MCQ-2

SUBJECT : AI

1. Supervised learning differs from unsupervised clustering in that supervised learning

requires
a. at least one input attribute.
b. input attributes to be categorical.
c. at least one output attribute.
d. ouput attriubutes to be categorical.
2. What is true about Machine Learning?
a. Machine Learning (ML) is that field of computer science
b. ML is a type of artificial intelligence that extract patterns out of raw data by using an
algorithm or method.
c. The main focus of ML is to allow computer systems learn from experience without
being explicitly programmed or human intervention.
d. All of the above
3. What is Meronymy relation?
a. A is part of B
b. B has A as a part of itself
c. A is a kind of B
d. A is super ordinate of B
4. Which ONE of the following are regression tasks?
a. Predict the age of a person
b. Predict the country from where the person comes from
c. Predict whether the price of petroleum will increase tomorrow
d. Predict whether a document is related to science
5. Which of the following is an advantage of using an expert system development tool?
a. imposed structure
b. knowledge engineering assistance
c. rapid prototyping
d. all of the mentioned
6. Determine which is the best approach for following problem: Do meaningful attribute
relationships exist in a database containing information about credit card customers?
a. supervised learning
b. unsupervised clustering
c. reinforcement learning
d. none of the above
7. Which of the following are the Semantic Relations used in Semantic Networks?
a. Meronymy
b. Holonymy
c. Hyponymy
d. All of the above
8. Semantic nets originally proposed in?
a. 1950
b. 1960
c. 1970
d. 1980
9. The application/applications of Artificial Intelligence is/are
a. Expert Systems
b. Gaming
c. Vision Systems
d. All of the above
10. An expert system with an empty knowledge base.
a. expert system shell
b. inference shell
c. state space
d. goal tree
11. What category of machine learning algorithm finds patterns in the data when the data
is not labeled?
a. Data prophecy
b. Unsupervised learning
c. Supervised learning
d. Semi Supervised learning
12. Different learning methods does not include?
a. Memorization
b. Analogy
c. Deduction
d. Introduction
13. Which of the following is not a benefits of Expert Systems?
a. Availability
b. Speed
c. Time
d. Less Error Rate
14. Expert systems work by applying a set of __________ rules extracted from human
experts.
a. do-this-or-else
b. if-then-else
c. why-do-that
d. don't-do-this
15. Which of the following is not a Capabilities of Expert Systems?
a. Advising
b. Demonstrating
c. Explaining
d. Expanding
16. Which of the following is an example of active learning?
a. News Recommender system
b. Dust cleaning machine
c. Automated vehicle
d. None of the mentioned
17. Which of the following problems is not a good candidate for an expert systems
solution?
a. bankruptcy prediction
b. determining company advertising strategies
c. solving the national debt crisis
d. providing investment strategies to avoid paying taxes
18. Some of the problems below are best addressed using a supervised learning algorithm,
and the others with an unsupervised learning algorithm. Which of the following would
you apply supervised learning to? (Select all that apply.) In each case, assume some
appropriate dataset is available for your algorithm to learn from.

a. Take a collection of 1000 essays written on the US Economy, and find a way to
automatically group these essays into a small number of groups of essays that are
somehow “similar” or “related”.
Explanation: This is an unsupervised learning/clustering problem
b. Given genetic (DNA) data from a person, predict the odds of him/her developing
diabetes over the next 10 years.
Explanation: This can be addressed as a supervised learning, classification, problem,
where we can learn from a labeled dataset comprising different people's genetic data,
and labels telling us if they had developed diabetes.
c. Examine a large collection of emails that are known to be spam email, to discover if
there are sub-types of spam mail.
Explanation: This can addressed using a clustering (unsupervised learning)
algorithm, to cluster spam mail into sub-types.
d. Examine the statistics of two football teams, and predict which team will win
tomorrow’s match (given historical data of teams’ wins/losses to learn from).
Explanation: This can be addressed using supervised learning, in which we learn
from historical records to make win/loss predictions
19. Forward chaining systems are _____________ where as backward chaining systems
are ___________
a. Goal-driven, goal-driven
b. Goal-driven, data-driven
c. Data-driven, goal-driven
d. Data-driven, data-driven
20. How many things are concerned in the design of a learning element?

