Analytics-Con-301 Exam Information and Outline
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Analytics-Con-301 Exam Syllabus & Study Guide
Before you start practicing with our exam simulator, it is essential to understand the official Analytics-Con-301 exam objectives. This course outline serves as your roadmap, breaking down exactly which technical domains and skills will be tested. By reviewing the syllabus, you can identify your strengths and focus your study time on the areas where you need the most improvement.
The information below reflects the latest 2026 course contents as defined by Tableau. We provide this detailed breakdown to help you align your preparation with the actual exam format, ensuring there are no surprises on test day. Use this outline as a checklist to track your progress as you move through our practice question banks.
Below are complete topics detail with latest syllabus and course outline, that will help you good knowledge about exam objectives and topics that you have to prepare. These contents are covered in questions and answers pool of exam.
Evaluate Current State
- Map current state of analytics to future state
- Map business needs to Tableau capabilities
- Translate analytical requirements into Tableau context using best practices
- Recommend Tableau Server vs. Tableau Cloud, including migration considerations
- Recommend and plan Tableau Server upgrades
- Evaluate current data structures
- Assess if existing data supports business needs
- Evaluate data lineage
- Identify performance risks and enhancement opportunities in existing structures
Plan and Prepare Data Connections
- Plan for data transformation
- Recommend appropriate data transformation strategies
- Specify minimum granularity requirements
- Design row-level security (RLS) data structures
- Implement RLS and entitlement tables
- Differentiate group vs. user functions
- Compare various RLS approaches
- Plan and implement advanced data connections
- Recommend connection methods (e.g., Web Data Connectors, web extract APIs, custom SQL, ODBC)
- Use Tableau Bridge for connections
- Specify aggregation levels and strategies across Tableau products (Desktop, Prep, Cloud, Server)
Design and Troubleshoot Calculations and Workbooks
- Design analytics for advanced use cases
- Recommend advanced chart types (e.g., Sankey, chord, radar, tile map, small multiples, data densification)
- Understand and apply Tableau's order of operations in calculations
- Troubleshoot issues from order of operations
- Build interactivity (e.g., dynamic URL actions, parameter actions, filter actions)
- Design workbooks to optimize performance
- Identify/resolve resource-intensive queries
- Maximize caching on Tableau Server
- Address performance issues from calculations (e.g., string comparisons, IF/THEN, LOD expressions)
- Recommend moving calculations upstream
- Use performance recordings to diagnose issues
- Resolve design-related performance problems (e.g., too many sheets/filters, image sizes)
- Implement advanced calculations (multi-step)
- Aggregations including dimensions
- Advanced table calculations (window, nested, multi-directional)
- Advanced date functions (e.g., fiscal calendars)
- Advanced/nested LOD expressions
- Combine advanced calculation types
- Troubleshoot complex calculations
Establish Governance and Support Published Content
- Recommend and apply Tableau governance strategy
- Map organizational governance needs to Tableau features
- Secure access to content
- Ensure data quality (certifying sources, minimizing proliferation, data quality warnings)
- Leverage administrative views
- Identify scenarios requiring admin views
- Recommend appropriate admin views and data sources
- Recommend content distribution strategy
- Map publishing needs to Tableau features
- Handle workbook lifecycle (build, test, deploy, distribute, maintain)