Tableau Desktop Specialist Certification Practice Tests Set 1

Measure Names means


Options are :

  • This contains the values of all our measures into a single field and is shown at the bottom of the Measures pane.
  • This contains the names of all our measures in a single dimension and is shown at the bottom of the Measures pane
  • This contains the names of all our measures in a single dimension and is shown at the bottom of the Dimensions pane. (Correct)
  • This contains the values of all our measures into a single field and is shown at the bottom of the Dimensions pane.

Answer :This contains the names of all our measures in a single dimension and is shown at the bottom of the Dimensions pane.

If ZIP-98007 is a string and ZIP- is used as separator then outcome is


Options are :

  • 98007 (Correct)
  • ZIP
  • Error
  • ZIP, 98007
  • ZIP-98007

Answer :98007

Below is not an dashboard sizing options available in Tableau to visualize.


Options are :

  • Automatic
  • Fixed
  • Grid (Correct)
  • Range

Answer :Grid

Which of the following property types have equal number of total reviews. Use airbnb.xlsx sheet.


Options are :

  • Tent and Lighthouse
  • Lighthouse and Tent
  • Tent and Apartment
  • Tent and Castle (Correct)

Answer :Tent and Castle

Is it possible to change the datatype of fields in tableau ?


Options are :

  • Depends
  • Yes (Correct)
  • No

Answer :Yes

Y = b0 + b1 * ln(X) defines the below trend model.


Options are :

  • Polynomial
  • Power
  • Logarithmic (Correct)
  • Exponential
  • Linear

Answer :Logarithmic

Which of the following can be used to include more than one set.


Options are :

  • dynamic
  • combined (Correct)
  • fixed
  • group

Answer :combined

Which of the following can be removed


Options are :

  • set (Correct)
  • group (Correct)
  • hierarchy (Correct)

Answer :set group hierarchy

Which of the following is not a geographic role


Options are :

  • Street/Lane (Correct)
  • Airport
  • City
  • Area Code

Answer :Street/Lane

Which of these objects help you to integrate Tableau Dashboards with applications outside Tableau.


Options are :

  • Export Objects
  • Navigation Objects
  • Blank Objects
  • Extension Objects (Correct)

Answer :Extension Objects

Which of the following URL prefixes is not allowed in Dashboard Actions


Options are :

  • FTP
  • None (Correct)
  • HTTP
  • HTTPS

Answer :None

Which of the following options can be used to change the palette color for dimensions


Options are :

  • Change Color
  • Assign Palette (Correct)
  • Change Palette
  • Assign Color

Answer :Assign Palette

Below are layout container types possible for dashboards


Options are :

  • Floating
  • vertical (Correct)
  • Random
  • Horizontal (Correct)

Answer :vertical Horizontal

Size of the marks is not significant in one of these charts


Options are :

  • Bar chart
  • Line chart
  • Area Chart (Correct)
  • Pie Chart

Answer :Area Chart

Text is not treated as Null when Mapped datatype is


Options are :

  • Dates
  • Numbers
  • Text (Correct)
  • Boolean

Answer :Text

Which of the following can be used to increase the performance when dataset is large or there are too many filters


Options are :

  • context (Correct)
  • dimension
  • extract
  • measure

Answer :context

blue vs green means


Options are :

  • measure vs dimension
  • cont vs discrete
  • discrete vs continous (Correct)
  • dimension vs measure

Answer :discrete vs continous

The order in which the following filters are executed :


Options are :

  • Extract, context and dimension filters (Correct)
  • Extract,dimension and context filters
  • DImension, Extract and context filters
  • DImension, context and Extract filters

Answer :Extract, context and dimension filters

Which of the following is used for data drill down


Options are :

  • date
  • hierarchy (Correct)
  • group
  • set

Answer :hierarchy

Which of the following sports has equal sum of number of records measure. Please use Global Sports Finances.


Options are :

  • Golf and Tennis
  • Racing and Golf
  • Tennis and Racing (Correct)
  • Tennis and Boxing

Answer :Tennis and Racing

Which of the following options are used to italicize the content in tooltip.


