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0:00Hey, it's Tim here. In today's video I'm

0:01going to be covering the new Tableau

0:03certification

0:04account that's just launched. There's

0:06actually something that caught me off guard

0:07here. If

0:08you've ever done a Tableau certification

0:09exam, you're going to want to stick around

0:11to hear

0:12what I discovered about this new account.

0:14Let's get stuck in. Okay, so I'm here in

0:16the

0:16Pearson Vue website. Now, I never really

0:19know how to go directly to this, so what I

0:21've got

0:21into the habit of doing is just googling

0:23Tableau Pearson Vue and it just comes up as

0:25the top

0:26link. Google is good as ever and it takes

0:28you straight to this page, so you get there

0:31and you're pretty much ready to go. Now,

0:33when you log in there's two notifications.

0:34Obviously,

0:35COVID is still an ongoing issue, so if you

0:37're trying to sit an in-person exam with

0:39Pearson

0:40Vue, they've got this standard notice

0:41across the top. But they've got this notice

0:43here

0:44from Tableau which is about the new

0:45certification account. Now, this is

0:48interesting because

0:50for a while now it's sort of been this sort

0:52of weird thing that in Tableau you've had

0:53to have an account for everything across

0:55different systems. So, a while back we used

0:57to have

0:58this other exam provider that didn't use

1:00any sort of Tableau login. You had to have

1:02your

1:02own credentials there and for that account,

1:05what I did when I sat my first Tableau exam

1:08now eight years ago is I used my personal

1:11email. And so, when I sat lots of the exams

1:14that I've done videos on last year, I also

1:16used my personal email when I signed up for

1:18Pearson Vue. However, when I then got to

1:21Pearson Vue and tried to basically log in,

1:23it asked

1:24me for my Tableau account. So, if I go here

1:26to log in, it's actually going to log me

1:27straight

1:28in because I'm already logged into my Table

1:30au account. I'll come and show you that in a

1:32second. It will log me straight in and the

1:34first time you log in, it will ask you if

1:36you can enter some information. Essentially

1:38, I'll put some video footage of this up on

1:40screen and you need to enter this before

1:43you can proceed. Once you've done that, you

1:44can

1:44obviously go through and I sort of panicked

1:46because the first thing I did was obviously

1:48to go look at my title history. And when I

1:50went there, I couldn't find anything. I

1:52couldn't

1:52find anything whatsoever and I was so

1:55confused because I assumed that when Table

1:57au had transported

1:58all of the titles from LES and everything

2:01from Pearson Vue up until January the 4th,

2:05I thought everything had been brought over.

2:08But, here's the kicker. Because of the

2:09Tableau

2:10account, I didn't have a Tableau account

2:12under my personal email which is what I'd

2:15been using

2:15this whole time for all of my certification

2:18accounts. So, what I had to do is go over

2:20to Tableau and actually create a Tableau

2:22account. Now, I already have one. I have

2:25one using

2:25a work email. So, this is what I've always

2:27used. I've always used that account for

2:29work

2:29email. So, on the Tableau website, I use my

2:31work email. On every other website, I just

2:34use my personal email. Things like

2:35certification, Tableau public and so on and

2:37so forth. But,

2:38it seems you now need to have an account

2:40that spans both. And so, what you then need

2:42to

2:43do is create your personal account. This

2:44was never possible before. I'd actually

2:46tried

2:46to change my Tableau account to a personal

2:48email. It was never allowed. It seems to be

2:51allowed now. And you can go ahead and

2:53create your own personal account here in

2:55Tableau.

2:56And once you've done that, you get

2:57something called a Tableau account. I think

2:59this is

2:59interesting. I think this hints towards a

3:01future where this account is going to do a

3:03lot more than just certifications and

3:05logging into the Tableau website. That's

3:07almost a

3:07fog on conclusion. But, I won't speculate.

3:09Once you've done that, once you've logged

3:11in, you go back to your titles and you

3:13create that Tableau account. Now, you log

3:16in with

3:16that Tableau account. When you actually go

3:18to log into this page, it throws up a Table

3:20au

3:20authentication window. And once you log in,

3:23I've filled in all the same information

3:25again.

3:26And now, I have my correct title status

3:29here. So, you can see all my past exams. It

3:32's really

3:32nice they brought all even the expired ones

3:34. Even the ones that have expired down here.

3:36These are all in here. It's kind of, it's

3:37an important record. So, look, you've sat

3:39them but they've expired. And actually, it

3:41's a really good place to come and see what

3:43you

3:43need to update and renew. So, as you can

3:46see, I've got my recent exams. In fact, I

3:49didn't

3:49know until I logged into this page that I

3:51actually passed my beta exam for the Table

3:54au

3:54certified data analyst exam. So, that's

3:57good. I passed all of that. And everything

3:59else

3:59is looking good. So, I've got my specialist

4:01exam again. I passed that last year. I did

4:02a video about that. I also did a video

4:04about the Tableau certified associate

4:06consultant

4:07exam. The next exam that's about to expire

4:10very soon is what I call the beast.

