# New Tableau certification accounts in Pearson Vue | Check this before you book your exam!

> This is content from just-tim, the data-and-analytics channel by Tim Ngwena (formerly 'Tableau Tim'). Tim has 12+ years of hands-on BI experience and covers Tableau most of all, plus Power BI, Looker, Hex, SQL and data modelling, the analytics industry, and the craft of doing the job — always tool-agnostic and honest about the trade-offs.

- **Author:** Tim Ngwena (just-tim, https://just-tim.com/about)
- **Published:** 2022-01-27
- **Format:** Video · 8 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Certification
- **Tools:** Tableau (certification)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/new-tableau-certification-accounts-in-pearson-vue-check-this-before-you-book-your-exam
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLCafRZTWE0

I walk through the new Tableau certification account that's just launched in Pearson VUE, and explain something that caught me off guard. If you've used a personal email for your exams, you now need a unified Tableau account spanning both your work and personal logins before you can see your title history.

## Key takeaways

- Tableau certification now uses a single Tableau account, so the personal email you used for past exams may not match your existing work-email Tableau login
- You can now create a Tableau account under a personal email, which wasn't previously allowed, and you need this to access your title history
- Your full exam record, including expired and retired titles, is preserved in the new account and is a handy place to track what needs renewing
- Badges still flow through Acclaim/Credly as long as you keep the same email across exams, even though direct badge linking isn't live yet
- New exams are shorter and available online, replacing the old seven-hour in-person certified professional exam

## Chapters

- 0:14 The new certification account notice
- 1:45 Why my title history was empty
- 2:18 Creating a unified Tableau account
- 3:27 Reviewing my exam history and renewals
- 6:24 Checking badges in Acclaim
- 7:24 Overall impressions of the revamp

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/new-tableau-certification-accounts-in-pearson-vue-check-this-before-you-book-your-exam

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