and study.
Effective technical instruction must be highly varied and interactive to keep attention levels high, promote camaraderie and teamwork between the students and instructor, and solidify knowledge through hands-on learning.
Firebrand Training provides instruction to meet every learning need:
- Intensive group instruction
- One-on-one instruction attention
- Hands-on labs
- Lab partner and group exercises
- Question and answer drills
- Independent study
Curriculum
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.
Exam Track
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
What's Included
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.
Prerequisites
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.
Unsure whether you meet the prerequisites? Don’t worry. Your training consultant will discuss your background with you to understand if this course is right for you.
Reviews
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"Heavy stuff! Long days and almost no time for some leisure or preparing for exam... I thought there was more hands-on training involved."
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