Artificial Intelligence

(417)CLASS X

STUDENT SUPPORT MATERIAL

2024-2025

II

REKHA BAITHA
 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (SUBJECT CODE 417)
CLASS – X (SESSION 2024-2025)
Total Marks: 100 (Theory-50 + Practical-50)

NO. OF HOURS MAX. MARKS

UNITS for Theory and for Theory and
Practical Practical
Employability Skills
Unit 1: Communication Skills-II* 10 -
PART A

Unit 2: Self-Management Skills-II 10 3

Unit 3: ICT Skills-II 10 3
Unit 4: Entrepreneurial Skills-II 15 4
Unit 5: Green Skills-II* 05 -
Total 50 10
Subject Specific Skills Marks
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (AI) 10
PART B

AI Project Cycle 10
Natural Language Processing 10
Evaluation 10
Total 40
Practical Work:
 Advance Python
PART C

 Data Science
 Computer Vision
Practical Examination
35
Viva Voce
Total 35

Project Work / Field Visit / Practical File /

PART D

Student Portfolio 15
Viva Voce
Total 15

GRAND TOTAL 200 100

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 UNIT 1
Communication Skill:

Part 1: Communication & their types

Part 2: Communication Cycle
Part 3: Feedback in Communication
Part 4: Effective Communication
Part 5: Barriers in Communication
Part 6: Basic Writing Skills

Part 1: Communication & their types

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Communication:

Communication is the act of giving, receiving, and sharing information -- in other

words, talking or writing, and listening or reading. Good communicators listen carefully,
speak or write clearly, and respect different opinions.

Communication is defined as the imparting or exchanging of information by speaking,

writing, or using some other medium

Communication skills allow you to understand and be understood by others.

These can include but are not limited to effectively communicating ideas to others,
actively listening in conversations, giving, and receiving critical feedback and
public speaking.

Communication skills involve listening, speaking, observing, and empathising. It

is also helpful to understand the differences in how to communicate through face-
to-face interactions, phone conversations, and digital communications like email
and social media.
Or
Communication helps people to know each other better. It helps in removing
misunderstanding and certain meaning clarity of thought. Communication in any
form written, oral, formal informal, visual, interpersonal, intrapersonal help in
educating people and connecting them better.
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Types of Communication-:

Communication can be categorized into four basic types:

1. Verbal Communicatio n
2. Non Verbal Communicat ion
3. Visual Communic atio n
4. Written Communi catio n

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 1. Verbal Communication-:
Verbal communication is the use of sounds and words to express yourself,
especially in contrast to using gestures or mannerisms (non-verbal
communication). Example-: Orally communicating.

2. Non-verbal Communication-:
Nonverbal communication refers to gestures, facial expressions, tone of voice,
eye contact, (or lack thereof), body language, posture, and other ways people
can communicate without using language.

3. Visual Communication-:
Visual communication is the transmission of information and ideas using symbols
and imagery. Types of visual communication include animated GIFs, screenshots, videos,
pie charts, infographics, and slide deck presentations. It also includes signs, graphic
designs, films, typography, and countless other examples

4. Written Communication-:
A 'Written Communication' means the sending of messages, orders or
instructions in writing through letters, circulars, manuals, reports, telegrams,
office memos, bulletins, etc. It is a formal method of communication and is less
flexible.

Part 2: Communication Cycle

Communication Cycle

Communication is one of the most vital elements of society. People need people, and to
interact, it's essential they be able to convey messages and understand each other. The
communication cycle expresses how the system of conveying and understanding
messages operates.

Sender: the person or entity originating the communication.

Message: the information that the sender wishes to convey.
Encoding: how the sender chooses to bring the message into a form appropriate for
sending.
Channel: the means by which the message is sent.
Receiver: the person or entity to whom the message is sent.
Decoding: how the receiver interprets and understands the message.
Feedback: the receiver's response to the message.

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 In the communication process, one person is a sender who convey message to another
person or a group of persons) nose as the receiver. When the receiver gets the message,
he acknowledges it and sends back a response. This leads to a cycle process known as
the communication cycle. The cycle describe how can ideas, impression, or feeling is made
no to others full stopper communication cycle includes resource such as e-mail threads
social media outlets, VoIP message outlets. In the communication process, one person is
a sender who convey message to another person (or a group of persons) nose as the
receiver. When the receiver gets the message, he acknowledges it and sends back a
response. This leads to a cycle process known as the communication cycle.

Part 3: Feedback in Communication

Feedback in Communication
The term 'feedback' is taken from cybernetics, a branch of engineering concerned with
self-regulating systems.
The observation of the receiver's response is called feedback. In other words, the part
of the receiver's response communicated back to the sender is called feedback. Actually it
is the amount of response of the receiver that reaches to the sender. It enables the sender
to evaluate the effectiveness of the message.
In the communication process, feedback refers to a response from the receiver which gives
the communicator an idea of how the message is being received and whether it needs to
be modified.
Feedback ensures that the message has been successfully conveyed and the
communication is effectively successful.
Feedback is important in communication because it enables the sender to evaluate the
effectiveness of its message. Without feedback, the communication process would be
incomplete.

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 Importance of feedback in communication-:
1. It completes the whole process of communication and makes it continuous.
2. It sustains communication process.
3. It makes one know if one is really communication or making sense.
4. It is a basis for measuring the effectiveness of communication.
5. It is a good basis for planning on what next to be done especially statistical report.
6. Communication will be useless without feedback.
7. Feedback paves way for new idea generation.
8. It is a process of effective listening.
9. It serves as basis of problem-solving.
10. Can motivate.
11. It can improve performance.

“To be effective, feedback needs to be clear, purposeful, meaningful, and compatible with
students' prior knowledge and to provide logical connections” (Hattie & Timperley, 2007,
p. 104). Task specific – feedback requires learning context and therefore needs to be task
specific.

In order to be effective, feedback must be:

 Specific. Feedback must be concrete and relate to a specific, measurable performance
goal.
 Timely
 Appropriate
 Focus on behaviour, not personality
 Proactive
 Given using descriptive language
 Not given using judgmental language
 Based on accurate and credible information.

Types of Feedback-:

Feedback can be various form and of various types. Let us discuss different types of
feedback used in communication.

1. Formal and informal feedback

2. Descriptive and non-descriptive feedback
3. Specific and nonspecific feedback

Formal and informal feedback

Formal Feedback-:
A formal feedback follows a present format or structure using which the receiver friends
feedback and sends it. Formal feedback covers many predefined points and has a specific
blueprint. The receiver friends the feedback as per this blueprint and sends it. Formal
feedback takes time to construct and hence, is not instant.

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 Examples:

“Congratulations on scoring with A Grade in your final test performance. You are
promoted to your next class.”

“Please accept my apologies.”

Informal Feedback-:
Informal feedback, on the other hand, is spontaneously friendly and does not stick to a
specific structure such as instant comments by the listener or audience. It does not take
time to construct as it is immediately conveyed.

Examples:
"Good job! “, “Congratulations!” “Sorry”

2. Descriptive and non-descriptive feedback-:

Descriptive feedback:
A descriptive feedback on the contrary, provides meaningful information in a detailed,
expressive manner that also contains some analysis or suggestion etc.

Examples
“All paragraphs should cover basically on Idea. Only one paragraph was as per this
specification, other paragraphs convey multiple ideas and the information was also
cohesively linked.”

“In your article, the conclusion did not reiterate your observation and did not support the
evidence your article talks about. You need to rewrite the conclusion by keeping this thing
in mind.”

Non-descriptive feedback-:
A non-descriptive feedback provides some specific information but does not give details
descriptions. The feedback conveys meaningful specific response but does not come with
descriptive analysis or suggestions.

Examples
“I only like your second paragraph. Others needs improvement.”
“In your article, conclusion needs rework”

3. Specific and Non-specific Feedback:

Specific Feedback-:
The specific feedback talks about a thing, particularly without talking about a General
overview.
Example-:
“I like the way you described your grandfather's character. It makes me feel like I too know
him”.

“I like your portrayal of sibling rivalry, especially the part where you and your sister were
fighting. I fight with my brother too, so it made it sound real to me. your story seemed
related at all points.”

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 Non-specific Feedback-:
The Non-specific feedback, on the other hand, talks about the entire think while giving a
General overview. it does not particularly pinpoint is specific think/ feature.

Examples:
“I like your story. It is good.”
“I like it your topic of sibling rivalry.”

CHECK POINT :

Q1. Which of the following is NOT an element of communication within the

communication process cycle?

A) Channel

B) Receiver

C) Sender

D) Time

Q2. You need to apply for leave at work? Which method of communication will you
use?

A) e-mail

B) Poster

C) Newsletter

D) Blog

Q3 Which of the following is an example of oral communication?

A) Newspapers

B) Letters

C) Phone call

D) E-mail

Q4 Which of these are examples of negative feedback?

A) I hate to tell you this but your drawing skill is poor.

B) You can surely improve your drawing

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 C) These are good drawings but you can do better.

D) None of the above

Q5. What are the types of words we should use for verbal communication?

A) Acronyms

B) Simple

C) Technical

D) Jargons

Q6. Which of the following is an effective components of good feedback?

A) Detailed and time consuming

B) Indirect

C) Specific

D) Opinion-based

Q 7 Which of these are examples of positive feedback?

A) Excellent, your work has improved

B) I noticed your dedication towards the project.

C) You are always doing it the wrong way.

D) All of the above

Q8 Which of the following statement is true about communication?

A) 50% of our communication is non-verbal

B) 20% communication is done using body movements, face, arms, etc

C) 5% communication is done using voice, tone, pauses, etc.

D) 7% communication is done using words

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 Q9 Which of these is NOT an appropriate non-verbal communication at work?

A) Keeping hands in pockets while talking

B) Talking at moderate speed

C) Sitting straight

D) Tilting head a bit to listen

Q10 Which of these is a positive (good) facial expression?

A) Frowning while concentrating

B) Maintaining eye contact

C) Smiling continuously

D) Rolling up your eyes

Part 4: Effective Communication

EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION
Introduction:
Effective communication is a two way communication process where both parties have
right and convenience to express their messages opinions, facts and other informations.

Principles of Effective Communication:

 Clarity:-
Message conveyed should be in easily understandable language.

 Attention:-
The receiver should be fully attentive in a communication process.

 Consistency:-
This principle implies that communication should always be consistent with thE planned
objective of message being conveyed

 Adequacy:-
The information conveyed should be complete in all respects.

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  Timelines:-
The message conveyed should be at the proper time.

 Feedback:-
The communication must have feedback confirmation from the recipient whether the
messages have been understood by the recipient

 Economy:-
The communication should take place in a way that costs optimally.

7Cs of Effective Communication

 Clear: While communicating one should be clear about what he / she say.

 Concise: Use simple words and say only what is needed.

 Concrete: Your arguments should be based on solid facts and opinions from credible
sources and you should share reliable data to support your stand.

 Correct: It’s essential that along with the factual information, the language and grammar
you use are correct.
 Coherent: Your words should make sense .Along with that it should related with the main
topic
 Complete: Your message should be complete .It should have all the needed information
 Courteous: Be respectful , honest and friendly throughout your communication

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 Part 5: Barriers in Communication

Barriers in communication

 Linguistic Barrier: Language at times can be a barrier to effective communication

 Physical Barrier: If the surroundings do not support proper communication, it can also
act as a barrier to appropriate interaction.
 Cultural Barrier: Cultural differences hinder us from communicating properly.
 Interpersonal Barriers: It refers to the situations when the intended message is received
incorrectly due to many personal reasons.
 Organizational Barriers: In an organization if there is no clarity about the roles,
structures, responsibilities, it will hinder effective communication among the members of
the organization.
Measures to Overcome Barriers of communication
 Overcoming Lingual Factors: To overcome this one need to prepare appropriately. One
should carefully think about the language needs of the recipient.
 Overcoming Environmental Factors: Communicators should ensure that the message is
delivered in a distraction free environment.
 Overcoming Barrier of Cultural Influence: Preparation to be made keeping the culture of
the people you are addressing.
 Overcoming Interpersonal Barriers of Communication:
 Overcoming Organizational Barriers of Communication

Part 6: Basic Writing Skills

WRITING SKILLS
Writing skills are an important part of communication. Good writing skills allow you to
communicate your message with clarity and ease to a far larger audience than through
face-to-face or telephone conversations.

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SELF- MANAGEMENT SKILLS

Self-Management Skills
Def:- Self-management, which is also referred to as ‘self-control’ or ‘self-regulation’, is the
ability to regulate one’s emotions, thoughts, and behavior effectively in different situations.
This includes motivating oneself, and setting and working towards personal and academic
goals.
Domains of Self-Management Skills
i. Stress Management
ii.Self-Awareness
iii. Self-Motivation
iv. Set Goals
v. Time Management

Stress management: -
Managing stress is all about taking charge: taking charge of your thoughts, your emotions,
your schedule, your environment, and the way you deal with problems. The ultimate goal
is a balanced life, with time for work, relationships, relaxation, and fun – plus the resilience
to hold up under pressure and meet challenges head on.

Stress: -

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  Stress is a normal physical response to events that make you feel threatened or upset
your balance in some way.
 When you sense danger – whether it’s real or imagined – the body's defences kick into
high gear in a rapid, automatic process known as the ―"fight-or-flight" reaction, or the
stress response.
There can be two types of stress- good stress and bad stress.

Good Stress:
 Good stress helps us go about our daily tasks and achieve those hard-to-reach goals.
 This stress, called eustress, helps us learn new things, adapt to change and engage in
creative thinking.
 Everyone experiences good stress on a daily basis.
 Another form of good stress is the stress that enables us to survive in times of trauma.
 This stress makes us aware of danger and enables us to escape when we need to.
Bad Stress:
 Bad forms of stress do not help us achieve goals or tasks, but instead actually inhibit
our ability to function on a daily basis.
 Bad stress occurs when too much stress builds up around us.
 Once the body feels there is too much stress, it will begin to break down, causing
symptoms like perspiration, anxiety, headaches and rapid breathing.
 This kind of stress can take a huge toll on your physical and mental well-being.

Benefits / Importance / Needs of Stress Management

Here are the benefits that can be derived with practicing an efficient stress management
method:

 It improves your overall health status.

 You are able to assume a more positive attitude and outlook in life.
 It increases your productivity since you are able to focus clearly on your tasks.
 You have better control over your emotions and how you respond to it.
 And more importantly, you reduce or eliminate stress in your life.
 Improving mood.
 Boosting immune system.
 Improve thinking ability.

STRESS MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES

Stress Management techniques help to guide and empower individuals to maintain

equilibrium, stabilise their emotions, and live a productive life.

1. Keep a positive attitude.

2. Accept that there are events that you cannot control.
3. Be assertive instead of aggressive. Assert your feelings, opinions, or beliefs instead of
becoming angry, defensive, or passive.
4. Learn and practice relaxation techniques; try meditation, yoga, or tai-chi for stress
management.
5. Exercise regularly. Your body can fight stress better when it is fit.
6. Eat healthy, well-balanced meals.
7. Learn to manage your time more effectively.
8. Set limits appropriately and learn to say no to requests that would create excessive stress
in your life.

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 9. Make time for hobbies, interests, and relaxation.
10. Get enough rest and sleep. Your body needs time to recover from stressful events.
11. Seek out social support. Spend enough time with those you enjoy.
12. Seek treatment with a psychologist or other mental health professional trained in
stress management or biofeedback techniques to learn healthy ways of dealing with the
stress in your life.

Independent Working: -
Independent or self-directed learning is an important skill, whether you plan to continue
your studies after school or college or professionally.
Independent learning is when an individual is able to think, act and pursue their own
studies autonomously, without the same levels of support you receive from a teacher at
school.

To become a good independent learner you need to be:

 Motivated
 Resilient, to overcome challenges
 An excellent time manager
 Becoming self-aware, self-monitoring and self-correcting;
 Knowing what you need to do;
 Taking the initiative rather than waiting to be told what to do;
 Doing what is asked to the best of your ability, without the need for external
prodding, and working until the job is completed;
 Learning to work at a pace that you can sustain;
 Taking ownership of your mistakes without looking for excuses; and
 Refusing to let self-doubt or negative emotions due to negative past experiences
take you off course.

Advantages & Disadvantages of Working Independently

Advantages of Working Independently: -

 There’s Less Conflict
 You’re More Efficient
 You Can Enjoy a Challenge
 You’re in Charge
 You Take Full Credit

Disadvantages of Working Independently: -

 There’s Less Teamwork

 There’s Less Creativity
 You’ll Be More Stressed
 You’ll Get Bored
 You Take Full Responsibility

Characteristics for Independent Working / Self Reliant

 Self-awareness
 Self-motivation
 Self-regulation

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 Self-Awareness: -

 Self-awareness means searching for patterns in the manner we think about what
is taking place, how we can explain matters to ourselves, and also make sense of the
surroundings.
 Self-awareness implies comprehending our moods as well as emotions. Rather
than attempting to avoid how we are feeling, we perceive and even become interested in
our feelings, including the uncomfortable and tough ones.
 Self-awareness implies focusing on how we are prone to behave and act in
some particular circumstances. How are we going to respond to certain things? What
exactly are our tendencies and habits?

