Tableau Desktop Specialist questions with verified solution 2023

Tableau Prep - correct answer Tableau app for data cleaning and preparation. Can combine data from multiple external sources. Tableau Desktop - correct answer Tableau app for data analytics and visualization: (1) Integrates data from multiple data sources (2) Provides summary reporting and charting capabilities (3) Allows users to build dashboards and create stories from their data Tableau Online/Tableau Server - correct answer Tableau app for sharing data, visualizations, and dashboards. live connection - correct answer Keeps the data online and connected to the server. Allows live updates but costs more computing power. extract - correct answer Keeps the data offline in Tableau's memory. Uses less computing power. inner join - correct answer Includes only records which exist in both tables. left join - correct answer Includes all records from the left table and matching records from the right table. Fields from the right table without a match will show up as null. right join - correct answer Includes all records from the right table and matching records from the left table. Fields from the left table without a match will show up as null. full outer join - correct answer Includes all records from both tables regardless of matches. measure - correct answer Aggregation, i.e. what we're measuring. ex: Profit (measure) by Year since 2001 dimension - correct answer Category, i.e. how we're measuring. ex: Profit by Year (dimension) since 2001 continuous value - correct answer May equal any value in a range. ex: Total Revenue discrete value - correct answer May equal only fixed values. ex: Order Status pill types - correct answer Pills are fields from a data set. Green pills are continuous fields and blue pills are discrete fields. Pills which are measures show up as aggregates (totals) and pills which are dimensions show up as themselves. color gradient - correct answer Marks become darker as values increase. Results from placing a continuous value on the color shelf. color palette - correct answer Marks are colored based on the value. Results from placing a discrete value on the color shelf.