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Question 1

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Which of the following least cost analysis outputs is usually the sum of different cost factors that may represent the actual or relative cost?
Answer
  • Backlink Raster
  • Cost Path
  • Origin/Destination
  • Cost Distance
  • Cost Raster

Question 2

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Which of the following least cost analysis outputs represents the cost of moving through each cell?
Answer
  • Cost Path
  • Cost Distance
  • Backlink Raster
  • Cost Raster
  • Origin/Destination

Question 3

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Which of the following least cost analysis outputs is usually weighted depending on the relative importance of each factor?
Answer
  • Cost Raster
  • Backlink Raster
  • Cost Distance
  • Cost Path
  • Origin/Destination

Question 4

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Which of the following least cost analysis outputs provides a visualization of the direction associated with the cost surface?
Answer
  • Backlink Raster
  • Cost Raster
  • Origin/Destination
  • Cost Path
  • Cost Distance

Question 5

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Which of the following least cost analysis outputs provides a visualization of the distance associated with the cost surface?
Answer
  • Cost Distance
  • Cost Path
  • Backlink Raster
  • Cost Raster
  • Origin/Destination

Question 6

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Select the inputs required in order to perform a least cost path analysis? (select all that apply)
Answer
  • A cost raster
  • Cost distance measures
  • Allocation Raster
  • Algorithm for deriving the least accumulative cost path
  • Source/destination raster or feature class

Question 7

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In the context of a least cost path analysis it is more costly to traverse laterally than diagonally.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 8

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Least Cost Path (LCP) is a procedure of identifying an optimal route based on user-defined criteria.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 9

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In the context of Least Cost Path Analysis cost can be a function of time, distance or other criteria defined by project team.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 10

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The outcome of a least cost path analysis is indirectly influenced by the cost raster, cost distance measure, and algorithm for deriving the least-cost path.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 11

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Because a cost raster represents a sum of different cost factors, the selection of cost factors and the weighting of each factor can change the least-cost path.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 12

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Select the tools that were used in Spatial Analysis II in order to perform a least cost path analysis? (select all that apply)
Answer
  • Weighted Sum
  • Reclassify
  • Cost Path
  • Update
  • Cost Distance

Question 13

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Select the tools that were used in Spatial Analysis II in order to perform a least cost path analysis? (select all that apply)
Answer
  • Line Density
  • Polygon to raster
  • Contour
  • Euclidean Distance
  • Intersect

Question 14

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Which of the following Spatial Interpolation techniques is a Local Deterministic method? (select all that apply)
Answer
  • IDW
  • Kriging
  • Splines
  • Density estimation

Question 15

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Which of the following Spatial Interpolation techniques is a Local Stochastic method? (select all that apply)
Answer
  • Density estimation
  • IDW
  • Splines
  • Kriging

Question 16

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Trend surface is a spatial interpolation technique that can be characterized by which of the following? (select all that apply)
Answer
  • Deterministic Method
  • Local Method
  • Stochastic Method
  • Global Method

Question 17

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Regression is a spatial interpolation technique that can be characterized by which of the following? (select all that apply)
Answer
  • Local Method
  • Global Method
  • Stochastic Method
  • Deterministic Method

Question 18

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Kriging is a spatial interpolation technique that can be characterized by which of the following? (select all that apply)
Answer
  • Global Method
  • Deterministic Method
  • Stochastic Method
  • Local Method

Question 19

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Spatial Interpolation is the process of using points with known values to estimate values at peripheral locations.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 20

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The amount and distribution of sample points can greatly influence the accuracy of spatial interpolation.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 21

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Which of the following is an inexact interpolation method that approximates points with known values using a polynomial equation?
Answer
  • Kriging
  • IDW
  • Regression Model
  • Trend Surface

Question 22

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Which of the following measures cells densities in a raster by using a sample of known points?
Answer
  • Regression Model
  • Density Estimation
  • Trend Surface
  • Kriging

Question 23

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Which of the following methods is a counting method?
Answer
  • Inexact Interpolation
  • Trend Surface
  • Kernel Density Estimation Method
  • Simple Density Estimation Method

Question 24

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Which of the following methods is a local interpolation method that associates each known point with a kernel function in the form of a bivariate probability function?
Answer
  • Regression Method
  • Kernel Method
  • Trend Surface
  • Simple Method

Question 25

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Which of the following is a spatial interpolation method that provides no assessment of errors with predicted values?
Answer
  • Global Interpolation
  • Exact Interpolation
  • Deterministic Interpolation
  • Inexact Interpolation

Question 26

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Which of the following is a spatial interpolation method that predicts the same value as the known value at the control point?
Answer
  • Deterministic Interpolation
  • Exact Interpolation
  • Inexact Interpolation
  • Global Interpolation

Question 27

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Which of the following is a spatial interpolation method that uses every control point available in estimating an unknown value?
Answer
  • Exact Interpolation
  • Inexact Interpolation
  • Global Interpolation
  • Deterministic Interpolation

