ICON Interview Questions

Interview Questions asked By ICON:

1)       Tell me about yourself.

2)      What you did after graduation and how SAS?

3)      What have you learned in Base SAS?

4)      What is Data step and Proc step?

5)      Define Data statement.

6)      What are Drop= and Keep= options and can they be used in proc step?

7)      We save our word files in .doc format, excel files in .xls format, can you tell me the format to save SAS Dataset?

8)      Can you tell me about substring function and its syntax?

9)      Use of Input and put function.

10)   Explain retain statement.

11)  What is merging .

12)   If we write 2 set data set names in the set statement, what will happen?

13)   Can I merge 3 datasets and if yes, tell me the syntax.

14)  Difference between merging and concatenating.

15)  Difference between Like operator and contains operator.

16)   nodupkey and nodups.

17)   Proc Transpose.

18)  Proc SQL syntax.

19)  What have you done previously?

20)  Use and syntax of PROC Format .

21)  What functions do you study during your training?

22)  What is the difference between functions and proc?

23)  Explain any one function.

24)  Difference between WHERE and IF.

25)  Questions on format and informat.

26)  I have a raw data file, where date format is date9. Now I want to read raw data file to SAS data set what should we do?

27)  Questions on raw data file.

28)  How to create macro variables?

29)  If we have a raw data file and we use where condition then what happen?

30)  What is the use of compress function?

31)  What project you have done?

32)  What is the difference between merge statement and PROC Sql join?

33)  What is NODUP and what is NODUPKEY?

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