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Enterprise Administration Professional 2201 Exam Information Guide

 

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Exam Details

  • Exam Questions: 65
  • Exam Duration: 1 Hour, 45 Minutes
  • Exam Format: Multiple Choice
  • Exam Language: English
  • Exam State: Available to Public

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 31%

  • 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 17%

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

Maintain and Support ArcGIS Enterprise 22%

  • 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 31%

  • 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. 

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About the Author
I am a Sr Global Training Specialist within Esri Training Services. I support exam development for the Technical Certification Program.