Some useful questions to think about in this regard are the following:
 What kind of science do you enjoy doing? Fundamental or applied?
 Do you enjoy working in the lab or in an office?
 Do you enjoy explaining your work? How? Orally? In Writing? Both?
 Do you like working with others as a member of a team or do you prefer to work by
yourself?
 Are you a good listener?
 Can you handle personal conflict?
 Do you prefer delving into a problem deeply?
 Do you see the "big picture"?
 Do you prefer to work on short term projects (6 months or less) or long term projects?
 Do you enjoy using instrumentation? What kinds?
 Do you enjoy using computers and/or software?
 Do you enjoy travel? Can you speak one or more foreign languages conversationally?
Can you read in another language?
 Are you self-motivated? Do you require external prompts in order to meet deadlines
and/or achieve results?

Types of Self awareness

1. Internal Self awareness

2. External Self awareness

Internal Self awareness

 Internal Self-awareness is about focusing on your inner values.

 The emotions, values, goals, aspirations, everything which we possess in our inner
feelings.
 Behaviours, thoughts, our weaknesses, and strength which help us present our
views and feel in a certain way. These things come under the category of internal
Self-awareness.
 Any self-aware person can introspect the inner values. This makes them aware of
their behaviours and emotions. One can even manage their feelings and control

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 them if they are aware of what bothers them. Be it any good or bad actions taken
by them that can recognize it very quickly.

External Self awareness

 External Self-awareness deals with our feelings and behaviour with others.
 It’s the ability to look at others.
 When we assume about a leader, she/he should be empathetic towards their
employees. It helps to build a healthy relationship.
 This awareness helps you decide what others think about you.
 If you can judge whether a person is happy with you or not, then you have better
external Self-awareness. It certainly makes a person more effective in paying
attention to others.

Self-Motivation: -
 Self-motivation is ability to do thinks on your own without being told to do so.
 Self-motivation is a glorious cycle of boosting self-confidence and self-esteem.
 Self-motivation definition, initiative to undertake or continue a task or activity without
another's prodding or supervision.

Self-regulation: -
Self-regulation is the ability to understand and manage your behaviour and your
reactions to feelings and things happening around you.

Multiple Choice Questions:

Q1. Stress is identified as a condition in which a person is ........

A) tensed
B) worried
C) relaxed
D) both (A) and (B)

Q2. What plays a major role in reaction to stress

A) Emotions
B) Personality
C) Confidence
D) None of these

Q3. The feeling of self-awareness enhances our........

A) Self-confidence
B) Self-monitoring
C) Self-Regulation
D) All of the above

Q4. The internal stress caused by ........

A) pent-up worries
B) laziness
C) survival stress
D) experiences

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 Q5. Physical exercise is used as a stress management technique because
A) It improves blood circulation
B) improves self-image
C) make us feel better
D) All of the above

Q6. Stress management prevents

A) psychological disorders
B) behavioural problems
C) both of the above
D) none of the above

Q7. Self-Reliance means

A) Ability to Work Independently
B) Complete the task effectively
C) Both of the above
D) None of the above

Q8 ........... is not a symptom of stress?

A) Increased sweating
B) Cold hands or feet
C) Dry mouth
D) None of these

Q9. Which of the following is not a kind of self-awareness?

A) Knowing your weaknesses
B) Knowing your relatives
C) Knowing your flaws
D) Knowing your strengths

Q10. Which of the following focuses on your ability to influence personal and
professional improvement based on your self-awareness and motivation?
A) Self-regulation
B) Self-awareness
C) Self-motivation
D) All of these
Answers:
Q1.D) Q2.B) Q3.A) Q4.A) Q5.D) 6.C) Q7.C)
Q8.D) Q9.B) Q10.A)

Answer the following questions(2 Marks)

1. What do you mean by Self-management?

Ans. Self-management, also referred to as ‘self-control,’ is the ability to control one’s

emotions, thoughts, and behaviour effectively in different situations.
2. Give any two examples where small amount of stress is helpful.
Ans. Two examples where small amount of stress is helpful are:
a. A fire alarm is intended to cause stress that alerts you to avoid danger.
b. The stress created by a deadline to finish a paper can motivate you to finish it on time.

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 3. Write the effects of stress on our life.

Ans. It can harm our emotional and physical health, and limit our ability to function well at
home, in school and within our relationships.

Answer the following questions(3Marks)

1. What is Stress?
Ans – Our emotional, mental, physical, and social responses to perceived demands or
threats are referred to as stress. Stressors are the pressures or threats that people face.
For example –
a. You’re only a few days away from your examinations, yet you’re feeling unprepared.
b. you are experiencing a loss of someone close in the family.
c. You’re concerned about what others will think of you if you don’t dress properly or speak
confidently.
d. you are stressed due to lack of sleep.

2. How can you identify your Strengths and Weaknesses?

Ans-The techniques for identifying our strengths and weaknesses are –
Finding Strengths
 Think of anything that you are always successful at.
 Think about what others like in you.
 Take out time and think about what you do well
Finding Weaknesses
 Point out the areas where you struggle and the things you find difficult to do.
 Look at the feedback others usually give you.
 Be open to feedback and accept your weaknesses without feeling low about it.

3. Explain the importance of Stress Management.

Ans:- Stress management is important as:
 It allows a person to react positively in stressful situations.
 It provides ways to measure the different levels of stress so that the inflicted person can
resort to self-help or seek help from a professional.
 It helps to identify distinct stressors, which can either be good or bad. They can be self-
induced or be triggered due to external situations. They can be categorised as: Positive
stressors, Dangerous stressors (leads to stressful situations), irrelevant stressors.

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ICT SKILLS

TYPES OF OPERATING SYSTEMS

An Operating System (OS) is an interface between a computer user and computer
hardware. An operating system is a software which performs all the basic tasks like file
management, memory management, process management, handling input and output,
and controlling peripheral devices such as disk drives and printers. Some popular
operating systems are,

• DOS (Disk Operating System) • Windows It is an operating system developed by

Microsoft.
• Linux It is an operating system designed for personal computers. It is a free and open-
source software
• Mobile operating Systems
✓ Android
✓ Symbian
✓ Windows Phone
✓ iOS

Following are some of important functions of an operating System.

 Memory Management
 Processor Management
 Device Management
 File Management
 Security
 Control over system performance
 Job accounting
 Error detecting aids
 Coordination between other software and users

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 The different types of operating systems are as follows:
Interactive (GUI-based) A graphical user interface is a user-friendly operating system in
which commands can be entered by clicking/double-clicking/right-clicking a mouse.
Windows operating system is an example of an interactive operating system.

Single-user, single-task operating system: This type of operating system allows only
one user to do a task on the computer and one thing at a time.
Single-user, multi-task operating system: This type of operating system is used on
Desktop computers, laptops, where a single user can operate on several programs at the
same time. For example, Windows, Apple MacOS are examples of single-user multi task
operating system.

Multi-user A multi-user operating system enables multiple users to work on the same
computer at different times or simultaneously.

Real Time A real time operating system is used to control machinery, scientific
instruments, like robots, in complex animations and computer controlled automated
machines. A real-time operating system is a computing environment that reacts to input
within a specific period of time. It manages the resources of the computer so that any
particular operation is executed in the same amount of time every time it is executed.
Windows CE and Lynx OS are examples of real-time operating systems.

Distributed A distributed operating system runs on a set of computers that are

interconnected by a network. It combines the different computers in the network into a
single integrated computer and storage location. Windows, UNIX, and LINUX are
examples of distributed operating systems.
Windows 7 operating system

Windows 7 is an operating system developed by Microsoft and is used on personal

computers.
After loading Windows 7, the first screen that appears on the monitor is called desktop.
From the desktop, you can access different components of Windows 7.
By default, Windows 7 has a picture for the desktop background. This is called
wallpaper.
Small pictures on the desktop are called icons. These icons represent files, folders,

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 applications, etc. At the bottom of the desktop is a long bar called the Taskbar. To the left
of the taskbar is the Start button.

Components of Windows 7 Desktop

The components of Windows 7 Desktop are shown in figure 1.

Figure 1

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 Computer :
It displays all the storage areas of the computer . Through the Computer icon, you can access all
drives, files, and folders on the computer. When you double-click Computer icon, a window shown
below in Figure 2 appears on the screen.

Fig 2 Computer Window

Taskbar

Taskbar is the long horizontal bar present at the bottom of the screen. To left of the Taskbar is the
Start button and to the right appears Date/Time. You can also see icons of active applications and
some shortcuts on the Taskbar

The main components of Taskbar are shown in the following figure 3:

Fig 3 Taskbar
Start button it is located on the left of the taskbar. Clicking the Start button (Figure 4) opens the
Start menu and provides access to programs and features, like:
Shut Down: - allows the user to turn off the computer
All Programs: - Provides access to all the installed programs and applications. To start an
application, just click it.
Search Box: - This allows the user to search a file or a folder or run executable files. Control

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 panel: - This allows the user to change various settings.
Recycle Bin Files and folders deleted by the user are stored in the Recycle Bin. From Recycle
Bin, you can retrieve files or folders deleted by mistake.

Fig 4 Start button

File Concept, File Operations, File Organization, Directory Structures And File-
System Structures
Everything you store on your computer is stored in the form of a file. There are specific naming
conventions for naming files or folders, like characters that can be used, maximum number of
characters, etc. Files can be separately placed into groups, called folders/directories. Each
directory/folder can contain related files and/or sub-folders

The steps to create a new folder are:

1. Double-click the Computer icon.

2. Select the drive in which you want to create a new folder. Say, Local Disk D:.
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3. Window will open up showing files and folders in Local Disc D: Click New Folder on the toolbar.

4. A new folder is created with name New Folder highlighted

5. Type a name for the folder

To create a new file:

1. Right-click anywhere in the blank area of the right-column.

2. In the Shortcut menu, click New and select the type of the file you want to create.

To rename a file or a folder:

1. Right-click the file or the folder.

2. From the shortcut menu, select Rename option

3. Type the new name or edit the existing name and press the Enter key.

Or Just select the file/folder and press Function key F2.

To copy a folder or directory

You can copy a file or a folder in any one of the following ways:

1. Shortcut menu:

a. Right-click the file or the folder you want to copy.

b. Select Copy option from the Shortcut menu.

c. Select the drive or the folder where you want to make a copy of the selected file or folder.

d. Right-click and select Paste option from the Shortcut menu.

2. Drag and Drop method:

To copy a file or a folder, hold down the Ctrl key while dragging it to the new location.

3. Using Keyboard:

a. Select the file or the folder.

b. Press Ctrl + C to copy the file or the folder.

c. Open the destination folder.

d. Press Ctrl + V to paste the copied file.

To Move Files and folders

You can move a file or a folder in any one of the following ways:

1. Shortcut menu:

a. Right-click the file or the folder you want to copy.

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b. Select Cut option from the Shortcut menu.

c. Select the drive or the folder where you want to move the selected file or folder.

d. Right-click and select Paste option from the Shortcut menu.

2. Drag and Drop method: To copy a file or a folder, select the file and drag it to a new location.

3. Using Keyboard:

a. Select the file or the folder.

b. Press Ctrl + X to cut the file or the folder.

c. Open the destination folder.

d. Press Ctrl + V to paste the copied file.

To permanently delete Files

You can permanently delete the contents of the Recycle Bin in any one of the following ways:

Right-click the Recycle Bin icon and then click Empty Recycle Bin

OR

1. Double-click the Recycle Bin icon.

2. The Recycle Bin window appears.

3. Click Empty the Recycle Bin.

To restore the files and folders

To recover a file from the Recycle Bin, right-click the file, and then click Restore.

Or

Select the file and click Restore this item

CARE AND MAINTENANCE OF COMPUTER

Regular maintenance of the computer system is very important.

Some of the maintenance activities are:

• Keep the components of the computer, like keyboard, mouse, monitor, etc. clean.

• Replace hardware that is not functioning properly

• Keep food items away from the computer

• Cables and chords should not be messed up

• Removing unauthorized software from the computer

• Take regular backup of the data

• Ensure backups are working properly by periodically restoring or checking of data. You should
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use external hard drive for backup of data on your computer.

• Run anti-virus periodically

• Keep anti-virus software up to date

• Do not overcharge the batteries

• Do not block the vents

• Always shut down the computer properly

How to take

Measures to protect Computer

Regular scans should be done to check for viruses, malware, etc.

An effective antivirus software should be installed in your computer.

Always keep your anti-virus software updated so that it can detect new viruses. Full system scan
should be done to periodically, preferably weekly to scan for viruses.

A regular disk defragmentation should be done to remove all unnecessary information that slows
down the computer.

Disk defragmentation done at regular intervals helps the disc space to be used at an optimal level.

Take regular backup of the data on your computer. In case the data is lost due to any reason,
system failure, virus attack, etc., you can easily retrieve your data using backup files till your last
update.

System should be upgraded with new updates that were not there at the time of purchase, like,
increasing RAM, to improve the performance. Also storage space should also be increased for
storage of more information.

If you are getting some disc errors, then make sure that temporary internet files are deleted from
time to time.

Software’s should be updated regularly so that it works with maximum efficiency.

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 QUESTIONS-1 MARK
1 Here are the steps that take place when starting a computer. Rearrange the steps 1
in the correct order. i) Desktop appears after login ii) Login screen appears iii) Power
on Self-Test (POST) starts iv) Operating system starts v) Welcome screen appears
a) i) -> ii) -> iii) -> iv) -> v)
b) ii) -> iv) -> iii) -> v) -> i)
c) iii) -> iv) -> v) -> ii) -> i)
d) iii) -> v) -> iv) -> ii) -> i)
2 Which one of the following is an example of Operating System? 1
a) Microsoft Word
b) Microsoft Windows
c) Microsoft Excel
d) Microsoft Access
3 Given below are the steps to make a copy of folder ‘D:\Myfolder’ in ‘C:\Documents’. 1
Rearrange the steps in the correct order.
(i) Right click anywhere in the folder and select Paste option from the
shortcut menu or use Ctrl+V keyboard keys.
(ii) Select the C: drive and locate Documents folder.
(iii) Right click on Myfolder and select Paste option from the shortcut menu or
use Ctrl+C keyboard keys.
(iv) (iv) Select the D: drive and locate Myfolder.
(a) (iii) -> (i) -> (ii) -> (iv)
(b) (iv) -> (ii) -> (iii) -> (i)
(c) (iv) -> (iii) -> (ii) -> (i)
(d) (i) -> (ii) -> (iii) -> (iv)
4 Which of the following is not an example of Antivirus software? 1
(i) McAfee (ii) Norton (iii) Disk Clean-up (iv) Kaspersky
5 Given below are the components of the taskbar in Windows 7. Rearrange the icons 1
from left to right of the taskbar. (a)Date/Time (b) Start Button (c) Notification Area
(d) File Explorer
(i) (c) -> (a) -> (b) -> (d) (ii) (b) -> (d) -> (c) -> (a) (iii) (d) -> (c) -> (b) -> (a) (iv) (a) ->
(b) -> (c) -> (d)
6 Which of the following is not a symptom of a computer affected with virus? 1
(i) Computer stops responding (ii) Computer restarts on its own (iii) Computer can’t
open a permanently deleted file (iv) Computer runs very slowly

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7 The cleaning of software installed in the computer cannot be achieved by 1
.
a) Disk clean-up b) backup c) Cleaning CPU cabinet d) Installing antivirus software
8 Which of the following will you opt for saving a file? 1
(a) save button on standard toolbar
(b) save option from file menu
(c) pressing Ctrl+S
(d) any of the above
9 is leakage of information stored in a computer. 1

Ans. Security break

10 Picture for the desktop background is called …………… 1
Ans: wall paper
11 ICT Stands for . 1
a. Inform and Communicate technology
b. Information and Communication technology
c. Inform and Communication technology
d. Information and Communicate technology
12 ICT Skills help us to , run our business and stay connected 1
with our family and friends.
a. Communicate
b. Entertainment
c. Both a) and b)
d. None of the above
13 The most important software in any computer is the . 1
a. Operating System
b. Antivirus
c. Office Package
d. Photo Editing Software
14 Mobile devices also have an operating system like . 1
a. Apple iOS
b. Android
c. Both a) and b)
d. None of the above
15 helps the computer to close all the applications, Operating system 1
and turn off the computer.
a. Sleep
b. Shut down
c. Hibernate
d. None of the above

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16 Which one of the following shortcut keys is used to paste a file? 1
a. Ctrl + c
b. Ctrl + p
c. Ctrl + v
d. Ctrl + x
17 What are the best options for caring for computer devices? 1
a. Keeping a Device Clean
b. Prepare a Maintenance Schedule
c. Do not overcharge your battery
d. All of the above

18 To clean the computer from the virus we required . 1

a. Antivirus
b. Office Package
c. Photoshop
d. Operating System

19 If we are using a computer for a long time we have to unnecessary 1

files and data from the computer.
a. Delete
b. Save
c. Backup
d. None of the above

20 Sometimes we get mails from companies who are advertising a product or trying to 1
attract you to their website. Such mails are called .
a. Trash
b. Inbox
c. Spam
d. None of the above

21 What happens if you keep a device plugged in after it has been fully charged? 1
a. It can break.
b. It can overheat.
c. It can stop functioning.
d. Data can get corrupt.

22 What role does antivirus play in protecting your device? 1

a. It can increase its performance.
b. It can protect it from overheating.
c. It can prevent data from getting corrupt.
d. It can backup data.

