Veritas Qualifying Exam 1 Practice

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• What logical principle is illustrated by the rule: If A = B and B = C, then A = C?
• The claim 'A human being is composed of body and soul' expresses which type of truth?
• Truth is when the intellect (mind) accurately reflects or matches reality. Which term best captures this idea?
• For f(n) = 3n + 2, which notation classifications are correct?
• What is the primary benefit of Multi-Version Concurrency Control (MVCC) in databases?
• Which Greek word means 'pure'?
• What is the kernel trick in support vector machines?
• Which data structure is commonly used in Kahn's algorithm to manage the next node with zero in-degree?
• Which statement best defines Logical Truthfulness?
• Why is convex optimization easier to solve?
• What were the two gods the Albigensians believed in?
• Which term is defined by the pursuit of information, knowledge, and understanding through media?
• Which term describes information based on reality that is used to inflict harm?
• The term refers to a cultural and political climate where emotions and personal beliefs influence public opinion more than objective facts.
• This is not just about facts, but about living rightly- according to truth revealed by reason and faith.
• Which term best describes a media organization that resists influence from political or corporate pressures?
• A.K.A truth in soul or in living?
• Which term refers to the use of media as a way to relieve stress, escape from reality, or relax?
• Veritas is described as the daughter of which figure?
• What are the time complexities of naive matrix multiplication and Strassen's algorithm?
• What does ACID stand for in databases, and why is it important?
• Which term describes the deliberate crafting of messages to convey a specific intended meaning?
• In what year was Veritas established by St. Dominic during the Albigensian heresy in Southern France?
• Which characteristic is commonly associated with NoSQL databases?
• Which term best describes media that operates without interference from the state, corporate sponsors, or large institutions?
• In PCA, what is the purpose of selecting the top eigenvectors?
• What is the time complexity of binary search on a sorted array of length n?
• When the media acts independently to reveal corruption, provide transparency, and strengthen democracy, this role is best described as?
• What are the three types of Truth?
• Which statement about foreign keys is accurate?
• What are the four Dominican Pillars?
• Which statement about propaganda best describes its purpose?
• Which statement best describes eventual consistency?
• Describe the bias-variance tradeoff and how regularization affects it?
• Which statement about normalization and denormalization is true?
• Which term describes a form of media that emphasizes two-way communication, personalization, and algorithm-driven experiences, including technologies like AI and AR/VR?
• Which description of a 3NF transitive dependency violation is correct?
• In the context of ORMs, which statement best contrasts eager loading and lazy loading?
• What is the descriptive label for media free from external control?
• How do vertical scaling and horizontal scaling differ, and when would you choose each?
• What does atomicity guarantee in the context of database transactions?
• What is the purpose of unit testing and provide a boundary value test for a function that accepts inputs in the range 0 to 100?
• Compare common cache eviction policies: LRU and LFU; discuss when each is advantageous.
• Which statement correctly describes learning paradigms: supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning?
• What term describes media that operates without government, corporate, or institutional control?
• Which type of Truth concerns the nature of being and existence?
• Which algorithm processes a directed acyclic graph by repeatedly removing a node with zero in-degree and updating its neighbors?
• In singular value decomposition, which statement is true about Σ?
• Spotlight breaches of rights, condemn hate groups, and reinforce moral norms; public censure can influence actors towards compliance or reform
• Identify the term for media platforms that operate without outside control?
• In loading strategies for data access, which description best captures the trade-off of eager loading?
• Which term best describes truth claims about right and wrong in ethics?
• Which type is described as a check on power and aims to promote transparency by reporting issues overlooked by mainstream outlets?
• What is another name for truth in mind or judgement?
• Which term describes truth in soul or living?
• Which statement about Bayes' theorem best describes how the posterior probability is updated when new evidence B is observed?
• Which statement correctly distinguishes parametric models from nonparametric models with examples?
• Which term is associated with seeking information, knowledge, and understanding through media as a developing stage?
• The statement 'If all mammals are warm-blooded and whales are mammals, then whales are warm-blooded' illustrates which type of truth?
• Which term is the name for the Bad God in the Albigensian dualism?
• Which statement describes how media spreads culture and teaches social behavior?
• Which function acts as a watchdog by spotlighting rights violations and condemning hate groups to reinforce moral norms?
• What is SQL injection and how do parameterized queries prevent it?
• What Latin term meaning 'truth' is also known as the goddess of truth in mythology?
• Which statement describes Strassen's algorithm in terms of matrix multiplication complexity?
• What is overfitting and how does cross-validation help mitigate it?
• Which type of truth concerns the nature of existence and the properties of beings?
• Dijkstra's algorithm is guaranteed to produce correct shortest paths under which condition?
