What is/are the disadvantage(s) associated with n-tiered architecture?

Each column in the geopandas dataframe is stored as a Pandas Series.

We have a list of names below: What would be the output for the following list slicing:

Match the use cases for the following spatial operations:

Below is an example of a user-defined function in Python. What do a and b refer to in this function:  

To calculate the weighted mean center from a point dataset, you will need:

We can apply the built-in function shape() on a Pandas dataframe to:

The spatial join, sjoin() function retains attributes:

Match the variables with the correct data types:

In the following for loop, we want to print all integers between 0 and 9, except 5. What is the correct loop control statement one should use on line 4?