Model Question Paper Subject Code: MC0088 Subject Name: Data Mining Credits: 4

Part A (One mark questions)

Book ID : B1009

Marks: 140
(50 * 1 = 50 Marks)

1. Typical techniques for data mining involve ___________.

A. Decision trees B. Neural networks C. Genetic algorithms D. All of the above POS collects the information on the item_________. A. Brand name B. Size C. Category D. All of the above Which of the following industries use data mining techniques? A. Chemical B. Finance C. Marketing D. None of the above ______is the process of analyzing data from different perspectives and summarizing into useful information. A. Data process B. Data management C. Data mining D. Database management _________data is included in the transactional data. A. Sales B. Cost C. Inventory D. All of the above Data warehousing deals with the subjects like__________. A. Supplier B. Product C. Sales D. A,B and C

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7. ________operation is used by the data warehousing in accessing of data.

A. Data control B. Data access C. Data mining D. Data processing 8. Data warehousing brings_________ performance to the integrated heterogeneous database system. A. High B. Low C. Moderate D. Very less 9. Which of the following encompasses a broad range of analytical software and provide solution for gathering information? A. RI B. BI C. KI D. None of the above 10. Identify business intelligence tool from the following. A. OLAP B. Data mining tools C. Query tools D. All of the above 11. Data cleaning helps to fill _______values. A. Missing B. Routine C. Old D. New 12. Data mining techniques are classified based on_____________. A. Database B. Knowledge to be discovered C. Techniques to be utilized D. All of the above 13. ____________software provides the ability to store, access and modify the data. A. DBMS B. RDBMS C. Data warehousing D. None of the above 14. _______ Language is supported by DBMS. A. C++ B. Query C. C D. Java 15. Detecting anomalies is a___________ technique. A. Data ware housing B. Data stage C. Data mining D. Data cleaning

16. Identify data mining techniques from the following.

A. Clustering B. Data summarization C. Classification D. All of the above 17. _______can manage the data on physical storage devices. A. Data stage B. DBMS C. Data mining D. Data warehousing 18. Who proposed priori algorithm? A. Agarwal B. Srikanth C. Srikaran D. Agarwal and Srikanth 19. _______rule can describe associations between quantitative items or attributes. A. Qualitative B. Quantitative C. Multilevel D. Multidimensional 20. Identify the prediction technique from the following. A. Nearest neighbor B. Clustering C. Data mining D. Data warehousing 21. Identify a link analysis algorithm from the following. A. Web Agent B. Page rank C. Page view D. None of the above 22. ____________ Approach is mainly concentrates on improving information finding and filtering. A. Agent-based approach B. Database approach C. Attribute selection approach D. Testing approach 23. Which of the following system can store and manage a large collection of multimedia data? A. DBMS B. RDBMS C. Multimedia database D. ROM 24. ___________are the queries of content based image retrieval system. A. Image sample-based queries B. Image feature specification queries C. Both a and b D. Image sample specification queries

25. ______strategy has the capacity to reduce the overall data mining cost without loss of the
quality. A. Resolution B. Mining C. Multi resolution mining D. Multi resolution 26. _______involving multimedia objects can be mined in image and video database. A. Data mining B. Association rules C. Web mining D. Clustering 27. Multimedia database is a combination of_______. A. Audio B. Video C. Image D. All of the above 28. ________can build indices. A. Description based retrieval systems B. Content based retrieval systems C. Data mining D. Relational database management systems 29. _________ are the approaches of similarity based retrieval in image databases. A. Color histogrambased signature B. Multi feature composed signature C. Wavelet-based signature D. All of the above 30. ___________ Model is helpful to predict the future purchasing behavior of an individual. A. Data mining B. Clustering C. Predictive profile D. Web mining 31. Telecommunications and media deals with__________. A. Response Scoring B. Customer segmentation C. Profitability analysis D. All of the above 32. _____________contains customer-shopping transactions. A. Retail databases B. Relational databases C. Data mining D. Relational database management system 33. Which of the following methods are constructed to predict the outcomes of variety of decision alternatives? A. Predictive

B. Database C. Multi feature D. None of the above 34. __________ Industries are mainly rely on data analysis in order to take the profitable business decisions. A. Insurance B. Direct mail C. Both A and B D. Chemical 35. Identify the various tasks that risk management deals with. A. Forecasting B. Customer retention C. Improved underwriting D. All of the above 36. _______techniques are used by the investors in order to predict the stock performance. A. Web mining B. Data mining C. Data warehousing D. Data stage 37. The individual tuples making up the training set are referred to as______________. A. Training samples B. Samples C. Data samples D. Nearest samples 38. _________method uses test set of class-labeled samples. A. Holdout method B. Labeled method C. Clustering technique D. Classifier 39. If the class label of each training sample is known then it is referred as_________. A. Supervised learning B. Unsupervised learning C. Clustering D. None of the above 40. Which of the following measure can be used to select the test attribute at each node in the tree? A. Attribute measure B. Selection measure C. Attribute selection measure D. Testing measure 41. Which of the following is also an input to the POS? A. Customers program B. Rewards program C. Customer rewards program D. Induction program 42. Which of the following is the bottom-line of business intelligence?

