1. Which of the following is NOT a type of machine learning?
• A) Supervised Learning
• B) Reinforcement Learning
• C) Unsupervised Learning
• D) Deterministic Learning
• Answer: D
2. What is the main goal of supervised learning?
• A) Find hidden patterns in data
• B) Map inputs to outputs using labeled data
• C) Maximize cumulative rewards
• D) Perform dimensionality reduction
• Answer: B
3. Which algorithm is commonly used for clustering?
• A) k-Means
• B) Support Vector Machine
• C) Decision Tree
• D) Linear Regression
• Answer: A
4. Reinforcement learning focuses on:
• A) Training on labeled datasets
• B) Finding hidden patterns in data
• C) Maximizing cumulative rewards through actions
• D) Reducing dimensionality of data
• Answer: C
5. What is the key concept behind support vector machines (SVM)?
• A) Building multiple decision trees
• B) Clustering data into groups
• C) Finding the optimal hyperplane that maximizes the margin
• D) Minimizing the sum of squared errors
• Answer: C
6. Overfitting occurs when a model:
• A) Performs well on training data but poorly on test data
• B) Performs well on test data but poorly on training data
• C) Fails to learn the training data
• D) Reduces the dimensionality of data
• Answer: A
7. Which machine learning model uses majority voting from multiple decision trees?
• A) Random Forest
• B) k-Nearest Neighbors
• C) Principal Component Analysis
• D) Reinforcement Learning
• Answer: A
8. What is the objective of dimensionality reduction techniques like PCA?
• A) Increase the number of features in the dataset
• B) Retain most of the variance in a lower-dimensional space
• C) Identify the optimal hyperplane for classification
• D) Create a decision tree for regression tasks
• Answer: B
9. Which of the following is a key component of reinforcement learning?
• A) Clustering
• B) Agent and Environment
• C) Cross-validation
• D) Bias-Variance Tradeoff
• Answer: B
10. Bias-variance tradeoff is important to:
• A) Avoid underfitting and overfitting
• B) Select hyperparameters
• C) Reduce dimensionality
• D) Cluster data points
• Answer: A
11. Which evaluation metric is most appropriate for imbalanced datasets?
• A) Accuracy
• B) Precision and Recall
• C) Sum of Squared Errors
• D) Dimensionality Reduction
• Answer: B
12. Which technique is used to evaluate a machine learning model by dividing the dataset into
k subsets?
• A) Principal Component Analysis
• B) Reinforcement Learning
• C) k-Fold Cross-Validation
• D) Hyperparameter Tuning
• Answer: C
13. What is the role of hyperparameter tuning?
• A) Split data into training and testing sets
• B) Optimize parameters controlling the learning process
• C) Evaluate the model using unseen data
• D) Perform clustering and dimensionality reduction
• Answer: B
14. Random Forest is best described as:
• A) A supervised ensemble learning method
• B) An unsupervised clustering algorithm
• C) A dimensionality reduction technique
• D) A reinforcement learning agent
• Answer: A
15. In supervised learning, linear regression is typically used for:
• A) Clustering tasks
• B) Classification tasks
• C) Regression tasks
• D) Reinforcement tasks
• Answer: C
