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In this post I will put all the SAS Admin questions that were asked in interview. Few of these questions were asked in SAS India, Pune and most of them were from service based companies like TCS, Wipro, Tech Mahindra etc. Questions: SAS Hotfix Apply - Detailed steps: SAS Installation and configuration - Detailed steps SAS SSL Certificate detailed steps Difference between Workspace Server and Pooled Workspace Server. Difference between Pooled Workspace Server and Stored Process Server. How you will create library? Have you made connection to DB2 and follow up questions? Do you know about sasenv file and what is the purpose of it? What is the purpose of adminusers.txt? Pre-requisite for SAS installation. Mostly about the SAS part like using tools related to SAS deployment. In SAS web tier what is SAS_Server1, SAS_Server2 etc. What is JMS broker? What is SAS Cache locator? What is SAS trust not SAS trusted user? Where do you configure SAS Workspace Server log? What are the

The main difference between workspace server and pooled workspace server is, workspace server creates process for each request whereas in pooled workspace server a set of server process are reused. Since the pooled workspace server won't create new process for each request, processing time is saved. There are two types of pooling: Server side - In server side object spawner is responsible for connecting to the workspace server. It maintains the collection of workspace server that is available, Server side pooling is available from SAS 9.2 version Client side - Client side pooling is available in 9.1 and earlier version. Here client will maintain the list of reusable servers.