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Tableau Desktop Certified Associate: Exam Guide

By : Dmitry Anoshin, JC Gillet, Fabian Peri, Radhika Biyani, Gleb Makarenko
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Tableau Desktop Certified Associate: Exam Guide

By: Dmitry Anoshin, JC Gillet, Fabian Peri, Radhika Biyani, Gleb Makarenko

Overview of this book

The Tableau Desktop Certified Associate exam measures your knowledge of Tableau Desktop and your ability to work with data and data visualization techniques. This book will help you to become well-versed in Tableau software and use its business intelligence (BI) features to solve BI and analytics challenges. With the help of this book, you'll explore the authors' success stories and their experience with Tableau. You'll start by understanding the importance of Tableau certification and the different certification exams, along with covering the exam format, Tableau basics, and best practices for preparing data for analysis and visualization. The book builds on your knowledge of advanced Tableau topics such as table calculations for solving problems. You'll learn to effectively visualize geographic data using vector maps. Later, you'll discover the analytics capabilities of Tableau by learning how to use features such as forecasting. Finally, you'll understand how to build and customize dashboards, while ensuring they convey information effectively. Every chapter has examples and tests to reinforce your learning, along with mock tests in the last section. By the end of this book, you'll be able to efficiently prepare for the certification exam with the help of mock tests, detailed explanations, and expert advice from the authors.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Getting Started with Tableau
3
Section 2: Answering Questions with Data
8
Section 3: Advanced Tableau
13
Mock Test A + B (Assessment)

Questions

Answer the following questions to test your knowledge of the information in this chapter.

Q: Is it true that table calculations take into account the underlying data and can help create weighted averages?

A: No, table calculations use the results of prior aggregations as input for new ones, so a table calculation for an average will do a straight average of the results within the scope, not a weighted average. For an example, please refer to the first section of this chapter.

Q: One of the options for quick table calculations is Total Sum of all values. True or False?

A: False. The different options are listed in the chapter, although you could use one of the manual Window functions to achieve this result.

Q: Table calculations can also be created on dimensions. True or False?

A: True. You can create table calculations on counts and distinct counts of dimensions.

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