Tableau Exploring & Analyzing Data 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which Tableau feature lets you ask questions in plain language and returns a visualization automatically?
- Ask Data (Correct answer)
- Show Me
- Pages Shelf
- Data Interpreter
Correct answer: Ask Data
Ask Data (now Tableau Pulse/Natural Language) interprets typed plain-language questions and builds a matching visualization.
Question 2: A green pill on a shelf in Tableau indicates the field is treated as what?
- Continuous (Correct answer)
- Discrete
- A calculated field
- A parameter
Correct answer: Continuous
Green pills represent continuous fields, which produce axes, while blue pills represent discrete fields that create headers.
Question 3: To find the percent contribution of each region to total sales, which Table Calculation should you use?
- Percent of Total (Correct answer)
- Running Total
- Rank
- Moving Average
Correct answer: Percent of Total
Percent of Total expresses each mark as a percentage of the total across the specified partition.
Question 4: Which shelf would you use to animate a view across time, stepping through values frame by frame?
- Pages shelf (Correct answer)
- Filters shelf
- Marks card
- Columns shelf
Correct answer: Pages shelf
The Pages shelf breaks a view into pages along a dimension, enabling animated playback through values.
Question 5: What does a forecast in Tableau use to project future values?
- Exponential smoothing models (Correct answer)
- Linear regression only
- K-means clustering
- Decision trees
Correct answer: Exponential smoothing models
Tableau forecasting applies exponential smoothing models to historical data to estimate future values.
Question 6: When you drag a measure to the Detail property on the Marks card, what generally happens?
- More marks are created without changing the axis (Correct answer)
- A new axis is added
- The chart becomes a map
- A filter is applied
Correct answer: More marks are created without changing the axis
Adding a field to Detail increases the level of granularity, drawing more marks but not creating an axis.
Question 7: Which view type is best for showing the distribution of a single continuous measure across bins?
- Histogram (Correct answer)
- Pie chart
- Treemap
- Gantt chart
Correct answer: Histogram
A histogram groups a continuous measure into bins to display its frequency distribution.
Tableau Exploring & Analyzing Data 2
Which Tableau feature lets you ask questions in plain language and returns a visualization automatically?