The Alteryx spacial tools (more info found here) are useful tools to help analyses and process geographical information in Alteryx. For the advanced certification exam, five tool are list by Alteryx as required knowledge to know for the exam.
Alteryx Spacial Tools-
Create Points
The create points tool is the main spacial tool you will be using when you first start your workflow. The tool is very simple and will allow you to create points that Alteryx can use to allow for further analysis of spacial points. The main type of input you will get is longitude and latitude values which will be automatically assigned by Alteryx. 
Above is a screenshot of the configuration for the tool, you can see the X and Y field are even assigned Longitude and Latitude as well. Not much can be done by this spacial tool alone, but it is crucial for further analysis of spacial data as other Alteryx spacial tools rely on points rather than lon and lat values.
Distance
The distance tool is used to find the straight-line distance between two spacial points. You can choose kilometers, miles, feet, or meters for the distance units. You can also enable the cardinal direction from point A to Point B (North, West, etc) as an extra column. An additional column can be added for the cardinal direction in degrees, such as with a vector direction (345 degrees for example).
Find Nearest
The find nearest tool is used to find the closest point within a ‘universe’. to each point in a group of ‘targets’. For example, a group of customers and you want to know what the closest store/s is/are within 20 kilometers. In this example, the first input ‘T’ would be your customers and the ‘U’ would be your stores. You can change the number of rows in the output and the maximum distance. You don’t have to link any data to U and can instead establish a connection if you want to. The outputs are your customer rows with the nearest match’s fields appended to the end. Additionally, the output adds fields for the rank (for more than 1 point selected), its distance, and direction. The unmatched output will just contain the customers who did not have a match in the universe.
Spacial Tools Match
The spacial match tool is used to check spacial relationships between a polygon object and points or polygons. This can be whether one is within another, if one intersects another, if one touches another, or a few more specific choices. This tool follows the same inputs and outputs as the find nearest tool. As an example, you can have a polygon (circle) with radius of 5 kilometers and you can look for all customers within that polygon. Additionally, its fairly easy to reverse the inputs by finding how many customers intersect with the polygon. The output fields are very similar to how find nearest works except there are no additional fields in the match besides the two inputs appended together.
Trade Area
The trade area tool helps create simple and complex polygons (circles specifically) around a given point or set of points. With the input being the point/s, you can specify the circle’s radius using the specific value option, along with the units of the radius. For more complex circles, input a range of numbers such as 2-5 (this will not start from 0). You can also input multiple numbers/ranges separated by a comma with each number/range resulting in a row in the output:
For multiple input points, the output will include a row for each value, and will automatically overlap by default. The eliminate overlap button will remove this overlap with more complex polygons, but can only be enabled if one radius is included.
Conclusion
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