Options are :

  • Select Tooltip and use Italic option (Correct)
  • Use Format , select font , slect tooltip and use Italic (Correct)
  • Select worksheet and then tooltip and then use I option (Correct)
  • Use format tooltip and then select I

Answer :Select Tooltip and use Italic option Use Format , select font , slect tooltip and use Italic Select worksheet and then tooltip and then use I option

Which of the following are true


Options are :

  • maps can float in floating layout (Correct)
  • Floating Layout resizes based on the overall dashboard size.
  • Floating items can be layered over other objects. (Correct)
  • Tiled items dont overlap (Correct)

Answer :maps can float in floating layout Floating items can be layered over other objects. Tiled items dont overlap

Is it possible to deploy a URL action on a dashboard object to open a Web Page within a dashboard rather than opening the system’s web browser?


Options are :

  • YES, we can do this with the help of a plugin
  • NO, this is not currently possible in Tableau
  • YES, we can do this with the help of a Web-Page object (Correct)
  • YES, we can do this with the help of Tableau Public

Answer :YES, we can do this with the help of a Web-Page object

How do you identify a continuous field in Tableau?


Options are :

  • It is identified by a blue pill in the visualization
  • It is identified by a green pill in a visualization (Correct)
  • It is preceded by a '=#' symbol in the data window
  • It is preceded by a 'Abc' symbol in the data window

Answer :It is identified by a green pill in a visualization

True or False: Sets can be created on Measures


Options are :

  • True
  • False (Correct)

Answer :False

The icon associated with the field that has been grouped is a ______________


Options are :

  • Paper Clip (Correct)
  • Globe
  • Intersection
  • =#

Answer :Paper Clip

A field that shows average home values for the United States in 2016 is most likely :


Options are :

  • A discrete date part dimension
  • A continuous date value dimension
  • A geographical dimension
  • An aggregated measure (Correct)

Answer :An aggregated measure

True or False: Tableau can create worksheet-specific filters


Options are :

  • True (Correct)
  • False

Answer :True

A Tableau Support case can be opened in which of the following valid ways?


Options are :

  • Using the Developer Community Forum
  • Contacting Salesforce using their website
  • Using the support option on the Tableau website (Correct)
  • Using the Tableau learn website

Answer :Using the support option on the Tableau website

Which of the following charts types always includes bars sorted in descending order?


Options are :

  • Pareto Chart (Correct)
  • Pie Chart
  • Gantt Chart
  • Stacked Bar Chart

Answer :Pareto Chart

True or False: It is possible to change the Geographic Role of a dimension


Options are :

  • True (Correct)
  • False

Answer :True

The calculation [Ship Date] - [Order Date] will return _______________


Options are :

  • Number of orders placed in that duration
  • Number of days between these dates (Correct)
  • Number of unique orders placed between these dates
  • Number of orders shipped between these dates

Answer :Number of days between these dates

True or False: A LEFT JOIN or INNER JOIN creates a row each time the join criteria is satisfied, which can result in duplicate rows. One way to avoid this is to use data blending instead.


Options are :

  • True (Correct)
  • False

Answer :True

__________  is a technique in Tableau which will identify marks with similar characteristics


Options are :

  • Clustering (Correct)
  • Grouping
  • Sets
  • Union

Answer :Clustering

Which of the following is the correct way to calculate Profit Ratio in Tableau?


Options are :

  • Profit / Sales
  • Sales / Profit
  • SUM(Profit) / SUM(Sales) (Correct)
  • SUM(Sales)/SUM(Profit)

Answer :SUM(Profit) / SUM(Sales)

Which of the following returns the Absolute Value of a given number?


Options are :

  • ABS(Number) (Correct)
  • CEILING(Number)
  • FLOOR(Number)
  • ZN(Number)

Answer :ABS(Number)

Which of the following 2 fields CANNOT be deleted in Tableau?


