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Practice Question Bank

2-3 Marks Questions
1) What is semi-Supervised learning?
2) What is over-fitting?
3) What is dendrogram?
4) Define overfitting.
5) What are the key components of Machine Learning?
6) Write any two differences between Supervised and Unsupervised Learning.
7) List any two feature selection techniques.
8) What is activation function? Explain any two.
9) Explain types of data.
10) Explain Principle Component Analysis (PCA)
11) Define multiple regression models.
12) What is residual error?
13) State the term accuracy.
14) What is ANN?
15) Write any two applications of association rule.
16) What is bagging?
17) Differentiate between Deep learning and machine learning.
18) Write a short note on boosting
19) What do you understand by Anomaly detection?
20) Write applications of reinforcement learning.
21) Define Precision and Recall.
22) Write the two differences between classification and regression.
23) State the term back propagation.
24) Discuss the Gaussian mixture model (GMM) for clustering and its advantages.
25) Describe Logistic Regression and its application in binary classification.
26) What is Ridge Regression? How is it different from Lasso?
27) What is the role of cross-validation in Machine Learning?
28) List the types of Neural Network.
29) What do you understand by clustering?
30) Define perceptron.
31) List out the libraries of python which support ML?
32) Write a note on the k-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) algorithm.
33) Define the terms under-fitting and overfitting.
34) Write about Q-Learning with an example.
35) State MAE and RMSE as regression evaluation methods.
36) What is an ROC-AUC curve used for in classification?
37) List different types of Boosting.
38) Write an application of Association Rule.

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4-5 Marks Questions

1) Explain Convolution Neural Network in detail..

2) Evaluation methods for classification algorithms.
3) Discuss the applications of Reinforcement Learning in real life.
4) Compare Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) with Convolutional Neural
Networks (CNN).
5) What is Optimizer? Explain different Optimizers.
6) Write a short note on Support Vector Machine algorithm.
7) Discuss the applications of Reinforcement Learning in real life.
8) Compare Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) with Convolutional Neural
Networks (CNN).
9) Describe the concept of Backpropagation in Multi-Layer Perceptrons.
10) Explain Association Rules in ML?
11) Differentiate Agglomerative and Divisive clustering.
12) Explain important elements of reinforcement learning.
13) Perform Agglomerative algorithm on the following data and plot a dendogram
using complete linkage approach.
Items P1 P2 P3 P4 P5
P1 0
P2 9 0
P3 3 7 0
P4 6 5 9 0
P5 11 10 2 8 0
14) Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of supervised learning.
15) Discuss dimensionality reduction techniques with suitable examples
16) What is the confusion matrix? How is it used to evaluate classification models?
17) Write a note on Deep Learning vs. Machine Learning.
18) Analyze the following transaction dataset to find frequent itemsets. (Let’s
Assume Minimum support=3)Using the Apriori Algorithm.
Transaction ID Items
T10 {Milk, Bread}
T11 {Milk, Bread, Butter}
T12 {Bread, Butter}
T13 {Milk, Butter}
T14 {Milk, Bread}

19) Describe the concept of Backpropagation in Multi-Layer Perceptrons.

20) Explain Association Rules in ML?
21) Write a note on Q learning.
22) Explain advantages and disadvantages of unsupervised machine learning.
23) Differentiate between Logistic Regression and Linear Regression.
24) Explain components of ANN.
25) Explain Random forest Algorithm in detail.
26) What is Bayes’ Theorem? Discuss how it is useful in a machine learning
context.
27) Write Short note on Thompson Sampling.

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28) Write Short note on K-means clustering.

29) Write Short Note on Backpropagation
30) Draw dendrogram for the following dataset using single linkage.
Customer Age
A 7
B 10
C 15
D 22
E 28
31) How is KNN different from k-means clustering?
32) Find frequent itemset using Apriori Algorithm with min_sup=3.
Transaction ID Itemset
T1 A,B,C,D
T2 A,B,C
T3 A,B,D
T4 C,D,E
T5 A,D,E
33) Write a short note on supervised learning.
34) Differentiate Agglomerative and Divisive clustering.
35) Explain Partitioning-based clustering and the K-means algorithm.
36) What is the Elbow Method for finding the optimal number of clusters?
37) Explain the architecture of Convolution Neural Network (CNN).
38) Write Short note on Support Vector Machines.
39) Describe the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) technique.
40) Write a note on Gradient Boosting in ensemble learning.
41) Explain Naïve Bayes theorem and how it used in classification.
42) Consider the following dataset. Model this function using Nearest Neighbor
Classification. What will be the value of Y for the instance (X1,X2)=(4,5) and
k=3.
X1 X2 Y
2 1 4
6 3 2
2 5 2
6 7 3
10 7 3
4 4 2
7 6 3
43) Describe random Forest Trees.
44) What is machine learning? Compare it with artificial intelligence.
45) Write a short note on accuracy measure of classifier.
46) Find the frequent itemset and association rules with minsup=2 and confidence
level =70%
TID Items
1 1,2,5
2 2,4,5
3 6,7
4 1,3,4
5 3,5

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