23 Which option does not need to be enabled in order to keep a device cool? 1
a. Make sure the computer’s CPU fan is working.
b. Keep the device unplugged when in use.
c. Do not cover a laptop with a blanket.
d. Avoid leaving the device in the sun.

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24 Which of the following is required for keyboard maintenance? 1
a. Use a very dilute combination of soap and water applied with a non-abrasive
cloth to remove stains from the keycaps.
b. Turn the keyboard upside down and shake it to remove foreign material.
c. Blow dust and other particles with the help of a blower.
d. All of the above.

25 What do you mean by Threats . 1

a. Theft
b. Virus
c. Both a) and b)
d. None of the above

26 If someone steals your desktop computer or laptop, it is referred to as 1

theft.
a. Physical
b. Identity
c. Software Piracy
d. None of the above

27 When a hacker takes your personal information and assumes your identity, this is 1
referred to as theft.
a. Physical
b. Identity
c. Software Piracy
d. None of the above

28 are persons who try to attract you into inappropriate relationships. 1

a. Trojan House
b. Online Predator
c. Theft
d. None of the above

29 Sometimes you may receive very attractive offers saying you have won a huge 1
amount of money in a lottery and that you can claim the prize by depositing a
certain amount of money known as .
a. Trojan House
b. Online Predator
c. Theft
d. Internet Scams

30 We can check secure websites using . 1

a. http://
b. https://
c. Www
d. None of the above

DESCRIPTIVE QUESTIONS

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1 What do you mean by Operating System? 1

Ans. Operating System: It is a software that acts as an interface between the user
and the computer.
2 Give two examples of mobile operating system. 2

Ans. Two examples of mobile operating system :

a. Apple iOS
b. Google Android
3 Name two operating systems for laptops or desktop. 2

Ans. Two operating systems for laptops or desktop are:

a. Ubuntu
b. Microsoft Windows
4 Identify me 5

a. I am a physical part of computer.

b. I am a collection of instruction doing specific task.
c. I am the software that starts working as soon as we switch on a computer.
d. I am an input device used to type text, numbers etc
e. I am a small device that you can use to move, select and open items on your
computer screen.
Ans.
a. Hardware
b. Software
c. Operating System
d. Keyboard
e. Mouse
5 Differentiate between files and folder. 2

Ans.

File Folder

A location where a group of

A place where information is stored in
files can
computer.
be stored.

It has a name and extension both It has only name.

6 Write the extension for the following. 3

a. A Notepad file

b. A Sound File

c. An image file

Ans. Extensions are

a. .txt

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 b. .mp3
c. .jpg
7 Write the steps to create folder on desktop? 1

Ans. The steps to create folder on desktop are:

1. Right-click on desktop and then choose the ‘New Folder’.
2. Type the name of the folder.
8 Write the shortcut command for the following. 3

a. Cut

b. Copy

c. Paste

Ans. Shortcut commands are:

a. Cut ———– Ctrl + X
b. Copy ———– Ctrl + C
c. Paste ———– Ctrl + V

9 What do you mean by Data Backup? 1

Ans. Backing up data means to save the information present on your computer on
another device, such as CD/DVD drives or hard disk.

10 What do you mean by Spam? 1

Ans. We get mails from companies who are advertising a product or trying to
attract you to their website. Such mails are called Spam.

11 How can you increase the performance of a computer? 2

Ans. We can increase the performance of a computer by

a. Using an updated Antivirus Software
b. Removing unnecessary files and data, such as temporary files and images.

12 What do you mean by Virus? 1

Ans. Viruses are computer programs that can damage the data and software
programs or steal the information stored on a computer.
13 Name two types of Virus. 2

Ans. Worms and Trojan Horse

14 Write few tips to protect your data from online theft and viruses. 2

Ans. Few tips to protect our data from online theft and viruses are:
a. Use passwords to login to your computer:
b. Install Anti-virus and Firewall:
c. Use Data Encryption
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 d. Give details of your credit card or bank account only on secure sites
15 What do you mean by threats to Computer? 1

Ans. Threats are the ways in which personal information can be leaked from a
computer without our knowing.
16 List the various threats to a computer and its data. 2

Ans. The various threats to a computer and its data are:

1 Virus
2. Phishing
3. Online theft
4. Cyber crime
17 What is ‘s’ in “https”? 1

Ans. ‘s’ stands for secure.

Answers(Objective questions – 1 mark)

1 c) iii) -> iv) -> v) -> ii) -> i)
2 b) Microsoft Windows
3 (c) (iv) -> (iii) -> (ii) -> (i)
4 (iii) Disk Cleanup
5 (ii) (b) -> (d) -> (c) -> (a)
6 (iii) Computer can’t open a permanently deleted file
7 c) Cleaning CPU cabinet
8 (d) any of the above
9 Security break
10 wall paper
11 b. Information and Communication technology
12 a. Communicate
13 a. Operating System
14 c. Both a) and b)
15 b. Shut down
16 c. Ctrl + v
17 d. All of the above

18 a. Antivirus

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19 a. Delete

20 c. Spam

21 b. It can overheat.

22 c. It can prevent data from getting corrupt.

23 b. Keep the device unplugged when in use.

24 d. All of the above.

25 c. Both a) and b)

26 a. Physical

27 b. Identity

28 b. Online Predator

29 d. Internet Scams

30 b. https://

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 UNIT 4
Entrepreneurial Skill

An entrepreneur is an individual or a team, having an innovative idea, and takes every step to turn
the idea into reality, while bearing the risks. Entrepreneurship is the process of setting up a
business, taking it from an idea to realization. Entrepreneurship is the ability and readiness to
develop, organize, and run a business enterprise, along with any of its uncertainties in order to
make a profit.

Entrepreneurship and society

Entrepreneurship is simply described as starting a business using the resources available to a

person. An entrepreneur combines factors in a creative manner in order to generate value for
customers and create wealth.

Society is described as an aggregate of people living together in a community, who associate for
various engagements including business.

Entrepreneurship is the attitude of mind to seek opportunities, take calculated risks and derive
benefits by setting up a venture. It comprises of numerous activities involved in conception,
creation, and running an enterprise.

The beauty of entrepreneurship in a society is that as businesses prosper the impact the
businesses create also increases. It is due to entrepreneurial activity that the society is provided
with goods and services. In turn, society provides market for products and services provided by the
entrepreneur.

Positive impact of entrepreneurship on society:

• Accentuates economic Growth

• Fosters Creativity

• Stimulates Innovation and Efficiency

• Creates Jobs and Employment Opportunities

• Solves the problems of the society

• Encourages welfare of the society

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Role of society in boosting entrepreneurship:

● Creates needs and demands

● Provides raw materials
● Enables financial support
● Creates a need for education
● Catalyses policy formation and reform
● Facilitates networking
● Supports infrastructure development

Entrepreneurship also creates some adverse impact on society at times like:

 environmental degradation
 trade imbalance
 labour exploitation etc.

Common entrepreneurship activities related to society:

Social Entrepreneurship:
Social entrepreneurship can be understood as creation of sustainable solutions for social problems
that leads to social change by employing entrepreneurial mind-set, processes and operations.
In social entrepreneurship research is conducted to completely define a specific and core social
problem. Many social problems are tackled by social entrepreneurs such as low reach of quality
education, health and sanitation, unemployment, child labour etc.
Agricultural Entrepreneurship: Agricultural Entrepreneurship can be defined as being primarily
related to the marketing and production of inputs and products used in agricultural activities.
Farmers have benefited the most with rise in agricultural entrepreneurship as it has led to low-cost
innovations in farming processes.
Women Entrepreneurship: Women entrepreneurship is referred to the entrepreneurial activity led
by women, where women undertake risks, create enterprises, organise factors of production,
innovate with products/services, and generate employment opportunities.
Government of India has defined women entrepreneurship as “an enterprise owned and controlled
by a woman having a minimum financial interest of 51 per cent of the capital and giving at least 51
per cent of the employment generated in the enterprise to women.”
Small Scale Entrepreneurship: Small scale entrepreneurship refers to starting industries in which
manufacturing, trading, providing services, productions are done on a small scale or micro scale.
These businesses serve as the backbone of many developing countries.

Qualities of an Entrepreneur
The qualities of an Entrepreneur are the key value to success. They play the role to guide the
person to achieve his/her goal. Some qualities of an Entrepreneur are stated below:

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 QUALITIES OF
AN
ENTREPRENEU
R

OPTIMISM HARD WORK

INDEPENDENCE ENERGETIC

SELF
CONFIDENT PERSEVERANT

Hard work: Entrepreneur work hard to be successful. Entrepreneurs use a lot of trial and error and
keep putting in work till they succeed.

Optimism: Positivity and belief in what they do is what takes entrepreneurs far in their journey.
Entrepreneurs should not think negatively or be afraid of adverse situations. For an entrepreneur,
part of being optimistic is about learning from mistakes and failures and finding alternative ways to
do things.

Independence: Entrepreneurs prefer to be their own master and not work under someone else.
Entrepreneurs like the independence to drive a business on their own.

Energetic: Drive and energy is always high in successful entrepreneurs which makes them
extremely proactive. They are continuously taking actions to try multiple approaches and execute
things.

Self-confident: Belief in one’s own vision and abilities and passion for the goal makes successful
entrepreneurs confident. Entrepreneurs are able to transfer this passion and vision to investors,
employees, customers etc. to sell their idea to every stakeholder.

Perseverant: A way of thinking that helps to accept failure, learn from mistakes, not give up,
continuously experiment etc. is crucial for an entrepreneur. Hence, entrepreneurs need to be
perseverant in their pursuit.

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Functions of an Entrepreneur

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Entrepreneurial functions

Organisation Building and Management:

● Organisation building is about bringing together different factors of production and
allocating these resources to bring down costs and losses.
● All decisions relating to an enterprise are taken by the entrepreneur.
● An entrepreneur builds the organization by taking various steps such as hiring employees,
organizing the factors of production, sourcing finance etc.

Risk taking:
● Risk taking is about taking responsibility and planning for a loss or mishap that may occur
in the future due to unforeseen contingencies.
● Some common risks entrepreneurs take are around return on investment, hiring of new
employees, working with vendors etc.
● An entrepreneur plays the function of developing a certain risk-taking appetite and taking
calculative risks to reduce adverse consequences.

Innovation:
● Entrepreneurs innovate by introducing new concepts, products, services, designs, ideas
etc.
● They may introduce something new and innovative in any branch of economic activity.
● An entrepreneur foresees a potentially profitable opportunity and innovates in the effort to
exploit it.

Promotional functions
Idea Discovery:
● The first step towards entrepreneurship is discovery of a business idea.
● An entrepreneur comes up with a business idea and thinks about ways to implement it.
● It is about seeking opportunities for a specific type of business and finding ways to
commercialise it.
● Usually, entrepreneurs work around the process of idea discovery by exploiting natural
resources, finding a market need or calculating the profit potential.

Detailed Investigation:
● While coming up with ideas can seem like an easy process, the challenge is to understand
if the idea has the potential to turn into a viable business venture.
● For this, an entrepreneur conducts research, investigates and evaluates an idea
considering various factors and estimates the total demand for a new product or service.
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Assembling the Requirements:
● Some basic business requirements include infrastructure or office space, human
resources, key vendors or partners, working capital etc.
● In a manufacturing or product-based business, some requirements are selecting the
factory site, sourcing plant and machinery, hiring staff, finding the right suppliers etc.
● No matter what is the type of the business, an entrepreneur has to work towards
assembling and organising all the requirements once he/she is sure about the practicality
and profitability of the proposition.
● Once this function is performed, the project is set to start smoothly.

Financing:

● Raising capital for a business is one of the core functions that entrepreneurs perform
themselves, not just at the initial stage of the business, but even to grow and scale the
business.
● First, the requirements of finances are estimated. Next, the sources from which capital will
come are determined.
● This includes calculating the long-term and short-term financial requirements and
considering the debt equity ratio.

Managerial functions
Planning
●An entrepreneur documents a business idea in the form of a business plan, to detail each
element of the business such as product or service description, operations, marketing,
finance, accounting, growth plan etc.
● A business plan serves as a guide to determine the business objectives and the course of
action.
● It helps to detail the “what, when, how and who” of doing every specific task.
Organizing
● Organizing in the managerial context refers to setting specific and attainable goals and
objectives to be achieved by different departments and by each employee.
● It is about arranging, directing, guiding, coordinating, and controlling the key business
activities

Directing
● Directing is about initiating planned action and ensuring that each employee is performing
effectively.
● This also includes doing continuous performance reviews and organizing tasks according
to plans.

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Staffing
● Staffing refers to different sub-processes around human resource management, such as
manpower planning, recruitment, selection, placement, training, transfer, salary,
promotion, payroll, appraisal, etc.
● The objective of staffing is to fill a particular position with the right employee at the right
time.

Leadership
● Leadership is more of a skill than a function for an entrepreneur as he or she has to lead,
guide and supervise people who work for the business.
● It is the process by which an entrepreneur directs, guides and influences the work of
others in choosing and attaining specified goals by mediating between the individual and
organization in such a manner that both get maximum satisfaction.

Communication
● An entrepreneur has to communicate every single day, in the form of writing, responding,
drafting emails, verbal instruction, discussion, etc.
● Entrepreneurs spend 75% to 90% of their working time communicating with others.
● It refers to the exchange of ideas, feelings, emotions, knowledge, and information between
two or more persons.
● Nothing happens in management until effective communication takes place.

Supervision
● After issuing instructions, the entrepreneur has to see that the given instructions are
carried out.
● Supervision refers to the job of overseeing subordinates at work to ensure the maximum
utilization of resources, to get the required and directed work done, to correct the
subordinates whenever they go wrong, and ensure each function of the business runs
smoothly.

Motivation
● Along with guiding employees, an entrepreneur also plays the role of motivating them and
encouraging positive behavior and culture within the organization.
● Motivating employees is about creating an urge in them to exhibit the desired behavior and
positive attitude towards work.
● Employees with high motivation automatically do other things along with it to perform
successfully, such as being productive, flexible, competitive, comprehensive, efficient, etc.

Co-ordination
● Coordination between different departments of the business helps to ensure that work
happens in a timely manner.
● Activities of all employees must be channelized towards goal achievement.
● An entrepreneur has to set certain targets, measures, goals, etc.
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 ● With different departments to ensure all are coordinating and working effectively internally
as well.

Controlling
● Sometimes controlling is necessary for the entrepreneur to set company rules and
policies.
● The controlling function helps the entrepreneur to set performance standards, measure
and compare productivity and performance, identify variations, take corrective action, etc.

Negotiation
● An entrepreneur negotiates terms and conditions for many parts of the business such as
payment terms and timelines, salaries of employees, vendor quotations, etc.

Commercial Functions

Production and Operations

● Depending on whether it is a service business or product business, an entrepreneur has to
perform the function of managing production or operations.
● For a manufacturing business, production-related activities include sourcing raw materials,
checking the functioning of machinery, utilizing maximum capacity, meeting order
requirements, etc.

Finance and Accounting

● While finance is more focused on raising funds and managing them, accounting helps to
record and analyze the financial position of the business.
● Thus, an entrepreneur has to prepare and analyze cash flow statements, income sheets,
balance sheets, etc.

Marketing
● Marketing is about moving the product or service from the producer into the hands of the
end customer or user.
● It involves promotion, advertising, distribution, customer service, etc
● An entrepreneur has to perform this function to make people aware of the offerings of the
business and makes sales.

Human Resource Management

● Human Resource Management (HRM) refers to the recruitment, employment, selection,
training, development, and compensation of the employees within an organization.
● An entrepreneur performs this function as no business can function without people.

Role of entrepreneurs:

Innovator’s Role
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Entrepreneurs innovate by bringing unique and new products and services into the market.
Innovation in the industry results in higher production efficiency which has led to an increase in
employment and income levels.

Agent’s role

Entrepreneurs are perceived as ‘Agents of Change’. They identify the opportunities, establish
enterprises, and build up industries which in turn lead to the overall development of the economy.

Coordinating role

An entrepreneur has to coordinate the various factors for production. It involves the selection of the
best possible combination of factors.

Risk assumption role

The fruit of bearing risks can be profit, which leads to wealth generation for the overall economy.
Entrepreneurs retain some amount of the profits earned and put it back into the business.
Therefore, by assuming risk entrepreneurs contribute to the economy.

Capital formation role

Entrepreneurs enable the formation of capital by mobilizing idle savings for the purpose of carrying
on the business. This mobilization of capital leads to the development of assets, trade activities,
an increase in capital availability, and economic development.

Imitating role

In developing nations, entrepreneurs usually imitate or adopt the innovations done by the
entrepreneurs of the developed nations. These innovations are adapted according to the local
needs and conditions and work towards overcoming entrepreneurial challenges.

Employment Generation role

The establishment of business enterprises leads to the generation of employment opportunities as

various human resource professionals are needed to run the business effectively. Hence,
entrepreneurship solves the problem of unemployment, which is a major problem in economic
development.

Status transformation role

Entrepreneurs generate employment, income, and wealth which improves the overall standard of
living in society. Improved standard of living leads to economic development as it reduces the
disparity in income.

