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Machine Learning Algorithms — Part 2 MCQs with Explanations

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

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Question 1 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

In machine learning, what is the primary objective of a genetic algorithm?

Question 2 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What is the primary purpose of a convolutional neural network (CNN) in machine learning?

Question 3 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which machine learning algorithm is commonly used for time series forecasting and predicting stock prices?

Question 4 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

In machine learning, what is the term for the process of splitting the dataset into three parts: training, validation, and testing sets?

Question 5 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What is the primary purpose of a k-means clustering algorithm in machine learning?

Question 6 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following can be used to create the most common graph types?

Question 7 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following library is used for boosting generalized additive models?

Question 8 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following is used to assist the quantitative trader in the development?

Question 9 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Model based prediction considers relatively easy version for covariance matrix.

Question 10 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following model sums the importance over each boosting iteration?

Question 11 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Point out the wrong combination.

Question 12 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following is correct use of cross validation?

Question 13 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following is statistical boosting based on additive logistic regression?

Question 14 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

True positive means correctly rejected.

Question 15 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following is a common error measure?

Question 16 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following package tools are present in caret?

Question 17 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following argument is used to set importance values?

Question 18 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following can be used to create sub–samples using a maximum dissimilarity approach?

Question 19 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

The preProcess class can be used for many operations on predictors.

Question 20 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following method options is provided by train function for bagging?

Question 21 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following function can be used to create balanced splits of the data?

Question 22 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

caret stands for classification and regression training.

Question 23 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

For k cross-validation, larger k value implies more bias.

Question 24 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

For most classification models, each predictor will have a separate variable importance for each class.

Question 25 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following expression is true?

Question 26 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

The function preProcess estimates the required parameters for each operation.

Question 27 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following is correct about regularized regression?

Question 28 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following is not a machine learning algorithm?

Question 29 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Predictive analytics is same as forecasting.

Question 30 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following is one of the largest boost subclass in boosting?

Question 31 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following is a categorical outcome?

Question 32 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following function is used to generate the class distances?

Question 33 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

The advantage of using a model-based approach is that is more closely tied to the model performance.

Question 34 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following is correct order of working?

Question 35 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following curve analysis is conducted on each predictor for classification?

Question 36 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following is correct with respect to random forest?

Question 37 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

For k cross-validation, smaller k value implies less variance.

Question 38 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

The principal components are equal to left singular values if you first scale the variables.

Question 39 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following function can be used to identify near zero-variance variables?

Question 40 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following can be used to impute data sets based only on information in the training set?

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