Tableau Server Administrator Intermediate Practice Exam: Medium Difficulty 2025

An organization is deploying Tableau Server in a production environment and wants minimal downtime during routine maintenance. They also want to separate background extract refreshes from interactive user traffic. Which deployment approach best meets these requirements?

Your security team requires that Tableau Server use the corporate identity provider for authentication, enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA), and automatically disable access when employees leave. Tableau Server administrators should not manage user passwords. What should you implement?

After installing Tableau Server, users report they can sign in but views are slow and sometimes fail during peak usage. Background extract refreshes run at the same time. You want to reduce interactive latency without adding hardware immediately. Which change is most likely to help?

A company uses Active Directory groups for role-based access. They want new employees to gain the correct Tableau permissions automatically when they join an AD group, and lose access when removed. What is the best practice approach?

Your Tableau Server has multiple sites. A Site Administrator wants to delegate content management for a specific project to a business lead without granting broad admin rights. What role and permission approach should you use?

An analyst needs to run scheduled extract refreshes and publish data sources, but should not be able to manage users or site settings. Which site role best fits this requirement?

A regulated company wants to ensure certified data sources are clearly separated from departmental content. They also want to prevent accidental permission changes on certified assets while allowing departments to manage their own projects. What should the Tableau Server Administrator implement?

A workbook uses an embedded data source connection with database credentials stored in the workbook. The security team requires centralized credential rotation and reuse across multiple workbooks without re-embedding credentials. What is the best approach?

Users report that subscriptions and scheduled extract refreshes are not running, but interactive viewing works. As an administrator, which is the most likely place to start troubleshooting?

You are planning a maintenance window that includes OS patching and Tableau Server upgrades. The business wants a recovery option if the upgrade fails, and you must protect against content loss (workbooks, data sources, users, schedules). What is the best practice sequence?