Tableau Server 10 - General Knowledge

Front 1

Configuration setting changes are written to where?

Back 1

The tabsvc.yml file located in the ProgramData\Tableau\Tableau Server\config directory

Front 2

How can you make Tableau server configuration changes after installation?

Back 2

1. Tableau Server Configuration utility (dialog), or

2. Change the server's configuration using the tabadmin set command:

-tabadmin stop

-tabadmin set [option-name value]

-tabadmin config

-tabadmin start

Front 3

What file path do you navigate to execute tabadmin & tabcmd commands?

Back 3

Program Files\Tableau\Tableau Server\10.0\bin

Front 4

What tabcmd options are required at least once to begin a session?

Back 4

--server (-s)

--user (-u)

--password (-p)

Front 5

When you delete or disable a user in Active Directory and then synchronize that user's group on Tableau Server, what occurs?

Back 5

The user is removed from the Tableau Server group you synchronized

The user's role is set to "unlicensed”

The user will still belong to the All Users group

The user is unable to sign in to Tableau Server

Front 6

What are the tabcmd Global options?

Back 6

--help (-h)

--use-certificate (-c)

--server (-s)

--user (-u)

--password (-p)

--password-file

--site (-t)

--proxy (-x)

Front 7

How do you create a zip log archive (snapshot)?

Back 7

"Generate Snapshot" option on the Status page

tabadmin ziplogs name_of_log.zip

Front 8

After submitting an offline.tlq to Tableau and creating a activation.tlf file, what command do you run to activate the license?

Back 8

tabadmin activate --tlf filename.tlf. Note this needs to run twice, once during install, and once after accessing "Manage Product Keys"

Front 9

In what order are server processes invoked when loading a view?

Back 9

1. Gateway (Apache Web Server)

2. Application server (vizportal.exe)

3. VizQL

4. Data Server

5. Data Engine

Front 10

What are the two primary levels of caching?

Back 10

1. Model cache (check if view has been done)

2. Query result cache (If the view requested has not been run before, check for existing query)

Front 11

What are Tableau distributed environments designed for?

Back 11

Scalability

Front 12

When should you optimize for user traffic?

Back 12

1. Slow load times for views

2. High resource usage corresponding to user traffic

Front 13

How do you optimize for user traffic?

Back 13

1. Add VizQL server processes and measure the effect with more performance monitoring

2. Increase number of cache processes, or reduce data engine & backgrounder processes

3. Refresh the cache less often

4. Reduce the VizQL session timeout limit

Front 14

When do you optimize for extracts?

Back 14

1. High CPU usage corresponds to extract schedules

2. Extracts fail or run slowly

Front 15

How do you optimize for extracts?

Back 15

Increase backgrounder processes

Schedule extracts for times when the server isn't busy

Reduce the frequency of refreshes

Reduce the size of extracts

Use incremental refreshes

Front 16

True or False: You can use 32-bit Tableau Desktop to connect and publish to 64-bit Tableau Server, and 64-bit Tableau Desktop to connect and publish to 32-bit Tableau Server

Back 16

True. You do not have to match bitness between Tableau Desktop and Tableau Server

Front 17

Does Tableau Server support mutual SSL and SAML?

Back 17

No

Front 18

Can you publish a workbook created in a earlier version of desktop to a later version of server?

Back 18

Yes. For publishing, the Tableau Server version must be the same or newer than the version of Tableau Desktop

Front 19

Can a workbook edited and saved on Tableau Server be opened in Tableau Desktop if the version of Desktop is older than Server?

Back 19

No.

Front 20

Can you publish a workbook created in a later version of desktop to an earlier version of server?

Back 20

No

Front 21

How do you start a performance recording?

Back 21

Open the view to record, and type :record_performance=yes& at the end of the view URL, immediately before the session ID

Front 22

What is the option to verify a backup?

Back 22

tabadmin backup backup.tsbak tabserver -v

Front 23

What is the command to create a new key to encrypt sensitive information, such as credentials for external databases, stored within the Tableau repository?

Back 23

tabadmin assetkeys

Front 24

How do you confirm the integrity of the asset_keys.yml file?

Back 24

tabadmin assetkeys --validate

Front 25

What command is used to restore extracts?

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tabadmin restore \filepath\uninstall-10.0.tsbak

Front 26

What is the command to enable remote server status monitoring?

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tabadmin set wgserver.systeminfo.allow_referrer_ips [ip address]

Front 27

What is the URL to remotely see server status?

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http://[server]/admin/systeminfo.xml

Front 28

If you don't set a minimum site role, new users are added as what by default during an active directory sync?

Back 28

Unlicensed

Front 29

True or False: Embedded credentials will work when a workbook is opened in Tableau Desktop

Back 29

False

Front 30

What are the seven logging levelsin order of increasing amount of information logged?

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1. off

2. fatal

3. error

4. warn

5. info (the default)

6. debug

7. trace

Front 31

How do you set logging levels?

Back 31

tabadmin set

server.log.level

vizportal.log.level

vizqlserver.log.level

level

Front 32

What are causes of an unlicensed VizqQL status?

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Network issues preventing a VizQL process, which is running on a worker machine, from communicating with the primary machine

The licensing process may be getting sent more requests than it can accept at that time

Front 33

What is the command to cleanup coordination service files (removes log files, transaction logs, and snapshots that are maintained by the Tableau Server coordination service)?

