dell d-ds-fn-23 practice test

Dell Data Science Foundations

Last exam update: Nov 18 ,2025
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Question 1

What is a key consideration when preparing a presentation intended for analysts?

  • A. Describe how to implement the model
  • B. Provide talking points to promote or evangelize the project
  • C. Emphasize the business benefits of implementing the model
  • D. Focus on clean simple-to-understand visuals
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Question 2

A logistic regression model is built to determine the probability of a credit card borrower defaulting
on a credit loan. A threshold value of 0.3 is selected. Which statement can be used to predict a
borrower will default?

  • A. If probability > 0.1, then predict the borrower will default
  • B. If probability < 0.1, then predict the borrower will default
  • C. If probability > 0.3, then predict the borrower will default
  • D. If probability < 0.3, then predict the borrower will default
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Question 3

What are the two data categories that represent qualitative data?

  • A. Ordinal and interval
  • B. Nominal and ordinal
  • C. Ratio and interval
  • D. Nominal and ratio
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Question 4

In hypothesis testing, when does a Type I error occur?

  • A. Null hypothesis is rejected when it is actually false
  • B. Null hypothesis is rejected when it is actually true
  • C. Null hypothesis is accepted when it is actually false
  • D. Null hypothesis is accepted when it is actually true
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Question 5

You have been given a task to improve sales force compensation of your organization. As a result of a
study, your team decides to classify personnel as follows:
● Did not meet quota
● Met quota
● Exceeded 150% of quota
In which data analytics lifecycle phase should you define these categories for analysis purposes?

  • A. Model building
  • B. Communicate results
  • C. Operationalize
  • D. Model planning
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Question 6

A decision tree is being built. An internal node is being evaluated for partitioning on variables A and
B. The entropy of the internal node is 0.8. The entropy for each of the variables is as follows:
● Variable A: 0.5
● Variable B: 0.4
Which variable will be used to partition the data and what is the information gain?

  • A. Variable B; information gain is 0.1
  • B. Variable B; information gain is 0.4
  • C. Variable A; information gain is 0.1
  • D. Variable A; information gain is 0.5
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Question 7

In association rules, given items X and Y, what does lift measure?

  • A. Percentage of transactions that contain an itemset with X
  • B. Percentage of transactions with Xthat also contain Y
  • C. Difference in the probability ofX and Y appearing together compared with expectations as if they were statistically independent
  • D. How many times more often X and Y occur together than expected if they were statistically independent, expressed as a ratio
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Question 8

What are categorized as cluster and workflow management tools for Hadoop?

  • A. Flume, Sqoop, and Storm
  • B. Drill, Hive, and HBase
  • C. Spark, Tez, and Cassandra
  • D. Ambari, Oozie, and Zookeeper
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Question 9

Consider the following text:
“Stop!” he shouted. “Don’t go there!”
What set of words result from using a tokenizer for punctuation on the text?

  • A. Stop, he, shouted, don. t. go. there
  • B. Stop, he shouted, don. t go there
  • C. Stop, he shouted, dpnt go there
  • D. Stop, he, shouted, dpnt. go. there
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Question 10

Which phase of the data analytic lifecycle includes conducting project sponsor interviews and
drafting a problem statement?

  • A. Operationalize
  • B. Model planning
  • C. Model building
  • D. Discovery
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Question 11

In time series analysis, what statement describes a MA(q) process?

  • A. Current deviation from the time series mean depends on the q previous deviations
  • B. Current deviation from the time series mean depends on the quotient q
  • C. Current time series value depends on the q previous values
  • D. Current time series value depends on the fitted polynomial of order q
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Question 12

After running a density plot you realize that the data has a long tail to the right. What can you do to
make the dataset more normally distributed?

  • A. Use a scatter plot to obtain a better picture
  • B. Use a histogram to obtain a better picture
  • C. Apply a square transformation
  • D. Apply a logarithmic transformation
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Question 13

Which R function plots a distribution of a single variable along two different axes?

  • A. table()
  • B. summaryQ
  • C. density ()
  • D. rug()
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Question 14

What action occurs during feature selection in the model building phase of the data analytics
lifecycle?

  • A. Create new combinations of attributes
  • B. Overfit the model to improve prediction accuracy
  • C. Identify the most useful input variables
  • D. Select a superset of variables to shorten training times
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Question 15

Which Hadoop service responds to requests for compute and memory resources?

  • A. Application Manager
  • B. DataNode
  • C. Scheduler
  • D. Application Master
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