Course Overview

For more than four decades, SAS has been the analytics platform that financial institutions, pharmaceutical companies, insurance providers, and government agencies trust for their most critical, compliance-sensitive analytical workloads. Unlike open-source tools, SAS offers integrated auditing, enterprise security, and validated statistical procedures that regulators accept without question — making SAS expertise a key differentiator in sectors where data governance is as important as analytical capability. CETPA Infotech is the Best SAS Training Institute in Noida, offering a comprehensive SAS programme that prepares you for both SAS certification examinations and the demanding analytical environments where SAS expertise commands premium salaries.

The SAS curriculum at CETPA is structured around two certification milestones: the SAS Certified Base Programmer and the SAS Certified Advanced Programmer. Base certification modules cover the DATA step in exhaustive depth — reading all data formats, transforming and cleaning records, merging datasets, and outputting results in multiple formats — alongside PROC SQL and the most commonly used statistical PROCs. Advanced certification modules extend into macro programming for automation, optimising SAS code for performance, and working with complex file types including XML, JSON, and multi-format flat files.

Practical training uses real financial and healthcare datasets under proper data anonymisation protocols, giving you authentic experience of the data types and analytical questions you will encounter in your SAS career. Industry guest speakers from SAS-heavy organisations conduct monthly sessions sharing their experiences, favourite SAS techniques, and insights about career progression within SAS-using organisations. CETPA graduates have passed the SAS Base and Advanced exams with a first-attempt success rate of over 85% — a testament to the depth and rigour of the preparation our programme provides.

Course Curriculum

• SAS Environment: SAS Studio, EG, SAS OnDemand for Academics
• DATA Step: INPUT, SET, MERGE, OUTPUT Statements
• Formats, Informats, and SAS Date/Time Handling
• Character & Numeric Functions in SAS
• PROC SORT, PROC PRINT, PROC CONTENTS
• PROC MEANS, PROC FREQ, PROC UNIVARIATE
• PROC SQL: Full SQL in SAS Environment
• PROC REG, PROC LOGISTIC, PROC GLM
• PROC REPORT and ODS for Output Delivery
• SAS Macro Language: Variables, Loops, Conditional Logic
• SAS Advanced: Array Processing, Hash Objects
• Performance & Efficiency: Index, Compress, Buffsize
• Base SAS Certification Mock Exams
• Advanced SAS Certification Mock Exams
• Capstone: SAS Analytics Project (Finance or Healthcare Domain)