Data Mining: Assignment Week 1

1. Which of the following can be considered as a data mining task?

A. registering for an online course

B. online money payment through a bank

C. predicting if a student will pass an online course

B. downloading the certificate from course website

2. The final step in the data mining process is usually?

A. data cleaning

B. preprocessing

C. modeling

D. pattern evaluation and visualization

3. If a row of a data matrix represents an object, a column usually represents?

A. attribute

B. record

C. table name

D. entity

4. College name of a student can be considered as an attribute of type?

A. nominal

B. ordinal

C. interval

D. ratio
5. Distance between two cities in kilometers can be considered as an attribute of type?

A. nominal

B. ordinal

C. interval

D. ratio

6. Which of the following operations cannot be performed on interval attributes?

A. distinctness

B. order

C. addition

D. multiplication

7. Which of the following operations can be performed on nominal attributes?

A. distinctness

B. order

C. both of the above

D. none of the above

8. Which of the following is an example of discrete attribute?

A. thickness of a book in centimeter

B. weight of a book in grams

C. number of words in a book

D. none of the above

9. Exam and assignment marks obtained by all the students registered in a course can be considered as
an example of:

A. record data

B. ordered data

C. graph data

D. none of the above

9. Which of the following is not a data quality issue?

A. noise

B. missing value

C. duplicates

D. data type (record/ordered/graph)

10. Dimensionality reduction usually refers to reduction in:

A. number of objects

B. number of attributes

C. missing values

D. outliers

11. Which of the following is not a goal for data sampling algorithms?

A. reduction in data volume

B. preservation of data properties

C. obtaining a representative subset of data points

D. finding out missing attribute values

12. Discretization of attributes refers to:

A. deleting data objects

B. deleting data attributes

C. modifying nature of attribute values

D. removing noisy data objects

Answer Keys:

1. C

2. D

3. A

4. A

5. D

6. D

7. A

8. C

9. A

10. B

11. D

12. C