Back 33

tabadmin cleanup --reset-coordination

Front 34

When should you use the default Network Service account?

Back 34

Local authentication

All users include extracted data in workbooks

Single server deployment

External data doesn't require Windows NT integrated security or Kerberos

Front 35

True or False: Tableau only supports port 443 as the secure port

Back 35

True. It cannot run on a computer where another application is using port 443

Front 36

True or False: For a domain user account, you need a service account in Active Directory

Back 36

True

Front 37

For Trusted Authentication, how do you add trusted IP addresses/web servers?

Back 37

tabadmin set wgserver.trusted_hosts "192.168.1.101, 192.168.1.102, 192.168.1.103"

or

tabadmin set wgserver.trusted_hosts "webserv1, webserv2, webserv3"

Front 38

What are the the user license levels?

Back 38

Interactor, viewer, unlicensed

Front 39

What are the available CSV fields for importing users?

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User name

Password

Display Name

License level

Administrator level

Publisher permissions

Email address

Front 40

What is the command to get server status?

Back 40

tabadmin status --v or,

tabadmin status --verbose

Front 41

What is the command to delete site users?

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tabcmd deletesiteusers "users.csv"

Front 42

What is the command to delete server users?

Back 42

tabcmd deleteusers "users.csv"

Front 43

When removing a user on a Tableau Server Enterprise installation, and the server contains multiple sites, users who are assigned the role of ___________ are removed from the site but are not removed from the server.

Back 43

Server Administrator

Front 44

True or False: By default, if the server has only one site, or if the user belongs to only one site, the user is also removed from the server when removed.

Back 44

True

Front 45

What happens when you delete a user that belongs to multiple sites?

Back 45

The user is removed from all sites in which they don't own content, and their role is demoted to "Unlicensed" in sites where they own content

Front 46

In the "Actions by All Users" and "Actions by Specific User" admin views, what are the three groups of timelines that can be displayed?

Back 46

Access & Interactions

Publish and Download

Subscriptions

Front 47

What is the "Actions by Recent Users" useful for?

Back 47

To see how many users would be affected by server maintenance

Front 48

What are thresholds for being an "active" user?

Back 48

5 minutes or less is an active user, 30 minutes or less is a recently active user, >30 minutes is an idle user

Front 49

What are the two admin views for background tasks?

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Extract and Non-Extract (subscriptions, csv upload, AD sync, Oauth connections)

Front 50

What does the "Stats for Load Times" admin view show?

Back 50

Which views are the most expensive in terms of server performance

Front 51

What does the "Stats for Space Usage" admin view show?

Back 51

Which workbooks and data sources are taking up the most disk space on the server. Disk space usage is displayed by user, project, and by the size of the workbook or data source and is rounded down to the nearest number

Front 52

What does the "Background Task Delay" admin view show?

Back 52

The delay for extract refresh tasks and for subscription tasks—that is, the amount of time between when they are scheduled to run and when they actually run

Front 53

What are possible reasons for delays in background task execution?

Back 53

Many tasks are scheduled for the same time

Specific tasks take a long time to run and are preventing other tasks from running

Other server processes are running at the same time and are consuming server resources and slowing down performance

Front 54

What does the "Performance of Views" admin view display?

Back 54

How long it takes for views to load and how many sessions are running at a time on the server

Front 55

What does the "Server Disk Space" admin view display?

Back 55

For the machines in the cluster:

What is the most recent disk space usage

How has free disk space trended in the last month

Front 56

What is the .csv value to leave a parameter as undefined?

Back 56

"none" (the literal use of "none")

Front 57

True or False: Project leaders cannot run, add, or remove extract refreshes for workbooks and data sources in the project

Back 57

False

Front 58

Who can change project ownership?

Back 58

Server administrator or Site administrator

Front 59

True or False: The Guest user option is available only with a core-based license

Back 59

True

Front 60

True or false: Guest access is controllable per site

Back 60

False. It is controlled across the server

Front 61

True or False: only a server administrator can enable scheduling

Back 61

True

Front 62

A connection type of Tableau Server indicates that the connection is to ___________.

Back 62

A published data source

Front 63

A Tableau Data Extract connection type means that the data source has an extract which is stored in ____________.

Back 63

Tableau Server

Front 64

True or False: Workbooks published to Tableau Server may not contain an embedded data source

Back 64

False. Every workbook that is published to Tableau Server contains at least one embedded data source

Front 65

What is the difference between a published data source and an embedded data source?

Back 65

Embedded data sources are different from published data sources in that each embedded data source is associated with a single workbook and describes the attributes required for connecting to a data source.

That means if you have three workbooks that connect to the same data source, you will still have three embedded data sources listed on the Data Sources page

Front 66

True or False: Whether you can edit connections is evaluated the same as your permissions for editing data sources

Back 66

False. They are evaluated separately, and to edit connections, your site role must be Server Administrator, Site Administrator, or Publisher. If your role is Publisher, you also must be the data source owner.

Front 67

When you run a schedule in parallel, it runs on all available _______________ processes

Back 67

Backgrounder

Front 68

To access revision history, a user must have a site role of _________, plus these permissions.

Back 68

Publisher, and View/Save for the project, & view/save/download for the workbook or data source.

Front 69

True or False: If a different author publishes over a workbook or data source with the same name, the most recent author becomes the owner of the content and can see its entire revision history

Back 69

True

Front 70

True or False: When a workbook or data source is deleted from a site, all previous versions persist.

