Tableau Interview Questions
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In the Data Source Interface, which grid provides basic data source attributes, but does not preview your data?
MetaData Grid
Data Grid
Columns & Rows Grid
Table Grid
TRUE or FALSE: The "New Custom SQL" option in the Data Source Interface window is only available when a database connection is sele
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Which statement is true regarding field types inside the Data Source Interface?
Field types can only be modified using calculated filelds
field types can not be modified inside the data source interface
field types can be modified inside the data source interface
field types can only be modified by duplicating columns
TRUE or FALSE: The UNDO button can UNDO any action, even past saving your work
(as long as you haven't closed your workbook).
Which JOIN type is allowed within the Data Source Interface in Tableau Desktop?
Right Join
Left Join
Full outer Join
All of the above
Data Blending is unique as the data relationships are established at what level?
Sheet Level
Workbook Level
Database Level
Row Level
TRUE or FALSE: In Blending, the primary source is assigned to the source of the first field pulled into the sheet.
TRUE or FALSE: Tableau Public is a free version of Tableau that contains both server and desktop features.
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Which of the following are part of the 3 key layers of the Tableau Desktop Interface?
Sheets
Dashboards
Data Sources
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Which of the following would be the best place to get online support from fellow Tableau developers?
Wikipedia
Tableau user groups
Tableau community forums
Tableau search
What field category contains fields which are numerical and can be counted/aggregated?
Discrete
Continious
Dimension
Measure
What are some reasons you would want to Group your data?
Roll up data to a different level of detail
Correct data inconsitances
Explore what if analysis
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TRUE or FALSE: Sets are custom fields that define a subset of data as being either "in" or "out" based on certain conditions.
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TRUE or FALSE: Context filters happen after Dimension filters in the Tableau Order of Operations.
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Which method adds a filter to the filter shelf AND exposes a filter box on the right of your sheet?
Right-Click field> Choose Show filter
Drag field to the filter shelf
Right-Click on your viz> Choose exclude
Right_click on field> Choose "Expose filter menu"
Dependent Top N filters leverage which type of filter to correct errors found in Standard Top N Filters?
Level of Dependent Filters
Dependent filters
Context Filters
Top Filters
Where can you see the total number of marks in your worksheet?
Marks Menu
Bottom Left Status Bar
Marks Card
Help Menu
TRUE or FALSE: The Outer-Most field's type determines the visualization Tableau will automatically select.
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Which Mark property found on the Marks Card controls the level of detail of the view?
Detail
Color
Tooltip
Granularity
TRUE or FALSE: Measures should be used on the Size Mark Property, but Dimensions should not.
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The Color Mark property menu allows users to control which options?
Opacity
Boarder Lines
Color
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What is the first step in the "Getting the viz you want" process?
Field type
Show me
Field Properties
Mark Proprties
Which date function should you use to find the time gap between two dates?
Dateadd
Datediff
Datename
Datetrunc
TRUE or FALSE: the ZN() function will replace nulls with zeros.
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TRUE or FALSE: Default Field formatting impacts the selected sheet only
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Pull data from underlying source and into tableau Hyper/Tde file format
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Creater
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Visual Sort
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Context Filters
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Analysis
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Table,Pane,Cell
Show me
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Functions
Datediff
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Containers
Right click> Format
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Which data type cannot be Continious
String
Boolean
Number
Date
Which of the following should you use if your making a presentaiton and
the correctness of the numbers is more important than the performance of a dashboard
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Extract
twbx
Which method(s) are available if your data comes from the same database
Union
Join
Bledning
Cross-Database joins
If you want to get all the data from a table(Select all that apply)
Locate the table to left and use a left Join
Locate the table to right and use right join
Locate the table to left and use an inner join
Locate the table to middle and use an innter join
What does tableau do if you drop a date field into the filter shelf
Asks for selection between discrete and continious
Autmatically filters the date for the current date
Asks for a date to filter
Creates a range for all availabe days
What happens if you drag a date dimension to rows or coloumns by hodling the right click of your mouse?
Tableau automatically adds the field as a continious dimension
Tableau automatically adds the field as a discrete dimension
Tableau convert the field to measure
Tableau asks to select between discrete and continious
Which of the following you should use if you are creating a report structure and there will be a
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the database that you connected
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Which option do you have if your data comes form the different databases?
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Join
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Cross-Database join
What does tableau do if you drop a continious field to the filter shlef
Asks for an aggregate funciton
Asks for a range
Filters the view for the top 10 elements automatically
Filters the view for the medican values
When tablerau puts "AGG" in front fo thd field name you add it to the view.
If the field is a calculated field which already contains aggregation
If the field is a table calculation used for aggregation
if the field is a continious date
To use a filter for all sheets in the dashboard you shoul select ?
All using this data source
Selected worksheet
Only this worksheet
Only this dashboard
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String
Boolean
In general discrete field add "Headers" & Continious fields add "Axis" to the views
Text table, Cross tab and pivot table are the same
You need atleast 1 dimension and 1 measure to create a stacked bar chart
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You want to save the default field properties, gropus,sets, calculated fields and the data itself
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Join
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Locate the table to left and use a left Join
Locate the table to right and use right join
Right click on the group field in the data pane,Click to edit and uselect the element
Most of the time a date fields is hierarchy with the possible leves(Year,Quarter,Month,Week,Day)
The plus + sign front the field name indicates that the fields is a hierarchy
If you know your target audience display size, You should use the fixed size layout
A discrete fields brings more detail, a continious field brings an aggregated number
Extract
Fields which not matching field names will contain null values
Blending
Cross-Database join
Inner Join
Full outer join
You can NOT control the elements of a static set with the paramters
Level of detail
Entire table
Per pane
Per cell
Filter
Highlight
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