ArcGIS Pro Foundation case studies
ArcGIS Pro Foundation · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The ArcGIS Pro Foundation credential is an entry-level certification for people who want to demonstrate practical competence with Esri's desktop GIS application, ArcGIS Pro. It typically suits GIS technicians, analysts, students, and career changers who need to create maps, manage spatial data, run analysis, and share results within the ArcGIS platform. The ArcGIS Pro Foundation case studies are 5 cases and about 3,881 words.
1The Duplicated Parcel Fabric
A county GIS team maintains 48,000 parcels in an enterprise geodatabase. A junior analyst loaded a new batch of 1,200 parcels from a shapefile into the Parcel feature class using the Append tool with the default schema-mapping options.
656 words, about 3 min2The Legend That Lies
A city planning analyst builds a map of 220 census tracts showing median household income using graduated colors with 5 classes (Natural Breaks). The map is destined for a public PDF and a web map.
747 words, about 4 min3The Buffer That Overcounted
A utilities analyst needs to count how many households are within 500 meters of a proposed new water main. She has: a Households point layer (12,400 points, projected in a State Plane CRS in US feet), a ProposedMain line feature (one line, same CRS), and a Buildings polygon layer.
852 words, about 4 min4The Web Map That Wouldn't Load
A regional agency publishes a web map from ArcGIS Pro to ArcGIS Online. The map contains: a basemap, a 2.1-million-feature parcels layer (feature class in an enterprise geodatabase), a 40,000-feature roads layer, and a hosted table of 500 inspection records.
802 words, about 4 min5The Analysis That Ran Overnight
A GIS analyst runs a large suitability model in ArcGIS Pro: 14 geoprocessing tools chained in ModelBuilder, operating on a 30 GB raster mosaic and a 500,000-feature vector layer, writing intermediate outputs to a network drive. The model ran for 9 hours and failed near the end with 'ERROR 010240: Could not save raster dataset.' The analyst reran it and got a different error at a different step.
824 words, about 4 min