Top 100 Tableau Interview Questions

Hello Everyone,

Hope so my first blog would have helped someone. Here I am continuing the next set of questions.

First blog : http://tableaulab.blogspot.in/2017/07/tableau-interview-questions-i-my.html



Note: Some of the questions which I have provided would not be applicable for the person who did not experience the particular option till now. You can frankly tell in your interview that you did not get a chance to work on the same. But learning increases your scope 😊


1.     What are the different types of filter in tableau? Purpose of each filter

2.     What is the order of execution of filters in tableau?

3.     Have you ever used context filter? When and Why? Pros and Cons of context filter?

4.     The difference between a normal filter or cascading filter and a context filter?

5.     What is the Data source filter? Advantages and disadvantages of using it.

6.     How to create a cascading filter? Say for ex: Consider there is a region filter next I want to see a filter on the country. But if I select a particular region only the country corresponding to the region should appear? How?

7.     How to apply a common apply button for all filters at once? For e.g. After selecting the data from two or three filters I need to click on a common apply button and then the selection should apply for the view.

8.     How to make a reset button on which all the filter should get reset at once?

9.     How do you use Lookup function and filters together? Is there any impact of using a filter when writing a lookup function?

10.  Will filters work when we do data blending?

11.  How to get a cross data source filters? Is it possible in tableau?

12.  What is the Difference between the quick filter and Normal filter in tableau?

13.  What is user filter? How to use it?

14.  What is row level Security? What are all the ways to achieve row level security in tableau?

15.  How to you check performance in tableau? Is there any tool used for it?

16.  Get to know about the complete performance recording option in the tableau.

17.  Consider a scenario you have published a workbook to the server and a user is opening it.
            It takes 3 to 5 minutes to open the workbook and the user is not happy about it. What is the         first step you take to improve the performance?
          (see this article for answering this question: )

20.  What is meant by extract and how to take an extract?    

21.  Where does the extract file gets saved on the system memory?

22.  What is the difference between live and extract connection?

23.  On which the performance will be better?  Live or Extract? Explain the situation where you would like to go for live and extract?

24.  How to schedule an extract in tableau?

25.  Can we do an incremental refresh in tableau? How?

26.  What is the use of aggregation when creating extract?

27.  What is meant by data blending? How do you do it? What is the use of it?

28.  Can we join excel and some data source together in tableau?

29.  How do you join two different data sources?

30.  What type of join does data blending perform? Or what is the difference between doing a join and data blending in tableau?

31.  What are all the problems you have faced during data blending?

32.  Have you ever noticed * mark when pulling some columns after data blending? Why?

33.  How do you create relationships between two data sources on blending?

34.  How many charts are there in tableau?

35.  Have you ever build some chart apart from the default charts? What was it? How did you do?

36.  Consider a scenario where I have two measures say my profit and sales. What kind of chart do you prefer to show the profit and sales by country? You are also supposed to use filters.

37.  What is the use of scatter plot? When do you use it?

38.  Mostly try to know about all the charts and what kind of scenario it can be useful

39.  Have you ever build pie or doughnut chart in tableau? If yes, be sure about how to do it. If no, learn before you go for the interview

40.  What are the most frequent charts you have always used? On which scenarios?

41.  Consider a scenario that I have 100+ products for which I have sales, target, profit for last 3 years for 4 regions and 50+ countries. The products are grouped already in certain groups. Now I need to build a single dashboard which will give me the details about all these for the current year by default along with the history. The users of these dashboards are Vice president, Product Managers, Managers, Sales executives. The question is

·       What kind of view do you prefer to show all these in a single chart or multiple charts?
·       When different users’ login the dashboard should be in such a way that it should be according to their roles. Say for e.g. when it is vice president it should be an overview of how the sales and profit going YOY for all products in various regions. But for a sales executive, it is something like what is the sales and the target for what particularly he is assigned.

Note: Product are not supposed to be in filters because they cannot filter one product after the other to see the results

42.  Have you ever used maps in tableau? What will you do if some country/province (any geographical entity) is missing and displaying a null when you use map view.

43.  What is meant by custom geocoding? Have you ever used custom Geocoding in tableau? If yes, how do you do it?

44.  Which map service does tableau use? (Open street map contributors) Is it possible to import 3^rd party maps in tableau? How to do it? WMS servers?

45.  What are all the widgets available in tableau window?


46.  How do you show data refresh date time, username dynamically in tableau?

47.  How to show a dynamic title in tableau? For e.g. the parameter value should be displayed as title by selecting a parameter


48.  Have you used dual axis in tableau? What kind of scenario?

49.  What is measure values and measure names in tableau mean? What kind of scenario will it be used?

50.  Have you ever noticed the marks pill (Not the Marks card) on the left bottom corner in tableau? What does it mean? What kind of significance we can make by considering it


See you soon with more questions!