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

    Getting Started

    1

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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®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.


    SAS Certified Platform Administrator for SAS 9

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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.
      • Virtual lab time to practice.


    • CERTIFICATION REVIEW

      Practice Exam: SAS Platform Administration for SAS 9
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      Welcome to the practice exam for the SAS Certified Platform Administrator for SAS 9 credential. This exam is designed for those who have the skills and knowledge necessary for the administration of the platform for SAS Business Analytics. Successful candidates should be able to do the following:

      • 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.
      • Understand the interaction between SAS servers and operating systems

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    SAS Viya 3.x

    3

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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.


    SAS Certified Specialist: Administration of SAS Viya

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      SAS® Viya® Administration Fast Track
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      This course is a four-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, the command-line interface, and basic Kubernetes commands to administer a SAS Viya environment.

      The self-study e-learning includes:

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


    • CERTIFICATION REVIEW

      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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    SAS GRID

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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.
      • 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® Programming with SAS® Grid Manager for Platform
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      This course provides an introduction to the SAS Grid Manager for Platform environment and teaches how to submit SAS workload to the grid from a variety of different SAS products and user interfaces. The course includes hands-on exercises that run SAS applications with SAS Grid Manager for Platform and convert existing SAS programs to run on the grid.

      The self-study e-learning includes:

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


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      SAS® Grid Computing for Programmers
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      This course provides an introduction to the SAS Grid environment and teaches how to submit SAS workload to the grid from a variety of different SAS products and user interfaces. The course includes hands-on exercises that run SAS applications with SAS Grid Manager and convert existing SAS programs to run on the grid.

    Additional Administration Topics

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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.

      The self-study e-learning includes:

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


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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.

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      SAS® Conversation Designer Essentials
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      This course demonstrates how to create bots using SAS Conversation Designer. The course includes the creation of entities, utterances, and dialogues that use Natural Language Processing from SAS to provide a bot that converses with users in a natural, conversational way.

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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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      Getting Started with SAS® Workload Management in SAS® Viya®
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      This course teaches the fundamentals of SAS Workload Management.

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      SAS® Viya® Administration
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      This course is an introduction to the 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 command-line interface.

      The self-study e-learning includes:

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


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      SAS® Viya® Operations
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      This course introduces SAS administrators to SAS Viya 2021. This course provides an overview of the new SAS Viya architecture and shows how to perform essential SAS administration tasks like backups, monitoring, and logging using SAS Environment Manager, the command-line interface, Kubernetes, and other open-source applications.

      The self-study e-learning includes:

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


    SAS Products Covered

    • SAS Management Console
    • SAS Viya
    • SAS Analytics Platform
    • SAS Environment Manager for SAS 9.4
    • SAS Marketing Automation
    • SAS Grid Computing
    • SAS Enterprise Session Monitor
    • SAS Conversation Designer


    Digital Badges

    Earn a digital badge for each course that you complete and for each credential that you earn. Show off your achievements on your resume and in your social channels to highlight your skills and connect with potential employers.

    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