CAMBRIDGE - AS Level - IT - Expert Systems

What is an expert system?

• An oracle.

• The computerised system that attempts to reproduce the decision-making process of an expert human being.

• A person who knows eveything.

• The login in system of an internet based application

What does the word 'Diagnosis' mean?

• To dial a person on social media.

• Attaining to the nose.

• Identifying a problem by analysis of the symptoms.

• Artificial intelligence.

What is Artificial Intelligence?

• Reading comic books.

• Not being very good at quizzes.

• Pretending to be something that you are not.

• Computer systems that perform tasks that human beings would normally do.

What is 'chaining'?

• The combining together of instructions.

• The art of making fences.

• Putting links together to make a robust anchor system.

• Dialing random numbers and speaking to strangers.

What is a 'computer transaction'?

• Selling computers at the local mall.

• A specialist type of computer monitor.

• The exchanging of data.

• When computers decide to go shopping.

What 3 elements make up an expert system?

• The Knowledge base

• The inference engine

• The user interface.

Expert Systems - Knowledge Base - What is it?

• The Rebel Base on Tatooine.

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• The answer to all the questions.

• A database that allows the storage and retrieval of the knowledge provided by a collection of expert human beings.

Expert Systems - Inference Engine - What is it?

• The part of an expert system that makes reasoned responses based on a set of established rules.

• The power supply of a personal computer.

• Thomas the tank engine's fusion drive.

• Somebody who continually interferes with something.

What is forward chaining?

• Creation of questions dependent upon answers.

• It is the automated decision making within an inference engine. It will take known data and process it until it reaches an outcome.

• Creating fencing in a clockwise direction.

• Chains that think for themselves.

What is backward chaining?

• Taking down barriers.

• Data switching within a network.

• Delivering automated shipping.

• The process of establishing possible causes when an outcome is known within an inference engine.