SAS Administration​ Learning Subscription

For SAS administrators responsible for installing and configuring SAS software at their company site, monitoring performance, managing employee access, and troubleshooting issues.
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This learning subscription includes SAS administrator training for administrators at every level, from those learning the basics of how to get started with SAS administration to those learning the essentials that every SAS administrator must know. The courses prepare you with the skills needed to earn a SAS credential. Additional support for administrators can be found here.

Learn how to:
  • Navigate the SAS environment.
  • Manage a SAS environment.
  • Integrate SAS Viya with SAS 9.4.
  • Monitor performance, log, and troubleshoot issues.
  • Manage users, manage their access, and troubleshoot authorization issues.
  • Secure the SAS configuration on each server machine.
  • Understand how SAS works on Kubernetes.
  • Establish connectivity to data sources for processing and analysis.
  • Monitor and back up your environment.
  • Diagnose server and service problems using logs.
  • Administer and maintain SAS applications and solutions.


    • Before taking these courses, it is recommended that you take the free SAS®9 Administration: Getting Started or SAS Viya Administration: Getting Started course (or both).

    Courses Included in Subscription

    SAS Viya Platform

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      SAS® Viya Overview
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      This course provides an overview of SAS Viya, including platform architecture, applications, and code development. Each demonstration is designed for learners to follow along and experience how SAS Viya supports every phase of the analytics lifecycle in a single integrated platform.

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      SAS Viya Administration: Getting Started
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      Get started on your journey to becoming a SAS Viya platform administrator by spending a bit of time each day with a new aspect of SAS Viya administration. Over the course of three weeks, you'll get a good idea of the skills you may need to develop and the tasks that will be needed to manage and maintain a well-functioning deployment.

      At the end of your journey be sure to explore formal enablement opportunities you can take advantage of to continue your quest in becoming a SAS Viya administrator.

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      SAS® Viya® Administration Fast Track
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      This course is a three-day immersion into a SAS Viya environment. This course provides essential topics for SAS Viya administration and demonstrates how to perform administration tasks using SAS Environment Manager and the sas-viya command-line interface to administer a SAS Viya environment.

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      SAS® Viya® Administration Operations
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      This hands-on workshop provides a look at the high-impact tasks and responsibilities of administering SAS Viya on Kubernetes. The focus is on traditional administrative tasks that are impacted by running on Kubernetes.

    • CERTIFICATION PREP

      SAS Viya Administration Specialist
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      In preparation for this exam, you will learn to manage a SAS Viya environment, manage identities and users, manage content and functionality, and manage data in CAS. You will also learn to monitor, log, and troubleshoot a SAS Viya environment.

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      Practice Exam: Administering SAS Viya
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      Welcome to the practice exam for the SAS Certified Administering SAS Viya credential. This exam is designed for those who have the skills and knowledge necessary for the administration of SAS Viya. Successful candidates should be able to do the following:

      • Manage a SAS Viya environment.
      • Monitor, log and troubleshoot a SAS Viya environment.
      • Manage identities and users.
      • Manage content and functionality.
      • Manage data in CAS.

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      Getting Started with SAS® and Kubernetes
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      This course teaches the fundamentals of SAS on Kubernetes.

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      Applying Updates on SAS Viya
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      This case study provides an outline of various update scenarios typically expected of a SAS Administrator for maintenance of a SAS Viya deployment. It provides hands-on exercises for an opportunity to work through practical examples of the update scenarios, which include: applying patch updates to a Viya deployment, switching from one cadence to another, and updating SAS Viya software to a later version. The accompanying workshop environment includes the SAS Deployment Operator, which is the recommended tool for applying updates to a SAS Viya environment.

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      Architecture and Administration for SAS Workload Management on SAS Viya
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      This course provides an overview of SAS Workload Management on SAS Viya. The workshop examines SAS Workload Orchestrator software and outlines general concepts and usage scenarios, architecture and deployment considerations and administration and monitoring functions. Hands-on exercises are provided for the student to explore SAS Workload Management tasks and features in a SAS Viya environment deployed on Kubernetes.

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      Migrating SAS® 9.4 Content to the SAS® Viya® Platform
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      In this course, you learn about the tools and processes to migrate existing SAS 9.4 content to the latest release of the SAS Viya platform.

