Thursday, October 21, 2021

Tableau multiple-choice question (MCQ) with answer

 Tableau Question with the answer for practice.


Created by Arabinda Mohapatra


1. To connect to multiple tables in a single data source at one time, what must be specified?

a. A blend

b. A calculation

c. A join

d. A hierarchy

 

2. Tableau can create worksheet-specific filters.

a. True

b. False

 

3. What does the box in a box plot represent?

a. Maximum extent of the data

b. The range of the middle half of the data points

c. The median of the middle half of the data points

d. The outliers of the data

 

4. The interquartile range is the difference between the 2nd and 3rd quartiles.

False

 

5. The median is the number separating the lower half of the data from the higher half. It is the same as the 50th percentile or the 2nd quartile.

True

 

6. The calculation [Ship Date] - [Order Date] will return 

number of days between them

 

7. What is wrong with this If Statement If [Sales] > 100 and "Delivery Truck" then 0 else [Shipping Cost] End

id shld be [shipping mode] = ‘Delivery truck’

 

8. What will the function Left(3,"Tableau") return?

error

 

9. All rows from both tables are returned in an INNER JOIN. 

False

 

10. LEFT JOIN returns all rows from the left table, with the matching rows in the right table. 

True

 

11. A LEFT JOIN or INNER JOIN creates a row each time the join criteria is satisfied, which can result in duplicate rows. One way to avoid this is to use data blending instead. 

True

 

12. The term “addressing” refers to the direction of a calculation. 
True

 

13. SUM is a table calculation. 
False 

 

14. The benefits of creating a Tableau data extract include improving performance and allowing offline access to the data. 
True 

 

15. The metadata grid displays the fields in your data source in columns. 
False 

 

16. _______ is a technique in Tableau which will identify marks with similar characteristics. 
Clustering 

 

17. Which of the following is used to assess trendline significance: 
p-value 

 

18. If you would like your Top N or Bottom N set to change depending on what filter choices are changed, what type of filter should use use? 
Context Filters 

 

19. Sorts can break the dimension hierarchy. In other words, Tableau will rearrange any the headers of the fields that appear to the left of the sorted field. 
False 

 

20. Which of the following are generated fields in Tableau? (select all that apply) 
Number of Records, Measure Names

 

21. Pareto charts combine the following elements

22. Bullet graphs combine bar charts and reference lines 
True 

 

23. You want to email a packaged workbook containing a Tableau Dashboard to a coworker who does not have a license for Tableau Desktop. Which application will allow her to view the dashboard you send via email? 
Tableau Reader 

 

24. A visual best practice is that if you are using a color gradient to represent a continuous variable which can be negative or positive, you should use a single color range 
False 

25. The AVG function does not treat null values as zeros. Rather, the AVG function ignores null values.

True

 

26. An aggregated calculation can be multiplied by a non-aggregated constant.

true

 

27. When using a _____ join the result is a table that contains all values from the left table and corresponding matches from the right table.

left

 

28. If you see duplicate data after doing a join you may be able to eliminate the duplication by which of the following?

Combine the tables using a cross database join rather than a standard join

Add a duplicate filter to your data

Change the join condition

Change to a full outer join

 

29. _______ is a tendency to increase or decrease over time

Seasonality

Slope

Trend

Gradient

 

30. Which of the following graph types provide information on the distribution of a continuous measure?

 Pie Chart

 Heat Map

 Box Plot

 Packed Bubbles

 

31. Positive skewness means the extreme values are to the right, while negative skewness means the extreme values are to the left.

true

 

32. When you sort data in a hierarchy, Tableau rearranges headers that appear before the sorted field. false

 

33. Context Filters are executed after data source filters.

 true

34. Tableau displays an axis when you drop this onto the Rows or Column shelf.

 Continuous field

 Discrete field

 Measure names

 Measure values

 

