Tableau Developer Interview Questions L2

Mahendra SinghMahendra Singh
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Q1): What are the dimensions and facts?

Q2): What type of sources/data sources did you work on while creating reports/tableau dashboards?

Q3): Did you create reports/dashboards from a data warehouse as a source?

Q4): How can I somehow archive my most valuable workbooks and, at the same time, have version control?

Q5): How can I be notified immediately when my extract fails (or succeeds)?

Q6): Can I remove older workbooks (and archive them) from Tableau Server and, simultaneously, email the owner?

Q7): What calculations (or fields) are in my Tableau workbooks? And how do I grab the actual formula being used?

Q8): Can I take daily snapshots of Tableau Server’s database to do some analysis on workbook usage? For example, if I want to know how my published workbook performs over time (or how many views it has received), this will allow for that.

Q9): Can I take daily snapshots of Tableau Server’s database to do some analysis on user logins?

Q10): Can I take daily snapshots of Tableau Server’s database to do some analysis on data source usage?

Q11): How do I add a maintenance message to notify users of a forthcoming server restart and/or upgrade?

Q12): Can a parameter be used inside another parameter?

Q13): Can we use groups in calculated fields?

Q14): Can we group multiple dimensions using groups?

Q15): How many types of extensions are there in Tableau, and how are they used?

Q16): We are generating a dashboard with a live connection and publishing it on the server, How does the server keep connected with the database to keep the data up to date?

Q17): How many different charts are there in Tableau and other than that, how many have you created?

Q18): What will you do if some country/province (any geographical entity) is missing and displaying a null when you use map view?

Q19): Find the customer with the lowest overall profit. What is his/her profit ratio?

Q20): How do you handle nulls and other special values?

Q21): Is there any difference between sets and groups? Explain with examples?

Q22): How can you display the top five and last five sales in the same view?

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Mahendra Singh

Hi, I’m Mahendra.👋 A professional BI developer based in India. My passion is creating engaging, creative, and accessible user experiences.