Options are :

  • Measure Names (Correct)
  • Number of Records
  • Measure Values (Correct)
  • Calculated Fields

Answer :Measure Names Measure Values

_____________   contains the visualisations, info needed to build the visualisations, and a copy of the data source.


Options are :

  • Tableau Data Extract (.tde)
  • Tableau Packaged Workbook (.twbx) (Correct)
  • Tableau Bookmark (.tbm)
  • Tableau Workbook (.twb)

Answer :Tableau Packaged Workbook (.twbx)

________________ is hosted by Tableau to share our visualisations publically with the world.


Options are :

  • Tableau Reader
  • Tableau Desktop
  • Tableau Server
  • Tableau Public (Correct)

Answer :Tableau Public

What will the following function return?

LEFT("Tableau", 3)


Options are :

  • An error
  • Tab (Correct)
  • eau
  • ble

Answer :Tab

The row and column shelves contain ___________________


Options are :

  • Pills (Correct)
  • Grand Totals
  • Filters
  • Parameters

Answer :Pills

You can create _______________ for members in a dimension so that their labels appear differently in the view.


Options are :

  • parameters
  • duplicates
  • copies
  • aliases (Correct)

Answer :aliases

You can _______________ your data to combine two or more tables by appending values (rows) from one table to another


Options are :

  • join
  • blend
  • concatenate
  • union (Correct)

Answer :union

Using the cwurData table, create a cross-tab showing the number of Publications per Country broken down by Institution, and filtered by Country to only show United Kingdown (UK). For the University of Manchester, what percent of its total publications were contributed in 2014?


Options are :

  • 28.415%
  • 23.497%
  • 25.683%
  • 22.404% (Correct)

Answer :22.404%

Using the atheletes table:

i) Create a sheet with a crosstab showing the Average weight for each sport (Sheet 1)

ii) Create a sheet with a Map showing the Total number of gold medals per Country. Use size as a Mark.  (Sheet 2)


Now, Create a Dashboard containing both these sheets, and Use Sheet 2 as a Filter for Sheet 1. What was the average weight for Badminton in Russia?


(Ignore any nulls / unknowns)


Options are :

  • 76.25 (Correct)
  • 65.67
  • 68.77
  • 74.87

Answer :76.25

Using the CoffeeChain table, create a Dual Axis chart showing the Sales (Bar chart) and Profit (Line Chart) for each Product type. What was the Profit for the Herbal Tea product type in 2013?


Options are :

  • 68,620
  • 74,683
  • 37,455 (Correct)
  • 46,493

Answer :37,455

Using the CoffeeChain table, create a crosstab showing the Total Expenses per State and add Column Grand Totals to the view.  Now group the states of New York, California and Washington. What percent of the total expense does this group contribute?


Options are :

  • 25.79%
  • 23.39% (Correct)
  • 27.73%
  • 29.49%

Answer :23.39%

Using the CoffeeChain table, create a chart to see the monthly Percent difference change in Profit, from the beginning of 2012 to the end of 2013. How many months saw a Negative percent difference in Profit?


Options are :

  • 9
  • 7
  • 10 (Correct)
  • 8

Answer :10

Using the CoffeeChain table, create a scatter plot of Profit (x-axis) vs Sales (y-axis) broken down by State. Add a Linear trend line to the view. What is its R-squared value?


Options are :

  • 0.783262 (Correct)
  • 0.739284
  • 0.759329
  • 0.748472

Answer :0.783262

Broadly speaking, after an importing a dataset in Tableau Desktop, all fields in it are broken down into _______________________


Options are :

  • Numbers and Headers
  • Dimensions and Measures (Correct)
  • Labels and Values
  • Rows and Columns

Answer :Dimensions and Measures

True or False: We get different colour pallete options if we drop a discrete field on "Color" in the marks card compared to if we drop a continous field on Color.


Options are :

  • False
  • True (Correct)

Answer :True

Date type can be


Options are :

  • None
  • continuous
  • discrete
  • Both (Correct)

Answer :Both

TWBX can shared as an


Options are :

  • Doc
  • Image (Correct)
  • ppt (Correct)
  • PDF (Correct)

Answer :Image ppt PDF

Adding which one of the following will make a bar chart into stacked bar chart


Options are :

  • dimension only (Correct)
  • none
  • both dimension and measure
  • measure only

Answer :dimension only

A story can have multiple dashboards included


Options are :

  • No
  • Yes (Correct)

Answer :Yes

If the measure is not aggregated, all the individual values from underlying view are seen


Options are :

  • TRUE (Correct)
  • FALSE

Answer :TRUE

Default aggregation in Tableau is ? Can it be changed ?


