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Chapter-5 Understanding Data

This document discusses different types of data and data processing. It provides multiple choice and true/false questions about key concepts. Specifically, it covers: - The definitions of data, information, and different stages of data processing like input, storage, processing and output. - Different types of data structures like structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. It notes that most data is unstructured. - Metrics for analyzing data like measures of central tendency (mean, median, mode) and variability (range, standard deviation). - Examples of structured data like databases and unstructured data like emails and websites. The document quizzes the reader's understanding of these data concepts through various question

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Chapter-5 Understanding Data

This document discusses different types of data and data processing. It provides multiple choice and true/false questions about key concepts. Specifically, it covers: - The definitions of data, information, and different stages of data processing like input, storage, processing and output. - Different types of data structures like structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. It notes that most data is unstructured. - Metrics for analyzing data like measures of central tendency (mean, median, mode) and variability (range, standard deviation). - Examples of structured data like databases and unstructured data like emails and websites. The document quizzes the reader's understanding of these data concepts through various question

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Chapter-5 Understanding Data

Multiple Choice Questions


1. A collection of facts such as test scores, drawings, photographs, and inventory
figures
(a) Quantity
(b) Product
(c) Data
(d) Information
2. Regardless of the kind of data processed or the kind of device or equipment
used, all data
Processing systems involve:
(a) Input, storage, and processing
(b) Processing, storage, and distribution
(c) Origination, storage, and input
(d) Input, processing and output
3. Identify the type/stage: Grade of students
(a) Data
(b) Storage
(c) Information
(d) Processing
4. Identify the type/stage: Calculating grade of students from marks
(a) Data
(b) Storage
(c) Information
(d) Processing
5. Identify the type/stage: Save file onto USB drive
(a) Data
(b) Storage
(c) Information
(d) Processing
6. Identify the type/stage: Summary of Grades
(a) Data
(b) Storage
(c) Information
(d) Processing
7. Highly organized data is ____ data.
(a) structured
(b) semi-structured
(c) unstructured
(d) ordered
8. Unorganised data is ______ data.
(a) structured
(b) semi-structured
(c) unstructured
(d) ordered
9. Schema is associated with ______ data.
(a) structured
(b) semi-structured
(c) unstructured
(d) ordered
10. Data stored in databases is ______ data
(a) structured
(b) semi-structured
(c) unstructured
(d) ordered
11. Data available in newspapers is ______ data
(a) structured
(b) semi-structured
(c) unstructured
(d) ordered
12. Email is a type of ______ data.
(a) structured
(b) semi-structured
(c) unstructured
(d) ordered
13. Excel sheet is an example of _______ data.
(a) structured
(b) semi-structured
(c) unstructured
(d) ordered
14. A website is an example of _______ data.
(a) structured
(b) semi-structured
(c) unstructured
(d) ordered
15. Measures of central tendency, out of the following are:
(a) variance
(b) mean
(c) mode
(d) Range
(e) Standard deviation
16. Measures of variability, out of the following are:
(a) variance
(b) mean
(c) mode
(d) Range
(e) Standard deviation
Fill in the blanks
1. A database is a collection of ___Structured_____ data.
2. A ___Knowledge base___ stores additional rules, assumptions etc alongwith a
database.
3. While data are raw facts processed meaningful data is __information___
4. The three stages of data processing cycle are : _input____, ___process___ and
__output______
5. two forms of data are: __structured___ and __unstructured__
6. A Schema, logical blueprint of data is associated with ___structured____data
7. 80% of the prevalent data is __unstructured___ type of data.
8. The spread of a data set can be broadly determined through __range____
9. Spread around mean of a dataset can be broadly determined through___standard
deviation___
10. The most frequently occurring data item from a dataset can be determined
through __mode_____
11. __mean____ is the average data of the given dataset.
12. __median______ is the middle most data-item or the average of two middle
items of an ordered data set.
True/False Questions.
1. Data is always meaningful
2. Data when processed gives information
3. Output may be generated without the need of processing.
4. Data processing is highly recommended for good decision-making.
5. Highly organized data is the structured data
6. Unstructured data is stored in databasases.
7.80% data available is structured data.
8. Email is an example of semi-structured data.
9. In a data processing cycle, the processing may vary from application to
application, even if the input is the same.
10. Variance and standard deviation give measures of variablility
11. Mean, median and mode give measures of central tendency.
12. Median and mode reflect the same thing.
Answers
1. False
2. True
3. False
4. True
5. True
6. False
7. False
8. True
9. True
10.True
11.True
12.False

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