50 Tableau Server Administrator Practice Questions: Question Bank 2025

An administrator needs to let a set of users sign in to Tableau Server using their corporate directory accounts, and they want group membership to be managed centrally in the directory. What is the recommended approach?

A project leader wants all newly published workbooks in a project to be visible only to the publishing team by default, unless explicit permissions are granted. Which governance feature best supports this requirement?

After changing a Tableau Server configuration setting, the administrator wants the change to take effect. What is typically required?

Users report that one specific workbook takes much longer to open than others, but the server overall seems healthy. What is the best first step to isolate the cause?

An organization wants to ensure that multiple dashboards use a single, consistent set of business definitions and calculations, and that updates propagate automatically. Which content strategy best meets this goal?

A new team needs to publish content, create schedules, and manage their own users without affecting other departments on the same Tableau Server. What should the administrator do?

A single-node Tableau Server is being expanded to improve reliability. Which architecture change most directly increases availability if one machine fails?

An administrator wants to reduce the risk of granting overly broad access when new users are added. What is a recommended best practice for assigning permissions?

A server uses scheduled extract refreshes. Recently, many refresh jobs are stuck in the queue and users complain that scheduled updates are not completing. CPU and memory look normal, but the number of concurrent background tasks is limited. What is the most likely administrative action to resolve the backlog?

A security review requires that sensitive dashboards only be accessible to users who meet specific criteria, and access decisions must be enforced even if a workbook is accidentally placed in a less restrictive project. Which approach best enforces this requirement at the data level?

An administrator needs to add a new node to an existing Tableau Server deployment to increase background processing capacity. Which approach aligns with best practice for scaling background jobs?

A team wants to ensure that only a small set of users can publish new content to a production project, while many users can view and interact with existing dashboards. What is the recommended permission strategy?

Users report that dashboards are accessible, but scheduled extract refreshes are not running. The administrator notices that background tasks are stuck in a pending state. What should the administrator check first?

An organization uses external identity management and wants Tableau Server group membership to stay aligned automatically as employees move between departments. Which approach best supports ongoing group management?

A publisher reports they cannot publish a workbook to a governed project, even though they have a Creator license. Other creators can publish successfully. What is the most likely cause?

A company wants to promote dashboards from Development to Production in a controlled way and avoid "breaking" Production when changes occur. Which governance approach is most appropriate?

An administrator wants to minimize duplicate data sources and ensure certified, reusable connections for analysts. What Tableau Server feature best supports this goal?

After a network change, users can access Tableau Server internally but external users cannot reach it. Internal access works through the server hostname, but the public URL times out. Which component should the administrator validate first?

A single-node Tableau Server experiences a disk failure and must be rebuilt. The administrator needs the fastest path to restore the server configuration and content. What should have been in place to support this recovery scenario?

An organization runs a multi-node Tableau Server and wants high availability for the repository. What architecture choice best supports repository high availability?

An administrator wants to prevent workbooks from running extract refreshes during peak business hours, but still allow refreshes overnight. Which Tableau Server feature best addresses this requirement?

A site leader asks for a simple way to ensure all users in the "Finance" department get the same baseline permissions on a set of projects and published data sources. What is the recommended approach?

A workbook owner wants viewers to always see the most current data without requiring manual refresh. The workbook uses an extract. Which action should the administrator recommend?

A company uses Active Directory (AD) groups for access control. They want users added to an AD group to automatically receive access in Tableau with minimal admin effort. What is the best practice approach?

After publishing a new workbook version, users report they still see old results for several minutes even though the underlying data has changed. Which Tableau Server behavior most likely explains this?

An organization wants a governed way to separate "Certified" data sources from departmental "Sandbox" content and restrict who can publish to the certified area. Which design best supports this?

Users complain that subscriptions are not being delivered, but interactive viewing works normally. Which Tableau Server process is the most likely component to investigate first?

An administrator is hardening a Tableau Server deployment and wants to ensure data in transit between users’ browsers and Tableau Server is protected. Which configuration best addresses this requirement?

A Tableau Server environment uses multiple nodes. The organization requires high availability for the Tableau Repository. Which architecture choice best meets this requirement?

A team wants row-level security so that users see only the rows of data they are entitled to when using a shared published data source. They also want the security rule to be centrally managed rather than embedded in each workbook. Which approach is most appropriate?

A Tableau Server administrator wants to ensure users do not accidentally publish content directly to the top-level of a project and bypass organization standards. What is the recommended approach?

An organization uses an external identity provider with SAML for Tableau Server authentication. Which user attribute is most important to keep stable over time to avoid creating duplicate user accounts after changes in the identity provider?

After publishing a new data source, users report they can see the data source but cannot create new workbooks from it. What is the most likely missing permission?

A multi-node Tableau Server deployment uses an external repository. Which action is most appropriate to protect against data loss if the Tableau nodes fail but the external repository remains healthy?

A team wants to run Tableau Server in an environment where nodes have no direct internet access. During installation and ongoing operations, which approach best supports this requirement?

A site uses local groups synchronized from Active Directory. The administrator notices that some users were removed from AD groups but still appear to have access in Tableau. What is the most likely reason and best immediate corrective action?

An administrator needs to prevent dashboards in a governed project from being copied to other projects, while still allowing users to view and interact with them. Which permission capability should be most directly controlled?

Users report that extracting refreshes are not running on schedule, but manual refreshes succeed. Server health appears normal. What is the most likely cause to check first?

A company is designing a Tableau Server deployment for high availability. They plan multiple application nodes and want resilience if a node fails. Which component most commonly requires special consideration because it cannot simply be made highly available by adding more of the same service on additional nodes?

An administrator has implemented row-level security using user filters and groups. After a reorganization, users are moved between groups and should see different rows immediately. Some users still see old row sets. What is the best action to ensure the updated security takes effect without changing workbook logic?

An administrator wants to restrict who can publish content to a production project while still allowing many users to view and interact with content. What is the recommended approach?

A new Tableau Server deployment must use an organization-managed identity provider so users can sign in with their corporate credentials. Which authentication approach best meets this requirement?

A Tableau Server admin wants to ensure scheduled extract refreshes and subscription emails run even if a user who originally created them leaves the company. What should the admin do?

After adding a new node to scale out Tableau Server, users report slower load times but no obvious errors. Which first step is most appropriate to verify workload distribution?

A team is frequently publishing data sources with embedded database passwords. Security wants credentials stored securely and centrally managed so that workbook connections don’t break when passwords rotate. What should the administrator recommend?

Users complain that they can see a project but cannot see any workbooks inside it. Permissions were recently changed. What is the most likely cause?

An administrator needs to allow a third-party system to programmatically download PDFs of views on a schedule without using a human user's password. Which approach is most appropriate?

During peak hours, extract refreshes are impacting user interactions with dashboards. The business wants interactive performance prioritized during the day while still completing refreshes. What is the best administrative strategy?

A company is designing a highly available Tableau Server deployment. Which design choice most directly improves availability for users if one application node fails?

After a failed upgrade attempt, Tableau Server starts but some services are unstable. The admin wants the safest way to return to the pre-upgrade state with minimal data loss. What should the admin do?