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SAS A00-260 Exam Overview :

Exam Name: SAS Certified Data Integration Developer for SAS
Exam Code: A00-260
Certifications: SAS Certified Data Integration Developer Certification
Actual Exam Duration: 105 minutes
Expected no. of Questions in Actual Exam: 76
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SAS A00-260 Exam Objectives :

Section Objectives
Overview
  •     Define the architecture of the platform for SAS Business Analytics
  •     Describe the available interfaces
  •     Define the change management feature of SAS Data Integration Studio
  •     Discuss the DataFlux Data Management Server
Creating Metadata for Source and Target Data
  •     Define administrative tasks to be performed for SAS Data Integration Studio.
  •     Describe the New Library Wizard.
  •     Use Register Tables wizard to register source data.
  •     Register metadata for a comma-delimited external file.
  •     Import and Export Metadata.
Creating Metadata for Target Data and Jobs
  •     Describe features of the New Table wizard.
  •     Discuss components of Join's Designer window
  •     Investigate mapping and propagation.
  •     Work with performance statistics.
  •     Generate reports on metadata for tables and jobs.
  •     Define Impact and Reverse Impact Analysis.
  •     Import SAS code.
Working with Transformations
  •     Discuss and use the Extract and Summary Statistics transformation.
  •     Discuss and use the Loop transformations.
  •     Investigate where status handling is available.
  •     Explain the functionality of the Data Validation transformation.
  •     Discuss and use the Rank, Transpose, Append, List and Sort transformations.
  •     Discuss and use the Apply Lookup Standardization transformation.
  •     Discuss and use the Compare Tables transformation.
  •     Discuss and use transformations in the SQL grouping of transformations.
  •     Apply and use the Standardize with Definition transformation.
Working with Tables and the Table Loader Transformation
  •     Discuss reasons to use the Table Loader transformation.
  •     Discuss various load styles provided by the Table Loader transformation.
  •     Discuss various types of keys and how to define in SAS Data Integration Studio.
  •     Discuss indexes and how to define in SAS Data Integration Studio.
  •     Discuss Table Loader options for keys and indexes.
  •     Discuss the Bulk Table Loader transformation.
  •     Discuss and use the components of the Join's Designer Window related to in-database processing.
Working with Slowly Changing Dimensions
  •     List the functions of the SCD Type 2 transformation.
  •     Define business keys.
  •     Detect and track changes.
  •     Discuss the Lookup transformation.
  •     Discuss the SCD Type 1 Loader.
Defining Generated Transformations
  •     Define SAS code transformation templates.
  •     Create a custom transformation
Deploying Jobs
  •     Discuss the types of job deployment available for SAS Data Integration Studio Jobs.
  •     Provide an overview of the scheduling process.
  •     Discuss the types of scheduling servers.
  •     Discuss the Schedule Manager in SAS Management Console.
  •     Discuss batch servers.
  •     Describe deployment of SAS Data Integration Studio jobs as a SAS Stored Process.
In Database Processing
  •     Define in-database processing
  •     Enable in-database processing
  •     Define and discuss ELT methods
  •     Use a DBMS function in a SAS DI job
Official Information https://www.sas.com/en_us/certification/credentials/data-management/data-integration-developer.html

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