General

Question 1

What are the client Components?

Answer 1

Tableau Desktop, tabcmd and web browser

Question 2

What are the server components?

Answer 2

Application, Background task, VizQL, Data server, Data Engine, Repository, Gateway

Question 3

What are the minimum requirements for production environments

Answer 3

8 Cores 2ghz, 32 GB RAM, 50 GB free disk

Question 4

What are the requirements for very small deployments

Answer 4

4 cores 2ghz, 8GB RAM, 1,5 minimum free disk space

Question 5

When to add workers and reconfigure?

Answer 5

1. When you deployment is user-intensive
2. When there is a heavy use of extracts
3. When there are frequent extract refreshes
4. when you want improve performance and availability

Question 6

what is the best method to improve performance for an extract-intensive deployment?

Answer 6

is to isolate the data engine process and backgrounder in two different machines.

Question 7

which command identify the current version of Tableu server?

Answer 7

tabcmd version

Question 8

what are the OS supported by Tableau server?

Answer 8

Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 or higher, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2,
Windows Server 2012,Windows Server 2012 R, Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 8.1

Question 9

Application server process can be load just by a browser-based interaction? True or false

Answer 9

False, it can be also load by running tabcmd

Question 10

what is the main function of Application server process ?

Answer 10

Handle the web application , supports browsing and searching

Question 11

The backgrounder process consume a lot of CPU, i/o or network resources, but no much memory. True or false

Answer 11

True

Question 12

Data Engine is the process that load extracts into memory and perform queries against them. True or false

Answer 12

True

Question 13

The data engine’s workload is

generated by requests from the VizQL Server process. True or false

Answer 13

True

Question 14

What processes are multi threaded?

Answer 14

Data Engine, Application server, data server, search and explore and VizQL server

Question 15

when is it loaded the data server process?

Answer 15

When : is generated by browser, by tableau desktop interactions and extract refresh jobs for Tableau Server data sources.

Question 16

Which process Loads and renders views, computes and executes queries.

Answer 16

the VizQL server process

Question 17

what processes need license?

Answer 17

Application server, Background, Data engine, data server, VizQL server

Question 18

Describe a typical high availability environment

Answer 18

High availability environments are a 4-node cluster with one primary, a failover primary and two workers. The primaries typically only run the gateway while the workers run all processes, specifically the data engine

Question 19

Tableau workers server ports

Answer 19

3730 – 3731

Question 20

Data Engine Port

Answer 20

27042

Question 21

How many data engine proceses can be per node?

Answer 21

There can be up to two data engine processes per node, on up to two nodes in a cluster

Question 22

What are the processes that don´t required database drivers?

Answer 22

Data Engine, Repository and Gateway

Question 23

Cube data sources support pass-through connections. True or false?

Answer 23

false

Question 24

You can set filters in a workbook or data source that control which data a person sees in a published view, based on their Tableau Server login account. True or false

Answer 24

true

Question 25

Network issues typically come from?

Answer 25

the backgrounder, data engine, data server, or VizQL

Question 26

What are the services you have to check when there is a problem?

Answer 26

FLEXnet Licensing Service, Secondary Login , Tableau Server(tabsvc), Tablicsrv

Question 27

What command is needed to removes all log files and temporary files (leave http_requests entries untouched)

Answer 27

Tabadmin cleanup –restart

Question 28

Steps to connect to postgres database

Answer 28

Enable external password using “tabadmin dbpass ”, Connect in Tableau Desktop , Enter server name, DB name is workgroup, Default port is 8060, Username is “tableau”, Password is whatever was

Question 29

Schedules are not local to a site they are global. If you run a schedule it will run all tasks associated to that schedule regardless of site. True or false

Answer 29

TRue

Question 30

What does Tabadmin ziplogs –d 01/31/2014 mylogs.zip

Answer 30

it creates mylogs.zip and includes logs dated 1/31/2014 to present, excludes earlier

Question 31

What does Tabadmin configure

Answer 31

Updates configuration by forcing an update to all files in the“ProgramData\Tableau\Tableau Server\data\tabsvc\ -----This includes refreshing the master service configuration file, workgroup.yml When a config change is made it is best practice to run tabadmin config to ensure that all files are updated

Question 32

Who executes failover when needed? *     Cluster Controller *     Coordination service *     Failover service *     Data Engine

Answer 32

Cluster controller

Question 33

What an interactor can do?

Answer 33

Allows to view the workbook or view on the server, edit workbook views, apply filters, view underlying data, export images, and export data.