MCQ Bank
Which layer of cloud computing provides virtual machines, storage, and networking resources?
- A) Software as a Service (SaaS)
- B) Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- C) Function as a Service (FaaS)
- D) Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Sensor readings stored in rows and columns are an example of:
- A) Unstructured data
- B) Semi-structured data
- C) Structured data
- D) Multimedia data
Artificial Neural Networks are primarily inspired by the structure of the:
- A) Database
- B) Computer Processor
- C) Hard Disk
- D) Human Brain
Which stage of AI evolution is characterized by systems that learn from data rather than relying solely on predefined rules?
- A) Manual Computing
- B) Machine Learning
- C) Mechanical Automation
- D) Rule-Based AI
Which branch of mathematics is essential for training machine learning models using optimization techniques?
- A) Number Theory
- B) Combinatorics
- C) Geometry
- D) Calculus
Which is a major advantage of cloud computing?
- A) High hardware cost
- B) Fixed resource allocation
- C) On-demand scalability
- D) Limited scalability
Which technology enables cloud providers to package applications along with their dependencies into lightweight environments?
- A) Firewalls
- B) Routers
- C) Virtual Machines
- D) Containers
A surveillance camera detects intruders and immediately triggers an alarm without sending video to the cloud. Which computing paradigm is being used?
- A) Cloud Computing
- B) Edge Computing
- C) Grid Computing
- D) Distributed Computing
A robot must move from its current location to a destination while avoiding obstacles. Which AI concept is being applied?
- A) Cloud storage.
- B) Search-based problem solving.
- C) Data visualization.
- D) Database normalization.
A company removes duplicate customer records before analyzing sales trends. Which stage of the data analytics process is being performed?
- A) Data cleaning
- B) Data visualization
- C) Decision implementation
- D) Data collection
An AI engineer compares two search algorithms. One requires significantly less execution time for large datasets. Which concept is being evaluated?
- A) Virtualization.
- B) Encryption.
- C) Computational Complexity.
- D) Data Visualization.
Fog computing primarily processes data:
- A) Only on personal computers
- B) At the edge of the network near data sources
- C) Only in mobile phones
- D) Only in centralized cloud data centers
Which event is widely regarded as the birth of Artificial Intelligence as an academic field?
- A) Dartmouth Conference (1956)
- B) Development of the First Smartphone
- C) Invention of the Internet
- D) Launch of GPS
What is the primary purpose of a ThingSpeak channel?
- A) To organize and store IoT data
- B) To configure wireless routers
- C) To design hardware circuits
- D) To install sensor drivers
A company requires real-time analysis of streaming sensor data. Which Big Data technology is most appropriate?
- A) FTP
- B) Microsoft Excel
- C) Notepad
- D) Apache Spark
Which technology is widely used for distributed storage in Big Data?
- A) MySQL Workbench
- B) Hadoop HDFS
- C) Adobe Photoshop
- D) Microsoft Word
Which cloud deployment model is owned and operated by a single organization for its exclusive use?
- A) Public Cloud
- B) Community Cloud
- C) Hybrid Cloud
- D) Private Cloud
A student wants to display live temperature readings from an Arduino board on the Internet using graphs. Which platform is most suitable?
- A) Microsoft Excel
- B) MATLAB Compiler
- C) ThingSpeak
- D) Visual Studio
A warehouse robot identifies packages using a camera before placing them on shelves. Which AI capability is primarily used?
- A) Speech Recognition
- B) Object Recognition
- C) Natural Language Processing
- D) Reinforcement Learning
Knowledge representation in AI is primarily used to:
- A) Enable automated inference using structured knowledge and logical rules.
- B) Model relationships among concepts to support intelligent reasoning tasks.
- C) Represent uncertain knowledge for making informed intelligent decisions.
- D) Store and organize knowledge so intelligent systems can reason effectively.