Lokmanya Tilak Jankalyan Shikshan Sanstha’s

PRIYADARSHINI J. L. COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, NAGPUR

An Autonomous Institute, Affiliated to RTM Nagpur University
Accredited with Grade “A” by NAAC
846,New Nandanvan Layout, Nagpur-440009

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

B.TECH. Semester : VI

Course Code :
BTECH_CSE-602.1T Course Title : Machine learning Topics : Question bank

Course Teache : Ms.M.G.Vaidya

Question Bank
Subject: Machine Learning and
Techniques

Unit 1
1. What are the types of human learning? And there equivalent forms of machine learning?
2. Write short notes on any two of the following:
a) Supervised learning
b) Unsupervised learning
c) Reinforcement learning
3. What is machine learning? Explain any two business applications of machine learning.
4. Define machine learning. Explain with specific example.
5. What is human learning?Explain its types.Are there equivalent forms of machine learning?
4. Explain how human learning happens:
a) Under direct guidance of experts
b) Under indirect guidance of experts
c) Self-learning
6. Explain the different forms of machine learning with a few examples.
7. What do you mean by well posed learning problem?Explain with example.
8. List out any four applications of machine learning.
9. List and explain issues in machine learning.
10. Write the difference between on: Supervised and unsupervised learning.
11. What are the main activities involved when you are preparing to start with
modelling in machine learning?
12. Differentiate: Categorical and Numeric attribute.
13. List the applications of machine learning.Explain any one in brief
14. Explain qualitative and quantitative data in details. Differentiate between the two.
15. What is a model in context of machine learning? How can you train a model?
16. Write the difference between on: Nominal and ordinal data.
17. What are the basic design issues and approaches to machine learning?
18. Explain the various stages involved in designing a learning system
19. Differentiate between Training data and Testing Data
20. Differentiate between Supervised, Unsupervised and Reinforcement Learning
21. What are the issues in Machine Learning?
22. Distinguish between overfitting and underfitting. How it can affect model generalization?
 Unit 2
1. Difference between: Dimensionality reduction and Feature selection.
2. How can we take care of outliers in data?
3. What are the main activities involved in machine learning?
4. What is meant by data pre-processing? What are the different techniques for data pre-processing?
5. Explain logistic regression.
6. Explain feature selection and feature extraction method for dimensionality reduction.
7. Compare Classification with regression with an example.
8. Explain regression with an example
9. Explain feature selection and feature extraction method for dimensionality reduction
10. Explain multiple linear regression with an example.
11. What is feature engineering? Explain, in detail the different aspect of feature engineering.
 Unit 3
1. Explain the concept of Prior, Posterior, and Likelihood with an example.
2. Explain Naïve Bayes Classifier with an Example.
3. Write any two strengths and weaknesses of Bayes classifier.
4. Explain how Naïve Bayes classifier is used for
1. Text classification
2. Spam filtering
3. Market sentiment analysis
5. What is supervised learning? Why it is called so?
6. Give any three examples of supervised learning.
7. What is classification and regression in a supervised learning?
8. Explain, in brief, the SVM model.
9. Define Support Vectors in the SVM model.
10. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the SVM model?
11. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the kNN algorithm?
12. Explain, in brief, the decision tree algorithm.
13. What is node and leaf in decision tree?
14. Write any three strengths and weaknesses of the decision tree method.
15. Discuss the kNN model in detail.
16. Write the algorithm for kNN.
17. What is decision tree? What are the different types of nodes? Explain in detail.
18. How do you classify text using Bayes Theorem?
 UNIT 4
1. Mention few application areas of unsupervised learning.
2. What are the broad three categories of clustering techniques? Explain the characteristics of each briefly.
3. Describe how the quality of clustering is measured in the k-means algorithm?
4. Describe the main difference in the approach of k-means and k-medoids algorithms with a neat diagram.
5. Explain the k-means method with a step-by-step algorithm.
6. Explain the Apriori algorithm for association rule learning with an example.
7. Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the k-means algorithm.
8. Explain the concept of clustering with a neat diagram.
9. Explain the k-Means Algorithm with an example.
10. Write down the major differences between K-means clustering and hierarchical clustering.
 Unit 5
1. What is Ensemble Learning Algorithm? Discuss various types.
2. Difference between: Bagging and Boosting.
3. Explain the following applications of Machine Learning
i) Image Recognition
ii) Speech Recognition

4. Write short notes on following

i) Email , Spam and Malware filtering
ii) Virtual Personal Assistant
iii) Online Fraud Detection

Ms.Manisha G.Vaidya
(Subject Teacher)

( All the numericals solved in class.)