In these workbooks, you can see what charts Tableau uses to answer different questions: In addition to this article, which provides guidance, I recommend checking out the sample workbooks that come with your Tableau installation ( World Indicators, Regional and Superstore). Another good tip is to set up the formatting on a workbook level at the start of the exam. Try to work on titles and tooltips as you go. I needed to create a join calculation in my test.įormatting is a very important part of the exam. Most probably, you will need to use parameters in several exercises, and be sure to have a good grip on joins, unions and blends. More examples can be found here (thank you, Tableau) and here (thank you, InterWorks).Top 15 LOD expressions with workbook examples.Below are some blog posts I found useful:
There will be Level of Detail expressions and at least one example with nested LODs.
In addition to the links mentioned above, there are many blogs and free resources available to aid you in your test preparation. Both will teach you different methods to visualise data and help you with best practices. These courses not only deepen your Tableau data visualisation knowledge, but they also help you become a better data analyst. It can be beneficial to take one of these courses a few days before the test. I found some of the examples and wording in these courses to be very similar to the CP test questions. Tableau Courses to Help You Prepareįrom my perspective, taking the Desktop III and Visual Analytics courses lays a solid foundation for the CP exam. The exam length is three hours, and you can’t leave your seat during the exam, so I recommend having water, coffee or something else to stay hydrated. You need to build visualisations in order to answer the questions, and your answers are entered in as free text. Unlike the Certified Associate, the CP exam isn’t multiple choice. The exam environment is very similar to Desktop Certified Associate: you will be using a virtual machine, and a proctor can interrupt you at any moment (which happened twice during my exam).
The details of the CA test can be found here, with specifics on how to pass that particular exam here. In order to take the exam, you need to be a valid Desktop Certified Associate (CA).
There, you can find an exam prep PDF with a test and a link to a sample workbook that will give you a very good benchmark. Your best source of information is the official Tableau guide.
I recently became a Certified Tableau Desktop Professional and want to share a few tips to help you prepare. Do you like being challenged? Is passing the Tableau Desktop Professional Exam (CP) on your to-do list? Then this blog might be handy.