Free Practice Questions for Salesforce Certified Tableau Server Administrator Certification

This covers the user interface and navigation.

- 1.1.1 User Interface - 1.1.2 Navigation

This covers the components of the Tableau environment and how they interact.

- 1.2.1 Identify client components - 1.2.2 Identify server components - 1.2.3 Describe how they work together

This covers version identification and release information.

- 1.3.1 Understand: - 1.3.1.1 How to identify the current version of Tableau Server - 1.3.1.2 Where to obtain the latest release of Tableau Server - 1.3.1.3 Where to access release notes of Tableau Server

This covers the minimum hardware specifications required for Tableau Server.

- 1.4.1 Understand: - 1.4.1.1 RAM requirements - 1.4.1.2 CPU requirements - 1.4.1.3 Hard disk requirements

This covers the software prerequisites and environmental considerations for Tableau Server.

- 1.5.1 List the supporting Operating Systems - 1.5.2 Understand: - 1.5.2.1 Browser requirements - 1.5.2.2 Options for email alerts - 1.5.2.3 Anti-virus concerns - 1.5.3 Identify the SMTP Server - 1.5.4 Be familiar with potential port issues - 1.5.5 Explain the purpose and benefits of a dedicated server - 1.5.6 Identify the considerations for running in the cloud

This covers the user-based licensing model, including different license types and their mapping to site roles.

- 1.6.1 Understand user-based licensing - 1.6.1.1 Describe the different license types - 1.6.1.2 Describe how license types map to site roles

This covers the various processes of Tableau Services Manager and Tableau Server and their roles in different environments.

- 1.7.1 Describe each Tableau Services Manager and Tableau Server process - 1.7.2 Understand: - 1.7.2.1 Default process count at installation - 1.7.2.2 Multiple-instance processes - 1.7.2.3 Process-to-process workflows - 1.7.2.4 Processes in distributed and high-availability environments - 1.7.2.5 Purpose of a load balancer

This covers the requirements for connecting to data sources and the different types of connections.

- 1.8.1 Identify the ports required - 1.8.2 Identify the necessary database drivers - 1.8.3 Understand the differences between: - 1.8.3.1 File vs. Relational vs. Cube - 1.8.3.2 Extract vs. Live Connections - 1.8.4 Explain the benefits of published data sources

This covers network considerations for a Tableau Server deployment.

- 1.9.1 Understand network latency implications - 1.9.2 Explain the risks of Dynamic-IP addressing

This covers the steps, options, and best practices for installing Tableau Server.

- 2.1.1 Understand installation steps and options - 2.1.1.1 Install Path - 2.1.1.2 Gateway port - 2.1.2 Understand Identity Store and SSO options: - 2.1.2.1 External (Active Directory) vs. local - 2.1.2.2 Trusted Tickets - 2.1.2.3 SAML - 2.1.2.4 Kerberos and OpenID Connect - 2.1.3 Describe the impact of the automatic-login options - 2.1.4 Understand how to set up SSL - 2.1.5 Understand Tableau best practices for installing a single-machine environment - 2.1.6 Understand silent installs

This covers the configuration of various Tableau Server settings, from caching to user quotas and site options.

- 2.2.1 Understand cache settings - 2.2.2 Understand how to: - 2.2.2.1 Apply process distribution - 2.2.2.2 Configure Email alerts / subscriptions - 2.2.2.3 Configure optional customizations - 2.2.3 Describe: - 2.2.3.1 Site configuration options - 2.2.3.2 User quotas - 2.2.3.3 Storage quota - 2.2.3.4 How to enable and edit site subscriptions - 2.2.3.5 Project configuration options - 2.2.3.6 Group and User Configuration options - 2.2.4 Understand who can add users

This covers the process of adding users to Tableau Server, including license types, roles, and import methods.

- 2.3.1 License type and site role - 2.3.2 Admin level - 2.3.3 Publisher level - 2.3.4 Importing via Active Directory or Local

This covers the security configuration at various levels within Tableau Server.

- 2.4.1 Describe the security configuration for: - 2.4.1.1 Site level - 2.4.1.2 Project level - 2.4.1.3 Group level - 2.4.1.4 User level - 2.4.1.5 Data source level - 2.4.1.6 Workbook level

This covers the Tableau security model and the principles of setting permissions.

- 2.5.1 Understand: - 2.5.1.1 System permission composition - 2.5.1.2 The ramifications of permission design - 2.5.1.3 The Tableau Security Model - 2.5.2 Describe the differences between Allow v. Deny v. None

This covers a wide range of administrative tasks for maintaining and managing a Tableau Server environment.

- 3.1.1 Maintain data connections - 3.1.2 Create schedules - 3.1.3 Create, edit and delete subscriptions - 3.1.4 Perform Server analysis - 3.1.5 Complete a backup and restore - 3.1.6 Perform cleanup - 3.1.7 Add, remove, or deactivate users - 3.1.8 Update licenses - 3.1.9 Start, stop or restart - 3.1.10 Utilize tsm and tabcmd - 3.1.11 Use REST API - 3.1.12 Work with Log Files - 3.1.13 Understand Embedding - 3.1.14 Monitor Desktop license usage - 3.1.15 Manage workbook and data source revision history

This covers monitoring, alerting, and content management tasks within Tableau Server.

- 3.2.1 View server status in multiple ways - 3.2.2 View email alerts - 3.2.3 Set data-driven alerts - 3.2.4 Use built-in administrative views - 3.2.5 Create custom admin views - 3.2.6 Create a performance recording - 3.2.7 Create a nested project - 3.2.8 Work with Sites and Site Admin options

Contrast end-user with System-administrator capabilities

End-user Abilities

This covers various end-user and content-related features and functionalities.

- 3.5.1 Table recommendations - 3.5.2 Publishing views and data sources - 3.5.3 Renaming a workbook - 3.5.4 Interacting with a view via the Web - 3.5.5 Web authoring & editing - 3.5.6 How to share views - 3.5.7 Data Source Certification - 3.5.8 Extract caching

Understand requirements of third-party cookies in a browser

This covers common troubleshooting and support-related tasks for a Tableau Server administrator.

- 4.2.1 Reset passwords for a Tableau user or Tableau Run-As Service account - 4.2.2 Package log files for reporting - 4.2.3 Use tsm to validate site resources - 4.2.4 Rebuild the search index - 4.2.5 Use maintenance analysis reports - 4.2.6 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