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These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Computer Science Engineering (CSE) .
| 101. |
The intent of project metrics is: |
| A. | minimization of development schedule |
| B. | for strategic purposes |
| C. | assessing project quality on ongoing basis |
| D. | minimization of development schedule and assessing project quality on ongoing basis |
| Answer» D. minimization of development schedule and assessing project quality on ongoing basis | |
| Explanation: a project metric is a quantitative measure of the degree to which a system, component or process possesses an attribute. | |
| 102. |
Which of the following is not a direct measure of SE process? |
| A. | efficiency |
| B. | cost |
| C. | effort applied |
| D. | all of the mentioned |
| Answer» A. efficiency | |
| Explanation: efficiency is an indirect measure. | |
| 103. |
Which of the following is an indirect measure of product? |
| A. | quality |
| B. | complexity |
| C. | reliability |
| D. | all of the mentioned |
| Answer» D. all of the mentioned | |
| Explanation: all the mentioned options are indirect measures of a product. | |
| 104. |
In size oriented metrics, metrics are developed based on the |
| A. | number of functions |
| B. | number of user inputs |
| C. | number of lines of code |
| D. | amount of memory usage |
| Answer» C. number of lines of code | |
| Explanation: none. | |
| 105. |
Which of the following is not an information domain required for determining function point in FPA ? |
| A. | number of user input |
| B. | number of user inquiries |
| C. | number of external interfaces |
| D. | number of errors |
| Answer» D. number of errors | |
| Explanation: fpa includes five domains namely input, output, inquiries, interface and logical files. | |
| 106. |
Usability can be measured in terms of: |
| A. | intellectual skill to learn the system |
| B. | time required to become moderately efficient in system usage |
| C. | net increase in productivity |
| D. | all of the mentioned |
| Answer» D. all of the mentioned | |
| Explanation: none. | |
| 107. |
A graphical technique for finding if changes and variation in metrics data are meaningful is known as |
| A. | dre (defect removal efficiency) |
| B. | function points analysis |
| C. | control chart |
| D. | all of the mentioned |
| Answer» C. control chart | |
| Explanation: others options are formulas. | |
| 108. |
Defects removal efficiency (DRE)depends on: |
| A. | e – errors found before software delivery |
| B. | d – defects found after delivery to user |
| C. | both e and d |
| D. | varies with project |
| Answer» C. both e and d | |
| Explanation: dre = e / (e + d). | |
| 109. |
What’s the role of lyaopunov fuction? |
| A. | to determine stability |
| B. | to determine convergence |
| C. | both stability & convergence |
| D. | none of the mentioned |
| Answer» A. to determine stability | |
| Explanation: lyapunov is an energy function. | |
| 110. |
Explanation: It is sufficient but not necessary condition. |
| A. | v(x) >=0 |
| B. | v(x) <=0 |
| C. | v(x) =0 |
| D. | none of the mentioned |
| Answer» B. v(x) <=0 | |
| Explanation: it is the condition for existence for lyapunov function. | |
| 111. |
What does cohen grossberg theorem? |
| A. | shows the stability of fixed weight autoassociative networks |
| B. | shows the stability of adaptive autoaassociative networks |
| C. | shows the stability of adaptive heteroassociative networks |
| D. | none of the mentioned |
| Answer» A. shows the stability of fixed weight autoassociative networks | |
| Explanation: cohen grossberg theorem shows the stability of fixed weight autoassociative networks. | |
| 112. |
What does cohen grossberg kosko theorem? |
| A. | shows the stability of fixed weight autoassociative networks |
| B. | shows the stability of adaptive autoaassociative networks |
| C. | shows the stability of adaptive heteroassociative networks |
| D. | none of the mentioned |
| Answer» B. shows the stability of adaptive autoaassociative networks | |
| Explanation: cohen grossberg kosko shows the stability of adaptive autoaassociative networks. | |
| 113. |
What does 3rd theorem that describe the stability of a set of nonlinear dynamical systems? |
| A. | shows the stability of fixed weight autoassociative networks |
| B. | shows the stability of adaptive autoaassociative networks |
| C. | shows the stability of adaptive heteroassociative networks |
| D. | none of the mentioned |
| Answer» C. shows the stability of adaptive heteroassociative networks | |
| Explanation: 3rd theorem of nonlinear dynamical systems, shows the stability of adaptive heteroassociative networks. | |
