Machine Learning Quiz Questions and Answers

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Question 1

What is machine learning?

  • A type of computer

  • A technique for teaching computers to learn from data

  • A programming language

  • A hardware device

Question 2

What is the primary goal of supervised learning?

  • Minimize errors in predictions

  • Maximize computational efficiency

  • Predict future events

  • Learn from unlabeled data

Question 3

Which of the following is an example of an unsupervised learning algorithm?

  • Linear Regression

  • K-Means Clustering

  • Decision Trees

  • Support Vector Machines

Question 4

What is the purpose of feature engineering in machine learning?

  • Building better hardware

  • Selecting the most relevant features

  • Engineering new features using deep learning

  • Extracting features from images

Question 5

In classification, what does the term "class label" refer to?

  • The name of the model

  • The output of a regression model

  • The predicted category of an input

  • The input features of a model

Question 6

What is cross-validation used for in machine learning?

  • Cross-training different models

  • Evaluating model performance on multiple datasets

  • Selecting hyperparameters

  • Testing a model's generalization ability

Question 7

What is the purpose of regularization in machine learning models?

  • To increase model complexity

  • To decrease model complexity

  • To speed up model training

  • To increase bias

Question 8

What is the role of a confusion matrix in classification?

  • Visualizing decision boundaries

  • Evaluating model performance

  • Selecting hyperparameters

  • Handling missing data

Question 9

What is the difference between precision and recall?

  • Both measure the same thing

  • Precision focuses on false positives, recall focuses on false negatives

  • Precision focuses on false negatives, recall focuses on false positives

  • Precision and recall are unrelated metrics

Question 10

What is the purpose of feature scaling in machine learning?

  • To remove outliers from the data

  • To standardize the range of features

  • To increase the complexity of models

  • To decrease the dimensionality of features

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