General Flashcards

1
Q

What are the client Components?

A

Tableau Desktop, tabcmd and web browser

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2
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What are the server components?

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Application, Background task, VizQL, Data server, Data Engine, Repository, Gateway

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3
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What are the minimum requirements for production environments

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8 Cores 2ghz, 32 GB RAM, 50 GB free disk

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4
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What are the requirements for very small deployments

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4 cores 2ghz, 8GB RAM, 1,5 minimum free disk space

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5
Q

When to add workers and reconfigure?

A
  1. When you deployment is user-intensive
  2. When there is a heavy use of extracts
  3. When there are frequent extract refreshes
  4. when you want improve performance and availability
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6
Q

what is the best method to improve performance for an extract-intensive deployment?

A

is to isolate the data engine process and backgrounder in two different machines.

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7
Q

which command identify the current version of Tableu server?

A

tabcmd version

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8
Q

what are the OS supported by Tableau server?

A

Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 or higher, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2,
Windows Server 2012,Windows Server 2012 R, Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 8.1

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9
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Application server process can be load just by a browser-based interaction? True or false

A

False, it can be also load by running tabcmd

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10
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what is the main function of Application server process ?

A

Handle the web application , supports browsing and searching

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11
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The backgrounder process consume a lot of CPU, i/o or network resources, but no much memory. True or false

A

True

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12
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Data Engine is the process that load extracts into memory and perform queries against them. True or false

A

True

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13
Q

The data engine’s workload is

generated by requests from the VizQL Server process. True or false

A

True

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14
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What processes are multi threaded?

A

Data Engine, Application server, data server, search and explore and VizQL server

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15
Q

when is it loaded the data server process?

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When : is generated by browser, by tableau desktop interactions and extract refresh jobs for Tableau Server data sources.

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16
Q

Which process Loads and renders views, computes and executes queries.

A

the VizQL server process

17
Q

what processes need license?

A

Application server, Background, Data engine, data server, VizQL server

18
Q

Describe a typical high availability environment

A

High availability environments are a 4-node cluster with one primary, a failover primary and two workers. The primaries typically only run the gateway while the workers run all processes, specifically the data engine

19
Q

Tableau workers server ports

A

3730 – 3731

20
Q

Data Engine Port

A

27042

21
Q

How many data engine proceses can be per node?

A

There can be up to two data engine processes per node, on up to two nodes in a cluster

22
Q

What are the processes that don´t required database drivers?

A

Data Engine, Repository and Gateway

23
Q

Cube data sources support pass-through connections. True or false?

A

false

24
Q

You can set filters in a workbook or data source that control which data a person sees in a published view, based on their Tableau Server login account. True or false

A

true

25
Q

Network issues typically come from?

A

the backgrounder, data engine, data server, or VizQL

26
Q

What are the services you have to check when there is a problem?

A

FLEXnet Licensing Service, Secondary Login , Tableau Server(tabsvc), Tablicsrv

27
Q

What command is needed to removes all log files and temporary files (leave http_requests entries
untouched)

A

Tabadmin cleanup –restart

28
Q

Steps to connect to postgres database

A

Enable external password using “tabadmin dbpass ”, Connect in Tableau Desktop , Enter server name, DB name is workgroup, Default port is 8060, Username is “tableau”, Password is whatever was

29
Q

Schedules are not local to a site they are global. If you run a schedule it will run all tasks associated to that schedule regardless of site. True or false

A

TRue

30
Q

What does Tabadmin ziplogs –d 01/31/2014 mylogs.zip

A

it creates mylogs.zip and includes logs dated 1/31/2014 to present, excludes earlier

31
Q

What does Tabadmin configure

A

Updates configuration by forcing an update to all files in the“ProgramData\Tableau\Tableau Server\data\tabsvc\ —–This includes refreshing the master service configuration file, workgroup.yml When a config change is made it is best practice to run tabadmin config to ensure that all files
are updated

32
Q

Who executes failover when needed?

  • Cluster Controller
  • Coordination service
  • Failover service
  • Data Engine
A

Cluster controller

33
Q

What an interactor can do?

A

Allows to view the workbook or view on the server, edit workbook views, apply filters, view underlying data, export images, and export data.