EMIDS Technologies interview questions:

1. What is Tableau?
2. What is data visualization?
3. Difference between tableau desktop and tableau server
4. Explain parameters in tableau and their working
5. Differentiate between parameters and filters in Tableau.
6. What are fact table and Dimension table in Tableau?
7. State limitations of parameters in Tableau.
8. What is aggregation and disaggregation of data in Tableau?
9. What is data blending?
10. What is context filter?
11. File extensions in tableau
12. Difference between twb and twbx
13. What are extracts and schedules in tableau server
14. Name the components of a dashboard
15. How to view underlying SQL in tableau
16. What is page shelf and its uses?
17. Explain the concept of Dual Axis.
18. What are the different filters in Tableau and how are they different from each other?
19. How to create a calculated field in Tableau?
20. What is the difference between a tree map and heat map?
21. What is the difference between joining and blending in Tableau?
22. How to do Performance Testing in Tableau?
23. How to remove ‘All’ options from a Tableau auto-filter?
24. What is TDE FILE?
25. Mention whether you can create relational joins in Tableau without creating a new table?
26. How to automate reports?
27. What is Assume referential integrity?
28. What is story in Tableau?
29. What is the difference between discrete and continuous in Tableau?
30. How to use group in calculated field?
31. When do we use bin analysis and why
32. Mention what is the difference between published data sources and embedded data sources
in Tableau?
33. Design a view in a map such that if user selects any state, the cities under that state has to
show profit and sales.
1. 32. Think that I am using Tableau Desktop & have a live connection to Cloudera Hadoop
data. I need to press F5 to refresh the visualization. Is there anyway to automatically
refresh visualization every ‘x’ seconds instead of pressing F5?
34. Suppose my license expires today, will users be able to view dashboards or workbooks
which I published in the server earlier?
35. Can we place an excel file in a shared location and and use it to develop a report and refresh
it in regular intervals?
36. Is Tableau software good for strategic acquisition?
37. What is the maximum no. of rows Tableau can utilize at one time?
38. When publishing workbooks on Tableau online, sometimes a error about needing to extract
appears. Why does it happen occasionally?