SAS Admin interview question dump

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:

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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 different types of authentication you know?
What is token authentication?
What is IWA?
Difference between PAM and AD?
Metadata clustering.
How grid environment works?
How do you create new queue in LSF?
Command to get job list for last 24 hours in LSF.
Where do user profile get stored in SAS? Profile.sasbcat
What are the components in SAS web tier?
What is plan file? This is related to SAS installation.
What are the Linux scripts you have written.
How do you find the software that are installed in your SAS environment? Deployment registry.

Linux related questions:

How will you get number of CPU core?

How to get Linux OS name?

How crontab is used?

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How to create library for Oracle in SAS?

In this article, you will get details about creating a new library using SAS Management Console. Here, I have provided the procedure for creating library for Oracle database. However, the steps will be same for other databases like SQL server, Teradata etc. Creating connection to Oracle database: To create library, you must first create a connection to Oracle database in your host machine. Host machine is the physical location where your SAS platform is installed. Details like Oracle database hostname/IP address and DSN/SID name is needed. Those details should be entered in tsnnames.ora file. For more details check this article Creating library in SAS Management Console: The steps for creating library for Oracle using SAS Management Console (SMC) can used for other database like SQL Server, My SQL etc. New library wizard: Expand Data Library Manager plug-in, right click on the Libraries and click New Library to start library wizard. You will be asked

SAS - CLI error trying to establish connection

Issue: User asked me to make a database connectivity to SQL Server. They provided following details SQL server hostname and ip address Database/DSN name Username Password I made entry in ODBC.ini file. You know, SQL Server entries were made in ODBC.ini and Oracle entries were made in TNS.ora file. Everything went fine, took back up of odbc.ini, made entry and saved the file. So to test this connection I ran the libname statement in SAS Enterprise Guide 6.1. It throwed following error. Error Message: My DB team showed that they are able to login 14 GOPTIONS ACCESSIBLE; 15 LIBNAME test ODBC DATASRC=SGE_DS SCHEMA=VST USER=sales PASSWORD=XXXXXXXXX; ERROR: CLI error trying to establish connection: [SAS/ACCESS to SQL Server][ODBC SQL Server Legacy Driver][SQL Server]Login failed for user 'sales'. Solution: First I suspected that Login failed for user 'sales' meant the password provided by DB team was wrong. They responded that they were able to login wi

Insufficient authorization to access PIPE error in SAS EG

Issue: When I tried to run SAS code in SAS Enterprise Guide it throws following errors: ERROR: Insufficient authorization to access PIPE. ERROR: Error in the FILENAME statement. Screenshot of error: Solution: This error occurs when you try to run OS commands in SAS code. To run the OS commands in SAS code you need to enable XCMD option. You check it in SAS Management Console by following below steps. Open SMC -> Expand Servers -> Expand In SASApp , expand Logical Workspace Server -> right click on Workspace Server. Click properties -> option tab -> advanced options -> launch properties. Check whether Allow XCMD is checked. The issue arises if the Allow XCMD is not checked. In above image, Allow XCMD option is not checked. It should be checked to run OS commands from SAS code. In Unix /Linux machines, this XCMD option can be enabled by using system option XCMD in sasv9 config file or workspaceserver.sh script file. Us

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