35. Gantt charts are useful for:

 Showing changes to a continue variable over time

 Displaying duration of events or activities over time

 Showing how a measure varies with respect to one or more dimensions

 Display the distribution of a continuous variable

 

36. Bins acts as containers that summarize data for a specific range of values. Without using a calculated field, Tableau's bin feature allows you to create variable sized bins.

false

 

37. You can combine multiple worksheets in a single dashboard.  

true


38. If a dashboard is difficult to view on a smartphone, you can use the _____ designer to create a phone-specific view of your dashboard: 

device designer

 

39. A ___ action allows Tableau to open a page on an external website. 

URL

 

40. To connect to multiple tables in a single data source at one time, what must be specified?

A Blend

A Calculation

A join

A hierarchy

 

41. What is the use of data interpreter option in tableau?

To structure the unstructured data

To interpret the data

For predictive analysis

All of these

 

42. While using custom sql option during data connection, which options get disable/removed from data page?

Data interpreter

Union

Both A and B

None of these

 

43. When to use extract option in tableau? – MCQ (Select all that apply)

When you want to embed data inside tableau file

when you want to share the file without sharing the data connection information

When you want to store the connection path

When you want to compress the data

 

44. To add cross data source join ______ must be specified

Type of join

Relation

Primary and foreign key

None of these

 

45. If I changed the layout of worksheet from standard to fit entire view and next I changed the chart using show me, what will be the layout of the worksheet?

Standard

Fit width

Fit height

Fit entire view

 

46. What is the correct way to calculate price of a product?

Sum(sales)/sum(quantity)

Sum(sales/quantity)

Sales/quantity

 

47.Which columns you cannot delete in tableau – MCQ

Measure names

Measure values

Number of records

Longitude

 

48. You cannot change a dimension to continuous

True

False

 

49. You cannot create bins of measures?

True

False

 

50. Latitude and longitude are tableau generated fields

True

False

 

51. We can use measure names in creating custom column

True

False

 

52. For bullet graph, you need ____ dimensions?

1

2

0 or more

All of these

 

53. For creating line chart, what is required?

Date field

Continuous field

Both A and B

 

54. What is the color of attribute in tableau?

Blue

Green

Black

None of these

 

55.In shelf calculated columns are

Worksheet specific

Field specific

Workbook specific

Data specific

 

56. What is the color of tik mark on primary and secondary data source?

Blue, orange

Orange, blue

Blue, blue

Orange, orange

 

57. A dimension is a field that typically holds 
discrete qualitative data       

 

58. Dates are typically treated as 
dimensions 

 

59. The chrome_2016-03-12_13-34-19 icon next to a field means that field is 
geographic 

 

60. Which of the following charts types always includes bars sorted in descending order? 
Pareto Chart 

 

61. Which of the following charts uses binned data? 
Histogram 

 

62. If a field has a blue background, that means the field is 
discrete 

 

63. When might you want to use a context filter? 
When you want to FIRST apply a filter and THEN show the Top N or Bottom N elements 

 

64.This type level of detail expression computes total sales for the region, regardless of what dimensions are shown in the view. 
{ FIXED [Region] : SUM([Sales]) } 

 

65.Adding a dimension to the row or column shelf will filter your data. 
False 

 

66. Suppose that your data has a dimension called "Product Category," which has the values "Furniture," "Office Supplies," and "Technology." Which of the following should you use to combine Furniture and Office Supplies into a single category? 
Hierarchy 

 

67. All rows from both tables are returned in an INNER JOIN. 
False 

 

68. LEFT JOIN returns all rows from the left table, with the matching rows in the right table. 
True 

 

69. A LEFT JOIN or INNER JOIN creates a row each time the join criteria is satisfied, which can result in duplicate rows. One way to avoid this is to use data blending instead. 
True 

 

 

70) What is the colour of Discrete Measures in Tableau?

