Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (AISC) MCQ's




Question 1 :
The area of AI that investigates methods of facilitating communication between people and computers is

  1. natural language processing
  2. symbolic processing
  3. decision support
  4. robotics
  

Question 2 :
Which of the following is an advantage of using an expert system development tool?

  1. imposed structure
  2. knowledge engineering assistance
  3. rapid prototyping
  4. All of the above
  

Question 3 :
KEE is a product of:

  1. Teknowledge
  2. IntelliCorpn
  3. Texas Instruments
  4. Tech knowledge
  

Question 4 :
The common property of functional language and logical programming language

  1. Both are declarative
  2. Both are based on l-calculus
  3. Both are procedural
  4. Both are functional
  

Question 5 :
In Delta Rule for error minimization

  1. Weights are adjusted w.r.to change in the output
  2. Weights are adjusted w.r.to difference between desired output and actual output
  3. Weights are adjusted w.r.to difference between input and output
  4. None of the above
  

Question 6 :
Which particular generation of computers is associated with artificial intelligence?

  1. Fourth
  2. Third
  3. Fifth
  4. Second
  

Question 7 :
A series of AI systems developed by Pat Langley to explore the role of heuristics in scientific discovery.

  1. RAMD
  2. BACON
  3. MIT
  4. DU
  

Question 8 :
Shaping teaching techniques to fit the learning patterns of individual students is the goal of

  1. decision support
  2. automatic programming
  3. intelligent computer-assisted instruction
  4. expert systems
  

Question 9 :
DEC advertises that it helped to create the world first expert system routinely used in an industrial environment called XCON or

  1. PDP-11
  2. Rl
  3. VAX
  4. MAGNOM
  

Question 10 :
The strategy used to reduce the number of tree branches and the number of static evaluations applied in case of a game tree is

  1. Minmax strategy
  2. Alpha-beta pruning strategy
  3. Constraint satisfaction strategy
  4. Static max strategy
  

Question 11 :
Which search algorithm find solutions among all possible ones?

  1. Heuristics
  2. Learning
  3. Optismistic
  4. Blind
  

Question 12 :
LISP was created by:

  1. John McCarthy
  2. Marvin Minsky
  3. Alan Turing
  4. Allen Newell and Herbert Simon
  

Question 13 :
Artificial intelligence is

  1. the embodiment of human intellectual capabilities within a computer.
  2. a set of computer programs that produce output that would be considered to reflect intelligence if it were generated by humans.
  3. the study of mental faculties through the use of mental models implemented on a computer.
  4. All of the above
  

Question 14 :
In LISP, the function (copy-list )

  1. returns a new list that is equal to by copying the top-level element of
  2. returns the length of
  3. returns t if is empty.
  4. All of the above
  

Question 15 :
Which of the following have computers traditionally done better than people?

  1. storing information
  2. responding flexibly
  3. computing numerically
  4. both (a) and (c)
  

Question 16 :
In LISP, the addition 3 + 2 is entered as

  1. 3 + 2
  2. 3 add 2
  3. 3 + 2 =
  4. (+ 3 2)
  

Question 17 :
Natural language processing can be divided into the two subfields of

  1. context and expectations
  2. generation and understanding
  3. semantics of pragmatics
  4. recognition and synthesis
  

Question 18 :
____________ is the science that attempts to produce machines that display the same type of intelligence that humans do.

  1. Nanoscience
  2. Nanotechnology
  3. Simulation
  4. Artificial intelligence
  

Question 19 :
An intelligent robot

  1. Respond to changes in its environment
  2. Follows instruction
  3. Possesses no more intelligent than a dishwasher
  4. All of the above
  

Question 20 :
The transform which possesses the highest ‘energy compaction’ property is

  1. Slant transform
  2. Cosine transform
  3. Fourier transform
  4. Karhunen-Loeve transform
  

Question 21 :
The company that grew out of research at the MIT AI lab is:

  1. AI corp
  2. LMI
  3. Symbolics
  4. both (b) and (c)
  

Question 22 :
Who is considered to be the father of artificial intelligence?

  1. Fisher Ada
  2. John McCarthy
  3. Allen Newell
  4. Alan Turning
  

Question 23 :
The field that investigates the mechanics of human intelligence is

  1. history
  2. cognitive science
  3. psychology
  4. sociology
  

Question 24 :
In LISP, which of the following function assigns the value 10 to the symbol a?

  1. (setq a 10)
  2. (a = b) where b = 10
  3. (a = 10) (d) (setq 10 a)
  4. None of the above
  

Question 25 :
ART (Automatic Reasoning Tool) is designed to be used on:

  1. LISP machines
  2. personal computers
  3. microcomputers
  4. All of the above
  

Question 26 :
In LISP, the function (endp )

  1. returns a new list that is equal to by copying the top-level element of
  2. returns the length of
  3. returns t if is empty.
  4. All of the above
  

Question 27 :
In which of the following situations might a blind search be acc=table?

  1. real-life situation
  2. complex game
  3. small search space
  4. All of the above
  

Question 28 :
A robots arm is also known as its:

  1. end effector
  2. actuator
  3. manipulator
  4. servomechanism
  

Question 29 :
The primary method that people use to sense their environment is

  1. reading
  2. writing
  3. speaking
  4. speaking
  

Question 30 :
The first widely-used commercial form of Artificial Intelligence (Al) is being used in many popular products like microwave ovens, automobiles and plug in circuit boards for desktop PCs. It allows machines to handle vague information with a deftness that mimics human intuition. What is the name of this AI?

  1. Boolean logic
  2. Human logic
  3. Fuzzy logic
  4. Functional logic
  
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