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Data Collection And Preprocessing — Part 2 MCQs with Explanations

Practice high-yield Computer Science & IT MCQs on Data Collection And Preprocessing — Part 2 with worked academic solutions for PPSC, FPSC, CSS, PMS, NTS.

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40
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Exam-Level PPSC FPSC CSS PMS NTS
Verified for Commission Syllabus • Oct 14, 2026
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Question 1 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

In data preprocessing, what is the term for the process of handling missing data by filling in the missing values with estimates?

Question 2 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following request can be issued from httr package?

Question 3 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following package is used for reading HTML and XML data?

Question 4 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following function is used for loading flat files?

Question 5 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following package is used for tidy data?

Question 6 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following function is used for searching text strings by means of regular expression?

Question 7 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following function is used to read data off the webpages?

Question 8 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following function is used for fixing character vectors?

Question 9 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following function programmatically extract parts of XML file?

Question 10 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following signs are used to indicate repetition?

Question 11 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following package is used to connect MySQL RDBMS with R?

Question 12 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following function is good for the automatic splitting of names?

Question 13 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which type of data is generated by POS terminal in a busy supermarket each day?

Question 14 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Each observation forms a column in tidy data.

Question 15 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following is used to extract data from HTML code of websites?

Question 16 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following block information is odd man out?

Question 17 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

httr package does not work well with facebook and twitter API.

Question 18 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following data is put into a formula to produce commonly accepted results?

Question 19 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

mutate function is used for casting as multi dimensional arrays.

Question 20 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following is used for specifying character class with metacharacter?

Question 21 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Regular expressions can be thought of as a combination of literals and metacharacters.

Question 22 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following is an example of tidy data?

Question 23 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following will set the character that represents missing value?

Question 24 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following can be used to view all the tables in memory?

Question 25 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following is the most common problem with messy data?

Question 26 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Following figure represents correct sequence of steps in performing data analysis.

Question 27 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

tidyr is a reframing of . . . . . . . . designed to accompany the tidy data framework.

Question 28 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Strange binary file generated from machines is an example of tidy data.

Question 29 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following package loads data from SPSS?

Question 30 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Processing data includes subsetting, formatting and merging only.

Question 31 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following function gives information about top level data?

Question 32 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following is an important parameter of read.table function?

Question 33 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Data that summarize all observations in a category are called . . . . . . . . data.

Question 34 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following is an example of raw data?

Question 35 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following package is used for reading GIS data?

Question 36 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following package is used for reading excel data?

Question 37 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Raw data in the real-world is tidy and properly formatted.

Question 38 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following function is used for casting data frames?

Question 39 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Extracting XML is the basis for most web scraping.

Question 40 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following join is by default used in plyr package?

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