12/13/2019 Midterm 890 Part 1: Attempt review

Computer Science

David Gerhard Jingtao Yao

Dashboard / CS 473 (JingTao Yao) / Midterm 890 Part 1

Started on Monday, 28 October 2019, 1:03 PM

State Finished
Completed on Monday, 28 October 2019, 1:24 PM
Time taken 20 mins 54 secs
Grade 22.50 out of 35.00 (64%)

Question 1 Setting the criteria for a choice comes in what stage of the decision-making process?
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a. choice

b. implementation

c. design 

d. intelligence

The correct answer is: design

Question 2 Match the following data preprocessing sub-tasks to their main tasks.
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Reduce the number of records
3.00 Data reduction 

Discretize or aggregate the data

Data consolidation 

Select and filter the data 

Data transformation 

Identify and reduce noise in the data

Data cleaning 

The correct answer is: Reduce the number of records → Data reduction, Discretize or aggregate the data → Data
transformation,
Select and filter the data  → Data consolidation, Identify and reduce noise in the data → Data cleaning

Question 3 To satisfy this requirement, data is recorded at or near the time of the event or observation so that the time delay—related
Incorrect misrepresentation is minimized.
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a. data granularity

b. data source reliability 

c. data currency

d. data accessibility

The correct answer is: data currency

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Question 4 Reducing a data set's volume can be a portion of which data preprocessing step?
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a. Data Consolidation

b. Data Reduction 

c. Data Cleaning

d. Data Transformation

The correct answer is: Data Reduction

Question 5
Incorrect Not every business model  can be solved with data mining. 
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The correct answer is: problem

Question 6 When comparing artificial intelligence versus human intelligence how would form be compared?
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a. signals/numbers

b. numbers/signals 

c. signals/pictograms

d. numbers/pictograms

The correct answer is: numbers/signals

Question 7 To satisfy this requirement, this data has variables that are defined at the lowest (or as low as required) level of detail for the
Correct intended use.
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1.00 Select one:
a. data accessibility

b. data currency

c. data source reliability

d. data granularity 

The correct answer is: data granularity

Question 8

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Patterns have been manually mined  from data by humans for centuries, but the increasing volume of data in
Mark 1.00 out of modern times has created a need for more automatic approaches. 
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The correct answer is: extracted

Comment:

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Question 9
Statistics and data mining both look for data sets that are as large as possible. 
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Select one:
True

False 

The correct answer is 'False'.

Question 10 Logistic regression is a very popular, statistically sound, probability-based classification algorithm that employs supervised
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mining  .
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The correct answer is: learning

Question 11 When comparing artificial intelligence versus human intelligence how would form be compared?
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a. signals/pictograms

b. numbers/pictograms

c. signals/numbers

d. numbers/signals 

The correct answer is: numbers/signals

Question 12 Which of the following is not a prediction of the effect of AI on accountants?

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a. many accountants may lose their job

b. AI will drive changes in the tax code 

c. accountants will need to manage AI-based accounting systems

d. AI and analytics will automate many routine tasks done today by accountants

The correct answer is: AI will drive changes in the tax code

Question 13 Normalizing data is a common step in the data consolidation process.

Incorrect

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True 

False

The correct answer is 'False'.

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Question 14
data reduction  makes no a priori assumption of whether one variable is dependent on the other(s) and is not
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concerned with the relationship between variables.
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The correct answer is: Correlation

Question 15
Understanding customers better has helped Amazon and others become more successful. The understanding comes
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primarily from: 
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Select one:
a. analyzing the vast data amounts routinely collected.  

b. collecting data about customers and transactions. 

c. asking the customers what they want. 

d. developing a philosophy that is data analytics-centric. 

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: analyzing the vast data amounts routinely collected. 

Question 16 Information is the aggregation, summarization, and contextualization of data.

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1.00 True 

False

The correct answer is 'True'.

Question 17 This activity can be complex because it is necessary to make sure what knowledge is needed. It must fit the desired system.
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a. knowledge acquisition 

b. knowledge reasoning

c. knowledge representation

d. knowledge identification

The correct answer is: knowledge acquisition

Question 18 Predictive analytics aims to:

Correct

Mark 1.00 out of Select one:

1.00 a. determine what is likely to happen in the future 

b. understand why something happened in the past

c. understand what happened in the past

d. describe what is currently occurring

The correct answer is: determine what is likely to happen in the future

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Question 19 What is the application of knowledge derived from cognitive science (the study of the human brain) and computer science
Correct theories in order to simulate the human thought processes so that computers can exhibit and/or support decision-making
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Select one:
a. virtual reality

b. augmented reality

c. natural language processing

d. cognitive computing 

The correct answer is: cognitive computing

Question 20
One of the goals of AI is to predict  and properly react to changes in the environment that influence specific
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business processes and operations.
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The correct answer is: Perceive

Question 21 Which of the following strives to have computers produce ordinary spoken language so that people can understand the
Correct computers more easily?
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a. intelligent agents

b. natural language generation 

c. natural language understanding

d. natural language processing

The correct answer is: natural language generation

Question 22 Match the following data preprocessing sub-tasks to their main tasks.
Correct

Mark 3.00 out of Integrate and unify the data

3.00 Data consolidation 

Construct new attributes

Data transformation 

Balance skewed data

Data reduction 

Find and eliminate erroneous data

Data cleaning 

The correct answer is:

Integrate and unify the data → Data consolidation, Construct new attributes → Data transformation, Balance skewed data →
Data reduction, Find and eliminate erroneous data → Data cleaning

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Question 23
Cognitive  computing is the application of knowledge derived from cognitive science (the study of the human
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brain) and computer science theories in order to simulate the human thought processes (an AI objective) so that computers
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The correct answer is: Cognitive

Question 24 AI can be used to mimic the experience of in-store sales people.

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Mark 1.00 out of Select one:

1.00 a. True 

b. False

The correct answer is: True

Question 25
Prediction problems where the variables have numeric values are most accurately defined as: 
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Select one:
a. associations. 

b. computations. 

c. regressions.  

d. classifications. 

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: regressions. 

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