Back 70

False. They are removed.

Front 71

True or False: If revision history has been turned on and then turned off, saved revisions are retained, but new versions will overwrite the latest version

Back 71

True

Front 72

True or False: When you restore a workbook that uses a live connection and prompts for a username and password, you have the option to embed the credentials for the connection

Back 72

True

Front 73

True or False: If you intend to use OpenID for authentication, you must choose local authentication.

Back 73

True

Front 74

True or False: Kerberos can work with local authentication

Back 74

False. Kerberos only works if Tableau server is configured for Active Directory

Front 75

True or False: You cannot use Active Directory with site-specific SAML

Back 75

True

Front 76

True or False: It is not recommend to use the default account to access resources on remote computers within the same Active Directory domain.

Back 76

True. It is best to set up a different, domain account for the run as user.

Front 77

What are the 64-bit minimum hardware requirements for Tableau server?

Back 77

2-core CPU, 8 GBs of ram, and 15 GB of disk space

Front 78

What are the 64-bit minimum hardware recommendations for Tableau server?

Back 78

8-core CPU, 32 GBs of ram, and 50 GB of disk space

Front 79

True or False: Workbooks that are saved in an earlier version of Desktop cannot connect to Server data sources published to later versions of Server

Back 79

False. They can connect.

Front 80

True or False: Workbooks created in the latest version of Desktop can access and open data sources from an earlier version of Server

Back 80

True

Front 81

Workbooks created in the latest version of Desktop cannot be published to earlier versions of Server.

Back 81

True

Front 82

When would you not enable automatic logon during install?

Back 82

You plan to configure Tableau Server for SAML, trusted authentication, or if you will be deploying a reverse proxy server to enable internet access to the content on this Tableau Server.

Front 83

When using Active Directory authentication, how do you treat passwords for a CSV import?

Back 83

The CSV file should never contain a password, because user passwords are managed by Active Directory.

Front 84

If a user exists in more than one site, and you attempt to import a CSV, how can you avoid import errors?

Back 84

Leave the password field blank, and the CSV import window alerts you that the new user doesn't have a password. You can then use the server environment to assign a password to any user who doesn't have one

Front 85

True or False: Administrators, project leaders, and content owners do not have the option to subscribe other users to workbooks and views

Back 85

False. These users DO have the option

Front 86

For Tableau Server users to receive subscriptions, these things need to be in place:

Back 86

SMTP server settings are configured

The datasource used has embedded credentials, or credentials aren't required

The view must have the subscription icon

Front 87

What configuration information should be collected before upgrading?

Back 87

Customizations, SSO, SMTP, Content information, worker node info, Tableau Worker Software setup program (if using distributed installation)

Front 88

What are the pre-upgrade tasks?

Back 88

Perform a backup & check product key status to make sure it is not expired

Front 89

What are the general upgrade steps?

Back 89

1. Prepare a test environment

2. Upgrade the test environment

3. Smoke test

4. Test any new features

5. Communicate the upgrade

Front 90

True or False: During an upgrade, the existing version needs to be uninstalled before performing the updgrade

Back 90

False. The installation process will perform the uninstall itself

Front 91

True or False: For a multi-node upgrade, you need to separately upgrade the backup primary after your main primary & workers are upgraded.

Back 91

True

Front 92

True or False: All nodes in a distributed installation must have the same bitness.

Back 92

True

Front 93

True or False: If upgrading from a 32-bit to a 64-bit version, you must uninstall the old version first

Back 93

True

Front 94

The same Tableau Server product key can be activated ______ times

Back 94

Three - QA, test, Prod

Front 95

If you are moving your Tableau installation to new hardware, what command must be executed to ensure a proper install?

Back 95

tabadmin restore --no-config

Front 96

Which user has more access to the Workgroup database, readonly or Tableau user?

Back 96

readonly

Front 97

In the "Traffic to Views" Administrative View, what are the key metrics?

Back 97

View Count by Day

View Count by Time

Most seen views

Who access views most often

Front 98

In the "Traffic to Data Sources" Administrative View, what are the key metrics?

Back 98

Data source usage by day

What data sources are viewed the most

Who uses data sources the most

Front 99

True or False: The percent of CPU usage for individual processes may add up to more than 100 percent.

Back 99

True. The processor utilization for individual processes is measured for a given processor core

Front 100

What is restored/overwritten when restoring from a backup?

Back 100

Postgres database, data extracts, and configuration files

Front 101

True or False: There is no benefit to stopping the server before running tabadmin reindex

Back 101

False. Reindexing while the server is running can result in content, including sites and projects, temporarily disappearing from server pages.

Front 102

What are the general steps of offline activation?

Back 102

1. Activate offline to generate an offline.tlq file

2. Submit offline.tlq to Tableau

3. Get activation.tlf file from Tableau

4. Navigate to the bin folder

5. Activate using tabadmin activate --tlf \filepath\activation.tlf to initialize

6. Repeat 1-4 to fully activate, except use "Manage Product Keys"

Front 103

What is the default process configuration for the Vizql process?

Back 103

Equal to the number of cores divided by four, up to a maximum of four process instances

Front 104

What is the default process configuration for the Backgrounder, Data Server, and Cache Sever processes?

