ArcGIS API for Python Associate 2024 Exam Information Guide
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Exam Details
- Exam Questions: 75
- Exam Duration: 1 Hour, 30 Minutes
- Exam Format: Multiple Choice
- Exam Language: English
- Certification Code: EPYA 2024
- Exam State: Available to Public
- Published Date: 20 March 2024
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Exam Purpose
The ArcGIS API for Python Associate 2024 exam tests the candidate's experience with the ArcGIS API for Python. This exam validates skills related to GIS administration, content management, visualization, and analysis.
Target Candidate Audience
Data analysts, data scientists, GIS professionals, or web GIS users and administrators seeking to demonstrate knowledge and application of the ArcGIS API for Python.
Description of Qualified Candidate
The ArcGIS API for Python Associate 2024 exam tests the candidate's experience with the ArcGIS API for Python. Candidates should have two to four years of experience and demonstrate proficiency when using the API for web GIS administration, analysis, visualization, and editing.
Candidate Qualifications
A qualified candidate should be able to perform the following tasks:
- Publish and overwrite
- Clone content
- Manage users
- Manage content
- Manage groups
- Create views
- Retrieve data from web GIS layers
- Analyze patterns
- Access feature attribute
- Use imagery
- Perform spatial analysis
- Use Pandas (ex: table filter, dataframe manipulation, select records based on criteria, etc.)
- Add layers to a map
- Build webmap
- Display webmap
- Add content to webmap/webscenes
- Edit features and records
- Conceptual knowledge surrounding package management
The following tasks are considered beyond the knowledge, skills, and abilities of the qualified candidate:
- Set up Jupyter notebook server
- Distributed collaboration
- Deep-learning related tech
- Jupyter Lab environment
- Tasks requiring a license (network analysis,
- Install and setup of Python environment (Conda, Notebook, etc.)
- ArcPy
- Clone users, groups
- Advanced data structures (abstract syntax trees)
- Syntax of methods
- Knowledge of third-party libraries other than Pandas
- Raster analysis
- ArcGIS Pro
A qualified candidate should be familiar with the following:
- ArcGIS API for Python version: 2.1.0.3 (March 6, 2023 release.)
- ArcGIS Online
- 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.
Administration 29%
- Identify portal/organization settings
- Identify techniques for managing items, groups, and users
- 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%
- Identify tools for creating and editing web map layers
- Identify strategies for visualizing non-spatial data
- Given a scenario, use the GIS, features, and mapping modules to visualize map content
Analyze 22%
- Given a scenario, identify the appropriate type of analysis
- Given a scenario, use the geoenrichment, geocode, geometry, features, network and raster modules to analyze data
- Given a dataset, use Spatially-Enabled DataFrames to conduct analysis (GeoAccessor, GeoSeriesAccessor, pandas DataFrame)
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
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