Balancing role

Entrepreneurship is encouraged with small and micro enterprises and small-scale industries as
well. This encourages regional development and removes development imbalances in the
economy
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IMPORTANCE OF AN ENTREPRENEUR

Free market evolution

● Entrepreneurs are important in a free market because they help the market respond to
changing prices and consumer preferences.
● Entrepreneurs bring change in technology, trends, and markets.
● For example, with an increase in digital services, entrepreneurs have created companies
that offer many home delivery services such as groceries, restaurant food, clothes,
accessories, etc.

Efficiency improvements
● A successful entrepreneur tends to adapt to an established business and increase their
own efficiency.
● They innovate with current systems and introduce new technologies which can
significantly create advancement in the industry.
● Hence, during any major changes in the economy, entrepreneurs adapt and do not have
to go out of business.

New markets
● Entrepreneurs can often ‘redefine the rules’ of an established industry.
● They do this by creating new markets for existing products and slightly innovating in small
ways to suit the needs of a new target market.

New values
● Sometimes, entrepreneurs choose ethics over profit and offer a more ethical product to the
world, and are transparent about it.
● For example, Jaipur Rugs has multiple artisans who work towards making rugs that are
sold around the world.
● However, Jaipur rugs are very transparent about their artisan community and they ensure
that artisans are given a fair share of profit.

MYTH ABOUT ENTREPRENEURSHIP

a) Entrepreneurs are born, not made: It is an assumption that entrepreneurial qualities are
inborn and that only people with certain natural talents can become entrepreneurs. This is a myth
and research had established that almost anyone can be an entrepreneur with the right skills,
drive and passion.

b) It takes a lot of money to start a business: While certain amount of capital is required for
take a business off the ground, it varies depending on the business. The key in entrepreneurship
is to start with resources available and grow slowly and steadily

c) Entrepreneurs take risk: While entrepreneurs definitely have to bear some risks, they do not
necessarily put themselves in high-risk situations. Entrepreneurs take calculated risks and weigh
risk versus reward.

d) Businesses either skyrocket or fail

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 e) Great ideas are what makes entrepreneurs: People who are able to execute the idea and
turn it into a business are referred to as entrepreneurial. Entrepreneurs do not necessarily
reinvent the wheel. Many times, they take existing ideas to make a business out of it.

f) One must know everything before starting a business: Entrepreneurs continuously thrive to
be in a constant state of learning. What actually counts is not what you know, but how fast you
can learn.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP AS A CAREER OPTION

1. Nurtures development of entrepreneurial skills and capabilities

2. Enables the application of an entrepreneurial mindset
3. Develops the ability to handle failure and ambiguity
4. Enhances critical thinking and problem-solving ability
5. Provides early exposure to the real world
6. Inspires to think about one’s career differently
7. Leads to create a difference in society

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A. MCQ QUESTIONS: (Each question carries 1 mark)

1. is the type of employment where one is running a business to

satisfy the needs of people and looking for ways to make the business better.
a. Entrepreneurship
b. Entrepreneur
c. Business plan
d. entrepreneurism
2. Successful entrepreneurs have the abilities.
a. They are confident
b. They keep trying new ideas
c. They are creative
d. All of the above
3. An is a person who is self – employed, is willing to take a calculated
risk, and brings in a new idea to start a business.

a. Software Engineer
b. Entrepreneur
c. Civil Engineer
d. Mechanical Engineer
4. The process of developing a business plan, launching and running a business using
innovation to meet customer needs and to make a profit is .
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a. Software Engineer
b. Entrepreneur
c. Civil Engineer
d. Mechanical Engineer
5. A self-employed person who is always trying to make his/her business better by taking
risks and trying new ideas is an .
a. Business Man
b. Entrepreneur
c. Employer
d. None of the above
6. What do entrepreneurs do when she/he runs their business?
a. Fulfill Customer Needs
b. Use Local Materials
c. Create Jobs
d. All of the above
7. When a person begins a business, he or she may encounter several challenges and
failures. Even while taking a significant risk, an entrepreneur must think .
a. Positively
b. Negatively
c. Both a) and b)
d. None of the above
8. It is necessary for an entrepreneur to continuously towards his/her own and
company’s goals.
a. Work Hard
b. Always take rest
c. Not participate actively
d. None of the above
9. Entrepreneurs need to be open to and try them without fear of failure.
a. Invest all of money
b. New Ideas
c. Both a) and b)
d. None of the above
10. Experimenting with many ideas is a quality related to .

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a. Perseverance
b. Confidence
c. Creativity
d. Trial and error
11. An entrepreneur should be able to see a problem from different perspectives and come
up with original and .
a. Creative Solutions
b. New Ideas
c. Both a) and b)
d. None of the above
12. An entrepreneur should be willing to take a and is always open to new
ideas to make his/her business grow.
a. Satisfying human need
b. Product and Service
c. Calculated Risk
d. Regular Production
13. Ravi’s customer comes to his store and starts shouting at him. He does not get angry.
He listens to what his customer is saying. He is .
a. Hardworking
b. Confident
c. Patient
d. Prying new ideas
14. Susheela decides to sell her company tyres in Sri Lanka. It does not sell and she has a
loss. She apologizes to the people who work for her. She says she will plan better next time.
She .
a. takes responsibility for your mistakes
b. thinks before making a decision
c. does not give up
d. is creative
15. A myth, or a misconception about entrepreneurship is .
a. To start a business we required lot of money
b. Business should be unique or special
c. entrepreneurs are born, not made
d. All of the above

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16. Ramya and Ramu both own plant shops. Ramu sits at his shop every day. When
customers come, he sells to them. Ramya walks around and gets customers to her shop.
She also sells seeds and flowers. Who is Entrepreneur out of Ramya and Ramu.
a. Ramya
b. Ramu
c. Both of the above
d. None of the above
17. What do entrepreneurs do when they run their business?
a. They help in increasing jobs in their area.
b. Helping the people in the society to earn money.
c. Both of the above
d. None of the above
18. Which of the following entrepreneurship refers to starting industries in which
manufacturing, trading, providing services, productions are done on a micro scale?
a. Women Entrepreneurship
b. Agricultural Entrepreneurship
c. Small Scale Entrepreneurship
d. None of the above
19. An enterprise owned and controlled by a woman and giving at least 51 per cent of the
employment generated in the enterprise to women is
a. Agricultural Entrepreneurship
b. Small Scale Entrepreneurship
c. Social Entrepreneurship
d. Women Entrepreneurship
20. Mary buys bulbs for her business from Noida. She learns that bulbs are cheaper in
Faridabad. So, she decides to start buying bulbs from there.

(a) Makes decisions

(b) Divides income

(c) Takes risk

ANSWERS

1 a 5 b 9 b 13 c 17 c

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3 b 7 a 11 c 15 d 19 d

4 b 8 a 12 c 16 a 20 a

B. DESCRIPTIVE QUESTIONS
1 MARK QUESTIONS:
1. What do you mean by Entrepreneur?
Ans: Entrepreneurs are people with vision who recognize and pursue opportunity, create and
establish business or new ventures, take into account the risk involved by using available
resources.
2.What do you mean by Entrepreneurship?
Ans: Entrepreneurship is the organizing an enterprise to undertake a new production process,
raising capital, arranging labour and raw materials, etc.
3.Entrepreneurs are not job seekers but they create opportunities of employment for people.
(True/False)
Ans. True.

2 MARK QUESTIONS:
1. Explain any two role of entrepreneurs?
Ans. Innovator’s Role: Entrepreneurs innovate by bringing unique and new products and services
into the market.
Risk assumption role: Entrepreneurs are not risk aversive and they realize that taking risks is a part
of business.
Employment Generation role: Entrepreneur solves the problem of unemployment by generating
jobs and employing people.
2. State any two benefits of Entrepreneurship to society.
Ans.
a) Entrepreneurs provide new job opportunities
b) Entrepreneurs increase competition & boost productivity
c) Entrepreneurs create new business & new markets.
d) Entrepreneurs add national income.
e) Entrepreneurs introduce innovative technology and low cost products

3. What is meant by Women Entrepreneurship?

Ans. Women entrepreneurship is referred to the entrepreneurial activity led by women, where
women undertake risks, create enterprises, organize factors of production, innovate with
products/services and generate employment opportunities.

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4. What is meant by Agricultural Entrepreneurship?
Ans. Agricultural Entrepreneurship can be defined as being primarily related to the marketing and
production of inputs and products used in agricultural activities.

5. What is meant by Social Entrepreneurship?

Social entrepreneurship can be understood as creation of sustainable solutions for social problems
that leads to social change by employing entrepreneurial mind-set, processes and operations. In
social entrepreneurship research is conducted to completely define a specific and core social
problem.

6. Define Small Scale Entrepreneurship?

Ans. Small scale entrepreneurship refers to starting industries in which manufacturing, trading,
providing services, productions are done on a small scale or micro scale.

7. What do you mean by business plan?

Ans. A business plan is a document that thoroughly explains a business idea and how it will be
carried out. It defines in detail a company's objectives and how it plans to achieve its goals.
8. List any two qualities of an entrepreneur.
Ans. Hard work, optimism, independence, energetic, self- confident, perseverant.
9. What are the main commercial functions of an entrepreneur?
Ans. The commercial functions are production, finance, marketing, personnel and accounting.

10. List any difference between wage employed and self-employed people.
Ans. Wage employed people are people who work for a person or an organization and get paid for
that work.
Self-employed people are those who start businesses to satisfy the needs of people.

11. What are the characteristics of Entrepreneur?

Ans. a) Economic: Entrepreneurship is an economic activity because it involves the creation and
operation of an enterprise with a view to creating value or wealth by ensuring optimum utilization
of resources.
b) Innovation: Entrepreneurship involves a continuous search for new ideas and innovation.
Innovation occurs through the introduction of a new quality in a product, a new product.
c) Profit potential: Before starting a new business, evaluate the expected returns from the business.
d) Risk bearing: The essence of Entrepreneurship is the willingness to take risk arises out of the
creation and implementation of new ideas.
e) Decision making: Entrepreneurship is making right and correct decisions tr appropriate time by
entrepreneur. A correct decision results in success in business venture.

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f) Managerial skills: The Entrepreneur must have right managerial skills so as to handle the group
of people efficiently.
g) Organization building: It implies skills to build an organization. Building an organization is
important part of Entrepreneurship development.

12. How Entrepreneurship is helpful to society? Explain.

Ans:
a) Helps in Wealth creation and sharing: By establishing Business entity, entrepreneurs invest their
own resources and attract capital from investors, lenders and the public.
b) Creating Employment Opportunities jobs: Entrepreneurs are by nature and definition job
creators, as opposed to job seekers.
c) Innovation: Entrepreneurs use businesses to create products and services that solve problems
in innovative ways. There products and services must be functional and they must be designed to
be cost effective.
d) Balanced Regional Development: Entrepreneurs setting up new businesses and industrial units
help with regional development by locating in less developed and backward areas.
e) Improves Standards of Living of People: Increase in the standard of living in a community is
another key goal of economic development. Entrepreneurs play a key role in increasing the
standard of living in a community. They do this not just by creating jobs, but also by developing
and adopting innovation that led to improvement in the quality of life of their employees, customers
and other stakeholders in the community.

13. Write a note on Entrepreneurship as career option.

Ans:
a) Nurtures development of entrepreneurial skills and capabilities.
b) Develops the ability to handle failure and ambiguity.
C) Enhances critical thinking and problem-solving ability
d) Provides early exposure to the real world
e) Leads to creating difference in society
f) Inspires to think about one’s career differently

14. What do you think are the important functions of an entrepreneur? Write your answer giving
suitable examples.
Ans.
The functions of an entrepreneur are:
 Making Decisions: An entrepreneur makes decisions every day. This includes what to
produce or sell, how much and where to sell.
 Managing the Business: An entrepreneur plans the future of his or her business. He/she
arranges for raw material, hires people for work, and tells everyone what to do. They also
check if the plan is being followed.
 Divide Income: The entrepreneur divides the business money into many groups. He/she
spends money to buy material, pays rent of the building and salaries to people.
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  Taking Risk: Risk is the chance of something going wrong. An entrepreneur takes risks
against fires, lost items and theft.
 Create a new Method, Idea, or Product: An entrepreneur is always trying new things. He/she
does this to increase their importance and income.

15. What do entrepreneurs do when they run their business?

Or
List the ways in which an entrepreneur affects a society.
Ans. –

a. Fulfil Customer Needs – A product or service that people want is referred to as demand.
Entrepreneurs discover what people desire. Then students use their imaginations to come up with
a business plan to address that demand.
b. Use Local Materials – Entrepreneurs produce low-cost items by using the materials and people
available to them.
c. Help Society – Entrepreneurs have a good interaction with the general public. They gain money
by doing things that help society. Some business people donate money to create schools and
clinics, while others work to save the environment.
d. Create Jobs – They buy more material, and from more people. They also hire more people to
work for them. In this way, more people have jobs.
e. Sharing of Wealth – Wealth means having enough money to live a comfortable life. As
entrepreneurs grow their business.
f. Lower Price of Products – The price of a product decreases when more entrepreneurs sell the
same thing. In India, for example, as more mobile phones were sold, the cost of the phone
decreased.
16. List any five qualities of the entrepreneur?
They are confident. They believe in themselves and their abilities.
They keep trying new ideas in their business.
They are patient.
They are creative and think differently about business ideas.
They take responsibility for their actions.
They make decisions after thinking about them.
They work hard.
They do not give up when they face a difficulty
17. Write any four Functions of entrepreneurship?

Ans. Planning, organizing, decision making, managing, innovating, risk bearing, etc.

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18. How do entrepreneurs contribute to society?

Ans. Entrepreneurs contribution to the welfare of society is of high order. A business person apart
from making money for him or herself also helps the society in many ways financially and socially.
Also they contribute in form of donations, sponsorship, welfare programs, advisors to respective
government, etc.

19. Mention four important roles of an entrepreneur.

Ans. Four important roles of an entrepreneur are:

Innovator’s role

Agents’ role

Innovator

Risk Assumption

Capital formation

Employment generation

20. Is entrepreneurship a career choice?

Ans. Entrepreneurship is becoming the most pursued career choice. The term entrepreneurship is
defined as the type of self-employment where one is running a business and looking for ways to
make the business better to make profits.

21. “Entrepreneurs are born, not made.” Do you agree with this statement? Justify your answer.
Ans. No, this is a myth/misconception about entrepreneurship.
Being an entrepreneur starts with a way of thinking. One must believe that anything is possible and
it shall be achieved. It starts with thinking of an idea that you want to work on, making it different.

22. Entrepreneurship has a positive impact on society. Write down any two.
Ans.
1. Some of them work towards saving the environment.
2. Some of them give money to build schools and hospitals.

23. What is the difference between a businessman and an entrepreneur?

Ans. A businessman walks on the defined path, but an entrepreneur believes in making his own
path, which becomes a guideline for other businessmen.

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 Unit 5
GREEN SKILLS

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

As the human race progressed, we neglected the vitality of nature in our lives. In pursuit to fulfil our
unending wants we started exploiting the nature that has resulted in what we see today, the
scarcity. There is scarcity of clean water to drink, scarcity of pure air to breathe, scarcity of
unadulterated food, rising issue of global warming, depletion of ozone layer.

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Everyone in the world today is talking about the measures to curb these rising problems. There are
World Summits being organised to find a solution to these global problems. And the solution to
these problems is only one – SUSTAINABILITY.

‘The ability to be maintained at a steady level’ is SUSTAINABILITY.

- Collins English Dictionary

Sustainability focuses on how human beings can live in peace and harmony with nature without
creating ecological disturbance. The aim is that we visualize the long term impact of our actions on
environment and take corrosive measures to maintain balance between our demands and the
supply of natural resources.

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

The concept of sustainable development received its first

major international recognition in 1972 at the UN
Conference on the Human Environment held in Stockholm.

Sustainable development is the “Development that meets

the needs of the present without compromising the ability of
future generations to meet their own needs”.

- Brundtland Report – Our Common Future,

published in 1987 by the World Commission on Environment
and Development (WCED)

Sustainable development focuses on long term, integrated approach to develop a healthy, social
and economically viable society. The aim is to inculcate the value of self-resistance amongst the
people to save natural resources for everyone to utilize judiciously and still ensuring its availability
for future generations.

4 R’S AND 1 U OF SUSTAINABILITY

In our daily life we can contribute to create a Sustainable Society by following 4Rs’ and 1U of
Sustainability. These are REFUSE, REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE and UPCYCLE.

REFUSE - Not to use products that may not harm the environment.

REDUCE - To minimize the use of the products that may cause harm to the environment.

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 REUSE - To reuse products as far as possible, in order to reduce the waste generation.

RECYCLE - After reusing the product, we must try to recycle it as far as possible.

UPCYCLE - Any product that is not usable can be upcycled with creativity and innovation. It gives
a new look to the old product and makes it look desirable.

IMPORTANCE OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

In the 21st Century the importance of adopting sustainable

techniques for sustainable development is of grave
importance.

1. Judicious use of resources is of prime importance since the

exploitation of resources is causing its depletion. We need to
curb our usage to ensure that resources like air, water, forests
are available to future generation. This would also mean that
the resources are in their pure form.

2. Not only for the next generation but even for the existing
generation, the quality of basic resources is deteriorating
leading to major health concerns such as Cancer, Bronchitis etc. Ensuring sustainability will help
curb these problems.
3. Rising demands is leading to economic disparity. The rich is becoming richer while the poor is
becoming poorer. The uneven distribution of available resources across different economic fronts
is leading to discrimination, giving rise to crime and creating
social imbalance. To ensure proper balance Sustainability
is important.