a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4

21.You are running a company and you want to develop learning algorithms to address
each of two problems. Problem 1: You have a large inventory of identical items. You want
to predict how many of these items will sell over the next three months. Problem 2: You’d
like software to examine individual customer account, and for each account decide if it has
been hacked/ compromised. Should you treat these as classification or as regression
problems?
a. Treat both as classification problems.
b. Treat problem 1 as classification problem, Problem 2 as regression problem.
c. Treat problem 1 as regression problem, Problem 2 as classification problem.
d. Treat both as regression problems.

22. Knowledge acquisition involves one or more experts and a

a. systems analyst.
b. knowledge engineer.
c. knowledge designer.
d. systems engineer.

23. Suppose you are working on stock market prediction, Typically tens of millions of
shares of Microsoft stock are traded (i.e., bought/sold) each day. You would like to predict
the number of Microsoft shares that will be traded tomorrow. Would you treat this as a
classification or a regression problem?
a. Regression
b. Classification
c. none of the above
d. all of the above
24. A set of general facts and if-then rules supplied by an expert.
a. knowledge base
b. inference engine
c. explanation model
d. online analytical processing
25. Some of the problems below are best addressed using a supervised learning algorithm,
and the others with an unsupervised learning algorithm. Which of the following would
you apply supervised learning to? (Select all that apply.) In each case, assume some
appropriate dataset is available for your algorithm to learn from.
a. Given data on how 1000 medical patients respond to an experimental drug (such as
effectiveness of the treatment, side effects, etc.), discover whether there are different
categories or “types” of patients in terms of how they respond to the drug, and if so
what these categories are.
b. Given a large dataset of medical records from patients suffering from heart disease, try
to learn whether there might be different clusters of such patients for which we might
tailor separate treatments.
c. Have a computer examine an audio clip of a piece of music, and classify whether or
not there are vocals (i.e., a human voice singing) in that audio clip, or if it is a clip of
only musical instruments (and no vocals).
d. Given genetic (DNA) data from a person, predict the odds of him/her developing
diabetes over the next 10 years.
26. An internal test of an expert system whose purpose is to determine if the system uses
the same reasoning process as the expert(s) used to build the system
a. validation
b. verification
c. reliability
d. suitability
27. What is true about semantic net?
a. A way of representing knowledge
b. Semantic network are Data Structure
c. Semantic network are Data Type
 d. None of the above

28.Determine which is the best approach for following problem: Determine the
characteristics of a successful used car salesperson
a. supervised learning
b. unsupervised clustering
c. reinforcement learning
d. none of the above
29. __________is a way to infer using semantic networks
a. Intersection Search
b. Inheritance Search
c. True
d. False
30. What among the following constitutes the representation of the knowledge in different
forms?
a. Relational method where each fact is set out systematically in columns
b. Inheritable knowledge where relational knowledge is made up of objects
c. Inferential knowledge
d. All of the mentioned

31.__________are knowledge based system to which present rules are applied to solve a
particular problem.
a. Expert System
b. AI
c. KBS
d. Base Rule

32. What is Holonymy relation?

a. A is part of B
b. B has A as a part of itself
c. A is a kind of B
d. A is superordinate of B
33. An expert system is
a. a computer that can answer questions like a human expert
b. a group of scientists who design computer programs
c. a method of producing new words
d. a computer that can feel emotions
34. Which of the following are correct advantage of Semantic nets?
a. Easy to understand
b. Efficient in space requirement
c. Easy to visualize
d. All of the above
35. How many Components of Knowledge Base are there?
a. 2
b. 3
c. 4
d. 5
36. ------------- attempt to provide the same judgmental advice that human experts such as
doctors provide
a. Expert System
b. AI
c. KBS
d. RAND
37. What are Semantic Networks?
a. A way of representing knowledge
b. Data Structure
c. Data Type
d. None of the mentioned

