Intermediate GIS Exam 2
How is a service area different from a simple buffer?
It is constrained by the edges of the network unlike a regular buffer
What type of overlay operation will result in a line layer where the lines have the attributes of the polygons through which they pass
Line-on-polygon overlay
In ArcGIS Pro, a road like Mahoning Avenue would be stored in a feature class as:
Multiple records, each making up a line segment of Mahoning Ave
The Global Moran's I test detects:
Spatial autocorrelation
What free Esri app allows you to collect GPS locations in conjunction with form-based information
Survey 123
Who designed, operates, and maintains the US GPS
The US Department of Defense
TIGER/Line files are created and maintained by:
U.S. Census Bureau
When digitizing, it's a good strategy to set a ________ in arcgis pro so you can reset the view if you zoom in or out too far
bookmark
A region of spatial proximity computed around a feature or set of features
buffer
Which of the following geoprocessing tools will extract the features of one layer based on the geometry of features in a second layer
clip
if a dataset representing 50 water wells has 55 points in the layer, a __________ has occurred
commission
A measurement for examining whether the same rules were used throughout the creation of a dataset describes
logical consistency
In the snapping process:
user drags a vertex within a predetermined distance of another feature to snap the two items together
In GIS, a stop refers to
A destination to visit on a network
End result of a point-in-polygon overlay...
A new point layer with the polygon attributes joined to the points that fall within that polygon
Splitting an address into its component pieces for geocoding is
Address parsing
Geoprocessing options that control activities in a map document are:
Environment settings
Which of the following geodatabase formats can store an essentially unlimited amount of data, us used in ArcGIS Pro, and has the file extension .gdb
File geodatabase
Which of the following is not a GNSS
GZSS
What are three GNSS
Galileo GPS Glonass
The answer to a query such as "which culverts are contained within the county boundaries" can be found by using which method?
Select layer by location
The Getis-Ord General G statistic allows you to determine:
The degree of clustering for high or low values
The goal of Dijkstra's Algorithm is:
To find the shortest path between an origin and all other nodes in a network
A node that incorrectly does not reach another line to intersect with it is considered
a undershoot
when a vertex of a line goes beyond its target location, this is:
an overshoot
Hot spot analysis is used to:
determine spatial clusters of high and low values
In a service area, the location for which you are determining the area of service is referred to as:
facility
How closely a vertex must be placed within a feature to activate snapping describes:
snapping tolerance
the time period and currentness of a dataset describes
temporal accuracy
Impedance refers to
the cost of traveling the length of a network edge
Spatial autocorrelations refers to:
the measure of the degree of clustering of objects and their data values
Which line digitizing option in ArcGIS Pro allows you to digitize a line at a 90º angle from another line?
the right-angle line option
When digitizing, two or more segments are connected by a:
vertex
Which of the following spatial analysis relationship rules is used to choose features from the target later that fall inside a user-defined buffer distance away from features of the source layer?
within a distance of the source layer feature
The update geoprocessing operation will
Append the new layer on top of an existing layer
A spatial join represents which of the following?
Appending attributes from one layer to another based on the spatial relationship of the layers
Matching multiple addresses at once describes
Batch geocoding
A process used to determine which locations on a network are nearest to a different set of locations is:
Closest facility
a mobile device app using for field-based GIS is
Collector for ArcGIS
The Chinese equivalent of GPS is
Compass
The component of a network that describes how features properly link up with one another is:
Connectivity
The closest facility tool in ArcGIS Pro:
Determines which of several facility locations on a network is nearest to the starting incident
The standard file format for GPS data is:
GPX
An online utility that allows for geocoding one or more addresses is
Geocoding service
Which of the following select by location relationships would you use to select parcels that are completely or partially on the floodplain
Intersecting the source layer feature
What role does parsing play in the geocoding process
It breaks up the address string into its component pieces
An address locator style is used in geocoding for which of the following
It establishes the criteria for how the geocoding is going to be performed
Address locators can be shared using ArcGIS Online by creating which of the following
Locator package
Which tool in ArcGIS Pro could be used to find how many schools are within 1 mile of each library
Summarize nearby
When two polygons are overlaid, what happens to the attribute tables?
The new object has one attribute table containing attributes from both inputs
Why would linear interpolation cause an address to be matched to an incorrect location
The range of addresses in the reference dataset does not match the real-world range of addresses
A spatial join can be used instead of a regular attribute join when:
The two tables do not have a common field
Which of the following spatial analysis questions could be answered with the Summarize within tool in ArcGIS Pro
What is the total number of historic bridges in each county of a state
What is the end result of a geocoding operation
a set of points, each showing the location of the matched address
A geodatabase topology represents:
a set of rules applied to the feature classes of a feature dataset in order to remove errors
What makes a spatial query different from a regular Select By Attributes query?
a spatial query is based on location rather than attributes
which describes how closely the non-spatial features of a dataset match their real-world locations
attribute accuracy
In terms of spatial autocorrelation, the opposite of a clustered pattern would be:
dispersed
Using credits from ArcGIS Online, the summarize nearby tool in ArcGIS pro can create _________, which represents how far one could travel by vehicle on a road during a certain amount of time
drive-time polygons
In a network, a link between two intersections is considered a
edge
Geodatabases are displayed in the catalog pan using the color
gray
Shapefiles are displayed in the catalog pane using the color
green
Using a digital, georeferenced, high-resolution aerial photo as a source for digitizing describes
heads-up digitizing
Always making a correct GPS measurement when constructing a GIS dataset refers to which of the following
high accuracy high precision
Accuracy defines:
how closely a measurement represents the real-world items being measured
Precision Defines:
how consistent or exact a measurement is
topology represents:
how object relate or connect to one another independent of their coordinates
Which of the following geoprocessing tools will retain all the features from the first layer along with the features it has in common with the second layer?
identity
in a network, a node that connects two line segments is considered a:
junction
The data sources and processes using in preparing a dataset describe its
lineage
Consistently making the same incorrect GPS measurement when constructing a GIS dataset refers to which of the following
low accuracy high precision
Which of the following attributes would you not expect to find in a TIGER/Line file
number of houses per street
In a geodatabase, a feature dataset can contain:
one or more feature classes
which describes how closely the spatial features of a dataset match their real world locations
positional accuracy
The symmetrical distance geoprocessing operation will
preserve al the features of one layer and all of the features of a second layer except for the areas they all have in common
Linear interpolation is used in geocoding by:
providing an estimate of where the point should be plotted along a line segment
The traveling salesman problem involves
rearranging the order of stops
The base street layer used as a source for geocoding is:
reference data
Polygons can be reshaped in ArcGIS by adjusting which of the following?
the vertices of the polygon
What type of problem solving technique is used when examining a utility network
trace
which of the following geoprocessing tools will retain all the features of both layers
union
The non-transportation networks used in ArcGIS Pro for solving utility-related problems are
utility networks
The Russian equivalent of GPS is
Glonass
A polygon shapefile of Youngstown wetlands would be stored as:
Multiple files including wetlands.shp wetlands.shx and wetlands.dbf
Which polygon digitizing option in ArcGIS Pro allows you to digitize polygons along the path of previously digitized polygon
Trace Option
In arcGIS Pro a network dataset uses files stored:
within a feature dataset in a geodatabase