Back 104

Set to two unless the number of cores is fewer than eight

Front 105

True or False: When possible, you should run Backgrounder processes on a dedicated computer

Back 105

True. Backgrounder processes are generally the most CPU intensive

Front 106

True or False: There is no need to separate Data Engine processes and Backgrounder processes

Back 106

False. Since they are both CPU intensive, they should be on separate nodes whenever possible.

Front 107

True or False: If you have multiple trusted Certificate Authorities (CAs) you can copy and paste the entire contents of each CA certificate, including the "BEGIN CERTIFICATE" and "END CERTIFICATE" lines, into a new file

Back 107

True

Front 108

True or False: When you configure a Tableau Server cluster to use SSL, you place the SSL certificate and key files on every computer that's running a gateway process

Back 108

True

Front 109

You can configure Internal SSL for "Required for all Connections" to use SSL for all traffic between ___________ and other server components

Back 109

The Postgres repository

Front 110

What are SAML configuration requirements?

Back 110

-Certificate file

-Certificate key file not password protected

-IdP account that supports SAML 2.0

-IdP provider that supports import and export of XML metadata

-Matching usernames (Server and IdP usernames must match)

Front 111

What is the SAML return URL?

Back 111

The URL users will access to authenticate

Front 112

What is the SAML entity ID?

Back 112

The name that identifies your Tableau Server installation to the IdP

Front 113

When configuring SAML, what files are exchanged with the IDP?

Back 113

The XML export from Tableau, and the returned XML from the IDP which is used for the metadata file

Front 114

What does the Kerberos configuration script do and who do you send it to?

Back 114

The configuration script generates service principal names (SPNs) and a keytab file. It should be sent to the Active Directory domain administrator for them to run.

Front 115

What do you do with the kerberos keytab file generated from the Kerberos script?

Back 115

Save a copy of the .keytab file, and use the file path it is saved at in Step 3 of the Kerberos configuration.The keytab file will be copied to all the gateway nodes in your Tableau Server installation when you click OK in the Configuration utility.

Front 116

True or False: When you embed Tableau Server views into webpages, not everyone who visits the page must be a licensed user on Tableau Server

Back 116

True. Guest users can view embedded views if a core-based license is used

Front 117

What is "Trusted Authentication?"

Back 117

Trusted authentication simply means that you have set up a trusted relationship between Tableau Server and one or more web servers.

Front 118

What does the server process vizportal.exe handle?

Back 118

REST API calls

Front 119

What does the Backgrounder server process handle?

Back 119

Executes server tasks, including extract refreshes, subscriptions, ‘Run Now’ tasks, and tasks initiated from tabcmd

Front 120

What does the Cache Server server process handle?

Back 120

A query cache distributed and shared across the server cluster

Front 121

What does the Cluster Controller server process handle?

Back 121

Monitoring various components, detecting failures, and executing failover when needed

Front 122

What does the Coordination Service server process handle?

Back 122

In distributed installations, responsible for ensuring there is a quorum for making decisions during failover

Front 123

What does the Data Engine server process handle?

Back 123

It loads extracts into memory and performs queries against them.

Front 124

What does the Data Server process handle?

Back 124

It allows you to upload and share data extracts, preserve database connections, as well as reuse calculations and field metadata.

Front 125

What does the File Store process handle?

Back 125

It automatically replicates extracts across data engine nodes

Front 126

What does the Repository server process handle?

Back 126

The Tableau Server database, stores workbook and user metadata

Front 127

What does the Search & Browse server process handle?

Back 127

It handles fast search, filter, retrieval , and display of content metadata on the server

Front 128

What does the VizQL Server server process handle?

Back 128

It loads and renders views, computes and executes queries

Front 129

True of False: Revision history is not enabled by default

Back 129

False. It is enabled by default

Front 130

What is default number of revisions saved in history for each resource?

Back 130

25

Front 131

What server processes are single threaded?

Back 131

Cache Server

Backgrounder

Front 132

What server processes have a Yes/No configuration option?

Back 132

Gateway

Repository

File Store

Search & Browse

Front 133

What is the default limit of instances for server processes?

Back 133

Eight

Front 134

For Tableau Server to function, there must always be one active instance of what processes?

Back 134

The data engine (and associated file store) and the repository

Front 135

What are the Tableau Server Process statuses?

Back 135

Active

Busy

Passive

Unlicensed

Down

Status unavailable

Front 136

True or False: The coordination service is listed with other server processes on the Server Status Page

Back 136

False. You need to use "tabadmin status --verbose" to see the service status

Front 137

The base install includes what two server processes?

Back 137

The Coordination Service and Cluster Controller

Front 138

For each process instance, Tableau recommends that the machine running the process have at least ___ GB of RAM and ___ logical CPU core

Back 138

1 & 1

Front 139

True or False: If Tableau Server is installed in a Windows Active Directory environment, not all computers in a cluster have to be members of the same domain.

Back 139

False. All nodes must be part of the same domain

Front 140

If the IP address on the primary has already changed, what is true about the tabadmin stop command?

Back 140

The tabadmin stop command will not work because the worker nodes will not accept connections from the new IP address

Front 141

What are the four server process areas that require redundancy?

Back 141

The data engine, repository, and gateway processes, and the primary Tableau Server

Front 142

With a core-based license, what processes consume no cores?

Back 142

The gateway, search & browse, cluster controller, and coordination processes

Front 143

True or False: If you are exporting a site from Tableau Online or from a different Tableau server, you must create user accounts on the target server before you can perform the import.

