Tableau Desktop Specialist Exam Questions with Answer
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So, in this blog I’m going to jot the questions I got in my Tableau Desktop Specialist Exam with the answers.
- Can we use combinations of sheets and dashboards in a single story point?
Answer -> No, we can only use either sheet or a dashboard as a story point.
2. Which of the following will be shown in the green color pill?
a. Discrete dimension
b. Continuous measure
c. Discrete measure
d. Continuous dimension
Answer -> b. Continuous measure & d. Continuous dimension (remember continuous is always represented by green color pill , blue represents discrete dimension & discrete measures)
3. What is the default shape of a heat map?
Answer -> Square
4.What Geographic roles can you assign to fields?
a. Airport
b. Country
c. City
d. Address
Answer -> a. Airport, b. Country, c. City
5. What are different ways of applying sort to the view? Select 3
a. Header
b. Field label
c. From Tool Bar
d. Analysis in the Toolbar.
Answer -> a. Header, b. Field Label and c. From Toolbar
6. What are the things a TWBX contains? Select 3.
a. Custom shapes
b. Background Images
c. Extract file
d. TDC(Tableau Datasource Customization) files
Answer -> a. Custom shapes , b. Background Images , c. Extract file
7. How do you create a join?
a. Double click on Logical table
b. Click on Physical table
c. Place another table over a physical table.
d. Something similar to option C
Answer ->a. Double click on Logical table
8. By default, measures in a view are aggregated, what is the default aggregation?
a. Sum
b. Average
c. Depends on context of view
d. Measures are not aggregated by default.
Answer ->c. Depends on context of view
9. When the user hovers on a field in data pane, following tooltip appears
How to add this tooltip for a field in the data pane?
Answer -> Field comment
10. How can a user make use of tables from two different data sources.
a. Data menu > Add data source
b. Data source page > add connection
c. Data menu > Duplicate data source
d. Data source page > New union
Answer -> b. Data source page > add connection
11.How to change the geographic role of a field?
a. Data menu -> Right click on field -> default format -> geographic role
b. Data menu -> Right click on field -> geographic role
c. Data source menu -> manage Metadata option-> geographic role
d. Data source menu -> Replace references option.
Answer -> b. Data menu -> Right click on field -> geographic role
12. What are some of the sections of Dimension filters?
a. Wildcard match
b. Multiple values (drop down)
C. At least
D. Special
Answer -> a. Wildcard match , b. Multiple values (drop down)
13. What are the things you can do after Joining tables on the Data source layer? Select 2
a. Create Extract
b. Create Union
c. Apply Data Source Filter
d. Unrelated option
Answer -> b. Create Union , c. Apply Data Source Filter
14. Which chart does not have the edit size option in Marks card.
a. Scatter plot
b. Bubble Chart
c. Heat Map
d. Bar Chart
Answer -> b. Bubble Chart
15. Which of the following is not available in Tableau?
a. Logarithmic
b. Exponential
c. Binomial
d. Linear
Answer -> c. Binomial
16. At a minimum, what do you need to create a simple scatter plot?
a. A dimension on columns and dimension on rows
b. A dimension on columns and a measure on Rows
c. A measure on columns and a measure on Rows
d. A dimension on Detail and a measure on columns
Answer -> c. A measure on columns and a measure on Rows
17. Analytical options available for scatterplot?
a. Reference lines
b. Trend lines
c. Forecast Lines
d. other option
Answer -> a. Reference lines, b. Trend lines
18. A graph was given. Which quick table calculation will you choose to display internet usage over past years?
Answer -> Compound growth rate
Tips for the exam:
Speaking after talking with my peers who have given the same examination, the above were the questions that were repeatedly asked in the exam.
Some Concepts based questions
—Date Part VS Data Value
— Minimum Requirement of Dimension and Measure in Charts
—Some Important topic to focus on -> Files Types and Folders, Joins VS Relationships, Union Vs Blend, Data Aggregation, Grouping, Sets, Filters.
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