SCOA UNIT 2 MCQs

Question No Question Answer Key

1. Membership function defines the fuzziness in a fuzzy set A
irrespective of the elements in the set, which are discrete or
continuous.
A.True
B. False
2.   B
The membership functions are generally represented in
A.Tabular Form
B. Graphical Form
C.Mathematical Form
D.Logical Form
3.   D
Membership function can be thought of as a technique to solve
empirical problems on the basis of
A.knowledge
B. examples
C.learning
D.experience
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4.   C
Three main basic features involved in characterizing membership
function are
A.Intution, Inference, Rank Ordering
B. Fuzzy Algorithm, Neural network, Genetic Algorithm
C.Core, Support , Boundary
D.Weighted Average, center of Sums, Median
5. The region of universe that is characterized by complete A
membership in the set  is called
A.Core
B. Support
C.Boundary
D.Fuzzy
6.   B
A fuzzy set whose membership function has at least one element x
in the universe whose membership value
is unity is called 
A.sub normal fuzzy sets
B. normal fuzzy set
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C.convex fuzzy set

D.concave fuzzy set
7. A
In a Fuzzy set a prototypical element has a value
A.1
B. 0
C.infinite
D.Not defined
8.    B
A fuzzy set wherein no membership function has its value equal to
1 is called 
A.normal fuzzy set
B. subnormal fuzzy set.
C.convex fuzzy set
D.concave fuzzy set
9. A
A  fuzzy set has a membership function whose membership values
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are strictly monotonically increasing or strictly monotonically

decreasing or strictly monotonically increasing than strictly
monotonically decreasing with increasing values for elements in
the universe 
A.convex fuzzy set
B. concave fuzzy set
C.Non concave Fuzzy set
D.Non Convex  Fuzzy set
10.   B
The membership values of the membership function are nor
strictly monotonically increasing or decreasing or strictly
monoronically increasing than decreasing.
A.Convex Fuzzy Set
B. Non convex fuzzy set
C.Normal Fuzzy set
D.Sub normal fuzzy set
11.   D
Fuzzy Computing
A.doesnt deal with 2 valued logic
B. mimics human behaviour
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C.deals with information which is vague, imprecise, uncertain,

ambiguous, inexact, or probabilistic
D.All of the above
12. Defuzzification is done to obtain a
a) Crisp output
b) The best rule to follow
c) Precise fuzzy value
d) None of the above
13. “The train is running fast”. Here ‘fast’ can be represented by a
a) Fuzzy Set
b) Crisp Set
c) Fuzzy and Crisp Set
d) None of the mentioned
14. Suppose, a fuzzy set Young is defined as follows: a
Young = (10, 0.5), (20, 0.8), (30, 0.8), (40, 0.5), (50, 0.3)
Then the crisp value of Young using MoM method is
a) 25
b) 20
c) 35
d) 50
15. f the fuzzy set has two sub regions, then the centre of gravity of the sub c
region _________________ can be used to calculate the defuzzified
value.
a) with the median of all the area
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b) with the mean of all the area

c) with the largest area
d) with the smallest area
16. Which of the following is not a centroid method? d
a) Centre of gravity method (CoG)
b) Centre of sum method (CoS)
c) Centre of area method (CoA)
d) Centre of Mass (CoM)
17. What are the following sequence of steps taken in designing a fuzzy a
logic machine?
(a) Fuzzification->Rule evaluation->Defuzzification
(b) Rule evaluation->Fuzzification->Defuzzification
(c) Fuzzy Sets->Defuzzification->Rule evaluation
(d) Defuzzification->Rule evaluation->Fuzzification
18. If A is a fuzzy set, then (A λ)complement ≠ a
⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯( Aλ)complement
(a) except for value of λ=0.5
(b) except for value of λ=1
(c) except for value of λ=0
(d) for all values of λ
19. The cardinality of the given set A = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5} B
a) 2
b) 5
c) 4
d) 1
20. If x is A then y is B else y is c then the relation R is equivalent to b
a) (A × B) + (B × C)
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b) A × B) ∪ (A × C)
c) (A × B) → (B × C)
d) (A × C) ∪ (B × C)
21. What are the applications of Fuzzy Inference Systems? d
a) Wireless services, heat control and printers
b) Restrict power usage, telephone lines and sort data
c) Simulink, boiler and CD recording
d) Automatic control, decision analysis and data classification
22. Fuzzy logic is a form of : c
a) Two valued logic
b) Crisp set logic
c) Many valued logic
d) Binary set logic
23. The main objective of fuzzy AHP is: d
a) To increase the ambiguity of human judgement
b) Eliminate the ambiguous and vagueness of the human judgement
c) Control human biasness
d) B and C
24. In triangular fuzzy number (l, m, u), what does ‘m’ represents: C
a) Smallest likely value
b) Most probable value
c) Largest possible value
d) None of the above
25. Which type of normalization method is used to eliminate the units of b
criteria in case of VIKOR analysis?
a) Vector normalization
b) Linear normalization
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c) Both A and B
d) None of the above
26. Fuzzy logic is a form of Answer: c
Explanation: With fuzzy
a) Two-valued logic logic set membership is
b) Crisp set logic defined by certain value.
c) Many-valued logic Hence it could have many
d) Binary set logic values to be in the set.