38._______ defines the relationship between a term denoting the whole and a term
denoting a part of, or a member of, the whole.
a. Holinymy
b. Holonymy
c. Holonimy
 d. Holonimi

39. What is Antonymy relation?

a. A is part of B
b. B has A as a part of itself
c. A denotes opposite of B
d. A is super ordinate of B
40. I am the marketing consultant of a leading e-commerce website. I have been given a
task of making a system that recommends products to users based on their activity on
Facebook. I realize that user-interests could be highly variable. Hence I decide to a.
First, cluster the users into communities of like-minded people and b. Second, train
separate models for each community to predict which product category (e.g. electronic
gadgets, cosmetics, etc.) would be the most relevant to that community. The first task is
a/an ______________ learning problem while the second is a/an
________________problem. Choose from the options:
a. Supervised and unsupervised
b. Unsupervised and supervised
c. Supervised and supervised
d. Unsupervised and unsupervised
41. An expert system is based on the knowledge of _________
a. domain expert
b. engineer
c. student
d. client
42. The explanation facility of an expert system may be used to ____________
a. construct a diagnostic model
b. expedite the debugging process
c. explain the system’s reasoning process
d. explain the system’s reasoning process & expedite the debugging process
43. The main components of an expert system include a Knowledge base, a user interface
and
a. a database
b. an explanation facility
c. an inference engine
d. a constraint propagator
44. Some of the problems below are best addressed using a supervised learning algorithm,
and the others with an unsupervised learning algorithm. Which of the following would
you apply supervised learning to? (Select all that apply.) In each case, assume some
appropriate dataset is available for your algorithm to learn from.
a. Given 50 articles written by male authors, and 50 articles written by female authors,
learn to predict the gender of a new manuscript’s author (when the identity of this
author is unknown).
b. Take a collection of 1000 essays written on the US Economy, and find a way to
automatically group these essays into a small number of groups of essays that are
somehow “similar” or “related”.
c. Examine a large collection of emails that are known to be spam email, to discover if
there are sub-types of spam mail.
d. Given historical data of children’s ages and heights, predict children’s height as a
function of their age.
45. Which of the following is true about reinforcement learning?
a. The agent gets rewards or penalty according to the action
b. B. It’s an online learning
c. C. The target of an agent is to maximize the rewards
d. D. All of the above
46. Which of the following are Components of Expert Systems?
a. Knowledge Base
b. Inference Engine
c. User Interface
d. All of the above
47. Graph used to represent semantic network is _____________
a.Undirected graph
b. Directed graph
c.Directed Acyclic graph (DAG)
 d. Directed complete graph
48. Reinforcement learning is-
a. Unsupervised learning
b. Supervised learning
c. Award based learning
d. None
49. Among the given options, which is not the required property of Knowledge
representation?
a. Inferential Efficiency
b. Inferential Adequacy
c. Representational Verification
d. Representational Adequacy
50. What is the form of Knowledge representation?
a. IF-THEN
b. IF-THEN-ELSE
c. IF-ELSE
d. All of the above
51. The inference engine works on ______.
a. Forward Chaining
b. Backward Chaining
c. Both a and b
d. None of the above
52. Suppose you are working on stock market prediction, Typically tens of millions of
shares of Microsoft stock are traded (i.e., bought/sold) each day. You would like to
predict the number of Microsoft shares that will be traded tomorrow. Would you treat
this as a classification or a regression problem?
a. Regression
b. Classification
c. none of the above
d. all of the above
53. What is used in determining the nature of the learning problem?
 a.Environment
b. Feedback
c.Problem
d. All of the mentioned
54. Which of the following is a supervised learning problem?
a. Grouping people in a social network.
b. Predicting credit approval based on historical data
c. all of the above
d. none of the above
55. One of the most common uses of Machine Learning today is in the domain of Robotics.
Robotic tasks include a multitude of ML methods tailored towards navigation, robotic
control and a number of other tasks. Robotic control includes controlling the actuators
available to the robotic system. An example of this is control of a painting arm in
automotive industries. The robotic arm must be able to paint every corner in the
automotive parts while minimizing the quantity of paint wasted in the process. Which
of the following learning paradigms would you select for training such a robotic arm?
a. Supervised learning
b. Unsupervised learning
c. Combination of supervised and unsupervised learning
d. Reinforcement learning
56. Which university introduced Expert systems ?
a. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
b. University of Oxford
c. Stanford University
d. University of Cambridge
57. Expert system are part of the general area of research known as ------------
a. AI
b. ES
c. ML
d. NETWORKS
58. Suppose you are working on weather prediction, and your weather station makes one of
three predictions for each day’s weather: Sunny, Cloudy or Rainy. You’d like to use a
learning algorithm to predict tomorrow’s weather. Would you treat this as a
classification or a regression problem?

