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Introduction To Data Science — Part 2 MCQs with Explanations

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

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Exam-Level PPSC FPSC CSS PMS NTS
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Question 1 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What does the acronym "SQL" stand for in the context of Data Science?

Question 2 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which step in the Data Science process involves visualizing and interpreting the results of data analysis?

Question 3 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following is a common method for dealing with missing data in a dataset?

Question 4 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What is the primary role of a Data Scientist in a business context?

Question 5 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What is the primary objective of exploratory data analysis (EDA) in Data Science?

Question 6 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following is NOT typically considered a part of the Data Science process?

Question 7 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following command is used to squash the commits?

Question 8 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following analysis is usually modeled by deterministic set of equations?

Question 9 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following data mining technique is used to uncover patterns in data?

Question 10 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following command allows you to change directory to one level above your parent directory?

Question 11 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Beyond Volume, variety and velocity are the issues of big data veracity.

Question 12 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following statement would create branch named as 'example'?

Question 13 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following command line environment is used for interacting with Git?

Question 14 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

cp command can be used to copy the content of directories.

Question 15 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following command is used to give a message description?

Question 16 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Causal analysis is commonly applied to census data.

Question 17 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Accurate prediction depends heavily on measuring the right variables.

Question 18 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following is performed by Data Scientist?

Question 19 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following model is usually a gold standard for data analysis?

Question 20 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Standard normal RVs are always labelled as Z.

Question 21 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following command updates tracking for files that are modified?

Question 22 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following CLI command can also be used to rename files?

Question 23 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following web hosting service use Git control system?

Question 24 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

If X predicts Y, it does mean X causes Y.

Question 25 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

How many principles of analytical graphs exist?

Question 26 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following analysis are incredibly hard to infer?

Question 27 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following focuses on the discovery of (previously) unknown properties on the data?

Question 28 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following approach should be used if you can't fix the variable?

Question 29 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following technique is also referred to as Bagging?

Question 30 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following approach should be used to ask Data Analysis question?

Question 31 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following is a key characteristic of a hacker?

Question 32 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Raw data should be processed only one time.

Question 33 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following uses data on some object to predict values for other object?

Question 34 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following is not a CLI command?

Question 35 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following step is performed by data scientist after acquiring the data?

Question 36 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following analysis helps out to find the effect of variable change?

Question 37 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following allows you to find the relationship you didn't about?

Question 38 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following systems record changes to a file over time?

Question 39 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following is one of the key data science skills?

Question 40 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following command help us to give message description?

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