Artificial Intelligence 2026 — MAKAUT · PEC-IT-501B · Mid Sem PYQ with solutions

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28 answers across 3 groups

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Group AVery Short Answer Type Question · answer any 10 · 1 mark each

  1. I

    What is Intelligence?

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    Intelligence is the ability of a system to perceive its environment, understand and learn from data, and adapt its behavior by applying knowledge to solve problems and achieve specific goals.

  2. II

    What do you mean by simulated annealing in AI?

  3. III

    Define knowledge base.

  4. IV

    What do you understand by FOL or First Order Logic?

  5. V

    Define Syntax.

  6. VI

    What is an agent in AI?

  7. VII

    What is Plateua/flat local maximum in the State Space Diagram?

  8. VIII

    What do you understand by Shoulder in the State Space Diagram?

  9. IX

    "Mary loves everyone." [assuming domain (D) includes both humans and non-humans] - Convert into 1st-order predicate logic.

  10. X

    What is Relevance based Learning (RBL) in AI?

  11. XI

    Define Artificial Intelligence in terms of "Thinking Humanly".

  12. XII

    What do you mean by A* search?

Group BShort Answer Type Question · answer any 3 · 5 marks each

  1. 2

    What is depth limited search? Explain with an example.

  2. 3

    Explain Mini-Max algorithm in Artificial Intelligence.

  3. 4

    Design the PEAS information for taxi satellite image analysis system agent and part-picking robot agent.

  4. 5

    What is Alpha Beta Pruning? What are the condition for Alpha Beta Pruning? What is Adversarial Search?

  5. 6

    What is the main purpose of expert systems? Describe the phases of designing an expert system? What term is used to call the whole process?

Group CLong Answer Type Question · answer any 3 · 15 marks each

  1. 7(a)

    What is knowledge representation?

    5 marks
  2. 7(b)

    Represent various types of knowledge in AI.

    10 marks
  3. 8

    Write Short notes on

    • (a)
      Propositional logic in Artificial intelligence
    • (b)
      First-Order Logic in Artificial intelligence
    • (c)
      Difference between Inductive and Deductive reasoning
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  4. 9(a)

    What is NLP or Natural Language Processing?

    2 marks
  5. 9(b)

    What are the pros and cons of NLP?

    5 marks
  6. 9(c)

    What are different phases of NLP?

    5 marks
  7. 9(d)

    Write down the components of NLP.

    3 marks
  8. 10(a)

    Draw the state space graph of Hill climbing search. What are the draw backs of this algorithm?

    11 marks
  9. 10(b)

    How to Over Come the above drawbacks ?

    4 marks
  10. 11(a)

    Explain Goal based Agent, Utility based Agent, and Learning Agent architecture with proper diagram.

    10 marks
  11. 11(b)

    Explain Learning Agent architecture with proper diagram.

    5 marks

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The MAKAUT Artificial Intelligence (PEC-IT-501B) 2026 Mid Sem previous year question paper, set in semester 5. Download the verified PDF or read it online, then check your answers against the worked solutions above.

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