Question 28

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Which of the following is a spatial interpolation method that predicts a different value from the known value at the control point?
Answer
  • Global Interpolation
  • Exact Interpolation
  • Deterministic Interpolation
  • Inexact Interpolation

Question 29

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Which of the following methods enforces the condition that the unknown value of a point is influenced more by nearby points than by those farther away?
Answer
  • Density Estimation
  • Kriging
  • IDW
  • Local polynomial interpolation

Question 30

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Which of the following methods is a local interpolation method that uses a sample of points with known values and a polynomial equation to estimate the unknown value of a point?
Answer
  • Density Estimation
  • Kriging
  • Local polynomial interpolation
  • IDW

Question 31

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Using the same data but different methods, we can expect to find different interpolation results.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 32

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Different predicted values can occur by using the same method but different parameter values.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 33

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Distributions are not important when modelling spatial phenomena and comparing the distributions of two different spatial phenomena.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 34

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Some interpolation and statistical techniques assume normal distributions.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 35

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Mean is often used as a measure of central tendency and is used to provide representation of the distribution.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 36

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According to the article '13 Free GIS Software Options: Map the World in Open Source' which of the following free open source software solutions is an open-access GIS and remote sensing software package that is considered to be superior for processing LiDAR data.
Answer
  • Whitebox GAT
  • QGIS
  • GeoDA
  • GV Sig

Question 37

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According to the article '13 Free GIS Software Options: Map the World in Open Source' which of the following free open source software solutions is a free option for performing auto-correlation, descriptive and regression statistics?
Answer
  • ILWIS
  • GeoDA
  • MapWindow
  • Whitebox GAT

Question 38

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According to the article '13 Free GIS Software Options: Map the World in Open Source' which of the following free open source software solutions is a free option for calculating spatial statistics?
Answer
  • ILWIS
  • Whitebox GAT
  • MapWindow
  • GRASS

Question 39

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According to the article '13 Free GIS Software Options: Map the World in Open Source' which of the following free open source software solutions is a free option for calculating spatial statistics?
Answer
  • OpenJump
  • QGIS
  • Diva GIS
  • uDIG

Question 40

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According to the article '13 Free GIS Software Options: Map the World in Open Source' which of the following free open source software solutions does not have strengths in cartographic design but excels primarily as a free GIS software option for analysis, image processing, digital terrain manipulation and statistics?
Answer
  • GRASS
  • OpenJump
  • Diva GIS
  • uDIG

Question 41

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According to the article '13 Free GIS Software Options: Map the World in Open Source' which of the following free open source software solutions is a prime choice for environmental modelling and other applications?
Answer
  • uDIG
  • SAGA
  • Diva GIS
  • OpenJump

Question 42

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According to the article '13 Free GIS Software Options: Map the World in Open Source' which of the following free open source software solutions has tools for image classification, enhancements and spectral band manipulation?
Answer
  • OpenJump
  • Diva GIS
  • ILWIS
  • uDIG

Question 43

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According to the article '13 Free GIS Software Options: Map the World in Open Source' which of the following free open source software solutions specializes in mapping biological richness and diversity distribution (including DNA data) and has the capacity to extract climate data for all locations on the land?
Answer
  • uDIG
  • Diva GIS
  • ILWIS
  • GRASS

Question 44

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According to the article '13 Free GIS Software Options: Map the World in Open Source' which of the following free open source software solutions started out primarily for terrain analysis such as hillshading, watershed extraction and visibility analysis?
Answer
  • ILWIS
  • GRASS
  • SAGA
  • uDIG

Question 45

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According to the article, '27 Differences Between ArcGIS and QGIS – The Most Epic GIS Software Battle in GIS History' select from the following list functionality that is shared by both QGIS and ArcGIS technology.
Answer
  • GDAL/OGR library that reads and writed GIS data formats and supports over 70 vector formats
  • Capacity to join a table to spatial data
  • Cartographic capability
  • Coordinate systems and projections

Question 46

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According to the article, '27 Differences Between ArcGIS and QGIS – The Most Epic GIS Software Battle in GIS History' select from the following list functionality that is shared by both QGIS and ArcGIS technology
Answer
  • Capacity to perform raster analysis
  • Capability to apply remote sensing techniques
  • Access to over 2887 real world datasets
  • Geostatistical Analysis

Question 47

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According to the article, '27 Differences Between ArcGIS and QGIS – The Most Epic GIS Software Battle in GIS History' select from the following list functionality that is shared by both QGIS and ArcGIS technology
Answer
  • Capability to perform network analysis
  • Mapbook generation
  • Capability to build models
  • Advanced Label Placement

Question 48

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Which of the following choices is an acronym for Free and Open Source Software
Answer
  • OSS
  • FAOSS
  • FOSS
  • None of the choices

Question 49

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Which of the following choices is a good all purpose application that is a cross-platform desktop geographic information system (GIS) application that provides data viewing, editing, and analysis?
Answer
  • MapServer
  • OSGIS
  • Manifold
  • QGIS

