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Data Mining MCQs - Unit-1



1. What does the acronym KDD stand for in the field of data mining?

A . Knowledge Discovery Database

B . Knowledge Database Discovery

C . Knowledge Data Definition

D . None of the above

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2. Identify an option among the following which is not involved in data preprocessing.

A . Data Cleaning

B . Data Integration

C . Data Exploration

D . Data Transformation

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3. Which of the following is not a data mining function?

A . Classification

B . Clustering

C . Outlier Analysis

D . Linear Programming

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4. A smaller version of a data warehouse, focused on a department, is called

A . Data Mart

B . Data Cube

C . Transactional DB

D . Metadata

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5. Transactional data usually includes

A . Coordinates

B . Multimedia

C . Timestamps and transaction IDs

D . Concept hierarchies

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6. Identify an option among the following which is not classified based on the type of knowledge mined.

A . Classification

B . Machine Learning

C . Association

D . Clustering

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7. What is the use of data cleaning?

A . to remove the noisy data

B . correct the inconsistencies in data

C . transformations to correct the wrong data.

D . All of the above

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8. Data Mining is also referred to as	

A . Knowledge Discovery

B . Data Integration

C . Data Transformation

D . Data Selection

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9. ___________________ the process of converting raw data into a format that is suitable for mining.

A . Data Cleaning

B . Data Integration

C . Data Reduction

D . Data Transformation

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10. In which step of Knowledge Discovery, multiple data sources are combined?

A . Data Cleaning

B . Data Integration

C . Data Selection

D . Data Transformation

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11. In Data mining architecture, the core component is

A . Knowledge Base

B . Data Mining Engine

C . Database

D . Pattern Evaluation Module

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12. __________ may be defined as the data objects that do not comply with the general behavior or model of the data available.

A . Outlier Analysis

B . Evolution Analysis

C . Prediction

D . Classification

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13. Which mining functionality focuses on future prediction?

A . Descriptive mining

B . Predictive mining

C . Association mining

D . Outlier mining

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14. Which of the following is not a data mining task?

A . Classification

B . Clustering

C . Regression

D . Linear Programming

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15. Which method can be used for smoothing noisy data?	

A . Binning

B . Regression

C . Clustering

D . All of the above

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16. Which of the following is not a type of data preprocessing technique?

A . Sampling

B . Normalization

C . Standardization

D . Principal component analysis

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17. Which of the following is NOT a data mining application?

A . Retail

B . Banking

C . Healthcare

D . Data Backup

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18. Classification is a _______ learning technique, while clustering is _______ learning.

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19.________________ is a process of finding potentially useful patterns and valuable information from huge amount of data.

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20. __________________ is defined as the process where data relevant to the analysis is decided and retrieved from the data collection.

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21. ______________________ is a data mining technique used to categorize the items into predefined classes or labels based on some predefined properties.

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22. _______________________ module evaluates the discovered patterns to determine their usefulness and relevance.

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23._______________________is defined as the process of transforming data into appropriate form required by mining procedure.

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24. Removing duplicate records is a process called ___________________________

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25. _______________________ evaluate the discovered patterns to determine their usefulness and relevance.

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26. ____________________is an essential process where intelligent methods are applied to extract useful patterns/knowledge.

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27. The data needs to be _____________________,__________________ and ________________ before passing it to the database or data warehouse server.

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28. The KDD process step that removes irrelevant and noisy data is __________________.

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29. When data that cannot be grouped in any of the class appears. That type of data is called as _____________________

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30. A data warehouse is usually modelled by a multidimensional data structure, called a __________________________

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31. Data on spatial databases are stored as ________________,____________________,__________________ and ________________.

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32. _________________ aims to reduce dataset size while preserving important information.

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33. In __________________ the Data Mining system will not utilize any function of data warehouse system or database.

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34. Classification uses methods like ___________________,__________________ or _____________________ to predict a class or essentially classify a collection of items.

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35. The sequence of data point collected over time intervals is called as _________________.

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36. ______________________ is one of the data mining functionalities that help the analyst find the missing numeric values.

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