4. Environmental problems like Climate Change, Emission

of Green House gases are alarming. If everyone draws a
line for themselves, we will be able to combat these issues
with the help of Sustainable Development.

5. Adoption of Sustainable Development in our daily life and at our work place will also promote
economic growth. Young entrepreneurs with minimum investment can produce better output.
Introduction of Solar Power Plants, Waste Water Treatment Plants, Electric Vehicles etc. will not
only help in protecting Environment but shall also contribute in Saving money and resources. The
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economy that reduces environmental risks and strikes ecological balance is termed as Green
Economy.

DRIVING FORCE TO PROMOTE

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

The following may be considered as the

driving force to promote Sustainable
Development:
i. Protecting and living in harmony with
theNature
ii. Considering all human being as
equal
iii. Promoting good governance
iv. Using Science & Technology
responsibly
• Creating healthy, social and
economically viable
society

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

To ensure that Sustainable Development is ensured in our communities and world at large United
Nations Member States in 2015 adopted 17 SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) as a universal
call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and
prosperity by 2030. These are:

1. poverty
2. Zero Hunger
3. Good Health and Well Being
4. Quality Education
5. Gender Equality
6. Clean water and Sanitation
7. Affordable and Clean Energy
8. Decent Work and Economic Growth
9. Industry Innovation and Infrastructure

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 10. Reduced Inequalities
11. Sustainable Cities and Communities
12. Responsible Consumption and Production
13. Climate Action

14. Life Below Water

15. Life on Land
16. Peace, Justice and Strong Institution
17. Partnership for the Goals

PROBLEMS RELATED TO
SUSTAINABLEDEVELOPMENT

To achieve Sustainability for next generation, the whole

world needs to come as one. This is the biggest
challenge in realising this goal because of the following
reasons:

1. A large population in major parts of the world is living

an underprivileged life and is excluded. For them earning a meal each day is a challenge. Under
such circumstances, expecting an alteration in their mind set or behaviour is not easy.

2. A huge population in world’s economy is unemployed. Any means of earning whether

sustainable or not is their ray of hope.

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3. With the existing issues of climate change, number of species has extinct and many are on verge
of their extinction. Under such circumstances striking a balance in the food chain is a big
responsibility.

4. The market all over the world is trying to capture as many resources as possible to maximize
their profit. In pursuit of maximising the profit they overuse and exploit the resources.

5. In the time of nuclear race, where every developing country is trying its hand to become
developed nation, ensuring world peace is a global challenge.

6. It is the responsibility of every country to ensure having a full proof policy towards Sustainable
Development. While the challenge remains that many are simply leaving loose ends in the
execution of policies.

7. Last but most important, while it is the responsibility and accountability of every individual to
promote Sustainable Development, there is a huge world population which is simply insensitive
towards its need.
QUESTIONS
1 mark QUESTIONS

1. There are SDGs given by the United Nations.

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2. SDGs stand for

Sustainable Development Goals

3. Give any one practice / sustainable process that is being used to help preserve the
environment.

organic farming/ vermicomposting

4. When and where Sustainable Development Goals were launched?

United Nations Sustainable Development Summit in New York in September 2015.

5. What is Sustainable Development?

Sustainable development is the development that satisfies the needs of the

present without compromising the capacity of future generations.

6. What do you mean by Sustainable Development Goals?

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 The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a universal call of action to end
poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity.

7. Give any 2 R’s of sustainability.

These are REFUSE, REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE. (Any two)

8. Enlist different problems related to Sustainable Development.

Food and nutrition security, safe drinking water, energy security, and waste
management.

9. Why is upcycling used extensively in sustainable development?

Any product that is not usable can be upcycled with creativity and innovation to
give a new look to an old product, this helps in sustainable development.

10. What is meant by REFUSE in context of creating sustainable environment?

REFUSE implies refusing use of those products which may cause harm to
environment.

DESCRIPTIVE (2 MARKS)

1. Enumerate any two initiatives through which we can reduce inequalities in our
society

 Helpful to one another.

 Friendly with everyone.
 Including everyone while working or playing.
 Helping others by including everyone whether they are small or big, girl or
boy, belonging to any class or caste.
2. Explain ‘Affordable and Clean Energy’.

 Using solar power i.e., power generated using the sun does not cause
pollution as it does not require burning of non-renewable fuels, such as
coal.
 Use of biogas is also an eco-friendly alternative to natural gas.
3. ‘Reduced Inequalities’ is one of the Sustainable development goals set by the UN.
Give any two ways to reduce inequalities.

Two easy to reduce inequalities are : -

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  Be helpful to one another.
 be friendly with everyone
4. What are the problems related to sustainable development? Discus any two.

 Food: Large areas of rich, fertile land needed to grow crops, which is
becoming less as we are using up more and more land for other purposes –
cities, roads, airports, industries, etc. Soil nutrients are also getting depleted
and lots of chemicals are spoiling the soil due to use of chemical fertilizers.
 Water: We use fresh water from rivers and ponds for drinking and cleaning
but dump garbage into them. The rivers and ponds are getting polluted.
This way after several years, we will have no clean water for our use.
 Fuel: We are using a lot of wood from trees as fuels and for construction of
homes and furniture. As more and more trees are being cut, it is affecting
the climate of the place. Extreme weather conditions, such as floods,
extreme cold or heat, are seen in many places, which affect the people
living there.
5. Briefly explain importance of sustainable development.

 It will ensure that resources like air, water, forests are saved to future
generation.
 Problems like Climate Change, Emission of Green House gases can be
taken care of with the help of Sustainable Development.
 Adoption of Sustainable Development in our daily life and at our work place
will also promote economic growth.

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 INTRODUCTION TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Humans developed machines to make their lives easier to accomplish tasks which are too tedious
or are time consuming. Therefore humans put efforts in making the machines more sophisticated
and smart.
Children are asked to compare old TV and smart TVs. How they differ in their working.
Similarly Old phones and smartphones are compared, to understand about latest facilities in smart
phones.

Mention two types of machines which have evolved with time.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE:
Artificial is something which is man-made, which does not occur naturally.
Intelligence is the ‘ability to perceive or infer information, and to retain it as knowledge to be applied
towards adaptive behaviours within an environment or context.’

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
HUMAN INTELLIGENCE:
Human Intelligence is defined in terms of :
1. Ability to observe, recognize and understand
2. Ability to make ‘smart’ decisions and solve problems
3. Ability to learn and increase knowledge

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Any device that can perform the above, can be termed as intelligent device.
When a machine possesses the ability to mimic human traits i.e make decisions, predict the future,
learn and improve on its own by collecting data, understand it, analyse it , learn from it and improve
it, it is said to have Artificial Intelligence. Machines become intelligent once they are trained with
data and algorithm.

Mention four examples of artificially intelligent applications in our smart phones.

Answer:
Phone Smart Lock / Snapchat filter / Shopping websites / Netflix / YouTube / Face
Detection / Google Maps / Emotions recognition / Google assistant / Natural
language recognition / image detection / beauty filters etc.

THE ABILITIES THAT ARE INVOLVED IN INTELLIGENCE:

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There are mainly 9 types of Intelligence :-

1. Mathematical Logical Intelligence: A person's ability to regulate, measure, and

understand numerical symbols, abstraction and logic.
2. Linguistic Intelligence: Language processing skills both in terms of understanding or
implementation in writing or speech.
3. Spatial Visual Intelligence: It is defined as the ability to perceive the visual world and the
relationship of one object to another.
4. Kinaesthetic Intelligence: Ability that is related to how a person uses his limbs in a skilled
manner.
5. Musical Intelligence: As the name suggests, this intelligence is about a person's ability to
recognize and create sounds, rhythms, and sound patterns.
6. Intrapersonal Intelligence: Describes the level of self-awareness someone has starting
from realizing weakness, strength, to recognizing his own feelings.
7. Existential Intelligence: An additional category of intelligence relating to religious and
spiritual awareness.
8. Naturalist Intelligence: An additional category of intelligence relating to the ability to
process information on the environment around us.
9. Interpersonal Intelligence: Interpersonal intelligence is the ability to communicate with
others by understanding other people's feelings and the influence of the person.

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Exercise – 1 :
Teachers can list out some professions and ask students to identify the type of intelligence used in
their professions.
For Eg:

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Lawers : Linguistic Intelligence
Musicians : Musical Intelligence
Architect : Mathematical, Logical Reasoning

APPLICATION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AROUND US:

a. Google Search Engine:
With the help of AI, Google Search Engines, turned into intelligent search, producing direct
answers. It uses voice and image searches and incorporated deep learning to fasten the searches
with more accuracy.
b. Voice assistant:
AI is being used in voice assistants to recognize words spoken by the user. NLP has capabilities
like “Speech-to-Text” convert the natural language of the user into text for further processing. Digital
assistants improve its performance over time.
c. E-commerce website:

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With the use of big data, AI in E-Commerce is impacting customer choices by recording the data
of previous purchases, searched products, and online browsing habits.
d. Navigate to Places:
To help us navigate to places, apps like UBER and Google Maps exist. Thus, one no longer needs
to stop to ask for directions.
e. Improved Gaming Experience:
AI has changed the world of gaming by making the game more intelligent with enhanced graphics,
providing the ability to learn using machine learning algorithms. Games, understand human
patterns and give responses to new difficulty levels. AI can adapt to your playing style by making
the game more exciting.
f. Platforms that provide recommendations:
Platforms like Netflix, Amazon, Spotify, YouTube etc. show us recommendations on the basis of
what we like. They even cater to needs of connecting with friends on social media platforms with
apps like Facebook and Instagram. They also send us customized notifications about our online
shopping details, auto-create playlists according to our requests and so on. Taking selfies with
Snapchat filters are all possible now.
g. Monitor Health:
AI is also being used to monitor our health. Chatbots and other health apps are available, which
continuously monitor the physical and mental health of its users.
The humanoids like Sophia, to get citizenship, biometric security systems like the face locks in
phones, real-time language translators, weather forecasts, all use AI.

WHAT IS AI & WHAT IS NOT AI :

WHAT IS NOT AI?

a. A fully automatic washing machine:
It can work on its own, but it requires human intervention to select the parameters of washing and
to do the necessary preparation for it to function correctly before each wash, which makes it an
example of automation, not AI.
b. An Air Conditioner working remotely :
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An air conditioner can be turned on and off remotely with the help of internet but still needs a human
touch. This is an example of Internet of Things (IoT).
c. Automated Robots :
Robots which might follow a path or maybe can avoid obstacles but need to be primed accordingly
each time.
d. Automated Projects using Sensors :
A lot of projects which can automate our surroundings with the help of sensors, bots or the
automation machine is not trained with any data, it does not count as AI.
e. All "smart" devices are not AI-enabled :
For example, a TV does not become AI-enabled if it is a smart one.
NOTE: It gets the power of AI when it is able to think and process on its own.

AI, ML & DL :

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Refers to the technique that enables computers to mimic human intelligence. It gives the ability to
machines to recognize a human’s face; to move and manipulate objects; to understand the voice
commands by humans etc. The AI-enabled machines think algorithmically and execute intelligently.
Machine Learning (ML)
It is a subset of Artificial Intelligence which enables machines to improve at tasks with experience
(data) using the provided data and make accurate Predictions/ Decisions.
Deep Learning (DL)

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It enables software to train itself to perform tasks with vast amounts of data. In Deep Learning, the
machine is trained with huge amounts of data which helps it in training itself around the data. Such
machines are intelligent enough to develop algorithms for themselves.

Differentiate between Machine Learning & Deep Learning.

Machine Learning Deep Learning
Performs well on small to medium
Data Performs well on large datasets
datasets
Hardware Able to function on CPU Requires significant computing power e.g., GPU
Features need to be manually
Features Learns features automatically
identified
Training time Quick to train Computationally intensive

Compare Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning & Deep Learning.

Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Deep Learning

AI stands for Artificial DL stands for Deep Learning,

Intelligence, and is ML stands for Machine and is the study that makes use
basically the study/process Learning, and is the study of Neural Networks (similar to
which enables machines to that uses statistical methods neurons present in human brain)
mimic human behaviour enabling machines to to imitate functionality just like a
through particular improve with experience. human brain.
algorithm.

AI is the broader family

consisting of ML and DL as ML is the subset of AI. DL is the subset of ML.
it’s components.

DL is a ML algorithm that uses

AI is a computer algorithm ML is an AI algorithm which deep (more than one layer)
which exhibits intelligence allows system to learn from neural networks to analyze data
through decision making. data. and provide output accordingly.

If you are clear about the math

If you have a clear idea
involved in it but don’t have idea
about the logic (math)
about the features, so you break
involved in behind and you
Search Trees and much the complexfunctionalities
can visualize the complex
complex math is involved in into
functionalities like K-Mean,
AI. linear/lower dimension
Support Vector Machines,
features by adding more layers,
etc., then it defines the ML
then it defines the DL aspect.
aspect.

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 It attains the highest rank in terms
The aim is to basically The aim is to increase
of accuracy when it is trained with
increase chances of accuracy not caring much
large amount of data.
success and not accuracy. about the success ratio.

DL can be considered as neural

networks with a large number of
Three broad parameters layers lying in one of
categories/types Of AI Three broad the fourfundamental network
are: Artificial categories/types Of ML are: architectures: Unsupervised Pre-
Narro Supervised trained Networks,
w Intelligence (ANI), Learning Convolutional Neural
Artificial General , Unsupervised Learning Networks, Recurrent Neural
Intelligence (AGI) and and Reinforcement Networks and Recursive Neural
Artificial Super Intelligence Learning Networks
(ASI)

The efficiency Of AI is Less efficient than DL as it

More powerful than ML as it can
basically the efficiency can’t work for longer
easily work for larger sets of data.
provided by ML and DL dimensions or higher
respectively. amount of data.

Examples of AI
applications Examples of ML Examples of DL applications
include applications include: Virtual include: Sentiment based news
: Google’s AI-Powered Personal Assistants: Siri, aggregation, Image analysis and
Predictions, Ridesharing Alexa, Google, etc., Email caption generation, etc.
Apps Like Uber and Lyft, Spam and Malware
Commercial Flights Use Filtering.
anAI Autopilot, etc.

INTRODUCTION TO AI DOMAINS:
Artificial Intelligence becomes intelligent according to the training which it gets. For training, the
machine is fed with datasets. According to the applications for which the AI algorithm is being
developed, the data which is fed into it changes.
With respect to the type of data fed in the AI model, AI models can be broadly categorized into
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a. Data Sciences
Data sciences is a domain of AI related to data systems and processes. The system collects
numerous data, maintains data sets, and derives meaning/sense out of them.
The information extracted through data science can be used to make a decision about it.
Example of Data Science:
Price Comparison Websites
These websites are being driven by lots of data giving us the convenience of comparing the price
of a product from multiple vendors at one place.
PriceGrabber, PriceRunner, Junglee, Shopzilla, DealTime are some examples of price
comparison websites.
b. Computer Vision
Computer Vision (CV) , is a domain of AI that depicts the capability of a machine to get and analyze
visual information and predict some decisions about it. The entire process involves image
acquiring, screening, analyzing, identifying and extracting information. This extensive processing
helps computers to understand any visual content and act on it accordingly.
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In computer vision, Input to machines can be photographs, videos and pictures from thermal or
infrared sensors, indicators and different sources.
Computer vision related projects translate digital visual data into descriptions. This data is then
turned into computer-readable language to aid the decision-making process. The main objective
of this domain of AI is to teach machines to collect information from pixels.
Examples of Computer Vision
Self-Driving cars/ Automatic Cars
CV systems scan live objects and analyse them, based on whether the car decides to keep running
or to stop.
Face Lock in Smartphones
Smartphones come with the feature of face locks in which the smartphone’s owner can set up
his/her face as an unlocking mechanism for it. The front camera detects and captures the face and
saves its features during initiation. Next time onwards, whenever the features match, the phone is
unlocked.
c. Natural Language Processing
Natural Language Processing (NLP) , is a branch of artificial intelligence that deals with the
interaction between computers and humans using the natural language.
Natural language refers to language that is spoken and written by people, and natural language
processing (NLP) attempts to extract information from the spoken and written word using
algorithms.
The ultimate objective of NLP is to read, decipher, understand, and make sense of the human
languages in a manner that is valuable.
It has two main components:
Natural Language Understanding (NLU): It is used for spoken or written language to provide a
link between natural language inputs and what they present. It analyzes different aspects of
language.
Natural Language Generation (NLG): It helps to produce meaningful phrases and sentences
along with Text planning, Sentence Planning, and Text realization.
Examples of Natural Language Processing
Email filters
Email filters are one of the most basic and initial applications of NLP online. It started out with spam
filters, uncovering certain words or phrases that signal a spam message.
Smart assistants
Smart assistants like Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa recognize patterns in speech, then infer
meaning and provide a useful response.

What are AI Domains ?

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Pick the odd one out and justify your answer:
a. Snap Chat Filter
b. Face Lock in Phone
c. Chatbot
d. Image search Option

Answer: Chatbot, as it is NLP based, the other three are Computer vision based

Applications of Artificial Intelligence around us

Every now and then, we surf the internet for things on Google without realizing how efficiently
Google always responds to us with accurate answers. Not only does it come up with results to our
search in a matter of seconds, it also suggests and autocorrects our typed sentences.

