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Certifications and Endorsements
Qlik Sense Business Analyst Certification
The Qlik Sense Business Analyst Certification Exam measures your ability to identify requirements, design applications, prepare and load data, and develop applications. This exam is platform neutral, so content applies to both client managed and SaaS editions of Qlik Sense. There are 50 multiple choice questions which you must answer in two hours.
Practical experience developing production quality applications in Qlik Sense
Experience creating dimensions, measures, and objects for the master library
Understanding of user experience and design best practices
Experience building visualizations
Instructor Led Training: Create Visualizations with Qlik Sense
Qlik Continuous Classroom – Business Analyst
FREE Qlik Sense Business Analyst Certification Practice Questions
Identify Requirements (30%)
Given a set of requirements, determine Qlik Sense product capabilities to deliver a solution based on business requirements, recommend KPIs, dimensions, and measures
Discuss business users’ needs and how they will consume information
Apply understanding to interpret results from Qlik Associations
Given a scenario, determine optimal data loading and application development processes
Design Applications (24%)
Based on business requirements, determine visualization layout and characteristics
Given stakeholder feedback, evolve and enhance application design
Given data security requirements, distinguish when to use section access and/or access permissions
Prepare and Load Data (14%)
Given a scenario, use Data Manager to create a basic data model
Given a set of requirements, enhance and augment the data model
Given a scenario, verify the data model using the data model viewer
Develop Application (32%)
Given a scenario, build an application
Given a scenario, refine and finalize an application
Qlik Sense Data Architect Certification
The Qlik Sense Data Architect Certification Exam measures your ability to identify requirements for data models, design and build data models, and validate the data. This exam is platform neutral, so the content applies to both the client managed and SaaS editions of Qlik Sense. There are 50 multiple choice questions which you must answer in two hours.
Practical experience developing multiple production quality applications in Qlik Sense
Ability to write Qlik Sense LOAD scripts and validate data
Basic understanding of Extract Transform Load (ETL)
Ability to create and use connectors to various data sources
Understanding of the QVD layer and architecture of the Qlik platform
Ability to architect data to provide optimal performance
Familiarity with SQL and relational databases
Instructor Led Training: Create Visualizations with Qlik Sense
Qlik Continuous Classroom – Business Analyst
FREE Qlik Sense Business Analyst Certification Practice Questions
Identify Requirements (20% of the exam)
Determine primary requirements with business users
Given a scenario, choose stakeholders
Given a scenario, determine metrics and levels of granularity and aggregation
Determine dimensionality and need for slowly changing dimensionality support
Given a scenario, determine the appropriate level of security
Data Connectivity (8% of the exam)
Given a scenario, determine the data sources and connectors needed
Determine the appropriate method to create connections for data sources
Data Model Design (28% of the exam)
Given a scenario, determine the measures and attributes from each data source
Given a scenario, identify the appropriate type of data model
Determine the correct method to optimize the data model for Qlik Sense
Determine the correct method to implement data structures efficiently
Data Transformations (38% of the exam)
Determine the correct method to build data content based on requirements
Analyze and evaluate null and blank data handling required to support filtering
Determine the correct method to document Data Load scripts
Determine the correct method for date handling techniques
Determine the correct method to perform script organization and cleansing
Analyze relevant variables to build scripts for incremental loading for extract layer
Validation (6% of the exam)
Given a scenario, determine the appropriate method to validate and test scripts
Given a scenario, determine the appropriate method to validate and test data
Qlik Sense System Administrator Certification
The Qlik Sense System Administrator Certification Exam measures your ability to identify requirements for environments, install and set up Qlik Sense Enterprise, manage environments, and monitor and troubleshoot. Exam content is based only on the client managed edition of Qlik Sense, not Qlik Sense SaaS edition. There are 50 multiple choice questions you must answer in two hours.
At least six months experience as an administrator of a Microsoft Windows Server based environment
Experience working with Qlik Sense sites and the Qlik Management Console, and the ability to provide data and application governance, library maintenance, and user and application security
Experience managing the policies and options that run the Qlik Sense servers and apps
Experience creating rules and managing the visualization streams
Knowledge of networking and Active Directory configuration, proxies, intermediate web servers, load balancers, etc
Familiarity with Windows tools and logs created (eg, Event Viewer, Services Console, DCOM Console, Windows Registry)
Experience using NSLookUp, Telnet, Ping, NetStat, Fiddler, and other browser tools to troubleshoot connectivity, interoperability, configuration, performance, etc.