27. Traditional set theory is also known as Crisp Set theory. Answer: a
Explanation: Traditional set
a) True theory set membership is
b) False fixed or exact either the
member is in the set or not.
There is only two crisp
values true or false. In case
of fuzzy logic there are
many values. With weight
say x the member is in the
set.

3. The truth values of

traditional set theory is
____________ and that of
fuzzy set is __________

28. The truth values of traditional set theory is ____________ and that of Answer: a
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fuzzy set is __________ Explanation: Refer the

definition of Fuzzy set and
a) Either 0 or 1, between 0 & 1 Crisp set.
b) Between 0 & 1, either 0 or 1
c) Between 0 & 1, between 0 & 1
d) Either 0 or 1, either 0 or 1

29. How many types of random variables are available? Answer: c

Explanation: The three
a) 1 types of random variables
b) 2 are Boolean, discrete and
c) 3 continuous.
d) 4

30. The room temperature is hot. Here the hot (use of linguistic variable is Answer: a
used) can be represented by _______ . Explanation: Fuzzy logic
deals with linguistic
a) Fuzzy Set variables.
b) Crisp Set

31. The values of the set membership is represented by Answer: b

Explanation: Both
a) Discrete Set Probabilities and degree of
b) Degree of truth truth ranges between 0 – 1.
c) Probabilities
d) Both b & c
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32. What is meant by probability density function? d

a) Probability distributions
b) Continuous variable
c) Discrete variable
d) Probability distributions for Continuous variables

33. Which of the following is used for probability theory sentences? Answer: c
Explanation: The version of
a) Conditional logic probability theory we
b) Logic present uses an extension of
c) Extension of propositional logic propositional logic for its
d) None of the mentioned sentences.

34. Fuzzy Set theory defines fuzzy operators. Choose the fuzzy operators Answer: a, b, c
from the following. Explanation: The AND,
OR, and NOT operators of
a) AND Boolean logic exist in fuzzy
b) OR logic, usually defined as the
c) NOT minimum, maximum, and
d) EX-OR complement;

35. Fuzzy logic is usually represented as Answer: b

Explanation: Fuzzy set
a) IF-THEN-ELSE rules theory defines fuzzy
b) IF-THEN rules operators on fuzzy sets. The
c) Both a & b problem in applying this is
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d) None of the mentioned that the appropriate fuzzy

operator may not be known.
For this reason, fuzzy logic
usually uses IF-THEN rules,
or constructs that are
equivalent, such as fuzzy
associative matrices.
Rules are usually expressed
in the form:
IF variable IS property
THEN action

36. ______________ is/are the way/s to represent uncertainty. Answer: d

Explanation: Entropy is
a) Fuzzy Logic amount of uncertainty
b) Probability involved in data.
c) Entropy Represented by H(data).
d) All of the mentioned

37. ____________ are algorithms that learn from their more complex Answer: c
environments (hence eco) to generalize, approximate and simplify Explanation: Local
solution logic. structure is usually
associated with linear rather
a) Fuzzy Relational DB than exponential growth in
b) Ecorithms complexity
c) Fuzzy Set
d) None of the mentioned
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