General Machine Learning MCQs

1. XGBoos it provides interfaces for which of the following options? i) C++ ii) R iii) Python iv) Julia

2. What is the time complexity for breadth-f‌irst search algorithm? Given, d = depth.

3. Output of code in MATLAB? z = [3 4 -2 6]: Q = [6 8; 9 -4]; polyva|m(z, Q)

4. Which of the following statements is/are correct about an Artif‌icial Neural Network (ANN)?

5. Which of the following statements is/ are correct about the Vowpal Wabbit?

6. Which of the following options is the DevOps tool for many real time monitoring dashboards of time series metrics?

7. Which capabilities do Expert Systems possess?

8. Which of the following is incorrect about machine learning?

9. Which methods attempts to fit the new predictor to the residual errors that has been made by the previous predictor?

10. Which options is a Python library that allows the user to def‌ine, optimize, and evaluate the mathematical expressions, especially the ones with multi-dimensional arrays?

11. Simulation is appropriate under which of the following conditions?

12. Which machine learning tool with application programming interface for C?

13. Verification uses gray-box testing method.

14. In relation to machine learning classif‌ication, which of the following options is the correct way for defining recall?

15. Which types of data can be handled by the decision tree algorithm used for classification?

16. Which of the following is an ensemble algorithm based on bagging?

17. Which elements of a typical reinforcement learning algorithm def‌ines the goals of a learner as a numerical value?

18. Which simulation tools rely on a transaction-flow approach toward modeling systems?

19. What is the accuracy of the Logistic Regression classif‌ication algorithm?

20. Which machine learning techniques are implemented by Apache Mahout?

21. Which of the following is/ are the large margin classifier(s)?

22. Output of code in MATLAB? M=(864;372;193] N = circshift(M,[-1 2])

23. Output of code in MATLAB? Z=[428;735;612] sort(Z, 1)

24. With respect to Data Mining Query Language, which of the following is the syntax for characterization?

25. Which data warehousing approaches is/are used to integrate heterogeneous databases? (i)Ouery-driven approach (ii)Update-driven approach

26. Which SimPy function calls is/are used in marking a thread as runnable when it is first created?

27. Which of the following is NOT an advantage of simulation modelling and analysis?

28. Which of the following statements is/are correct about unsupervised machine learning?

29. Logistic regression can be used with which of the following types of dependent variables?

30. Which ofthe following boosting algorithms implements regularization that helps in reducing overfitting?

31. What is the accuracy of Naive Bayes algorithm used for classif‌ication?

32. Which SimPy operations is used for indicating the passage of a certain amount of time within a thread?

33. Which Python tool that extends the functionality of NumPy and SciPy packages and provides functions for performing classif‌ication. regression, clustering and dimensionality reduction, model selection. and preprocessing?

34. Which of the following statements is/ are correct about the C45 classification technique?

35. Which of the following algorithms does not scale up well as compared to the other for very large datasets?

36. What is the function of ridge regression?

37. Simulation languages offer less flexibility than application-oriented simulators.

38. Which is NOT a characteristic of the NlCeSim simulator, which uses machine learning techniques?

39. Which of the following statements is correct about validation?

40. In relation to artificial neural network, which of the following options is designed for working with sequence prediction problems?

41. In relation to artificial neural network, the Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN), should NOT be used for which of the following types of data?

42. Which of the following is NOT applicable to speech recognition application in machine learning?

43. ln machine learning, logistic regression:

44. Which techniques can be used for solving the attribute conditional density estimation problem in the Bayesian Network classif‌ication method?

45. In machine learning, which functions in the image is used to measure the size of vectors?

46. In the SVM classif‌ication approach, which of the following options is used for solving the issue of the low-sparse SVM classifier?

47. Which of the following defines the F-score measure to assess the quality of text retrieval?

48. Which tools is used for processing, analyzing and visualizing the large data sets and can provide native support for Apache Spark distributed computing?

