A00-250 Exam Information and Guideline
SAS Platform Administration for SAS9
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Exam Name SAS Certified Platform Administrator for SAS 9
Exam Code A00-250
Exam Duration 110 minutes
Exam Questions 70 multiple-choice and short-answer questions
Passing Score 70%
Successful candidates should be able to:
Secure the SAS configuration on each server machine.
Check status and operate servers.
Monitor server activity and administer logging.
Establish formal, regularly scheduled backup processes.
Add users and manage their access.
Establish connectivity to data sources.
Set up and secure metadata folder structures.
Administer repositories and move metadata.
Exam Contents
Securing the SAS configuration
Secure a SAS platform configuration.
Update SAS Software
Monitoring the Status and Operation of SAS Metadata Servers
Manage metadata repositories.
Identify the properties and functionality of SAS servers.
Configure a SAS Metadata server cluster.
Monitoring, Logging, and Troubleshooting SAS Servers
Monitor SAS servers.
Administer SAS server logging and modify logging configurations.
Troubleshoot basic SAS server issues such as server availability.
Backing Up the SAS Environment
Backup and restore the SAS environment.
Administering Users
Manage connection profiles.
Manage roles.
Register users and groups in the metadata.
Give users access to processing servers and data servers.
Determine when to store passwords in the metadata.
Manage internal SAS accounts.
Identify SAS server authentication mechanisms.
Administering Data Access
Register libraries and tables in the metadata.
Update table metadata.
Pre-assign a library.
Troubleshoot data access problems.
Use the metadata LIBNAME engine.
Managing Metadata
Identify how the metadata authorization layer interacts with other security layers.
Identify where, how, and to whom metadata permissions are assigned.
Determine the outcome of metadata authorization decisions.
Use metadata permissions to secure metadata.
Create and use Access Control Templates.
Promote metadata and associated content.