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1 An expert system differs from a database program in that only an expert system:
A Contains declarative knowledge
B Contains procedural knowledge
C Features the retrieval of stored information
D Expects users to draw their own conclusions
Ans B

2 Natural language understanding is used in:

A Natural language interfaces
B Natural language front ends
C Text understanding systems
D All of the above
Ans D

3 The first ai programming language was called:

A Basic
B Fortran
C Ipl
D Lisp
Ans C

4 One definition of ai focuses on problem-solving methods that process:

A Smell
B Symbols
C Touch
D Algorithms
Ans B

5 Artificial intelligence is
A The embodiment of human intellectual capabilities within a computer.
B A set of computer programs that produce output that would be considered to reflect
intelligence if it were generated by humans.
C The study of mental faculties through the use of mental models implemented on a computer.
D All of the above
Ans D

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6 People overcome natural language problems by:

A Grouping attributes into frames
B Understanding ideas in context
C Identifying with familiar situations
D Both (b) and (c)
Ans D

7 A series of ai systems developed by pat langley to explore the role of heuristics in

scientific discovery.
A Ramd
B Bacon
C Mit
D Du
Ans B

8 A Turing developed a technique for determining whether a computer could or could

not demonstrate the artificial intelligence,, presently, this technique is called
A Turing test
B Algorithm
C Boolean algebra
D Logarithm
Ans A

9 Which of the following, is a component of an expert system?

A Inference engine
B Knowledge base
C User interface
D All of the above
Ans D

10 Natural language processing can be divided into the two subfields of:
A Context and expectations
B Generation and understanding
C Semantics of pragmatics
D Recognition and synthesis
Ans B

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11 The characteristics of the computer system capable of thinking, reasoning and

learning is known is
A Machine intelligence
B Human intelligence
C Artificial intelligence
D Virtual intelligence
Ans C

12 The area of AI that investigates methods of facilitating communication between

people and computers is:
A Natural language processing
B Symbolic processing
C Decision support
D Robotics
Ans A

13 The "Turing machine" showed that you could use a/an _____ system to program
any algorithmic task.
A Binary
B Electro-chemical
C Recursive
D Semantic
Ans A

14 What is the term used for describing the judgmental or commonsense part of
problem solving?
A Heuristic
B Critical
C Value based
D Analytical
Ans A

15 What was originally called the "imitation game" by its creator?

A The Turing test
B Lisp
C The logic theorist
D Cybernetics
Ans A

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16 Weak AI is
A The embodiment of human intellectual capabilities within a computer.
B A set of computer programs that produce output that would be considered to reflect
intelligence if it were generated by humans.
C The study of mental faculties through the use of mental models implemented on a computer.
D All of the above
Ans C

17 An AI technique that allows computers to understand associations and relationships

between objects and events is called:
A Heuristic processing
B Cognitive science
C Relative symbolism
D Pattern matching
Ans D

18 A natural language generation program must decide:

A What to say
B When to say something
C Why it is being used
D Both (a) and (b)
Ans D

19 Strong artificial intelligence is __________

A The embodiment of human intellectual capabilities within a computer
B A set of computer programs that produce output that would be considered to reflect
intelligence if it were generated by humans
C The study of mental faculties through the use of mental models implemented on a computer
D All of the mentioned
Ans A

20 What is artificial intelligence?

A Putting your intelligence into computer
B Programming with your own intelligence
C Making a machine intelligent
D Playing a game
Ans C

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21 A heuristic is a way of trying __________

A To discover something or an idea embedded in a program
B To search and measure how far a node in a search tree seems to be from a goal
C To compare two nodes in a search tree to see if one is better than the other is
D All of the mentioned
Ans D

22 Which search method takes less memory?

A Depth-first search
B Breadth-first search
C Optimal search
D Linear search
Ans A

23 How do you represent “all dogs have tails”?

A ۷x: dog(x) has tail(x)
B ۷x: dog(x) has tail(y)
C ۷x: dog(y) has tail(x)
D ۷x: dog(x) has tail(x)
Ans

24 Which is not a property of representation of knowledge?

A Representational verification
B Representational adequacy
C Inferential adequacy
D Inferential efficiency
Ans A

25 A robot’s “arm” is also known as its __________

A End effector
B Actuator
C Manipulator
D Servomechanism
Ans C

26 What is transposition rule?

A From p → q, infer ~q → p
B From p → q, infer q → ~p
C From p → q, infer q → p
D From p → q, infer ~q → ~p

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Ans D

27 In default logic, which of the following inference rules of the form is allowed?
A (a : b) / c
B A / (b : c)
C A/b
D A/b:c
Ans A

28 What is another type of default reasoning?

A Monotonic reasoning
B Analogical reasoning
C Bitonic reasoning
D Non-monotonic reasoning
Ans D

29 Categorize crossword puzzle in fully observable / partially observable.

A Fully observable
B Partially observable
C All of the mentioned
D None of the mentioned
Ans A

30 An expert system differs from a database program in that only an expert system:
A Strong artificial intelligence
B Weak artificial intelligence
C Applied artificial intelligence
D All of the mentioned
Ans D

31 An artificial neural network is based on?

A Strong artificial intelligence approach
B Weak artificial intelligence approach
C Cognitive artificial intelligence approach
D Applied artificial intelligence approach
Ans C

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32 The face recognition system is based on?

