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GIS Exam Study Guide with Complete Solutions GIS - Answer-geographic information system software - allows you to envision the geographic aspects of a body of data. ESRI - Answer-is Environmental Systems Research Institute - the developer and supplier of GIS how does computer hardware performan...

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GIS - Answer✔✔-geographic information system software - allows you to envision the geographic

aspects of a body of data.


ESRI - Answer✔✔-is Environmental Systems Research Institute - the developer and supplier of GIS


how does computer hardware performance change - Answer✔✔-the performance doubles every 18

months.


ArcReader - Answer✔✔-allows one to view and query maps created with other ArcGIS products


ArcGIS - Answer✔✔-the name that ESRI uses to refer to its suite of GIS software product.


Desktop ArcGIS - Answer✔✔-computer software used to interpret and display spatial analysis data;

single user program designed by ESRI


Three types of architecture - functionality levels for ArcGIS for Desktop - Answer✔✔-- Basic


- Standard


- Advanced


ArcGIS for Desktop Basic - Answer✔✔-formerly known as ArcView - allows one to view spatial data,

create layered maps, and perform basic spatial analysis




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ArcGIS for Desktop Standard - Answer✔✔-formerly known as ArcEditor - which in addition to the

functionality of ArcView, includes more advanced tools for manipulation of shapefiles and geodatabase


ArcGIS for Desktop Advanced - Answer✔✔-formerly known as ArcInfo - includes capability for data

manipulation, editing, and analysis


ArcGIS Pro - Answer✔✔-is a new architecture - functionality that was released in 2015. It is more robust

than ArcGIS, linked to Microsoft Office, but is not a huge upgrade


ArcMap - Answer✔✔-is a component of Esri's suite of desktop GIS software programs that can be used

to view, edit, and query geospatial data, and create maps.


ArcCatalog - Answer✔✔-is the data management application, used to browse datasets and files on one's

computer, database, or other sources. Allows users to preview data on map.


ArcToolbox - Answer✔✔-contains the geoprocessing, data conversion, and analysis tools - has much of

the functionality of ArcInfo.


ArcAdministrator - Answer✔✔-sole purpose is to get the licensing properly aligned so you get the

functionality of ArcGIS


ArcGlobe - Answer✔✔-similar to Google globe


ArcScene - Answer✔✔-is the 3-D component of ArcGIS


Extensions - Answer✔✔-there are software extensions that can be added to ArcGIs for Desktop that

provide added functionality




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.mxd - Answer✔✔-is an file extension for a map document in ArcMap & is only usable within ArcMaps -

can contain map description, map layout, and embedded objects saved in the map


.mxd v. .mpk - Answer✔✔-.mxd is smaller because it doesn't contain the data in the file, it only had

pointers to the actual data and symbol sets, thus need the other data files on your computer. .mpk is a

portable file that contains .mxd file and any referenced GIS data from the document - created using a

map package (only for ArcMap 10.0 and up)


Data Formats (2) - Answer✔✔-- Vector


- Raster


Vector - Answer✔✔-a coordinate-based data model that represents geographic features as points, line,

and polygons. Points -each with its own coordinate pairs; lines & polygons have ordered lists of vertices

(x,y).


Vector features - Answer✔✔-points (water wells), lines (rivers - the last point cannot be where the first

point is), and polygons (lakes - last point is where the first point is) - usually each has attributes that

describe it


Raster - Answer✔✔-a spatial data model that defines space as an array of equally sized cells (pixels)

arranged in row and columns, and composed of single or multiple bands. Each raster cell contains an

attribute value and location coordinates.


Raster Format - Answer✔✔-Group of cells that share the same value represent the same type of

geographic feature (i.e. green pixels = forest, blue = lake).


Cell - Answer✔✔-the smallest unit of information in a raster data - a pixel.


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