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Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) - Data Mining and Warehousing

1. What is the primary goal of data mining?

a) Storing data

b) Retrieving data

c) Extracting patterns and knowledge from large datasets

d) Deleting data

Answer: c

2. Which of the following is a data mining technique?

a) Regression

b) Clustering

c) Classification

d) All of the above

Answer: d

3. What is the Apriori algorithm used for?

a) Classification

b) Association rule mining

c) Data preprocessing

d) Regression

Answer: b

4. What does FP-Growth stand for?

a) Frequent Pattern Growth

b) Frequent Performance Growth

c) Frequent Process Growth

d) Fast Processing Growth

Answer: a

5. Which task is performed by data mining software?


a) Data cleaning

b) Pattern generation

c) Both a and b

d) None of the above

Answer: c

6. Which algorithm is most commonly used for building decision trees?

a) Apriori

b) C4.5

c) K-means

d) FP-Growth

Answer: b

7. What is overfitting in decision trees?

a) Generating a tree that is too complex

b) Generating a tree that is too simple

c) Lack of sufficient data for training

d) Ignoring classification rules

Answer: a

8. What does Naive Bayes assume about features?

a) Features are dependent

b) Features are independent

c) Features are nonlinear

d) None of the above

Answer: b

9. Which metric is commonly used to evaluate classification accuracy?

a) Recall

b) Precision

c) F1 Score
d) All of the above

Answer: d

10. What does pruning in decision trees aim to achieve?

a) Increase tree size

b) Reduce overfitting

c) Reduce computational complexity

d) Both b and c

Answer: d

11. What is clustering primarily used for?

a) Grouping similar data points

b) Predicting future outcomes

c) Cleaning data

d) Generating rules

Answer: a

12. Which of the following is a partitioning clustering method?

a) K-means

b) DBSCAN

c) Hierarchical clustering

d) FP-Growth

Answer: a

13. Which clustering method is density-based?

a) K-means

b) DBSCAN

c) Hierarchical clustering

d) Naive Bayes

Answer: b

14. Which metric is used to compute distances in clustering?


a) Euclidean distance

b) Manhattan distance

c) Cosine similarity

d) All of the above

Answer: d

15. What is the main drawback of hierarchical clustering?

a) High computational complexity

b) Lack of scalability

c) Predefined number of clusters

d) Both a and b

Answer: d

16. What is the purpose of web data mining?

a) Extract useful information from the web

b) Monitor server logs

c) Perform encryption

d) All of the above

Answer: a

17. What does web structure mining focus on?

a) Analyzing hyperlinks and web graphs

b) Extracting user behaviors

c) Processing multimedia data

d) None of the above

Answer: a

18. What does search engine functionality rely on?

a) Keyword matching

b) Ranking algorithms

c) User data
d) All of the above

Answer: d

19. What is PageRank associated with?

a) Ranking web pages

b) Classifying documents

c) Clustering data

d) Mining sequential patterns

Answer: a

20. What is the characteristic of web usage mining?

a) Extracts usage patterns from server logs

b) Analyzes user interactions

c) Focuses on web traffic

d) All of the above

Answer: d

21. What is the primary purpose of a data warehouse?

a) Store transactional data

b) Support decision-making processes

c) Perform real-time updates

d) All of the above

Answer: b

22. What is OLAP used for?

a) Performing multidimensional analysis

b) Cleaning data

c) Extracting transactional data

d) Both a and b

Answer: a

23. Which view is essential in multidimensional data analysis?


a) Data cube

b) Data tree

c) Data graph

d) Data map

Answer: a

24. What is the first step in data warehousing?

a) Data cleaning

b) Data extraction

c) Operational data sourcing

d) Metadata creation

Answer: c

25. What does metadata provide in a data warehouse?

a) Description of data

b) Data relationships

c) Information about data structure

d) All of the above

Answer: d

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