NivaarExam PrepOfficial exam papers ↗

18-Geom-A7 Geospatial Information Systems: May 2017

Nivaar worked solution (AI-drafted; not reviewed by a licensed engineer)

  1. Question 1 Criteria describing geospatial data quality
  2. Question 2 Raster versus vector data — advantages and limitations
  3. Question 3 Address matching
  4. Question 4 Site-selection flowchart (school siting)
  5. Question 5 Thin-client versus thick-client web mapping
  6. Question 6 Map projection
  7. Question 7 From spatial data to decision-making
  8. Question 8 Purpose of georeferencing
  9. Question 9 Metadata and its standards
  10. Question 10 Conceptual, logical and physical models
  11. Question 11 Buffers in proximity analysis
  12. Question 12 Discrete objects versus continuous fields
  13. Question 13 DBMS in GIS
  14. Question 14 Data-model and spatial-operation pairs
  15. Question 15 Quad-tree of the land-use map

Start with Question 1 →

National Exams — May 2017 — 04-Geom-A7 Geospatial Information Systems. Closed-book; any non-communicating calculator permitted. Format: fifteen questions of varied value totalling 100 marks; fifteen questions constitute a complete paper and all fifteen are solved in full below. Most answers are required in essay form. Datum and coordinate conventions follow the Canadian spatial reference framework — NAD83(CSRS) horizontally and CGVD2013 vertically.

Reference texts: P. A. Longley, M. F. Goodchild, D. J. Maguire & D. W. Rhind, Geographic Information Systems and Science (4th ed., Wiley, 2015); P. Bolstad, GIS Fundamentals: A First Text on Geographic Information Systems (6th ed., XanEdu, 2019); P. A. Burrough, R. A. McDonnell & C. D. Lloyd, Principles of Geographical Information Systems (3rd ed., Oxford, 2015); M. Worboys & M. Duckham, GIS: A Computing Perspective (2nd ed., CRC, 2004); H. Samet, The Design and Analysis of Spatial Data Structures (Addison-Wesley, 1990); ISO 19115 Geographic information — Metadata.