Desktop Specialist 2

Question 1

How can you bold a tooltip?

Answer 1

1. Right click —> Format —> Default —> Tooltip —> Bold
2. Worksheet in Menu bar —> Tooltip —> Bold
3. Marks —> Tooltip —> Bold

Question 2

What type of field do we need to add to the row/column shelf to create an axis in the visualization?

Answer 2

Continuous

Question 3

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

Answer 3

True

Question 4

How can you Italicize a tooltip?

Answer 4

1. Worksheet in Menu bar —> Tooltip —> Italic
2. Format in Menu bar —> Font —> Tooltip —> Italic
3. Marks —> Tooltip —> Italic

Question 5

What major advantages does Tableau site for using a .tde (.hyper) over a live connection?

Answer 5

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

Question 6

A _____ palette is a palette that uses two color ranges to indicate that there are both negative and positive values for a field.

Answer 6

Diverging

Question 7

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

Answer 7

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

Question 8

True or false: .tds files include copies of local file-based data?

Answer 8

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

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Dashboard in Menu bar —> Copy Image

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Combined Sets

Question 11

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

Answer 11

A Gantt chart

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Tree maps

Question 13

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

Answer 13

One measure in rows and one measure in columns

Question 14

What are the Dashboard size options?

Answer 14

1. Fixed
2. Range
3. Automatic

Question 15

What are the two styles of Tableau animations?

Answer 15

1. Simultaneous
2. Sequential

Question 16

How can you format an axis as Bold in Tableau?

Answer 16

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

Question 17

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?

Answer 17

Add another dimension to Color on the Marks card

Question 18

What Tableau feature lets you precisely space items?

Answer 18

padding

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Continuous

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Dimensions

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Measures

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Dimensions

Question 23

What type of field is aggregated by default?

Answer 23

Measures

Question 24

What type of field is shown with a green pill?

Answer 24

Continuous

Question 25

What type of field is shown with a blue pill?

Answer 25

Discrete

Question 26

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

Answer 26

Discrete

Question 27

*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?

Answer 27

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.

Question 28

*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?

Answer 28

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.

Question 29

What happens when you group data from the data pane?

Answer 29

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

Question 30

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

Answer 30

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