49. Which of the following is NOT a multi-class classif‌ier?

50. A multi-layer perceptron (MLP)is a:

51. Which of the following is NOT an example of bounded probability distribution?

52. Which methods is used to generate non-uniform random variates and uses multiple uniform [0,1] variables?

53. Which of the following machine learning tools supports vector machines, dimensionality reduction, and online learning, etc.?

54. Simple linear regression is characterized by how many independent variables?

55. Which of the following machine learning tools provides API for the neural networks?

56. Which of the following machine learning frameworks works at the higher level of abstraction?

57. Which of the following types Of data analysis models is/are used to conclude continuous valued functions?

58. In relation to K-Nearest Neighbors (K-NN) algorithm, what effect does the small k value (neighborhood size) have on bias and variance?

59. In the knowledge discovery process, which of the following steps is involved in retrieving data, relevant to the analysis task, from the database?

60. Which of the following is an advantage in logistic regression?

61. In relation to machine learning framework, which of the following languages is used by Veles for performing automation and coordination between the nodes?

62. Which of the following is incorrect about linear regression?

63. Which of following is incorrect about modelica?

64. Which of the following statements is incorrect about Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs)?

65. In relation to machine learning. the XGBoost works for which of the following options?

66. In Multilayer Perceptrons, the predictions are made in which of the following layers?

67. In agent-based simulation, which of the following Inferential Theory of Learning (ITL)operations is used to modify knowledge by narrowing the reference set of a description?

68. Which of the following is incorrect about the feedback artif‌icial neural network?

69. Which of the following is incorrect about the feedforward artificial neural network topology?

70. The machine learning framework RapidMiner is written in which of the following programming languages?

71. Which machine learning tools works with large data volume and supports text mining and image mining through plugins?

72. Statement 1: Reinforcement learning is an off-line technique. Statement 2: The reinforcement learning technique is used in elevator scheduling.

73. Output of code in MATLAB? Z=[8471;7196;6429] Z(3:3,1:3)

74. Which of the following are the applications of data mining?

75. An artificial neuron device consists of how many inputs and outputs?

76. In machine learning, random forests method is an example of which of the following feature selection methods?

77. A target in machine learning is known as alan:

78. In machine learning, which Of the following Options is the correct way for def‌ining the F1-Score?

79. Output of code in MATLAB? X = 45; Y = 21; Z = bitor(X, Y) Z = bitxor(X, Y) Z = bitshift(X,-3) Z = bitshift(X,4)

80. In relation to machine learning classif‌ication, which of following options refers to the graphical model for probability associations between a set of variables?

81. Output of code in MATLAB? z = [6 9 4 3 5]: polyval(z,3)

82. Which statistical data mining techniques is used to predict a categorical response variable?

83. Output of following code executed in MATLAB. m = roots([?., 8])

84. The EIasticNet regression technique:

85. Output of the code in MATLAB. A = [8 4 7 5 3] isinteger(A) isf‌loat(A) isvector(A) isscalar(A)

86. Which statements is correct? Statement 1: In stochastic simulation environments, machine learning is performed by combining multiple transmutations. Statement 2: Stochastic simulation is used for modelling a system whose operation can be directly captured by deterministic rules.

87. In data mining, which of the following is NOT a data reduction technique?

88. With respect to multilayer neural network, what does the neurons in the hidden layer correspond to?

89. Which of the following boosting algorithms uses the level-wise tree growth?

90. Which algorithms has these applications? 1. Scene classification 2. Induction motors fault diagnosis 3. Analog circuit fault diagnosis 4. Corporate financial distress prediction

91. Can decision trees over f‌it data?

92. Which of the following simulation model types contain(s)probability?

93. What is the correct F1 score of the Random Forest algorithm of classif‌ication?

94. What is the FI-Score of Random Forest algorithm used for classification?

95. Which of the following interfaces is/are supported by Scikit—Learn tool?

96. Which formulae is used for correctly calculating the accuracy of the classification algorithms?

97. In data mining, which of the following clustering methods reflects spatial distribution of the data points?

98. In relation to SVM classification algorithm. which of the following options is used for the binary classification?

99. Which of the following classif‌ication algorithms should be used for the given scenario? The data is labeled and the number of samples is greater than 100k.

