Esri ArcGIS Enterprise Geodata Management Professional (EGMP_2025) Certification Sample Questions

01. Field staff carry a set of reference layers on handheld devices. They work where there is no connectivity, they never send anything back, and the organization wants no database server involved and the smallest practical footprint on each device.
Which format should the data be distributed in?
a) A file geodatabase
b) A mobile geodatabase
c) An enterprise geodatabase

02. A GIS team must display a table from a corporate database that already stores coordinates in a spatial column. The database administrator will not permit the table to be altered in any way, so it cannot be registered with the geodatabase, and the team only needs to view and query it.
Which approach should the designer choose?
a) A query layer defined on the database table
b) Create a checkout replica of the table
c) Register the table as versioned and publish it

03. An integration process inserts records into a non-versioned geodatabase table using SQL. The dataset has calculation and validation rules defined, and staff notice that the derived fields on the inserted records are empty and that plainly invalid records are not being reported.
What should the administrator do?
a) Re-run the integration process so the rules are applied on the second pass
b) Recreate the rules so that they are enforced by database constraints instead
c) Route the inserts through the geodatabase and evaluate the rules afterwards

04. Synchronization between a parent and a child geodatabase has worked for months. After fields were added to two replicated feature classes in the parent, every synchronization now fails.
What is the appropriate response?
a) Reduce the amount of data exchanged by adding a definition query to the replica
b) Bring the child's schema into line with the parent's schema
c) Change the replica to one-way so that the child no longer needs to match the parent

05. A dataset is to be moved off traditional versioning because it will now be edited by a single automated process. The attempt to unregister it as versioned does not succeed, and named versions still contain edits to it that have not been posted.
What should the administrator do first?
a) Reconcile and post the outstanding edits, then remove the versions
b) Take a backup of the dataset so the outstanding edits can be recovered afterwards
c) Delete the named versions immediately so nothing references the dataset

06. An editor working in a version created several months ago and never reconciled since reports that both drawing and saving have become steadily slower. Colleagues working in versions created last week see no such problem.
What should the administrator advise?
a) Reconcile the version with its parent regularly, and post and recreate it if the work allows
b) Move the editor onto a direct database connection instead of connecting through a service
c) Split the editor's remaining work across several new versions so no single one grows large

07. An administrator is about to upgrade a production enterprise geodatabase during a weekend window. The organization asks what the fallback is if the upgrade does not complete cleanly.
What should the administrator have in place before starting?
a) An exported copy of each dataset, so any that fail can be reloaded afterwards
b) A replica of the geodatabase in a second instance, synchronized before the window
c) A full backup of the database taken immediately before the upgrade begins

08. During housekeeping an administrator removed several finished versions. An analyst who had left their application open overnight now receives an error whenever they try to edit or refresh, although other users are working normally.
What is happening and what is the remedy?
a) The analyst's account lost its privileges when the versions were removed and must have them granted again
b) The open session refers to a version that no longer exists, so the analyst should reconnect
c) The geodatabase repository was left inconsistent by the deletion and must be repaired before anyone can edit

09. An administrator schedules an unattended nightly job that reconciles every named version against the default version to keep them from drifting apart. Where a conflict exists, the organization requires that a person decide the outcome rather than the job.
How should the job be configured?
a) Configure the job to reconcile only the versions whose owners are currently connected
b) Configure the job to resolve conflicts in favour of the default version automatically
c) Configure the reconcile to abort on conflict and leave that version for an editor

10. A reviewer must repeatedly open the geodatabase and see the data exactly as it stood at a specific past date, without disturbing anyone's editing and without creating a copy of the data.
How should the administrator set this up?
a) Export the datasets to a file geodatabase and roll the copy back to that date
b) Configure the reviewer's connection to a historical moment
c) Create a named version for the reviewer and reconcile it back to that date