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      SAS® Viya®: Observability
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      In this course, you observe a live SAS Viya deployment using logging, monitoring, alerting, and auditing to observe its health, configuration, and end-user workload. You also explore topics related to discovering the characteristics and availability of a SAS Viya deployment running on Kubernetes. You get hands-on experience with SAS Viya Monitoring for Kubernetes, SAS Enterprise Session Monitor and the observability framework supported by SAS for use with Viya on Kubernetes.

    SAS Viya 3.x

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      SAS® Viya® Administration: Fast Track (3.5)
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      This course is a four-day immersion into a SAS Viya 3.5 environment. This course provides essential topics for SAS Viya 3.5 administration and demonstrates how to perform administration tasks using SAS Environment Manager, the command-line interface, and REST APIs.

      The self-study e-learning includes:

      • Annotatable course notes in PDF format.
      • Virtual lab time to practice.


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      System Tuning Using SAS® Enterprise Session Monitor
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      This course is a one-day introduction to SAS Enterprise Session Monitor. SAS Enterprise Session Monitor brings visibility to complex analytic workloads, enabling SAS administrators and developers to keep business-critical SAS servers and applications stable and performing well, control cloud costs, and enable optimal efficiency at scale.

    SAS 9

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      SAS®9 Administration: Getting Started
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      This course provides an overview of administering SAS 9.

      This self-study e-learning includes:

      • Annotatable course notes in PDF format.


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      SAS®9 Administration Fast Track
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      This is a four-day immersion into SAS 9.4 administration for students needing an in-depth introduction or a refresher on managing a SAS 9.4 environment. The self-study e-learning includes: Annotatable course notes in PDF format and Virtual lab time to practice.

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      SAS® Grid Manager: Administration
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      In this course, you learn how to administer a SAS Grid Manager for Platform environment, including the users, applications, and resources in that environment. After you complete this course, you will understand SAS Grid Manager concepts and terminology and have a firm grasp of the fundamentals of the SAS Grid Manager for Platform architecture. The self-study e-learning includes annotatable course notes in PDF format and virtual lab time to practice.

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      Workload Orchestrator Administration for SAS® Grid
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      In this course, you learn how to administer a SAS Grid Manager environment using the SAS Workload Orchestrator grid provider. After you complete this course, you will understand SAS Grid Manager concepts and terminology and have a grasp of the fundamentals of the SAS Grid Manager architecture. This will enable you to configure your grid to optimize the workloads of your users’ jobs, maximizing the throughput of the jobs, and consistently getting the results for decision making in a timely manner.

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      SAS® Platform Administration: Hands-on Troubleshooting of SAS® 9.4
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      This course teaches the fundamentals of debugging some common platform administration issues in SAS 9. Though not exhaustive, the errors introduced in this course are designed to test and develop your debugging skills.

    • CERTIFICATION PREP

      SAS Certified Platform Administrator for SAS 9
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      In preparation for this exam, you will learn how 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, and understand the interaction between SAS servers and operating systems.

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      Practice Exam: SAS Platform Administration for SAS 9
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      Practice Exam: SAS Platform Administration for SAS 9

    Additional Administration Topics

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      SAS Viya Platform Administration
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      This course introduces SAS administrators to SAS Viya platform administration. This course provides essential topics for SAS Viya application administration, and demonstrates how to perform essential administration tasks. The e-Learning includes: lesson videos, demonstrations, practices, course slides and notes, and virtual lab time to practice.

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      SAS Viya Platform Operations
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      This course introduces SAS administrators to SAS Viya platform operations. This course provides an overview of the SAS Viya architecture as it pertains to Kubernetes operations and shows how to perform essential SAS operations tasks. The e-Learning includes: lesson videos, demonstrations, practices, course slides and notes, and virtual lab time to practice.

    SAS Products Covered

    • SAS Viya
    • SAS Visual Analytics
    • SAS Studio
    • SAS Visual Statistics
    • SAS Analytics Platform
    • SAS Enterprise Session Monitor
    • SAS Management Console
    • SAS Environment Manager for SAS 9.4
    • SAS Grid Computing


    Certification Preparation



    When you complete the courses in this learning subscription, you will have the demonstrated skills necessary to prepare you to earn one of the following certifications.

  • SAS Certified Platform Administrator for SAS®9
  • SAS Certified Specialist: Administration of SAS Viya

    • “I think the self-paced training was the BEST I’ve ever taken. The videos were short and segmented correctly to keep my attention and the activities and quizzes were just enough to help my confidence.”

    Tony Mayo, SAS Customer