a. Regression
b. Classification
c. all of the above
d. none of the above
59. Suppose you are working on stock market prediction. You would like to predict
whether or not a certain company will declare bankruptcy within the next 7 days (by
training on data of similar companies that had previously been at risk of
bankruptcy).Would you treat this as a classification or a regression problem?
a. Regression
b. Classification
c. all of the above
d. none of the bove
60. Determine which is the best approach for following problem: Develop a profile for
credit card customers likely to carry an average monthly balance of more than
$1000.00.
a. supervised learning
b. unsupervised clustering
c. reinforcement learning
d. none of the above
61. As nodes are associated with other nodes semantic nets are also referred as?
a. Associative nets
b. Structure nets
c. Knowledge nets
d. Arcs nets
62. Which of the following is not true about expert systems ?
a. Expert systems are collection of human knowledge.
b. Expert systems are expensive too design.
c. Expert system are usually designed to run on small general purpose computers.
d. Maintenance support may be difficult to obtain for an expert system.
63. Knowledge about knowledge is known as
a. Meta knowledge
b. class knowledge
c. structured knowledge
d. classified knowledge
64. Which of the factors affect the performance of the learner system does not include?
a.Representation scheme used
b. Training scenario
c.Type of feedback
d. Good data structures
65. In semantic nets, to find relationships among objects are determined by spreading
activation out from each of 2 nodes and identify where the activation meets. This
process is called?
a. Associative Search
b. Object Search
c. Knowledge Search
d. Intersection Search
66. Semantic Network is also known as Frame networks.
a. True
b. False
67. How many types of Machine Learning are there?
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
68. Suppose you are working on weather prediction, and use a learning algorithm to predict
tomorrow’s temperature (in degrees Centigrade/Fahrenheit).Would you treat this as a
classification or a regression problem?

