![]() Whether you’re a business analyst, data analyst, job seeker, or student, getting certified is a great way to demonstrate your proficiency in Tableau - a widely-used tool for data visualization and business intelligence. 3+ months of product experience is also suggested, though in my opinion you can take it whenever you’re comfortable with all the topics in the Exam Prep Guide. Suggested training is Tableau’s Desktop I: Fundamentals course, which is available through their eLearning platform (more on this below). Loyalist Exam Services (LES) manages the exam, so you’ll need to create an LES account to register. You can always reschedule for free up to 24 hours before your exam time if needed. I’d recommend scheduling your exam in advance as timeslots can fill up quickly. Once you pay for it, you can schedule it for up to 6 months in the future. It is proctored, without access to the internet or to the Tableau application. You’ll need to score above 750 out of 1000 to pass and all of the questions are knowledge-based (there used to be hands-on questions using Tableau, but those have since been removed). The exam is 60 minutes in length with 45 multiple-choice questions (40 scored, 5 unscored). ![]() It is the easiest level of certification that Tableau offers and has no expiration date, unlike the more advanced certifications that are only valid for two or three years. The Tableau Desktop Specialist Certification tests foundational product knowledge. What is the Tableau Desktop Specialist Certification? So if I can do it, you can too! This is my experience preparing for and taking the exam, which I hope will help you succeed as well. No, I’m not a power user - I’ve only used Tableau for a few months to create some dashboards at work. I recently passed the Tableau Desktop Specialist Certification exam with a score of 97%. Here’s the post on my experience with the current version.NOTE: Updated to reflect the new version of the exam as of 2021. ![]() Note that this post applies to an older version of the Specialist exam. I finished about 15 minutes early and got a 92% correct.Īlso check out Chelsea’s post on the exam or take my Udemy course which includes two practice tests and videos covering all Specialist topics. Maybe just more theoretical.” I would agree with this – the hands-on questions were very simple, but the knowledge based questions seemed about as difficult as the one on the Qualified Associate exam. But the theoretical questions are the vast majority and are almost same as in the other exam. Compared to the Qualified Associate exam, one test taker commented that the Tableau Specialist “has incredibly easy hands on part.I found it helped to open Tableau and test things, to verify the best answer to the question. Some of the knowledge-based questions ask you what steps to do to perform a task.I skipped quite a few questions that initially puzzled me, and came back later. A few of the knowledge based questions asked about features that I hadn’t heard of before, so I found myself googling for at least 3 or 4 of them to try to find an answer.There are the same number of questions as on the Tableau Qualified Associate exam, but there are fewer hands-on questions, and the hands-on questions are much simpler… no calculated fields, just simple aggregation (sum, avg), filtering, sorting.I switched computers, and was finally able to log in and take the test. ![]() The second time it took about 45 minutes for the proctor to suggest trying to take the exam on a different computer. On my first attempt the proctor spent about a half hour with me trying to get me logged in, but then realized that the virtual machine was not working at all, so I rescheduled.
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