Tableau Certification Exam correctly answered 2023/2024

Tableau Certification Examviewer license - correct answer users view and interact with workbooks in Tableau Server - they can add comment to workbooks, explore visuals in various formats, download workbook summary data, create subscriptions, and receive data-driven alerts explorer license - correct answer include all capabilities included with viewer license BUT allows access to authoring capabilities using a web browser + full set of collaboration features creator license - correct answer wide range of capabilities within Tableau Server, and grants use of Tableau Desktop and Tableau Prep Builder; can create and publish new workbooks from a new data source, edit embedded data sources in the Data pane, and create and publish new data connections IT use cases - correct answer Hardware/software asset inventory, helpdesk call volume/resolution time, resource allocation and security patch compliance finance use cases - correct answer budget planning and spend, accounts payable, travel expenses marketing use cases - correct answer campaign engagement, web engagement, leads HR use cases - correct answer turnover rate, open headcount, new hire retention, employee satisfaction sales use cases - correct answer Sales/quota tracking, pipeline coverage, average deal size, win/loss rate data source v Tableau data source - correct answer - data source: database or excel spreadsheet - Tableau data source: access to data and all the customization made in tableau published data sources allow for... - correct answer centralization and scaling of curated data sources data source considerations - correct answer - location and access - shape and cleanliness - data model / combining data - metadata and customization - scalability, security, and discoverability - performance and freshness methods of combining data - correct answer - relationships - joins - blends - unions relationships - correct answer default data combination method - establish potential for joins between 2 tables on related fields (does NOT merge data together to create new, fixed table), maintains appropriate level of detail, doesn't lose data, keeps appropriate aggregations, and handles nulls joins - correct answer merges multiple tables based on a join clause and join type, forming a new fixed table of data; can be used to add new columns of data across same basic row structure (may cause data loss or data duplication) blends - correct answer work across two or more *separate* Tableau data sources - data remains separate and Tableau queries that data sources independently and visualizes results together in the view (based on the linking fields established for that sheet) unions - correct answer merge two or more tables of data to form a new, fixed table of data - used to append data across the same basic column structure Tableau Data Extract - correct answer compressed snapshot of data stored on disk and loaded into memory as required to render a tableau viz why recommend a Tableau data extract? - correct answer - supports large data sets - help improve performance - support additional functionality - provides offline access to your data