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Xtine Ramos
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Question 1

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Which of the these ORDER BY clauses will display the results ordered by decreasing Salary and then by increasing Name?
Answer
  • order by Salary desc, Name
  • order by descending Salary, Name
  • order by desc Salary, Name
  • order by desc Salary, ascending Name

Question 2

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You cannot use SAS formats and labels to customize PROC SQL output
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 3

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What column modifier is used to alter the appearance of the values in that column?
Answer
  • FORMAT=
  • LABEL=
  • LABELX=
  • INFORMAT=

Question 4

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Which of the ff. is not true regarding PROC SQL?
Answer
  • PROC SQL is terminated with a RUN statement
  • Each statement is processed individually.
  • The PROC SQL statement does not need to be repeated with each query.
  • No PROC PRINT step is needed to view query results.

Question 5

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To eliminate duplicate rows in query results, which keyword should be used?
Answer
  • DISTINCT
  • VALIDATE
  • SINGLE
  • NODUP

Question 6

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The ALL keyword is true only if the comparison is true for all returned values
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  • True
  • False

Question 7

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SQL uses set operators to combine tables horizontally
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 8

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SQL uses joins to combine tables vertically
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 9

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Full joins include all rows from both tables, even if there are no matching rows in either table
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 10

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To familiarize yourself with the columns in a table, which statement should be used:
Answer
  • DESCRIBE
  • PROPERTY
  • CONTENT
  • FEATURES

Question 11

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Inner joins enables a maximum of 256 tables to be joined at the same time.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 12

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SQL subqueries can return calues to be used in an outer query's FROM clause
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 13

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Which keyword is used to check the SELECT statement syntax?
Answer
  • VALIDATE
  • NOERROR
  • CHECK
  • DETERMINE

Question 14

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A type of joins that returns only the matching rows
Answer
  • INNER JOIN
  • OUTER JOIN
  • LEFT JOIN
  • RIGHT JOIN

Question 15

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A subquery can return several rows of data but must only return values from a single column
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 16

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Given the following SELECT statement, describe the incorrect syntax********************************************************SELECT a,b,c FROM tblx ORDER BY b WHERE tblx.a > 10;
Answer
  • arrangement of clauses
  • missing comma
  • missing semi-colon
  • none of the above

Question 17

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It is created by placing a query expression in a FROM clause where a table name would normally be used
Answer
  • IN LINE VIEW
  • subquery
  • virtual table
  • nested query

Question 18

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Correlated subqueries can be evaluated independently
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 19

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If a summary function specifies only one column name, the statistic is calculated down the columb (across rows)
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 20

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In a correlated subquery, the inner query provides information so that the subquery resolves successfully
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 21

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A condition that will evaluate to true if the subquery returns no data
Answer
  • NOT EXIST
  • NOT IN
  • IN
  • EXIST

Question 22

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When a SELECT list contains both a column created by a summary function and a column that is not summarized, by default, the summarized data is appended to each row of the original data table (remerged) in order to produce the output.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 23

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The COALESCE function returns the value of the first missing argument
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 24

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If the summary function specifies more than one column, the statistic is calculated for the row (using values from the listed columns)
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 25

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The COUNT function returns the number of columns returned by a query
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 26

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If you specify the ANY keyword before a subquery, the comparison is true if it is false for any of the values that the subquery returns
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 27

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Views often save space, because a view is usually quite small compared with the data that it accesses
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 28

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To search for actual percent or underscore characters in your text using the LIKE operator, you must use an:
Answer
  • ESCAPE CLAISE
  • FREE CLAUSE
  • LIKE CLAUSE
  • EXIT CLAUSE

Question 29

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SQL subqueries can return values to be used in an outer query's FROM clause
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 30

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What column modifier is used to alter the appearance of the values in that column?
Answer
  • FORMAT=
  • LABELX=
  • LABEL=
  • INFORMAT=

Question 31

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Find the incorrect syntax on the ff. select statement:**********************proc sql; SELECT Employee_ID, Employee_Gender, Salary, from orion.Employee_Payroll where Employee_Gender='F' order by Salary desc; quit;
Answer
  • exceeds use of comma
  • missing semi-colon
  • missing quote
  • missing comma

Question 32

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Which of the following is not a feature of SELECT statement
Answer
  • queries to two tables
  • specifies an order for the data
  • selects data that meets certain conditions
  • formats the data

Question 33

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How many tables can be combines using a single inner join?
Answer
  • 256
  • 10
  • 2
  • 5

Question 34

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The HAVING clause is processed before the GROUP BY clause and determines which groups will be displayed
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 35

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Which of the follwing statements is true when processing an inner join in PROC SQL
Answer
  • Builds the cartesian product of all tables listed and applies the WHERE clause to limit the rows returned
  • applies the WHERE clause to limit the rows returned then build the Cartesian product of all the tables listed and
  • builds the Cartesian product of all the tables listed and display the results
  • no need to build the Cartesian product of all the tables listed and applies the WHERE clause to limit the rows returned

Question 36

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Outer joins can only be performed on two tables at a time
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 37

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Which of the following is not true regarding subqueries
Answer
  • Can return single row with multiple columns
  • return values to be used in the outer query’s WHERE or HAVING clause
  • can return single or multiple values
  • must return only a single column.

Question 38

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A query corresponds to a single SELECT statement within a DATA step
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 39

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The IN CLAUSE specifies the criteria in outer joins
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 40

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To create and populate a table with the rows from an SQL query, which of the following statement should be used:
Answer
  • CREATE TABLE
  • CREATE QUERY
  • CREATE VIEW
  • CREATE POPULATE

Question 41

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The EQUAL operator does not accept any expression that resolves to more than a single value
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 42

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The WHERE clause is processed before a GROUP BY clause and determines which individual rows are available for grouping
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 43

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Which of the following WHERE clauses correctly selects rows with a Job_Code value that begins with a underscore?
Answer
  • where Job_Code like '/_%' escape '/'
  • where Job_Code contains '_%'
  • where Job_Code like '%_' exit '/_'
  • where Job_Code like '_%'

Question 44

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Which of these DATA step statements is used to combine tables horizontally?
Answer
  • MERGE
  • SET
  • JOINS
  • APPEND

Question 45

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In an ORDER BY clause, order the query results by specifying the following except for:
Answer
  • a combination of any of the above, with individual items separated by semi-colon
  • an expression
  • a column name or a number representing the position of an item in the SELECT list
  • any column name from any table in the FROM clause, even if the column is not in the SELECT list

Question 46

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Correlated subqueries use very few resources and are inexpensive to execute
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 47

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When using an askterisk for the select list, you can specify the FEEDBACK option to write the expanded SELECT statement to the SAS log
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 48

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A subquery can return severa rows of data but must only return values from a single column
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 49

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Left joins include all rows from the second table, even if there are no matching rows in the first table
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 50

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What column modifier is used to alter the appearance of the values in that column?
Answer
  • FORMAT=
  • LABEL=
  • LABELX=
  • INFORMAT=
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