Question 50

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Which of the following choices is a System for Automated Geoscientific Analyses that is predominantly utilized to perform raster based analyses
Answer
  • MapServer
  • Manifold
  • OSGIS
  • SAGA

Question 51

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Which of the following choices is considered the most robust of OS GIS and is a free Geographic Information System software used for geospatial data management and analysis, image processing, graphics and maps production, spatial modelling, and visualization
Answer
  • GRASS
  • SAGA
  • MapServer
  • OSGIS

Question 52

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Which of the following choices is an all purpose GIS designed to be an easily extensible solution, allowing continual improvement and custom made solutions
Answer
  • OSGIS
  • MapServer
  • Manifold
  • GVSig

Question 53

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Which of the following choices is an open format, standards-based, platform-independent, portable, self-describing, compact format for transferring geospatial information?
Answer
  • GeoPackage
  • MapServer
  • OSGIS
  • Manifold

Question 54

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Which of the following choices is an open format open source library intended to extend the SQLite core to support fully fledged Spatial SQL capabilities
Answer
  • SQLite
  • Manifold
  • OSGIS
  • Spatialite

Question 55

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Which of the following choices is a Cross-platform C library that implements a self-contained, embeddable, zero-configuration SQL database engine
Answer
  • OSGIS
  • Manifold
  • Spatialite
  • SQLite

Question 56

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Which of the following choices is an object-relational database SQL database that allows storage and query of information about location and mapping by PostGIS?
Answer
  • OSGIS
  • Manifold
  • Postgres
  • SQLite

Question 57

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Which of the following choices is an Open Source platform for publishing spatial data and interactive mapping applications to the web?
Answer
  • SQLite
  • MapServer
  • GDAL
  • Manifold

Question 58

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Risk analysis can be performed by free open source software solutions.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 59

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Permeability cannot be determined by free open source software solutions.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 60

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Map Books can be generated by free open source software solutions.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 61

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Select from the following choices the pros associated with utilizing free open source software.
Answer
  • Customization
  • Good community support
  • Faster adaptation to changing technology and needs
  • Open source can lead to "branching"

Question 62

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Select from the following choices the cons associated with utilizing free open source software.
Answer
  • Open source can lead to "branching"
  • Slow adaptation to changing technology and needs
  • Application may be discontinued at any time
  • Support can be challenging

Question 63

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Select from the following choices the pros associated with utilizing free open source software.
Answer
  • Can read all proprietary formats
  • Slow adaptation to changing technology and needs
  • Value
  • Open formats

Question 64

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Select from the following choices the cons associated with utilizing free open source software.
Answer
  • Costly
  • May not be able to read proprietary formats
  • New versions - new problems
  • Slow adaptation to changing technology and needs

Question 65

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Which of the following Open Source Software solutions was used to model the Albedo Surface shown in lecture?
Answer
  • GRASS GIS
  • QGIS
  • gvSIG
  • SAGA GIS

Question 66

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Which of the following Open Source Software solutions was used to perform an Object Oriented Land Use Classification shown in lecture?
Answer
  • QGIS
  • SAGA GIS
  • GRASS GIS
  • gvSIG

Question 67

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Which of the following Open Source Software solutions was used to model the Driving Distance Isochrones for football clubs as shown in lecture?
Answer
  • GRASS GIS
  • QGIS
  • SAGA GIS
  • gvSIG

Question 68

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Which of the following Open Source Software solutions was used to perform a Closest Facility Network Analysis as shown in lecture?
Answer
  • gvSIG
  • QGIS
  • GRASS GIS
  • SAGA GIS

Question 69

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Which of the following Open Source Software solutions was used to model UFO Sightings as shown in lecture?
Answer
  • gvSIG
  • SAGA GIS
  • QGIS
  • GRASS GIS

Question 70

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Which of the following Open Source Software solutions was used to model indices of Deprivation in Liverpool as shown in lecture?
Answer
  • gvSIG
  • SAGA GIS
  • QGIS
  • GRASS

Question 71

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Which of the following Open Source Software solutions was used to model Hydrological Activity (time to outlet) as shown in lecture?
Answer
  • gvSIG
  • QGIS
  • GRASS GIS

Question 72

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Which of the following Open Source Software solutions was used to model Flood Risk as shown in lecture?
Answer
  • SAGA GIS
  • GRASS GIS
  • QGIS
  • gvSIG

Question 73

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to model Human Behaviour as shown in lecture?
Answer
  • SAGA GIS
  • GRASS GIS
  • QGIS
  • gvSIG

Question 74

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Which of the following Open Source Software solutions was used to model the Density of Archaeological Monuments in Ireland as shown in lecture?
Answer
  • GRASS GIS
  • SAGA GIS
  • QGIS
  • gvSIG

Question 75

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Which of the following Open Source Software solutions was used to model Crime Statistics as shown in lecture?
Answer
  • GRASS GIS
  • gvSIG
  • QGIS
  • GeoDA

Question 76

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Which of the following Open Source Software solutions was used to model Health Statistics as shown in lecture?
Answer
  • QGIS
  • GeoDA
  • gvSIG
  • GRASS GIS
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