| 114. |
What happens during recall in neural networks? |
| A. | weight changes are suppressed |
| B. | input to the network determines the output activation |
| C. | both process has to happen |
| D. | none of the mentioned |
| Answer» C. both process has to happen | |
| Explanation: follows from basic definition of recall in a network. | |
| 115. |
In nearest neighbour case, the stored pattern closest to input pattern is recalled, where does it occurs? |
| A. | feedback pattern classification |
| B. | feedforward pattern classification |
| C. | can be feedback or feedforward |
| D. | none of the mentioned |
| Answer» B. feedforward pattern classification | |
| Explanation: it is a case of feedforward networks. | |
| 116. |
What is the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP)? |
| A. | computer science |
| B. | artificial intelligence |
| C. | linguistics |
| D. | all of the mentioned |
| Answer» D. all of the mentioned | |
| Explanation: none. | |
| 117. |
What is the main challenge/s of NLP? |
| A. | handling ambiguity of sentences |
| B. | handling tokenization |
| C. | handling pos-tagging |
| D. | all of the mentioned |
| Answer» A. handling ambiguity of sentences | |
| Explanation: there are enormous ambiguity exists when processing natural language. | |
| 118. |
Choose form the following areas where NLP can be useful. |
| A. | automatic text summarization |
| B. | automatic question-answering systems |
| C. | information retrieval |
| D. | all of the mentioned |
| Answer» D. all of the mentioned | |
| Explanation: none. | |
| 119. |
Which of the following includes major tasks of NLP? |
| A. | automatic summarization |
| B. | discourse analysis |
| C. | machine translation |
| D. | all of the mentioned |
| Answer» D. all of the mentioned | |
| Explanation: there is even bigger list of tasks | |
| 120. |
What is Coreference Resolution? |
| A. | anaphora resolution |
| B. | given a sentence or larger chunk of text, determine which words (“mentions”) refer to the same objects (“entities”) |
| C. | all of the mentioned |
| D. | none of the mentioned |
| Answer» B. given a sentence or larger chunk of text, determine which words (“mentions”) refer to the same objects (“entities”) | |
| Explanation: anaphora resolution is a specific type of coreference resolution. | |
| 121. |
What is Machine Translation? |
| A. | converts one human language to another |
| B. | converts human language to machine language |
| C. | converts any human language to english |
| D. | converts machine language to human language |
| Answer» A. converts one human language to another | |
| Explanation: the best known example of machine translation is google translator. | |
| 122. |
What is Morphological Segmentation? |
| A. | does discourse analysis |
| B. | separate words into individual morphemes and identify the class of the morphemes |
| C. | is an extension of propositional logic |
| D. | none of the mentioned |
| Answer» B. separate words into individual morphemes and identify the class of the morphemes | |
| Explanation: none. | |
| 123. |
Which of the following clustering type has characteristic shown in the below figure? |
| A. | partitional |
| B. | hierarchical |
| C. | naive bayes |
| D. | none of the mentioned |
| Answer» B. hierarchical | |
| Explanation: hierarchical clustering groups data over a variety of scales by creating a cluster tree or dendrogram. | |
| 124. |
Point out the correct statement. |
| A. | the choice of an appropriate metric will influence the shape of the clusters |
| B. | hierarchical clustering is also called hca |
| C. | in general, the merges and splits are determined in a greedy manner |
| D. | all of the mentioned |
| Answer» D. all of the mentioned | |
| Explanation: some elements may be close to one another according to one distance and farther away according to another. | |
| 125. |
Which of the following is finally produced by Hierarchical Clustering? |
| A. | final estimate of cluster centroids |
| B. | tree showing how close things are to each other |
| C. | assignment of each point to clusters |
| D. | all of the mentioned |
| Answer» B. tree showing how close things are to each other | |
| Explanation: hierarchical clustering is an agglomerative approach. | |
| 126. |
Which of the following is required by K- means clustering? |
| A. | defined distance metric |
| B. | number of clusters |
| C. | initial guess as to cluster centroids |
| D. | all of the mentioned |
| Answer» D. all of the mentioned | |
| Explanation: k-means clustering follows partitioning approach. | |
| 127. |
Point out the wrong statement. |
| A. | k-means clustering is a method of vector quantization |
