1.

A Type I error occurs when we:

a. reject a false null hypothesis
b. reject a true null hypothesis
c. do not reject a false null hypothesis
d. do not reject a true null hypothesis
e. fail to make a decision regarding whether to reject a hypothesis or not

Answer: B

2. In a criminal trial, a Type I error is made when:

a. a guilty defendant is acquitted (set free)
b. an innocent person is convicted (sent to jail)
c. a guilty defendant is convicted
d. an innocent person is acquitted
e. no decision is made about whether to acquit or convict the defendant

Answer: B

3. A Type II error occurs when we:

a. reject a false null hypothesis
b. reject a true null hypothesis
c. do not reject a false null hypothesis
d. do not reject a true null hypothesis
e. fail to make a decision regarding whether to reject a hypothesis or not

Answer: C

4. If we reject the null hypothesis, we conclude that:

a. there is enough statistical evidence to infer that the alternative hypothesis is
true
b. there is not enough statistical evidence to infer that the alternative
hypothesis is true
c. there is enough statistical evidence to infer that the null hypothesis is true
d. the test is statistically insignificant at whatever level of significance the
test was conducted at
e. further tests need to be carried out to determine for sure whether the null
hypothesis should
be rejected or not

Answer: A

5.The p-value of a test is the:

a. smallest significance level at which the null hypothesis cannot be rejected
b. largest significance level at which the null hypothesis cannot be rejected
c. smallest significance level at which the null hypothesis can be rejected
d. largest significance level at which the null hypothesis can be rejected
e. probability that no errors have been made in rejecting or not rejecting the null
hypothesis
Answer: C

6. Choose the options that are correct regarding machine learning (ML) and
artificial intelligence (AI),
(A) ML is an alternate way of programming intelligent machines.
(B) ML and AI have very different goals.
(C) ML is a set of techniques that turns a dataset into a software.
(D) AI is a software that can emulate the human mind.

Answer: (A), (D)

7. Which of the following is a widely used and effective machine learning algorithm
based
on the idea of bagging?

a. Decision Tree

b. Regression

c. Classification

d. Random Forest

Answer D

8. Which of the following is a good test dataset characteristic?

a. Large enough to yield meaningful results

b. Is representative of the dataset as a whole

c. Both A and B

d. None of the above

Answer C

9. Different learning methods does not include?

a) Memorization
b) Analogy
c) Deduction
d) Introduction

Answer: d

10.When the hypothesis space is richer, over fitting is more likely.

a. True b. False

Solution:
True

11. To find the minimum or the maximum of a function, we set the gradient to zero
because:

a.The value of the gradient at extrema of a function is always zero

b.Depends on the type of problem

c.Both A and B

d.None of the above

Answer: A

12. Which of the following is a disadvantage of decision trees?

a. Factor analysis

b. Decision trees are robust to outliers

c. Decision trees are prone to be overfit

d. None of the above

Answer: C

13. Which of the following is/are true about bagging trees?

A.In bagging trees, individual trees are independent of each other

B. Bagging is the method for improving the performance by aggregating the results
of
weak learners
A) 1
B) 2
C) 1 and 2
D) None of these

Solution: C

14. What are tree based classifiers?

a. Classifiers which form a tree with each attribute at one level
b. Classifiers which perform series of condition checking with one attribute at a
time
c. Both options except none
d. None of the options

Ans: c

15. Tree/Rule based classification algorithms generate ... rule to perform the
classification.
a. if-then.
b. while.
c. do while.
d. switch.

Ans: a

16. Does there is any effect on particular neuron which got repeatedly fired ?
a) yes
b) no

Answer: yes

17. . What is estimate number of neurons in human cortex?

a) 10^8
b) 10^52
c) 10^11
d) 10^20

Answer: c

18. Why can’t we design a perfect neural network?

a) full operation is still not known of biological neurons
b) number of neuron is itself not precisely known
c) number of interconnection is very large & is very complex
d) all of the mentioned

Answer:d
19. What is temporal learning?
a) concerned with capturing input-output relationship in patterns
b) concerned with capturing weight relationships
c) both weight & input-output relationships
d) none of the mentioned

ANswer:b

20. Adjustments in activation is slower than that of synaptic weights?

a) yes
b) no

Answer: b

21. Standard error is always non- negative.

a) True
b) False

Answer: a

22. Failing to reject the null hypothesis when it is false is:

a. alpha
b. Type I error
c. beta
d. Type II error

Answer d

23. A parameter is:

a. a sample characteristic
b. a population characteristic
c. unknown
d. normal normally distributed

Answer: b

24. A statistic is:

a. a sample characteristic
b. a population characteristic
c. unknown
d. normally distributed
Answer: a

25. When asked questions concerning personal hygiene, people commonly lie.
This is an example of:
a. sampling bias
b. confounding
c. non-response bias
d. response bias

Answer: d

26. Selection of a football team for FIFA World Cup is called as?
a) random sampling
b) systematic sampling
c) purposive sampling
d) cluster sampling
Answer: c

