ESRI ArcGIS Enterprise Administrator Professional Questions with
Correct Answers (Grade A+)
Question 1: What function do the relational data store and tile cache data store serve in a base AGE
deployment?
Answer: The relational data store contains your portal's hosted feature layer data. The tile cache data store
contains caches for your portal's hosted 3D scene layers.
Question 2: What should you determine before designing a solution for a highly available system?
Answer: Your organization's acceptable downtime (often described in SLAs).
Question 3: What strategies can you use to maximize your system's uptime and performance?
Answer: Use duplication and load balancing to reduce single points of failure. Test your system to ensure
that it can meet your needed level of operational performance. Continuously monitor your system to detect
and address problems early.
Question 4: Which type of data supports behaviors like topologies and versioning?
Answer: User-managed data (enterprise geodatabase) supports these behaviors.
Question 5: Which type of data is more scalable in terms of services?
Answer: ArcGIS-managed data is more scalable in terms of services.
Question 6: What are reasons for storing data as user managed?
Answer: Need for versioning, topology archiving, or direct SQL access.
Question 7: What types of services can use the shared instance pool?
Answer: Only map services published from ArcGIS Pro can be configured to use the shared instance pool.
Capabilities other than feature access, WFS, WMS, and KML must be turned off before publishing.
Question 8: What types of services are good candidates for shared instances?
Answer: Services that are infrequently used tend to be good candidates for shared instances (e.g., services
for which you have already set the minimum dedicated instances to zero). Most cached map services.
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, Question 9: How do you determine the number of shared instances to configure for a given server host?
Answer: As a starting point, set the number of instances to the same number of CPU cores on the machine.
If most or all of your services use the shared instance pool, consider increasing the instance number to
double the number of cores.
Question 10: What are the benefits of aligning workloads to server resources organized by business
function?
Answer: Maximize performance, reduce risk, and meet business-defined SLAs.
Question 11: Why might you want to isolate visualization and analysis tasks in your deployment?
Answer: Compared to visualization tasks, analysis tasks are typically more CPU intensive, are executed
sporadically, and may sit idle for long periods and then spike when several tasks are executed. Therefore,
machines that support analyses may require more powerful processors, while machines dedicated to
visualization can use more modest processors.
Question 12: How does workload separation enhance overall system stability?
Answer: Any overloaded machines cannot affect other machines in the deployment, which protects critical
tasks from resource contention.
Question 13: What are example metrics that can be tracked using ArcGIS Monitor?
Answer: Web response time, AGS service min/max instances, Database connections & size, Processor
utilization.
Question 14: Which types of services are exposed by a map image layer?
Answer: A dynamic or cached map service can be exposed as a map image layer.
Question 15: What is the main difference between a tile layer and a map image layer?
Answer: Tile layers are hosted by the system.
Question 16: You share a new web map that uses existing layers. Before sharing the map, you modify
the symbology of the layers. Are the original layers modified when you share the map?
Answer: No, the original layers are not modified. Any changes to the layers' symbology are stored with the
new web map.
Question 17: Which type of service can be published from a mosaic dataset?
Answer: Image service
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Correct Answers (Grade A+)
Question 1: What function do the relational data store and tile cache data store serve in a base AGE
deployment?
Answer: The relational data store contains your portal's hosted feature layer data. The tile cache data store
contains caches for your portal's hosted 3D scene layers.
Question 2: What should you determine before designing a solution for a highly available system?
Answer: Your organization's acceptable downtime (often described in SLAs).
Question 3: What strategies can you use to maximize your system's uptime and performance?
Answer: Use duplication and load balancing to reduce single points of failure. Test your system to ensure
that it can meet your needed level of operational performance. Continuously monitor your system to detect
and address problems early.
Question 4: Which type of data supports behaviors like topologies and versioning?
Answer: User-managed data (enterprise geodatabase) supports these behaviors.
Question 5: Which type of data is more scalable in terms of services?
Answer: ArcGIS-managed data is more scalable in terms of services.
Question 6: What are reasons for storing data as user managed?
Answer: Need for versioning, topology archiving, or direct SQL access.
Question 7: What types of services can use the shared instance pool?
Answer: Only map services published from ArcGIS Pro can be configured to use the shared instance pool.
Capabilities other than feature access, WFS, WMS, and KML must be turned off before publishing.
Question 8: What types of services are good candidates for shared instances?
Answer: Services that are infrequently used tend to be good candidates for shared instances (e.g., services
for which you have already set the minimum dedicated instances to zero). Most cached map services.
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, Question 9: How do you determine the number of shared instances to configure for a given server host?
Answer: As a starting point, set the number of instances to the same number of CPU cores on the machine.
If most or all of your services use the shared instance pool, consider increasing the instance number to
double the number of cores.
Question 10: What are the benefits of aligning workloads to server resources organized by business
function?
Answer: Maximize performance, reduce risk, and meet business-defined SLAs.
Question 11: Why might you want to isolate visualization and analysis tasks in your deployment?
Answer: Compared to visualization tasks, analysis tasks are typically more CPU intensive, are executed
sporadically, and may sit idle for long periods and then spike when several tasks are executed. Therefore,
machines that support analyses may require more powerful processors, while machines dedicated to
visualization can use more modest processors.
Question 12: How does workload separation enhance overall system stability?
Answer: Any overloaded machines cannot affect other machines in the deployment, which protects critical
tasks from resource contention.
Question 13: What are example metrics that can be tracked using ArcGIS Monitor?
Answer: Web response time, AGS service min/max instances, Database connections & size, Processor
utilization.
Question 14: Which types of services are exposed by a map image layer?
Answer: A dynamic or cached map service can be exposed as a map image layer.
Question 15: What is the main difference between a tile layer and a map image layer?
Answer: Tile layers are hosted by the system.
Question 16: You share a new web map that uses existing layers. Before sharing the map, you modify
the symbology of the layers. Are the original layers modified when you share the map?
Answer: No, the original layers are not modified. Any changes to the layers' symbology are stored with the
new web map.
Question 17: Which type of service can be published from a mosaic dataset?
Answer: Image service
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