 RED

 ORANGE

BLUE

 GREEN

 

 

 

71) For Bullet Graphs we need at-least ____________ measures

 3

 4

2

 1

 

 

72) Which graph is the best to show Comparison between Actual and Target measures ?

 Heat Map

Bullet Graph

 Bar

 Line

 

73) Which Aggregate Function is used to calculate Distinct Count ?

 AVG()

 COUNT()

COUNTD()

 SUM()

 

74) Which is not an LOD function out of below ?

 INCLUDE

 FIXED

INDEX

 EXCLUDE

 

75) Which is not an action out of below ?

 Filter

 URL

Tooltip

 Running

 

 

76. ________ is used to distribute these interactive workbooks and/or reports to the right audience

 Sets

 Tableau Server

 Tableau Public

Tableau Desktop

 

77. Tableau 10 new feature can Join data from_________ data source(s) and can connect to ________

 different, text file

 same, excel sheet

 same, oracle DB

different, google sheet

 

78. Which is not a new feature in TABLEAU 10?

Now you can Blend data from different data sources

 Access to Oracle Procedure

 Catch extract refresh issues before they become a problem. Tableau can alert you to possible extract refresh issues via email, so you can quickly resolve them.

 The updated Tableau Online Sync client now emails data source owners if a refresh fails.

 

79. Below is an example of Continuous field (by default)?

 Sales

 Customer Segment

Date

 Product Category

 

80. Which is a false statement about Parameter ?

Parameters can't be used in calculation.

 Parameters can access across different Data Sources

 We can Select Parameters via 4 ways only

 Parameters can make static values dynamic.

 

81. Which is not a Filter?

 Extract Filter

 Context

 Quick Filter

Tooltip Filter

 

82. Parameters can be used in

 Dimension Filters

Tooltip

 Summary

 Quick Filter

 

 

83. Which language does Tableau support for data manipulation while importing the dataset?

a. SQL

b. R

c. Both A and B

d. None of these

 

 

84. Which of the following returns Absolute value of a given number?

a. ABS(number)

b. ATTR(number)

c. CEILING(number)

d. None of above

 

 

85. How data is stored in .tde file ?

a. Row wise

b. Column wise

c. Document type

d. None of above

 

 

86. If blending is applied, then is it necessary to drop common field in a view containing fields of two different data sources on which blending is applied a

. True

b. False

 

 

87. If we drop 2 measures in rows/columns, what will be the output

a. Axis

b. Bar chart

c. Scatter Chart

d. None of these

 

 

88. Best use of bullet graph

a. To compare two measures

b. Correlation

c. Graphical representation

d. A and B

 

 

89. Link to data is shown in which tab

a. Home Page

b. Data source page

c. First Page

d. All of these

 

90. Given a map, find out fields placed in size,shape,detail,color

a. Country,profit,state,sales

b. Longitude, latitude

c. Sales, state, country, profit

d. State, country, longitude, latitude

 

 

91. which is the aggregate way to calculate profit ratio:

a. sum(profit/sales)

b. profit/sales

c. sum(profit)/sum(sales)

 

 

92. Tableau cannot group the bins

 a. True

b. False

 

 

93. Null values are considered along with other items in column while using count function

a. True

b. False

 

 

94. Which chart is used to show interquartile range in tableau?

a. Treemap

b. Gantt chart

c. Box and whisker plot

 

 

95. To use quick table calculations, what type of programming is required?

 a. Java

b. SQL

c. Php

d. None of these

 

 

96. Sorting can be done at following levels

a. Data source order, Alphabetic, Field and manual

b. Data source order, Alphabetic and Field

c. Data source order and Alphabetic

d. Alphabetic and Field

 

 

97. How to use parameterized value to filter the view in worksheet?

a. Data filter

b. Calculated field

c. Context filter

d. Bin

 

 

98. You cannot select a measure that isn’t currently in the view as the basis for your reference line

 a. True

b. False

99. What type of connection is the given pic below?






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