Usability Engineering SSZG547 Quiz 1 - BITS PILANI WILP

Usability Engineering SSZG547 Quiz 1

BITS PILANI WILP 2017

1. Progressive disclosure is

Select one or more:
a. Hiding unwanted things
b. Disabling/enabling based on the context
c. None of the Answers
d. No hiding at all

Ans: a. Hiding unwanted things
b. Disabling/enabling based on the context

2. Wireframes are nothing but

Select one:
a. Software Code
b. Prototypes
c. None of the Answers
d. Sketches
e. Aluminum Wire

Ans: d. Sketches

3. When users encounter a coupon/promo code field on the checkout page of an ecommerce website. Even though they may not have planned to use a coupon, the very presence of a coupon box makes users to leave the checkout flow and search for a promo/coupon code: FOMO (fear of missing out) is the cause of many a lost sale on sites with prominent coupon-code fields. This phenomenon is known as:

Select one:
a. Priming
b. Muller-Lyer illusion
c. McGurk effect
d. Attentional Blink

Ans: a. Priming

4. Identify the gestalt principles in the below diagram.



Select one:
a. Common fate, similarity, Continuity
b. Symmetry, Proximity, Common fate
c. Closure, Symmetry, Common fate
d. Symmetry, Continuity, Closure

Ans: d. Symmetry, Continuity, Closure


5. Hiding & unhiding, disabling & enabling of the UI options to make the decision making more easier for the user is known as:


Select one:
a. None of the Answers
b. Principle of Progressive disclosure
c. Principle of disability
d. Principle of hide and seek

Ans: b. Principle of Progressive disclosure

6. visual perception is biased by

Select one:
a. experience
b. Both experience and current context
c. current context
d. None of the Answers

Ans: b. Both experience and current context

7. “Party effect” is an example for


Select one:
a. Perception biased by Experience
b. Perception biased by Context
c. Perception biased by Habit
d. Perception biased by Goals

Ans: d. Perception biased by Goals

8. Does visual perception gets biased by the direction?


Select one:
a. No
b. Yes
c. None of the Answers

Ans: b. Yes

9. The representation of how a machine or an application works is called as


Select one or more:
a. System model
b. Mental model
c. Implementation model
d. Conceptual model
e. Represented model

Ans: a. System model
c. Implementation model


10. User-interface design guidelines are based on?


Select one:
a. Physiology
b. Psychology
c. Psychoscopy
d. Psychometry

Ans: b. Psychology

11. The amount of time to make a decision in a software user interface is directly proportional to

Select one:
a. No of choices in the software interface
b. No of colors used in the software interface
c. None of the Answers
d. Indian standard Time

Ans: a. No of choices in the software interface

12. When designing user interface the idea is to keep in mind it should reflect implementation model.


Select one:
a. None of the answers
b. True
c. False

Ans: c. False

13. Perception driven by goals happens more in

Select one:
a. None of the Answers
b. Adults
c. Children
d. Both adults and kids

Ans: b. Adults

14. Identify the dominant gestalt principle.





Select one:
a. Closure
b. None of the Answers
c. Proximity
d. Similarity

Ans: c. Proximity

15. The prescriptive model that is helping you to calculate the time the user takes to make a decision in a user interface due to the many choices available is known as

Select one:
a. Fitt’s Law
b. Hick’s Law
c. None of the Answers
d. Newton’s distance Law
e. Movement Law

Ans: b. Hick’s Law

16. Sometimes our perceptions get filtered due to goals. An example of this:

Select one:
a. Muller-Lyer illusion
b. McGurk effect
c. Attentional Blink
d. Party Effect

Ans: d. Party Effect

17. User’s reaction time in a software User Interface is directly proportional to

Select one:
a. No of colors
b. No of disabled options
c. No of options/choices and the levels
d. Greenwich Mean Time

Ans: c. No of options/choices and the levels

18. What does the below image depict?





Select one:
a. Attentional Blink
b. Muller-Lyer illusion
c. McGurk effect
d. None of the Answers

Ans: b. Muller-Lyer illusion

19. Our perception can be influenced by

Select one:
a. Goals
b. None of the Answers
c. Both goals and future plans
d. Future plans

Ans: c. Both goals and future plans

20. Mental models could be achieved using


Select one:
a. None of the Answers
b. Perception-directed
c. Goal-directed
d. Self-directed
e. Concept based

