Analytics-DA-201 - Create Content (26% of the exam) - Section 3.4
Apply colour, fonts, shapes, custom palettes, annotations, custom tooltips, padding, gridlines and banding, and responsive device layouts.
Practice question for this objective
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An analyst plots delivery outcomes as a shape mark, mapping a Status dimension with the members On Time, Delayed, and Lost. Marketing has supplied three branded icon images saved as PNG files, and the analyst wants each status to draw using its matching custom icon rather than the built-in shapes. Where must the analyst place the image files so Tableau lists them as an assignable shape palette?
AInside a new subfolder of the My Tableau Repository Shapes folder, after which the shapes appear as a selectable palette in the Edit Shape dialog.check_circle Correct
BInside the workbook's Data pane by dragging each PNG onto the Status field so the images bind to its members.
CInside the My Tableau Repository Datasources folder so the icons travel with the connection metadata.
DInside the operating system's default pictures library, which Tableau indexes automatically for any available shape.
Custom shapes become an assignable palette only when placed in a subfolder of the Shapes folder in My Tableau Repository. Tableau builds the shape palette list by enumerating subfolders of the Shapes directory inside My Tableau Repository; each subfolder becomes one named palette whose images can be mapped to the members of the field on the Shape card.
Why A is correct: Tableau scans subfolders of the Shapes folder in My Tableau Repository, so dropping the PNGs into a named subfolder and reloading shapes exposes them as a custom palette that members can be assigned to.
Why B is wrong: Dragging images onto a field is not a supported action and the Data pane does not host shape assets, so this does nothing; custom shapes live in the repository, not the Data pane.
Why C is wrong: The Datasources folder holds connection files, not imagery, and Tableau never reads shapes from it, so the icons would never appear in the Edit Shape dialog.
Why D is wrong: Tableau only reads shapes from its own Shapes folder, not the system pictures library, so files placed there are invisible to the shape picker.
Answers that look right on this material and are not. Each one is a distractor from a different question in the Analytics-DA-201 bank for this domain.
The phone layout was set to fit a specific phone model, which deletes any sheet that exceeds the model's screen width from every layout.
errorWhy it is wrong: Choosing a phone model sets a preview size only and never deletes sheets, so this does not explain a sheet vanishing from the desktop layout.
Turn off Row and Column Banding on the Shading tab so the alternating fills no longer draw.
errorWhy it is wrong: Banding produces alternating shaded blocks, not thin lines between ticks, so disabling banding would not remove the gridlines the analyst sees.
Select every worksheet tab in turn and change each one's title and label fonts individually.
errorWhy it is wrong: Reformatting each worksheet by hand is the slow path the analyst is trying to avoid and risks missing sheets, so it does not meet the one-action requirement even though it would eventually work.