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- This is how MapInfo organizes data:
Map
Selection
Table
Workspace
- In a current session of MapInfo, you have three maps and a MapInfo browse window on the screen. How would you go about saving this session?
File > Save Copy As
File > Save Table
File > Save Workspace
File > Save Window As
- What command would you use to open a dBase file in MapInfo?
File > Open dBase file
File > Open table
Table > Import
You cannot open a dBase file
- True or False: A selection created using a select tool from the Main ButtonPad cannot be saved in a workspace?
True
False
- You are looking at a map of the entire continental U.S. How would you zoom to a specific state?
Use Map > Change Zoom
Use the Zoom-In tool
Use the Zoom-Out tool
Manually change the zoom value in the status bar
- You have a map. When you zoom out there is too much detail. What feature can you use to help manage the map so that there is an appropriate amount of detail shown when you zoom in and out?
Map > Layer Control > Display
Map > Options > Choose Projection
Map > Create Thematic Map
Map > Zoom Manager
None of the above
All of the above
- Choose a way to get a data file onto a map.
Geocoding
Create Points
Joining
All of the above
None of the above
- In general, what data values need to be present to geocode a database?
Name and ID Value
Longitude and Latitude
Population Figures
Address Values
- When is the Create Points function used in MapInfo?
When you want to create point objects
When address values are present in a database
When coordinate values are present in a database
There is no Create Points function in MapInfo
- True or False: A ranged thematic map can be used to shade county boundries based on population.
True
False
- You have four types of customers in a database: retail, service, government, and education. What type of thematic map would you create to show each customer category?
Graduated Symbol
Individual Value
Pie Chart
Ranged
- True or False: Selections can be mapped?
True
False
- How could you get a list of states whose population is greater than 10 million?
Use the select tool and browse the results
Query > Select
Query > SQL Select
All of the above
None of the above
- What expression would you use to select states with a population greater than 10 million? Assume the column name is POP_1990.
> 10000000
POP_1990 > 10,000,000
POP_1990 > 10000000
None of the above
- You'd like to print a map window and browse window on the same piece of paper. What would you use?
File > Print
File > Save Window as
Window > New Layout Window
MapInfo does not provide this functionality
- How are lablels saved?
Map > Save Cosmetic Layer
File > Save Workspace
File > Save Table
You cannot save a label
- How are labels removed?
Map > Clear Cosmetic Layer
Map > Remove labels
Select the label and press the delete key
You cannot remove a label
- When is the Cosmetic Layer used?
To create new map objects
Add annotation to a map
Use to test geographic relationships
All of the above
None of the above