SAS Certification hits the big 4-0

Terry Barham
Terry Barham|February 14, 2012

The SAS Global Certification program concluded 2011 with a bang by awarding the 40,000th SAS credential.  Program growth has continued to accelerate ever since the 1999 launch, with a dramatic 53% growth in the total number of SAS certifications awarded in the last two years alone.  With SAS credential holders in [...]

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SAS certification's 2011 U.S. tour

Mark Stevens
Mark Stevens|August 26, 2011

SAS certification exams at regional user group meetings It’s almost fall (at least for those of us in the northern hemisphere), and that means it’s time for regional user group meetings. And while these meetings are all about mingling with SAS users from your area, it is also happens to [...]

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The team behind the SAS Clinical Trials Programmer Using SAS 9 certification

Mark Stevens
Mark Stevens|August 3, 2011

At the end of June, SAS launched a new credential: the SAS Certified Clinical Trials Programmer Using SAS 9. This was the culmination of months of work by lots of people.  In our press release, we identified that we worked with “a broad cross-section of practitioners and hiring managers from [...]

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New Certification Record Set

Mark Stevens
Mark Stevens|July 13, 2011

Records were made to be broken, and the SAS Professionals Convention continues to break them year after year.  Held each year at SAS UK headquarters in Marlow, this three day conference provides an opportunity for SAS professionals to network with peers, learn about the latest SAS technologies, hear from industry [...]

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Interview Advice for the Aspiring SAS Programmer

Mark Stevens
Mark Stevens|June 16, 2011

Last week on the SAS Training Facebook page, I answered a question about what to expect during a job interview. It’s a question I’ve seen before, since I speak with students about SAS Certification, and many of them seek certification in pursuit of a first job. And while certification can [...]

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New SAS Clinical Trials Programmer Certification

Mark Stevens
Mark Stevens|March 24, 2011

If you have visited our SAS Global Certification webpage lately, you may have noticed that we have a new credential in development: the SAS Certified Clinical Trials Programmer using SAS9. Clinical Trials Programmers create programs that analyze the data collected during the clinical trial of a new medication or treatment [...]

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Sometimes It's the Journey, Not the Destination

Mark Stevens
Mark Stevens|February 22, 2011

Recently, I read Dr. AnnMaria De Mars’ blog post "Translating Ruby to SAS (or vice versa)." I found that I really liked it, and not just because she mentions me (although that was pretty cool). But rather, I like the end of the post, where she identifies a key value [...]

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Certifiable: An Adventure in Pursuing SAS Certification

Mark Stevens
Mark Stevens|December 2, 2010

Those of you currently studying for the SAS Base Programming exam might enjoy this 9 minute video interview with Stacey Hamilton and Christine Kjellberg, two employees from SAS publishing who recently challenged the exam. Over the past year, they have shared their experience preparing for the exam on the SAS [...]

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To INDEX or not to INDEX...

Mark Stevens
Mark Stevens|November 24, 2010

Recently, a certification candidate asked me about indexes and how SAS decides whether to use one or not.  I don’t work with supper-large data sets and therefore haven’t been overly concerned with efficient coding techniques and consequently had no idea what an index was. So off to SAS 9.2 online [...]

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Advice from a SAS Certified Professional, Moments After Passing the Exam

Michele Reister
Michele Reister|October 25, 2010

It’s not easy to justify time away from the job, but what if you could realize the benefits of attending the world’s premier Data Mining conference and also take on the challenge of a SAS certification exam at the same time? Many M2010 Data Mining Conference attendees found out yesterday [...]

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