A. Data stage B. Database management system C. Data mining D. Database management 43. Which of the following technique is useful to ensure consistency in naming conventions? A. Data mining B. Data processing C. Data warehousing D. Data cleaning 44. ___________types of operations are required by data warehousing in data accessing. A. Three B. Four C. Two D. None of the above 45. _________tools software allows the user to ask questions about the patterns or details in the data. A. Query B. Data mining C. OLAP D. OLTP 46. Which of the following language is supported by DBMS? A. C++ B. C C. Java D. Query 47. A priori algorithm is a ______approach. A. Top-down B. Down C. Top D. Down-top 48. Which of the following are the drawbacks of k-means clustering? A. It does not do well with overlapping clusters. B. The clusters are easily pulled off-center by outliers. C. Each record is either inside or outside of a given. D. A,B and C 49. The data tuples analyzed to build the model collectively form the______. A. Training B. Data C. Training data set D. Data set

50. Which of the following approach is mainly concentrates on improving information finding and
filtering? A. Agent-based approach B. Database approach C. Attribute selection approach D. Testing approach Part B (Two mark questions) (25 * 2 = 50)

51. ___________ helps the people to do business in an effective way.

A. Data mining B. DBMS C. RDBMS D. Data processing 52. Which of the following can automatically discover the new relationships? A. Data mining B. Data processing C. Database D. None of the above 53. ________ are the association techniques of data mining. A. One dimensional B. Multidimensional C. Multilevel D. All of the above 54. Which of the following is defined as a process of centralized data management and retrieval? A. Data mining B. Data warehousing C. Data stage D. Database management 55. Data mining is also known as____________. A. Knowledge discovery in databases B. Known discovery in databases C. Knowledge domain databases D. Knowledge discovery in data 56. Data mining tasks can be specified by using________ language. A. Data mining B. Data mining query C. Query D. None of the above 57. Identify the major task of on-line operational database system? A. Online interaction

B. Line transformation C. Query processing D. Online operations 58. Identify the most popular schema from the following? A. Star schema B. Snow flake schema C. Snow Schema D. None of the above 59. _________ can improve the effectiveness of marketing campaigns. A. Business intelligence B. Query tools C. OLAP D. OLTP 60. Which of the following layer consists of relational and OLAP cube services? A. Information layer B. Warehouse layer C. Intelligence layer D. Business layer 61. Business organizations can be able to gain competitive advantage with well designed__________. A. RI B. BI C. DM D. None 62. Which of the following is helpful to identify outliners? A. Clustering analysis B. Combined computer and human inspection C. Binning D. Regression 63. Identify a problem which occurs during data integration? A. Identification problem B. Identity problem C. Entity problem D. Entity identification problem 64. ____________are the methods of data processing. A. Data cleaning B. Data integration and transformation C. Data reduction D. All of the above 65. ______ Data mining technique is used to address the problems. A. Business intelligence

B. Association C. Clustering D. Mining 66. Which of the following technique is used to predict group membership for data instances? A. Smoothing B. Classification C. Generalization D. Regression 67. Identify the methods that are classified based on the driven method? A. Data driven mining B. Query-driven mining C. Autonomous knowledge mining D. All of the above 68. _____algorithm can take an advantage of both top-down and bottom-up approach. A. Partition B. Priori C. Pincers Search D. Mining 69. Which of the following is the desirable feature of an effective algorithm? A. To reduce the I/O operations B. To moderate I/O operations C. To increase the I/O operations D. Not much efficient in computing 70. __________are the dimensions for multidimensional rules. A. Age B. Income C. Buys D. All of the above 71. Which of the following can be useful in discovering similarities between websites? A. Web structure mining B. Content mining C. Data mining D. Web mining 72. Which of the following are simple text files that are automatically generated every time someone accesses one website? A. Log File B. Page File C. Page Rank D. Web Agent 73. Which of the following queries find all the images that are similar to the given image sample?

A. Sample based B. Image based C. Image-sample-based D. Image specification 74. Which of the following will works well with the standard clustering algorithm? A. Correlation B. Regression C. Linear correlation D. Clustering techniques 75. Which of the following can produce large amount of data for business processes? A. Back office B. Front office C. Network applications D. A,B and C Part C (Descriptive questions) (4 * 10 = 40)

1. A) Explain the working and meaning of data mining [5 marks]

B) Explain the various definitions of data mining and also explain how data mining work [5 marks] 2. A) What are the various techniques of data mining [4 marks] B) Explain the each technique of data mining briefly [6 marks] 3. A) Explain the terms classification and prediction [5 marks] B) Discuss the various issues regarding classification and prediction [5 marks] 4. A) What are the various applications of data mining? [3 marks] B) Discuss the various scientific applications using data mining [7 marks]

Answer Keys Part - A Q. No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Ans. Key D D B C D D B A B D A D A B C D B D B A B A C C C Unit no./ Page no. 1/03 1/02 1/03 1/01 1/04 2/15 2/16 2/16 3/43 3/43 4/52 5/74 5/73 5/73 5/72 5/75 5/73 6/94 6/87 7/137 7/137 9/177 10/189 10/189 10/190 Q. No. 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 Ans.Key B D A D C D A A C D B A A A C C C D C A D A D C A Unit no./ Page no. 10/189 10/189 10/190 10/191 11/208 11/205 11/205 11/206 11/206 11/204 11/205 8/159 8/159 8/159 8/166 1/02 1/03 2/16 2/16 3/43 5/73 6/94 7/146 8/159 9/177 Q. No. 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 Part - B Ans. key A A D B A B C A A B B B D D B B D C A D A A C C D Unit no./ Page no. 1/02 1/02 1/05 1/05 1/02 2/27 2/17 2/23 3/44 3/46 3/45 4/54 4/56 4/51 5/76 5/77 5/75 6/100 6/89 6/125 9/178 9/176 10/191 11/213 11/214