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ArcGIS – ESRI EXAM QUESTIONS WITHVERIFIED ANSWERS
Describe the difference between a paper map and a GIS map. ANSWER GIS
maps are dynamic.
A GIS map's features can be manipulated, whereas a paper map's features
cannot.
This includes zooming, selecting features you want to display, and accessing a
database for additional features.
How is a GIS map organised? - ANSWER A GIS map contains one or more
dataframes.
A data frame consists of layers.
Layers are collections of features.
A feature depicts a real-world object.
What constitutes a feature? Three ways they are represented? - ANSWER
Features are geographical, real-world things.
She is represented as point, line, or polygon.
What is the point? Is there a line? A polygon? - ANSWER A point is one
coordinate pair denoting a location on the earth's surface.
Lines represent two or more coordinate pairs.
Polygon = comprised of one or more lines whose starting and ending coordinate
points are the same.
, What is an attribute? - ANSWER Information related to a feature other than its
shape and position.
Linked by FID
What exactly does scale mean in GIS? The answer Scale is a ratio.
One unit on your map corresponds to X units in the actual world.
What is ArcMap? - ANSWER It is an application used for visualizing,
manipulating, and analyzing geographic data and producing map products (data
and layout views).
What is ArcCatalog? - ANSWER It is a program used for accessing, browsing,
managing, and saving data.
What is ArcToolbox? - ANSWER It is a well-organized set of tools for GIS
analysis, data administration, data conversion, and so forth.
What is metadata? - ANSWER It is data about data; information that describes
or documents a geographical dataset.
Is the Earth vertically or horizontally squashed? - Answer vertically.
What are the four main forms of spatial relationships? - ANSWER Distance
Containment
Intersection
Adjacency
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