100. Which of the following supervised learning algorithms is/are implemented by Apache Mahout?

101. Which classif‌ication techniques should be used for the given tasks? 1. Selection of question pools 2. Prediction of software defects 3. Analysis of coal logistics customer 4. Thrombosis collagen diseases

102. Which of the following types of artif‌icial neural networks is/ are best suited for mapping the image data to an output variable?

103. Which of the following options are the correct features of the PyTorch framework?

104. In relation to machine learning classif‌ication, which of the following are the correct features of the Stochastic Gradient Descent algorithm?

105. Which two of the following statements are correct regarding classif‌ication, which is a machine learning technique?

106. The LibLinear library is written in which of the following languages?

107. In machine learning, which of the following statements are correct about optical coherence tomography (OCT)?

108. Which of the following are the correct features of the KNIME tool for machine learning?

109. In relation to machine learning classif‌ication algorithm, which of the following options are used by the decision tree for constructing a decision tree?

110. In Convolutional Neural Networks, the input can be in which of the following formats?

111. Which of the following frameworks can be used for cross-platform solutions?

112. APls are included for which of the following options in TensorFlow?

113. In relation to machine learning, which of the following options are the toolkits for working with human language data?

114. Which of the following statements are correct about the Shogun machine learning library?

115. Which of the following options are the advantages of the Multilayer Perceptron?

116. Which of the following options are the machine learning tools for a command line interface?

117. Which two of the following are the machine learning classification problems?

118. Which of the following options are the advantages of K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) classif‌ication technique?

119. In relation to machine learning classif‌ication algorithm, which of the following are the linear classif‌iers?

120. Which of the following are the correct features of the Random Forest algorithm used for classif‌ication?

121. In relation to machine learning, which of the following statements are correct about the TensorFIow library?

122. Which of the following statements are correct about the Gradient Boosting classif‌ication technique?

123. Which of the following are the advantages of the Naive Bayes algorithm used for classification?

124. The Amazon Machine Learning tool supports which of the following types of models?

125. Which of the following solutions can be used for the noisy data classification problem of ID3 and C45 decision tree algorithm?

126. In relation to machine learning classif‌ication, which two of the following are the correct features of ID3 (Iterative Dischotomiser 3) algorithm?

127. Which of the following features or algorithms are supported by the Scikit—Learn tool?

128. You are part of data science team that is working for a national fast-food chain. You create a simple report that shows trend: Customers who visit the store more often and buy smaller meals spend more than customers who visit less frequently and buy larger meals. What is the most likely diagram that your team created?

129. You work for an organization that sells a spam filtering service to large companies. Your organization wants to transition its product to use machine learning. It currently a list Of 250,00 keywords. If a message contains more than few of these keywords, then it is identified as spam. What would be one advantage of transitioning to machine learning?

130. You work for a music streaming service and want to use supervised machine learning to classify music into different genres. Your service has collected thousands of songs in each genre, and you used this as your training data. Now you pull out a small random subset of all the songs in your service. What is this subset called?

131. In traditional computer programming, you input commands. What do you input with machine learning?

132. Your company wants to predict whether existing automotive insurance customers are more likely to buy homeowners insurance. It created a model to better predict the best customers contact about homeowners insurance, and the model had a low variance but high bias. What does that say about the data model?

133. You want to identify global weather patterns that may have been affected by climate change. To do so, you want to use machine learning algorithms to find patterns that would otherwise be imperceptible to a human meteorologist. What is the place to start?

134. You work in a data science team that wants to improve the accuracy of its K-nearest neighbor result by running on top of a naive Bayes result. What is this an example of?

135. ____ looks at the relationship between predictors and your outcome.

136. What is an example of a commercial application for a machine learning system?

137. You work for a power company that owns hundreds of thousands of electric meters. These meters are connected to the internet and transmit energy usage data in real-time. Your supervisor asks you to direct project to use machine learning to analyze this usage data. Why are machine learning algorithms ideal in this scenario?

