SAS Platform Administrator Fast Track (PAFAST)

Duration

5 days

Description

This course will not only introduce you to the functionality of the SAS Intelligence Platform but also enable you to become familiar with how to approach administering the SAS Intelligence Platform. This course focuses on the following key areas: exploring the server, data, Web, and client tiers of the architecture; examining the purpose of each type of server; identifying the types of data accessible to SAS; understanding the components of the Web tier; examining how the client applications interact with the metadata server; understanding how to set up SAS and RDBMS data libraries; exploring the Metadata LIBNAME Engine; understanding how and when to pre-assign libraries; examining how authentication and authorization work; understanding how users are identified in the metadata; and exploring how to use metadata permissions to secure metadata.

Prerequisite Skills

Before attending this course you should read SAS Intelligence Platform: Overview (.pdf).  This will be provided by SAS before the course.

Course Topics

Introduction to the SAS Intelligence Architecture

• components of the SAS Intelligence Platform
• purpose of each tier in the SAS Intelligence Platform

Overview of the Platform Architecture 

• server tier 
• data tier
• Web tier
• client tier

Using SAS Management Console

• Metadata Manager Plug-In 
• Server Manager Plug-In
• BI Manager Plug-In

Accessing Data

• connecting to SAS data
• connecting to RDBMS data
• using the Metadata LIBNAME engine
• pre-assigning libraries

Authentication 

• initial authentication
• identification
• additional authentication

Authorization 

• authorisation decision process
• securing business intelligence objects
• developing a security plan

Booking

Please contact the Education Team at SAS for the latest information on all SAS courses or to put your name on our specialised course waiting list.