EAEP_2025 ArcGIS Enterprise Administration Professional 2025 Exam Preparation Resources

1. A GIS administrator team must perform system maintenance over the weekend. The team must ensure that members do not add, publish, or edit any items in ArcGIS Enterprise. Members still need the ability to access and view items as necessary.

Which action should the team perform?

2. A GIS contractor is developing and testing an upcoming workflow for a client. The contractor is publishing fictional hydrant locations as a service to be consumed in a custom application. The contractor wants to consume as few resources as possible for the client’s ArcGIS Server because they do not have a testing environment.

Which type of service should the contractor publish?

3. An organization's portal license file provides for 30 Editor user type and 15 GIS Professional user type licenses. After performing a needs assessment, the GIS administrator discovers that the organization requires 10 Viewer, 40 Editor, and 20 GIS Professional user type licenses.

When downloading a new license file, how many of each user type license should the administrator specify?

4. A GIS administrator is responsible for maintaining the stability of a large internal ArcGIS Enterprise deployment. After the Domain CA certificate is replaced with a new one and the new PKCS#12 format PFX file is imported into all Portal for ArcGIS, ArcGIS Server, and ArcGIS Data Store deployments, the following issues are identified:

When connecting directly to the Portal for ArcGIS administration endpoint via port 7443, the new certificate is not recognized and is considered invalid

When connecting directly to the ArcGIS Server administration endpoint via port 6443, the new certificate is not recognized and is considered invalid

When connecting to the ArcGIS Data Store endpoint via port 2443, the new certificate is recognized and considered valid

What is causing this issue?

5. A GIS administrator is publishing a feature service. All 2,400 features in the dataset must be able to be returned from a single request to the service.

Which action should the administrator perform?

6. A GIS administrator must share an imagery service with another ArcGIS Enterprise. The administrator sets up a distributed collaboration with the other ArcGIS Enterprise and shares the service as a reference. The users in the other organization keep being prompted for credentials.

Which action should the administrator perform?

7. A GIS administrator receives reports of slow-performing services and notices that disk space is filling up after recent troubleshooting sessions.

In those sessions, the following tasks were performed:

Services added to the shared instance pool

Log retention settings reduced

Log level set to Debug

ArcGIS Server machine restarted

An additional ArcGIS Server site federated

What is causing this slow performance?

8. An ArcGIS Pro user receives the following error when trying to publish to ArcGIS Enterprise:

“Unable to publish to ArcGIS Server, error 001369: failed to create service”

The ArcGIS Server logs reveal:

Failed to create service

Internal server error

Unable to instantiate class for XML schema type

Invalid XML registry file

390 ArcSOC processes running

Server uses only half of available RAM

Which action should the administrator perform?

9. An organization publishes a map image layer to ArcGIS Enterprise that references data from a user-managed PostgreSQL geodatabase.

The schema of a table is updated to add a field, but the map service cannot be stopped due to a Service Level Agreement (SLA). Schema locking is disabled.

Even after restarting the map service and database, the new field is not shown in the REST endpoint.

Which action should the administrator perform?

10. An organization buys an additional 25 licenses for ArcGIS Pro and needs to assign the licenses to ArcGIS Enterprise users.

Which license file is required to make those assignments?

11. An organization configures an ArcGIS Enterprise portal to allow single sign-on using Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA).

Configuration includes:

All accounts in the Active Directory group gisusers are added to the portal Existing users can sign in without entering credentials

However, new employees assigned to the same gisusers group cannot log in, create content, or join groups.

What is causing this issue for the new employees?

12. A portal administrator is trying to enable web-tier authentication (IWA) for the ArcGIS Enterprise portal using Active Directory and IIS.

Steps taken:

Configured portal with Microsoft version of ArcGIS Web Adaptor

Set identity store to Active Directory

Added AD users to the portal

Disabled anonymous access in Portal

Users are not prompted to sign in and are not automatically logged in.

What should the administrator do next?

13. An ArcGIS Enterprise administrator wants to publish their feature classes as layers in bulk from a registered geodatabase.

Which action should the administrator perform?

14. A client has an internet-accessible ArcGIS Enterprise deployment with the Web Adaptors in the DMZ, and the remaining components are on an internal network behind a firewall. A user on the internet must access a web map in that environment.

Which ports must be open in the firewall between the DMZ and the internal network?

15. An organization experiences a temporary loss of service for its ArcGIS Enterprise deployment due to expired licenses.

What should the administrator have done to prevent this issue?

16. In a multi-machine ArcGIS Server site, the following is observed:

Random services missing on one server but reappear later

Intermittent service failures

Warnings and severe errors like:

Failed to write heartbeat

Error synchronizing with config store

Failed to return all folder configurations

Failed to return all services configurations in folder

What should the administrator review?

17. An organization wants to use the standard feature analysis tools available in ArcGIS Enterprise to create hosted feature layers for planning and design.

Which data store is required for this work?

18. A GIS administrator has a group of users who share maintenance responsibilities for a critical application. The administrator needs to allow all users to edit the application without transferring ownership.

Which option should the administrator use?

19. A client wants to perform incremental webgisdr backups daily and full backups weekly. They store all data in the relational ArcGIS Data Store, with no tile or map caches.

Which action is required to enable incremental backups?

20. After upgrading, a GIS administrator tries to log in to Portal for ArcGIS using admin credentials. The portal site doesn't display correctly and an error is shown. Login fails.

What should the administrator do?

21. A GIS administrator uses a data connection file (SDE file) for a Microsoft SQL Server database to add a user-maintained data store item to Portal for ArcGIS.

Now, the administrator must ensure that five users can access the data store item to publish to federated servers. The administrator shares the SDE file with coworkers.

Which additional step must be taken?