4:12Thankfully,

4:12this exam has been retired. You don't have

4:15to sit seven hour exam anymore for this

4:17certified

4:17professional exam. But it expires in

4:19literally just four days. So, in four days

4:22time, this

4:23will expire and I'll have to sit the new

4:25exam. The new exam hasn't been posted yet.

4:27So, I'm

4:28assuming that this is going to expire and

4:30the new one will become available very soon

4:33after. Otherwise, there'll be this weird

4:34moment of time where you can't really renew

4:36the exam.

4:37I'm not in a rush to renew it. That's a

4:39topic for another time. But nonetheless,

4:42all the

4:42others are there. My Tableau 10 and 9 exams

4:45, geez, and my Tableau 8 qualified associate

4:48exam is still here. This is before Tableau

4:51even used years as a number. So, 2014 is

4:55there

4:55as well. And I've actually, I think

4:57everything else has expired. So, that's

4:58easily the oldest

4:59exam that I've got here. So, what do I need

5:02to do with my exams? First of all, I think

5:04I definitely need to do my desktop

5:06certified associate. I did that in 2020

5:09during COVID.

5:10It expired on the 12th of January. So, CO

5:13VID has been around for two years. It's

5:15expired.

5:16So I need to do that. It's a pretty

5:18important one to do actually. And then

5:20after that, I'll

5:21probably go on to the Tableau certified

5:23associate exam. I'll obviously make videos

5:26on these.

5:26And then Tableau server qualified associate

5:29. I think this has been retired. So, server

5:31certified associate and Tableau server

5:34qualified associate. I have no idea what

5:37the difference

5:38is between these two exams. They say, it

5:40says I sat them on the same day. So, what I

5:42'm thinking

5:43is that these are the same thing. And

5:46potentially, what's going on here is that

5:50this is going

5:51to be the new name. So, this DSQDQ9SEA. It

5:54doesn't really make sense. I don't know why

5:57that's on there twice. The certified

5:59desktop professional, I need to sit that

6:01again. And

6:02desktop qualified associate, I also need to

6:04sit that again. That sort of goes without

6:06saying. So, yeah. Got lots of exams to

6:08renew this year. And yeah, I thought I'd

6:10just make

6:10a video about this because it caught me out

6:12and I spent a bit of time just trying to

6:15mess

6:15around. But anyway, the rest of the website

6:17is pretty straightforward. I don't think I

6:18need to sort of walk you through that other

6:21than they've got a nice dashboard here. You

6:23don't have the ability to link badges yet.

6:26If you use the service called Acclaim, let

6:28me just go and see if I can log into mine.

6:31So, let's go to Acclaim, digital

6:34credentials.

6:35And if I sign in, I'm wondering how it's

6:37going to sign me in. There we go. It's

6:39going to

6:39remember my credentials. You can see that

6:42all my Tableau credentials are still there.

6:44I've got 13 badges. So, I've got specialist

6:47, certified data analyst, certified

6:49associate.

6:50So, even though this website here, you can

6:53link these badges soon, my badge has

6:56already

6:57turned up under certified data analyst exam

6:59here. So, as long as you're using the same

7:01email across your exams, this should

7:03generally work. And again, you can see my

7:05expired exams

7:06here as well. So, I somehow seem to have

7:08some of these twice, but nonetheless, they

7:11're all

7:11there and yeah, I can sort of progress.

7:13These are the e-learning badges for the

7:15record if

7:15you're wondering where those are from. I

7:17sort of just did that as like a trial of

7:19the exams

7:19to see what it's like. That's pretty much

7:21it. Not much more to share than that. Yeah,

7:24certification seems to have had a revamp,

7:27new provider, new system. And to be honest,

7:29it makes it a much nicer experience. The

7:31website's a lot clearer. Scheduling exam is

7:34also a lot

7:34easier. You can take the exams online. That

7:37's a much, much sort of needed thing. And

7:39all

7:39the exams going forward don't require you

7:41to spend, at least in the worst case

7:43scenario,

7:44seven hours in a room. The desktop

7:46certified professional one used to be an in

7:48-person exam

7:48until they moved it online, which thank God

7:51that was done. So yeah, it's really good to

7:54see some options here and yeah, good to see

7:57things improving. And yeah, these are the

7:59exams that I've sat on Pearson VUE so far.

8:01So I've done three exams, certified

8:03associate

8:04consultant, certified data analyst, and

8:06certified desktop specialist. These never

8:08expire, thank

8:09God. So yeah, if something wants, get them

8:11forever. I'm sure the other ones will

8:13expire

8:13at some point, especially the associate

8:15exam. So yeah, those will be next. Thanks

8:17for watching.

8:17and I'll catch you on the next video.

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