ADM-201 - Data and Analytics Management (17% of the exam) - Section 6.3

Create dashboards and configure analytics sharing, including dashboard components, running user context, dynamic dashboards, and folder sharing.

Build dashboards from source reports using chart, gauge, metric, and table components, and recognise that a standard dashboard shows data through the lens of a single running user. Use dynamic dashboards to show each viewer their own data and folder sharing to control who can run, edit, or manage reports and dashboards.

DashboardsRunning userDynamic dashboardsFolder sharing

Practice question for this objective

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At Kwinana Freight, each of forty account executives needs a single sales dashboard that shows only the opportunities they personally own, without the administrator building and maintaining forty separate dashboards. Which dashboard configuration meets this requirement?

  • ABuild one dynamic dashboard so that each viewer sees the data they are able to access as themselves. Correct
  • BBuild one standard dashboard and set the running user to each executive's own manager so figures roll up correctly.
  • CBuild one standard dashboard, set the running user to a system administrator, and rely on sharing rules to filter each viewer.
  • DBuild forty standard dashboards, one per executive, and place each in the owner's personal folder.
A dynamic dashboard shows each viewer their own accessible data from a single build, unlike a standard dashboard tied to one running user. A standard dashboard always renders through one fixed running user, so all viewers see identical data; a dynamic dashboard instead runs in the context of the logged-in user, letting one build display each person's own records according to their access.

Why A is correct: A dynamic dashboard runs as the logged-in viewer, so a single build shows each account executive only the opportunities they own or can access, with no per-user duplication.

Why B is wrong: A standard dashboard renders for every viewer through one running user, so setting it to a manager would show that manager's data to everyone, not each executive's own opportunities.

Why C is wrong: The running user's access alone determines what a standard dashboard shows; sharing rules do not re-filter it per viewer, so every executive would see the administrator's full pipeline.

Why D is wrong: This produces the exact maintenance burden the requirement rules out, and personal folders cannot be shared, so it is neither scalable nor the intended tool for viewer-specific data.

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Exam traps in Data and Analytics Management

Answers that look right on this material and are not. Each one is a distractor from a different question in the ADM-201 bank for this domain.

  • Leave the running user as the logged-in user so each leader's own access is respected.

    Why it is wrong: This describes dynamic-dashboard behaviour and would show each leader a different, access-limited subset, which is the opposite of the uniform company-wide view required.

  • The data visible to each individual viewer according to their own access.

    Why it is wrong: This describes a dynamic dashboard, where each viewer sees their own data. A standard dashboard does not behave this way, so this is incorrect for the non-dynamic case.

  • Build one standard dashboard and set the running user to the VP so the whole pipeline is visible to everyone who opens it

    Why it is wrong: A standard dashboard shows data through a single running user, so every manager would see the VP's full pipeline rather than only their own team's opportunities.

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