We nowadays have pocket assistants that can do a lot of tasks at just one command. Alexa, Google
Assistant, Cortana, Siri are some very common examples of the voice assistants which are a major
part of our digital devices.

To help us navigate to places, apps like UBER and Google Maps come in there. Thus, one no
longer needs to stop repeatedly to ask for directions.

AI has completely enhanced the gaming experience for its users. A lot of games nowadays are
backed up with AI which helps in enhancing the graphics, come up with new difficulty levels,
encourage gamers, etc.

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AI has not only made our lives easier but has also been taking care of our habits, likes, and dislikes.
This is why platforms like Netflix, Amazon, Spotify, YouTube etc. show us recommendations on
the basis of what we like.

AI is also being used to monitor our health. A lot of chatbots and other health apps are available,
which continuously monitor the physical and mental health of its users.

These applications are not limited to smart devices but also vary to humanoids like Sophia, the
very first humanoid robot sophisticated enough to get citizenship, biometric security systems like
the face locks we have in our phones, real-time language translators, weather forecasts, and
whatnot! This list is huge, and this module will go on forever if we keep tabulating them. So, take
some time, discuss with a friend and identify more and more AI applications around you!

AI Ethics
AI ethics is a set of values, principles and techniques that employee widely accepted standards of
right and wrong to guide moral conduct in the development and use of AI technology.
AI Bias and AI Access
Bias means inclination or prejudice for or against one person or group, especially in a way
considered to be unfair. When AI programs, tool, and algorithm exhibit any kind of bias, it is called
AI bias.
AI Access
Since Artificial Intelligence is still a budding technology, not everyone has the opportunity to access
it. The people who can afford AI enabled devices make the most of it while others who cannot are
left behind. Because of this, a gap has emerged between these two classes of people and it gets
widened with the rapid advancement of technology

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 AI Project Cycle

What is an AI Project Cycle?

Project Cycle is a step-by-step process to solve problems using proven scientific methods and
drawing inferences about them.

Let us take some daily examples as projects, requiring steps to solve the problem.
Creating a birthday card.

1. Checking the factors like budget, etc which will help us decide the next steps and
understanding the Project.
2. Acquiring data from different sources like online, with friends etc for Designs and ideas.
3. Making a list of the gathered data.
4. Creating or modelling a card on the basis of the data collected.
5. Showing it to Parents or cousins to let them check it or evaluate it.

Components of AI Project Cycle?

Components of the project cycle are the steps that contribute to completing the Project.

The Components of AI Project Cycle are: -

 Problem Scoping - Understanding the problem
 Data Acquisition - Collecting accurate and reliable data
 Data Exploration - Arranging the data uniformly
 Modelling - Creating Models from the data
 Evaluation - Evaluating the project

1. Problem Scoping
Problem Scoping refers to understanding a problem, finding out various factors which affect the
problem, define the goal or aim of the project.

Sustainable Development Goals

Sustainable Development: To Develop for the present without exploiting the resources of the future.
o 17 goals announced by United Nations.
o Aim to achieve them by 2030.
o Pledge taken by all the member nations of the UN.

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also known as the Global Goals, were adopted by
all United Nations Member States in 2015 as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the
planet, and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity

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4 W's of Problem Scoping
4 Problem Statement Template
The 4W’s of Problem Scoping are Who, What, Where, and Why.
This W’s helps in identifying and understanding the problem in a better and efficient manner.
 Who - “Who” part helps us in comprehending and categorizing who all are affected directly
and indirectly with the problem and who are called the Stake Holders.
 What - “What” part helps us in understanding and identifying the nature of the problem and
under this block, you also gather evidence to prove that the problem you have selected
exists.
 Where - "Where” does the problem arise, situation, context, and location?
 Why - “Why” is the given problem worth solving?

Problem Statement Template

The Problem Statement Template helps us to summarize all the key points into one single template.
So that in the future, whenever there is a need to look back at the basis of the problem, we can
take a look at the Problem Statement Template and understand its key elements of it.
Have a look at Problem Statement Template.
The Stakeholder Who

Have a problem Issue/Problem What

When/While Context/Situation/Location Where

Ideal Solution How the solution will help the stakeholders Why

2. Data Acquisition
The process of collecting accurate and reliable data to work with.

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Two types of Data Sets
Base Training set Testing set

Use Used for Training the model Used for Testing the model after it is
trained

Size Is allot bigger than testing data It is smaller than Training set and
and constitutes about 70% to 80% constitutes about 20% to 30%

Data Features
o Refer to the type of data you want to collect.
o Eg: Salary amount, increment percentage, increment period, bonus etc.
Big data
o It includes data with sizes that exceed the capacity of traditional software to process within
an acceptable time and value.
o The main focus is on unstructured type of data
• Volume
• Amount of data produced
• Variety
Big Data • Types of data produced
• Velocity
• Speed of data produced

 Web Scraping
 Web Scraping means collecting data from web using some technologies.
 We use it for monitoring prices, news and etc.
 Example: Web Scrapping using beautiful soup in python.
 Sensors
 Sensors are very important but very simple to understand.
 Sensors are the part of IoT (Internet of things)
 Sensors collect the physical data and detect the changes.
 Cameras
 Camera captures the visual information and then that information which is called image is
used as a source of data.
 Cameras are used to capture raw visual data.
 API
 Application Programming interface.
 API is a messenger which takes requests and tells the system about requests and gives the
response.
 Ex: Twitter API, Google Search API
 Observations
 When we observe something carefully, we get some information
 For ex: Scientists Observe creatures to study them.
 Observations are a time-consuming data source.
 Surveys
 The survey is a method of gathering specific information from a sample of people.
 Example, a census survey for analysing the population
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 3. Data Exploration
In this stage of project cycle, we try to interpret some useful information out of the data we have
acquired. For this purpose, we need to explore the data and try to put it uniformly for a better
understanding. This stage deals with validating or verification of the collected data and to analyze
that:
 The data is according to the specifications decided.
 The data is free from errors.
 The data is meeting our needs
This stage is divided into 2 sub stages.
1) Data Cleaning
2) Data Visualization.

Data Cleaning
Data cleaning helps in getting rid of commonly found errors and mistakes in a data set. These are
the 3 commonly found errors in data.
1) Outliers: Data points existing out of the range.
2) Missing data: Data points missing at certain places.
3) Erroneous data: Incorrect data points.

Outliers
An outlier is a data point in a dataset that is distant from
all other observations.
or
An outlier is something that behaves differently from
the combination/ collection of the data.

Missing Data
What do these NaN values indicate? They
are the missing values in the data set. We
can handle them in two ways:
1. By eliminating the rows of missing values.
(Generally, not recommended as it might reduce the
data set to some extent leading to less data to be
trained)
2. By
using an Imputer to find the best possible
substitute to replace missing values.
Erroneous Data

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Erroneous data is test data that falls outside of what is acceptable and should be rejected by the
system.
Student Name Class
RIYA GEORGE XA
JOSHUA SAM XA
APARNA BINU XA
SIDHARDH V R XA
NITHILA M 57
ATHULYA M S XA
ANUJA MS XB
KEERTHI
XB
KRISHNANATH

Data Visualization
Why we need to explore data through visualization?
1) We want to quickly get a sense of the trends, relationships, and patterns contained within
the data.
2) It helps us define strategy for which model to use at a later stage.
3) Visual representation is easier to understand and communicate to others.
Example:

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Data Visualization Techniques
1. Area Graphs
Area Graphs are Line Graphs but with the area below the
line filled in with a certain colour or texture. Like Line
Graphs, Area Graphs are used to display the
development of quantitative values over an interval or time
period. They are most commonly used to show trends, rather
than convey specific values.

2. Bar Charts
The classic Bar Chart uses either horizontal or vertical bars
(column chart) to show discrete, numerical comparisons
across categories. Bars Charts are distinguished from
Histograms, as they do not display continuous
developments over an interval. Bar Chart's discrete data is
categorical data and therefore answers the question of "how
many?" in each category.

3. Histogram
A Histogram visualizes the distribution of data over a
continuous interval or certain time period. Each bar in a
histogram represents the tabulated frequency at each
interval/bin. Histograms help give an estimate as to
where values are concentrated, what the extremes are and
whether there are any gaps or unusual values.

4. Line Graphs
Line Graphs are used to display quantitative values over
a continuous interval or time period. A Line Graph is most
frequently used to show trends and analyze how the data has
changed over time. Line Graphs are drawn by first
plotting data points on a Cartesian coordinate grid, then
connecting a line between all of these points. Typically, the
y-axis has a quantitative value, while the x-axis is a
timescale or a sequence of intervals. Negative values can
be displayed below the x-axis.

5. Pie Charts
Pie Charts help show proportions and percentages between categories, by dividing a circle into
proportional segments. Each arc length represents a proportion of each category, while the full
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circle represents the total sum of all the data, equal to 100%. Pie Charts are ideal for giving the
reader a quick idea of the proportional distribution of the data.

6. Scatterplots
Scatterplots use a collection of points placed using
Cartesian Coordinates to display values from two
variables. By displaying a variable in each axis, you can detect
if a relationship or correlation between the two variables exists.

7. Flow Charts
This type of diagram is used to show the sequential steps
of a process. Flow Charts map out a process using a
series of connected symbols, which makes the process easy
to understand and aids in its communication to other
people. Flow Charts are useful for explaining how a
complex and/or abstract procedure, system, concept or
algorithm work. Drawing a Flow Chart can also help in
planning and developing a process or improving an
existing one.

4. Modelling
It’s the fourth stage of AI project cycle. In previous stage, i.e. graphical representation makes
the data understandable for humans as we can discover trends and patterns out of it.
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 But when it comes to machines accessing and analyzing data, it needs the data in the most
basic form of numbers (which is binary – 0s and 1s) and when it comes to discovering patterns and
trends in data, the machine goes in for mathematical representations of the same.
The ability to mathematically describe the relationship between parameters is the heart of every
AI model.
Generally, AI models can be classified as follows:

Rule Based

AI Models
Machine Learning
Learning Based
Deep Learning

Rule Based Approach

In this approach, the rules are defined by the developer. The machine follows the rules or
instructions mentioned by the developer and performs its task accordingly. So, it’s a static model.
i.e. the machine once trained, does not take into consideration any changes made in the original
training dataset.

data
Rule based approach answers
rules

Thus, machine learning gets introduced as an extension to this as in that case, the machine
adapts to change in data and rules and follows the updated path only, while a rule-based model
does what it has been taught once.

Learning Based Approach

It’s a type of AI modelling where the machine learns by itself. Under the Learning Based
approach, the AI model gets trained on the data fed to it and then is able to design a model which
is adaptive to the change in data. That is, if the model is trained with X type of data and the machine
designs the algorithm around it, the model would modify itself according to the changes which
occur in the data so that all the exceptions are handled in this case.

data
Learning based approach rules
answers

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After training, the machine is now fed with testing data. Now, the testing data might not have similar
images as the ones on which the model has been trained. So, the model adapts to the features
on which it has been trained and accordingly predicts the output.
In this way, the machine learns by itself by adapting to the new data which is flowing in.
This is the machine learning approach which introduces the dynamicity in the model.
Generally, learning based models can be classified as follows:

Machine Learning Models

Supervised Unsupervised Reinforcement

Learning Learning Learning

Dimensionality
Regression Classification Clustering
Reduction

I. Supervised Learning
In a supervised learning model, the dataset which is fed to the machine is labelled. In other
words, we can say that the dataset is known to the person who is training the machine only then
he/she is able to label the data. A label is some information which can be used as a tag for data.
For example, students get grades according to the marks they secure in examinations. These
grades are labels which categorize the students according to their marks.
There are two main types of supervised learning models:

Regression
Supervised
Learning
Classification

a) Classification
In this model, data is classified according to the labels. For
example, in the grading system, students are classified on the basis of
the grades they obtain with respect to their marks in the
examination. This model works on discrete dataset which means
the data need not be continuous.

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 b) Regression
This model work on continuous data. For example, if you wish
to predict your next salary, then you would put in the data of your
previous salary, any increments, etc., and would train the model.
Here, the data which has been fed to the machine is
continuous.

II. Unsupervised Learning

An unsupervised learning model works on unlabeled dataset. This means that the data
which is fed to the machine is random and there is a possibility that the person who is training the
model does not have any information regarding it. The unsupervised learning models are used to
identify relationships, patterns and trends out of the data which is fed into it. It helps the user in
understanding what the data is about and what are the major features identified by the machine in
it.
For example, you have a random data of 1000 dog images and you wish to understand
some pattern out of it, you would feed this data into the unsupervised learning model and would
train the machine on it. After training, the machine would come up with patterns which it was able
to identify out of it. The Machine might come up with patterns which are already known to the user
like colour or it might even come up with something very unusual like the size of the dogs.
There are two main types of unsupervised learning models:

Clustering
Unsupervised
Learning
Dimensionality
Reduction

a) Clustering
It refers to the unsupervised learning algorithm which can cluster
the unknown data according to the patterns or trends identified out of
it. The patterns observed might be the ones which are known to the
developer or it might even come up with some unique patterns out of
it.
b) Dimensionality Reduction
We humans are able to visualize up to 3-Dimensions only
but according to a lot of theories and algorithms, there are
various entities which exist beyond 3-Dimensions.
For example, in Natural language Processing, the words are
considered to be N-Dimensional entities. Which means that we cannot
visualize them as they exist beyond our visualization ability.
Hence, to make sense out of it, we need to reduce their
dimensions. Here, dimensionality reduction algorithm is used.

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III. Reinforcement Learning
It a type of machine learning technique that enables an agent(model) to learn in an interactive
environment by trial and error using feedback from its own actions and experiences. Though both
supervised and reinforcement learning use mapping
between input and output, unlike supervised learning
where feedback provided to the agent(model) is correct
set of actions for performing a task,
reinforcement learning uses rewards and
punishment as signals for positive and negative
behavior. Reinforcement learning is all about making
decisions sequentially.

5. Evaluation
Evaluation is a process of understanding the reliability of any AI model, based on outputs by
feeding the test dataset into the model and comparing it with actual answers. i.e. oonce a model
has been made and trained, it needs to go through proper testing so that one can calculate the
efficiency and performance of the model. Hence, the model is tested with the help of Testing Data
(which was separated out of the acquired dataset at Data Acquisition stage.
The efficiency of the model is calculated on the basis of the parameters mentioned below:

1. Accuracy
Accuracy is
defined as
the
percentage of correct predictions out of all the observations.

2. Precision
Precision is defined as the percentage of true positive cases versus all the cases where the
prediction is true.

3. Recall
Recall is defined as the fraction of positive cases that are correctly Identified.

4. F1 score
The F1 score is a number between 0 and 1 and is the harmonic mean of precision and recall

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 Questions

1 mark Questions
1) Which of the following is correct about the rule-based approach?
a. We cannot provide enough rules to the machine.
b. A drawback/feature for this approach is that the learning is static.
c. Once the rules are fed into the system, it takes into consideration any changes
made in the original training dataset.
d. It can improve itself based on the feedbacks.

2) Choose the five stages of AI project cycle in correct order

a. Evaluation -> Problem Scoping -> Data Exploration -> Data Acquisition ->Modelling
b. Problem Scoping -> Data Exploration -> Data Acquisition -> Evaluation ->Modelling
c. Data Acquisition -> Problem Scoping -> Data Exploration -> Modelling ->Evaluation
d. Problem Scoping -> Data Acquisition -> Data Exploration -> Modelling ->Evaluation

3) A business problem wherein we categorize whether an observation is “Safe,” “At Risk,” or

“Unsafe” is an example of
a. Classification
b. Clustering
c. Regression
d. Dimensionality Reduction

4) Assertion (A): We can use histograms when data is in categories (such as "Pop",
"Rock", ”Jazz”, ”Hip-Hop” etc.)
Reason (R): We use bar charts when we have continuous data (such as a person's height or
weight)
a. (A) is false but (R) is true
b. (A) is true but (R) is false
c. Both (A) and (R) are true
d. Both (A) and (R) are false
5) Choose the correct option
a. Unsupervised learning ->labelled dataset, Regression
b. Supervised learning -> labelled data set, Regression
c. Unsupervised learning ->unlabelled dataset, Classification
d. Supervised learning -> unlabelled data set, Regression

6) Data about the houses such as square footage, number of rooms, features,
whether a house has a garden or not, and the prices of these houses, i.e., the
corresponding labels are fed into an AI machine. By leveraging data coming from thousands
of houses, their features and prices, we can now train the model to predict a new house’s
price. This is an example of
a) Reinforcement learning
b) Supervised learning
c) Unsupervised learning

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d) None of the above

7) is defined as the percentage of correct predictions out of all the

observations.
a) Predictions
b) Accuracy
c) Reality
d) F1 Score
8) In , the machine is trained with huge amounts of data
which helps it in training itself around the data.
a) Supervised Learning
b) Deep Learning
c) Classification
d) Unsupervised Learning
9) What is the role of modelling in an NLP based AI model?
a) Modelling in NLP helps in processing of AI model
b) Modelling is required to make an AI model
c) In NLP, modelling requires data pre-processing only after which the data is fed to the
machine.
d) Modelling is used in simplification of data acquisition
10) Recall-Evaluation method is
a) defined as the fraction of positive cases that are correctly identified.
b) defined as the percentage of true positive cases versus all the cases where the prediction
is true.
c) defined as the percentage of correct predictions out of all the observations.
d) comparison between the prediction and reality
11)Give 2 examples of Supervised Learning models.
a) Classification and Regression
b) Clustering and Dimensionality Reduction
c) Rule Based and Learning Based
d) Classification and Clustering

12) Define Machine Learning.

a) Machine learning is the study of computer algorithms that improve automatically through
experience.
b) Refers to any technique that enables computers to mimic human intelligence.

