Databricks Certified Data Analyst Associate free question 7 / 10 · Domain 6: Working with Dashboards and Visualizations in Databricks
An analyst copies a page from the Sales dashboard and pastes it into the draft of the Finance dashboard. Later, she edits the query of one of the Sales datasets. What happens to the pasted page in Finance?
- It changes after Finance is republished, which re-links the copied datasets.
- It breaks, because pasted pages bring their widgets but not their datasets.
- It changes too, because the pasted page still points to the Sales datasets.
- It does not change: the paste created new datasets in the Finance dashboard.
Show the answer and explanation
Answer: D
Why this is correct
The authoring page says you can copy a page from one dashboard and paste it into another one that is in draft mode. The pasted page includes all widgets from the original page, and all datasets used by the page are created as new datasets in the target dashboard, ensuring the page functions independently. Editing the Sales dataset afterwards changes only the Sales dashboard.
Why the other options are wrong
"It changes too, because the pasted page still points to the Sales datasets." … Copying across dashboards does not keep a link to the source. The datasets used by the page are created as new datasets in the target dashboard.
"It breaks, because pasted pages bring their widgets but not their datasets." … The pasted page includes all widgets from the original page, and the datasets they use are created in the target, so the page works on its own.
"It changes after Finance is republished, which re-links the copied datasets." … Publishing creates a snapshot of the Finance dashboard as it is. There is no link to the Sales datasets for a republish to restore.
Clone versus copy
Cloning a page inside the same dashboard makes an exact copy of the page and its widgets while the underlying datasets remain unchanged, so the clone and the original share datasets. Copying to another dashboard gives the page its own datasets.