esri exam questions with correct answers
What property of a shapefile should an analyst be aware of when creating statistics
from numeric fields? Answer✔✔ Shapefiles CANNOT store currency values.
A GIS analyst is editing several feature classes associated with city utilities. The
analyst selects a line feature class that represents the city's gas main, and opens
Create Features.
By default, which type of features are created? Answer✔✔ Polylines
An ArcMap user needs to inspect the geometry and attribute schema properties of a
file geodatabase feature class. The user does NOT want to add the feature class to a
map. Answer✔✔ Explore spatial data on the Geography tab in the metadata
Refer to the exhibit.
What does the text in the box describe? Answer✔✔ One inch equals 1567 feet or
One unit equals 1567 units
A GIS analyst is working with a large number of polygon features in a layer in
ArcGIS Pro and needs to display only a subset of features.
How should the analyst accomplish this task? Answer✔✔ Apply a query on the
polygon layer to exclude certain features based on a SQL expression.
A landscape designer needs to create features that represent landscaping plans. The
employee opens a new project, adds a map, and opens the Create Features pane.
The employee receives an error in the pane.
Which step did the employee miss during the editing workflow? Answer✔✔ Add
an editable layer to the map
, Which data format can be added as an item to ArcGIS Online? Answer✔✔
Shapefile in a zipped folder
A GIS analyst receives a file geodatabase containing various feature classes. The
analyst must find additional information regarding the author, credits, and use
limitations on many of these feature classes.
How should the analyst find these details? Answer✔✔ Right-click each feature
class in the Catalog window > Item Description (metadata)
An ArcGIS Pro user wants to add a new 2D map to a project using an existing
ArcMap map document.
Which workflow should the user follow? Answer✔✔ Insert Tab > Import Map
A GIS technician must place points representing light poles 5 feet from the
digitized edge of a road.
Which editing tool should the editor use? Answer✔✔ Point Add To Line
An ArcGIS user is displaying layers in ArcMap from several different geographic
coordinate systems. Some data is shifted from where it should be. Several
geographic coordinate system transformations are listed in the Geographic
Coordinate Systems Transformations dialog box.
Which of the following workloads will allow the correct geographic transformation
to be applied to resolve the data shift? Answer✔✔ Open the Data Frame Properties
dialog box > Change the transformation for the data frame
An ArcGIS user with a parcel layer and a stand-alone table of assessor's data is
creating a tax map that will display data from both attribute tables. Both the parcel
layer and the stand-alone table have one record per parcel. Which operation should
the ArcGIS user perform to prepare the data for display? Answer✔✔ join
What property of a shapefile should an analyst be aware of when creating statistics
from numeric fields? Answer✔✔ Shapefiles CANNOT store currency values.
A GIS analyst is editing several feature classes associated with city utilities. The
analyst selects a line feature class that represents the city's gas main, and opens
Create Features.
By default, which type of features are created? Answer✔✔ Polylines
An ArcMap user needs to inspect the geometry and attribute schema properties of a
file geodatabase feature class. The user does NOT want to add the feature class to a
map. Answer✔✔ Explore spatial data on the Geography tab in the metadata
Refer to the exhibit.
What does the text in the box describe? Answer✔✔ One inch equals 1567 feet or
One unit equals 1567 units
A GIS analyst is working with a large number of polygon features in a layer in
ArcGIS Pro and needs to display only a subset of features.
How should the analyst accomplish this task? Answer✔✔ Apply a query on the
polygon layer to exclude certain features based on a SQL expression.
A landscape designer needs to create features that represent landscaping plans. The
employee opens a new project, adds a map, and opens the Create Features pane.
The employee receives an error in the pane.
Which step did the employee miss during the editing workflow? Answer✔✔ Add
an editable layer to the map
, Which data format can be added as an item to ArcGIS Online? Answer✔✔
Shapefile in a zipped folder
A GIS analyst receives a file geodatabase containing various feature classes. The
analyst must find additional information regarding the author, credits, and use
limitations on many of these feature classes.
How should the analyst find these details? Answer✔✔ Right-click each feature
class in the Catalog window > Item Description (metadata)
An ArcGIS Pro user wants to add a new 2D map to a project using an existing
ArcMap map document.
Which workflow should the user follow? Answer✔✔ Insert Tab > Import Map
A GIS technician must place points representing light poles 5 feet from the
digitized edge of a road.
Which editing tool should the editor use? Answer✔✔ Point Add To Line
An ArcGIS user is displaying layers in ArcMap from several different geographic
coordinate systems. Some data is shifted from where it should be. Several
geographic coordinate system transformations are listed in the Geographic
Coordinate Systems Transformations dialog box.
Which of the following workloads will allow the correct geographic transformation
to be applied to resolve the data shift? Answer✔✔ Open the Data Frame Properties
dialog box > Change the transformation for the data frame
An ArcGIS user with a parcel layer and a stand-alone table of assessor's data is
creating a tax map that will display data from both attribute tables. Both the parcel
layer and the stand-alone table have one record per parcel. Which operation should
the ArcGIS user perform to prepare the data for display? Answer✔✔ join
