Free Administering SAS Viya Practice Questions

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1. 1An administrator sets SAS Studio allowUpload and allowDownload to false. What protection do these settings provide?

   1. A. They block file transfers initiated by any SAS code.
   2. B. They disable upload and download actions in the Studio interface.
   3. C. They remove operating-system permissions to transfer files.
   4. D. They block file transfers initiated directly by a browser.

   Answer: B

   Explanation: The guide states, "These configuration properties do not prevent browsers or code from performing upload or download tasks." The settings restrict the SAS Studio interface actions; they do not replace operating-system security or prevent transfers through other mechanisms.

   Reference: SAS Studio: Administrator’s Guide — pp. 12–13, Security Options That Are Specific to SAS Studio, Disabling Upload and Download Actions

2. 2In SAS Environment Manager, what kind of URL belongs in the Metrics application URL property used by Open metrics application?

   1. A. A raw metric-exporter endpoint that returns Prometheus text
   2. B. The web interface of the log-search application
   3. C. A CAS REST endpoint used to submit analytic actions
   4. D. The web interface of the monitoring application for viewing metrics

   Answer: D

   Explanation: The guide states, "If the Open metrics application button is not enabled, specify a value for the Metrics application URL configuration property." This property configures navigation to the metrics application. It is not the raw metrics-collection endpoint, the separate log-search application link, or a CAS action endpoint.

   Reference: SAS Environment Manager: User’s Guide — p. 73, Metrics Page

3. 3What is the minimum identities-cache refresh interval that avoids the documentation's warning against overly frequent refreshes?

   1. A. 10 minutes
   2. B. 20 minutes
   3. C. 30 minutes
   4. D. 60 minutes

   Answer: B

   Explanation: The guide states, "Do not specify cache.cacheRefreshInterval below 20 minutes." Thus 20 minutes is the lower boundary specified by the warning. Thirty and sixty minutes are above that boundary, but are not the minimum.

   Reference: SAS Viya Platform: Identity Management — p. 47, Identities Service, sas.identities, cache.cacheRefreshInterval

4. 4In content migration from SAS Viya 3.x, when are the transformations specified by mapping sets applied to exported resources?

   1. A. During export, by rewriting the resources in the source environment
   2. B. During package transfer, before the target import process reads it
   3. C. During import into the target environment
   4. D. During first use, after the resources have been imported unchanged

   Answer: C

   Explanation: The guide states, "Transformation occurs during the import phase based on specified mappings, which are stored and maintained in mapping sets." Resource transformation is part of target import, not source export, package transport, or deferred first use.

   Reference: SAS Viya Platform: Content Migration from SAS Viya 3.x — p. 2, What Is Content Migration?

5. 5What does a caslib provide in SAS Cloud Analytic Services?

   1. A. An in-memory space for tables, access controls, and data-source information
   2. B. A physical directory containing only permanently saved SAS data sets
   3. C. A client-side library reference containing only SAS program options
   4. D. A database schema that must contain every table loaded by a session

   Answer: A

   Explanation: The fundamentals guide states, "A caslib is an in-memory space to hold tables, access control lists, and data source information." It is not limited to a physical directory, a client LIBNAME reference, or a database schema.

   Reference: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: Fundamentals — p. 23, Caslibs, What is a Caslib?

6. 6Where should an administrator specify SAS options and autoexec parameters for servers launched from a particular compute context?

   1. A. In the compute context definition
   2. B. In the associated caslib definition
   3. C. In the authentication domain definition
   4. D. In the CAS role membership definition

   Answer: A

   Explanation: The documentation states, "The information that is contained in a compute context is the user identity and any SAS options or autoexec file parameters to be used when starting the server." These are compute-startup settings, rather than data-source, credential, or CAS-role settings.

   Reference: SAS Viya Platform: Server Contexts — p. 8, Server Contexts: Concepts, Compute Contexts

7. 7What does Idle time measure in the CAS session information displayed by SAS Environment Manager?

   1. A. Time since the session's last action ran
   2. B. Time since the CAS server was restarted
   3. C. Time since the user first authenticated
   4. D. Time remaining before the session expires

   Answer: A

   Explanation: The Idle time description states, "Shows the time since the last action ran in the session." This is neither server uptime, total session age, nor a countdown to expiration.

   Reference: SAS Environment Manager: User’s Guide — p. 88, View CAS User Session Information, Idle time

8. 8An LDAP directory includes expired accounts and computer objects. What does an identity filter in SAS Viya control?

   1. A. Which source-directory accounts are permanently deleted
   2. B. Which source-directory passwords must be changed
   3. C. Which identities receive CAS Superuser membership
   4. D. Which identities are returned to the SAS Viya platform

   Answer: D

   Explanation: The guide states, "you should specify a filter to limit the identities that the SAS Viya platform returns." Filtering can exclude expired accounts or computer objects from returned identities; it does not delete directory accounts, change passwords, or grant CAS roles.

   Reference: SAS Viya Platform: Identity Management — p. 44, Identities, Identity Filtering

9. 9For a SAS 9.4 content migration, an administrator wants to prevent source access controls from being migrated. What mapping-file change is documented?

   1. A. Set PROMOTEAUTHORIZATION to false.
   2. B. Set PROMOTEAUTHORIZATION to true.
   3. C. Remove all target identity mappings.
   4. D. Replace target server mappings with source server names.

   Answer: A

   Explanation: The guide instructs, "set the value for the PROMOTEAUTHORIZATION option to false in the mapping file." That option controls migration of access controls; removing identity mappings or changing server names is not the documented control.

   Reference: SAS Viya Platform: Content Migration from SAS 9.4 — p. 7, Step 1a: Create Initial Map of System Information, step 4c

10. 10A CSV file is visible in a path-based caslib's data source but has not been loaded. What is required before CAS can analyze it as a table?

    1. A. Analyze the source CSV directly without creating an in-memory table.
    2. B. Rely on file-visibility permission alone to provide an in-memory copy.
    3. C. Load the source data to create an in-memory CAS table.
    4. D. Rely on listing the source files alone to provide in-memory copies.

    Answer: C

    Explanation: The guide states, "SAS Cloud Analytic Services performs analysis on in-memory tables only." The source data must therefore be loaded. Source-file visibility or listing alone does not create the in-memory table required for analysis.

    Reference: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: Fundamentals — p. 11, Caslibs, Files, and Tables