Instructor Led Training: Create Visualizations with Qlik Sense
Qlik Continuous Classroom – Business Analyst
FREE Qlik Sense Business Analyst Certification Practice Questions
Installation (30%)
Apply concepts to plan the infrastructure for the Qlik Sense Deployment
Determine the appropriate methods to deploy single and multi-node configurations
Configuration (32%)
Given a scenario, create and manage streams and applications based on organization’s needs
Given a scenario, create and manage automated tasks based on different triggers
Given a scenario, create and manage load balancing rules
Given a scenario, create and manage AD connection and synchronize users and groups
Given a scenario, configure nodes to meet business needs
Security and Licensing (16%)
Describe the Qlik Sense licensing model
Determine how to configure user license access
Given a scenario, apply Qlik Sense Enterprise security rules
Monitor, Troubleshoot, and Maintenance (22%)
Identify how to monitor app issues
Determine the appropriate methods to monitor and troubleshoot typical system issues
Determine the appropriate methods to perform server maintenance
Qlik Sense SaaS Business Analyst Endorsement
The Qlik Sense SaaS Business Analyst Endorsement is designed to complement the Qlik Sense Business Analyst Certification — 2022. This endorsement validates skills in the SaaS specific capabilities of Qlik Sense needed in the role of business analyst.
Qlik Sense Business Analyst Certification — 2022 is required.
Practical experience developing production quality applications in Qlik Sense SaaS edition
Qlik Sense Business Analyst certification
Overview of Qlik Cloud edition
Given a scenario, determine the appropriate tenant feature
Creating, publishing, and sharing apps
Given a dataset, create an app
Apply the steps to add apps to the cloud environment
Confirm the process of publishing, sharing, and duplicating of apps
Given a scenario, manage organization of analytic content (including interacting with the User In)
Build logical models to generate analyses based on queries (Business Logic, Insight Advisor)
Demonstrate application of Simplified Authoring
Adding and managing data
Apply the steps to add/connect data to the Qlik cloud tenant and analyze via Data manager
Confirm the process of sharing datasets
Review datasets
Manage collections
Given a scenario, determine impact of classifications during impact analysis
Collaborating with Qlik Cloud users
Recognize the collaborative features of Notes
Distinguish member roles that access apps and sheets
Qlik Sense SaaS Data Architect Endorsement
The Qlik Sense Data Architect SaaS endorsement is designed to complement the Qlik Sense Data Architect Certification — 2022. This endorsement validates skills in the SaaS specific capabilities of Qlik Sense needed in the role of data architect.
Qlik Sense Data Architect Certification — 2022 is required.
Practical experience developing multiple production quality applications in Qlik Sense SaaS edition
Practical experience with data modeling, loading data, and creating data connections in Qlik Sense SaaS edition
Overview of Qlik Cloud edition (00%)
Given a scenario, apply appropriate data level permissions and governance
Data modeling considerations (00%)
Identify limitations of data model optimization (eg, SaaS limitations on sizing)
Given a scenario, select the appropriate Catalog option for data discovery (eg dataset review, details, tags)
Adding and managing data (00%)
Apply the steps to add/connect data to the Qlik cloud tenant (both new and existing)
Given a scenario, develop an app from a dataset
Determine appropriate data source management (eg details, classification, connections, scheduled reloads)
Manage membership in managed spaces
Differentiate the use of Data gateway -Direct Access versus Qlik DataTransfer versus Direct Query
Explain the data connection options (eg DataFiles default folder, ODBC…)
Collaborating with Qlik Cloud users (00%)
Recognize the collaborative features of Notes
Distinguish member roles that access datasets, metadata, and apps
Qlik Sense SaaS Administrator Endorsement
The Qlik Sense SaaS Administrator endorsement validates the knowledge and skills required to plan, implement, and manage a Qlik Sense SaaS environment, including an understanding of Qlik Sense functions and features.
Qlik Sense Business Analyst Certification — 2022 is required.
2022 Qlik Sense Business Analyst certification
Practical experience working with Qlik Sense SaaS edition in a production or development environment
Practical experience administering Qlik Sense SaaS edition, along with knowledge of other IT solutions to aid user management and software integration
Planning a Qlik Cloud Deployment (20%)
Given a scenario, assign administrator and developer roles to users
Given a scenario, identify appropriate Qlik Sense SaaS subscription (Qlik Sense Business and Qlik Sense Enterprise SaaS)
Given a scenario, identify appropriate data security and governance to a tenant
Deployment of Qlik Cloud (40%)
Management of Qlik Cloud subscription
Create and configure the Qlik Cloud tenant
Manage inbound and outbound traffic (allowlisting IP addresses and domain names)
Administering Qlik Cloud (30%)
Given a scenario, identify appropriate use case for the Management Console (governance, content, integration, configuration)
User management (including identity providers)
Email configuration (including email sharing)
Management of Qlik Cloud features (Data gateways, on-demand data tools)
Manage lineage and impact usage
Security considerations for Qlik Sense Cloud (10%)
Given a scenario, manage Content Security Policy
Configure Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
Manage and monitor users who generate API keys
Configure the Qlik Data Gateway to access data behind a firewall
Apply steps to configure Qlik DataTransfer and Data Gateway – Direct Access