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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