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Tableau Desktop Specialist Certification Exam, Exams of Advanced Education

University of OxfordAdvanced Education

Tableau Desktop Specialist Certification Exam

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2025/2026

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Tableau Desktop Specialist Certification
Exam
Dimensions - correct answer Fields that contain qualitative or categorical data type
(blue) (discrete)
Measures - correct answer Fields that contain quantitative data types (green)
(continuous)
View - correct answer Space where you can drag fields and display data
Tableau-generated fields - correct answer Fields noted in italics
Flat-file data - correct answer Data from a static source, such as an Excel file
Server-based data - correct answer A data source from a live server, like SQLServer
Live connection - correct answer Data is automatically updated in Tableau
Data extract - correct answer A copy of data brought into the Tableau software
(speed and offline access)
.TDE - correct answer Copy of a data extract as a file
Groups - correct answer Data features that allow you to combine several dimensions
of data into categories
Hierarchies - correct answer Organizes dimensions of data in an order defined by
the user. Can be used to sort an address location by country, state, city, postal ode
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Dimensions - correct answer Fields that contain qualitative or categorical data type (blue) (discrete) Measures - correct answer Fields that contain quantitative data types (green) (continuous) View - correct answer Space where you can drag fields and display data Tableau-generated fields - correct answer Fields noted in italics Flat-file data - correct answer Data from a static source, such as an Excel file Server-based data - correct answer A data source from a live server, like SQLServer Live connection - correct answer Data is automatically updated in Tableau Data extract - correct answer A copy of data brought into the Tableau software (speed and offline access) .TDE - correct answer Copy of a data extract as a file Groups - correct answer Data features that allow you to combine several dimensions of data into categories Hierarchies - correct answer Organizes dimensions of data in an order defined by the user. Can be used to sort an address location by country, state, city, postal ode

Filters - correct answer Allow you to limit the amount of data shown in the view AND - correct answer Filters are stacked using _________ logic Context filter - correct answer Pre-filters data to create a context for a worksheet (queried before typical filters) Computed sort - correct answer Organizes data by applying rules Manual sort - correct answer Data is displayed in an order manually selected by user. Does not update with data changes. Sets - correct answer A group with data points that have met a criteria determined by the user (i.e. Customers with X amount of Sales) Combined sets - correct answer Two sets that have been created from the same dimensions Date parts - correct answer Individual components of the date (month or day) Continuous fields - correct answer Fields whose value that can have an infinite number of values Discrete fields - correct answer Fields whose value can only fall into certain bins, without passing between Dual axis chart - correct answer Two vertical axes with measures, one horizontal axis with a dimension Combined axis chart - correct answer Compares multiple measures in the same space, using either separate marks or stacked marks

Parameters - correct answer Variables that can be inserted into equations to replace constant values String calculations - correct answer Allow you to customize text data fields Table calculations - correct answer Calculations applied to the data in a table or view, dependent on the table structure itself Trend line - correct answer Used to answer questions about correlations Reference bands - correct answer Display data that falls within a certain window value, as a gradient shaded area along the axis Box plot - correct answer A combination of reference lines and distributions Forecast - correct answer A prediction of future values based on current measure values in a view Inner join - correct answer Returns only records present in both tables Left join - correct answer Returns all records from the left table and matching records from the right table Right join - correct answer Returns all records from the right table and matching records from the left table Outer join - correct answer Returns all records from both tables, with empty values in either table returning null Data blending - correct answer Using data from multiple sources in a single view. Sources must share a common dimension

Primary data source - correct answer The main data source in a blend, determined by a blue checkmark Secondary data source - correct answer The next data source in a blend, determined by an orange checkmark Union - correct answer A way to connect multiple tables from a single data source. Appends records vertically. Join - correct answer A way to add columns from multiple tables in the same source. Appends records horizontally. .TDS - correct answer File type containing created groups, calculated fields, and metadata changes. Excludes actual data. .TWB - correct answer File type containing worksheets, dashboards, info necessary to connect to the data source, data necessary to create each view .TWBX - correct answer File type containing worksheets, dashboards, info necessary to connect to the data source, and a copy of the local data used