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📋 CNN Exam Format at a Glance

150

Questions

180 min

Time Limit

70%

Passing Score

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📚 CNN Topics to Study (57)

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✍️ Sample CNN Questions & Answers

1. What filter size does VGGNet use exclusively in its convolutional layers?

✓ 3x3

VGGNet uses only 3x3 convolutional filters, showing that stacking small filters achieves the same receptive field as larger filters with fewer parameters.

2. In Parametric ReLU (PReLU), what is learned during training?

✓ The slope of the activation for negative inputs, as a trainable parameter

PReLU learns the negative-slope coefficient α via backpropagation, allowing the network to adapt the activation shape rather than fixing it at a preset value.

3. How does a transposed convolution (sometimes called deconvolution) differ from a standard convolution in terms of spatial output?

✓ It increases spatial dimensions, making it useful for upsampling

Transposed convolution is the gradient operation of a forward convolution; it increases spatial size and is used in decoders, GANs, and segmentation networks.

4. The gradient of a substance's concentration, such as urea, during peritoneal dialysis

✓ Decreases

During peritoneal dialysis, the dialysate solution is introduced into the peritoneal cavity, creating a concentration gradient for waste products like urea. Initially, urea concentration is high in the blood and low in the dialysate. As dialysis progresses, urea moves from the blood into the dialysate, causing its concentration in the blood to decrease and its concentration in the dialysate to increase, thus reducing the overall concentration gradient over time until equilibrium is approached.

5. Which statement about Dropout during inference (test time) in a CNN is correct?

✓ Dropout is disabled and weights are scaled by the keep probability

At inference, Dropout is turned off and weights are scaled by the keep probability (or equivalently, outputs are scaled at training) to maintain expected activation magnitudes.

6. Which technique involves training a lightweight student model to mimic a larger pretrained teacher model?

✓ Knowledge distillation

Knowledge distillation trains a compact student to replicate the teacher's soft outputs, transferring knowledge to a smaller deployable model.

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