GIS and RS MCQs

GIS stands for Geographic Information System, it involves GIS Data, GIS Geography, Data and examples. MCQs of GIS and RS are very helpful for the initial tests of Direct Short Service Commission (DSSC) Examination in Army, Navy and PAF.

In the following GIS MCQs and RS (Remote Sensing) are given in detail which are past experience of the candidates who appeared in DSSC exam of Pak Army. If you want to join Pak Army, Pak Navy or PAF then these questions are very beneficial.

GIS and RS Multiple Choice Questions

GIS stands for _______.

  1. Geographic Information system
  2. Geographic internal system
  3. Global Information System
  4. None of the above

Answer: a

GIS captures and analyses ______ data.

  1. Spatial
  2. Geographic
  3. Both a and b
  4. None of the above

Answer: c

GIS applications are ________ tools.

  1. Mobile
  2. Computer
  3. Machinery
  4. None of the above

Answer: b

GIS tools allow the user to perform which of the following task?

  1. Create searches
  2. Store data
  3. Edit data
  4. All the above

Answer: d

Which of the following is a branch of the study of GIS concepts?

  1. Geographic information science
  2. Geographic science
  3. Geographic data
  4. None of the above

Answer: a

GIS represents unrelated information of location using _______.

  1. Key index
  2. Key index variable
  3. Key
  4. None of the above

Answer: b

GIS represents a location in ______ dimensional coordinates.

  1. 2
  2. 3
  3. 4
  4. 5

Answer: b

GIS represents X-coordinate in _______ direction.

  1. Horizontal
  2. Vertical
  3. Tangentially
  4. None of the above

Answer: a

GIS represents Y-coordinate in _______ direction.

  1. Horizontal
  2. Vertical
  3. Tangentially
  4. None of the above

Answer: b

GIS represents Z-coordinate in _______ direction.

  1. Horizontal
  2. Vertical
  3. Tangentially
  4. None of the above

Answer: c

Which of the following parameters using GIS are correlated to represent an earth’s physical location?

  1. Location
  2. Spatial-temporal
  3. Extent references
  4. All the above

Answer: d

GIS was coined by ________.

  1. Roger Tomlinson
  2. Roger James
  3. Richard
  4. None of the above

Answer: a

GIS was coined in the year ________.

  1. 1986
  2. 1968
  3. 1982
  4. 1990

Answer: b

The scientist Roger Tomlinson who coined GIS was given ______ title.

  1. Father of GIS
  2. Father of Globe
  3. Doctorate
  4. None of the above

The scientist Roger Tomlinson firstly implemented GIS work on _______ geographic information system.

  1. Canada
  2. USA
  3. India
  4. China

Answer: a

The scientist Roger Tomlinson created ______ for analyzing and storing a large amount of data.

  1. Database
  2. SD card
  3. Pen drive
  4. Computer

Answer: a

Modern GIS technology uses ______ type of information.

  1. Analog
  2. Digital
  3. Both a and b
  4. None of the above

Answer: b

Digital data in GIS is represented using ______ data creation methods.

  1. Analog
  2. Digital
  3. Both a and b
  4. None of the above

Answer: b

Which of the following are the digital data creation methods used for GIS data creation?

  1. Digitization
  2. Orth rectified imagery
  3. Demodulation
  4. Both a and b

Answer: d

A process where a survey plan or hard copy is a map and is represented digital medium using geo-referencing capabilities and CAD tool is called ______ technique.

  1. Digitization
  2. Modulation
  3. Demodulation
  4. None of the above

Answer: a

The program used in the digitization technique is _________.

  1. CAD
  2. GPS
  3. C
  4. JAVA

Answer: a

CAD in CAD tool stands for ________.

  1. Computer-aided design
  2. Computer alters design
  3. Control aided design
  4. None of the above

Answer: a

CAD is also named as ________.

  1. CADD
  2. CAD
  3. BCC
  4. AD

None of the above

Answer: a

CADD is abbreviated as ________.

  1. Computer-aided design drafting
  2. Computer alter design drafting
  3. Computer-aided develop drafting
  4. None of the above

Answer: a

A CAD tool graphically represents the information in ______ dimensions.

  1. 2D
  2. 3D
  3. Both a and b
  4. None of the above

Answer: c

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GIS Data with Multiple Choices

Which of the following are CAD programs?