| B. | k-means clustering aims to partition n observations into k clusters |
| C. | k-nearest neighbor is same as k-means |
| D. | none of the mentioned |
| Answer» C. k-nearest neighbor is same as k-means | |
| Explanation: k-nearest neighbor has nothing to do with k-means. | |
| 128. |
Which of the following combination is incorrect? |
| A. | continuous – euclidean distance |
| B. | continuous – correlation similarity |
| C. | binary – manhattan distance |
| D. | none of the mentioned |
| Answer» D. none of the mentioned | |
| Explanation: you should choose a distance/similarity that makes sense for your problem. | |
| 129. |
Which of the following function is used for k-means clustering? |
| A. | k-means |
| B. | k-mean |
| C. | heatmap |
| D. | none of the mentioned |
| Answer» A. k-means | |
| Explanation: k-means requires a number of clusters. | |
| 130. |
Which of the following clustering requires merging approach? |
| A. | partitional |
| B. | hierarchical |
| C. | naive bayes |
| D. | none of the mentioned |
| Answer» B. hierarchical | |
| Explanation: hierarchical clustering requires a defined distance as well. | |
| 131. |
What is Machine learning? |
| A. | the autonomous acquisition of knowledge through the use of computer programs |
| B. | the autonomous acquisition of knowledge through the use of manual programs |
| C. | the selective acquisition of knowledge through the use of computer programs |
| D. | the selective acquisition of knowledge through the use of manual programs |
| Answer» A. the autonomous acquisition of knowledge through the use of computer programs | |
| Explanation: machine learning is the autonomous acquisition of knowledge through the use of computer programs. | |
| 132. |
Which of the factors affect the performance of learner system does not include? |
| A. | representation scheme used |
| B. | training scenario |
| C. | type of feedback |
| D. | good data structures |
| Answer» D. good data structures | |
| Explanation: factors that affect the performance of learner system does not include good data structures. | |
| 133. |
Different learning methods does not include? |
| A. | memorization |
| B. | analogy |
| C. | deduction |
| D. | introduction |
| Answer» D. introduction | |
| Explanation: different learning methods does not include the introduction. | |
| 134. |
In language understanding, the levels of knowledge that does not include? |
| A. | phonological |
| B. | syntactic |
| C. | empirical |
| D. | logical |
| Answer» C. empirical | |
| Explanation: in language understanding, the levels of knowledge that does not include empirical knowledge. | |
| 135. |
A model of language consists of the categories which does not include? |
| A. | language units |
| B. | role structure of units |
| C. | system constraints |
| D. | structural units |
| Answer» D. structural units | |
| Explanation: a model of language consists of the categories which does not include structural units. | |
| 136. |
What is a top-down parser? |
| A. | begins by hypothesizing a sentence (the symbol s) and successively predicting lower level constituents until individual preterminal symbols are written |
| B. | begins by hypothesizing a sentence (the symbol s) and successively predicting upper level constituents until individual preterminal symbols are written |
| C. | begins by hypothesizing lower level constituents and successively predicting a sentence (the symbol s) |
| D. | begins by hypothesizing upper level constituents and successively predicting a sentence (the symbol s) |
| Answer» A. begins by hypothesizing a sentence (the symbol s) and successively predicting lower level constituents until individual preterminal symbols are written | |
| Explanation: a top-down parser begins by hypothesizing a sentence (the symbol s) and successively predicting lower level constituents until individual preterminal symbols are written. | |
| 137. |
Among the following which is not a horn clause? |
| A. | p |
| B. | Øp v q |
| C. | p → q |
| D. | p → Øq |
| Answer» D. p → Øq | |
| Explanation: p → Øq is not a horn clause. | |
| 138. |
The action ‘STACK(A, B)’ of a robot arm specify to |
| A. | place block b on block a |
| B. | place blocks a, b on the table in that order |
| C. | place blocks b, a on the table in that order |
| D. | place block a on block b |
| Answer» D. place block a on block b | |
| Explanation: the action ‘stack(a,b)’ of a robot arm specify to place block a on block b. | |
| 139. |
A is a decision support tool that uses a tree-like graph or model of decisions and their possible consequences, including chance event outcomes, resource costs, and utility. |
| A. | decision tree |
| B. | graphs |
| C. | trees |
| D. | neural networks |
