ArcGIS Online Administration Associate study guide
ArcGIS Online Administration Associate · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The ArcGIS Online Administration Associate is an Esri certification aimed at GIS professionals who run a shared ArcGIS Online organization rather than only publishing their own maps. Typical candidates configure the organization, manage members, groups, and content, and keep the tenant secure and usable for others. The credential sits at associate level, so it tests practical administrative judgement across the whole ArcGIS Online administration domain rather than deep platform engineering. Expect coverage of member and role management, licensing and credit allocation, group structure and sharing model, content ownership and transfer, security settings and access policies, and routine monitoring and troubleshooting. Preparation should combine hands-on time in a non-production organization with the official Esri documentation and training catalog, since administrative tasks are learned by doing them. Build a small test tenant, invite dummy members, assign roles and licences, create groups, and practise transferring content and reviewing credit consumption. Topics on this exam: ArcGIS Online administration. The ArcGIS Online Administration Associate study guide has 1 section and about 388 words.
01ArcGIS Online administration
ArcGIS Online administration tests how you configure an organization, manage members and content, control access, and govern credits and licenses. The exam expects you to choose the least-privilege setting that meets a business need and to know which administrative action has side effects. User types set a member’s baseline capabilities: Viewer, Editor, Creator, and GIS Professional. Roles are sets of privileges within that ceiling; custom roles let you grant only what is needed.
388 words, about 2 minMore study resources for ArcGIS Online Administration Associate
- Practice questionsAn administrator needs to see which members of an ArcGIS Online organization have not signed in for the past 90 days.
- FlashcardsDefault administrator role. A built-in role that includes all privileges, including member management, credit allocation, security settings, and full content access.
- Cheat sheetThe default administrator role has all privileges; custom roles are created from the Organization Settings Member Roles tab and can be assigned granular privileges such as 'Publish hosted feature layers' or 'Demographics'.
- Key termsOrganization. The top-level ArcGIS Online account that holds all members, content, settings, and credits for an institution.
- Study planMap the full ArcGIS Online organizational structure: identify the roles of default administrator, custom roles, and the organization's default role assignment, and write a one-page summary of each role's privileges.
- Common mistakesThe default roles (Viewer, User, Publisher, Administrator) are not strictly cumulative in every respect, and candidates who memorise a ranking rather than the actual privileges assigned to each role misjudge questions about who can share content, create groups, or manage members.
- Exam-day guideBring the original, unexpired ID that matches the name on your registration.