  1. Auto CAD
  2. Auto CAD LT
  3. Both a and b
  4. None of the above

Answer: c

The process of capturing satellite image is called _______.

  1. Orthophoto
  2. Ortho photograph
  3. Ortho image
  4. All the above

Answer: d

Ortho rectified imaginary collects data from which of the following.

  1. UAV
  2. Helikites
  3. Aircraft
  4. All the above

Answer: d

UAV stands for _______.

  1. Unmanned aerial vehicle
  2. Uni aerial vehicle
  3. Unmanned air vehicle
  4. None of the above

Answer: a

Does UAV have a pilot driver?

  1. Yes
  2. No
  3. May be

Answer: b

UAV has _______ number of major components.

  1. 2
  2. 3
  3. 4
  4. 5

Answer: b

An aircraft flies using _______ support.

  1. Air
  2. Water
  3. Land
  4. None of the above

Answer: a

Which of the following are the examples of natural satellites?

  1. Moon
  2. Star
  3. Planets
  4. All the above

Answer: d

Digitizing of ________ types.

  1. 2
  2. 3
  3. 4
  4. 5

Answer: a

Head up digitizing traces geographical data _____ way on top of aerial imagery.

  1. Directly
  2. Indirectly
  3. Separately
  4. None of the above

Answer: a

A traditional method traces geographical form using _______.

  1. Directly
  2. Indirectly
  3. Digitizing tablet
  4. None of the above

Answer: c

Head down digitizing is also called as ________.

  1. Digitizing tablet
  2. Manual digitizing
  3. Stylus
  4. Both a and b

Answer: d

Head down digitizing tablet uses ______ component to feed information into the computer.

  1. Stylus
  2. Special pen
  3. Special magnetic pen
  4. Both a and c

Answer: d

What is the next step after feeding information to a computer in down digitizing?

  1. It creates data
  2. It creates an identical digital map
  3. It creates report
  4. None of the above

Answer: b

A digitized tablet uses which of the following peripherals to feed data?

  1. Magnetic pen
  2. Puck
  3. Mouse
  4. All the above

Answer: d

A puck has a ______ size window with crosshairs.

  1. Big
  2. Small
  3. Medium
  4. None of the above

Answer: b

A puck has small size window with _______ hairs.

  1. Straight
  2. Cross
  3. Vertical
  4. Horizontal

Answer: b

What is the function of the puck?

  1. Allows greater precision
  2. Pinpoints map features
  3. Both a and b
  4. None of the above

Answer: c

Which type of head digitizing is most commonly used?

  1. Heads up
  2. Heads down
  3. Head vertical
  4. None of the above

Answer: a

Which type of head digitizing is rarely used?

  1. Heads up
  2. Heads down
  3. Head vertical
  4. None of the above

Answer: b

Which of the following digitizing provides poor quality?

  1. Heads up
  2. Heads down
  3. Head vertical
  4. None of the above

Answer: b

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GIS Geography with MCQs

Which of the following is a GIS operation?

  1. Geo-data
  2. Geo-processing
  3. Global processing
  4. None of the above

Answer: b

What is the function of geoprocessing?

  1. Manipulates global data
  2. Manipulates spatial data
  3. Manipulates local data
  4. None of the above

Answer: b

The input to geoprocessing is _______.

  1. Data sheet
  2. Alphanumeric
  3. Numeric
  4. Alphabets

Answer: a

Geoprocessing operation includes which of the following process?

  1. Defining
  2. Management
  3. Analyses
  4. Information
  5. All the above

Answer: e

What is the first step of geoprocessing?

  1. Processes
  2. Management
  3. Analyses information
  4. All the above

Answer: a

GIS uses ______ as a key index variable for all other information.

  1. Space time
  2. Spatio temporal
  3. Both a and b
  4. Space

Answer: c

A rational database contains ________.

  1. Numbers
  2. Texts
  3. Images
  4. Both a and b

Answer: d

GIS either unrelated or relates location information using ________.

  1. Index
  2. Key Index variable
  3. Index pointer
  4. None of the above

Answer: b

The key index is the extent in ______ time.

  1. Space
  2. Orbit
  3. Satellite
  4. Earth

Answer: a

Earths location can be recorded in terms of _______ parameters.