Back 143

True

Front 144

True or False: If the target site is not empty, workbooks and data sources with identical names on both target and source sites will be replaced by workbooks, data sources, and permissions from the source site

Back 144

True

Front 145

True or False: Deleting a site doesn't remove workbooks and data sources that were published to the site, as well as users

Back 145

False. It does remove workbooks, data sources, and users (if the user belongs only to that site)

Front 146

When a site is suspended, only the ___________ can activate the site to make it available again.

Back 146

Server administrator

Front 147

True or False: Any user can be become the project owner.

Back 147

False. Only the site administrator can be assigned project ownership

Front 148

New projects are always created with the default permissions set for the __________ project.

Back 148

Default

Front 149

True or False: You cannot delete a Tableau Server user if the user owns any items

Back 149

True

Front 150

For a Server User import, what happens if you import a file that has a new password for each existing user?

Back 150

The users' passwords will be reset

Front 151

For a Site User import, what happens if you import a file that has a new password for each existing user?

Back 151

The import will fail

Front 152

What happens during an Active Directory group import if a user already exists on the site without a group affiliation?

Back 152

The user is added to the group with the assigned site role, and the same permissions in the site

Front 153

True or False: You need to stop Tableau Server before you use the exportsite command

Back 153

False. You do not need to stop the server

Front 154

What is the tabadmin command to display help for all tabadmin commands?

Back 154

tabadmin commands --help

Front 155

What is the tabadmin command to display help for a specific command?

Back 155

tabadmin [command] --help

Front 156

True or False: Running the backup command also removes Tableau Server log files older than seven days as well as some of the information displayed in certain Administrative Views.

Back 156

True

Front 157

True or False: tabadmin decommission can be run without stopping the server

Back 157

True.

Front 158

True or False: You must be a server administrator to approve web data connectors for use on Tableau Server.

Back 158

True

Front 159

True or False: When you import a site that you exported earlier, each user and schedule that is being imported must match an existing user and schedule

Back 159

True

Front 160

True or False: If your source site has workbooks that use published data sources, the target site name must match the source site name.

Back 160

True. The data connections for the workbooks will continue to refer to the source site name and can't be updated on the new site.

Front 161

The command "tabadmin reset" resets what account?

Back 161

Server Administrator

Front 162

How does REST API apply to Tableau Server?

Back 162

The REST API lets you programmatically manage users, workbooks, data connections, and other resources on the server. By using the API, you can create users or import them from Active Directory, publish workbooks, create, view, and delete data sources, etc. It is like tabcmd, but the REST API methods provide more granular control

Front 163

When a user opens a view in a client device, that user starts a ____________ on Tableau Server

Back 163

Session

Front 164

Where can you find Tableau release notes?

Back 164

tableau.com/support/releases

Front 165

What are the supported operating systems for Tableau server?

Back 165

Windows Server 2008 R2

Windows Server 2012

Windows Server 2012 R2

>= Windows 7

Front 166

What are the supported browsers for Tableau server?

Back 166

>= Android browser 4.4

Microsoft Edge

>= IE 11

>= Firefox 3.0

Chrome

Front 167

What are the anti-virus considerations for Tableau server?

Back 167

Server performance can be degraded by anti-virus scanning. For virus scanning, exclude the directories "C:\Program Files\Tableau\Tableau Server" and "C:\ProgramData\Tableau\Tableau Server\data" (this folder must be unhidden)

Front 168

What is the standard port for the SMTP server?

Back 168

25

Front 169

If you install multiple instances of a process (Cache Server for example) on a node, what is true about port usage?

Back 169

Consecutive ports are used, starting at the base port

Front 170

How do you view licensing information?

Back 170

In a site, click Settings > Licenses, or

tabadmin licenses -p

Front 171

Where do you access Tableau server product keys?

Back 171

Tableau Customer Portal (Account Center)

(https://auth.tableausoftware.com/user/login)

Front 172

What are the implications of network latency?

Back 172

Slow to load views and slowly executing refreshes.

Front 173

True or False: Client browsers must be configured to allow third-party cookies if you want to use trusted authentication with embedded views.

Back 173

True

Front 174

What is the advantage of Trusted Authentication?

Back 174

If you already have a way of authenticating users on the webpage or within your web application, you can avoid this prompt and save your users from having to sign in twice by setting up trusted authentication.

Front 175

What is the impact of enabling automatic logon?

Back 175

Users are not prompted for credentials after authenticating to a computer in the domain

Front 176

True or False: For mutual SSL, if the client does not have a valid SSL certificate, Tableau Server will allow the connection.

Back 176

False. Tableau server will deny the connection.

Front 177

To use SSL between a load balancer and nodes in a cluster, how should the load balancer be configured?

Back 177

It should be configured for pass through

Front 178

For configuring data connection cache settings, what cache option would you use when data is not changing frequently?

Back 178

Refresh less often

Front 179

For configuring data connection cache settings, what does the cache setting of "Balanced" do?

Back 179

Refreshes data after a specified number of minutes

Front 180

For configuring data connection cache settings, what cache option would you use when you want to refresh data each time a page is loaded?

Back 180

Refresh more often

Front 181

True or False: You can change the Tableau logo for the browser window tab.

Back 181

False. You cannot change this logo.

Front 182

When configuring a site, what are the two storage quota options?