Ans: c. Goal-directed

21. Which is not true related to wireframes.

Select one or more:
a. Used to communicate
b. Used for ideation
c. None of the Answers
d. Time Consuming
e. Expensive

Ans: d. Time Consuming
e. Expensive

22. Is it good to reduce the cognitive load on the users?

Select one:
a. None of the options
b. Yes
c. No
d. 50:50

Ans: b. Yes

23. Select Mechanical age representations

Select one or more:
a. Google calendar
b. Folder containing papers
c. Physical address book
d. None of the Answers
e. Paper calendar

Ans: b. Folder containing papers
c. Physical address book
e. Paper calendar

24. Stakeholder participate in providing information that are

Select one or more:
a. Technical challenges
b. User perceptions
c. None of the Anwers
d. Preliminary product vision
e. Budget

Ans: a. Technical challenges
b. User perceptions
d. Preliminary product vision
e. Budget

25. Successful products meet ____________  goals first

Select one:
a. Self
b. Non User
c. User
d. None of the Answers
e. Organizational

Ans: c. User

26. Perceptual Priming are based on

Select one:
a. Repetition
b. Realization
c. Response
d. Stimulus

Ans: d. Stimulus

27. Identify the principle that mind separates the visual field into

foreground and background?

Select one:
a. Closure
b. Symmetry
c. None of the Answers
d. Similarity
e. Continuity

Ans: c. None of the Answers

28. Muller-Lyer illusion is an example for

Select one:
a. Perception biased by Experience
b. Perception biased by Context
c. Perception biased by Movement
d. Perception biased by Goals

Ans: b. Perception biased by Context

29. What is the first step in information gathering?


Select one:
a. Visual design
b. Stakeholder interviews
c. None of the Answers
d. Prototyping
e. Wireframing

Ans: b. Stakeholder interviews

30. Fitt’s law helps to determine the

Select one:
a. Weight of an UI element
b. Color of an UI element
c. Distance of an UI element
d. Size of an UI element
e. Both size and distance of an UI element

Ans: e. Both size and distance of an UI element

31. Ventriloquism is an example of

Select one:
a. None of the Answers
b. Perception biased by experience
c. Perception biased by goals
d. Perception biased by context

Ans: d. Perception biased by context

32.Habituation happens because of


Select one:
a. Insight
b. Response
c. Stimulus
d. Reflex

Ans: d. Reflex

33. An experience that triggers an earlier memory and brings it at

the forefront of our mind and is called?

Select one:
a. Perceptual salience
b. The priming effect
c. Accessibility
d. None of the answers

Ans: b. The priming effect

34. McGurk effect demonstrates a bias between


Select one or more:
a. Hearing
b. Vision
c. Speech
d. Sense

Ans: a. Hearing
b. Vision

35. Identify the dominant gestalt principles



Select one:
a. Common Fate &  Proximity
b. Similarity and Symmetry
c. Proximity & Continuity
d. Closure & Continuity

Ans: c. Proximity & Continuity

36. A model which exhibits the disconnection between an

implementation and what explains it is called


Select one:
a. Designer’s model
b. Mental model
c. Represented model
d. Implementation model

Ans: c. Represented model

37. Qualitative research helps to understand


Select one or more:
a. Behaviours
b. Attitudes
c. Domain of products
d. None of the Answers
e. Faults

Ans: a. Behaviours
b. Attitudes
c. Domain of products

38. Attentional blink is when you

Select one:
a. Lose focus
b. Lose confidence
c. Lose concentration
d. Lose memory

Ans: a. Lose focus

39. Usability testing helps in determining

Select one or more:
a. None of the Answers
b. Organization
c. Naming
d. How effective is the design
e. How easy to discover and use for the first time

Ans: d. How effective is the design
e. How easy to discover and use for the first time

40. The below image represents the gestalt principle of



Select one:
a. Proximity
b. None of the Answers
c. Symmetry
d. Common fate
e. Closure

Ans: e. Closure

Machine Learning Quiz 1 BITS PILANI WILP


Machine Learning (ISZC464) Quiz 1
BITS PILANI WILP - 2017

1. Averaging the output of multiple decision trees helps
Select one:
a. Increase bias
b. Increase variance
c. Decrease bias
d. Decrease variance

Ans: d. Decrease variance

2. Given genetic (DNA) data from a person, predict the odds of him/her developing diabetes over the next 10 years. What kind of learning problem is this?
Select one:
a. None of the given answers
b. Unsupervised Learning
c. Supervised Learning
d. Reinforcement Learning