  1. Date
  2. Time
  3. Calendar
  4. Both a and b

Answer: d

Earth’s location recorded in terms of time and date parameters are based on which of the following reference.

  1. Latitude
  2. Longitude
  3. Elevation
  4. All the above

Answer: d

A GIS coordinates can represent which of the following systems?

  1. Highway mile marker
  2. Surveyor benchmark
  3. Entrance gate
  4. All the above

Answer: d

GIS accuracy depends on _______.

  1. The encoded process
  2. Source data
  3. Both a and b
  4. Location

Answer: c

Which of the following surveys provided high accuracy with GPS derived positions?

  1. Land
  2. Water
  3. Farm areas
  4. None of the above

Answer: a

Which of the following are considered while developing a digital topographic database for GIS?

  1. Aerial photography
  2. Satellite imagery
  3. Topographical maps
  4. All the above

Answer: d

Topography deals with _______ of earth surface.

  1. Shape
  2. Characteristic
  3. Location
  4. Both a and b

Answer: d

Topographic map is also called _________.

  1. Topographic sheet
  2. Topographic module
  3. Topographic paper
  4. None of the above

Answer: a

Aerial photography is also called as ________.

  1. Airborne imagery
  2. Airborne sheet
  3. Air imagery
  4. All the above

Answer: a

What is the function of airborne imagery?

  1. Takes photographs from aircraft
  2. Observes aircraft
  3. Monitors data
  4. All the above

Answer: a

Airborne imagery takes aerial photographs using _________ resources.

  1. Balloons
  2. Aircrafts
  3. Blimps
  4. All the above

Answer: d

__________ can remotely trigger special photographs.

  1. Mounted cameras
  2. Cameras
  3. Digital device
  4. None of the above

Answer: a

Is air-to-air photography and aerial photography similar?

  1. Yes
  2. No
  3. May be

Answer: b

_______ determines the fidelity of the represented colors in raster graphics.

  1. Color depth
  2. Color brightness
  3. Color dimensions
  4. All the above

Answer: a

_______ determines the range of the color coverage in raster graphics.

  1. Color space
  2. Color brightness
  3. Color dimensions
  4. All the above

Answer: a

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GIS Examples as Multiple Choice Questions

Air to air photography uses _________ number of aircraft.

  1. 0
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 1 or more

Answer: d

A chase plane is a _______.

  1. Satellite
  2. Aircraft
  3. Boat
  4. None of the above

Answer: b

Which of the following are the types of aerial photography?

  1. Oblique
  2. Vertical
  3. Horizontal
  4. Both a and b

Answer: d

Oblique photographs are taken in an _______ direction.

  1. Horizontal
  2. Vertical
  3. Angled
  4. None of the above

Answer: c

If an oblique photograph is taken at a low angle relative then it is called as ________ oblique.

  1. High
  2. Low
  3. Perpendicular
  4. None of the above

Answer: b

If an oblique photograph is taken at a high angle relative then it is called as ________ oblique.

  1. High
  2. Low
  3. Perpendicular
  4. None of the above

Answer: a

A high oblique is also called _________.

  1. Steep oblique
  2. Evaluate oblique
  3. Upper oblique
  4. Both a and b

Answer: a

Vertical photographs are taken in ________ direction.

  1. Straight up
  2. Straight down
  3. Vertically
  4. Horizontally

Answer: b

Which of the following are the applications of vertical photography?

  1. Photogrammetry
  2. Image interpretation
  3. Both a and b
  4. None of the above

Answer: c

______ is technology and science of obtaining reliable information regarding environment and physical objects.

  1. Photogrammetry
  2. Image interpretation
  3. Both a and b
  4. None of the above

Answer: a

Which of the following process are included in photogrammetry?

  1. Recording
  2. Measuring
  3. Interpreting
  4. All the above

Answer: d

Photogrammetry interprets which of the following data?

  1. EM radiation
  2. Photographic images
  3. Both a and b
  4. Radiation

Answer: c

Photogrammetry was proposed by __________.

  1. F. Arago
  2. Flemings
  3. Harvard
  4. Henry

Answer: a

F. Arago was a _______ surveyor.

  1. French
  2. German
  3. Indian
  4. Dutch

Answer: a

Photogrammetry methods include which of the following data _______.