A Strong artificial intelligence approach
B Weak artificial intelligence approach
C Cognitive artificial intelligence approach
D Applied artificial intelligence approach
Ans D

33 Which term is used for describing the judgmental or commonsense part of problem
solving?
A Heuristic
B Critical
C Value based
D Analytical
Ans A

34 Decision support programs are designed to help managers make __________

A Budget projections
B Visual presentations
C Business decisions
D Vacation schedules
Ans C

35 What are the two subfields of natural language processing?

A Symbolic and numeric
B Time and motion
C Algorithmic and heuristic
D Understanding and generation
Ans C

36 What is the name of the computer program that contains the distilled knowledge of
an expert?
A Database management system
B Management information system
C Expert system
D Artificial intelligence
Ans C

37 Decision support programs are designed to help managers make _____________

A Budget projections
B Visual presentations
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C Business decisions
D Vacation schedules
Ans C

38 Elementary linguistic units that are smaller than words are?

A Allophones
B Phonemes
C Syllables
D All of the mentioned
Ans D

39 Which of the factors affect the performance of learner system does not include?
A Representation scheme used
B Training scenario
C Type of feedback
D Good data structures
Ans D

40 In language understanding, the levels of knowledge that does not include?

A Phonological
B Syntactic
C Empirical
D Logical
Ans C

41 How many types of agents are there in artificial intelligence?

A 1
B 2
C 3
D 4
Ans D

42 What is the rule of simple reflex agent?

A Simple-action rule
B Condition-action rule
C Simple & condition-action rule
D None of the mentioned
Ans B

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43 What are the composition for agents in artificial intelligence?

A Program
B Architecture
C Both program & architecture
D None of the mentioned
Ans C

44 Which action sequences are used to achieve the agent’s goal?

A Search
B Plan
C Retrieve
D Both search & plan
Ans D

45 Which element in the agent are used for selecting external actions?
A Perceive
B Performance
C Learning
D Actuator
Ans B

46 Agents behavior can be best described by ____________

A Perception sequence
B Agent function
C Sensors and actuators
D Environment in which agent is performing
Ans B

47 Rational agent is the one who always does the right thing.
A True
B False
Ans A

48 Performance measures are fixed for all agents.

A True
B False
Ans A

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49 The game of poker is a single agent.

A True
B False
Ans B

50 An agent is composed of ________

A Architecture
B Agent function
C Perception sequence
D Architecture and program
Ans D

51 What is state space?

A The whole problem
B Your definition to a problem
C Problem you design
D Representing your problem with variable and parameter
Ans D

52 A search algorithm takes _________ as an input and returns ________ as an output.

A Input, output
B Problem, solution
C Solution, problem
D Parameters, sequence of actions
Ans B

53 A problem in a search space is defined by one of these state

A Initial state
B Last state
C Intermediate state
D All of the mentioned
Ans A

54 The set of actions for a problem in a state space is formulated by a ___________

A Intermediate states
B Initial state
C Successor function, which takes current action and returns next immediate state
D None of the mentioned
Ans C

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55 The process of removing detail from a given state representation is called ______
A Extraction
B Abstraction
C Information retrieval
D Mining of data
Ans B

56 Fuzzy inference systems (fis) have multidisciplinary nature.

A True
B False
Ans. A

57 Machine learning typically follows ___________ phases according to finlay.

A 2
B 3
C 5
Ans. B

58 Complex problems usually have well-defined steps

A True
B False
Ans. B

59 Fuzzy logic is a subset of conventional (boolean) logic.

A True
B False
Ans. B

60 Mamdani's method was among the first _____________ built using fuzzy set
theory.
A Control systems
B Expert systems
C Decision analysis systems
Ans. A

61 __________ is the process by which the fuzzy sets that represent the outputs of each
rule are combined into a single fuzzy set.
A Aggregation
B Fuzzification

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C Implication
Ans. A

62 ___________ Learning works on existing facts and knowledge and deduces new
knowledge from the old.
A Inductive
B Application
C Deductive
Ans. C

63 The goal of knowledge analysis is to analyze and structure the knowledge gained
during the planning phase.
A True
B False
Ans. A

64 Usually a _________ graph is chosen to represent a fuzzy set

A Triangular
B Conical
C Circular
Ans. A

65 The tractable problems are further divided into structured and ________ problems
A Complex
B Simple
C Non-structured
Ans. A

