SAS Certified Architecture and Design Specialist for SAS Grid Manager 9.4 Practice Exam

The SAS Certified Architecture and Design Specialist for SAS Grid Manager 9.4 validates your ability to design, deploy, configure, and manage high-availability SAS Grid Manager® environments within SAS® 9.4.  

Who Should Take This Exam?

• SAS System Administrators: Those responsible for administering and managing SAS Grid Manager environments.
• SAS Architects: Individuals designing and implementing SAS solutions that leverage SAS Grid Manager for scalability and performance.
• IT Professionals (SAS Focus): Professionals working in IT roles who want to specialize in managing and configuring SAS Grid Manager within their organization.

Prerequisites

While there are no formal prerequisites, SAS recommends that candidates have hands-on experience with SAS Grid Manager 9.4 before taking the exam. This experience can be gained through:

• Formal SAS Training Courses: Enrolling in SAS-authorized training programs like "SAS Grid Manager 9.4: Architecture and Design."
• Self-Study with Resources: Utilizing SAS documentation, online tutorials, and practice exams to prepare for the exam.
• Working with SAS Grid Manager 9.4: If you have access to a SAS Grid Manager 9.4 environment in your workplace or personal lab, you can gain practical experience through configuration and management tasks.

Roles and Responsibilities 

• SAS Grid Manager Architect: Designing, planning, and implementing SAS Grid Manager environments to meet specific organizational needs.
• SAS Grid Manager Administrator: Installing, configuring, managing, and maintaining SAS Grid Manager for optimal performance and high availability.
• SAS Performance Specialist (Grid Focus): Optimizing SAS workloads and infrastructure utilizing functionalities within SAS Grid Manager.

Exam Details

• Exam Duration 1.5 hours
• Exam Format Multiple Choice
• Number of Questions 65-70 Questions
• Pass Score 65% and above

Course Structure

The relatable domains and their topics that the SAS Certified Architecture and Design Specialist for SAS Grid Manager 9 exam covers are:

1. Grid Architecture Definition

• Develop and implement a hardware and software architecture for a SAS Grid implementation.
• Determine the pros and cons of implementing shared binaries and configuration files.
• Communicate and explain the hardware infrastructure, software infrastructure, and their requirements.
• Demonstrate an understanding of storage and shared file system related to Grid from requirements and architecture perspective.
• Understand how architecture impacts licensing.
• Interpret and evaluate requirements to integrate user authentication to SAS Grid.
• Demonstrate an understanding of SAS use cases associated to submitting jobs in the grid (EG, EM, SASGSUB, SAS Studio and others).

2. Software Deployment

• Interpret and modify SAS Grid middleware configuration settings, and options to provide an optimized and tailored environment based on requirements.

3. System Management

• Understand metadata related to Grid.
• Understand the scope of the Management Utilities. 
• Understand SAS Grid Workload management.

4. High Availability

• Advise on architecture, infrastructure and deployment impacts related to High Availability.
• Demonstrate working knowledge of PSS failover.
• Use PSS to enable High Availability of other services.