138. To predict a quantity value. use ___.

139. Why is naive Bayes called naive?

140. How is machine learning related to artificial intelligence?

141. How do machine learning algorithms make more precise predictions?

142. You work for an insurance company. Which machine learning project would add the most value for the company!

143. What is one reason not to use the same data for both your training set and your testing set?

144. Your university wants to use machine learning algorithms to help sort through incoming student applications. An administrator asks if the admissions decisions might be biased against any particular group, such as women. What would be the best answer?

145. What is stacking?

146. You want to create a supervised machine learning system that identifies pictures of kittens on social media. To do this, you have collected more than 100,000 images of kittens. What is this collection of images called?

147. You are working on a project that involves clustering together images of different dogs. You take image and identify it as your centroid image. What type machine learning algorithm are you using?

148. Your company wants you to build an internal email text prediction model to speed up the time that employees spend writing emails. What should you do?

149. Your organization allows people to create online professional profiles. A key feature is the ability to create clusters of people who are professionally connected to one another. What type of machine learning method is used to create these clusters?

150. Random forest is modified and improved version of which earlier technique?

151. Self-organizing maps are specialized neural network for which type of machine learning?

152. Which statement about K-means clustering is true?

153. You created machine learning system that interacts with its environment and responds to errors and rewards. What type of machine learning system is it?

154. Your data science team must build a binary classifier, and the number one criterion is the fastest possible scoring at deployment. It may even be deployed in real time. Which technique will produce a model that will likely be fastest for the deployment team use to new cases?

155. Your data science team wants to use the K-nearest neighbor classification algorithm. Someone on your team wants to use a K of 25. What are the challenges of this approach?

156. Your machine learning system is attempting to describe a hidden structure from unlabeled data. How would you describe this machine learning method?

157. You work for a large credit card processing company that wants to create targeted promotions for its customers. The data science team created a machine learning system that groups together customers who made similar purchases, and divides those customers based on customer loyalty. How would you describe this machine learning approach?

158. You are using K-nearest neighbor and you have a K of 1. What are you likely to see when you train the model?

159. Are data model bias and variance a challenge with unsupervised learning?

160. Which choice is best for binary classification?

161. With traditional programming, the programmer typically inputs commands. With machine learning, the programmer inputs

162. Why is it important for machine learning algorithms to have access to high-quality data?

163. In K-nearest neighbor, the closer you are to neighbor, the more likely you are to

164. In the HBO show Silicon Valley, one of the characters creates a mobile application called Not Hot Dog. It works by having the user take a photograph of food with their mobile device. Then the app says whether the food is a hot dog. To create the app, the software developer uploaded hundreds of thousands of pictures of hot dogs. How would you describe this type of machine learning?

165. You work for a large pharmaceutical company whose data science team wants to use unsupervised learning machine algorithms to help discover new drugs. What is an advantage to this approach?

166. In 2015, Google created a machine learning system that could beat a human in the game of Go. This extremely complex game is thought to have more gameplay possibilities than there are atoms of the universe. The first version of the system won by observing hundreds of thousands of hours of human gameplay; the second version learned how to play by getting rewards while playing against itself. How would you describe this transition to different machine learning approaches?

167. The security company you work for is thinking about adding machine learning algorithms to their computer network threat detection appliance. What is one advantage of using machine learning?

168. You work for a hospital that is tracking the community spread of a virus. The hospital created a smartwatch application that uploads body temperature data from hundreds of thousands of participants. What is the best technique to analyze the data?

169. Many of the advances in machine learning have come from improved ___.

170. Naive Bayes looks at each _ predictor and creates a probability that belongs in each class.

171. Someone of your data science team recommends that you use decision trees, naive Bayes and K-nearest neighbor, all at the same time, on the same training data, and then average the results. What is this an example of?

172. Your data science team wants to use machine learning to better filter out spam messages. The team has gathered a database of 100,000 messages that have been identified as spam or not spam. If you are using supervised machine learning, what would you call this data set?

173. You work for a website that enables customers see all images of themselves on the internet by uploading one self-photo. Your data model uses 5 characteristics to match people to their foto: color, eye, gender, eyeglasses and facial hair. Your customers have been complaining that get tens of thousands of photos without them. What is the problem?

