GISP Practice Exam
1. technology that allows for multiple server instances on a single piece ofhardware/single
server: virtualization
2. NOT a true relational database: Access
3. overlay analysis is based on this: Boolean logic
4. the most basic skills in the world of programming: scripting and tool modifi-cation
5. 45 degrees: À/ r4ad =
6. Filtering data based on the specific content stored in a field refers to: At-tribute query
7. The shapefile format is a digital vector format for storing geometric loca-tions and
associated attribute information. While it can consist of several fileswith different file name
extensions, three file names are needed to be properlyidentified as a shapefile: shp, shx, dbf
8. Calculations (sum, average, median, etc.) can't be performed on this typeof field:
character
9. When converting Degrees/Minutes/Seconds of latitude in the Northern Hemisphere to
decimal degrees: Divide the Seconds by 3600, divide the Minutesby 60, then add those values
to the degrees, i.e.
(Deg+(Min/60)+(Sec/3600))
10. If converting Degrees/Minutes/Seconds of latitude in the Southern Hemi- sphere to
decimal degrees, what would change from question 39?: You wouldmultiply the derived value
by -1
11. How would you determine the horizontal accuracy of an ortho-rectified aer-ial image:
Photo-identifiable field points are surveyed and the Root-Mean Square error between the
image and the PhotoID points is computed
12. the most common statistical method to determine the attribute (land clas-sification)
accuracy of a raster- derived land use/land cover map: Compute a Confusion Matrix based on
ground truthing a stratified random sample of polygons
13. The Federal Geographic Data Committee has endorsed this: the CSDGM,ISO 19115, and
additional ISO metadata standards
14. used to extract features and their attributes from one layer using a polygonfrom another as
the boundary of the output: clip
15. used to build new features by splitting overlapping features and combingattributes where
the features overlap: union
16. appends together layers of adjoining area: merge
17. Determining which background data shown on the paper maps is the mostaccurate to use in
georeferencing it; Ability to understand the notations madeand to interpret the attributes for
1. technology that allows for multiple server instances on a single piece ofhardware/single
server: virtualization
2. NOT a true relational database: Access
3. overlay analysis is based on this: Boolean logic
4. the most basic skills in the world of programming: scripting and tool modifi-cation
5. 45 degrees: À/ r4ad =
6. Filtering data based on the specific content stored in a field refers to: At-tribute query
7. The shapefile format is a digital vector format for storing geometric loca-tions and
associated attribute information. While it can consist of several fileswith different file name
extensions, three file names are needed to be properlyidentified as a shapefile: shp, shx, dbf
8. Calculations (sum, average, median, etc.) can't be performed on this typeof field:
character
9. When converting Degrees/Minutes/Seconds of latitude in the Northern Hemisphere to
decimal degrees: Divide the Seconds by 3600, divide the Minutesby 60, then add those values
to the degrees, i.e.
(Deg+(Min/60)+(Sec/3600))
10. If converting Degrees/Minutes/Seconds of latitude in the Southern Hemi- sphere to
decimal degrees, what would change from question 39?: You wouldmultiply the derived value
by -1
11. How would you determine the horizontal accuracy of an ortho-rectified aer-ial image:
Photo-identifiable field points are surveyed and the Root-Mean Square error between the
image and the PhotoID points is computed
12. the most common statistical method to determine the attribute (land clas-sification)
accuracy of a raster- derived land use/land cover map: Compute a Confusion Matrix based on
ground truthing a stratified random sample of polygons
13. The Federal Geographic Data Committee has endorsed this: the CSDGM,ISO 19115, and
additional ISO metadata standards
14. used to extract features and their attributes from one layer using a polygonfrom another as
the boundary of the output: clip
15. used to build new features by splitting overlapping features and combingattributes where
the features overlap: union
16. appends together layers of adjoining area: merge
17. Determining which background data shown on the paper maps is the mostaccurate to use in
georeferencing it; Ability to understand the notations madeand to interpret the attributes for
