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