Pre Board-2 Question Paper January 2024

Class: XII Time: 2 Hours

Subject: Artificial Intelligence (843) Set-2 Max. Marks: 50
General Instructions:
1. Please read the instructions carefully.

2. This Question Paper consists of 21 questions in two sections: Section A & Section B.

3. Section A has Objective type questions whereas Section B contains Subjective type
questions.
4. Out of the given (5 + 16 =) 21 questions, a candidate has to answer (5 + 10 =) 15
questions in the allotted (maximum) time of 2 hours.
5. All questions of a particular section must be attempted in the correct order.

6. SECTION A - OBJECTIVE TYPE QUESTIONS (24 MARKS):

i. This section has 05 questions.

ii. Marks allotted are mentioned against each question/part.
iii. There is no negative marking.
iv. Do as per the instructions given.
7. SECTION B – SUBJECTIVE TYPE QUESTIONS (26 MARKS):

i. This section has 16 questions.

ii. A candidate has to do 10 questions.
iii. Do as per the instructions given.
iv. Marks allotted are mentioned against each question/part.

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 SECTION A: OBJECTIVE TYPE QUESTIONS

Q. 1 Answer any 4 out of the given 6 questions on Employability Skills (1 x 4 = 4 marks)

i. ______ is a trait, wherein, individuals show tendency towards anxiety, self-doubt, 1
depression, shyness and other similar negative feelings.
a) Consciousness b) Extraversion
c) Agreeableness d) Neuroticism
ii. Which of the following does not come under positive attitude? 1
a) Learn from failures b) Be proactive
c) Feed the mind with positivity d) Blaming circumstances
iii. Assertion (A): Noisy environment is a barrier in active listening 1
Reason ( R): The main negative type of body language is avoidance of
eye contact
a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
b) Both A and R are true and R is not the correct explanation of A
c) A is true but R is false
d) A is false but R is true

iv. Mr Gupta has a spreadsheet with a list of 500 items in his shop. A customer comes 1
and asks for a particular item. How should he arrange the data so that he can find
that item fast? What would Mr Gupta do? What is the correct order of
sorting_____
1. Select the cell range you want to sort. ...
2. The Sort dialog box will appear, Decide the sorting order (either ascending or
descending). ...
3. Select the Data tab on the Ribbon, then click the Sort command.
4. Once you're satisfied with your selection, click OK, The cell range will be
sorted by the selected column.
a) 1->3->2->4 b) 1->2->4->3
c) 1->2->3->4 d) 2->3->2->4
v. “A purposeful activity to initiate, maintain and aggrandize profit-oriented 1
business” is defined by _______
a) Stevenson and Jarillo b) Cole
c) economists d) psychologists

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 vi. Jaanvi’s children have grown up. They have a lot of clothes that are too small for 1
them now. What should Jaanvi do with these old clothes?
a) Throw them in the trash can
b) Burn them
c) Keep using them even though they are too small
d) Donate them or make bags out of them

Q. 2 Answer any 5 out of the given 6 questions (1 x 5 = 5 marks)

i. In Design Thinking, the process of creating a tangible representation of ideas is 1
known as:
a) Ideation b) Prototyping
c) Testing d) Refinement
ii. Which design thinking technique involves generating a large number of ideas in a 1
short amount of time?
a) Brainstorming b) Mind mapping
c) SWOT analysis d) Six Thinking Hats

iii. Which statement is true about outliers in Linear regression? 1

a) Linear regression model is not sensitive to outliers
b) Linear regression model is sensitive to outliers
c) Can’t say
d) None of these

iv. Which of the correct matching options. 1

i. Define A. Build representation of one or more ideas
to show others
ii. Ideate B. Construct a point of view that is based on
user needs and insights
iii. Prototype C. Try Your Solutions Out
iv. Testing D. Brainstorm and come up with creative
solutions
a) i->B ii-> A, iii. D, iv->C
b) i->C, ii->D, iii->A, iv->B
c) i->A, ii->D, iii->C, iv->B
d) i->C, ii->B, iii->A, iv->D
v. Which of the following is true about Residuals ? 1
a) Lower is better b) Higher is better
c) A or B depend on the situation d) None of these
vi. Additive model for time series Y = . . 1
a) T*S*C*I b) T+S+C+I
c) T/S/C/I d) T-S-C-I

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 Q.3 Answer any 5 out of the given 6 questions (1 x 5 = 5 marks)
i. Seasonal variations are ____ 1
a) Long term variation b) Short term variation
c) Sudden variation d) None
ii. What is the purpose of user personas in Design Thinking? 1
a) To identify potential flaws in the product
b) To define the project timeline
c) To represent the needs and behaviors of the target users
d) To prioritize features for development
iii. Which one is correct? 1
a) Random Forests can handle large datasets with many features and
can be trained efficiently on parallel and distributed systems.
b) Random Forests provide feature importance scores that can be used to
understand the relative importance of each feature in the prediction.
c) Both a,b
d) All of the above

iv. If the question is to determine probabilities of an action, then a _______ 1

approach might be used.
a) Descriptive b)Diagnostic
c) Predictive d)Prescriptive

v. Which of the following not belongs to Productivity-enhancing capabilities of AI 1

