The target audience for the ArcGIS Mobile instructor-led course is people working in the GIS analyst role. A GIS analyst is a member of the team responsible for designing, creating, and deploying a mobile GIS solution. This person has the following knowledge and skills:

• Hands-on experience with GIS.
• Understands GIS database design principles.
• Can describe common GIS data formats and data relationships.
• Proficient with ArcGIS Desktop and ArcGIS Server software.
• Can author maps and edit data in ArcMap, view and manage data in ArcCatalog, and publish map services using ArcCatalog and ArcGIS Server Manager.
• Understands and applies cartographic principles.
• Can generalize data, set layer scale dependencies, and create appropriate feature symbology and map text.
• Understands geodatabase components and structure.
• Can create feature classes, feature datasets, and attribute domains.
• Understands ArcSDE geodatabase user roles and workflows (including versioning and replication).
• Can edit data stored in an ArcSDE geodatabase.

Finally, a GIS analyst understands organizational objectives for the mobile solution, the GIS workflows required to support the mobile solution, and the output that will be derived from the mobile solution.