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Current Version: ArcGIS API for Python Associate 2024
The 2024 exam version is an associate level exam. It is intended for candidates that have four years of applied experience and should be proficient in best practices and uses of ArcGIS API for Python related to GIS administration, content management, visualization, and analysis.
Exam Version Enhancements
- Re-evaluated the expertise recommendation and re-classified as an Associate level exam
- Create an enhanced score report to provide section level performance pass/fail ratings
- Reviewed all sections and objectives to ensure they properly align with the latest software version
- Grow the exam content to support 65-questions and 4-sections
Previous Version: ArcGIS API for Python 20-001 – Retired 30 June 2024
The 2020 version was originally published as a Specialty exam. Specialty exams were created with only 40-multiple choice questions and do not provide test takers with a section level score report to provide performance information. All specialty exams have been converted to associate level exams to improve the test-taker experience, and all specialty exams were retired on 30 June 2024. Learn more about Specialty exam retirement here.
- Level: Specialty
- Version: 20-001
- Published date: May 2020
- Retired date: June 2024
- Exam State: Retired
Exam Version Comparison
- Number of questions, exam duration, software version:
- 2024 Version: 75 questions, 1 hour and 30-minutes to complete, ArcGIS API version 2.1.0.3 (March 6, 2023 release)
- 20-001 Version: 40 questions, 60 minutes to complete
2024 Exam Version | 20-001 Exam Version |
Administration – 29% | Discover and Share – 40% |
Identify portal/organization settings | Use the GIS and features modules to apply procedural concepts to connect to the ArcGIS organization and manage content |
Identify techniques for managing items, groups, and users | Use the GIS and featured modules with a set of requirements to publish items |
Given a scenario, use the GIS module to manage items, groups, and users | |
Content Management - 29% | |
Identify tools for managing content | |
Describe the process for managing content | |
Given a scenario, use the GIS, features, mapping, and widgets modules to create and edit web map layers | |
Given a set of requirements, use the GIS or features module to publish items | |
Visualization – 20% | Visualize – 33% |
Identify tools for creating and editing web map layers | Use the GIS, features, mapping, and widgets modules to create and edit web map layers |
Identify strategies for visualizing non-spatial data | Use the GIS, features, mapping, geocode, and geometry modules to visualize map content |
Given a scenario, use the GIS, features, and mapping modules to visualize map content | |
Analyze – 22% | Analyze – 27% |
Given a scenario, identify the appropriate type of analysis | Use the features and geometry modules and their submodules to perform spatial analysis |
Given a scenario, use the geoenrichment, geocode, geometry, features, network and raster modules to analyze data | Use the GeoAccessor and GeoSeriesAccessor modules to utilize Spatially Enabled DataFrame |
Given a dataset, use Spatially-Enabled DataFrames to conduct analysis (GeoAccessor, GeoSeriesAccessor, pandas DataFrame) | |
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