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Sunday 7 July 2013

Quintiles Interview Questions





                                       Questions asked By QUINTILES:
   1)      Tell me something about yourself or introduce yourself.  
   2)      What is Bio-informatics? (Detail questions on background of a student).
   3)      How SAS differ from other language like C++, JAVA, and HTML that you have learned?
   4)      How much you comfortable in SAS?
   5)      Why you select SAS as a Career?
   6)      How do you read and write raw data file?
   7)      Explain SCAN function, INDEX function in detail.
   8)      How can you calculate age?
   9)      What is informat and format? (in detail)
  10)  How many ways to create macro variable?
  11)  What is difference between %LET and %Global Statement?
  12)  How do you create multiple macro variables in Proc SQL?
  13)  What is Macro?
  14)  Can you write raw data file which is CSV file by using PUT statement?
  15)  Why we use DATA _NULL_?
  16)  Questions on multiple SET statements?
  17)  Which SAS version you have used?
  18)  Why have changed your domain to SAS?
  19)  Application of SAS.
  20)  What will you do if any new software will come after one year?
  21)  Which steps are used to make up SAS program?
  22)  What is the type of Macro variable?
  23)  How can we apply user defined format?
  24)  How SAS will store date?
  25)  Value of 01JAN1960.
  26)  Explain Proc Compare. Why it is used?
  27)  What is ODS? (Tell me about ODS).
  28)  Can we create a text file using ODS? How?
  29)  Explain Proc Import and Proc Export. (In detail)
  30)  Why we use quit statement in Proc SQL instead of run Statement.
  31)  What options we used in Proc Sort to store the duplicate observations.
  32)  Explain Proc Means.
  33)  Difference between Proc Means and Proc summary.
  34)  Explain Univariate procedure. What is by default output?
  35)  Plot option in univariate procedure.
  36)  Explain Call Symputx and Call symget.
  37)  How can we delete Macro variables.
  38)  ID statement in transpose procedure.
  39)  By and Class statements in Means Procedure.
  40)  From where you learn SAS.
  41)  What is Epoch Research Institute (in detail).
  42)  Why and how do you join this institute?
  43)  Tell me about your work experience.
  44)  Have you done any live and Demo Project.
  45)  Do you have any questions? Or do you have any query?


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