Tim Ormsby et al. (2004). Getting To Know ArcGIS Desktop, Second Edition. Redlands, CA: ESRI Press.
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCING GIS
1. Layers may contain features or surfaces. Explain. Pp. 2-3
2. Features and surfaces used different data formats. Explain and define. P. 4.
3. Does any given map have one given scale? Define scale. Pp. 5-6
4. How are GIS features related to what social scientists call variables? Pp. 6-8
5. Does one feature correspond to one thematic map? Pp. 9-11
6. What are examples of spatial relationships that can be asked in spatial queries? Pp. 9-11
CHAPTER 2. INTRODUCING ArcGIS DESKTOP
1. How are ArcView, ArcEditor, and ArcInfo related? P. 14
2. What is the relation of ArcMap, ArcCatalog, and ArcToolbox to ArcView, ArcEditor, and ArcInfo ? P. 14.
3. What does ArcMap do? P. 14.
4. What does ArcCatalog do? P. 14.
5. What does ArcToolbox do? P. 288.
6. What does Spatial Analyst do? P. 16.
7. What does 3D Analyst do? P. 16.
8. What does Geostatistical Analyst do? P. 17.
9. What does ArcSDE do? P. 18.
10. What does ArcGIS Online do? P. 18.
CHAPTER 3: EXPLORING ARCMAP
1. In ArcMap, what is the "table of contents"? P. 20.
2. What determines if a map layer is visible or not? P. 25
3. Is the drawing order top to bottom or bottom to top?
How does this relate to different types of features? Pp. 25-6
4. What can you do if the layers are not in the right order
in the table of contents? P. 26
5. In the table of contents, how do you see a menu of layer
operations from which to select? P. 27
6. What can you do in the Layer Properties dialog box? P. 27
7. In the toolbar, what are these icons: Zoom, full Extent, go Back? P. 29
8. How can you get labels to appear for features
(ex., for cities)? Pp. 30-31
9. When you are in ArcMap and you select File, Save As,
what type of file will be saved? P. 33
10. What is "small scale" mapping: a 1:100,000,000
map of the world, or a 1:5,000 map of a neighborhood? Pp. 30, 36
11. What does it mean to "set a bookmark": in ArcGIS? Pp. 39-41
12. What does the Measure tool do? P. 41-42
13. How do you view the attribute table behind a layer? P. 44
14. Ho do you change field display widths or hide fields? Pp. 45-46
15. How do you reorder fields? P. 46
16. How do you select cases in a table? What happens? Pp. 47-48
17. How do you clear a selection? P. 48
18. How do you sort on a field? P. 49
19. How do you get the mean of an attribute? P. 50
CHAPTER 4: EXPLORING ARCCATALOG
1. What are the key functions of the ArcCatalog module? P. 54
2. What are the two main windows of ArcCatalog? P. 54
3. Name and explain six data formats found in an ArcGIS catalog. Also give the file extension and icon description of each. Pp. 54-59.
