Tableau sca-c01 practice test

Tableau Server Certified Associate Exam


Question 1

High Availability Deployment
In order to be HA, you must install Tableau Server on at least 3 nodes. What is the primary reason for
this?

  • A. The primary reason for this is that Tableau Server relies on the concept of a quorum to determine if the cluster is in a consistent state to protect against network partitioning problems.
  • B. The primary reason is that 2 nodes are simply not enough from a compute power perspective to shoulder all the load in a HA deployment
Answer:

A

Explanation:
Tableau Server High Availability Whitepaper
https://www.tableau.com/learn/whitepapers/tableau-server-high-availability-delivering-mission-
critical-analytics-scale

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Question 2

After performing a full backup and restore of Tableau Server, you may want to re-encrypt your
extracts using different encryption keys. Which command below achieves this?

  • A. tabcmd reencryptextracts <site-name>
  • B. tsm reencryptextracts <site-name>
  • C. tabcmd extracts-reencrypt <site-name>
  • D. tsm extracts-reencrypt <site-name>
Answer:

A

Explanation:
Link to Tableau Server documentation:
https://help.tableau.com/current/server/en-us/backup_restore.htm#reencrypt-extracts-after-
restore

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Question 3

If you want to generate a list of licenses that are activated on your Tableau Server deployment, which
TSM command should you run?

  • A. tsm licenses list
  • B. tsm licenses get
  • C. tsm list-licenses
Answer:

A

Explanation:
Link to Tableau Server documentation:
https://help.tableau.com/current/server/en-us/cli_licenses_tsm.htm#tsm-licenses-list

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Question 4

What is the file extension of the server topology and configuration backup data generated with the
tsm settings export command?

  • A. JSON
  • B. YAML
  • C. XML
  • D. CSV
Answer:

A

Explanation:
Link to Tableau Server documentation:
https://help.tableau.com/current/server-linux/en-us/backup_restore.htm

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Question 5

Which of the following backup assets require a manual process since they are not backed up by TSM?
(Select all)

  • A. Authentication-related assets such as certificate files, key files, keytab files
  • B. Customization settings (e.g. custom headers, logos)
  • C. Coordination Service deployment configuration
  • D. The public certificate and private key for the internal PostgreSQL database
Answer:

A, B, C

Explanation:
Link to Tableau Server documentation:
https://help.tableau.com/current/server-linux/en-us/backup_restore.htm

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Question 6

Which command should you run to enable the Tableau Metadata API for Tableau Server?

  • A. tsm maintenance metadata-services enable
  • B. tsm maintenance metadata-api enable
  • C. tsm maintenance metadata-services-api enable
Answer:

A

Explanation:
Link to Tableau Server documentation:
https://help.tableau.com/current/server/en-us/cli_maintenance_tsm.htm#tsm-maintenance-
metadataservices-enable

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Question 7

Interpret the following command:
tsm maintenance backup -f ts-sample_backup -d -sr monthly -st 01:00 -sd 15 -sn monthly-backup

  • A. Creates a backup schedule that runs on the 15th of each month at 1am
  • B. Creates a backup schedule that runs every 15 minutes starting at 1am each day
Answer:

A

Explanation:
Link to Tableau Server documentation:
https://help.tableau.com/current/server-linux/en-us/db_backup.htm#ScheduleBackups

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Question 8

What does the -d option do in the tsm maintenance backup command?

  • A. Appends the current date to the backup file name
  • B. Allows you to hard-code a date to the backup file name
  • C. Ensures that the backup file cannot be deleted by non-admins
Answer:

A

Explanation:
Link to Tableau Server documentation:
https://help.tableau.com/current/server-linux/en-us/cli_maintenance_tsm.htm#tsm

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Question 9

Select all the types of backup data generated by the tsm settings export command:

  • A. SMTP, alerting configuration data
  • B. Tableau Server topology data
  • C. Workbook metadata
  • D. Extract (.tde or .hyper) files
Answer:

A, B

Explanation:
Link to Tableau Server documentation:
https://help.tableau.com/current/server-linux/en-us/backup_restore.htm

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Question 10

Fill in the blanks: Configuration and topology data is backed up with the _____ command:

  • A. tsm settings export
  • B. tsm site-config export
  • C. tsm server-config export
  • D. tsm settings backup
Answer:

A

Explanation:
Link to Tableau Server documentation:
https://help.tableau.com/current/server-linux/en-us/backup_restore.htm

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