tableau SCA-C01 Exam Questions

Questions for the SCA-C01 were updated on : Nov 21 ,2025

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Question 1

High Availability Deployment
In order to be HA, you must install Tableau Server on at least 3 nodes. What is the primary reason for
this?

  • A. The primary reason for this is that Tableau Server relies on the concept of a quorum to determine if the cluster is in a consistent state to protect against network partitioning problems.
  • B. The primary reason is that 2 nodes are simply not enough from a compute power perspective to shoulder all the load in a HA deployment
Answer:

A

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Explanation:
Tableau Server High Availability Whitepaper
https://www.tableau.com/learn/whitepapers/tableau-server-high-availability-delivering-mission-
critical-analytics-scale

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Question 2

After performing a full backup and restore of Tableau Server, you may want to re-encrypt your
extracts using different encryption keys. Which command below achieves this?

  • A. tabcmd reencryptextracts <site-name>
  • B. tsm reencryptextracts <site-name>
  • C. tabcmd extracts-reencrypt <site-name>
  • D. tsm extracts-reencrypt <site-name>
Answer:

A

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Explanation:
Link to Tableau Server documentation:
https://help.tableau.com/current/server/en-us/backup_restore.htm#reencrypt-extracts-after-
restore

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Question 3

If you want to generate a list of licenses that are activated on your Tableau Server deployment, which
TSM command should you run?

  • A. tsm licenses list
  • B. tsm licenses get
  • C. tsm list-licenses
Answer:

A

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Explanation:
Link to Tableau Server documentation:
https://help.tableau.com/current/server/en-us/cli_licenses_tsm.htm#tsm-licenses-list

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Question 4

What is the file extension of the server topology and configuration backup data generated with the
tsm settings export command?

  • A. JSON
  • B. YAML
  • C. XML
  • D. CSV
Answer:

A

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Explanation:
Link to Tableau Server documentation:
https://help.tableau.com/current/server-linux/en-us/backup_restore.htm

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Question 5

Which of the following backup assets require a manual process since they are not backed up by TSM?
(Select all)

  • A. Authentication-related assets such as certificate files, key files, keytab files
  • B. Customization settings (e.g. custom headers, logos)
  • C. Coordination Service deployment configuration
  • D. The public certificate and private key for the internal PostgreSQL database
Answer:

A, B, C

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Explanation:
Link to Tableau Server documentation:
https://help.tableau.com/current/server-linux/en-us/backup_restore.htm

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Question 6

Which command should you run to enable the Tableau Metadata API for Tableau Server?

  • A. tsm maintenance metadata-services enable
  • B. tsm maintenance metadata-api enable
  • C. tsm maintenance metadata-services-api enable
Answer:

A

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Explanation:
Link to Tableau Server documentation:
https://help.tableau.com/current/server/en-us/cli_maintenance_tsm.htm#tsm-maintenance-
metadataservices-enable

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Question 7

Interpret the following command:
tsm maintenance backup -f ts-sample_backup -d -sr monthly -st 01:00 -sd 15 -sn monthly-backup

  • A. Creates a backup schedule that runs on the 15th of each month at 1am
  • B. Creates a backup schedule that runs every 15 minutes starting at 1am each day
Answer:

A

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Explanation:
Link to Tableau Server documentation:
https://help.tableau.com/current/server-linux/en-us/db_backup.htm#ScheduleBackups

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Question 8

What does the -d option do in the tsm maintenance backup command?

  • A. Appends the current date to the backup file name
  • B. Allows you to hard-code a date to the backup file name
  • C. Ensures that the backup file cannot be deleted by non-admins
Answer:

A

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Explanation:
Link to Tableau Server documentation:
https://help.tableau.com/current/server-linux/en-us/cli_maintenance_tsm.htm#tsm

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Question 9

Select all the types of backup data generated by the tsm settings export command:

  • A. SMTP, alerting configuration data
  • B. Tableau Server topology data
  • C. Workbook metadata
  • D. Extract (.tde or .hyper) files
Answer:

A, B

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Explanation:
Link to Tableau Server documentation:
https://help.tableau.com/current/server-linux/en-us/backup_restore.htm

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Question 10

Fill in the blanks: Configuration and topology data is backed up with the _____ command:

  • A. tsm settings export
  • B. tsm site-config export
  • C. tsm server-config export
  • D. tsm settings backup
Answer:

A

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Explanation:
Link to Tableau Server documentation:
https://help.tableau.com/current/server-linux/en-us/backup_restore.htm

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Question 11

Select all the types of backup data generated by the tsm maintenance backup command:

  • A. Workbook metadata
  • B. Extract (.tde or .hyper) files
  • C. Coordination service configuration for a multi-node cluster
  • D. Customization settings (e.g. headers, logos)
  • E. Certificate files, key files, keytab files
  • F. PostgreSQL database
Answer:

B, F

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Explanation:
Link to Tableau Server documentation:
https://help.tableau.com/current/server-linux/en-us/backup_restore.htm

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Question 12

When this particular process is configured external to Tableau Server, you cannot use the tsm
maintenance backup command to backup Tableau Server dat
a. Which process is being described here?

  • A. File Store
  • B. Cache Server
  • C. Cluster Controller
  • D. TSM Controller
Answer:

A

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Explanation:
Link to Tableau Server documentation:
https://help.tableau.com/current/server-linux/en-us/backup_restore.htm

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Question 13

How many types of backup data does Tableau Server generate?

  • A. 2
  • B. 3
  • C. 4
  • D. 5
Answer:

A

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Explanation:
Link to Tableau Server documentation:
https://help.tableau.com/current/server-linux/en-us/backup_restore.htm

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Question 14

What is the file format of a Tableau Server bootstrap file?

  • A. JSON
  • B. XML
  • C. AVRO
  • D. Parquet
  • E. ORC
Answer:

A

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Explanation:
Link to Tableau Server documentation:
https://help.tableau.com/current/server-linux/en-us/install_additional_nodes.htm

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Question 15

What is the file extension of a Tableau Server backup file generated with the tsm maintenance
backup command?

  • A. .tsback
  • B. .tsbak
  • C. .tsmbackup
  • D. .tsbackconfig
Answer:

B

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Explanation:
Link to Tableau Server documentation:
https://help.tableau.com/current/server-linux/en-us/db_backup.htm

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