Back 182

The server physical limit and an editable limit in GBs

Front 183

When configuring a site, what are the user quota limits?

Back 183

The server limit and an editable limit of n-users

Front 184

True or False: Data model editing is not supported on the server

Back 184

True

Front 185

True or False: Web authors can create new workbooks only from data sources published to Tableau Server, and can connect to published data sources only

Back 185

True

Front 186

True or False: Users with a site role of Interactor or Publisher can get full project leader permissions

Back 186

True

Front 187

What is the purpose of the role, license, and publisher options for tabcmd createsiteusers "file.csv"?

Back 187

To specify options that were omitted in the .csv

Front 188

True or False: You cannot set permissions at the site level; permissions are assigned to resources only.

Back 188

True

Front 189

What permissions apply when you Lock Content Permissions to the Project?

Back 189

The Default permissions

Front 190

How do you add capacity with product keys?

Back 190

Start > All Programs > Tableau Server > Manage Product Keys

Front 191

How do you refresh the maintenance date for product keys?

Back 191

All Programs > Tableau Server> Manage Product Keys> Click "Refresh"

Front 192

Google BigQuery, Salesforce.com, and many web data connector connections use the ______ authentication standard, which uses secure access tokens instead of user name/password credentials

Back 192

OAuth

Front 193

To publish data sources, a user must have a site role of at least _________ for the site

Back 193

Publisher

Front 194

What permission role allows the user or group to connect using the data source on the server and also to publish, edit, download, delete, set permissions, and schedule refreshes for the data source?

Back 194

Editor

Front 195

True or False: Users can't subscribe to workbooks that prompt for credentials for live database connections.

Back 195

True

Front 196

What is the menu navigation order to create a schedule?

Back 196

Schedules>New Schedule

Front 197

True or False: On a multi-site server, allowing users to subscribe to workbooks and views is a site-specific setting.

Back 197

True

Front 198

What is the menu navigation order to enable scheduling on the server and refresh failure notification?

Back 198

Settings > General

Front 199

True or False: To get data about licenses, each copy of Tableau Desktop version 10.0 or later needs to be configured to send data to Tableau Server

Back 199

True

Front 200

True or False: Tableau Desktop reporting is enabled by default

Back 200

False. It is disabled by default

Front 201

What are the commands to enable desktop reporting?

Back 201

tabadmin set features.DesktopReporting true

tabadmin config

tabadmin restart

Front 202

True or False: When you restore an extract with embedded credentials and a refresh schedule, you will need to edit the connection to provide the credentials

Back 202

True

Front 203

True or False: When you restore a workbook that uses a live connection and prompts for a user name and password, you have the option to embed the credentials for the connection

Back 203

True

Front 204

How do you view Revision History?

Back 204

Select a workbook or data source, and then on its actions menu (. . .), select Revision History

Front 205

For server component events, you can receive a notification when:

Back 205

Tableau Server processes stop or start

Front 206

True or False: If alerts are configured correctly, Tableau Server sends an email titled "Multiple services on your-server are UP."

Back 206

True

Front 207

What are the email alert options for disk space?

Back 207

Warning threshold, critical threshold, and the number of minutes to wait for sending subsequent email alerts

Front 208

How do you view a performance recording?

Back 208

Click "Performance" in the view toolbar

Front 209

What are site administrator capabilities?

Back 209

Site administrators can manage groups, projects, workbooks, and data sources (including connection information) for the site. For on premise, they must be allowed by the server admin to add/remove users

Front 210

True or False: Project leaders can lock project permissions and edit default permissions

Back 210

True

Front 211

True or False: New projects inherit permissions for the project and its workbooks and data sources from the site’s Default project.

Back 211

True

Front 212

True or False: Views inherit permissions from the workbook.

Back 212

True. However, views can have independent permissions when content permissions are not locked, and the views are not shown as tabs in the workbook. Then you can edit individual view permissions to differ from the defaults.

Front 213

True or False: Updates to a published data source flow to all connected workbooks, whether the workbooks themselves are published or not

Back 213

True

Front 214

True or False: When you embed a Tableau Server view into an internal website page, every person who views that page will need a Tableau Server account unless you have purchased a core-based license.

Back 214

True.

Front 215

What is the tabadmin command to reset a password?

Back 215

tabadmin passwd

Front 216

The ___________ is a Windows account that Tableau Server uses ("runs as") when it access resources

Back 216

Run As User

Front 217

What is the default Run As User configured to run under?

Back 217

The Network Service account

Front 218

True or False: You must delete a log snapshot before generating another

Back 218

True

Front 219

By default, Tableau Server logs events at the ______ level

Back 219

Info

Front 220

True or False: Increasing the log level to debug or trace increases the amount of information being logged and can have a significant impact to performance

Back 220

True

Front 221

The primary method for sending files to Tableau Support is to upload the files to _______________

Back 221

The Tableau Customer Portal

Front 222

What is the size limit of log files submitted via the Tableau Customer Portal?

Back 222

2 GB

Front 223

What are the steps to open a support ticket with Tableau?

Back 223

1. Sign into the Customer Portal

2. On the Customer Portal home page, click My Cases.

3.Click the Create New Case button.

4. Fill out the form

Front 224

How do you rebuild the search index?

Back 224

Status > Rebuild Index

Preferred method: tabadmin reindex

Front 225

True or False: For all Active Directory scenarios, it is recommended updating the Tableau Server Run As User with a domain user account.

