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Help preparing for Enterprise Administration Exam

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Guinevere
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3 weeks ago

Hi!

I am studying to take the Enterprise Administration Exam, but I have having issues with using the EIG provided. It is way too vague and confusing for me to use to focus on what I need to know for the exam. I am looking for someone to help provide clarification so that I can study properly for the exam rather than studying the wrong things.

For reference I am looking at the 2025 EIG: https://community.esri.com/t5/esri-technical-certification-exams/eaep-2025-eig/ba-p/1595261

Here are some of my questions:

"Install and configure a base ArcGIS Enterprise deployment": Is this a Windows/Linux or Kubernetes deployment? A single machine base deployment or a muti-machine base deployment? Will cloud deployments be part of the questions? Disconnected environments?

"Apply Esri best practices to configure security for ArcGIS Enterprise": How the security best practices is configured changes based on the environment and the type of deployment in my experience. So what parameters are we looking at? Also, it changes even with disconnected environments, will those also be covered in the exam?

"Integrate an identity store or provider": Are we looking at a specific identity store? Windows Authorization? Azure Active Directory? Keycloak?...etc. 

"Troubleshoot functional issues between ArcGIS Enterprise components": Will this cover some most common issues or feature some high level unique issues? DNS resolving? Firewalls? Again what type of deployment are we looking at? I have seen some crazy stuff before.

"Explain how to register on-premises or cloud-based data sources with ArcGIS Enterprise": Will this be an S3 bucket, Azure Blob storage, google cloud storage, OSS,...etc? or will we be covering basic concepts or ideas here?

"Explain how to set up and manage distributed collaborations": There are many types of going about this. What kind of scenario are we looking at? 

All in all, I just feel that the study materials are too vague and there are too many ways or options of doing anything that is mentioned. It also doesn't help that much of the documentation itself can be rather vague as well, because as I have been told by an Esri Rep. before "...that there are so many ways to configure enterprise that specifying a specific configuration within the documentation is avoided...". which has frustrated many of my IT and Cloud Admins to all ends. 

Thus any insight and more detailed guidance will be appreciated.

Thanks

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TravisOrmsby
by Esri Contributor
Esri Contributor
Tuesday

Hi @Guinevere 

It's true that the exam information guide is not highly specific, which is a purposeful choice. It's probably better to think of the guide as activating knowledge you already have rather than a detailed study guide for learning specific new information. To maintain the validity of the exam, I can't provide many specific answers to these questions, but I can share some general thoughts that may be helpful:

  • All the questions and answers in the exam are validated against publicly-available resources. These resources are almost always the product documentation, but may also include other official resources like the Architecture Center.  That means you can largely expect to see standard scenarios and are unlikely to see extremely unusual configurations or edge cases.
  • Pay close attention to the part of the EIG that describes what won't be on the exam. For example, no Enterprise on Kubernetes. No HA. No network administration.
  • If a topic isn't excluded, and is relevant to the tasks a qualified candidate should be able to perform, it's fair game. Multi-machine deployments, disconnected environments, how security and troubleshooting practices depend on the environment are all possible question topics. That said, the exam isn't designed to trick you with gotchas.
  • Because this is an Esri certification exam, you can expect that most questions will not depend on variations between different third party products for the same solution. For example, I wouldn't focus on the differences between deploying ArcGIS Enterprise on Azure vs. AWS. But it might be relevant to understand the difference between deploying resources in the cloud vs. on-prem generally.
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