Engineering Questions with Answers - Multiple Choice Questions
Artificial Intelligence MCQ – Intelligent Agents and Environment
1 - Question
What is Artificial intelligence?
a) Putting your intelligence into Computer
b) Programming with your own intelligence
c) Making a Machine intelligent
d) Playing a Game
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Answer: c
Explanation: Because AI is to make things work automatically through machine without using human effort. Machine will give the result with just giving input from human. That means the system or machine will act as per the requirement.
2 - Question
Which is not the commonly used programming language for AI?
a) PROLOG
b) Java
c) LISP
d) Perl
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Answer: d
Explanation: Because Perl is used as a script language, and not of much use for AI practice. All others are used to generate an artificial program.
3 - Question
Artificial Intelligence has its expansion in the following application.
a) Planning and Scheduling
b) Game Playing
c) Diagnosis
d) All of the mentioned
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Answer: d
Explanation: All sectors require intelligence and automation for its working.
4 - Question
What is an ‘agent’?
a) Perceives its environment through sensors and acting upon that environment through actuators
b) Takes input from the surroundings and uses its intelligence and performs the desired operations
c) A embedded program controlling line following robot
d) All of the mentioned
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Answer: d
Explanation: An agent is anything that can be viewed as perceiving and acting upon the environment through the sensors and actuators. Mean it takes input from its environment through sensors, performs operation and gives output through actuators.
5 - Question
Agents behavior can be best described by ____________
a) Perception sequence
b) Agent function
c) Sensors and Actuators
d) Environment in which agent is performing
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Answer: b
Explanation: An agent’s behavior is described by the agent function that maps any given percept sequence to an action, which can be implemented by agent program. The agent function is an abstract mathematical description; the agent program is a concrete implementation, running on the agent architecture.
6 - Question
Rational agent is the one who always does the right thing.
a) True
b) False
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Answer: a
Explanation: Rational agent is the one who always does the right thing Right in a sense that it makes the agent the most successful.
7 - Question
Performance Measures are fixed for all agents.
a) True
b) False
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Answer: a
Explanation: As a general rule, it is better to design performance measures according to what one actually wants in the environment, rather than according to how one thinks the agent should behave.
8 - Question
What is rational at any given time depends on?
a) The performance measure that defines the criterion of success
b) The agent’s prior knowledge of the environment
c) The actions that the agent can perform
d) All of the mentioned
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Answer: d
Explanation: For each possible percept sequence, a rational agent should select an action that is expected to maximize its performance measure, given the evidence provided by the percept sequence and whatever built-in knowledge the agent has.
9 - Question
An omniscient agent knows the actual outcome of its actions and can act accordingly; but omniscience is impossible in reality. Rational Agent always does the right thing; but Rationality is possible in reality.
a) True
b) False
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Answer: a
Explanation: Refer the definition of rational and omniscient agents.
10 - Question
The Task Environment of an agent consists of ____________
a) Sensors
b) Actuators
c) Performance Measures
d) All of the mentioned
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Answer: d
Explanation: The task environment of an agent is described by four parts performance measures, sensors, actuators and environment, generally known as the PEAS descriptions.
11 - Question
What could possibly be the environment of a Satellite Image Analysis System?
a) Computers in space and earth
b) Image categorization techniques
c) Statistical data on image pixel intensity value and histograms
d) All of the mentioned
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Answer: d
Explanation: An environment is something which agent stays in.
12 - Question
Categorize Crossword puzzle in Fully Observable / Partially Observable.
a) Fully Observable
b) partially Observable
c) All of the mentioned
d) None of the mentioned
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Answer: a
Explanation: In crossword puzzle an agent knows the complete state of the environment through its sensors.
13 - Question
The game of Poker is a single agent.
a) True
b) False
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Answer: b
Explanation: The game of poker involves multiple player, hence its works in Multi-agent environment.
14 - Question
Satellite Image Analysis System is (Choose the one that is not applicable).
a) Episodic
b) Semi-Static
c) Single agent
d) Partially Observable
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Answer: d
Explanation: System knows the current status of the analysis thought its inputs.
15 - Question
An agent is composed of ________
a) Architecture
b) Agent Function
c) Perception Sequence
d) Architecture and Program
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Answer: d
Explanation: An agent is anything that can be viewed as perceiving and acting upon the environment through the sensors and actuators.