  1. Projective
  2. Optics
  3. Geometry
  4. All the above

Answer: d

3D coordinates defines object location in ______ space.

  1. 3D
  2. 2D
  3. 1D
  4. Both a and b

Answer: a

_______ orientation of camera defines the space location and view direction.

  1. Inner orientation
  2. Exterior orientation
  3. Both a and b
  4. None of the above

Answer: b

______ orientation defines geometric parameters of the imaging process.

  1. Inner orientation
  2. Exterior orientation
  3. Both a and b
  4. None of the above

Answer: a

______ is a case of estimating 3D coordinates of points on an object employing measurements made in 2 or more photographic images taken from different positions.

  1. Stereo-photogrammetry
  2. Geometry
  3. Coordinate Photogrammetry
  4. All the above

Answer: a

Which of the following are the applications of stereo-phpotogrammetry?

  1. Culture heritage
  2. Police investigation
  3. Architecture engineering
  4. All the above

Answer: d

Which of the following are the applications of web mapping?

  1. Google maps
  2. Bing maps
  3. Open street Maps
  4. All the above

Answer: d

GIS represents data of ________.

  1. Trees
  2. Water bodies
  3. Lands
  4. All the above

Answer: d

Do GIS represent a non existing object?

  1. Yes
  2. No
  3. May be

Answer: b

Which of the following are traditional methods to store GIS data?

  1. Vector graphics
  2. Raster images
  3. Both a and b
  4. None of the above

Answer: c

Raster graphic in GIS represents data in _______ data structure.

  1. Plane matrix
  2. Dot-matrix
  3. Continuous matrix
  4. None of the above

Answer: b

Raster graphic in GIS represents data in ______ grid of pixels.

  1. Circular
  2. Rectangular
  3. Square
  4. All the above

Answer: b

Raster graphic in GIS stores image files with varying _______ formats.

  1. Dimensions
  2. Generation
  3. Production
  4. All the above

Answer: d

Which of the following industries knows raster graphic as contones?

  1. Prepress
  2. Printing
  3. Trading
  4. Both a and b

Answer: d

A bitmap image is represented as ________ grid.

  1. Circular
  2. Rectangular
  3. Square
  4. All the above

Answer: b

Which of the following are common pixel formats in Raster graphics?

  1. Grayscale
  2. Full colored
  3. Palletized
  4. All the above

Answer: d

GIS uses the information from which of the following sources?

  1. Non- spatial information system
  2. Spatial information system
  3. Global information system
  4. Position information system

Answer: b

Among the following ____________ can be expressed as an example of hardware component.

  1. Keyboard
  2. Arc GIS
  3. Auto CAD
  4. Digitalization

Answer: a

Which of the following formats can be used for GIS output?

  1. DXF
  2. PDF
  3. GIF
  4. HTML

Answer: c

GIS Software Questions

In the process of GIS, digitalization is done for better output.

  1. True
  2. False

Answer: a

Which among the following is not related to GIS software’s?

  1. CAD
  2. Arc GIS
  3. Arc View
  4. STAAD Pro

Answer: d

Among the following, which do not come under the components of GIS?

  1. Hardware
  2. Software
  3. Compiler
  4. Data

Answer: c

Data can be shared in the process of GIS.

  1. True
  2. False

Answer: b

Which of the following doesn’t determine the capability of GIS?

  1. Defining a map
  2. Representing cartographic feature
  3. Retrieving data
  4. Transferring data

Answer: d

Which of the following acts a benefit of GIS?

  1. Maintaining geo spatial data
  2. Data sharing
  3. Accurate data information
  4. Presence of data retrieval service

Answer: a

Which among the following is a server based hardware platform of GIS?

  1. Autodesk Revit
  2. STAAD Pro
  3. Arc GIS
  4. Google-maps

Answer: d

Study of geometric objects will come under the category of ______________

  1. Surveying
  2. Cartography
  3. Surface geometry
  4. Topology

Answer: d

Which type of data set is not used in GIS related software’s?

  1. Vertex
  2. Point
  3. Poly line
  4. polygon

Answer: a

Among the available formats, which are most commonly used in case of GIS?

