TABLEAU DESKTOP CERTIFICATION
CERTIFICATION EVALUATION COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
●● Actions by All Users
Answer: -Shows Login Activity, View Access, and Data source Use
-Publish and Download: shows publishing and downloading of flows,
workbooks, and data sources
-Subscriptions: shows counts of subscription email sent for workbooks
and views. Also shows the counts of flow runs
●● Actions by Specific User
Answer: -Access & Interactions
-Publish & Download
-Subscriptions
-Default: 7 days
●● Actions by Recent Users
Answer: -View Active, Recently Active, and Idle users that are signed
into the Server
-Active = 5 minutes
-Recently Active = last 30 minutes
,-Idle = more than 30 minutes ago
●● Ask Data Usage
Answer: Usage patterns of Ask Data for a site
Distinct Users over time
Distinct data source owners over time
Top ask data users
Top ask data data sources
Top ask data data source owners
●● Background Tasks for Extracts
Answer: Extract-specific tasks that run on the server
What Extracts Ran on this Server? Shows extracts that ran in the
specified timeline
You can click Success or Error to filter by status
How much time did Extracts take?
How Many Extracts Succeeded or Failed by day?
●● Background Tasks for Non Extracts
Answer: Shows info on other tasks that aren't refreshes: edited Oauth
connections, subscription notifications, etc.
-How Many Tasks Succeeded or Failed on this Site?
-What Background Tasks Ran on this Site?
,●● Background Task Delay
Answer: Displays delay for flow, extract refresh, and subscription tasks
How long did extracts wait before execution?
How long did subscriptions wait before execution?
●● Backgrounder Dashboard
Answer: -Overview of background jobs
-Time it takes for jobs to run, when backgrounder is busy or overloaded,
jobs that completed successfully or not
-How long did the jobs wait before running?
-How long does it take for each job to run?
-What is the total run time for each job?
-How long does it take for each job to run?
●● Data Quality Warning History
Answer: -Shows how many data quality warnings are active over a
period of time
-How many warnings have been changed over that same time period
-Data quality warning details
●● Desktop License Usage
Answer: Lets admins see usage data for Tableau Desktop licenses
, -Who is using a Tableau Desktop license in my enterprise?
-Have any licenses been shared or transferred?
-Is any license being used on a computer where it should not be?
-Does a specific user use their license?
-What types of licenses are being used in my enterprise?
-Do I need to convert any trial licenses?
●● Login-based License Usage
Answer: Lets admins view login-based license usage
-Who is using x license in my enterprise?
-Have any licenses been shared o transferred?
-Is any license being used on a computer where it should not be?
-On which host is the license being used?
-Which role is assigned to the user?
-On which tableau product is the license in use?
-On which tableau version is the license in use?
-Is the license activated?
-How many creator seats are in/not in use?
-When was a Creator seat last used?
●● Performance of Flow Runs
Answer: -see performance history for all flows on a site
CERTIFICATION EVALUATION COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
●● Actions by All Users
Answer: -Shows Login Activity, View Access, and Data source Use
-Publish and Download: shows publishing and downloading of flows,
workbooks, and data sources
-Subscriptions: shows counts of subscription email sent for workbooks
and views. Also shows the counts of flow runs
●● Actions by Specific User
Answer: -Access & Interactions
-Publish & Download
-Subscriptions
-Default: 7 days
●● Actions by Recent Users
Answer: -View Active, Recently Active, and Idle users that are signed
into the Server
-Active = 5 minutes
-Recently Active = last 30 minutes
,-Idle = more than 30 minutes ago
●● Ask Data Usage
Answer: Usage patterns of Ask Data for a site
Distinct Users over time
Distinct data source owners over time
Top ask data users
Top ask data data sources
Top ask data data source owners
●● Background Tasks for Extracts
Answer: Extract-specific tasks that run on the server
What Extracts Ran on this Server? Shows extracts that ran in the
specified timeline
You can click Success or Error to filter by status
How much time did Extracts take?
How Many Extracts Succeeded or Failed by day?
●● Background Tasks for Non Extracts
Answer: Shows info on other tasks that aren't refreshes: edited Oauth
connections, subscription notifications, etc.
-How Many Tasks Succeeded or Failed on this Site?
-What Background Tasks Ran on this Site?
,●● Background Task Delay
Answer: Displays delay for flow, extract refresh, and subscription tasks
How long did extracts wait before execution?
How long did subscriptions wait before execution?
●● Backgrounder Dashboard
Answer: -Overview of background jobs
-Time it takes for jobs to run, when backgrounder is busy or overloaded,
jobs that completed successfully or not
-How long did the jobs wait before running?
-How long does it take for each job to run?
-What is the total run time for each job?
-How long does it take for each job to run?
●● Data Quality Warning History
Answer: -Shows how many data quality warnings are active over a
period of time
-How many warnings have been changed over that same time period
-Data quality warning details
●● Desktop License Usage
Answer: Lets admins see usage data for Tableau Desktop licenses
, -Who is using a Tableau Desktop license in my enterprise?
-Have any licenses been shared or transferred?
-Is any license being used on a computer where it should not be?
-Does a specific user use their license?
-What types of licenses are being used in my enterprise?
-Do I need to convert any trial licenses?
●● Login-based License Usage
Answer: Lets admins view login-based license usage
-Who is using x license in my enterprise?
-Have any licenses been shared o transferred?
-Is any license being used on a computer where it should not be?
-On which host is the license being used?
-Which role is assigned to the user?
-On which tableau product is the license in use?
-On which tableau version is the license in use?
-Is the license activated?
-How many creator seats are in/not in use?
-When was a Creator seat last used?
●● Performance of Flow Runs
Answer: -see performance history for all flows on a site