4. What are layer files? Pp. 54, 59, 73
5. How do you get to see file extensions if they are hidden (and set other defaults too)? P. 56.
6. What does the Connect to Folder button do? Pp. 56-57
7. What is a .mxd file? Pp. 58, 74
8. What are the four ways you can view files in ArcCatalog? P. 60
9. How do you view a feature like, say, counties when in ArcCatalog? Pp. 60-61.
10. What is the identify tool? Pp. 62-63
11. What is the full extent button? P. 63
12. What is the Preview Drop-down list? P. 63
13. What are table columns called? P. 63
14. What are metadata? P. 64
15. How do you search for data in ArcCatalog? Pp. 66-70
16. In ArcMap, what is the difference between data view and layout view? Pp. 74, 78.
17. How do you get data from ArcCatalog into a data view in ArcMap? Pp. 77-78
18. How do your rename features in an ArcMap table of contents? P. 78
19. How do you add frames to layouts in ArcMap? Pp. 79-80
20. How do you copy and paste themes between data views? Pp. 81-84
21. How do you change feature colors? Pp. 85-86
CHAPTER 5: SYMBOLIZING FEATURES AND RASTERS
1. What are some symbol properties? P. 90.
2. What are symbol styles? P. 90
3. How are features differentiated by symbol (ex., different
size or color symbols)? Pp. 90-91
4. What are the default symbols and colors if none are chosen?
P. 92
5. How do you change the color of a symbol? Pp. 93-94.
6. What does (left) clicking the symbol for a layer do? P. 94
7. How do you label points or other features? Pp. 96-97
8. How do you change the color of the background data frame? Pp. 97-98
9. What does a dashed line around a data frame in layout view
mean? P. 100
10. How do you assign different colors to polygons based on
some attribute? (Ex., to countries based on population). Pp. 101-103
11. What does the minus sign do next to a layer in the TOC? P. 105
12. How do you make a data frame the currently active frame? P. 105
13. Is an active layer always visible on the map? P. 105
14. How do you see the table behind a layer? P. 105
15. In the Layer Properties window, what does the Add Values
button do? P. 107
16. In the layer properties window, what does double-clicking
on the symbol for a value do? Pp. 107-108
17. What is the Add Data button and what does it do? P. 113
18. How do you add symbol sets? P. 116
19. How and why do you save .lyr files? Pp. 118-120
20. What ArcGIS extension is the main one needed to create raster data?
P. 122
21. For the same geographic extent, which data format requires
more file space, rasters or vector data? P. 122
22. What is "creating pyramids" about? Pp. 124-125
23. What is hillshading? P. 126
24. What is the difference between classified and stretched
raster drawing? P. 127
25. Why does the terrain map on p. 129 require both a raster
hillshading layer and a vector elevation layer? Pp. 128-129
CHAPTER 6: CLASSIFYING FEATURES AND RASTERS
1. Explain the four major types of maps using classification. P. 134-135.
2. Explain the six ArcGIS methods of classifying a feature. P. 136
3. How do you set classifications in ArcMap? Pp. 138-140
4. What do the x and y axes represent in the Classification window histogram? Pp. 141
5. How can you format the numeric labeling of classes in the toc? Pp. 144-145
6. In Layer Properties, Symbology Tab, what does checking the "Show class ranges using feature values" box do? P. 145
7. How can you manually change a classification cut point? P. 151
8. How do you manually change the color of a given class? Pp. 152-153
9. What does "normalization" mean in ArcGIS? P. 156
10. How do you normalize an attribute? P. 156-158
11. How do you convert a color gradient map to a dot density map? Pp. 158- 159
12. What do you do if you want dot density by a feature (countries) but do not want the feature borders to show? P. 159-160
13. How do you get dots not to display in, say, lakes? Pp. 161
14. How do you create a graduated symbol map? Pp. 164-168
15. How do you create a pie chart or bar/column or stacked bar/column chart map? Pp. 170-174
CHAPTER 7:LABELING FEATURES
1. What is dynamic labeling? Interactive labeling? Text? P. 178
2. How do you do dynamic labeling? P. 179
3. How can you specify font, size, color, bold, italic, and underline?
Pp. 180-181
4. How can you add text labels? Pp. 182-183
5. How can you modify text labels? Pp. 184
6. How do you move text or labels? P. 185
7. How do you set which attribute field is used for the labels? P. 186
8. How can you set the placement of labels vis-a-vis their respective
features? Pp. 187-189
9. How can you set label priorities when you are labeling more than
one layer? What are priorities? p. 192
10. How do you set labels to display only if you are zoomed in
enough? Pp. 196-197
11. Why convert labels to annotations? P. 198
12. What does the Label tool do? P. 199
13. How do you convert labels to annotations? P. 201-202
CHAPTER EIGHT: QUERYING DATA
1. Differentiate identifying, selecting, and querying to get
feature information. P. 206
2. What is the icon for the Identify tool? P. 208
3. What is the Select Features tool? What is its icon?
Why and how to set selectable layers? Pp. 209-210
4. How do you un-select? P. 210
5. What color are selected features? Pp. 211-212
6. What is the yellow color for in selection? P. 213
7. How do you enable hyperlinks in a map? Pp. 214-215
8. How do you create hyperlinks? Pp. 214-216
9. What is the Find tool? P. 216
10. How do you do a query by attributes? Pp. 219-221
11. How do you create a report of your query? Pp. 223-231
CHAPTER 9: JOINING AND RELATING TABLES
1. Why join tables? P. 234-236
2. What is the difference between joining and relating tables? Pp. 235-236
3. How do you associate a non-spatial .dbf table with a spatial geodatabase?
Pp. 238-239
4. What happens if the non-spatial (dbf) table does not have as many records
as the spatial file? P. 241
5. Once attributes have been added to a layer, how do you get a particular
added attribute to show on the map? Pp. 244-246
6. Does the link field have to be spelled the same in the source and destination
databases? P. 247
7. What was the "relate" example in the book? Pp. 247-259
8. How do you relate a non-spatial dbf to a spatial layer? P. 252
9. For a given feature in a layer, how can you see related information?
Pp. 253-256
10. How do you select all features in a layer matching a value in a related table
(in the example, all Pits with lead, where lead is in the related Metals dbf)?
Pp. 256-259
CHAPTER 10: SELECTING FEATURES BY LOCATION
1. What is "selecting by location" as opposed to "selecting by attribute"? P. 262
2. Give several examples of spatial relationships. P. 263
3. What is the selection layer (ex., neighborhoods on p. 266)? Pp. 263, 266
4. What is the reference layer (ex., freeways on p. 266)? Pp. 263, 266
5. How do you select by location in ArcMap? Pp. 265-268
6. How do you select by location and by attribute? P. 267
7. In Layer Properties, what does the Definition Query tab do?
How is it different from an "attribute query"? Pp. 276-277
8. What is a spatial join? Pp. 280-281
CHAPTER 11: PREPARING DATA FOR ANALYSIS
1. What three data prep operations are discussed in this chapter? P. 284
2. When might a public administrator wish to dissolve features? (Not in book)
3. How do you dissolve features? Pp. 287-291
4. How do you create a graph based on an attribute? Pp.295-297
5. What does clipping do? P. 300
6. How do you clip a layer? How do you create a new layer from a
selection? p. 301-306
7. What is another way to create a new layer, besides dissolving
and clipping? P. 307
8. How do you export a selection? Pp. 307-312
