Free Practice Questions for Salesforce Tableau Server Administrator Certification

- User Interface - Navigation

- Identify client components - Identify server components - Describe how they work together

- Understand: - How to identify the current version of Tableau Server - Where to obtain the latest release of Tableau Server - Where to access release notes of Tableau Server

- Understand: - RAM requirements - CPU requirements - Hard disk requirements

- List the supporting Operating Systems - Understand: - Browser requirements - Options for email alerts - Anti-virus concerns - Identify the SMTP Server - Be familiar with potential port issues - Explain the purpose and benefits of a dedicated server - Identify the considerations for running in the cloud

- Understand user-based licensing - Describe the different license types - Describe how license types map to site roles

- Describe each Tableau Services Manager and Tableau Server process - Understand: - Default process count at installation - Multiple-instance processes - Process-to-process workflows - Processes in distributed and high-availability environments - Purpose of a load balancer

- Identify the ports required - Identify the necessary database drivers - Understand the differences between: - File vs. Relational vs. Cube - Extract vs. Live Connections - Explain the benefits of published data sources

- Understand network latency implications - Explain the risks of Dynamic-IP addressing

- Understand installation steps and options - Install Path - Gateway port - Understand Identity Store and SSO options: - External (Active Directory) vs. local - Trusted Tickets - SAML - Kerberos and OpenID Connect - Describe the impact of the automatic-login options - Understand how to set up SSL - Understand Tableau best practices for installing a single-machine environment - Understand silent installs

- Understand cache settings - Understand how to: - Apply process distribution - Configure Email alerts / subscriptions - Configure optional customizations - Describe: - Site configuration options - User quotas - Storage quota - How to enable and edit site subscriptions - Project configuration options - Group and User Configuration options - Understand who can add users

- License type and site role - Admin level - Publisher level - Importing via Active Directory or Local

- Describe the security configuration for: - Site level - Project level - Group level - User level - Data source level - Workbook level

- Understand: - System permission composition - The ramifications of permission design - The Tableau Security Model - Describe the differences between Allow v. Deny v. None

- Maintain data connections - Create schedules - Create, edit and delete subscriptions - Perform Server analysis - Complete a backup and restore - Perform cleanup - Add, remove, or deactivate users - Update licenses - Start, stop or restart - Utilize tsm and tabcmd - Use REST API - Work with Log Files - Understand Embedding - Monitor Desktop license usage - Manage workbook and data source revision history

- View server status in multiple ways - View email alerts - Set data-driven alerts - Use built-in administrative views - Create custom admin views - Create a performance recording - Create a nested project - Work with Sites and Site Admin options

Contrast end-user with System-administrator capabilities

End-user Abilities

- Table recommendations - Publishing views and data sources - Renaming a workbook - Interacting with a view via the Web - Web authoring & editing - How to share views - Data Source Certification - Extract caching

Understand requirements of third party cookies in a browser

- Reset passwords for a Tableau user or Tableau Run-As Service account - Package log files for reporting - Use tsm to validate site resources - Rebuild the search index - Use maintenance analysis reports - Create/open support requests

Understand the upgrade process

Explain how and why to perform a clean reinstall

Describe how to migrate to different hardware

Understand backwards compatibility