Evaluate Current State22% of the exam
Tableau Catalog lineage and impact analysis
Use Tableau Catalog lineage to trace upstream inputs and downstream dependents of a lineage anchor, run impact analysis and email owners, explain lineage gaps and count mismatches, and enable Catalog on Tableau Server through the Metadata API.
Evaluate lineage of existing data structures.
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What the exam expects
- Read a lineage from its anchor: which assets are upstream inputs and which are downstream dependents.
- Run an impact analysis for a column or field change and contact the affected owners, with the capability that requires.
- Explain where lineage is incomplete (custom SQL, cubes, flows with parameters) and what an embedded external asset is.
- Explain why lineage counts and content tab counts differ.
- Enable Tableau Catalog on Tableau Server and contrast it with Tableau Cloud, including the Metadata API's role.
Key terms:
- Lineage anchor: the asset whose Lineage tab you opened; dependencies are shown relative to it.
- Downstream / upstream assets: assets that depend on the anchor, and assets the anchor depends on.
- External asset: a database, file or table used by Tableau content.
- Initial ingestion: Catalog's first index of existing content after the Metadata API is enabled.
- Metadata API: the GraphQL API that indexes content and powers Catalog.
Key facts
Catalog licensing
- Detail
- Licensed through Data Management
Possible lineage anchors
- Detail
- Database, table, workbook, published data source, virtual connection, virtual connection table, flow
Downstream assets
- Detail
- Below the anchor; depend on it
Email owners
- Detail
- Requires Overwrite (Save) on the lineage anchor
Flows with parameter values
- Detail
- Lineage data won't show
Cube data sources
- Detail
- Not supported by Catalog
Enable on Server
- Detail
- tsm maintenance metadata-services enable
Enable on Cloud
- Detail
- No action unless upgraded from Standard
Repository disk for metadata
- Detail
- Up to half the current repository usage again
Stop indexing
- Detail
- tsm maintenance metadata-services disable
- Why might an admin turn off Catalog capabilities before enabling the Metadata API?
- What happens when the command that turns on the Metadata API is rerun?
- When did data source lineage pages gain field search and filtering?
- Which tool explores and tests Metadata API queries in the browser?
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