• What is database normalization and what does third normal form (3NF) require?
• Which term describes the use of creative language, color, music, and other aesthetics, where different media employ varied aesthetics?
• Describe the differences among strong consistency, eventual consistency, and causal consistency with examples.
• Which type of truth does the statement 'Fire is hot' illustrate?
• Which media relies on donations, grants, or crowdfunding campaigns?
• A hash function collision occurs when two distinct keys map to the same bucket. Which are common resolution strategies?
• Which media type prioritizes participation and inclusivity, is not-for-profit, and funded by grants, donations, or local sponsorships?
• In terms of media ethics, what is the ideal described as producing content with minimal external pressure?
• Which algorithmic approaches can produce a topological order for a directed acyclic graph?
• Which form gives voice to underrepresented groups and fosters inclusion, with examples such as Foundation for Media Alternatives and Manila Community Radio?
• What distinctive motto is associated with the Dominican order?
• Which label is typically assigned to media organizations that maintain autonomy from outside influence?
• What did the 'Good God' create?
• From a confusion matrix, how do you compute precision and recall?
• In times of war and election, propaganda is often used primarily to accomplish what goal?
• Which statement expresses the meaning of the phrase 'Veritas est adaequatio rei et intellectus'?
• Which media type is associated with concerns about bias due to shareholder interests and may reach audiences without traditional corporate backing, with examples including GMA and ABS-CBN?
• Which entity is characterized by editorial independence separate from sponsors and government?
• In which media category does the state control the flow of information, a feature typical of authoritarian governments?
• Which category can be exemplified by private corporate media organizations such as GMA or ABS-CBN?
• Which four conditions must hold for a deadlock to occur in a system with multiple processes sharing resources?
• Explain deadlock prevention vs deadlock avoidance strategies with examples.
• Which term describes technologies and organizations that send messages to a large, diverse, unknown audience, such as newspapers, television, and the internet?
• A thing is true in itself insofar as it fulfills what is meant to be— its essence or nature. This is an example of which type of truth?
• What is the time complexity of Dijkstra's algorithm using a binary heap for a graph with V vertices and E edges?
• Which type challenges dominant narratives and holds powerful entities accountable, promoting transparency by reporting issues overlooked by mainstream outlets?
• It is the truth as expressed in correct statements, beliefs, and judgements.
• Which statement about denormalization is true?
• Which category is often described as biased information used to influence audiences and suppress dissent?
• Which scenario is typically well-suited for NoSQL databases?
• How do SQL and NoSQL database models differ, and which scenario is typical for each?
• In linear regression, what does R^2 represent?
• Which type of Truth concerns correct reasoning and logical form?
• A topological order is particularly useful for which practical purpose?
• Information based on reality; used to inflict harm on a person.
• Which type is described as a platform for marginalized communities to address issues specific to the community?
• Which term applies to a news organization that functions without external oversight?
• Which term corresponds to the idea that messages are crafted with a deliberate intent and that 'all messages are constructed'?
• Which term is the name for the Good God in the Albigensian dualism?
• How many Gods did the Albigensians believe in?
• Which is a common issue with non-convex optimization in gradient descent and a typical mitigation?
• Which statement describes a SQL window function?
• What restriction does third normal form (3NF) impose on dependencies?
• In singular value decomposition, which statement is true?
• How do dynamic programming and greedy algorithms differ, and in which problem can greedy fail?
• Which concept describes media biased in favor of authorities and used to shape public opinion?
• Which term describes media as a means to relieve stress and provide entertainment?
• What is the overall time complexity for building a min-heap with n elements and performing n extract-min operations?
• What is the space complexity of depth-first search on a graph with V vertices and E edges with respect to the recursion stack?
• Veritas is the mother of which virtue?
• The Greek root Ontos, from which 'Ontological' is derived, means which concept?
• Which term describes information that is false and disseminated by someone who believes it to be true?
• Which term describes the ethical dimension of truth, rooted in integrity and divine truth?
• In the dualistic belief, the Bad God created which of the following?
• Which role describes media clarifying interests, values, and disputing parties?
• Which statement best describes OLTP vs OLAP workloads and their typical query patterns?
• In the dualistic belief, the Good God created which of the following?
• In a typical MapReduce framework, which guarantees are provided regarding parallelism and fault tolerance?
• Which term captures the idea that different people experience the same media message differently and may negotiate its meaning?
• Which statement about the law of large numbers and the sample mean is true?
• Which term refers to media that operates without government, corporate, or institutional control, emphasizing autonomy?
• Who teaches that God is the Truth, and that all truth ultimately comes from God who is unchanging and perfect?
• Which concept refers to media practices where content is filtered through editors before publication and is mass-oriented?