  1. GIF
  2. TIFF
  3. JPEG
  4. DXF

Answer: b

The point data feature can be used to represent __________

  1. Location
  2. Area
  3. 3D area
  4. Volume

Answer: a

The polygonal data feature uses which of the following data format?

  1. Scientific character
  2. Math
  3. Character
  4. Integer

Answer: d

Which of the following justifies the usage of topology?

  1. Terrain of the area
  2. Geometry of the model
  3. Climatic conditions
  4. Atmospheric conditions

Answer: b

Spatial relationship can be established by using GIS.

  1. False
  2. True

Answer: b

Which feature of GIS can share the boundary of the polygon?

  1. Polygons
  2. Poly lines
  3. Dongle nodes
  4. Silver polygons

Answer: a

Which of the following indicate topological primitive?

  1. Poly line
  2. Point
  3. Node
  4. Polygon

Answer: c

Which of the following acts as a key to GIS?

  1. Topology
  2. Platform
  3. Software
  4. Terrain

Answer: a

Which of the following doesn’t indicate a topology error?

  1. Polygonal features
  2. Gaps between polygons
  3. Silver polygons
  4. Unclosed polygons

Answer: c

Which of the following acts as a source of inaccuracy?

  1. Format of data
  2. Silver polygon
  3. Unclosed polygon
  4. Dongle nodes

Answer: a

Among the errors occurring in GIS, which can cause a drastic change or fail the entire process?

  1. Format of data
  2. Unclosed polygons
  3. Dongle nodes
  4. Silver polygons

Answer: d

Which of the following is not a category of error?

  1. Change in format
  2. Areal cover
  3. Map scale
  4. Density of observation

Answer: a

Age of data can act as a source of error.

  1. False
  2. True

Answer: b

Which of the following can be represented as an example of format error?

  1. Silver polygons
  2. Dongle nodes
  3. Changing from raster to vector
  4. Areal cover

Answer: c

Silver polygons occur due to excessive overlaying.

  1. False
  2. True

Answer: b

Dongle nodes can be removed by ___________

  1. Undo
  2. Eraser
  3. Behind shoot
  4. Over shoot

Answer: d

GIS stands for

  1. Geographic Information System
  2. Generic Information System
  3. Geological Information System
  4. Geographic Information Sharing

Answer : a

GIS deals with which kind of data

  1. Numeric data
  2. Binary data
  3. Spatial data
  4. Complex data

Answer : c

Which of the following statements is true about the capabilities of GIS

  1. Data capture and preparation
  2. Data management, including storage and maintenance
  3. Data manipulation and analysis
  4. Data presentation

All of the above

Answer : e

By ‘spatial data’we mean data that has

  1. Complex values
  2. Positional values
  3. Graphic values
  4. Decimal values

Answer : b

What is ‘Metadata’?

  1. It is ‘ data about data’
  2. It is ‘meteorological data’
  3. It is ‘oceanic data’
  4. It is ‘contour data’

Answer : a

Key components of ‘spatial data’quality include

  1. Positional accuracy
  2. Temporal accuracy
  3. Lineage and completeness
  4. Logical consistency

All of the above

Answer : e

‘Spatial databases’ are also known as

  1. Geo data bases
  2. Mono data bases
  3. Concurrent data bases
  4. None of the above

Answer : a

Successful spatial analysis needs

  1. Appropriate software
  2. Appropriate hardware
  3. Competent user
  4. All of the above

Answer : d

Which of the following is related to GIS

  1. Euclidean space
  2. Ramanujan space
  3. Pythagorian space
  4. None of the above

Answer : a

A (geographic) field is a geographic phenomena for which, for every point in the study area

  1. A value can be determined
  2. A value cannot be determined
  3. A value is not relevant
  4. A value is missing

Answer : a

The following are the examples of ‘geographic fields’

  1. Air temperature
  2. Barometric pressure
  3. Elevation
  4. All of the above

Answer : d

Which of the following statements are true?

