GISP EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
The property of area for a parcel polygon may be considered (choose best answer)
A. Precise
B. Accurate
C. Legally correct
D. Both A and B - Answers - Both A and B
A vector data model uses which of the following coordinate pairs to build curvature
within a line? (best answer)
A. Verticies
B. Points
C. Floating points
D. Nodes - Answers - A. Verticies
GIS differs from surveying and mapping by introducing (best answer)
A. Attribute description
B. Spatial Analysis
C. Location determination
D. Temporal Information - Answers - B. Spatial Analysis
What is a datum? (best answer)
A. mathematical model
B. The mathematical model related to a real world feature
C. Real world features projected with minimum distortion from a round earth to a flat
map
D. A system of coordinates - Answers - B. The mathematical model related to a real
world feature
Which method is used to align an un-referenced dataset with one that has spatial
reference information? (best answer)
A. Scaling
B. Reprojecting
C. Georeferencing
D. defining projections - Answers - C. Georeferencing
Control points are best described as (best answer)
A. Areas on the map where projection can easily change
B. Points on the map that do not have a spatial refernce
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 - Answers - D. Common locations
used in aligning two datasets
A third-party software system is being stored, distributed and maintained by a county
agency that provides access based on a fee charged to each local jurisdiction. What
would be the safest and most efficient ways to add a new user? (Select all that apply)
, A. Let anyone sign on as a user as long as they notify the county agency afterward
B. Notify the county agency that you would like to add a user and have them do it
C. Request that the county agency set up an administrator account for your jurisdiction
and allow you to have oversight of your users
D. Don't allow new users - Answers - B. Notify the county agency that you would like to
add a user and have
C. Request that the county agency set up an administrator account for your jurisdiction
and allow you to have oversight of your users
The local county health department has provided data on EMS calls and ER calls in
order for a county GIS
department to produce maps showing patterns and density of calls. What restrictions
would be involved in using this data? (Choose the best response)
A. HIPPA laws
B. Fire Safety regulations
C. GIS mapping standards
D. There are no restrictions - Answers - A. HIPPA laws
What roles are a database administrator expected to fill? (Select all that apply)
A. Create database security settings which reflect the needs of the organization
B. Create queries for reporting purposes
C. Install and configure server hardware
D. Backup and Recovery of database - Answers - A. Create database security settings
which reflect the needs of the organization
B. Create queries for reporting purposes
D. Backup and Recovery of database
Several characteristics of GIS services that make it difficult to design GIS web services
with
satisfactory performance. These include (Select all that apply)
A. GIS requires heavy CPU usage
B. GIS services sometimes transmit large images
C. Clients of GIS services are often complex software packages
D. GIS is not scalable to web services - Answers - B. GIS services sometimes transmit
large images
Leveraging GIS to support an enterprise environment can be best accomplished using
which of the
following approaches? (Choose the best response)
A. Write-protected shapefiles located on each employee's workstation
B. Geodatabases stored on a centralized server
C. Geospatial data served as map services and web maps
D. A well-staffed GIS department that is able to response all questions required for the
enterprise - Answers - C. Geospatial data served as map services and web maps
The property of area for a parcel polygon may be considered (choose best answer)
A. Precise
B. Accurate
C. Legally correct
D. Both A and B - Answers - Both A and B
A vector data model uses which of the following coordinate pairs to build curvature
within a line? (best answer)
A. Verticies
B. Points
C. Floating points
D. Nodes - Answers - A. Verticies
GIS differs from surveying and mapping by introducing (best answer)
A. Attribute description
B. Spatial Analysis
C. Location determination
D. Temporal Information - Answers - B. Spatial Analysis
What is a datum? (best answer)
A. mathematical model
B. The mathematical model related to a real world feature
C. Real world features projected with minimum distortion from a round earth to a flat
map
D. A system of coordinates - Answers - B. The mathematical model related to a real
world feature
Which method is used to align an un-referenced dataset with one that has spatial
reference information? (best answer)
A. Scaling
B. Reprojecting
C. Georeferencing
D. defining projections - Answers - C. Georeferencing
Control points are best described as (best answer)
A. Areas on the map where projection can easily change
B. Points on the map that do not have a spatial refernce
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 - Answers - D. Common locations
used in aligning two datasets
A third-party software system is being stored, distributed and maintained by a county
agency that provides access based on a fee charged to each local jurisdiction. What
would be the safest and most efficient ways to add a new user? (Select all that apply)
, A. Let anyone sign on as a user as long as they notify the county agency afterward
B. Notify the county agency that you would like to add a user and have them do it
C. Request that the county agency set up an administrator account for your jurisdiction
and allow you to have oversight of your users
D. Don't allow new users - Answers - B. Notify the county agency that you would like to
add a user and have
C. Request that the county agency set up an administrator account for your jurisdiction
and allow you to have oversight of your users
The local county health department has provided data on EMS calls and ER calls in
order for a county GIS
department to produce maps showing patterns and density of calls. What restrictions
would be involved in using this data? (Choose the best response)
A. HIPPA laws
B. Fire Safety regulations
C. GIS mapping standards
D. There are no restrictions - Answers - A. HIPPA laws
What roles are a database administrator expected to fill? (Select all that apply)
A. Create database security settings which reflect the needs of the organization
B. Create queries for reporting purposes
C. Install and configure server hardware
D. Backup and Recovery of database - Answers - A. Create database security settings
which reflect the needs of the organization
B. Create queries for reporting purposes
D. Backup and Recovery of database
Several characteristics of GIS services that make it difficult to design GIS web services
with
satisfactory performance. These include (Select all that apply)
A. GIS requires heavy CPU usage
B. GIS services sometimes transmit large images
C. Clients of GIS services are often complex software packages
D. GIS is not scalable to web services - Answers - B. GIS services sometimes transmit
large images
Leveraging GIS to support an enterprise environment can be best accomplished using
which of the
following approaches? (Choose the best response)
A. Write-protected shapefiles located on each employee's workstation
B. Geodatabases stored on a centralized server
C. Geospatial data served as map services and web maps
D. A well-staffed GIS department that is able to response all questions required for the
enterprise - Answers - C. Geospatial data served as map services and web maps
