--- title: Blog — DataDrive | Consulting description: Consulting | DataDrive's blog covers a variety of topics, including best practices for building modern data teams and cloud data platforms in addition to tool training for Tableau, Snowflake, Fivetran, Matillion, and Sigma Computing. --- # The DataDrive Blog #### Our take on all things data. ### Consulting [![Top 5 tips to ace the Tableau Desktop Specialist Exam](https://godatadrive.com/hubfs/Jeremy-Tableau-Specialist-Exam-1.jpg) ](https://godatadrive.com/blog/top-five-tips-to-ace-the-tableau-desktop-specialist-exam) #### [Top Five Tips to Ace the Tableau Desktop Specialist Exam](https://godatadrive.com/blog/top-five-tips-to-ace-the-tableau-desktop-specialist-exam) ![Picture of Jeremy Anderson](https://godatadrive.com/hs-fs/hubfs/blog-headshots.png?width=30&name=blog-headshots.png) [Jeremy Anderson](https://godatadrive.com/blog/author/jeremy-anderson): Sep 21, 2021 I recently took and passed the Tableau Desktop Specialist exam. 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