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Desktop Specialist 2 Flashcards

1
Q

How can you bold a tooltip?

A
  1. Right click —> Format —> Default —> Tooltip —> Bold
  2. Worksheet in Menu bar —> Tooltip —> Bold
  3. Marks —> Tooltip —> Bold
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What type of field do we need to add to the row/column shelf to create an axis in the visualization?

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Continuous

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True or false: Dates are mostly placed in dimensions by default for relational data sources.

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True

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How can you Italicize a tooltip?

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  1. Worksheet in Menu bar —> Tooltip —> Italic
  2. Format in Menu bar —> Font —> Tooltip —> Italic
  3. Marks —> Tooltip —> Italic
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What major advantages does Tableau site for using a .tde (.hyper) over a live connection?

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  1. Supports large data sets
  2. Fast to create
  3. Helps improve performance
  4. Supports additional functionality such as ‘count distinct’
  5. Provides offline access to data
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A _____ palette is a palette that uses two color ranges to indicate that there are both negative and positive values for a field.

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Diverging

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What types of information does Tableau list as necessary for connecting to a data source, and therefore is included in a .tds file?

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  1. Data source type
  2. Connection information such as server address, port, location of local files, tables
  3. Groups, sets, calculated fields, bins
  4. Default field properties such as number formats, aggregation, and sort order
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True or false: .tds files include copies of local file-based data?

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False, .tds files do not contain data, only information necessary for connecting to the data source.

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How can you export an entire dashboard with multiple visualizations as an image?

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Dashboard in Menu bar —> Copy Image

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What type of set would you use to compare the members?

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Combined Sets

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What type of chart is ideal for showing the duration of events or activities?

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A Gantt chart

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What type of visualization uses dimensions to define its structure and measures to define its size and/or color?

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Tree maps

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What is the minimum field requirement to create a scatter plot?

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One measure in rows and one measure in columns

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What are the Dashboard size options?

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  1. Fixed
  2. Range
  3. Automatic
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What are the two styles of Tableau animations?

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  1. Simultaneous
  2. Sequential
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16
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How can you format an axis as Bold in Tableau?

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Right click the axis –> Edit Axis –> set font to Bold

17
Q

You create a bar chart by adding a dimension to the Column shelf and a measure to the Rows shelf. What do you need to do to turn this into a stacked bar chart?

A

Add another dimension to Color on the Marks card

18
Q

What Tableau feature lets you precisely space items?

A

padding

19
Q

What type of field creates an axis in the view when added to the rows or columns shelf?

A

Continuous

20
Q

What type of field contains qualitative values, such as names, dates, or geographical data?

A

Dimensions

21
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What type of field contains numeric, quantitative values that you can measure?

A

Measures

22
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What type of field affects the level of detail in the view?

A

Dimensions

23
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What type of field is aggregated by default?

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Measures

24
Q

What type of field is shown with a green pill?

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Continuous

25
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What type of field is shown with a blue pill?

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Discrete

26
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What type of field creates a header in the view when added to the rows or columns shelf?

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Discrete

27
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*You have a bar chart with a dimension in the columns shelf and a measure in the rows shelf. If you add another measure to the rows shelf, how will the view change?

A

You will now have the first bar chart you had stacked on top of a new bar chart with the new measure instead of the first in the y-axis.

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*You have a bar chart with a dimension in the columns shelf and a measure in the rows shelf. If you add another measure to the columns shelf, how will the view change?

A

You will now have an individual one-point scatter plots for each dimension instance, with the original measure in the y-axis and the new measure in the x-axis.

29
Q

What happens when you group data from the data pane?

A

The selected members are combined into a single group with a default name using the combined names.

30
Q

What happens when you group by labels in a view with a bar chart?

A

A new bar is created, which consolidates all members of the newly formed group.

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