Esri Technical Certification Questions
and Answers (ArcGIS Desktop Entry)
A city planner must display all coffee shops in Benicia, California, on a map. The city
planner is signed in to ArcGIS Online in all ArcGIS Desktop applications.
How should the planner meet this requirement?
Search for 'coffee shops, Benicia, CA' in the search bar on the Geocoding toolbar in
ArcMap
Search for 'coffee shops, Benicia, CA' in the search bar of the Locate pane in ArcGIS
Pro
Search for 'coffee shops, Benicia, CA' in the search bar of the map viewer on ArcGIS
Online
Search for 'coffee shops, Benicia, CA' in the Go To Location search bar in ArcCatalog -
ANSWER-Search for 'coffee shops, Benicia, CA' in the search bar of the Locate pane in
ArcGIS Pro
A user is a member of a group in ArcGIS Online and would like to access hosted feature
layers shared to the group.
How can the user efficiently achieve this in ArcMap?
File > Sign In > Catalog window > Ready-To-Use Services
File > ArcGIS Online > Sign In > Groups
File > Sign In > Catalog window > My Hosted Services
Sign in to ArcGIS Online > Groups > View Group Items > Open item in ArcGIS Desktop
- ANSWER-File > ArcGIS Online > Sign In > Groups
A user mistakenly zooms to a large scale and can no longer see all of the active layers
from the table of contents in the current map.
A single click of which button in the Tools toolbar will zoom the map to show all layers in
the active data frame?
Full Extent
Fixed Zoom Out
Go To XY
, Find - ANSWER-Full Extent
An administrator shares a map package (.mpk) to a shared directory. The user needs to
create a web map from the map package.
How should the user achieve this?
Upload the map package to ArcGIS Online
Import the map package to ArcGIS Pro
Import the map package to ArcMap
Drag and drop the map package into the map viewer - ANSWER-Import the map
package to ArcGIS Pro
An ArcGIS user chooses a mobile device to perform a field survey of road damage in an
area. The user must obtain various types of information on the damage including
surface type, damage, location, and an image of damage to the surface.
Which ArcGIS platform application should be used for this task?
Drone2Map for ArcGIS
Collector for ArcGIS
Explorer for ArcGIS
ArcGIS App - ANSWER-Collector for ArcGIS
An ArcGIS user has been tasked with creating a feature class of sidewalk centerlines in
an existing geodatabase. The sidewalk feature class must use the same spatial
reference as the data in the organization.
How should the Create Feature Class geoprocessing tool be used to get the correct
spatial reference?
Import the spatial reference from an existing dataset in the coordinate system
parameter
Set the Template Feature Class parameter to the existing feature class
Use the default settings for the coordinate system parameter
Set the Output Coordinates in the Environment Settings to Same As Input - ANSWER-
Import the spatial reference from an existing dataset in the coordinate system
parameter
and Answers (ArcGIS Desktop Entry)
A city planner must display all coffee shops in Benicia, California, on a map. The city
planner is signed in to ArcGIS Online in all ArcGIS Desktop applications.
How should the planner meet this requirement?
Search for 'coffee shops, Benicia, CA' in the search bar on the Geocoding toolbar in
ArcMap
Search for 'coffee shops, Benicia, CA' in the search bar of the Locate pane in ArcGIS
Pro
Search for 'coffee shops, Benicia, CA' in the search bar of the map viewer on ArcGIS
Online
Search for 'coffee shops, Benicia, CA' in the Go To Location search bar in ArcCatalog -
ANSWER-Search for 'coffee shops, Benicia, CA' in the search bar of the Locate pane in
ArcGIS Pro
A user is a member of a group in ArcGIS Online and would like to access hosted feature
layers shared to the group.
How can the user efficiently achieve this in ArcMap?
File > Sign In > Catalog window > Ready-To-Use Services
File > ArcGIS Online > Sign In > Groups
File > Sign In > Catalog window > My Hosted Services
Sign in to ArcGIS Online > Groups > View Group Items > Open item in ArcGIS Desktop
- ANSWER-File > ArcGIS Online > Sign In > Groups
A user mistakenly zooms to a large scale and can no longer see all of the active layers
from the table of contents in the current map.
A single click of which button in the Tools toolbar will zoom the map to show all layers in
the active data frame?
Full Extent
Fixed Zoom Out
Go To XY
, Find - ANSWER-Full Extent
An administrator shares a map package (.mpk) to a shared directory. The user needs to
create a web map from the map package.
How should the user achieve this?
Upload the map package to ArcGIS Online
Import the map package to ArcGIS Pro
Import the map package to ArcMap
Drag and drop the map package into the map viewer - ANSWER-Import the map
package to ArcGIS Pro
An ArcGIS user chooses a mobile device to perform a field survey of road damage in an
area. The user must obtain various types of information on the damage including
surface type, damage, location, and an image of damage to the surface.
Which ArcGIS platform application should be used for this task?
Drone2Map for ArcGIS
Collector for ArcGIS
Explorer for ArcGIS
ArcGIS App - ANSWER-Collector for ArcGIS
An ArcGIS user has been tasked with creating a feature class of sidewalk centerlines in
an existing geodatabase. The sidewalk feature class must use the same spatial
reference as the data in the organization.
How should the Create Feature Class geoprocessing tool be used to get the correct
spatial reference?
Import the spatial reference from an existing dataset in the coordinate system
parameter
Set the Template Feature Class parameter to the existing feature class
Use the default settings for the coordinate system parameter
Set the Output Coordinates in the Environment Settings to Same As Input - ANSWER-
Import the spatial reference from an existing dataset in the coordinate system
parameter
