Decision Trees are built using:

Select one:
a. heuristics
b. greedy algorithms
c. dynamic programming
d. divide and conquer strategy
Answer B
The problem of Curse of Dimensionality is associated with:
Select one:
a. increasing data points
b. increasing noise in data
c. increasing dimensions
d. increasing users
Answer C
Which type of classifier would you prefer? A classifier with:
Select one:
a. Zero training error & high generalization error
b. High training error & high generalization error
c. High training error & low generalization error
d. Low training error & high generalization error
Answer c
If A & B together appear in 80% of transactions, then
Select one:
a. Both ARs, A-->B & B-->A have 80% support
b. Both ARs, A-->B and B-->A have same support & confidence
c. The AR, B-->A has 90% support
d. The AR, A-->B has 100% support
Answer A
Clustering is:
Select one:
a. Predictive & unsupervised
b. Predictive and supervised
c. Descriptive and supervised
d. Descriptive and unsupervised
Answer D

If I want to know what kind of students are registered in the Data Mining
course this semester, then which Data Mining technique I will use:
Select one:
a. Association Rule Mining
b. Clustering
c. Prediction
d. Classification
Answer C
Credit card companies use Data Mining. Which Data Mining technique is used
for authorizing or denying or taking any other action for each credit card
swipe:
Select one:
a. Association Rule Mining
b. Prediction
c. Clustering
d. Classification
Answer D
Decision trees can suffer from:
Select one:
a. only overfitting
b. neither underfitting nor overfitting
c. both underfitting & overfitting
d. only underfitting
Answer C
A more appropriate name for Data Mining could be:
Select one:
a. Knowledge Mining
b. Internet Mining
c. Data Warehouse Mining
d. Database Mining
Answer A
Model under fitting leads to:
Select one:
a. Low training error & high generalization error
b. Zero training error & high generalization error
c. High training error & low generalization error
d. High training error & high generalization error
Answer D
Classifier Accuracy depends on:
Select one:

a. Training data
b. Test Data
c. Both on training and test data
d. Neither on training nor on test data
Answer C
Pick the right sequence:
Select one:
a. DW-OLTP- OLAP- DM
b. OLTP-DW-DM-OLAP
c. OLTP-DW-OLAP-DM
d. OLAP-OLTP-DW-DM
Answer C
Outliers are:
Select one:
a. Points very different than other points
b. Not important
c. Noise points
d. Errors
Answer A
Pick the correct statement about decision tree based classification:
Select one:
a. Model over fitting is a more serious problem
b. Model under fitting & over fitting can happen together
c. Model under fitting is a more serious problem
d. Model under fitting is a due to presence of noise
Answer A
Which impurity measure has the highest maximum value:
Select one:
a. Entropy
b. Misclassification error
c. Both Gini & Misclassification
d. Gini
Answer A
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