TIBCO Spotfire Administration and Configuration 1 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: In TIBCO Spotfire Server, what is a 'Library' used for?
- Storing R packages for TERR
- A central repository for storing and sharing analyses, data connections, and templates (Correct answer)
- The server's internal logging system
- A cache of recently opened analyses
Correct answer: A central repository for storing and sharing analyses, data connections, and templates
The Spotfire Library is a server-side repository where analyses, dashboards, data connections, and automation scripts are stored and shared.
Question 2: What role in Spotfire grants users the ability to publish analyses to the Library?
- Consumer
- Author (Correct answer)
- Administrator
- Library Editor
Correct answer: Author
The Author license allows users to create, edit, and publish analyses to the Spotfire Library.
Question 3: In Spotfire Server administration, what is a 'Group' used for?
- A collection of related data tables
- A named set of users to whom permissions and licenses can be assigned collectively (Correct answer)
- A Spotfire analysis folder
- A cluster of Spotfire nodes
Correct answer: A named set of users to whom permissions and licenses can be assigned collectively
Groups bundle users together so that licenses, folder permissions, and feature controls can be applied to many users at once.
Question 4: Which Spotfire Server component handles routing analysis requests to available Spotfire nodes?
- The Library service
- The routing service / load balancer within the server (Correct answer)
- The TERR service
- The database connection pool
Correct answer: The routing service / load balancer within the server
Spotfire Server includes a built-in routing service that directs client analysis sessions to available web player or analyst nodes.
Question 5: What is the purpose of 'Information Links' in TIBCO Spotfire?
- Hyperlinks embedded in analysis visualizations
- Reusable, governed data source definitions stored in the Library (Correct answer)
- Links between two analyses on the server
- URL parameters passed to embedded analyses
Correct answer: Reusable, governed data source definitions stored in the Library
Information Links define reusable, administrator-governed queries against data sources stored in the Library, ensuring consistent data access.
Question 6: In Spotfire, what does a 'Deployment area' on the server control?
- The geographic deployment region for cloud hosting
- The version of Spotfire client packages available for users to download and use (Correct answer)
- The disk area allocated to the Library
- Network access zones for security
Correct answer: The version of Spotfire client packages available for users to download and use
Deployment areas manage which Spotfire client packages and updates are available to specific user groups.
TIBCO Spotfire Administration and Configuration 1
In TIBCO Spotfire Server, what is a 'Library' used for?