{"id":6676,"date":"2016-01-08T16:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T20:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=6676"},"modified":"2016-01-08T16:01:03","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T20:01:03","slug":"sas-base-programming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=6676","title":{"rendered":"SAS Programming Certifications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Nadia's advice, I took SAS Base programming earlier this week. But due to unfamiliarity with the test, I got 69% instead of the 70% passing mark. I also blame myself for not preparing well enough for such easy test. Paid $180 for it.<\/p>\n<p>Now I need to retake it, $90 (due to the fact that I am able to get student discount voucher by emailing them my transcript), on 1\/19\/2016. I had hoped to pass it ASAP and did not have time to apply for the voucher.<\/p>\n<p>Those who do things hastily often fail. And that I was over-confident.<\/p>\n<p>SAS programming is just a database program. V9 certs\u00a0do not have expiration date. I ought to get all certifications without expiration dates.<\/p>\n<p>I will list all sites containing helpful example questions for the Base programming for now. Later, it will be pertaining to the Advanced Programming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Nadia's advice, I took SAS Base programming earlier this week. But due to unfamiliarity with the test, I got 69% instead of the 70% passing mark. I also blame myself for not preparing well enough for such easy test. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=6676\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faults","category-technical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6676"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6678,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6676\/revisions\/6678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}