Ans:  c. Supervised Learning

3. Given a large dataset of medical records from patients suffering from heart disease, try to learn whether there might be different clusters of such patients for which we might tailor separate treatments. What kind of learning problem is this?
Select one:
a. Supervised Learning
b. Unsupervised Learning
c. None of the given answers
d. Reinforcement Learning

Ans: b. Unsupervised Learning

4. In farming, given data on crop yields over the last 50 years, learn to predict next year's crop yields. What kind of learning problem is this?
Select one:
a. None of the given answers
b. Unsupervised Learning
c. Reinforcement Learning
d. Supervised Learning

Ans: d. Supervised Learning

5. Suppose we wish to calculate P(H | E1, E2) and we have no conditional independence information. Which of the following sets are sufficient for computing this (minimal set)?
Select one:
a. P(E1, E2| H) , P(H), P(E1|H), P(E2|H)
b. P(H), P(E1| H), P(E2|H)
c. P(E1, E2) , P(H), P(E1|H), P(E2|H)
d. P(E1, E2), P(H), P(E1, E2| H)

Ans: c. P(E1, E2) , P(H), P(E1|H), P(E2|H)

6. Which of the following strategies cannot help reduce overfitting in decision trees?
Select one:
a. Enforce a maximum depth for the tree
b. Enforce a minimum number of samples in leaf nodes
c. Make sure each leaf node is one pure class
d. Pruning

Ans: c. Make sure each leaf node is one pure class

7. Suppose we wish to calculate P(H | E1, E2) and we know that P(E1| H, E2) = P(E1|H) for all the values of H, E1, E2. Now which of the following sets are sufficient?
Select one:
a. P(E1, E2| H) , P(H), P(E1|H), P(E2|H)
b. P(E1, E2) , P(H), P(E1|H), P(E2|H)
c. P(E1, E2), P(H), P(E1, E2| H)
d. P(H), P(E1| H), P(E2|H)

Ans: b. P(E1, E2) , P(H), P(E1|H), P(E2|H)

8. Take a collection of 1000 essays written on the US Economy, and find a way to automatically group these essays into a small number of groups of essays that are somehow "similar" or "related". What kind of learning problem is this?
Select one:
a. None of the given answers
b. Reinforcement Learning
c. Unsupervised Learning
d. Supervised Learning

Ans: c. Unsupervised Learning

9. Suppose you are working on weather prediction, and you would like to predict whether or not it will be raining at 5pm tomorrow. You want to use a learning algorithm for this. What machine learning task is this?
Select one:
a. Clustering
b. Classification
c. None of the given answers
d. Regression

Ans: b. Classification

10.  You’ve just finished training a decision tree for spam classification, and it is getting abnormally bad performance on both your training and test sets. You know that your implementation has no bugs, so what could be causing the problem?
Select one:
a. You need to increase the learning rate.
b. Your decision trees are too shallow.
c. All of the other given options.
d. You are overfitting.

Ans: a. You need to increase the learning rate.

11. Which of the following statements about classification is true?
Select one:
a. As the number of data points grows to infinity, the MAP estimate approaches the MLE estimate for all possible priors. In other words, given enough data, the choice of prior is irrelevant
b. No classifier can do better than a naive Bayes classifier if the distribution of the data is known
c. Density estimation (using say, the kernel density estimator) can be used to perform classification
d. The depth of a learned decision tree can be larger than the number of training examples used to create the tree

Ans: c. Density estimation (using say, the kernel density estimator) can be used to perform classification

12. Consider the task of examining a large collection of emails that are known to be spam email, to discover if there are sub-types of spam mail. What kind of learning problem is this?
Select one:
a. Reinforcement Learning
b. Supervised Learning
c. Unsupervised Learning
d. None of the given answers

Ans: c. Unsupervised Learning

13. Suppose you are working on stock market prediction, and you would like to predict the price of a particular stock tomorrow (measured in dollars). You want to use a learning algorithm for this. What machine learning task is this?
Select one:
a. Classification
b. Clustering
c. Regression
d. None of the given answers

Ans: c. Regression

14. For polynomial regression, which one of these structural assumptions is the one that most affects the trade-off between underfitting and overfitting
Select one:
a. The assumed variance of the Gaussian noise
b. The use of a constant-term unit input
c. Whether we learn the weights by gradient descent
d. The polynomial degree