Options are :

  • Sum ; No
  • Avg; No
  • Sum ; Yes (Correct)
  • Avg ; Yes

Answer :Sum ; Yes

Which of the following model is more significant


Options are :

  • P is 1.99
  • P is 0.99
  • P is 0.04 (Correct)
  • P is 0.1

Answer :P is 0.04

Can we apply the filter or selections on one graph and treat it like a filter for all the other visuals on the dashboard ?


Options are :

  • Yes (Correct)
  • No

Answer :Yes

The Average function does not treat null values as zeros.


Options are :

  • False
  • True (Correct)

Answer :True

To switch a set to list the individual members:


Options are :

  • In the visualization workspace, select 'Show Members in Set'
  • Not possible to view individual members at all
  • Delete the set to view the individual members.
  • In the visualization workspace, right-click the set and select 'Show Members in Set'. (Correct)

Answer :In the visualization workspace, right-click the set and select 'Show Members in Set'.

"Show Me" option helps to check the following parameters for each of the charts


Options are :

  • Number of dimensions (Correct)
  • None
  • Number of Geo locations (Correct)
  • Number of measures (Correct)
  • Number of dates (Correct)

Answer :Number of dimensions Number of Geo locations Number of measures Number of dates

To visualize all the data rows in an data source you have to use following option


Options are :

  • Groups
  • Disaggregation (Correct)
  • Not possible
  • Aggregration

Answer :Disaggregation

Which of the following is a snapshot of your data.


Options are :

  • Live
  • Live and Extract
  • Live or Extract
  • Extract (Correct)

Answer :Extract

Shortcut to create a new worksheet is


Options are :

  • Ctrl + C
  • Ctrl + W
  • Ctrl + M (Correct)
  • Ctrl + N

Answer :Ctrl + M

The filters that we have created are restricted to the current worksheet are called as


Options are :

  • Local Filters (Correct)
  • Worksheet filters
  • Global filters
  • Context filters

Answer :Local Filters

Which of the following are not Tableau Auto Generated Fields.


Options are :

  • Sum Values (Correct)
  • Measure Names and Measure Values
  • Number of Records
  • Latitude and Longitude

Answer :Sum Values

Which of the following Sub-Categories have huge loss when total profit is considered. Use Sample- Superstore data.


Options are :

  • Bookcases
  • Furnishings
  • Tables (Correct)
  • Supplies

Answer :Tables

If we are to compare measures that have the same scale and unit of measurement, then we use


Options are :

  • Blended Axes chart (Correct)
  • Stacked Bar chart
  • Dual Axes chart

Answer :Blended Axes chart

Data Pane may conditionally accommodate these sections -


Options are :

  • All of the above
  • Sets and Parameters (Correct)
  • Dimensions and Measures
  • Columns and Rows

Answer :Sets and Parameters

When the values are computed using specified dimensions without reference to any other dimensions in the view are called as


Options are :

  • Fixed LOD (Correct)
  • Exclude LOD
  • Constant LOD
  • Include LOD

Answer :Fixed LOD

To bin a measure, we have to create a new


Options are :

  • measure
  • Continuous values
  • dimension (Correct)
  • range

Answer :dimension

Which of the following may be called as Pre-computed filters


Options are :

  • Groups
  • Sets (Correct)
  • Parameters
  • Context filters

Answer :Sets

You can add a dimension or a measure by


Options are :

  • Single click to add to visualization
  • Drag and drop it into visualization (Correct)
  • double click to add to visualization (Correct)

Answer :Drag and drop it into visualization double click to add to visualization

Which of the following will have captions option.


Options are :

  • Tableau Dashboard
  • Tableau Story (Correct)
  • Tableau Export
  • Tableau Datasource

Answer :Tableau Story

Which of the following allows a conditional formatting which lets you compare a column or row with rest of the table


Options are :

  • Cross tab
  • Text table
  • Bar chart
  • Highlight Table (Correct)

Answer :Highlight Table

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