EAEP 2025 EIG

JenniferParra · ‎03-13-2025

ArcGIS Enterprise Administration Professional 2025

Exam Details

Exam Questions: 75
Exam Duration: 1 Hour, 45 Minutes
Exam Format: Multiple Choice
Exam Language: English
Certification Code: EAEP 2025
Exam State: In Development
- Pending blueprint survey opening 16 June 2025 to 1 July 2025
- Operational exam will launch 4 November 2025
- Visit Esri Community to learn more about this exam and how to participate in exam development

Exam Purpose

The Enterprise Administration Professional exam validates skills related to deploying

ArcGIS Enterprise; configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting the core components; and managing updates to services and apps. This exam will test the candidate’s experience applying these skills and processes to support enterprise GIS workflows.

Target Candidate Audience

The Enterprise Administration Professional exam is for candidates with experience applying ArcGIS concepts and processes to relative workflows. It is recommended candidates have at least 2 years of experience installing, configuring, and supporting ArcGIS Enterprise. Target audience is also candidates who have the following or similar roles: ArcGIS Enterprise administrators, ArcGIS consultants, System integrators, System administrators, GIS managers.

Description of Qualified Candidate

The Enterprise Administration Professional exam is designed for candidates with at least two years of knowledge, understanding, and experience with ArcGIS Enterprise. It is recommended that the candidate have extensive experience implementing and administering ArcGIS Enterprise according to Esri best practices. A qualified candidate can troubleshoot common technology issues and distinguish between ArcGIS Enterprise components and supported systems issues, such as RDBMS and web servers.

Candidate Qualifications

A qualified candidate should be able to perform the following tasks:

Install and configure a base ArcGIS Enterprise deployment
Troubleshoot ArcGIS Enterprise deployments
Understand, implement, and troubleshoot ArcGIS software licensing
Follow ArcGIS Enterprise security best practices
Understand basic operating system administration
Integrate identity store/provider
Federate an ArcGIS Server
Publish and administer web services
Manage users, groups, and content
Differentiate between service types and their uses
Understand item dependencies
Access and use the REST API
Register data stores (e.g., folders, databases, cloud storage)
Identify when Python could be used to automate administration workflows
Access and interpret ArcGIS Enterprise logs
Use WebGISDR
Use appropriate Esri automation deployment methods
Understand different ArcGIS Server roles (e.g., GeoEvent Server, Image Server, Notebook Server, etc.)
Determine system health, conduct performance tuning, and identify bottlenecks across an ArcGIS Enterprise deployment

The following tasks are considered beyond the knowledge, skills, and abilities of the qualified candidate:

Install and configure a high-availability deployment of ArcGIS Enterprise
Auto-scale ArcGIS Enterprise
Computer networking administration
Administer geodatabases
Application development
Perform GIS analyses
Deploy ArcGIS Enterprise on Kubernetes
ArcGIS Server extensions (e.g., ArcGIS Maritime, ArcGIS Data Interoperability)
Author Python scripts
Non-Esri system software

A qualified candidate should be familiar with the following:

ArcGIS Enterprise

Skills Measured

Candidates should use the exam content sections below as a checklist to identify gaps between their knowledge and the skills measured by the exam. The relative weight indicates the approximate size of each section. It is recommended that preparation be focused in areas where knowledge gaps are found.

Implement and Deploy ArcGIS Enterprise <Pending Blueprint Survey>

Apply Esri guidelines to install and configure an ArcGIS Enterprise deployment
Apply Esri best practices to configure security for ArcGIS Enterprise
Apply procedural concepts to authorize ArcGIS Enterprise
Identify appropriate ArcGIS Server roles
Identify appropriate ArcGIS Data Store types

Troubleshoot ArcGIS Enterprise <Pending Blueprint Survey>

Troubleshoot functional issues between ArcGIS Enterprise components
Interpret ArcGIS Enterprise logs
Troubleshoot performance issues

Maintain and Support ArcGIS Enterprise <Pending Blueprint Survey>

Determine how to perform system health checks and maintain stability
Apply best practices to conduct backups and restorations
Apply procedural concepts to optimize services
Apply Esri guidelines to upgrade ArcGIS Enterprise

Manage Content <Pending Blueprint Survey>

Apply procedural concepts to configure service capabilities and properties to meet user requirements
Apply procedural concepts to register on-premises or cloud-based data sources
Apply procedural concepts to manage groups and content
Apply procedural concepts to manage users
Apply procedural concepts to set up and manage distributed collaborations
Apply procedural concepts to configure portal website

Resources

To help prepare for the exam, we recommend candidates use the training resources provided below, along with reviewing the list of exam objectives, to identify and fill any knowledge gaps. Completing the recommended training courses does not guarantee a passing score on a certification exam.

The Esri-curated learning plan for this exam is updated regularly to reflect the latest Esri Academy resources and resource retirement schedules.

Esri Academy

Esri Community

Link to ArcGIS Documentation

Exam publication date (January 2022) and software published version (10.9.1)
ArcGIS Documentation
ArcGIS Enterprise Lifecycle
ArcGIS Enterprise Matrix
ArcGIS Documentation Archive

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