Machine Learning - Mock Test Papers
Set 1
Section A: Objective Type Questions
1. Define Supervised Learning and give one example. (2 Marks)
2. What is the main goal of Clustering in Unsupervised Learning? (2 Marks)
3. What is Principal Component Analysis (PCA) used for? (2 Marks)
4. What is the purpose of cross-validation in evaluating a machine learning model? (2 Marks)
5. Which of the following is an unsupervised learning algorithm? (a) K-Nearest Neighbors (K-NN) (b)
Linear Regression (c) K-Means (d) Support Vector Machines (2 Marks)
6. Define overfitting in machine learning. How can you prevent it? (2 Marks)
7. What is the main advantage of using Random Forest over a single decision tree? (2 Marks)
8. What does the term bias-variance trade-off mean in model evaluation? (2 Marks)
9. How does gradient descent work in machine learning? (2 Marks)
10. What is the difference between bagging and boosting? (2 Marks)
Section B: Short Answer Questions
1. Describe Linear Regression and explain how it is used for prediction. (6 Marks)
2. What is the difference between K-Means Clustering and Hierarchical Clustering? (6 Marks)
3. Discuss the concept of Naive Bayes. How does it handle class conditional independence? (6
Marks)
4. What are ensemble methods in machine learning? Compare bagging and boosting techniques. (6
Marks)
5. Explain the Decision Tree algorithm. How do you compute Information Gain? (6 Marks)
6. What is the role of activation functions in neural networks? Discuss some common activation
functions. (6 Marks)
7. Explain the concept of Reinforcement Learning. How is it different from Supervised Learning? (6
Marks)
Section C: Long Answer Questions
1. Discuss the working of the Support Vector Machine (SVM). How does the kernel trick work in
SVM? Provide an example of its application. (25 Marks)
2. Explain the process of model evaluation. Discuss various metrics like Precision, Recall, F1-score,
and how they are calculated. Provide examples. (25 Marks)
3. Describe the Random Forest algorithm. How does it improve upon the decision tree? Discuss its
advantages and limitations. (25 Marks)
4. What is Deep Learning? Explain the architecture of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and
how they are used for image classification. (25 Marks)
Set 2
Section A: Objective Type Questions
1. What is the difference between classification and regression in machine learning? (2 Marks)
2. Define Supervised Learning and give one example of a supervised learning algorithm. (2 Marks)
3. What is PCA used for? (2 Marks)
4. What is the purpose of cross-validation in evaluating a machine learning model? (2 Marks)
5. Which of the following is an unsupervised learning algorithm? (2 Marks)
6. Define overfitting in machine learning. How can you prevent it? (2 Marks)
7. What is the main advantage of using Random Forest over a single decision tree? (2 Marks)
8. What does the term bias-variance trade-off mean in model evaluation? (2 Marks)
9. How does gradient descent work in machine learning? (2 Marks)
10. What is the difference between bagging and boosting? (2 Marks)
Section B: Short Answer Questions
1. Explain Linear Regression. What are the assumptions made by this model? (6 Marks)
2. Describe the working of the K-Means Clustering algorithm. How do you choose the value of k? (6
Marks)
3. Discuss the concept of Naive Bayes. How does it handle class conditional independence? (6
Marks)
4. What are ensemble methods in machine learning? Compare bagging and boosting techniques. (6
Marks)
5. Explain Decision Tree algorithm. How do you compute Information Gain? (6 Marks)
6. What is the role of activation functions in neural networks? (6 Marks)
7. Explain Reinforcement Learning. How is it different from Supervised Learning? (6 Marks)
Section C: Long Answer Questions
1. Discuss the concept of Supervised Learning and describe how Linear Regression works. What
are the assumptions of linear regression, and how do you assess its performance? (25 Marks)
2. Describe the working of a Decision Tree algorithm. How is the Gini Index used to split nodes?
How can you improve the performance of decision trees? (25 Marks)
3. Discuss Ensemble Methods like Bagging and Boosting. Provide examples of algorithms that use
these methods and explain their advantages and limitations. (25 Marks)
4. Explain the architecture of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). How do CNNs differ from
traditional neural networks? (25 Marks)
Set 3
Section A: Objective Type Questions
1. Define supervised learning. Provide one example of an algorithm. (2 Marks)
2. What is unsupervised learning? Give one example of an unsupervised learning algorithm. (2
Marks)
3. Explain clustering in the context of machine learning. (2 Marks)
4. What is the difference between precision and recall in model evaluation? (2 Marks)
5. In decision trees, what is the purpose of splitting at each node? (2 Marks)
6. What is the significance of the learning rate in training machine learning models? (2 Marks)
7. Define model selection. How is it done in machine learning? (2 Marks)
8. What is the curse of dimensionality? (2 Marks)
9. What does ensemble learning mean in machine learning? Give one example. (2 Marks)
10. How does gradient descent help in minimizing the cost function? (2 Marks)
Section B: Short Answer Questions
1. Discuss Logistic Regression and how it differs from Linear Regression. (6 Marks)
2. Explain the K-Nearest Neighbors (K-NN) algorithm. What are its advantages and disadvantages?
(6 Marks)
3. Describe the steps involved in feature selection. Why is it important in machine learning? (6
Marks)
4. What is the purpose of cross-validation? How does it help in evaluating a machine learning
model? (6 Marks)
5. What is the concept of reinforcement learning? Explain with an example. (6 Marks)
6. Describe Naive Bayes algorithm. What are its advantages and limitations? (6 Marks)
7. Explain Random Forest. How does it reduce overfitting compared to a single decision tree? (6
Marks)
Section C: Long Answer Questions
1. Explain the concept of Supervised Learning and describe how Linear Regression works. What are
the assumptions of linear regression, and how do you assess its performance? (25 Marks)
2. Describe the working of a Decision Tree algorithm. How is the Gini Index used to split nodes?
How can you improve the performance of decision trees? (25 Marks)
3. Discuss Ensemble Methods like Bagging and Boosting. Provide examples of algorithms that use
these methods and explain their advantages and limitations. (25 Marks)
4. Explain the architecture of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). How do CNNs differ from
traditional neural networks, and why are they particularly useful for image processing tasks? (25
Marks)
