Tableau Gold Study Flashcards
How do you know how has seen a particular view?
It’s below the comments section at the bottom of the view. You must be an admin to view.
Explain how the Resulting Permissions works, what info does it convey?
Number of users in the group and the resulting permissions that they have acquired at the user/group level.
Can you configure Tableau Server to support non-English speaking users?
Yes. Each user can set the Language and Locale of the Tableau Server interface. This will change all of the non-content language on Tableau Server.
Suppose a user has View permission for a workbook. Are they guaranteed the ability to view that workbook?
Unanswered
Case: User is using Trusted Ticket authentication to achieve SSO and is having a hard time exposing the Tableau Server navigation to my users. What is going wrong?
Tickets are only valid for navigating to views. To enable unrestricted tickets issue the unresticted ticket tabadmin command.
How do I embed a view without the toolbar?
Add to the end of the URL: ?:embed=yes&:toolbar=no
Case: I’m not sure if my user’s views are rendering properly. Can I check this?
Yes. Add to the end of the URL: ?:render=false
What Tableau Utility found in both Tableau Desktop and Server help identify how a workbook is performing?
The performance recorder tracks the time elapsed for an individual workbook to execute queries.
What is the Javascript API?
Allows you to implement Tableau visualizations into your own web applications.
What is the REST API?
Allows you to automate many Server Admin tasks.
What is the Extract API?
Use to connect to data that is not currently supported as a Tableau Data Source. Allows you to make a program that accesses/processes data to create a TDE.
What is the repository?
It stores application data, file data, TWBs and TDSs. It is based on PostgreSQL.
What is VizQL Server?
Creates visualizations in server. It takes simple visual interactions and creates database specific SQL or MDX.
What is the Backgrounder?
Responsible for extract refreshes, fulfilling subscriptions and keeping the Server healthy.
What is the Base Install?
Consists of coordination (Apache Zookeeper) and the cluster controller (takes action on server health issues). Installs 1 instance of each on each server in the cluster.
What is a Gateway?
Receives incoming client HTPP requests and directs them to the appropriate service. Acts as an internal load balancer.
What is the Data Server?
Data Server serves meta-data and connections to desktop and serves authors. Invoked when a data source is published via Tableau Desktop. Proxy between requests for data and individual data sources.
What is the Cache Server?
Keeps data hot. Acts as a shared cache across all Tableau processes in a cluster.
What is the File Store?
Repository and replication of TDE files.
What is the Data Engine?
Used to manage storage for Extracts and queries. Creates TDEs and manages them.
What is Search and Browsing process?
Handles the search feature, queries meta-data from TWBs and TDSs; based on Apache SOLR.
What are some ways that you can add interactivity to your dashboards?
What kind of interactivity do you need?-Use as Filter-Apply to All Sheets-Add Dynamic Titles-Use filter actions for filter, URL and highlighting
How is Tableau breaking out of the BI box?
By putting humans, not databases, at the center of the design.
What is a cube? Does Tableau support them?
Yes. But the pre-aggregation of the multi-dimensional data sources may limit drilling-down within Tableau. Tableau absolutely supports them though.