  1. Natural phenomena are usually fields
  2. Man-made phenomena are usually objects
  3. Both ‘1’ & ‘2’ are true
  4. None of the above

Answer : c

Fields can be

  1. Discrete only
  2. Continuous only
  3. Discrete or continuous
  4. None of the above

Answer : c

Examples of ‘continuous fields’ are

  1. Air temperature
  2. Barometric pressure
  3. Soil salinity
  4. Elevation
  5. All of the above

Answer : e

Which of the following is true about ‘Discrete fields’

  1. Discrete fields divide the study space in mutually exclusive, bounded parts, with all locations in one part having the same field value
  2. ‘Land classification’ is an example of discrete fields
  3. Discrete fields make use of ‘bounded’ features
  4. All of the above

Answer : d

GIS (Graphic Information System) and RS (Remote Sensing)

Which of the following is true about ‘Nominal Data Values’

  1. They are values that provide a name or identifier so that we can discriminate between different values
  2. True computations cannot be done with these values
  3. When the values assigned are sorted according to some set of non-overlapping categories, they are called ‘categorical data’
  4. All of the above

Answer : d

Which of the following is true about ‘Ordinal Data Values’

  1. They are date values that can be put in some natural sequence but that do not allow any other type of computation
  2. An example of Ordinal data value is classifying household income as ‘low’, ‘average’ or ‘high’
  3. None of the above
  4. Bothe ‘1’ & ‘2’

Answer : d

Which of the following is true about ‘Internal Data Values’

  1. They are quantities, in that they allow simple forms of computation like addition & subtraction
  2. They do not support multiplication or division
  3. Centigrade temperatures are internal data values
  4. All of the above

Answer : d

Which of the following is true about ‘ Ratio Data Values’

  1. They allow most, if not all, forms of arithmetic computation
  2. Multiplication & division of values are possible
  3. They have a natural zero value
  4. Continuous fields can have ratio data values
  5. All of the above

Answer : e

Which of the following is true

  1. Nominal & categorical data values are referred to as ‘qualitative data’
  2. Internal & Ratio data is known as ‘quantitative data’
  3. Ordinal data refers to a ranking scheme or some kind of hierarchical phenomena
  4. All of the above

Answer : d

Interpolation is made possible by a principle called

  1. Spatial Autocorrelation
  2. Spatial auto-correction
  3. Thematic Autocorrelation
  4. Thematic auto-correction

Answer : a

The fundamental principle which refers to the fact that locations that are closer together are more likely to have similar values than locations that are far apart, is commonly referred to as

  1. Tobler’s first low of Geography
  2. Kepler’s first law of Geography
  3. Anthony’s first law of Geography
  4. Thompson’s first law of Geography

Answer: a

A ……………….. is a set of regularity spaced (and contiguous) cells with associated (field) values. The associated values represent call values, not point values. This means that the value for a cell is assumed to valid for all locations within the cell

  1. Crystal
  2. Raster
  3. Segment
  4. Polygon

Answer : b

Which of the following is true

  1. Tessellations partition the study space into cells & assign a value to each cell
  2. A raster is a regular tessellation with square cells (by far the most commonly used)
  3. Both ‘1’ & ‘2’
  4. None of the above

Answer : c

TIN stands for

  1. Traffic Internet Network
  2. Triangulated Irregular Network
  3. Temporal Interest Network
  4. Temperature Interface Node

Answer : b

Which of the following is true about ‘Delaunay Triangulation’

  1. The triangles are as equilateral s they can be
  2. For each triangle, the circumcircle through its anchor points does not contain any other anchor point
  3. Both ‘1’ & ‘2’
  4. None of the above

Answer : c

The ‘boundary model’is sometimes also called

  1. Topological data model
  2. Temporal data model
  3. Topological discrete model
  4. Temporal discrete model

Answer : a

Which of the following relationships is correct

  1. Point : (0-Simplex)
  2. Line segment : (1-simplex)
  3. Triangle : (2-simplex)
  4. Tetrahedron : (3-simplex)
  5. All of the above

Answer : e

Q29. Which of the following belong to the eight spatial relationships?

  1. Disjoint, meets, equals
  2. Inside, covered by
  3. Contains, covers, overlaps
  4. All of the above

Answer : d

Which of the following statements are true about the ‘temporal dimension’

  1. Time can be measured along a ‘discrete’ or ‘continuous’ scale.
  2. Valid time (or world time) is the time when an event really happened, or a string of events took place.
  3. Time can be considered to be ‘linear’ extending from past to the present (‘now’), & into the future
  4. When measuring time, we speak of granularity as the precision of a time value in a GIS or database.
  5. Time can be represented as ‘absolute’ or ‘relative’
  6. All of the above

Answer : f

Which of the following is true?

