Certified SAS Base Programmer. Worth doing? Paid for by the company but speaking more in terms of time investment. Already doing a masters in analytics

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It took me about 4h a day to prepare it and I spent probably 2-3 months before the test. Just use it as a reference~ if your company sponsor this, it won't be a bad decision to take it

Might as well. Base was pretty easy. I'd say 30 percent were random questions i had to study for that you wouldn't know from normal usage. Advanced is much more difficult in my experience.

Probably won't change your life or career, but will help on your day to day if you work with SAS clients (mostly Healthcare, Finance and feds)

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