Certification Pathway
SAS Certified Specialist: Intermediate Programming Using SAS Viya
About this Certification Pathway
Learn about this industry-recognized credential.
As you prepare for the SAS Viya Intermediate Programming certification exam, you will you learn how to modernize your SAS code to take advantage of SAS Cloud Analytic Services (CAS). You will learn how to access, manage, analyze, and manipulate in-memory tables on the distributed CAS server using traditional SAS code as well as the native CAS programming language (CASL), new scripting language designed to support the entire analytics life cycle.
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  • $180 USD exam fee in the US and most other countries
 
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Exam ID: A00-420
Standard Pricing: $180 USD
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