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General Flashcards

1
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What are the client Components?

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Tableau Desktop, tabcmd and web browser

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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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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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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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When to add workers and reconfigure?

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

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

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7
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which command identify the current version of Tableu server?

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tabcmd version

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what are the OS supported by Tableau server?

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

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False, it can be also load by running tabcmd

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what is the main function of Application server process ?

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Handle the web application , supports browsing and searching

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

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True

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

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True

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13
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The data engine’s workload is

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

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True

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14
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What processes are multi threaded?

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

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

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the VizQL server process

17
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what processes need license?

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

18
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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
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Tableau workers server ports

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3730 – 3731

20
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Data Engine Port

21
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How many data engine proceses can be per node?

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

22
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What are the processes that don´t required database drivers?

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Data Engine, Repository and Gateway

23
Q

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

24
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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

25
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Network issues typically come from?

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the backgrounder, data engine, data server, or VizQL

26
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What are the services you have to check when there is a problem?

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

27
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What command is needed to removes all log files and temporary files (leave http_requests entries
untouched)

A

Tabadmin cleanup –restart

28
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Steps to connect to postgres database

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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
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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

30
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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
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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
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Who executes failover when needed?

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

Cluster controller

33
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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.

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