Back 225

True

Front 226

In a distributed deployment of Tableau Server, you can use different Run as User accounts for each server node.

Back 226

False. You must use the same Run as User account for each node.

Front 227

True or False: A moderate data refresh use profile is when you refresh extracts hourly

Back 227

True

Front 228

True or False: If you have more than 500 extracts, or if you refresh extracts to support live data analysis, this is considered a high data refresh use profile and Tableau should be consulted for deployment design.

Back 228

True

Front 229

True or False: It is recommend that you install Tableau Server on a computer that's dedicated to running Tableau Server

Back 229

True.

Front 230

For Active Directory authentication, the first time your users sign in, they'll need to use the fully qualified domain name. On subsequent sign-ins, they can use the _________.

Back 230

Nickname (the nickname as specified in Server general settings)

Front 231

True or False: The Tableau Server administrator is not a Windows account

Back 231

True. It's a user identity that's internal to Tableau Server.

Front 232

True or False: By default, Tableau Mobile will work with self-signed SSL certificate

Back 232

False. Self-signed certificate trust must be configured.

Front 233

If a server SSL certificate is not signed by a root CA directly, the issuer should provide a ______ file

Back 233

Chain

Front 234

What are the SSL certificate files?

Back 234

Certificate, key, and chain files (if applicable)

Front 235

True or False: SSL Certificate chain files are required for Tableau Mobile and Tableau Desktop on the Mac

Back 235

True

Front 236

Allowing publishers to embed credentials in a workbook or data source is a site-specific setting

Back 236

False. It is a server wide setting.

Front 237

If there are peak times for extract refresh tasks, what is recommended to reduce the backgrounder load?

Back 237

Distribute the extract refresh schedule so that fewer extracts run at the same time

Front 238

If individual extracts are taking a long time, where should you start troubleshooting?

Back 238

Use Tableau Desktop to see how much data is being pulled into the extract and reduce if possible

Front 239

If many extracts are failing, but the failed extracts had very short run times, what is a likely cause?

Back 239

The data source(s) for those extracts is unavailable.

Front 240

True or False: Inefficient workbooks are one of the most common reasons for poor server performance

Back 240

True

Front 241

What is included with Windows Server to monitor server processes and resource utilization?

Back 241

PerfMon

Front 242

The ___________ server process is installed when you install data engine and cannot be installed separately

Back 242

File Store

Front 243

What are the non-licensed server processes?

Back 243

Cache Server

Cluster Controller

Coordination Service

File Store

Repository

Search & Browse

Front 244

What Tableau server processes are configurable with check boxes?

Back 244

Gateway

Repository

Search & Browse

Front 245

What is the command to configure failover for the primary?

Back 245

tabadmin failoverprimary --primary "computer1, computer2", where computer one is the computer to designate as the primary

Front 246

True or False: When configuring for multiple gateways & failover, all computers should be running a gateway process

Back 246

True

Front 247

When configuring for multiple gateways & failover, what processes are recommended to run on the Primary?

Back 247

Only Gateway and Search & Browse

Front 248

In high availability configurations, what four areas require redundancy?

Back 248

The data engine, repository, and gateway processes, and the primary Tableau Server

Front 249

True or False: Site administrators can see administrative views.

Back 249

True. Site administrators can see administrative views for any site they are admin of

Front 250

True or False: Workbooks in Tableau Desktop can use data sources that have been published to later versions of Tableau Server

Back 250

True

Front 251

True or False: When importing users with a .csv, you need to include a header.

Back 251

False. You do not include a header

Front 252

True or False: Site availability can be suspended and can be made unavailable to users

Back 252

True. This is the "Availability" option in Site Settings

Front 253

True or False: A workbook created with any version of Tableau Desktop can connect to any supported version of Tableau Server

Back 253

True

Front 254

True or False: Workbooks saved on a newer version of Tableau server can be opened by an older version of Tableau Desktop

Back 254

False. The Desktop version must be the same or newer than the server version.

Front 255

A user is a member of Group A & B. Group A is specifically allowed to view Workbook C, and Group B is specifically denied. If the user is unspecified for viewing Workbook C, what is their resulting permission?

Back 255

Denied

Front 256

A user is a member of Group A & B. Group A is specifically allowed to view Workbook C, and Group B is unspecified. If the user is unspecified for viewing Workbook C, what is their resulting permission?

Back 256

Allowed

Front 257

A user is a member of Group A & B. Group A is specifically denied to view Workbook C, and Group B is specifically denied. If the user is specifically allowed for viewing Workbook C, what is their resulting permission?

Back 257

Allowed

Front 258

What is the tabcmd command to login to a server?

Back 258

tabcmd login -s http://[host]:[port] -u [username] -p [password]

Front 259

True or False: Snapshots are high-resolution images of favorite views that are available offline. When these are not enabled, favorites appear as low-resolution images and server-accessible only

Back 259

True.

Front 260

What question can the the Desktop License Expiration view help answer?

Back 260

What trial or term licenses have expired?

What perpetual licenses have expired maintenance?

What perpetual licenses have maintenance renewals coming up?

Front 261

True or False: The Desktop License Expiration is available to both site and server administrators.

Back 261

False. It is only available to server administrators

Front 262

True or False: When importing a site, all site-specific settings from the source site (including site quota, subscription and web authoring settings) are preserved in the target site.

