Tableau Server Certified Associate Practice Exam
Tableau Server Certified Associate
Tableau Server Certified Associate exam is for those who have a comprehensive understanding of Tableau Server functionality in a single-machine environment and approximately 4-6 months of experience.
Exam Prerequisites
There are no required prerequisites for this exam. Everyone learns differently and everyday use of Tableau varies. Recommendations for learning resources and experience with the product are guidelines, not requirements.
Exam Details
- Time Limit: 90 minutes; plan for extra time for online exam setup.
- Question Format: Multiple choice, multiple response, hands-on
- Number of Questions: 80
- Scoring: Automatically scored; point value varies per question type with hands-on worth more
- Passing score: 75%
- Language(s) Offered: English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, German, French, Brazilian Portuguese, International Spanish
- Delivery Platform: Windows Virtual Machine containing Tableau Desktop
- Time Limit: 90 minutes (please plan for extra time for online exam setup)
- Passing score: 75%
- Number of Questions: 80
- Scoring: Automatically scored
- Question Format: Multiple choice, multiple response, true/false
- Language(s) Offered: English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, German, French, Brazilian Portuguese, International Spanish
- Delivery Platform: Windows Virtual Machine containing Tableau Server
Awarded Credentials
Upon successful completion of this exam, you will be awarded the title of Tableau Server Certified Associate. This title is active for two years from the date achieved.
Target Audience
This exam is for those who have a comprehensive understanding of Tableau Server functionality in a single-machine environment and approximately 4-6 months of experience. Typical roles include System Administrator or Consultant. There are no required prerequisites for this exam. Everyone learns differently and everyday use of Tableau varies. Recommendations for learning resources and experience with the product are guidelines, not requirements.
Course Outline
The Tableau Server Certified Associate Exam covers the following topics
Domain 1 - Preparation - 20%
User Experience
• User Interface
• Navigation
Topology
• Identify client components
• Identify server components
• Describe how they work together
Versions
• Understand:
• How to identify the current version of Tableau Server
• Where to obtain the latest release of Tableau Server
• Where to access release notes of Tableau Server
Minimum Hardware Requirements
• Understand:
• RAM requirements
• CPU requirements
• Hard disk requirements
Software Requirements
• List the supported Operating Systems
• Understand:
• Browser requirements
• Options for email alerts
• Anti-virus concerns
• Identify the SMTP Server
• Be familiar with potential port issues
• Explain the purpose and benefits of a dedicated server
• Identify the considerations for running in the cloud
Licensing
• Understand user-based licensing
• Describe the different license types
• Describe how license types map to site roles
Server Processes
• Describe each Tableau Services Manager and Tableau Server process
• Understand:
• Default process count at installation
• Multiple-instance processes
• Process-to-process workflows
• Processes in distributed and high-availability environments
• Purpose of a load balancer
Data Source Identification
• Identify the ports required
• Identify the necessary database drivers
• Understand the differences between:
• File vs. Relational vs. Cube
• Extract vs. Live Connections
• Explain the benefits of published data sources
Infrastructure Network
• Understand network latency implications
• Explain the risks of Dynamic-IP addressing
Domain 2 - Installation & Configuration - 25%
Installation
• Understand installation steps and options:
• Install Path
• Gateway port
• Understand Identity Store and SSO options:
• External (Active Directory) vs. local
• Trusted Tickets
• SAML
• Kerberos and OpenID Connect
• Describe the impact of the automatic-login
option
• Understand how to set up SSL
• Understand Tableau best practices for installing a single-machine environment
• Understand silent installs
Tableau Server Configuration
• Understand cache settings
• Understand how to:
• Apply process distribution
• Configure Email alerts/ subscriptions
• Configure optional customizations
• Describe:
• Site configuration options
• User quotas
• Storage quotas
• How to enable and edit site subscriptions
• Project configuration options
• Group and User Configuration options
• Understand who can add users
Adding Users
• License type and site role
• Admin level
• Publisher level
• Importing via Active Directory or Local
Security
• Describe the security configurations for:
• Site level
• Project level
• Group level
• User level
• Data source level
• Workbook level
Permissions
• Understand:
• System permission composition
• The ramifications of permission design
• The Tableau Security Model
• Describe the differences between Allow v. Deny v.
Domain 3 - Administration - 36%
Understand how to:
• Maintain Data connections
• Create schedules
• Create, edit and delete Subscriptions
• Perform Server analysis
• Complete a backup and restore
• Perform cleanup
• Add, remove, or deactivate users
• Update licenses
• Start, stop or restart
• Utilize tsm and tabcmd
• Use REST API
• Work with Log Files
• Understand Embedding
• Monitor Desktop license usage
• Manage workbook and datasource revision history
Describe how to:
• View server status in multiple ways
• View email alerts
• Set data-driven alerts
• Use built-in administrative views
• Create custom admin views
• Create a performance recording
• Create a nested project
• Work with Sites and Site Admin options
Contrast end-user with System-administrator capabilities
End-user Abilities
Understand:
• Table recommendations
• Publishing views and data sources
• Renaming a workbook
• Interacting with a view via the Web
• Web authoring & editing
• How to share views
• Data Source Certification
• Extract caching
Domain 4 - Troubleshooting - 13%
Understand requirements of third party cookies in a browser
Understand how to:
• Reset passwords for a Tableau user or Tableau
Run-As Service account
• Package log files for reporting
• Use tsm to validate site resources
• Rebuild the search index
• Use maintenance analysis reports
• Create/open support requests
Domain 5 - Migration & Upgrade - 6%
- Understand the upgrade process
- Explain how and why to perform a clean reinstall
- Describe how to migrate to different hardware
- Understand backwards compatibility
Timeliness
Completing a task effectively and efficiently has become a standard that organizations expect from employees. This exam is timed because we view time as a critical competency needed to be successful
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