Assignment 8

1. Which of the following is NOT a key characteristic of Big Data Analytics in IIoT?
a.​ Volume
b.​ Velocity
c.​ Veracity
d.​ Validation
Correct Answer: d
Justification: Refer to Slide 7 of Lecture 1 of Week 8
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2. Which software is commonly used for batch-oriented analytics?
a. C++ and Java
b. Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark
c. Pandas and Numpy
d. MongoDB and MySQL

Correct Answer: b
Justification: Refer to Slide 13 of Lecture 1 of Week 8
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3. Which of the following is NOT a fundamental type of IIoT Analytics?
a.​ Descriptive Analytics
b.​ Predictive Analytics
c.​ Prescriptive Analytics
d.​ Structural Analytics
Correct Answer: d
Justification: Refer to Slide 5 of Lecture 1 of Week 8
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4. Which machine learning algorithm enables machines to improve their performance by automatically
learning the ideal behaviors for a specific environment?
a. Supervised Learning
b. Unsupervised Learning
c. Reinforcement Learning
 d. Regression

Correct Answer: c
Justification: Refer to Slide 13 of Lecture 2 of Week 8
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5. Which of the following represents a key feature of Fuzzy c-Means clustering?
a.​ A data point can belong to more than one cluster
b.​ A data point belongs strictly to only one cluster
c.​ Extremely slower than K-Means
d.​ None of these
Correct Answer: a
Justification: Refer to Slide 9 of Lecture 2 of Week 8
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6. Which of the following is TRUE about the ThingWorx platform?
a.​ Perform complex analytical process
b.​ Deliver real-time perception
c.​ Has the ability to monitor the condition
d.​ All of these
Correct Answer: d
Justification: Refer to Slide 24 of Lecture 2 of Week 8

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7. State True or False. Deep learning is an “end-to-end learning”, which extracts features on its own. On
the contrary, in machine learning, features are to be explicitly mentioned.
a.​ True
b.​ False
Correct Answer: a
Justification: Refer to Slide 10 of Lecture 3 of Week 8
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8. Which of the following statements is TRUE about machine learning (ML)?
a.​ ML is the subset of AI that can learn automatically from the object features
b.​ ML is the subset of DL which can learn automatically by finding the features of the object on its
own
c.​ ML always performs better than Deep Learning models
 d.​ ML can only be used for image recognition tasks
Correct Answer: a
Justification: Refer to Slide 2 of Lecture 3 of Week 8
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9. Which of the following statements about MindSphere is incorrect?
a.​ Cloud-based operating system platform for IoT
b.​ Open safety-as-a-service
c.​ Bring together IoT data from products, factories, machines, and systems to exploit its prosperity
d.​ Enterprise oriented solutions

Correct Answer: b
Justification: Refer to Slide 20 of Lecture 4 of Week 8
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10. Which of the following is/are key characteristic(s) of a Consumer IoT cloud platform?
a. Provide very specific applications for end users
b. Provide modest security
c. Generally cost-sensitive
d. All of these

Correct Answer: d
Justification: Refer to Slide 15 of Lecture 4 of Week 8
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11. Which of the following is NOT a fundamental cloud computing service?
a.​ Software-as-a-Service
b.​ Platform-as-a-Service
c.​ ERP-as-a-Service
d.​ Infrastructure-as-a-Service

Correct Answer: c
Justification: Refer to Slides 8-10 of Lecture 4 of Week 8
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12. Which of the following services is NOT provided by C3 IoT?
a.​ Predictive Maintenance
b.​ Inventory Optimization
c.​ IoT Hardware Analysis
d.​ Fraud Detection

Correct Answer: c
Justification: Refer to Slide 4 of Lecture 5 of Week 8
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13. Which of the following cloud platform providers does not offer IIoT device management services?
a.​ Bosch IoT Remote Manager
b.​ Facebook Cloud Services
c.​ AWS’s IoT Device Management
d.​ ICP DAS’s IoTstar

Correct Answer: b
Justification: Refer to Slide 11 of Lecture 5 of Week 8
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14. What does "Variety" refer to in the context of data generation?

a. The speed at which data is generated
b. The amount of data generated
c. The format of data generated, such as structured, semi-structured, or unstructured
d. The accuracy and reliability of data generated

Correct Answer: c
Justification: Refer to Chapter 7, Section 7.4.1, p. 162 of the book Introduction to Industrial
Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 by S Misra, C. Roy, and A Mukherjee
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15. What does the 'K' in K-means clustering represent?
a. Number of features in the dataset
b. Number of clusters to be identified
c. Maximum iterations allowed in the process
d. Number of data points in each cluster
Correct Answer: b
Justification: Refer to Chapter 13, Section 13.3, p. 260 of the book Introduction to Industrial
Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 by S Misra, C. Roy, and A Mukherjee
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