Ans: d. The polynomial degree

15. Which of the following statements is true?
Select one:
a. Given m data points, the training error converges to the true error as m →∞
b. Decision tree is learned by minimizing information gain
c. Linear regression estimator has the smallest variance among all unbiased estimators
d. A classifier trained on less training data is less likely to overfit
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Ans: a. Given m data points, the training error converges to the true error as m →∞

16. Given 50 articles written by male authors, and 50 articles written by female authors, learn to predict the gender of a new manuscript's author (when the identity of this author is unknown). What kind of learning problem is this?
Select one:
a. None of the given answers
b. Supervised Learning
c. Reinforcement Learning
d. Unsupervised Learning

Ans: b. Supervised Learning

Information Retrieval - Quiz 1 - BITS PILANI

Information Retrieval -SSZG537- Quiz 1 - BITS PILANI 

1.Distributed indexing is used in:

Select one:
a. All of the above
b. Web-scale indexing
c. Google data centres
d. Parallel tasking

Ans: a. All of the above


2.Which is a good idea for using skip pointers?

Select one:
a. Fewer skips, larger skip spans
b. None
c. Depends upon the no. of comparisons needed
d. More skips, shorter skip spans

Ans: c. Depends upon the no. of comparisons needed

3. Edit distance (Levenshtein distance) is a way of:


Select one:
a. Context-sensitive spelling correction
b. Document correction
c. Isolated word correction
d. Phonetic correction

Ans: c. Isolated word correction

4.Boolean retrieval model does not provide provision for:

Select one:
a. Ranked search
b. Proximity search
c. Phrase search
d. Both proximity and ranked search

Ans: d. Both proximity and ranked search

5. Permuterm indices are used for solving:


Select one:
a. None
b. Boolean queries
c. Phrase queries
d. Wildcard queries

Ans: d. Wildcard queries

6. A large repository of documents in IR is called as:


Select one:

a. Corpus
b. Database
c. Dictionary
d. Collection

Ans: a. Corpus

7. Benefits of using a hash table is:


Select one:

a. Do not need to rehash everything periodically if vocabulary keeps growing.

b. Lookup in a hash table is faster than lookup in a tree.

c. All of the above

d. No prefix search is required

Ans: b. Lookup in a hash table is faster than lookup in a tree.

8. Variable-size postings lists is used when:


Select one:
a. More seek time is desired and the corpus is dynamic
b. Less seek time is desired and the corpus is dynamic
c. Less seek time is desired and the corpus is static
d. More seek time is desired and the corpus is dynamic

Ans: d. More seek time is desired and the corpus is dynamic

9. An alternative to equivalence classing is to do:


Select one:
a.Asymmetric expansion
b. Symmetric expansion
c. Case folding
d. Normalization

Ans: d. Normalization

10. We need external sorting algorithms to:


Select one:

a. Maximize the disk seek time.
b. Maintain constant disk seek time
c. Minimize the disk seek time.
d. None

Ans: c. Minimize the disk seek time.

11. Benefits of using B-trees:


Select one:
a. Re-balancing is cheap
b. Balanced trees allow efficient retrieval
c. Faster O(log M)
d. Solves the prefix problem.

Ans: d. Solves the prefix problem.

12. Postings list should be sorted by:


Select one:
a. Document Frequency
b. DocID
c. TermID
d. Term frequency

Ans: b. DocID

13. Key idea behind Single-pass in-memory indexing is:


Select one:
a. Don’t sort, Accumulate postings in postings lists as they occur.
b. Generate separate dictionaries for each block.
c. All of the above
d. No need to maintain term-termID mapping across blocks.

Ans: c. All of the above

14. For postings of length L, no. of skip pointers required are:

Select one:
a. Use  L evenly-spaced skip pointers

b. Use  L^2 evenly-spaced skip pointers.

c. Use L^1/2 evenly-spaced skip pointers

d. Use 2L evenly-spaced skip pointers.