  1. ‘Fields’ are geographic phenomena that occur everywhere in the study area
  2. ‘Objects’ are geographic phenomena that occur ‘sparsely’ over the study area
  3. Fields can be continuous or discrete
  4. Objects can be classified based on location, shape, size & orientation
  5. All of the above

Answer : e

Which of the following are full-fledged GIS packages

  1. ILWIS
  2. GeoMedia
  3. ArcGIS
  4. Corp
  5. All of the above

Answer : e

A GIS package cannot be called full-fledged if the following capabilities are missing

  1. Data capture and preparation
  2. Data storage
  3. Data analysis
  4. Presentation of spatial data
  5. All of the above

Answer : e

SDI stands for

  1. Spatial Data Interface
  2. Spatial Data Infrastructure
  3. Spatial Data Intention
  4. Spatial Data International

Answer : b

DBMS stands for

  1. Database Management System
  2. Database Monitoring System
  3. Database Manufacturing System
  4. Database Mixing Station

Answer : a

What are the various reasons for which DBMS is used

  1. A DBMS supports the storage and manipulation of very large data sets
  2. A DBMS can be instructed to guard over data correctness
  3. A DBMS supports the concurrent use of the same data set by many users
  4. All of the above

Answer : d

Which of the following is true about DBMS

  1. A DBMS provides a high-level, ‘declaration query language’
  2. A DBMS supports the use of a ‘data model’
  3. A DBMS includes ‘data backup’ and ‘recovery’ functions to ensure data availability at all times
  4. A DBMS allows the control of ‘data redundancy’
  5. All of the above

Answer : e

A ‘data model’ is a language that allows the definition of

  1. The ‘structures’ that will be used to store the base data
  2. The ‘integrity constraints’ that the stored data has to obey at all moments in time
  3. The ‘computer programs’ used to manipulate the data
  4. All of the above

Answer : d

Which of the following statements is true

  1. A table or relation is itself a collection of ‘tuples’ (or records)
  2. Each table is a collection of tuples that are similarly shaped
  3. An ‘attribute’ is a named field of a tuple, with which each tuple associates a value, the tuple’s ‘attribute value’
  4. All of the above

Answer : d

Q40. Which of the following statements is true in connection with a ‘tuple’

  1. The set of tuples in a relation at some point in time is called the ‘relational instance’ at that moment
  2. This tuple set is always finite
  3. It is possible to count how many tuples are there
  4. Only ‘1’ & ‘2’ are true
  5. ‘1’ , ‘2’ & ‘3’ are true

Answer : e

GIS MCQs

GIS uses the information from which of the following sources?

  1. Non- spatial information system
  2. Spatial information system
  3. Global information system
  4. Position information system

Ans: B

Among the following ____________ can be expressed as an example of hardware component.

  1. keyboard
  2. Arc GIS
  3. Auto Cad
  4. Digitalization

Ans: A

Which among the following is not related to GIS software’s?

  1. CAD
  2. Arc GIS
  3. Arc view
  4. Staad pro

Ans: D

Which type of data set is not used in GIS related software’s?

  1. Vertex
  2. Point
  3. Poly line
  4. Polygon

Ans: A

The entire earth surface is divided into zones in which type of map projection?

  1. Poly conic projection system
  2. Cylindrical projection
  3. UTM projection
  4. lambert- azimuthal equal area projection

Ans: C

In which of the following ways, meridians are projected in cylindrical projection?

  1. Mathematically
  2. Geometrically
  3. Horizontally
  4. Vertically

Ans: B

Which of the following doesn’t indicate a topology error?

  1. Polygonal features
  2. Gaps between polygons
  3. Silver polygons
  4. Unclosed polygons

Ans: C

In a map showing contours, the name of the darker contour lines is

  1. Index contours
  2. Key contours
  3. Lines of deviation
  4. Lines of elevations

Ans: A

If you are making a web map of sampling locations, streams and watershed areas, in what order would you place the layers on the map?

  1. Sampling locations, wetland areas, streams
  2. Streams, wetland areas, sampling locations
  3. Sampling locations, streams, wetland areas
  4. It doesn’t matter what order they are in

Ans: C

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