Ministry of Higher Education & Subject: Knowledge Engineering

Scientific Research Stage: Fourth Stage - **

University of Basrah Exam time: One hour
College of Computer Science & IT Exam date: 17/3/2024
Department of Computer Sciences

First Exam - Evening

2023-2024
Notes: Answer all questions. Questions in (2) pages. Full mark is 20.
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Question1\ [10 Marks]: Answer by (True) or (False) for all branches.

1- Knowledge management and knowledge engineering are not interchangeable terms.
• Answer: False
2- Knowledge is what someone has after understanding information.
• Answer: True
3- Quality assurance is not essential in the design of knowledge-based systems.
• Answer: False
4- Professionals in knowledge engineering maintain a current, working expertise of a given subject.
• Answer: True
5- Procedural knowledge provides alternative actions based on the use of facts to obtain knowledge.
• Answer: True
6- Expert systems are designed to mimic the work of Humans in specific areas of knowledge.
• Answer: True
7- Expert systems are capable of providing justifications for their recommendations.
• Answer: True
8- Creativity is not a necessary skill for a knowledge engineer.
• Answer: False
9- Data, information, and knowledge are dynamic entities.
• Answer: True
10- Expert systems are not only suitable for problems where the expertise required is available.
• Answer: True

Question2\ [10 Marks]: Choose the right answer for all branches.

1- What distinguishes a professional organization?

• A) Expertise
• B) Membership fees
• C) Self-regulation
• D) Quantity of members

2- What is the primary goal of a knowledge engineer?

• A) Representing knowledge in a symbolic form
• B) Extracting knowledge from human experts
• C) Developing software programs
• D) Conducting market analysis

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 3- What skill is NOT typically required of a knowledge engineer?
• A) Fact finding
• B) Financial management
• C) Creativity
• D) Managerial skills

4- Which term is NOT associated with knowledge engineering?

• A) Fact
• B) Information
• C) Procedure
• D) Opinion

5- What is the purpose of knowledge elicitation sessions in KBS development?

• A) Develop software prototypes
• B) Extract knowledge from human experts
• C) Conduct user testing
• D) Validate knowledge representations

6- Which component of an expert system is responsible for storing knowledge?

• A) Inference engine
• B) Knowledge acquisition module
• C) Knowledge-based module
• D) Explanatory interface

7- Which system models human reasoning via analogy?

• A) Neural networks
• B) Case-based reasoning systems
• C) Genetic algorithms
• D) Intelligent agents

8- What is the term used to describe knowledge discovery by identifying previously unknown
relationships in data?
• A) Data mining
• B) Expert systems
• C) Neural networks
• D) Intelligent agents

9- What type of system aims to endow computers with human abilities?

• A) Expert systems
• B) Data mining systems
• C) Artificial intelligence
• D) Case-based reasoning systems

10- In what situations are expert systems generally suitable?

• A) When human expertise is readily available and stable
• B) When the problem is not recurrent
• C) When the domain is poorly defined
• D) When intuition is essential for decision making

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Examiner Head of Dept.
Asst. Lec. Suhaib A. Abdulqader Asst. Prof. Dr. Salah F. Salih