Our Tableau learning quizzes have been designed to help you test your learning as well as to be fun. Created for Tableau 2020.3, each question will also come with an answer and some links, so hoepfully this might prompt you to learning something new.

So with that said and done, let us have some fun with 10 questions that should take you five minutes.

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Q1. If you want to embed into and control your Tableau Dashboard from a website, which API would you leverage?

Correct! Wrong!

C is correct. In Tableau, there is no such thing as the Embed API or the Tableau WebKit API. You can read more about the REST API here: https://help.tableau.com/current/api/rest_api/en-us/REST/rest_api.htm

Q2. If you want to programmatically add or remove users from Tableau Server / Online, which API would you leverage?

Correct! Wrong!

C is correct. In Tableau, there is no such thing as the Administrator API. You can read more about the JavaScript API (https://help.tableau.com/current/api/js_api/en-us/JavaScriptAPI/js_api.htm). TSM is a command-line tool to support your Tableau Server (https://help.tableau.com/current/server-linux/en-us/tsm.htm)

Q3. If you want to create a custom reusable Dashboard component, which API would you leverage?

Correct! Wrong!

B is correct. In Tableau, there is no such thing as a Component API or the DataViz Component Library. You can read more about the JavaScript API (https://help.tableau.com/current/api/js_api/en-us/JavaScriptAPI/js_api.htm)

Q4. If you want to create a custom connector to a web data source, which API of the following APIs would you leverage?

Correct! Wrong!

D is correct. In Tableau, there is no such think as the Data Source API. You can read more about the JavaScript API (Web Data Connector API). You can read more about the Metadata API (https://help.tableau.com/current/api/metadata_api/en-us/index.html).

Q5. If you want to a Tableau Server / Online to notifiy you when an event occurs, which API would you leverage?

Correct! Wrong!

A is correct. In Tableau, there is no such thing as the Notification API or the Event API. You can read more about the REST API (https://help.tableau.com/current/api/rest_api/en-us/REST/rest_api.htm)

Q6. If you want programmatically modify your Tableau Workbooks, which API would you leverage?

Correct! Wrong!

B is correct. In Tableau, there is no such thing as a Workbook API, Automation API or a Workbook Library API.

Q7. If you want to create custom scripts that interact with .hyper files, which API would you leverage?

Correct! Wrong!

B is correct. In Tableau, there is no such thing as a Database API. You can read more about the Connector SDK (https://tableau.github.io/connector-plugin-sdk/). You can read more about the Extract API (https://help.tableau.com/current/api/extract_api/en-us/Extract/extract_api.htm)

Q8. If you want to create your own connector that users ODBC or JDBC, which API would you leverage?

Correct! Wrong!

D is correct. In Tableau, there is no such thing as a Database API. You can read about the Hyper API (https://help.tableau.com/current/api/hyper_api/en-us/index.html). You can read about the Extract API (https://help.tableau.com/current/api/extract_api/en-us/Extract/extract_api.htm)

Q9. If you want to integrate with new programming languages, which API would you leverage?

Correct! Wrong!

C is correct. In Tableau, there is no such thing as a Calculation API or Language API. You can read more about the Extension API (https://tableau.github.io/extensions-api/)

Q10. If you want to create custom compoennts with the look and feel of Tableau, which library would you leverage?

Correct! Wrong!

D is correct. In Tableau, there is no library called a Tableau Component Library, Tableau Template Library or a Tableau Visual Library.

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