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This document contains 37 multiple choice questions about GIS concepts and technologies. Some of the key topics covered include common GIS data models like vector, raster, and TIN; attributes of spatial data; the history and components of GIS systems; and relational database models used in GIS.

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GIS Mid Sem Solution Updated

This document contains 37 multiple choice questions about GIS concepts and technologies. Some of the key topics covered include common GIS data models like vector, raster, and TIN; attributes of spatial data; the history and components of GIS systems; and relational database models used in GIS.

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GIS MCQs Solutions

1. GIS is ............... and ............. technology.


a) Digital and analogue
b) Spatial and analogue
c) Digital and spatial
d) Spatial and manual

2. GIS, Remote Sensing and GPS technologies are:


a) Generic, digital and spatial
b) Manual, spatial and digital
c) Analogue, manual and spatial
d) Generic, analogue and spatial

3. Three basic kinds of vector entities are:


a) Point, Raster, Attributes
b) Image, Raster, Polygon
c) Point, Line/Polyline, Polygon
d) Polyline, Polygon, Raster

4. Two major differences between Grid and Image:


a) Both can have positive and negative, integer and real values
b) Grid can have only positive integer values, whereas image can have any data
c) Grid can have positive and negative integer and real values as cell
values,whereas, image can have only positive integer values
d) Grid can have only positive integer values as cell values, whereas, image can
have both
positive and negative integer and real values as pixel values
5. Major differences between Vector and Raster data models:
a) Vector and raster are same data models
b) Vector is continuous, whereas raster data model is discrete
c) Vector and raster both are discrete
d) Vector is discrete, whereas raster data model is continuous

6. Triangulated Irregular Network (TIN) is a:


a) Discrete data model like vector data
b) Discrete data model like raster data
c) Neither vector nor raster data model
d) Vector, Raster and TIN data models are same

7. Which data model requires less space for computer storage?


a) Raster
b) TIN
c) Vector
d) None of the above

8. Which of the following are true?


a) Digitizing is defined as converting aerial photographs into maps
b) A keyboard cannot be used to digitize maps, only to enter attribute information
c) Digitizing from a tablet involves using a template
d) Digitizing involves tracing map features into a computer

9. Spatial referencing is the process of which of the following?


a) Combing attribute values with locational information
b) Referencing geo-relational tables
c) Computing the reference between items in databases
d) Establishing the topology of spatial objects
10.Which of the following is not an example of spatial data?
a) Points showing location of discrete objects
b) Times of particular events
c) Lines showing the route of linear objects
d) Polygons showing the area occupied by a particular land use or variable

11.Geographic Information System (GIS) is a ............... based information


system designed to accept large volumes of ............ data derived from
variety of sources and to efficiently store, retrieve,............ model and
display (output) these data according to ......... defined specifications.
a) Manual, Special, Recover, All
b) Manual, Temporal, Analyses, User
c) Computer, Spatial, Analyses, User
d) Computer, Timely, Delete, Not

12.By definition a GIS must include:


a) A method for storing demographic information
b) A method for scanning maps to produce raster files
c) A method for digitizing maps to produce vector files
d) Data analysis functions

13. Which of the following statement is true of the history of GIS?


a) Public utilities were early users of automated mapping and GIS technologies.
b) The development of the first true GIS depended upon the invention of the
microcomputer in the early 1980s.
c) Some of the first applications were groundwater exploration.
d) Municipal government agencies have been slow to adopt GIS.
14.The TIN model represents a surface as a set of:
a) Contiguous and non-overlapping triangles
b) Contiguous and overlapping triangles
c) Non-contiguous and overlapping triangles
d) Non-contiguous and non-overlapping triangles

15.GIS is unique because:


a) GIS handles spatial information
b) GIS handles special information
c) GIS handles attributes
d) GIS handles graphics.

16.Name five components of GIS


a) Software, Data, Methods, Theory, Printers
b) Hardware, Software, Data, Methods, People
c) Hardware, Software, Maps, Data, Theory
d) Software, Equations, Maps, Theory, People

17.Image can have only ................integer pixel values, whereas grid can
have .................
and .................real and ...............cell values.
a) Negative, Negative, Positive, Integer
b) Positive, Negative, Negative, Integer
c) Positive, Positive, Negative, Integer
d) Negative, Positive, Positive, Real

18.Human factors influence the success of GIS as a decision support tool.


a) False
b) True
19.Reality can be represented in GIS as a series of layers or as objects.
a) True
b) False

20. Attribute data are one type of spatial data.


a) True
b) False

21. GIS stands for


a) Geologic Information System
b) Geographic Information System
c) Geographical Information System
d) Global Information System

22.Google Map navigation system uses__________


a) GIS plateform
b) GPS system
c) Both of above
d) None of above

23.GIS deals with


a) Complex data
b) Binary data
c) Spatial data
d) None of above

24.Relatively Quadtrees raster data compression technique provides:


a) High compression
b) No compression
c) Less compression
d) Maximum compression
25.MrSID raster data compression technique can provide compression upto:
a) 30:1
b) 40:1
c) 50:1
d) 60:1

26.Which database model is most commonly used in GIS:


a) Hierarchical
b) Network
c) Relational
d) Object-Oriented

27.In which database tables are related by sharing common entity


characteristic(s):
a) Hierarchical
b) Network
c) Relational
d) Object-Oriented

28.How many attributes, raster data unit can have?


a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) Infinite

29. How many attributes, vector data can have?


a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) Theoretically infinite
30. How many basic kinds of attributes so far know in GIS domain?
a) 4
b) 5
c) 6
d) 7

31.A nominal attribute can be:


a) Described by name and with no specific order
b) Always numeric values with specific order
c) Always numeric values with no specific order
d) Described by name and with specific order

32.A nominal attribute can be:


a) Only numeric
b) Only alpha-numeric
c) Only alphabets
d) Numeric, alpha-numeric and alphabet

33.Stream ordering can be represented successfully as:


a) Nominal attribute
b) Ratio attribute
c) Ordinal attribute
d) Interval attribute

34.Ratio attributes have the same characteristics as interval variables, but in


addition, these have:
a) No order
b) No starting point
c) No order neither starting point
d) Zero or starting point
35.Which is the key characteristic of an RDBMS?
a) It cannot use SQL
b) Tables are linked by common data known as keys
c) Data are organized in a series of three-dimensional tables
d) Keys may have multiple occurrences in the database

36. What is a 'tuple'?


a) An attribute attached to a record
b) Another name for a table in an RDBMS
c) A row or record in a database table
d) Another name for the key linking different tables in a database

37.JPG image format is also a type of:


a) Destructive compression tool
b) Constructive compression tool
c) Simple compression tool
d) None of the above

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