CSP Unit 13 Practice Test

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For which of the following goals would analyzing the metadata be more appropriate than analyzing the data?
- Determining the likelihood that the photo is a picture of the sky
- Determining the likelihood that the photo was taken at a particular public event
- Determining the number of people that appear in the photo
- Determining the usability of the photo for projection onto a particular color background

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Determining the likelihood that the photo was taken at a particular public event

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An infographic displays the relative frequencies of the top 100 most common GIF's used in text messaging for each of the past 12 months. Which of the following conclusions cannot be drawn from such representation of GIF usage? You can determine the growth or decline in popularity of a single GIF. You can determine what percentage of text messages contain a particular GIF. You can determine the average education level of GIF users based on GIF use. You can determine how long the most popular GIF has held the #1 spot.

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You can determine the average education level of GIF users based on GIF use.

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Which cities have a population between 100,000 and 1,000,000? Options: Albany, Dallas, New York, San Antonio, Utica; Anaheim, Austin, Charlotte, Tempe; Dallas, New York, San Antonio; Austin, Dallas, San Antonio

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Anaheim, Austin, Charlotte, Tempe

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Based on the information in the table, which of the following tasks is likely to take the longest amount of time when scaled up for a very large company of approximately 100,000 customers?
Backing up data,
Deleting entries from data,
Sorting data,
Searching through data

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Sorting data

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Which of the following questions about a particular animal could NOT be answered using only the data collected from the tracking collars?
- Approximately how many miles did the animal travel in one week?
- Do the movement patterns of the animal vary according to the weather?
- In what geographic locations does the animal typically travel?
- Does the animal travel in groups with other tracked animals?

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Do the movement patterns of the animal vary according to the weather?

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Which of the following tasks best shows an example of using searching and sorting techniques of big data in order to find a useful pattern: Tallying how many pencils and pens you use throughout a school year so you know how many to buy for the start of the next school year to insure you will have enough, Creating a seating chart for a classroom based on an alphabetized list of student Names, Keeping track of all employees’ email use to see how many personal or work-related emails are sent during work time to check for productivity, Recording the amount of time it takes a student to travel from one class to another class in order to find the average?

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Keeping track of all employees’ email use to see how many personal or work-related emails are sent during work time to check for productivity

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Which of the following is NOT a benefit of making digital information and scientific databases openly available across the internet? Options: Data scientists can discover previously unnoticed trends and patterns hidden with large data sets., Scientific researchers can more easily share data on research projects., Innovations in medicine can be developed from the increased knowledge gained from large data sets., Inaccurate and misleading data can be more easily disseminated to scientist researchers.

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Inaccurate and misleading data can be more easily disseminated to scientist researchers.

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Which of the following can be used to extract structured information from unstructured data? Organize data into information, Identify patterns in data, Create frameworks for information

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All of the above

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Which of the following has to deal with this type of thermometer’s usefulness and not usability?
The thermometer outputs the temperature with a digital display that uses a backlight.
The thermometer (when used properly) is accurate to within 0.2 degrees.
The thermometer is reasonably priced, so most families can afford it.
The thermometer is ergonomically designed to be comfortable to use.

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The thermometer (when used properly) is accurate to within 0.2 degrees.

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For situations that may be too dangerous, costly or otherwise too difficult to test in the real world, what do computer scientists create in order to draw help discover new knowledge and create new hypothesis related to what situation they are studying?

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Simulations