Establish Governance and Support Published Content16% of the exam
Content lifecycle with sandboxes, migration and revisions
Run the Blueprint path from sandbox to certified production content, promote and maintain content with Content Migration Tool plans, know what a migration leaves behind, and roll back with revision history.
Recommend an approach for the workbook lifecycle, including building, testing, deployment, distribution, and maintenance.
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What the exam expects
- Lay out the Blueprint lifecycle from personal and department sandboxes through validation, promotion and certification to production.
- Recommend a deployment approach when IT mandates separate development, QA and production environments.
- Design Content Migration Tool plans for promotion, maintenance and database-migration testing, and list what a plan does not carry.
- Roll back or recover content with revision history, within its defaults and limits.
Key terms:
- Sandbox project: a project for ad hoc or uncertified content that authors explore freely.
- Production project: a project of validated, certified content that only a small group can publish to.
- Content Migration Tool (CMT): an Advanced Management tool whose migration plans copy content between projects or sites.
- Revision history: the saved earlier versions of a workbook or data source that users can preview, download or restore.
Key facts
Production publishing
- Detail
- Limited to a small group, such as Project Owners and Leaders
CMT licence
- Detail
- Advanced Management, included with Tableau Enterprise
Server to Cloud
- Detail
- CMT not recommended; use the Migration SDK
Scheduling a plan
- Detail
- Console Runner
Source content
- Detail
- Copied, never deleted or archived by CMT
Version support
- Detail
- Eight most recent versions; nothing before 2018.1.x
Not migrated
- Detail
- Users, groups, site settings
Stale tagging
- Detail
- Up to 1000 objects at a time
Server revisions
- Detail
- On by default, 25 per content resource
Cloud revisions
- Detail
- Always on, up to 10
Deleting content
- Detail
- Deletes all its revisions
Sources for this section (8)
- Governance in Tableauhelp.tableau.com (opens in a new tab)
- About Advanced Management on Tableau Cloudhelp.tableau.com (opens in a new tab)
- About Tableau Content Migration Toolhelp.tableau.com (opens in a new tab)
- Tableau Content Migration Tool Use Caseshelp.tableau.com (opens in a new tab)
- Migration Limitationshelp.tableau.com (opens in a new tab)
- Stale Contenthelp.tableau.com (opens in a new tab)
- Allow Users to Save Revision Historyhelp.tableau.com (opens in a new tab)
- Work with Content Revisionshelp.tableau.com (opens in a new tab)
- When you lower a site's revision limit, which revisions survive?
- Why doesn't restoring a data source revision bring back its old extract data?
- Which workbooks can CMT not migrate because of their version?
- When a plan copies between two projects on the same site, how should it sign in?
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