• The statement 'Lying to harm someone is evil' expresses which type of truth?
• Which type of media is commonly described as state-owned and used to distribute information and mold public perception?
• Which type of Truth concerns right-wrong normative judgments?
• Which role is primarily involved in shaping societal norms through narratives and symbols?
• What do humans seek naturally through reason?
• Which statement correctly distinguishes candidate keys from superkeys?
• What is eventual consistency and in what scenarios is it acceptable?
• Which statement best describes causal consistency?
• Which metric is the harmonic mean of precision and recall?
• Which statement correctly describes primary keys, foreign keys, candidate keys, and superkeys?
• Which concept represents media that makes content decisions without external coercion?
• Which category explicitly includes the phrase 'not-for-profit' and is funded through external support rather than profits?
• In principal component analysis, eigenvectors and eigenvalues explain variance; Which statement about PCA is accurate?
• The term that refers to truth about being and essence?
• Which term best describes pre-digital mass media that are typically one-way and have limited audience interaction?
• Which algorithm solves single-source shortest paths with negative edge weights (assuming no negative cycles) and what is its time complexity?
• Spotlighting emerging conflicts or violations; creates public pressure to act; amplify human rights violations and rally attention to peacekeeping efforts
• Which term refers to media that emphasizes immersive, interactive experiences delivered with personalization and advanced technologies?
• Which term describes media's role in maintaining social relationships and a sense of belonging?
• In journalism, what is the term used for outlets not beholden to government, corporate, or institutional powers?
• What is the purpose of fault tolerance mechanisms in MapReduce frameworks?
• Which type would most likely operate with a mission to promote participation and inclusivity and rely on non-profit funding?
• Media embed cultural norms and shape identities through stories, symbols, and portrayals. Which label best captures this function?
• Differentiate hard requirements from soft requirements in project planning and how they influence scope.
• Which label is most aligned with autonomy from external influence in media?
• In functionalist analysis, which role of the media includes scanning the environment and providing alerts like weather warnings?
• What is a p-value?
• What does the CAP theorem state about distributed systems under network partitions?
• Which term is defined as referring to emotional and aesthetic experiences—seeking feelings, pleasure, and emotional satisfaction through media?
• Which category includes examples such as Foundation for Media Alternatives and Manila Community Radio as illustrating its scope?
• What is the primary purpose of database normalization in terms of data redundancy?
• Post-conflict, media can help restore trust, provide emotional outlets, reinforce privacy needs, and commemorate agreements; strengthening reconciliation
• A media outlet that refuses to bow to outside influence is commonly called what?
• What is the purpose of virtual memory and the role of the TLB?
• Which category is defined by private ownership of property and assets, allowing diverse voices and content?
• Which statement accurately contrasts an unbalanced binary search tree with a balanced BST in terms of height and worst-case search time?
• What is the Greek word for 'Cathar'?
• Where does error come from?
• What did the 'Bad God' create?
• What belief did they have that disregarded the needs of their body?
• Information that is false, person who disseminates it knowing that it is false.
• When direct dialogue between conflicting parties is difficult, media can serve as which role?
• Which statement describes the relationship between 2NF and 3NF?
• Pre-digital; typically one-way (non-interactive); limited audience interactions
• Which statement is true about Big O, Omega, and Theta notations?
• Which eviction policy is most suitable when temporal locality dominates, while long-term frequency is less important?
• The Greek root of Ontology meaning 'being' is which word?
• Which statement about the kernel trick is correct?
• What is a principal component in PCA?
• Which term refers to emotional and aesthetic experiences—seeking feelings, pleasure, and emotional satisfaction through media?
• Which term denotes the use of media to strengthen personal identity, self-confidence, and credibility, essentially how media helps you relate to yourself?
• Which media is operated by local communities to share values and experiences, and provides a platform for marginalized communities?
• Truth lived out when a person acts in accordance with right reason and God's will. It is rooted in integrity, honesty, and faithfulness to divine truth.
• Which thinker is associated with the view that God is Truth?
• Which best distinguishes immediate consistency from transactional consistency in distributed systems?
• Which label would most accurately apply to a newsroom prioritizing editorial independence over sponsorship interests?
• Which form of truth concerns the being and nature of things, not subjective beliefs?
• Gatekeeping and editorial control (very filtered as it goes through editors before published for many reasons); scheduled or physical distribution; mass-oriented and centralized
• Which term describes the use of media to build or maintain social relationships and a sense of belonging with others?
• What term describes information that is false and disseminated by someone who believes it is true?
• Which statement about dynamic programming and a classic knapsack problem is correct?
• Which term describes information that is false and spread knowingly?
• At a high level, what do Paxos and Raft consensus algorithms do and what failure tolerance do they provide?