Tableau Server Interview Questions - Top 150 Interview Questions on Tableau

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Go through the Previous blogs:

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

http://tableaulab.blogspot.in/2017/08/top-100-tableau-interview-questions.html

Hope the previous questions are helpful! Today I am going to share all the questions on Tableau Server.

        

1.     What is Tableau Server?

2.     What is the difference between tableau server and tableau online?

3.     How to publish a workbook to a tableau server?

4.     Where do you publish a workbook to the tableau server? Or what is a project in tableau server?

5.     What are all the components available in tableau server? (For e.g. Site, groups, projects, users, workbooks, data sources, scheduling, permissions, performance tuning, monitoring) Try to understand each of these

6.     How do you give permissions to a workbook to a user?

7.     How many levels of securities in tableau server?

8.     What are all the different roles of permission in tableau server?

9.     How do you take back up from a tableau server?

10.  What are the different server processes in tableau?

11.  How the tableau permissions or security works from the time the user logged in? Or what is the order of execution of different securities in the backend?

12.  What if the server goes down or not working suddenly? What is the first step you will take?

13.  How can we manage the alerts when the server went down?

14.  Where the server will be installed? What is the basic requirement or configuration for installing a server?

15.  Have you ever done the installation process for a server? If yes, How?

16.  Let us consider I have given editor permission to a project for a user where they can be able to edit, publish, save and download. Now one workbook from that project has been shared with that user and the user is not able to view any data? How can you handle this situation?

17.  Have you ever done ad-hoc reporting in tableau? How it can be achieved?

18.  Is it possible to do development in tableau?

19.  What edit option for a workbook in tableau server does?

20.  What is the difference between doing development on the server and in desktop?

21.  Can we publish data sources to tableau?

22.  Let us consider I have one workbook saved on my local machine with a live connection to an excel (saved locally). And we are publishing the workbook to the server. Now consider we are changing the data in the excel sheet (in local machine) and saving it. The workbook has been refreshed and remember it is on the live connection with the excel sheet.

The question is once the published workbook is refreshed will the changes done in the excel be reflected in that workbook? If yes/no, How and why?

23.  Can performance monitoring possible on the server? How?

24.  Have you ever faced timeout error? How can you handle?

25.  How do you schedule an extract in tableau?

26.  How do you schedule a normal workbook on the live connection in tableau?

27.  How do you automate reports using tableau?

28.  What are the platforms Tableau server can run on?

29.  Is it possible to connect to different instances/Site from the same server as different data sources? For eg: one data source needs to be connected to site A of XYZ server and one more data source needs to be connected to site B of XYZ server in the same workbook. Is that possible?

30.  Is it possible to change user authentication within one single installation?

31.  How to handle giving permissions to the multiple users?

32.  What are the new features in Tableau Server 10? Have you used any of the updated features?

33.  What are the challenges you have faced in tableau server?

34.  Have you ever embed tableau URL with any other applications or process?

35.  Explain Tableau Server Architecture?

36.  Consider a published workbook URL is given to the user. Explain me the architecture and flow what will happen in the backend from the time the User start clicking on the given link

37.  Have you ever used TABADMIN? If yes, Make sure you know the basic commands at least and the syntax.

38.  Have you ever done any migration in tableau (for eg: Moving from DEV server to PRODUCTION server)? If yes, How?

39.  Will the user filters/permissions given at the desktop level affect the permissions at the site level?

40.  How to create empty extracts in tableau? What is the use of it?

41.  What is the difference between a full refresh and incremental refresh in tableau?

42.  Is the version control possible in tableau server?

43.  How do you achieve row level security?

44.  What is the primary and secondary node in tableau server? Have you ever worked on it?

45.  How to create a backup in tableau server?

46.  What are subscriptions in tableau? What it does?

47.  Have you ever used the Tableau mobile app? How do you interact with the content of published workbook in tableau mobile?

48.  Have you ever used any API’s in tableau? What is meant by API?

49.  How to upgrade the tableau server?

50.  Where to find the tableau server log files? Have you ever analyzed it?

See you with more questions!!