27. Which of the following statements about Naive Bayes is incorrect?

A. Attributes are equally important.
B. Attributes are statistically dependent of one another given the class
value.
C. Attributes are statistically independent of one another given the class
value.
D. Attributes can be nominal or numeric
E. All of the above

Answer: B

28. How the bayesian network can be used to answer any query?
a) Full distribution
b) Joint distribution
c) Partial distribution
d) All of the mentioned

Answer: b

29. How the compactness of the bayesian network can be described?

a) Locally structured
b) Fully structured
c) Partial structure
d) All of the mentioned

Answer: a

30. What is the consequence between a node and its predecessors while creating
bayesian network?

a) Functionally dependent
b) Dependant
c) Conditionally independent
d) Both Conditionally dependant & Dependant

Answer: c

31. 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.
What would be a reasonable choice for P?

a. The weather prediction task.

b. The process of the algorithm examining a large amount of historical weather
data.
c. None of these.
d.The probability of it correctly predicting a future date's weather.

Answer D

32. 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 4T?

a.The probability of it correctly predicting a future date's weather.

b.The weather prediction task.
c. The process of the algorithm examining a large amount of historical weather
data.
d. None of these.

Answer B

33. The amount of rain that falls in a day is usually measured in

either millimiters (mm) or inches. Suppose you use a learning
algorithm to predict how much rain will fall tomorrow.
Would you treat this as a classification or a regression problem?

a.Classification
b. Regression
Answer B

34. 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

Answer B

35. In the following multiple-choice questions, select the best answer.

1. The correlation coefficient is used to determine:
a. A specific value of the y-variable given a specific value of the x-variable
b. A specific value of the x-variable given a specific value of the y-variable
c. The strength of the relationship between the x and y variables
d. None of these
Answer : c

36. Movie Recommendation systems are an example of:

Classification
Clustering
Reinforcement Learning
Regression
Options:

A. 2 Only

B. 1 and 2

C. 1 and 3

D. 2 and 3

E. 1, 2 and 3

Solution: (C)

37. Sentiment Analysis is an example of:

Regression
Classification
Clustering
Reinforcement Learning
Options:

A. 1 Only

B. 1 and 2

C. 1 and 3

D. 1, 2 and 3

E. 1, 2 and 4

F. 1, 2, 3 and 4

Solution: (C)

38. Can decision trees be used for performing clustering?

A. True

B. False

Solution: (A)

39. Which of the following is the most appropriate strategy for data cleaning
before
performing clustering analysis, given less than desirable number of data points:

1.Capping and flouring of variables

2.Removal of outliers

A. 1 only

B. 2 only

C. 1 and 2

D. None of the above

Solution: (A)

40. What is the minimum no. of variables/ features required to perform clustering?

A. 0

B. 1

C. 2

D. 3
Solution: (B)

41. Genetic Algorithm are a part of

A.Evolutionary Computing

B. inspired by Darwin's theory about evolution - "survival of the fittest"

C. are adaptive heuristic search algorithm based on the evolutionary ideas of

natural selection and genetics
D. All of the above

Option: D

42. What is the problem associated with historical DNA samples?

a) They are less in amount thus amplification is difficult
b) Because the samples are very old, there can be contamination
c) They degrade during repeated cooling and heating cycles
d) As the samples are old, the standard sequences for comparison is not present

Answer: b

43. Which of the following is useful in applications of PCR( polymerase chain

reaction)?
a) It is manual
b) Only one sample’s analysis can be carried out at a time
c) It is having a high speed
d) The amount of DNA required initially is high

Answer: c

44. Cycle sequencing is the DNA sequencing where very less amounts of template are
utilised for carrying out the sequencing.
a) True
b) False

Answer: a

45.Sickle cell anaemia is a genetic disorder. Which of the following doesn’t holds
true for it?
a) It can be analysed by PCR
b) It destroys a restriction site
c) The mutation is in alpha globulin gene
d) The conventional approach took weeks for the whole analyses to be carried out

Answer: c

46. Reinforcement learning is also known as learning with critic?

a) yes
b) no

Answer: a

47. How many types of reinforcement learning exist?

a) 2
b) 3
c) 4
d) 5
Answer: b

48. What is fixed credit assignment?

a) reinforcement signal given to input-output pair don’t change with time
b) input-output pair determine probability of postive reinforcement
c) input pattern depends on past history
d) none of the mentioned

Answer: a

49. Whats true for Drive reinforcement learning?

a) logical And & Or operations are used for input output relations
b) weight corresponds to minimum & maximum of units are connected
c) weights are expressed as linear combination of orthogonal basis vectors
d) change in weight uses a weighted sum of changes in past input values

Answer: d

50. Whats true for principal component learning?

a) logical And & Or operations are used for input output relations
b) weight corresponds to minimum & maximum of units are connected
c) weights are expressed as linear combination of orthogonal basis vectors
d) change in weight uses a weighted sum of changes in past input values

Answer: c