Back 262

True

Front 263

True or False: You can export from and import to servers that are using different user authentication methods without modifying any mapping files

Back 263

False. Domain mappings must match the Target user authentication type

Front 264

True or False: You can add a second repository if you have two or more nodes.

Back 264

False. You can only add a second repository if you have THREE or more nodes

Front 265

True or False: If you configured SAML on the Tableau Server primary node, you need to copy the SAML certificate, SAML key, and SAML IdP metadata files to each node that's running a Tableau application server process (vizportal.exe)

Back 265

True

Front 266

How do you configure Tableau server system for redundancy?

Back 266

You add additional servers to host copies of the repository and data engine/file store processes

Front 267

For failover, what is the minimum number of computers required in Tableau server system?

Back 267

Three (a primary and two worker nodes)

Front 268

For high availability configurations, what is the minimum number of computers required in Tableau server system?

Back 268

Four (an active primary, passive primary, and two worker nodes)

Front 269

How could you prevent Tableau Desktop publishers from seeing schedule options during publishing?

Back 269

Clear the check boxes in the "Embedded Credentials" section in Server Settings

Front 270

True or False: Users with Active Directory accounts in a Kerberos-enabled environment can use SSO to connect to Tableau Server from Tableau Desktop and web browsers

Back 270

True

Front 271

When would you want to you use Kerberos delegation?

Back 271

When you want to enable Tableau server to use the Kerberos credentials on behalf of the viewer of the workbook, or execute a query on behalf of the viewer.

Front 272

True or False: Tableau Public is not secured one and anyone can access the data and download

Back 272

True

Front 273

True or False: Both Tableau Server and Tableau Public allow embedding and sharing of views.

Back 273

True

Front 274

What are the three SAML configuration options?

Back 274

Server-wide SAML authentication

Server-wide local authentication and site-specific SAML authentication

Server-wide SAML authentication and site-specific SAML authentication

Front 275

True or False: When you use the tabcmd login command, you cannot use SAML single sign-on (SSO)

Back 275

True.

Front 276

True or False: Enabling Revision History is a server setting

Back 276

False. It is a site setting

Front 277

What is the limit of concurrent users for small deployments?

Back 277

25

Front 278

What is the limit of users for medium deployments?

Back 278

100

Front 279

What is the default http port?

Back 279

80

Front 280

What does the "Optional for direct user connections" SSL configuration option do?

Back 280

This option configures Tableau Server to use SSL between the repository and other server components and supports but does not require SSL for direct connections by "tableau" or "readonly" user

Front 281

True or False: If you use restricted tickets (the default) to render an embedded view, the Subscribe button doesn't appear

Back 281

True

Front 282

How does Automatic Client Authentication differ from Automatic Logon?

Back 282

Automatic Client Authentication enables desktop clients to automatically authenticate after their first login. Automatic logon uses Microsoft SSPI to automatically sign in server users based on their Windows username and password

Front 283

True or False: If an extract does not have a scheduled refresh, you can refresh it on demand from the Data Connections page

Back 283

True

Front 284

True or False: On the Tasks page, you can do any of the following: Change Schedules, Run Now, Change Priority, or Delete

Back 284

True

Front 285

True or False: Allowing users to use web authoring is a server setting

Back 285

False. It is a site setting

Front 286

When you remove a user from a group in Active Directory and then synchronize that group on Tableau Server, what occurs?

Back 286

The user is removed from the Tableau Server group you synchronized

The users role is retained - it is not set to “unlicensed”

The user will still belong to the All Users group

The user will still have permission to the Tableau Server with access to everything that the All Users group is granted permission to use

Front 287

A performance recording contains what three views?

Back 287

Timeline, Events, and Query

Front 288

True or False: Users can reset their own passwords by clicking "Forgot password" on the sign-in page

Back 288

True

Front 289

True or False: Beginning with version 10, Tableau Server is available only as a 64-bit application

Back 289

True

Front 290

True or False: Tableau Server does not support Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 and higher in compatibility mode, and no longer supports Microsoft Internet Explorer 8, 9, or 10

Back 290

True

Front 291

True or False: If you are upgrading Tableau Server from User-Based to Core-Based Licensing, you can simply activate the new product key

Back 291

False. You must first deactivate the old product key

Front 292

What are some key points for when should you add workers or reconfigure Tableau server?

Back 292

More than 100 concurrent users

Heavy use of extracts

Frequent extract refreshes

Downtime potential

Front 293

True or False: As a general rule, run a Cache Server process for every VizQL Server process on the node

Back 293

True

Front 294

True or False: If you upgrading Tableau Server to a non-default location, include the \version? folder when browsing or typing the path

Back 294

False. You don't include the version folder

Front 295

True or False: If your web server uses Microsoft SSPI (Security Support Provider Interface), you do not need to set up trusted authentication

Back 295

True

Front 296

True or False: If a workbook is configured to show sheets as tabs, all views use the workbook permissions, even if different permissions are specified on an individual view.

Back 296

True

Front 297

In what Windows file path would you find the Tableau license?

Back 297

[Drive]:\Program Files\Tableau\Tableau Server

Front 298

How could you quickly determine which workbooks are taking up the most space?

Back 298

Use the "Stats for Space Usage" administrative view

Front 299

True or False:Restarting Tableau Server automatically re-activates any decommissioned File Store nodes

Back 299

True