If you completed this workspace and then realized you had an additional (separate) MapInfo TAB file of zones you needed to include, which of the following steps would not allow you to add this data to your workspace?

• A. Combine the MapInfo TAB files into a single file (in FME or MapInfo) and read that instead.
• B. Add a new MapInfo TAB reader with the new file as the source path parameter.
• C. Update the existing MapInfo TAB reader to read the new feature type.
• D. Add the new MapInfo TAB file to your existing MapInfo TAB reader source path parameter.

Answer: (C)

When bringing in MapInfo TAB data, you configure readers to target either a specific dataset inside a TAB or the TAB file itself. The feature type in a MapInfo TAB reader selects which dataset (layer) to read from the TAB file. A separate TAB file for zones isn’t another feature type inside the same file—it's a different file entirely. So trying to read it by changing the feature type on the existing reader won’t access that second file’s data.

That’s why updating the existing reader to read a new feature type would not work to bring in the new file’s data. To include the extra zones, you’d either read the new TAB file with its own reader, or merge the TAB files into one and read that, or add the new file to the reader’s source (if the reader supports multiple sources) and then merge the outputs as needed.