Ans: c. Use L^1/2 evenly-spaced skip pointers

15. For query optimization while intersecting two postings list, we should:

Select one:
a. Process in the order of increasing document frequency
b. Process in any order
c. None of the above
d. Process in the order of decreasing document frequency

Ans: a. Process in the order of increasing document frequency

16. The goal of IR is to:


Select one:
a.find documents relevant to an information need
b. find documents relevant to an information need from a given document set
c. find documents relevant to an information need from a large document set
d. find documents relevant to an information need from a small document set

Ans: c. find documents relevant to an information need from a large document set

17. Best implementation approach for dynamic indexing is:


Select one:
a. Periodic re-indexing
b. Using Invalidation bit-vector for deleted docs
c. None
d. Using logarithmic merge

Ans: d. Using logarithmic merge

18. Issues in biword indexes are:


Select one:
a. Any one
b. Index blowup due to bigger dictionary
c. Both
d. False positives

Ans: c. Both

19. Any string of terms of the following form is called an extended biword:

Select one:
a. NNX*
b. NXNN
c. *NNX
d. NX*N

Ans:d. NX*N

20. Structured data allows for:


Select one:

a. Does not depend on data complexity

b. Less complex queries

c. No relationship

d. More complex queries

Ans: d. More complex queries

21. Blocked sort-based Indexing is a method of:


Select one:
a. Sorting with more disk seeks.
b. Merging with fewer disk seeks.
c. Comparing with fewer disk seeks.
d. Sorting with fewer disk seeks.

Ans: a. Sorting with more disk seeks.

22. Term-document incidence matrix is:


Select one:
a. Sparse
b. Depends upon the data
c. Dense
d. Cannot predict

Ans: a. Sparse

23. Lemmatization is a technique for:


Select one:
a. Ranking documents
b. Case folding
c. Normalization
d. Tokenization

Ans: c. Normalization

24. If list lengths are x and y, merge takes:


Select one:
a. O(Yn) operations
b. O(xy) operations
c. O(xn) operations
d. O(x+y) operations

Ans: d. O(x+y) operations

25. Unstructured data tends to refer to information on the web and is processed using:

Select one:
a. Both
b. Database systems
c. IR systems
d. None

Ans: c. IR systems

Data Mining Quiz1 ISZC415 - BITS PILANI WILP MTEC

Data Mining Quiz 1 ISZC415 - BITS PILANI WILP MTEC

1. 27, 0, 1, 2, 63, 61, 0, 13
The five number summary of the above sample is:
Select one:
a. 63, 27, 13, 2, 0
b. 0, 2, 13, 27, 63
c. 0, 1, 13, 27, 63
d. 0, 0.5, 7.5, 44, 63

Ans: d. 0, 0.5, 7.5, 44, 63

2. 50th percentile is same as

Select one:
a. weighted mean
b. midrange
c. median
d. mean

Ans: c. median

3. Validation set and test set contain the same samples.

Select one:
True
False

Ans: False

4. A boxplot can show outliers as small circles/points,

Select one:
True
False

Ans: True

5. Analysis of patterns for stock market prediction is an example of:

Select one:
a. evolution analysis
b. outlier analysis
c. correlation
d. characterization and discrimination

Ans: a. evolution analysis

6. Pearson's product moment correlation coefficient between two

variables can have values:

Select one:
a. 0 or any positive number
b. greater than or equal to -1 but less than or equal to +1
c. greater than 0 but less than one
d. 0 or positive but less than or equal to 1

Ans: b. greater than or equal to -1 but less than or equal to +1

7. Given two text documents, when we shuffle the words of any one of

the documents, the cosine similarity between the two texts will not

change.

Select one:
True
False

Ans: True

8. If all the tuples in a data set belong to a single class, then its

gini index is:

Select one:
a. 0.5
b. insufficient information to say anything
c. 0
d. 1

Ans: c. 0

9. The mapping of a value by min-max normalization is always in the

range [0,1]

Select one:
True
False

Ans: False

10. We always predict some amount or number in this kind of problems:

Select one:
a. classification
b. preprocessing
c. clustering
d. regression


Ans:  d. regression

11. Holistic measure can be derived from distributive measures

Select one:
True
False

Ans: False

12. If all the data values in a set of data are unique, then

Select one:
a. their is no mode
b. we can select any one number as mode
c. the median is the mode
d. all the numbers are modes

Ans: a. their is no mode


13. A boxplot is nothing but a visual representation of IQR

Select one:
True
False

Ans: False

14.10, 2, 3, 4, 5, 3, 4, 6, 2

How many modes are there?

Select one:
a. 2
b. 1
c. 3
d. 4

Ans: c. 3

15. 10, 2, 3, 4, 5
The midrange of the above sample set is:


Select one:
a. 3
b. 6
c. 7.5
d. 4


Ans: b. 6