66 Which one is not the advantage of neural network

A Excellent for pattern recognition
B Excellent classifiers
C None of the given
Ans. C

67 A concept is the representation of the __________ with respect to the given

attributes.
A Knowledge
B Solution
C Problem

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Ans. C

68 Artificial intelligence has its expansion in the following application.

A Planning and scheduling
B Robotics
C All of the above
Ans. C

69 The characteristics of the computer system capable of thinking, reasoning and

learning is known is
A Machine intelligence
B Artificial intelligence
C Human intelligence
Ans. B

70 What is the term used for describing the judgmental or commonsense part of
problem solving?
A Analytical
B Heuristic
Ans. B

71 What was originally called the "imitation game" by its creator?

A The logic theorist
B Lisp
C The turing test
Ans. C

72 The field that investigates the mechanics of human intelligence is

A Psychology
B Cognitive science
C Sociology
Ans. B

73 Strong artificial intelligence is

A A set of computer programs that produce output that would be considered to reflect
intelligence if it were generated by humans.
B The study of mental faculties through the use of mental models implemented on a
computer.
C The embodiment of human intellectual capabilities within a computer.

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Ans. C

74 Weak ai is
A A set of computer programs that produce output that would be considered to reflect
intelligence if it were generated by humans.
B The study of mental faculties through the use of mental models implemented on a
computer.
C The embodiment of human intellectual capabilities within a computer.
Ans. B

75 Prior to the invention of time-sharing, the prevalent method of computer access was
___________
A Batch processing
B Telecommunication
Ans. A

76 In Lisp, the addition 3 + 2 is entered as _______________

A 3+2
B 3 add 2
C (+3 2)
Ans. C

77 In Lisp, the function returns t if is a cons cell and nil otherwise ______
A (cons )
B (consp )
Ans. B

78 In Lisp, what is the function assigns the symbol x to y?

A (setq y x)
B (setq y ‘x’)
C (set y = ‘x’)
Ans. B

79 Lisp machines also are known as _________

A Time-sharing terminals
B Ai workstations
Ans. B

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80 What are the two subfields of natural language processing?

A Context and expectations
B Generation and understanding
C Semantics of pragmatics
Ans. B

81 Which of the following function returns t if the object is a number in lisp?

A (number <object>)
B (numberp <object>)
C (numericp <object>)
Ans. B

82 The area of ai that investigates methods of facilitating communication between

people and computers is ___________
A Natural language processing
B Symbolic processing
C Robotics
Ans. A

83 In lisp, the atom that stands for “false” is ___

A T
B Nill
Ans. B

84 A key knowledge base contains information in the form of ________

A Associations
B Actions
C All of the mentioned
Ans. C

85 Special programs that assist programmers are called ____________

A Symbolic programmers
B Intelligent programming tools
Ans. B

86 What is back propagation?

A It is another name given to the curvy function in the perceptron
B It is the transmission of error back through the network to adjust the inputs

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C It is the transmission of error back through the network to allow weights to be adjusted so
that the network can learn
Ans. C

87 Which of the following is not the promise of artificial neural network?

A It can explain result
B It can survive the failure of some nodes
C It has inherent parallelism
Ans. A

88 Neural networks are complex ______________ with many parameters.

A Nonlinear functions
B Linear functions
C Discrete functions
Ans. B

89 The network that involves backward links from output to the input and hidden layers
is called ___
A Self organizing maps
B Recurrent neural network
Ans. B

90 There exist only two types of quantifiers, universal quantification and existential
quantification.
A True
B False
Ans. A

91 First order logic is also known as ___

A First order predicate calculus
B Quantification theory
C All of the mentioned
Ans.

92 General games involves _____

A Single-agent
B Multi-agent
C Only single-agent and multi-agent
Ans. C

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93 Zero sum games are the one in which there are two agents whose actions must
alternate and in which the utility values at the end of the game are always the same.
A True
B False
Ans. B

94 The initial state and the legal moves for each side define the __________ for the
game.
A Search tree
B Game tree
Ans. B

95 Which is the most straightforward approach for planning algorithm?

A Best-first search
B State-space search
Ans. B

96 How many ways are available to solve the state-space search?

A 1
B 2
Ans. B

97 What is the main advantage of backward state-space search?

A Cost
B Actions
C Relevant actions
Ans. C

98 Which approach is to pretend that a pure divide and conquer algorithm will work?
A Goal independence
B Subgoal independence
C Both goal & subgoal independence
Ans. B

99 Though local search algorithms are not systematic, key advantages would include
___
A Less memory & finds a solution in large infinite space
B Finds a solution in large infinite space

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Ans. A

100 A complete, local search algorithm always finds goal if one exists, an optimal
algorithm always finds a global minimum/maximum.
A True
B False
Ans. A

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