Tableau Desktop Foundations Practice Exam 2025: Latest Questions

A user connects to a Microsoft Excel file and notices that new rows added to the spreadsheet are not appearing in Tableau. The connection is a live connection to the file. What is the most likely next step to see the new rows in Tableau?

You are building a bar chart of Sales by Sub-Category and want the bars sorted from highest Sales to lowest Sales. What is the most direct way to do this in Tableau?

A dataset contains a field named "Profit" with negative values representing losses. You want to color marks red for negative Profit and green for positive Profit. Which approach is most appropriate?

In a workbook, you want a calculated field that returns "High" when Sales is greater than 1000 and "Low" otherwise. Which calculation is correct?

A company has two tables: Orders (Order ID, Order Date, Customer ID, Sales) and Customers (Customer ID, Segment, Region). Each Order belongs to exactly one Customer, and Customers can have many Orders. What is the recommended way in Tableau to combine these tables while minimizing duplication and supporting flexible analysis?

You need to allow dashboard users to click a bar in a chart to filter another chart on the same dashboard. Which Tableau feature should you configure?

A worksheet shows Sales by Month. You want to display the percent of total Sales for each month across the entire table. Which table calculation is most appropriate?

Your manager wants to view a dashboard in a web browser and interact with filters, but should not be able to edit the workbook. What is the best way to share it?

You have a large fact table and a small lookup table of product attributes. When you create a physical inner join in the data source, the extract becomes much larger than expected, and some measures appear inflated. What is the most likely cause?

A dashboard includes a KPI that should always show the latest complete month’s Sales, regardless of filters applied elsewhere on the dashboard. Which approach best meets this requirement?

You connect to an Excel file and notice several columns (e.g., Region and Product Category) are being treated as measures instead of dimensions. What is the quickest way to correct this in Tableau Desktop?

A dashboard contains a map view and a bar chart. The user wants to click a state on the map and have the bar chart filter to that state. Which dashboard action should you use?

You created a workbook using a published data source from Tableau Server/Cloud. You want teammates to always see the latest data when they open the workbook. What is the best approach?

A sales dataset contains separate fields for Order Date and Ship Date. A stakeholder asks for a view that compares sales by order month versus ship month on the same axis. What is the recommended Tableau feature to support this analysis cleanly?

You build a view showing Sales by Category. You also need to display each category’s percent of total sales for the entire view. What table calculation should you use?

A dashboard has many filters and takes too much vertical space. You want a compact layout while still letting users change filter values. Which approach is a best practice?

You publish a workbook to Tableau Server/Cloud and users report they can open it but some sheets show 'No Access' to underlying data. What is the most likely cause?

You need to combine a large fact table (Orders) with a smaller table (Targets) at different levels of detail: Orders at the row level and Targets at Month and Region. You want correct aggregation without duplicating target values. Which Tableau data model approach is recommended?

You want to create a calculation that returns the average sales per customer, but it must remain correct even when additional dimensions (like Segment or Region) are added to the view. Which calculation approach is most appropriate?

A user says a map is showing only a few points and many locations are appearing in the lower-left corner of the map view. What is the most likely issue and fix?

A workbook uses a large Excel file on a shared drive. Analysts are seeing inconsistent numbers because they sometimes forget to refresh the data extract after the file is updated. What is the recommended way to keep the workbook consistently up to date while improving performance in Tableau Desktop?

You build a view showing monthly Sales by Region. The business asks to compare each month to the previous month and display the difference on the same table. Which approach is most appropriate in Tableau?

A dashboard contains a map and a bar chart. Users want to click a region on the map and have the bar chart update to show only that region, without navigating to another sheet. Which dashboard feature should you use?

You connect to a transactional database and notice duplicate rows in Tableau because one table contains multiple records per Customer (e.g., multiple addresses). You only need a single record per Customer for analysis at the customer level. What is the best approach in Tableau Desktop to prevent duplication without writing custom SQL?

A team publishes a certified data source to Tableau Server/Cloud. They want workbook authors to always use the published definitions (calculations, data roles, and extract refresh) rather than creating new embedded connections. Which practice best supports this goal?