GISP practice

"# 1 101 The property of area for a parcel polygon may be considered (Choose the best answer)

A. Precise

B. Accurate

C. Legally correct

D. Both a and b above

" - CORRECT ANSWER -D



"# 2 102 A vector data model uses which of the following coordinate pair types to build curvature within
a line?

(Choose the best answer)

A. Vertices

B. Points

C. Floating Points

D. Nodes

" - CORRECT ANSWER -A



"# 3 103 GIS differs from surveying and mapping by introducing (Choose the best answer)

A. Attribute descriptions

B. Spatial analysis

C. Location determination

D. Temporal information" - CORRECT ANSWER -B

, "# 4 104 What is a datum? (Choose the best answer)

A. A mathematical model

B. The mathematical model related to real world features

C. Real world features projected with minimum distortion from a round earth to flat map.

D. A system of coordinates." - CORRECT ANSWER -B



"# 5 105 Which method is used to align an unreferenced dataset with one that has spatial reference
information?

(Choose the best answer)

A. Scaling

B. Reprojecting

C. Georeferencing

D. defining projections" - CORRECT ANSWER -C



"# 6 105 Control points are best described as (Choose the best answer)

A. Areas on the map where projection can easily change

B. Points on the map that do not have a spatial reference

C. Points in the data that share the same datum, no matter how the datasets are altered

D. Common locations used in aligning two datasets" - CORRECT ANSWER -D



"# 7 206 In a map showing contours, the name of the darker contour lines is (Choose the best answer)

A. Index contours

B. Key contours

C. Lines of deviation

D. Lines of Elevations" - CORRECT ANSWER -A



"# 9 209 What do thematic maps include? (Choose the best answer)

A. Thematic content and spatial location