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c) Machine learning refers to computer systems (both machines and software) enables
machines to perform tasks for which it is programmed.
d) Machine Learning refers to projects that allow the machine to work on a particular logic.
13) Differentiate between Prediction and Reality.
a) Prediction is the input given to the machine to receive the expected result of the reality.
b) Prediction is the output given to match the reality.
c) The prediction is the output which is given by the machine and the reality is the real
scenario in which the prediction has been made.
d) Prediction and reality both can be used interchangeably.
14) Which of the following statements is true for the term Evaluation?
a) Helps in classifying the type and genre of a document.
b) It helps in predicting the topic for a corpus.
c) Helps in understanding the reliability of any AI model
d) Process to extract the important information out of a corpus.
15) Which of the following is not part of the AI Project Cycle?
a) Data Exploration
b) Modelling
c) Testing
d) Problem Scoping
16) refers to the AI modelling where the machine learns byitself.
a) Learning Based
b) Rule Based
c) Machine Learning
d) Data Sciences

17) Define the term Machine Learning. Also give 2 applications of Machine Learning in our
daily lives.

18) Differentiate between Classification and Regression.

19) Which of these is NOT used for visualization in AI?
a) Pie Chart
b) Scatter plot
c) Ruler
d) Bar chart

20) Which of the following is an example of rule-based approach?

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a) Pixel it activity
b) Decision trees
c) Histogram
d) Illustration diagram
21) Match the best choice of graph for the data below.
1. Chart to show the number of students in a school over past 5 years.
2. Chart to show the temperature on each day of the week.
3. Chart to show percentage of each sale of ticket type at a concert

a) 1 -> i) ; 2 -> ii) ; 3 -> iii)

b) 1 -> ii) ; 2 -> iii) ; 3 -> i)
c) 1 -> iii) ; 2 -> i) ; 3 -> ii)
d) 1 -> iii) ; 2 -> ii) ; 3 -> i)

22) Name all the stages of an AI Project cycle.

23) What is Testing Dataset?
24) Mention the types of learning approaches for AI modeling
25) What is the objective of evaluation stage?
26) is not a learning-based approach where AI model gets trained on the data fed to it and
then is able to design a model which is adaptive to the change in data.[CBSE TERM-1
2021]
a) Supervised Learning
b) Unsupervised Learning
c) Reinforcement Learning
d) Enforcement Learning
27) Unsupervised learning is divided into the following two categories. Identify the correct
one. [CBSE TERM-1 2021]
a) Rule based and learning based
b) Classification and clustering
c) Clustering and dimensionality reduction
d) Classification and regression

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28) is one of the types supervised learning model, where data is classified according
labels and data need not be continuous.
[CBSE TERM-1 2021]
a) Regression
b) Clustering
c) Classification
d) Dimensionality reduction

29) In design is adaptive to change in data, which results in dynamicity of a

model. [CBSE TERM-1 2021]
a) Learning based approach
b) Rule-based approach
c) Data Acquisition
d) Data modelling
30) Drawbacks of Rule based approach is/are: [CBSE TERM-1 2021]
I. The learning is static
II. Any changes made to the original data will not be considered
III. Once trained the model cannot improvise on the basis of feedback
a) All of the above statements are correct
b) Statements i and ii are correct
c) Statements ii and iii are correct
d) Statements i and iii are correct

31) Evaluation is the process of understanding the reliability of any AI model, based on
outputs by feeding test dataset into the model and comparing with actual answers.
Therefore, it must be followed by: [CBSE TERM-1 2021]
a) Problem Scoping c) Data Acquisition
b) Data Exploration d) Modelling
32) Classification and regression are , and approach followed is
[CBSE TERM-1 2021]
a) Supervised, Learning c) Unsupervised, Learning
b) Reinforcement, Learning d) Supervised, rule-based
33) refers to the unsupervised learning algorithm which can cluster the unknown data
according to the patterns or trends identified out of it.
[CBSE TERM-1 2021]
a) Regression c) Classification
e) Clustering d) Dimensionality reduction
34) Accuracy, Recall, Precision, F1 Score are the parameters to calculate the efficiency under
[CBSE TERM-1 2021]
a) Data Acquisition c) Data Evaluation
b) Data Testing d) Data Modelling
35) Assertion(A): The training data should be authentic and relevant to the problem statement
scoped. [CBSE TERM-1 2021]
Reason(R): It increases the AI project efficiency.
a) Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A.
b) Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A.
c) A is true but R is false.
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 d) A is false but R is true.
36) Which type of graphical representation suits best for continuous type of data
like monthly exam scores of a student?

2 Mark Questions

37) What are the two different approaches for AI modelling? Define them
38) Draw the graphical representation of Classification AI model. Explain in brief.
39) Draw the graphical representation of Regression AI model. Explain in brief
40) Draw the graphical representation of Clustering AI model. Explain in brief.
41) Explain Data Exploration stage

3 Mark questions
42) Differentiate between rule-based and learning-based AI modelling approaches.
43) Explain the following:
a. Supervised Learning b. Unsupervised Learning
44) Differentiate between classification and clustering algorithms with the help of suitable
examples.

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 NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

INTRODUCTION
Computers can understand the structured form of data like spreadsheets and the tables
in the database, but human languages, texts, and voices form an unstructured category
of data, and it gets difficult for the computer to understand it, and there arises the need
for Natural Language Processing.

Natural Language Processing, or NLP, is the sub-field of AI that is focused on enabling

computers to understand and process human languages. AI is a subfield of Linguistics,
Computer Science, Information Engineering, and Artificial Intelligence concerned with the
interactions between computers and human (natural) languages, in particular how to
program computers to process and analyze large amounts of natural language data.
Solving a complex problem in Machine Learning means building a pipeline. In simple
terms, it means breaking a complex problem into a number of small problems, making
models for each of them and then integrating these models. A similar thing is done in NLP.
We can break down the process of understanding English for a model into a number of
small pieces.

A usual interaction between machines and humans using Natural Language Processing
could go as follows:
Humans talk to the computer
The computer captures the audio
There is an audio to text conversion
Text data is processed
Data is converted to audio
The computer plays the audio file and responds to humans

Applications of Natural Language Processing

1. Chatbots

Chatbots are a form of artificial intelligence that is programmed to interact

with humans in such a way that they sound like humans themselves.
Depending on the complexity of the chatbots, they can either just respond
to specific keywords or they can even hold full conversations that make it
tough to distinguish them from humans. Chatbots are created using
Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning, which means that
they understand the complexities of the English language and find the actual meaning of
the sentence and they also learn from their conversations with humans and become better
with time. Chatbots work in two simple steps. First, they identify the meaning of the
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question asked and collect all the data from the user that may be required to answer the
question. Then they answer the question appropriately.

2. Autocomplete in Search Engines

Have you noticed that search engines tend to guess

what you are typing and automatically complete your
sentences? For example, On typing “game” in Google,
you may get further suggestions for “game of
thrones”, “game of life” or if you are interested in maths
then “game theory”. All these suggestions are
provided using autocomplete that uses Natural
Language Processing to guess what you want to ask. Search engines use their enormous
data sets to analyze what their customers are probably typing when they enter particular
words and suggest the most common possibilities. They use Natural Language
Processing to make sense of these words and how they are interconnected to form
different sentences.

3. Voice Assistants

These days voice assistants are all the rage! Whether its Siri, Alexa, or Google Assistant,
almost everyone uses one of these to make calls, place
reminders, schedule meetings, set alarms, surf the internet, etc.
These voice assistants have made life much easier. But how do
they work? They use a complex combination of speech
recognition, natural language understanding, and natural
language processing to understand what humans are saying and
then act on it. The long term goal of voice assistants is to become
a bridge between humans and the internet and provide all manner of services based on
just voice interaction. However, they are still a little far from that goal seeing as Siri still
can’t understand what you are saying sometimes!

4. Language Translator

Want to translate a text from English to Hindi but don’t know Hindi? Well, Google Translate
is the tool for you! While it’s not exactly 100% accurate, it is still
a great tool to convert text from one language to another.
Google Translate and other translation tools as well as use
Sequence to sequence modeling that is a technique in Natural
Language Processing. It allows the algorithm to convert a
sequence of words from one language to another which is
translation. Earlier, language translators used Statistical machine translation (SMT)
which meant they analyzed millions of documents that were already translated from one
language to another (English to Hindi in this case) and then looked for the common
patterns and basic vocabulary of the language. However, this method was not that
accurate as compared to Sequence to sequence modeling.

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5. Sentiment Analysis

Almost all the world is on social media these days! And

companies can use sentiment analysis to understand how a
particular type of user feels about a particular topic, product,
etc. They can use natural language processing,
computational linguistics, text analysis, etc. to
understand the general sentiment of the users for their
products and services and find out if the sentiment is good,
bad, or neutral. Companies can use sentiment analysis in a lot of ways such as to find out
the emotions of their target audience, to understand product reviews, to gauge their brand
sentiment, etc. And not just private companies, even governments use sentiment analysis
to find popular opinion and also catch out any threats to the security of the nation.

6. Grammar Checkers

Grammar and spelling is a very important factor while writing professional reports for your
superiors and even assignments for your lecturers. After all, having
major errors may get you fired or failed! That’s why grammar and spell
checkers are a very important tool for any professional writer. They can
not only correct grammar and check spellings but also suggest better
synonyms and improve the overall readability of your content. And
guess what, they utilize natural language processing to provide the best
possible piece of writing! The NLP algorithm is trained on millions of
sentences to understand the correct format. That is why it can suggest the correct verb
tense, a better synonym, or a clearer sentence structure than what you have written.
Some of the most popular grammar checkers that use NLP include Grammarly,
WhiteSmoke, ProWritingAid, etc.

7. Email Classification and Filtering

Emails are still the most important method for professional communication. However, all
of us still get thousands of promotional Emails that we don’t want to read.
Thankfully, our emails are automatically divided into 3 sections namely,
Primary, Social, and Promotions which means we never have to open
the Promotional section! But how does this work? Email services use
natural language processing to identify the contents of each Email with text
classification so that it can be put in the correct section. This method
is not perfect since there are still some Promotional newsletters in
Primary, but it’s better than nothing. In more advanced cases, some companies also use
specialty anti-virus software with natural language processing to scan the Emails and see
if there are any patterns and phrases that may indicate a phishing attempt on the
employees.

8. Text Summarization
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Text summarization is the process of creating a shorter version of the text with only vital
information and thus, helps the user to understand the text in a shorter amount of time.
The main advantage of text summarization lies in the fact that it reduces user’s time in
searching the important details in the document.
There are two main approaches to summarizing text documents –
1. Extractive Method: It involves selecting phrases and sentences from the original
text and including it in the final summary.
Example:
Original Text: Python is a high-level, interpreted, interactive, and object-oriented
scripting language. Python is a great language for the beginner-level programmers.
Extractive Summary: Python is a high-level scripting language is great language for
beginner-level programmers.
2. Abstractive Method: The Abstractive method involves generating entirely new
phrases and sentences to capture the meaning of source document.
Example:
Original Text: Python is a high-level, interpreted, interactive, and object-oriented
scripting language. Python is a great language for the beginner-level programmers
Abstractive Summary: Python is interpreted and interactive language and it is easy
to learn.

1. Text Classification
Texts are a form of unstructured information that possesses very prosperous
records inside them. Text Classifiers categorize and arrange exceptionally a
great deal with any form of textual content that we use currently. Text
classification makes it possible to assign predefined categories to a document
and organize it to help you find the information you need or simplify some
activities. For example, an application of text categorization is spam filtering in
email. A very fundamental key and remarks for commercial enterprise would be
how their merchandise is touching their meant buyers and Text Classification
offers solutions to enterprise questions with the aid of classifying people’s
opinions on the stated brand, price, and aspects.

Questions

1 What do you mean by Natural language processing

2 Name the AI game which uses NLP
3 Write an example of text classification
4 Which application of NLP assigns predefined categories to a
document and organize it to help customer to find the information they
want

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 5 I used to identify opinions online to help what customers think about
the products and services. Who am I?

PYTHON
Introduction to Python

Python is a programming language which was created by Guido Van Rossum . It can be used to
follow both procedural approach and object-oriented approach of programming. Python has a lot
of functionalities which makes it so popular to use.

Why Python for AI?

Artificial intelligence is the trending technology of the future. We can see so many applications
around us. If we as individuals would also like to develop an AI application, we will need to know a
programming language. There are various programming languages like Lisp, Prolog, C++, Java
and Python, which can be used for developing applications of AI. Out of these, Python gains a
maximum popularity because of the following reasons:

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Applications of Python
There exist a wide variety of applications when it comes to Python. Some of the applications are:

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PYTHON BASICS

Comments

Comments are the statements which are incorporated in the code to give a better understanding
of code statements to the user.

There are two types of comments in python.

1. Single Line
2. Multi Line

Single Line comment

A single-line comment is used to add some explanatory text in the program for better understanding
of the next line. A # sign is used to write a single line comment in the python program
For example,
# statement to add two numbers
res = 6 + 7
#Print the result
print(res)

Multiline comments

The multiline comments are written in python using triple quotes. You can write number lines
starting with triple quotes and end with triple quotes.
For example,
'''Write a python program to display the difference between two numbers, the first number should
be larger than second number'''
n1=5
n2=2
res=n1 - n2
print(res)

Keywords (Reserved Words)

Keywords are the reserved words or pre-defined words with a special meaning to the machine by
default. So the user cannot use them anywhere else or it cannot be changed or modified in the
entire program. They are always case-sensitive.
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 Identifiers

Identifiers are names used in programs to identify small units of programs such as variables,
objects, classes, functions etc.
Identifiers defined by the following few rules as follows:

1. It can be a combination of numbers and letters

2. It must start alphabets or underscore
3. Special characters are not allowed in identifiers name except underscore
4. Spaces are not allowed in identifier names, underscore can be used to separate two words
5. Upper Case and Lower Case letters are treated differently

Examples:

MyData, roll_no, year1 etc…

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Variables
A variable is a named location used to store data in the memory. It is helpful to think of variables
as a container that holds data which can be changed later throughout programming.
For example,
a=10
b=20

These declarations make sure that the program reserves memory for two variables with the names
a and b. The variable names stand for the memory location.

Note:

Assignment operator is used in Python to assign values to variables. For example, a = 5 is a simple
assignment operator that assigns the value 5 on the right to the variable a on the left.

Datatypes

In program, you have a choice to use any type of data such as real numbers, numbers with
decimals, numbers without decimals, text, etc. These type of data is defined by datatype in Python.
The python interprets the type of the variable according to the value stored in the variable. Follow
the below-given link to know more about data types.

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Python Input and Output
We use the print() function to output data to the standard output device (screen). We can also
output data to a file.
An example is given below.
a = "Hello World!"
print(a)
The output of the above code will be: Hello World!

Example Code Output

a = 20 30
b = 10
print(a + b)

print(15 + 35) 50

print("My name is Alan") My name is Alan

name=”Alan” My name is Alan

print("My name is “,name)
n=5 I have 5 Apples !
print("I have",n,"Apples !")

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 input() function

The input() function is used to accept values from the user at runtime. This function accepts and
returns the text data by default. Therefore, you need to specify the data type if you want to use
numbers or any other datatype. This process is known as typecasting

Str = input(<String>) # Python expects the input to be of string datatype

Number = int(input(<string>)) # Input string gets converted to an integer value before assignment

Value = float(input(<String>)) # Input string gets converted to a decimal value before assignment.

Python Operators
Operators are special symbols which represent computation. They are applied on operand(s),
which can be values or variables. Same operators can behave differently on different data types.
Operators when applied on operands form an expression.
Operators are categorized as Arithmetic, Relational, Logical and Assignment operators.
Values and variables when used with operators are known as operands.

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Conditional Statements

While coding in Python, sometimes we need to take decisions. For example, if a person needs to
create a calculator with the help of a Python code, he/she needs to take in 2 numbers from the
user and then ask the user about which function he/she wishes to operate. Now, according to the
user’s choice, the selection of function would change. In this case, we need the machine to
understand what should happen when. This is where conditional statements help.

Conditional statements help the machine in taking a decision according to the condition which gets
fulfilled. There exist different types of conditional statements in Python.

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Some of them are:

Simple if Statement

If you have only one condition to be execute or one possibility of output, simple if statement is
useful for the same. Simple it executes the True condition block. Suppose, If gate is open you are
allowed to go inside!

Let’s see the syntax:

if <condition>:
statement(s)
Example:
gate_status = "open"
if gate_status=="open":
print("Entry is permitted")

if else statement

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If else statement evaluates the test expression and will execute body of if only if the condition is
true . If the condition is false body of else will be executed .The blocks are separated using proper
indentation.
if <condition>:
statement(s)
else:
statement(s)

Observe the following code:

gate_status = "open"
if gate_status=="open":
print("Entry is permitted")
else:
print("You have to go back to your home, Bye - Bye")

if- elif- else ladder

Python if-elif-else ladder is used in the case when you have more than two choices or possibilities.
The elif is a short form of else if. The ladder means it will continue upto n possiblities.

