Analytics-Arch-201 Exam Information and Outline
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Analytics-Arch-201 Exam Syllabus & Study Guide
Before you start practicing with our exam simulator, it is essential to understand the official Analytics-Arch-201 exam objectives. This course outline serves as your roadmap, breaking down exactly which technical domains and skills will be tested. By reviewing the syllabus, you can identify your strengths and focus your study time on the areas where you need the most improvement.
The information below reflects the latest 2026 course contents as defined by Tableau. We provide this detailed breakdown to help you align your preparation with the actual exam format, ensuring there are no surprises on test day. Use this outline as a checklist to track your progress as you move through our practice question banks.
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Design a Tableau Infrastructure
- Gather requirements for implementing a complex Tableau deployment
- Evaluate requirements for users and their role distributions
- Identify relevant constraints and requirements, including future growth
- Identify requirements for and recommend a strategy for licensing, including Authorization-to-Run (ATR)
- Assess the need for high availability and disaster recovery
- Map the features and capabilities of the Tableau Server Add-Ons to requirements
- Plan and implement Tableau Cloud
- Plan and implement Tableau Bridge
- Plan and implement authentication
- Plan and implement automated user provisioning, including System for CrossDomain Identity Management (SCIM)
- Troubleshoot advanced configuration issues
- Plan and implement multi-sites using Tableau Cloud Manager
- Plan a migration
- Plan a migration of Tableau Cloud to Tableau Server
- Plan a migration of Tableau Server to Tableau Cloud
- Plan a migration from Windows to Linux
- Plan a migration from Linux to Windows
- Plan a migration from one identity store to another
- Plan a consolidation of multiple Tableau servers or sites into fewer servers or sites
- Plan a migration from one Tableau Server environment to another
- Create scripts for migration
- Use the Tableau Content Migration Tool
- Design an appropriate process topology
- Specify process counts (sizing)
- Specify node count
- Specify service-to-node relationships (node roles), including service isolation and service colocation
- Specify when to use external services
- Recommend a Tableau Server configuration
- Recommend an appropriate identity store and authentication configuration
- Recommend specific configuration keys and values to suit a given use case
- Recommend a configuration to address security requirements such as encryption at rest and encryption over the wire
- Recommend hardware and network specifications
- Create a disaster recovery strategy
Deploy Tableau Server
- Implement production-ready Tableau Server deployments
- Deploy and configure Tableau Server
- Configure an external file store
- Configure an external repository
- Configure an external gateway
- Configure an unlicensed node
- Configure a coordination ensemble
- Configure a backgrounder process with a specific node role
- Configure Tableau for a load balancer
- Install in an air-gapped environment
- Validate a disaster recovery/high availability test strategy
- Perform a blue-green deployment
- Locate and interpret Tableau Server installation logs
- Install and configure Resource Monitoring Tool server and agents
- Plan and implement automated deployment (using a script, that is, Silent Installer)
- Configure and troubleshoot supported authentication methods
- Configure and troubleshoot SAML
- Configure and troubleshoot Kerberos
- Configure and troubleshoot OpenID Connect
- Configure and troubleshoot Mutual SSL
- Configure and troubleshoot trusted authentication
- Configure and troubleshoot Connected App authentication
- Configure and troubleshoot LDAP
- Configure and troubleshoot Azure Active Directory
- Identify dependencies between authentication methods and Tableau environments, including Tableau Cloud
- Implement encryption
- Implement SSL encryption
- Implement database encryption
- Implement extract encryption
- Set up service principal names (SPNs) for Kerberos
- Install and verify Tableau Server on Linux
- Install Tableau Server on Linux by using CLI or the Installation Wizard
- Identify and resolve issues with installation on Linux
- Identify and resolve issues with operating system and networking configurations
- Identify and resolve issues with interfaces and interactions with external systems
- Identify and resolve issues with proxy issues
- Identify appropriate operating system logs and Tableau logs for troubleshooting
- Verify system groups and file system permissions
- Install and verify Tableau Server on Windows
- Install Tableau Server on Windows by using CLI or the Installation Wizard
- Identify and resolve issues with installation on Windows
- Identify and resolve issues with operating system and networking configurations
- Identify and resolve issues with interfaces and interactions with external systems
- Identify and resolve proxy issues
- Identify appropriate operating system logs and Tableau logs for troubleshooting
- Verify system groups and file system permissions
- Use the Run As service account
Monitor and Maintain a Tableau Deployment
- Create custom administrative views
- Interpret the repository schema and the event types
- Build admin dashboards for common scenarios
- Utilize Admin Insights on Tableau Cloud
- Perform load testing
- Recommend a load testing strategy
- Configure and use a load testing tool such as TabJolt
- Configure a test environment
- Create appropriate test plans
- Interpret load test results and determine the appropriate action
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks
- Troubleshoot complex performance issues related to workbooks, data sources, and other types of content
- Perform resource analysis, latency analysis, and workload analysis to determine root cause of performance issues
- Create an action to resolve issues identified in performance recordings
- Optimize caching for Tableau Server
- Maintain and tune a Tableau Server environment by using observability data
- Map the features and capabilities of the Tableau Server Resource Monitoring Tool to observability requirements
- Recommend a strategy for collecting and analyzing Tableau Server logs
- Recommend a strategy for collecting and analyzing Tableau Server process metrics
- Recommend a strategy for collecting and analyzing operating system and hardware-related metrics
- Interpret observability data
- Revise architecture based on observability data
- Troubleshoot connectivity in a single or multi-node environment, especially database connectivity
- Configure and implement Activity Log for Tableau Cloud or Tableau Server
- Automate server maintenance functions
- Manage and change Tableau Server resources programmatically, including Tableau Services Manager (TSM), REST APIs, and tabcmd
- Recommend a script deployment method, including Windows Scheduler and cron
- Recommend automated deployment methods for Tableau Server, Tableau Desktop, and Tableau Prep
- Design an automated complex disaster recovery process
- Plan and implement multi-node server upgrades
- Automate maintenance tasks, such as cleanup and backup
- Configure and use the Metadata API
- Manage server extensions
- Schedule content automation tasks by using webhooks, tabcmd, REST, or Hyper APIs
- Implement and configure dashboard extensions and web data connectors
- Configure trusted tickets and connected apps for a custom embedded solution