Deck 6: How to Create Geospatial Data With Arcgis

Question 1

A "ranking" of various sites as the result of examining certain criteria to determine their usefulness or non-usefulness describes a

A)suitability index.
B)symmetrical difference.
C)distance buffer.
D)boolean operator.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Geoprocessing describes

A)applying an action to one dataset that results in a new dataset being creating.
B)querying a database to determine which records match a criteria.
C)visually matching two GIS layers together.
D)performing an "Exclusive Or" operation in an SQL query.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Which of the following queries will select all housing parcels classified as "residential" (from a layer called PARCELS)that are also considered to be "seasonal" homes (from a layer called STATUS)?

A)PARCELS = "residential" AND STATUS = "seasonal"
B)PARCELS = "residential" OR STATUS = "seasonal"
C)PARCELS = "residential" XOR STATUS = "seasonal"
D)PARCEL <> "residential" AND STATUS <> "seasonal"

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Which geoprocessing operation will select all areas from the first dataset and also the areas that a second dataset has in common with them?

A)Union
B)Identity
C)Symmetrical Difference
D)Intersect

Question 5

Which of the following boolean operators would be used to determine which parcels of land in a database have an assessed value of more than $100,000 or are also zoned as "residential" areas?

A)Negation
B)Union
C)Exclusive Or
D)Intersection

Question 6

Which geoprocessing operation will select all areas from the first dataset and all areas from the second dataset,except those areas they have in common?

A)Symmetrical Difference
B)Identity
C)Union
D)Intersect

Question 7

Which of the following operations would best be used to combine a map of county boundaries into a single map of a state boundary?

A)Union
B)Identity
C)Buffer
D)Dissolve

Question 8

Describe two applications of spatial analysis using GIS (to solve real-world problems or concerns).

Question 9

Which geoprocessing operation will select all areas from the first dataset and also all areas from the second dataset?

A)Intersect
B)Union
C)Symmetrical Difference
D)Identity

Question 10

Which of the following queries will select all counties that have a population with more than 100,000 persons (from a layer called POP)as well as all counties that have more than 100,000 housing units (from a layers called HOUSES)?

A)POP > 100000 AND HOUSES > 100000
B)(POP AND HOUSES)> 100000
C)POP > 100000 OR HOUSES > 100000
D)POP > 100000 XOR HOUSES =< 100000

Question 11

Which of the following boolean operators would be used to determine which parcels of land in a database have an assessed value of more than $100,000 and also are zoned as "residential" areas?

A)Union
B)Intersection
C)Negation
D)Exclusive Or

Question 12

An area of spatial proximity around a point refers to which GIS operation?

A)Spatial join
B)Buffer
C)Closed circle
D)Union

Question 13

Selecting objects from one layer based on their spatial relationship with another layer describes a

A)spatial join.
B)spatial selection.
C)spatial query.
D)spatial attribute.

Question 14

Which geoprocessing operation will select all areas that the first dataset and all areas that the second dataset have in common?

A)Union
B)Intersect
C)Identity
D)Symmetrical Difference

Question 15

Which of the following boolean operators would be used to determine which parcels of land in a database have an assessed value of more than $100,000 and are also zoned as "residential" areas,but not parcels that meet both of these criteria?

A)Negation
B)Intersection
C)Exclusive Or
D)Union

Question 16

Site Suitability analysis is used to

A)select which objects fall within a buffer zone around a point.
B)determine which areas are "useful" or "not useful" in spatial analysis.
C)merge all polygons with a value of "1" together,as well as all polygons with a value of "0" together.
D)forecast land use changes into the future.

Question 17

Which of the following boolean operators would be used to determine which parcels of land in a database have an assessed value of more than $100,000 but are also zoned as something other than "residential" areas?

A)Intersection
B)Union
C)Exclusive Or
D)Negation