174. Your supervisor asks you to create a machine learning system that will help your human resources department classify jobs applicants into well-defined groups. What type of system are you more likely to recommend?

175. You and your data science team have 1 TB of example data. What do you typically do with that data?

176. Your data science team is working on a machine learning product that can act as an artificial opponent in video games. The team is using a machine learning algorithm that focuses on rewards: If the machine does some things well, then it improves the quality of the outcome. How would you describe this type of machine learning algorithm?

177. The model will be trained with data in one single batch is known as ?

178. Which of the following is NOT supervised learning?

179. Suppose we would like to perform clustering on spatial data such as the geometrical locations of houses. We wish to produce clusters of many different sizes and shapes. Which of the following methods is the most appropriate?

180. The error function most suited for gradient descent using logistic regression is

181. Compared to the variance of the Maximum Likelihood Estimate (MLE), the variance of the Maximum A Posteriori (MAP) estimate is ___

182. ___ refers to a model that can neither model the training data nor generalize to new data.

183. What does it mean to underfit your data model?

184. Asian user complains that your company's facial recognition model does not properly identify their facial expressions. What should you do?

185. You work for a website that helps match people up for lunch dates. The website boasts that it uses more than 500 predictors to find customers the perfect date, but many costumers complain that they get very few matches. What is a likely problem with your model?

186. (Mostly) whenever we see kernel visualizations online (or some other reference) we are actually seeing:

187. The activations for class A, B and C before softmax were 10,8 and 3. The different in softmax values for class A and class B would be :

188. The new dataset you have just scraped seems to exhibit lots of missing values. What action will help you minimizing that problem?

189. Which of the following methods can use either as an unsupervised learning or as a dimensionality reduction technique?

190. What is the main motivation for using activation functions in ANN?

191. Which loss function would fit best in a categorical (discrete) supervised learning ?

192. You create a decision tree to show whether someone decides to go to the beach. There are three factors in this decision: rainy, overcast, and sunny. What are these three factors called?

193. You need to quickly label thousands of images to train a model. What should you do?

194. You need to select a machine learning process to run a distributed neural network on a mobile application. Which would you choose?

195. Which choice is the best example of labeled data?

196. In statistics, what is defined as the probability of a hypothesis test of finding an effect - if there is an effect to be found?

197. You want to create a machine learning algorithm to identify food recipes on the web. To do this, you create an algorithm that looks at different conditional probabilities. So if the post includes the word flour, it has a slightly stronger probability of being a recipe. If it contains both flour and sugar, it even more likely a recipe. What type of algorithm are you using?

198. What is lazy learning?

199. What is Q-learning reinforcement learning?

200. The data in your model has low bias and low variance. How would you expect the data points to be grouped together on the diagram?

201. Your machine learning system is using labeled examples to try to predict future data, compare that data to the predicted result, and then the model. What is the best description of this machine learning method?

202. In the 1983 movie WarGames, the computer learns how to master the game of chess by playing against itself. What machine learning method was the computer using?

203. You are working with your machine learning algorithm on something called class predictor probability. What algorithm are you most likely using?

204. What is one of the most effective way to correct for underfitting your model to the data?

205. Your data science team is often criticized for creating reports that are boring or too obvious. What could you do to help improve the team?

206. What is the difference between unstructured and structured data?

207. You work for a startup that is trying to develop a software tool that will scan the internet for pictures of people using specific tools. The chief executive is very interested in using machine learning algorithms. What would you recommend as the best place to start?

208. In supervised machine learning, data scientist often have the challenge of balancing between underfitting or overfitting their data model. They often have to adjust the training set to make better predictions. What is this balance called?

209. What is conditional probability?

210. K-means clustering is what type of machine learning algorithm?

211. What is ensemble modeling?

212. What is the best definition for bias in your data model?

213. Which project might be best suited for supervised machine learning?

214. When is a decision tree most commonly used?

215. An organisation that owns dozens of shopping malls wants to create a machine learning product that will use facial recognition to identify customers. What is the main challenge of developing such a model?