The syntax for python ef-elif-else ladder is as following:

if <condition1>:
statement(s)
elif <condition2>:
statement(s)
elif <condition3>:
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 statement(s)
....
....
....
else:
statement(s)

Example :

if num > 0:
print("Positive number")
elif num == 0:
print("Zero")
else:
print("Negative number")

Python loops

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Loops are a collection of statements executed repeatedly until the condition evaluates to false. It
is also known as iteration or iterative statements. It can be also considered as step by step
execution of python statements until the condition evaluates to false.

Types of Loop

Python support two kinds of loops.

1. While: A while loop is used when you have different repetitive statements with a single
condition. When the condition gets false, your loop will terminate itself. While loop may have
else block too quite often.
2. For: The easy and popular loop is for a loop. It is very easy to write and understand because
all the parts of loops are written in the same line in for loop. It will reduce the lines of codes
as three parts of loops are written in a single line.

while loop

The while syntax is as follows:

while <condition>:
statement(s)
update_statement

Observe this code which displays a series of numbers from 1 to 10.

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i=1
while i<=10:
print(i)
i=i+1
print("End of loop")

For Loop

The for loop is used to execute the sequence of statements executed in a series. It is the most
popular loop among python developers. It is also work in a similar way as while loop is working.
Observe the syntax of for loop:

for <variable> in <sequence>:

body loop

So here variable is a variable from and then you can take a sequence to execute the statements.
The in operator is used to take check the value in the specified sequence.

For the sequence, you can use the range function.

The range() function takes three basic parameters. The first is a start, the second is a stop and the
third is a step.
range(start,stop,step)
for i in range(1,10,1):
print(i)
In the above code, the range function is used. Hence, the loop starts with 1, stops with 9 and taking
one step in every execution. The output will be 1 to 9 numbers only.

PYTHON PRACTICALS :

CLASS X LIST OF PRACTICALS 2024-25

SNO SIMPLE PROGRAMS
1 Display the message “Welcome to Python "
2 Print your School Address
3 Sum of 2 numbers
4 Sum and Average of 3 numbers
5 Area and perimeter of a circle
6 Square and Cube of a Number
7 Area and perimeter of a Rectangle
8 Calculate Percentage after inputting 5 marks

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 9 Area of a triangle
10 Arithmetic Operations (+,-,*,?)
11 Calculate Simple Interest
CONDITIONAL STATEMENTS
12 Check whether a given number is even or odd using if else
13 Largest among two numbers using if else
42 Print day name in words using if elif else ladder
Print the grade of a student based on percentage using if elif else ladder after
15 inputting marks in 5 subjects
16 Print a single digit in words using if elif else ladder
17 Design a four function calculator using if elif else ladder
18 Electricity Bill Calculation using if else if ladder
LOOPING STATEMENTS
19 Print natural numbers upto N
20 Print sum of natural numbers upto N
21 Printing even no.s upto a limit
23 To check whether a number is Armstrong or not
24 To find the reverse of a number
25 Print Fibonacci series up to N
26 Find the Factorial of a number
27 Print Multiplication Table
28 Find the Sum and Average of even and odd numbers from a set of N numbers
29 Find the Largest among N numbers

Print the pattern

*
**
30
***

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I. One mark question:
1. A python package which stands for ‘Numerical Python’ is named and used as
in Python programs.
2. is another name for Numpy arrays.
3. Series is a data structure belonging to python’s library.
4. The is the mathematical average of a set of data value.
5. KNN refers to .

II. Two mark questions:

1. What is the significance of K’s value in KNN model?
2. What are Numpy arrays?
3. Name the basic data structure of NumPy.
4. What is Median?
5. What is Outlier?

III. Three marks questions:

1. How are NumPy arrays similar or different from Python lists?
2. What is data visualisation?
3. What is Matplotlib library mainly used for?

IV. Four marks question

1. What is the difference between Python lists and Numpy Arrays?
2. Explain the applications of KNN Models.

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 COMPUTER VISION

Introduction to Computer vision

Computer Vision is a subset of artificial intelligence that makes computers, machines and devices
visually enabled by giving them capability to analyse and understand the image captured by
camera. The concept of computer vision was first introduced in the 1970s.

Applications of Computer vision

Facial Recognition: A facial recognition system is a computer vision-based technology that
identifies or verifies or matches a digital image of human face against a database of stored
images. Facial recognition is performed in three steps.
a) Face detection
b) Face capture
c) Face match
This can be used in either guest recognition or log maintenance of the visitors. It also finds its
application in schools for an attendance system based on facial recognition of students.
Face Filters: The modern-day apps like Instagram and snapchat have a lot of features based on
the usage of computer vision. The application of face filters is one among them. Through the
camera the machine or the algorithm is able to identify the facial dynamics of the person and applies
the facial filter selected.
Image search on search engines: Image search where you paste an image in the search engine’s
query box and it returns the most similar images in a fraction of a second. This type of search is
called reverse image search. This uses Computer Vision as it compares different features of the
input image to the database of images and gives us the search result while at the same time
analysing various features of the image.
Computer Vision in Retail: The retail field has been one of the fastest growing field and at the same
time is using Computer Vision for making the user experience more fruitful. Retailers can use
Computer Vision techniques to
 Track customers’ movements through stores, analyse navigational routes and detect
walking patterns.
 Manage inventory: Through security camera image analysis, a Computer Vision algorithm
can generate a very accurate estimate of the items available in the store.
 Analyse the use of shelf space to identify suboptimal configurations and suggest better item
placement.
Self-driving cars: Computer Vision is the fundamental technology behind developing autonomous
vehicles. AI is used for developing on-road versions of hands-free technology. This involves the
process of identifying the objects, getting navigational routes and also at the same time
environment monitoring.
Medical Imaging: It is widely used in medical imaging in the form of many applications such as
 Skin cancer detection
 Surgery simulations
 Diagnosis Aid
 Pneumonia detection

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Agriculture: Drones mounted with computer vision technology are being used for crop monitoring.
Computer vision systems can monitor animals such as cattle, sheep, pigs or other with cameras
Google Translate App: By using optical character recognition to see the image and augmented
reality to overlay an accurate translation, Google translate app is a convenient tool that uses
Computer Vision to read signs in a foreign language and to translate it to your preferred language.

Questions
Fill in the blanks
1. Emoji Scavenger Hunt game is based on technology.
2. A is a computer vision-based technology that identifies or verifies or matches a
digital image of a human face against a database of stored face image.
3. refers to a search where the search query is formed using a pasted image and
the search engine looks for matching or similar images from around the web.
4. Google reverse image search facility is officially known as
5. technology makes computers, machines and devices analyse and understand
the images captured by camera.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is computer vision?
2. What are some applications of computer vision?
3. What is reverse image search?
Answers
1. CV
2. Facial recognition
3. Reverse Image Search
4. Google Search by Image
5. CV
Computer vision concepts
Digital Images used with C
1. Pixel: - A pixel represents the smallest piece of the screen that can be controlled individually
in terms of colour and intensity.

2. Pixel Colour and Intensity: - Combination of three different colour signals- Red, Green, Blue
(RGB) ◦ White - (255,255,255) ◦ Black - (0,0,0)

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3. Resolution: - It refers to the quality and size of an image in terms of the number of pixels it
contains, typically as ‘width x height’. ◦ Eg:- 100 * 100 pixel image has a total of 10000 pixels.
4. Colour Depth / Pixel Value: - The amount of information that is stored about a pixel
determines its colour depth (pixel value), which controls how precisely the pixel’s colour can
be specified.

5. Grayscale Images:- It is an image in which the only colours are shades of gray

6. RGB Images (Coloured Images): - It is a coloured image that is formed by the three-colour
information stored for each pixel of a digital image

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Image Features:
An image feature is a measurable piece of data in image which is unique to this specific object,
such as a distinct colour, specific shape or an image segment

Questions & Answers

Answer the following questions (1 mark)
1. A ............... represents the smallest piece of the screen that can be controlled individually in
terms of colour and intensity.
Ans: Pixel
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 2. Image ............. refers to the quality and size of an image in terms of the number of pixels it
contains, typically as ‘width x height’.
Ans: Resolution
3. RGB value ................. represents black colour.
Ans: (0,0,0)
4. RGB value ..................... represents white colour.
Ans: (255,255,255)
5. An ....................... is a measurable piece of data in your image which is unique to this specific
object, such as a distinct colour, specific shape or an image segment.
Ans: Image feature

Answer the following questions (2 mark)

6. What is the difference between grayscale and RGB images?
Ans: A grayscale image is an image in which the only colours are shades of gray. An RGB
image is a coloured image that is formed by the three-colour information (red, green, blue)
stored for each pixel of a digital image.

Answer the following questions(3 mark)

7. What do you understand by image features? How are these useful in computer vision?
Ans: An image feature is a measurable piece of data in an image which is unique to this
specific object, such as a distinct colour, specific shape or an image segment.
Using image features, the CV algorithms identify and create classes of objects. Using
these classes, various CV tasks take place.

OBJECTVE TYPE QUESTIONS

1) is the process of transforming an image by applying a similar effect through a
special array namely kernel over each pixel and it’s local neighbours across the entire image.

a) Image flattening b) Pooling

c) Convolution d) ReLU

2) In convolution operation, the is a matrix of values whose size and values determine
the transformation effect of the image through convolution process.

a) ReLU b) Kernel
c) Pooling d) None of these
3) Which of the following is not a layer of the CNN architecture?
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a) Convolutional layer b) ReLU layer
b) c) Pooling layer d) Flattening layer

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4) In a CNN, which of these layers use convolution operation on the images with the help of
several kernels?

a) Convolutional layer b) ReLU layer

b) c) Pooling layer d) Fully connected

5) In CNN, which of these layers uses rectified linear activation function?

a) Full connected b) ReLU layer

c) Convolutional layer d) Pooling layer

6) Which of the polling types are used mostly in the pooling layer?

a) Maximum pooling b) Average pooling

c) Minimum pooling d) Median pooling

7) In a CNN, which of these layers performs classification based on the features by previous
layer by classifying the images based on their labels assigning after image flattening?

a) Pooling layer b) Convolutional layer

c) ReLU layer d) Fully connected

SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS

1. What is ReLU? What does it do?
Ans) ReLU means Rectified Linear activation function. It is a piecewise linear function that only
outputs the input directly if it is positive, otherwise it removes the inputs falling in negative range.
This helps in sharpening the edges of images.
2. What is pooling? How is it performed?
Ans) Pooling refers to the down-sampling of the data by bringing the overall dimensions of the
images. Mostly two types of pooling takes place: (i) Maximum pooling (where the maximum value
of a pool is taken) and (ii) Average pooling (where the average of all values of a pool is taken).
3. What is Convolutional layer?
Ans) Convolutional layer uses convolution operation on the images with the help of several
kernels to produce several features such as edges, colour, gradient orientation, etc
4. What is the objective of fully connected layer?
Ans) The final layer in the CNN is the Fully Connected Layer. The objective of a
Fully connected layer is to take the results of the convolution/pooling process
and use them to classify the image into a label (in a simple classification example)
5 Define the term ‘Kernel’?
Ans) A Kernel is a matrix used for applying various effects on image through
convolution such as for blurring, sharpening, embossing, edge detection and more
In Convolutional neural network, the kernel is nothing but a filter that is
used to extract the features from the images
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 PRACTICAL PROGRAMS
PROGRAM NO-1

Python Basics-1
AIM- Write a Python program to print the following string in a specific format.

SOURCE CODE-
print("Twinkle, twinkle, little star, \n\tHow I wonder what you are! \n\t\tUp
above the world so high, \n\t\tLike a diamond in the sky. \nTwinkle, twinkle,
little star, \n\tHow I wonder what you are!")

OUTPUT-

RESULT- The source code is executed successfully and the output was verified.

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 PROGRAM NO-2
Python Basics-2
AIM- Write a Python program to print 5 lines about yourself using print() function.
SOURCE CODE-

OUTPUT-

RESULT- The source code is executed successfully and the output was verified.

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 PROGRAM NO-3
Python Basics-3

AIM- Write a program to make a simple calculator.

SOURCE CODE-

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OUTPUT-

RESULT- The source code is executed successfully and the output was verified.

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 PROGRAM NO-5
Python Basics-5
AIM- A tours and travels company charges their customer as per following criteria according
to customer category.
Category Charges

A 18

B 15

C 12

D 10

Others 20

SOURCE CODE-

OUTPUT-

RESULT- The source code is executed successfully and the output was verified.

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 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (417)
Sample Question Paper
Class X Marks: 50

Time: 2 Hours

SECTION A: OBJECTIVE TYPE QUESTIONS

SECTION A: OBJECTIVE TYPE QUESTIONS

Ramya and Ramu both own plant shops. Ramu sits at his shop every day.
When customers come, he sells to them. Ramya walks around and gets
customers to her shop. She also sells seeds and flowers. Who is
Entrepreneur out of Ramya and Ramu.
1 a) Ramya 1

b) Ramu
c) Both of the above
d) None of the above

refers to focusing human efforts for maintaining a

healthy body and mind capable of better withstanding stressful situations

2 a) Mental Health 1
b) Emotional Health
c) Self-Management
d) Stress Management
Indian great Srinivasa Ramanujan had exceptional understanding of
Theory of Numbers and Continuous Fractions and other Mathematical
equations. He possessed intelligence.
a) Linguistic
3 1
b) interpersonal
c) Naturalistic
d) logical- mathematical

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 act as an interface between the user and the computer.
a) Operating System
b) Ms Excel
4 1
c) Impress
d) Digital Documentation

The Meta company’s AI team recently trained an image recognition

model to 85% accuracy using billions of public Instagram photos
tagged with hashtags. The key technology behind this model is
_.
5 a) NLP 1
b) Computer Vision
c) Data
d) All of these

Which of the following is not an AI Domain?

a) Deep learning
6 b) Machine Learning 1
c) Computer Vision
d) Computer Aided Design
Choose the five stages of AI project cycle in correct order

a) Evaluation -> Problem Scoping -> Data Exploration -> Data

Acquisition -> Modelling
7 b) Problem Scoping -> Data Exploration -> Data Acquisition -> 1
Evaluation -> Modelling
c) Data Acquisition -> Problem Scoping -> Data Exploration ->
Modelling -> Evaluation
d) Problem Scoping -> Data Acquisition -> Data Exploration ->
Modelling -> Evaluation

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 is the process of understanding the reliability of any AI
model, based on outputs by feeding
test dataset into the model and comparing with actual answers.
a) Evaluation 1
8
b) Problem Scoping
c) Data acquisition
d) Data Exploration

The people who face the stated problem and would be benefitted from the
solution are termed as
9 a) Stakeholders 1
b) Key Persons
c) Who
d) End user
How many SDGs have been announced by the United nations?

10 a) 20 1
b) 17
c) 30
d) 25

Which of the following statement is correct for problem scoping

11 a) it will create real value for the organization 1

b) it will create more confusion among the stakeholders
c) it is a tool that prevents the problem will not recur
d) it is a tool that provides a clear understanding of the data flow

You would feed the data into the machine. This is the data with which
the machine can be trained. Now, once it is ready, it will predict his next
data efficiently. This previous data is known as .
12 a. Testing Data 1
b. Training Data
c. Exploring Data
d. All of the above

The _block helps in analyzing the people getting affected

directly or indirectly due to it.
a. Who
13 1
b. What
c. Where
d. Why

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 Name any 2 methods of collecting data.
a) Surveys and Interviews
14 1
b) Rumors and Myths
c) AI models and applications
d) Imagination and thoughts

You need to which will become the base of your project as it

will help you in understanding what the parameters that are related to
problem scoping are.
15 a. Acquire Data 1
b. Database
c. Data Mining
d. None of the above

NLP stands for .

a. Natural Language Processing
16 b. Nature Language Processing 1
c. None Language Processing
d. None of the above

You called a company’s customer care office. An application there

responded you, spoke to you, asked broadly about your issue and then
transferred your call to appropriate department. This is an example of
_ technology of AI.
17 a) Machine Learning 1
b) Big Data
c) NLP
d) Data Science
The driverless cars use domains and technologies of AI.
a) GPS
18 b) Data 1
c) Computer Vision
d) all of these

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 makes it possible to assign predefined categories to a
document and organize it to help you find the information you need or
simplify some activities.
a. Automatic Summarization
19 1
b. Sentiment Analysis
c. Text Classification
d. All of the above

can be defined as the fraction of positive cases that are

correctly identified.
a. Recall
20 1
b. Accuracy
c. Precision
d. Data acquisition

SECTION B
21 Name any 4 qualities of an entrepreneur. 2

22 List any 4 activities that help in stress management. 2

23 What are antivirus? Name any 2 antiviruses. 2

24 Explain the training data and testing data with an example 2

25 Speech recognition and response by machine is a revolutionary concept.

26 What is 4Ws Problem Canvas? 2

27 What is a virtual assistant? Give Example? 2

28 What is Precision? Mention its formula. 2

29 Why is evaluation important? Explain. 2

Section C

30 Explain how AI works in the following areas (any two): 4

31 What are the steps of text Normalization? Explain them in brief. 4

32 Write the applications of NLP (Natural Language Processing). (Any four) 4