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You're ready for the final
steps in this specialization: preparing and practicing for the SAS Programming Certification exam. Being able to claim that you are SAS certified means something. According to a massive study from MONEY and Payscale.com, SAS analytics skills are incredibly valuable in today's job market. The study isolated the specific skills (from a list of about 2,300) that correlated with higher pay, advancement, and career opportunity. SAS topped the entire list with an average pay boost of over 6%. SAS certification is a great way to be recognized for your SAS knowledge, increase your value to your employer, and enhance your credibility as a SAS professional. In this course, our goal is to prepare you for the exam by reviewing the concepts you learned in the Getting Started and Doing More with SAS Programming courses. The review modules in this course include programming demos and recommended readings to review the concepts you have learned. In the demonstrations we emphasize the syntax that is included on the certification exam. Although most of the syntax in these demos will not be new, there are a few statements or options that we didn't cover in the two programming courses that could be on the exam. In addition to demos, each review module has a series of quizzes that present questions consistent with what you will see on the certification exam: multiple choice, short answer, and applied questions that require you to write SAS code. If you feel confident, you could jump straight to the quizzes and test your knowledge to see what areas you might need to review. Then you could go back to the videos and readings or one of the two previous courses to fill in any gaps in your knowledge. As you prepare for your exam, we recommend you read the official Exam Content Guide to identify potential gaps in your knowledge and topics that will not be tested. For example, it's worth noting that the exam does not include specific questions about SQL, but you are welcome to write PROC SQL code for any of the programming questions. By the end of this course, we want you to feel confident that you to have the knowledge necessary to take a certification exam. So - let's prepare you to become a certified SAS programmer!
