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21+ Tableau Desktop Specialist Exam Practice Questions (2024 Pattern)

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If you want to be prepared before taking your official Desktop Specialist Exam, it’s a good idea to practice with sample questions like the ones below. 

We’ve put together a list of practice questions that will help you learn more and increase your chances to pass the exam. 

If you’re wondering how long do you need to study before taking the exam, Tableau recommends at least 3 months.

The Tableau Desktop Specialist Certification is considered to be the best option for beginners, and the greatest thing is that once you pass the exam – the certification you’ll receive will be valid for a lifetime.

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  1. Tableau Desktop Specialist Exam Practice Questions

Tableau Desktop Specialist Exam Practice Questions

  1. When there are both negative and positive values for a field, the default range of values will use two color ranges. This is known as a ____ palette.
    1. Converging
    2. Diverging
    3. Stepped
    4. Reversed
  2. Suppose you have a bar chart. When we group by labels in a view, which of the following happens?
    1. Nothing changed in the view, but a group is created in the Dimensions shelf
    2. The colors of the members selected are not the same and are different for the rest of the members
    3. It is possible to group by labels
    4. A new mark (bar) is created, which consolidates all members of the group
  3. A union of two tables usually results in an ____.
    1. Increase in the number of columns
    2. Increase in the number of rows
    3. Decrease in the number of columns
    4. Decrease in the number of rows
  4. Suppose you create a bar chart by dragging a dimension to the Column shelf and a measure to the Rows shelf. Which of the following would create a stacked bar chart?
    1. By dragging another measure to the columns shelf
    2. By dragging another dimension to Color on the Marks card
    3. By dragging another dimension to the Rows shelf
    4. By dragging another measure to Color on the Marks card
  5. Suppose I have the following view. What will be the total number of marks if I drag a new measure to the row shelf vs the column shelf?
    1. If dragged to row shelf: 7 marks; If dragged to column shelf: 7 marks
    2. If dragged to row shelf: 14 marks; If dragged to column shelf: 7 marks
    3. If dragged to row shelf: 7 marks; If dragged to column shelf: 14 marks
    4. If dragged to row shelf: 14 marks; If dragged to column shelf: 14 marks
  6. Which of the following can help us focus on specific data without removing data in the visualization?
    1. Filters
    2. Sets 
    3. Highlighters
    4. Clusters
  7. Which of the following sets would you use to compare the members?
    1. Combined sets
    2. None of these
    3. Static sets
    4. Dynamic sets
  8. What do the colors Blue and Green represent in Tableau respectively?
    1. Dimensions and Measures
    2. Measures and Dimensions
    3. Discrete and Continuous
    4. Continuous and Discrete
  9. Which of the following calculations DO NOT need a quick table calculation?
    1. Rank
    2. Moving Average
    3. Running Total
    4. Standard Deviation
  10.  Which of the following are valid Dashboard size options?
    1. Automatic
    2. Fixed Size
    3. Range
    4. Scaled
  11.  Which of the following lets you group related dashboard items together so you can quickly position them?
    1. Layout Positioners
    2. Layout Blanks
    3. Layout Containers
    4. Layout Extensions
  12. The icon associated with the field that has been grouped is a ____ . 
    1. Paper Clip
    2. Globe
    3. Intersection
    4. =#
  13.  What is this entire view referred to as in Tableau?
    1. Summary Pane
    2. Analytics Pane
    3. Data Pane
    4. Distribution Pane
  14. How do you identify a continuous field in Tableau?
    1. It is identified by a green pill in a visualization
    2. It is preceded by a ‘=#’ symbol in the data window
    3. It is identified by a blue pill in the visualization
    4. It is preceded by an ‘Abc’ symbol in the data window
  15. Which of the following points are true about Viz Animations?
    1. Tableau enables animations for your viz by default
    2. Sequential animations take more time but make complex changes clearer by presenting them step by step
    3. It is possible to turn them on for the entire workbook at once
    4. Animations work well with maps, polygons, and density marks in web browsers
  16. What does it imply if a field has a blue background?
    1. It is discrete
    2. It is continuous 
    3. It is a dimension
    4. It is a measure
  17.  True or False: Enabling any other type of sort (Field, alphabetic, or Nested) clears the manual sort we create.
    1. True
    2. False
  18.  When using a Blend, what is the color of a tick-mark on the primary and secondary data sources respectively?
    1. Red, Blue
    2. Orange, Blue
    3. Blue, Red
    4. Blue, Orange
  19. A Tableau Support case can be opened in which of the following valid ways?
    1. Using the support option on the Tableau website
    2. Using the Developer Community Forum
    3. Contacting Salesforce using their website
    4. Using the Tableau learn website
  20. Which of the following returns the Absolute Value of a given number?
    1. CEILING (Number)
    2. ABS (Number)
    3. FLOOR (Number)
    4. ZN (Number)
  21. True or False: Sets can be created on Measures
    1. True
    2. False
  22. True or False: Context Filters are executed after Data Source filters
    1. True 
    2. False

Source: Anjul Pathak

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