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Three Steps to Become Tableau Desktop Certified in 2 Weeks

You can earn an Tableau Specialist certification to showcase your skills in data visualization and knowledge of the product.

Tableau Introduction Certifications

Tableau program is among the most well-known visual analytics platforms on the market. With its emphasis specifically on business intelligence Tableau allows users study and manage data, as well as to rapidly discover and share information. Because of the way it is employed across various industries, getting the Tableau Certification can certainly assist you stand out from others.

Front-end users are likely to use Tableau Desktop in their job, so I will be focusing on Desktop certifications. Particularly, I will explore the fundamental certification that is known as Tableau Specialist Certification. Tableau Specialist Certification.

The 3 Tableau Desktop certifications available | Image Source: Tableau Website (used with permission)
With that all to think about, lets start on the study program for controlling this exam: 3 crucial actions, 2weeks, 1 exam attempt.

Tableau Desktop Setup

To get the most out of your preparation (and even if you don't have an active paying Tableau subscription) I suggest using an 14-day free trial Tableau Desktop(downloaded here) this page) rather than Tableau Public.

If you've already completed your trial period, think about using a different email address to sign-up to sign up again. It's best to download your trial only after you are willing to commit to the two-week study plan.

Note If you are an undergraduate students, Tableau offers free one-year licenses for students in accredited institutions under Tableau for Students. Tableau For Students program.

Step 1: Tableau Free Training Videos


Time required: 8-9 days Cost: Free


The first thing to do is in order to be able to study efficiently it is essential to be aware of the subjects that are tested in the Specialist exam. The list of subjects to be tested on the exam is found within the Exam Prep Guide.

Tableau offers a wide selection of free training videos that be the basis for Step 1. These short videos can provide a wonderful curriculum for tackling the skills you'll be testing and, best of all the best part is that it's completely free!

This step is among the most crucial (and also the most demanding) as it requires online classes and hands-on exercises beginning with the fundamentals. The good news is that you don't notneed to finish all sections that are on the training page in order to pass the exam. The following are seven chapters which you'll have to concentrate on:

Getting Started (3 videos -- 34 min)
connecting to data (11 video clips72 minutes)
Visual Analytics (26 videos -- 144 min)
dashboards as well as stories(8 video clips -- 40 min)
Calculations (16 videos - 65 minutes)
What is the reason Tableau Doing This? (4 videos -22 minutes)
How to (10 video clips39 min)
To make the most of this To get the most benefit from this would strongly encourage students to practice rewriting the charts yourself during the course instead of watching the videos on your own. The hands-on approach is essential!

While the video's total playtime is approximately 7 hours, it is recommended to recommend doubling the time you need to complete the course because you will need time to apply what you have learned. If you allocate 2 hours per day to study these lessons, you'll be able complete seven chapters in the 9-day timeframe.

After you have completed all of the lessons, review the 'Skills Tested Section of the Exam Prep Guide for a second time to ensure whether you're familiar with the concepts that will be tested on the exam.

Step 2: Tableau Whitepaper


Time required: 1-day Time needed: 1-2 days. Cost: Free


After we have completed Stage 1, you are able to now relax and take a break and read. The specific whitepaper for that exam will be Visual Analytics Best Practices - The Guidebook. You are welcome to download it from this URL.

Since the exam is comprised of multiple-choice question (MCQ) related to the best methods for visualization, an overview of this whitepaper can be beneficial to answer the questions.

Here's a trick for reading a long document. When you browse across the paper, you should focus on the headings of the sections and sub-headers and the summary of the key elementsdisplayed by a the blue font on the leftcolumn of the document. If you're looking in learning more about the subject you may click further to read the full details of that particular section.

Step 3 Online Practice


The time needed is about 3 Cost: $14


It's time to learn about the actual exam questions. While there are a number of YouTube videos and sites with free test questions, I could not find any of them to be of a satisfactory quality. In an effort to locate an effective resource to practice questions, I shelled out some cash to gain access to the following Udemy course: Tableau Specialist Certification Prep (Note that this blog post is not sponsored).

The main feature about the course is that it gives access to three self-scoring complete-length tests (comes with answers). Although the course includes videos that cover Tableau concepts but I found the free videos from Phase 1 to be more superior in terms of quality. However, I watched these Udemy videos at twice the speed to ensure that they were a good revision.

After taking these three tests, you'll get a better understanding of what areas you're weaker on. The mock exams aid in preparing you for the test environment, which makes you more prepared for taking the actual exam. I highly suggest that you attempt each of the three practice tests like they are the real thing i.e. There are no distracting factors, full concentration, and work with the prescribed time.

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The officially released Exam Study Guide includes samples of questions, so be sure to check that out as well.

About the Exam

Tableau's Tableau Website along with the Exam Practice Guide contains a wealth of details regarding the exam and exam, so be sure to look them up for more information. In the majority of cases the exam consists of the 30 MCQs to be completed in 60 minutes. The pass score is 70% which is 100 USD. The exam will be conducted on an online virtual machine that already includes Tableau installed. Tableau program installed. You can check out the exam setup here.

I'd like to share some of the tips I have learned to help you pass the exam:

Check that you're Internet connection is working properly. Although my connection met the minimum requirements of Exam Setup, Exam Setting up however, I discovered that the computerized Tableau program to be quite slow, which led to quite difficult to take the test during my test.

Make sure there aren't any distractions while you take your exam within your space (i.e. notify your house-mates and family members to stay clear of going into in the area during your exam)
60 minutes should provide more than enough time to finish the exam There is no need to worry when you are faced with a challenging question. It is possible to move onto other questions prior to returning to the question that confused you before.
Be on time to take the exam because the process of connecting to the proctor could take longer than anticipated.

Conclusion
In this post I talked about an outline of three steps to clear the Tableau Desktop Specialist examination. Utilizing only the information provided in the three steps above I was able achieve an 90% mark on the very first attempt. I am sure that you will get the same result.

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