Model
i) Visual modelling ii) AutoAI iii) XGBoost

a) i,ii only b) ii only

c) iii only d) ii, iii only
vi. Which of the following are Development tools 1
i) DataRobot, H2O ii) Watson Studio, Azure ML Studio
iii) Sagemaker, Anaconda iv) Scikit-learn, XGBoost

a) i,iv only b) i,ii,iii only

c) i, ii, iv only d) ii, iv only

Q. 4 Answer any 5 out of the given 6 questions (1 x 5 = 5 marks)

i. Once you have got an AI model that's ready for production, AI engineers 1
then ____ a trained model, making it available for external inference
requests.
a) Evaluate b) Test
c) Deploy d) Redesign

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 ii. Data Validation for human biases is conducted in ____ phase of AI 1
Model Life Cycle.
a) Scoping b) Data Collection
c) Design d) Testing

iii. Identify the correct order of Design phase 1

a) Data Acquisition  Exploration Preparation  Cleaning  Feature
Engineering  Testing
b) Data Acquisition  Preparation  Cleaning  Exploration  Feature
Engineering  Testing
c) Data Acquisition  Exploration  Cleaning  Feature Engineering 
Preparation  Testing
d) Data Acquisition Cleaning  Exploration Preparation  Feature
Engineering  Testing

iv. Which of these are Not performance metrics in modelling? 1

(i) Classification Accuracy (ii) Model score
(iii) Root Mean Square Error (iv) Test score

a) (i) and (ii) b) (i) and (iv)

c) (ii) and (iv) d) (i) and (iii)

v. Adding a non-important feature to a linear regression model may 1

result in.
i) Increase in R-square
ii) Decrease in R-square
a) Only i is correct b) Only ii is correct
c) Either i or ii d) Neither i nor ii
vi. Which of the following is a better data story? 1

a) Left side chart b) Right side chart

c) both a,b d) None

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Q. 5 Answer any 5 out of the given 6 questions (1 x 5 = 5 marks)
i. When narrative and visuals are merged together, they can _____ 1
audience.
a) Entertain b) Engage
c) Explain d) Encourage

ii. We can enlighten the audience to the insights that they wouldn’t 1
perceive without the charts or graphs by combining
a) Visuals & Narrative b) Visuals & Data
c) Data & Narrative d) None

iii. Which of the following is not the need for Storytelling 1

a) Acts as emotional glue
b) Information presented in unstructured manner
c) It reshapes the knowledge
d) Adds meaning to data
iv. When a good story is told the brain comes alive because storytelling 1
literally has a chemical effect on the brain that wakes it up in order to
___________
a) absorb, digest b) store
c) only a d) both a,b

v. Identify the following icons: 1

a) b)

vi. Statement 1: Narrative is the way we simplify and make sense of a 1

complex world.
Statement 2: It supplies context, insight, interpretation—all the things
that make data meaningful, more relevant and interesting.
Choose the correct option
a) Statement 1 and Statement 2 are correct
b) Statement 1 and Statement 2 are not correct
c) Statement 1 correct and Statement 2 not correct
d) Statement 1 not correct and Statement 2 are correct

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 SECTION B: SUBJECTIVE TYPE QUESTIONS

Answer any 3 out of the given 5 questions on Employability Skills (2 x 3 = 6 marks)

Answer each question in 20 – 30 words.
Q. 6 Pravallika wants to starts a new business with her innovative ideas. But 2
she is not having required capital to start the business. Help her by
giving the information of any two government schemes for Start Up
entrepreneurs to gain capital.

Q. 7 List the steps for sorting data in spreadsheet 2

Q. 8 How to become result oriented? 2
Q. 9 How to ensure active listening? 2
Q. 10 List some ways by which we can reduce the amount of waste generated 2

Answer any 4 out of the given 6 questions in 20 – 30 words each (2 x 4 = 8 marks)

Q. 11 Define capstone project. What do you mean by understanding a 2
problem and its importance
Q. 12 Anchal is confused with loss function and objective function. Explain her 2
the difference between loss function and objective function?
Q. 13 What is problem decomposition? Mention the steps 2

Q. 14 What is MAE loss function? 2

Q. 15 List the steps involved in telling an effective data story 2

Q. 16 Mention any 4 Productivity-enhancing capabilities in designing the AI 2

Model

Answer any 3 out of the given 5 questions in 50– 80 words each (4 x 3 = 12 marks)

Q.17 Explain difference between cross validation and train test split? 4

Q.18 Why storytelling is so powerful and cross-cultural, and what this means 4
for data storytelling

Q.19 Ambika and her team are interested in Designing AI Model. Explain them 4
Design/ Building the Model Stage of AI Model life Cycle.

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Q. 20 Consider the following data: 4
Amount of Crop Yield
Fertilizer (g) (kg)
22 44
45 56
34 67
27 75
69 70
48 63

Calculate the RMSE value for the above data given that the regression
equation is y = 0.308x + 51

Q.20 a) “Data storytelling has acquired a place of importance” Justify the 4

statement.
b) Which data story about the Demand/ Supply balance until 4Q16 given
below is better and why?

i)

ii)

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