a. Regression
b. Classification
c. none of the above
d. all of the above
69. Which of the following is an application of reinforcement learning?
a. Topic modeling
b. Recommendation system
c. Pattern recognition
d. Image classification
70. Supervised learning and unsupervised clustering both require at least one
a. hidden attribute.
b. output attribute.
c. input attribute.
d. categorical attribute.
71. _________ is/are the well known Expert System/s for medical diagnosis systems.
a. MYCIN
b. CADUCEUS
c.DENDRAL
d. SMH.PAL
72. Determine which is the best approach for following problem: Determine whether a
credit card transaction is valid or fraudulent.
a. supervised learning
b. unsupervised clustering
c. reinforcement learning
d. none of the above
73. Which of the following is an extension of the semantic network?
a.Expert Systems
 b. Rule Based Expert Systems
c.Decision Tree Based networks
d. Partitioned Networks
74. Which of the following is incorrect application of Expert System?
a. Design Domain
b. Monitoring Systems
c. Knowledge Domain
d. Systems domain
75. Which of the following is also called exploratory learning?
a.Supervised learning
b. Active learning
c.Unsupervised learning
d. Reinforcement learning
76. The explanation facility of an expert system may be used to:
a. construct a diagnostic model
b. expedite the debugging process
c. explain the system's reasoning process
d. both b and c
77. The basic inference mechanism in semantic network is to follow the links between the
nodes.
a. True
b. False
78. Which of the following is incorrect Expert Systems Limitations?
a. Limitations of the technology
b. Difficult knowledge acquisition
c. Easy to maintain
d. High development costs
79. What are the limitations of the semantic networks?
a.Intractability
b. Lack in expressing some of the properties
c.Incomplete
 d. Has memory constraints
80. Which of the following is the component of the learning system?
a.Goal
b. Model
c.Learning rules
d. All of the mentioned
81. The expert system uses a(n) ____________ to select the most appropriate response.
a. data source
b. inference
c. knowledge base
d. decision support system
82. Which of the following is Capabilities of Expert Systems?
a. Possessing human capabilities
b. Suggesting alternative options to a problem
c. Refining their own knowledge
d. Substituting human decision makers
83. In regression the output is
a. Discrete.
b. Continuous and always lies in a finite range.
c. Continuous.
d. May be discrete or continuous.
84. What is Machine learning?
a. The autonomous acquisition of knowledge through the use of
computer programs
b. The autonomous acquisition of knowledge through the use of
manual programs
c. The selective acquisition of knowledge through the use of
computer programs
d. The selective acquisition of knowledge through the use of manual
programs
85. In an Unsupervised learning ____________
 a. Specific output values are given
b. Specific output values are not given
c. No specific Inputs are given
d. Both inputs and outputs are given
86. Because of orderly and well documented information of the industry,
the_______________ field was the area used for some of the first successful expert
system
a. medical
b. aviation
c. insurance
d. robotics
87. What is Hypernym relation?
a.A is part of B
b. B has A as a part of itself
c.A is a kind of B
d. A is superordinate of B
88. A ______ is nothing but an expert system without knowledge base.
a. Tools
b. Shell
c. Expert System
d. Knowledge
89. Expert system primarily started in the field of
a. insurance
b. medical
c. robotics
d. aviation
90. Semantic Network represents _____________
a.Syntactic relation between concepts
b. Semantic relations between concepts
c.All of the mentioned
d. None of the mentioned
91. Automated vehicle is an example of ______
a. Supervised learning
b. Unsupervised learning
c. Active learning
d. Reinforcement learning
92. Determine which is the best approach for following problem: What attribute similarities
group customers holding one or several insurance policies?
a. supervised learning
b. unsupervised clustering
c. reinforcement learning
d. none of the above
93. Which of the following is not a Characteristics of Expert Systems?
a. Understandable
b. Highly responsive
c. Unreliable
d. High performance
94. The inference engine is:
a. A strategy for searching the rule base in an expert system that begins with information
entered by the user.
b. The programming environment of an expert system.
c. A method of organizing expert system knowledge into chunks.
d. A strategy used to search through the rule base in an expert system.
95. An expert system contains _________ knowledge whereas the knowledge processed by
an intelligent agent is _____________
a. personal, general
b. general, personal
c. direct, indirect
d. indirect, direct
96. Which of the following, is a component of an expert system?
a. inference engine
b. knowledge base
c. user interface
d. All of the above
97. ML is the field of AI consisting of learning algorithm that
a. Improve their performance
b. At executing come task
c. Over time with experience
d. All of above
98. A computer program is said to learn from experience E with respect to some task T and
some performance measure P if its performance on T, as measured by P, improves with
experience E. Suppose we feed a learning algorithm a lot of historical weather data, and
have it learn to predict weather. In this setting, what is T?
a. The weather prediction task.
b. None of these.
c. The probability of it correctly predicting a future date’s weather.
d. The process of the algorithm examining a large amount of historical weather data.
99. Data, information, and past experience combined together are termed as __________.
a. Inference
b. Acquisition
c. Vision
d. Knowledge

100. In which of the following learning the teacher returns reward and punishment to
learner?

a. Active learning
b. Reinforcement learning
c. Supervised learning
d. Unsupervised learning