| Answer» A. decision tree | |
| Explanation: refer the definition of decision tree. | |
| 140. |
Choose from the following that are Decision Tree nodes? |
| A. | decision nodes |
| B. | end nodes |
| C. | chance nodes |
| D. | all of the mentioned |
| Answer» D. all of the mentioned | |
| Explanation: none. | |
| 141. |
Decision Nodes are represented by |
| A. | disks |
| B. | squares |
| C. | circles |
| D. | triangles |
| Answer» B. squares | |
| Explanation: none. | |
| 142. |
Chance Nodes are represented by |
| A. | disks |
| B. | squares |
| C. | circles |
| D. | triangles |
| Answer» C. circles | |
| Explanation: none. | |
| 143. |
End Nodes are represented by |
| A. | disks |
| B. | squares |
| C. | circles |
| D. | triangles |
| Answer» D. triangles | |
| Explanation: none. | |
| 144. |
Which of the following are the advantage/s of Decision Trees? |
| A. | possible scenarios can be added |
| B. | use a white box model, if given result is provided by a model |
| C. | worst, best and expected values can be determined for different scenarios |
| D. | all of the mentioned |
| Answer» D. all of the mentioned | |
| Explanation: none. | |
| 145. |
Which of the given statements is incorrect about global gene regulation? |
| A. | one way to obtain useful information about a genome is to determine which genes are induced or repressed in response to a phase of the cell cycle |
| B. | sets of a gene whose expression rises and falls under the same condition are likely to have a related function |
| C. | sets of a gene whose expression rises and falls under the same condition are likely to have dissimilar functions |
| D. | cell cycle is a developmental phase, or a response to the environment |
| Answer» C. sets of a gene whose expression rises and falls under the same condition are likely to have dissimilar functions | |
| Explanation: in addition, a pattern of gene expression may also be an indicator of | |
| 146. |
Which of the given statements is incorrect about Microarray (or microchip) analysis? |
| A. | it is a new technology in which all of the genes of an organism are represented by oligonucleotide sequences spread out in an 80 x 80 array on microscope slides |
| B. | the oligonucleotide sequences cannot be synthesized directly on the slide |
| C. | the oligonucleotides are collectively hybridized to a labeled cdna library prepared by reverse-transcribing mrna from cells |
| D. | the amount of label binding to each oligonucleotide spot reflects the amount of mrna in the cell |
| Answer» B. the oligonucleotide sequences cannot be synthesized directly on the slide | |
| Explanation: the oligonucleotide sequences can also be synthesized directly on the slide at densities of up to one million per square centimeter. genes that are responding the same way to an environmental signal, in this case the addition of serum to serum-starved skin cells are clustered together in a display. from this analysis, a set of genes that responds in an identical manner may be identified. | |
| 147. |
In cluster analysis of microarray data– A node is created between the scoring pair, and the gene expressed profiles of these two genes are averaged and the joined elements are weighted by the of elements they contain. |
| A. | lowest, frequency |
| B. | average, sequence |
| C. | lowest, number |
| D. | highest, number |
| Answer» D. highest, number | |
| Explanation: the node is created as mentioned. the matrix is then updated replacing the two joined elements by the node. | |
| 148. |
In cluster analysis of microarray data– For n genes, the process is repeated times until a single element remains. |
| A. | n2 |
| B. | n |
| C. | n-1 |
| D. | n-4 |
| Answer» C. n-1 | |
| Explanation: this number of iterations gives the best results. in the final dendrogram, the order of genes within a cluster is determined by simple weighting schemes, e.g., average | |
| 149. |
Which of the following is the task of project indicators: |
| A. | help in assessment of status of ongoing project |
| B. | track potential risk |
| C. | help in assessment of status of ongoing project & track potential risk |
| D. | none of the mentioned |
| Answer» C. help in assessment of status of ongoing project & track potential risk | |
| Explanation: none. | |
| 150. |
Which of the following is caused by careless handling? |
| A. | systematic error |
| B. | gross error |
| C. | random error |
| D. | none of the mentioned |
| Answer» B. gross error | |
| Explanation: gross errors are mostly due to lack of knowledge, judgment and care on the part of the experiment. that is gross error is caused by careless handling. | |
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