Exam Comparison: GIS Fundamentals Foundation 2024 and ArcGIS Pro Foundation 2101
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- Experience: The GIS Fundamentals exam is designed for candidates with 150 hours of GIS coursework or 3-6 months of GIS workplace experience and the ArcGIS Pro exams validate the skills and experience with Esri software at between 0-2 years’ experience.
- Exam Duration: The GIS Fundamentals Foundation exam allows for 1 hour, and 30 minutes and the ArcGIS Pro Foundation exam duration is 1 hour, and 30 minutes.
- Exam Blueprints are significantly different (table below) and shown on each Exam Information Guide: GIS Fundamentals Foundation and ArcGIS Pro Foundation.
GIS Fundamentals Foundation 2024 | ArcGIS Pro Foundation 2101 |
Data Discovery - 35% | ArcGIS Fundamentals - 18% |
Identify steps to add data | Identify the use and purpose of the ArcGIS components |
Identify data types | Recall procedural concepts necessary to work with ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online |
Identify coordinate systems | Apply concepts required to select appropriate ArcGIS applications for a given workflow or use-case |
| Define fundamental GIS concepts | |
| Discover content in ArcGIS Online | |
| Describe how to use map navigation tools | |
Processing and Analysis - 22% | Data Management - 34% |
Describe how to use attribute tables | Identify how to access data properties |
Recall how to perform analysis | Describe the purpose of item details, item descriptions, and metadata |
Recall how to edit local data in ArcGIS Pro | Identify the correct procedures necessary to create a file geodatabase and a feature class |
| Identify supported ArcGIS data formats |
| Recognize the different data management techniques in ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online |
| Determine the appropriate method for managing tabular data |
| | Identify basic editing workflows that are necessary to create or modify features |
| | Recognize the purpose and characteristics of geographic and projected coordinate systems |
Mapping and Visualization - 25% | Mapping & Visualization - 23% |
Identify steps to change Basemaps | Recall how to apply and modify symbology |
Recognize how to represent and style data | Determine the appropriate method to modify layer properties |
Identify steps to generate labels | Identify the steps necessary to label features |
Identify layer properties in ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online | Identify the use and effects of scale on a map |
| Identify the steps necessary for adding data |
| | Demonstrate an understanding of how to configure map properties |
Managing and Sharing Content - 18% | Sharing Data - 11% |
Describe how to validate a map for sharing content from ArcGIS Pro | Recall how to discover content from ArcGIS Online |
Organize content in ArcGIS Online | Determine the appropriate method to share content from ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online |
Identify elements of ArcGIS Online | |
| | Performing Analysis - 14% |
| | Determine the appropriate workflow using proximity and overlay tools |
| | Determine the correct workflow to select features interactively, using attributes or by location |
| | Recall methods to find geographic locations |
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