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Data Science Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) and Answers

Master Data Science with Practice MCQs. Explore our curated collection of Multiple Choice Questions. Ideal for placement and interview preparation, our questions range from basic to advanced, ensuring comprehensive coverage of Data Science concepts. Begin your placement preparation journey now!

Q91

Q91 When should feature extraction be used instead of feature selection?

A

When raw features are sufficient

B

When features need transformation

C

When data is balanced

D

When model accuracy is high

Q92

Q92 Which scikit-learn function is used to normalize data?

A

normalize()

B

standardize()

C

scale()

D

transform()

Q93

Q93 How do you perform one-hot encoding in Pandas?

A

pd.one_hot()

B

pd.dummies()

C

pd.categorical()

D

pd.encoding()

Q94

Q94 Which method in scikit-learn is used for dimensionality reduction?

A

PCA()

B

StandardScaler()

C

KMeans()

D

OneHotEncoder()

Q95

Q95 A dataset has highly correlated features. How should you handle this issue?

A

Normalize features

B

Drop one of the correlated features

C

Encode features

D

Use PCA

Q96

Q96 A numerical feature has a skewed distribution. What transformation can address this?

A

Log transformation

B

Drop the feature

C

One-hot encoding

D

Normalize values

Q97

Q97 A dataset has missing values for important features. What is the best approach to address this?

A

Remove the rows

B

Impute values

C

Drop the feature

D

Ignore the missing data

Q98

Q98 What is a key characteristic of time series data?

A

Random observations

B

Data without timestamps

C

Sequential observations over time

D

Categorical data

Q99

Q99 Which of the following is commonly used to detect seasonality in time series data?

A

Histogram

B

Autocorrelation

C

Scatter plot

D

PCA

Q100

Q100 Why is stationarity important in time series analysis?

A

It ensures data completeness

B

It stabilizes variance

C

It allows for accurate forecasting

D

It reduces data size

Q101

Q101 What is the purpose of differencing in time series preprocessing?

A

To detect seasonality

B

To remove trend and make data stationary

C

To visualize data

D

To encode features

Q102

Q102 Which metric is commonly used to evaluate the accuracy of a time series model?

A

Precision

B

Mean Absolute Error (MAE)

C

Silhouette Score

D

Log Loss

Q103

Q103 Which Python library provides the seasonal_decompose function for analyzing time series components?

A

Pandas

B

NumPy

C

statsmodels

D

Matplotlib

Q104

Q104 How do you plot a time series in Pandas?

A

plt.plot(time_series)

B

time_series.plot()

C

pd.plot(time_series)

D

plot(time_series)

Q105

Q105 Which method is used in statsmodels to fit an ARIMA model for time series forecasting?

A

fit_arima()

B

arima_fit()

C

ARIMA().fit()

D

forecast_arima()

Q106

Q106 A time series dataset shows an upward trend. What preprocessing step is necessary before modeling?

A

One-hot encoding

B

Differencing

C

Scaling

D

Normalizing

Q107

Q107 A time series forecast consistently underestimates values during high seasons. What could be the issue?

A

Incorrect seasonality handling

B

Overfitting

C

Underfitting

D

Missing timestamps

Q108

Q108 What is the main goal of Natural Language Processing?

A

Analyzing numerical data

B

Understanding and processing human language

C

Creating images

D

Performing clustering

Q109

Q109 Which of the following tasks is NOT part of Natural Language Processing?

A

Sentiment analysis

B

Speech recognition

C

Image classification

D

Text summarization

Q110

Q110 What is tokenization in NLP?

A

Dividing text into words or subwords

B

Encoding numerical data

C

Creating embeddings

D

Reducing noise in data

Q111

Q111 What is the purpose of stopword removal in text preprocessing?

A

To normalize text

B

To reduce dimensionality

C

To remove common but insignificant words

D

To correct spelling

Q112

Q112 What is a bag-of-words representation in NLP?

A

A numerical representation of text

B

A method to remove stopwords

C

A type of neural network

D

A clustering algorithm

Q113

Q113 Which library provides the word_tokenize function for tokenization in Python?

A

NumPy

B

NLTK

C

Pandas

D

Scikit-learn

Q114

Q114 How do you create a term frequency-inverse document frequency (TF-IDF) matrix in scikit-learn?

A

TfidfVectorizer.fit_transform()

B

CountVectorizer.fit_transform()

C

TfidfTransformer.fit()

D

transform_TF()

Q115

Q115 Which Python library provides pre-trained word embeddings like Word2Vec?

A

NLTK

B

Gensim

C

Pandas

D

SpaCy

Q116

Q116 A text classification model performs poorly due to high-dimensional feature space. What preprocessing step can help?

A

Normalization

B

Dimensionality reduction

C

Feature extraction

D

Stopword removal

Q117

Q117 A sentiment analysis model misclassifies reviews with negations (e.g., "not good"). What could address this?

A

Using n-grams

B

Stopword removal

C

Bag-of-words

D

TF-IDF

Q118

Q118 Which tool is primarily used for creating interactive and shareable notebooks for data analysis?

A

RStudio

B

Jupyter Notebook

C

PyCharm

D

Tableau

Q119

Q119 Which library in Python is most commonly used for data manipulation and analysis?

A

Matplotlib

B

Pandas

C

SciPy

D

NumPy

Q120

Q120 What is the main use of R in Data Science?

A

Data visualization and statistical analysis

B

Deep learning

C

Web development

D

API creation

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