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The Indian tax provision that imposes 30% tax on income from virtual digital assets is Section ________.
- 115BBH
- 20
- 26.5-40
- 4.0
Answer: 115BBH
Section 115BBH taxes crypto income at 30% plus cess, with 1% TDS on transactions.
The computing paradigm that uses cellular processes for computation is called ________ Computing.
- Natural Language
- Artifact / Model Registry
- Cellular / Biological
- Zero
Answer: Cellular / Biological
Cellular computing uses biochemical reactions in cells for parallel computation. Early research stage.
The Indian mission designed to study the Sun's corona from the L1 point is called ________-L1.
- Virtualization / NFV
- AI / Autonomous
- Aditya
- Digital Personal Data Protection / DPDP
Answer: Aditya
Aditya-L1 positioned at Sun-Earth L1 point for uninterrupted solar observation. Studies coronal heating, CMEs, solar flares for space weather forecasting.
The computing paradigm that uses biochemical reactions for parallel computation is called ________ Computing.
- Inversion
- Molecular / Biochemical
- Access Control
- Artifact
Answer: Molecular / Biochemical
Molecular computing uses DNA, proteins, or cellular processes for massive parallelism. Research stage with potential for ultra-low power, complex problem solving.
India's National Mission on Quantum Technologies allocates ₹________ crore over 5 years.
- 26.5-40
- 76,000
- 8000
- 115BBH
Answer: 8000
NM-QTA funds quantum computing, communication, sensing, materials research. Implemented by DST with IITs, IISc participation.
The principle that requires using personal data only for specified, explicit purposes is called ________ Limitation.
- Serverless / Athena
- Artemis
- Thought
- Purpose
Answer: Purpose
Purpose Limitation prevents function creep by ensuring data is used only as consented. Core principle in GDPR, DPDP Act, and global privacy frameworks.
The technique that smooths model predictions by adding noise to inputs during inference is called ________ Smoothing.
- Randomized
- Digital India / UPI
- Consortium
- Latency
Answer: Randomized
Randomized smoothing provides certified robustness guarantees against adversarial perturbations by averaging predictions over noisy inputs.
The practice of scanning Infrastructure as Code templates for security misconfigurations is called ________ Scanning.
- IaC / Infrastructure as Code
- FOSS / Free and Open Source Software
- Parameter
- FATF / Financial Action Task Force
Answer: IaC / Infrastructure as Code
IaC scanning (Checkov, tfsec) analyzes Terraform/CloudFormation for misconfigurations before deployment. Critical for shift-left security in DevOps.
The framework that provides guidelines for implementing Zero Trust Architecture is called NIST SP ________.
- 194S
- 1,00,000
- 800-207
- 20
Answer: 800-207
NIST SP 800-207 provides comprehensive Zero Trust guidance: identity verification, device trust, network segmentation, continuous monitoring.
The Indian mission that successfully landed near the Moon's south pole in 2023 is called ________-3.
- Chandrayaan
- Combined Gas and Gas (COGAG)
- chmod
- Utilization / CCU
Answer: Chandrayaan
Chandrayaan-3's Vikram lander and Pragyan rover analyzed lunar soil near south pole, searching for water ice and studying surface composition.
The technology that encodes digital information into synthetic DNA strands for storage is called ________ Storage.
- DNA / Molecular
- Ensemble
- Application-Layer
- Artifact
Answer: DNA / Molecular
DNA data storage offers extreme density (exabytes/gram) and longevity (thousands of years). Research ongoing at IITs and global labs for archival applications.
The Indian law that governs processing of digital personal data is called the ________ Act 2023.
- Digital Personal Data Protection / DPDP
- Diversity
- Multimodal Learning
- qXR / CAD4TB
Answer: Digital Personal Data Protection / DPDP
DPDP Act 2023 establishes framework for processing digital personal data in India, with rights for data principals and obligations for data fiduciaries.
The technique that adds calibrated noise to model gradients during training to provide privacy guarantees is called ________-SGD.
- Ethical / CEH
- Differential Privacy / DP
- e-Filing Portal
- Forum / Index
Answer: Differential Privacy / DP
DP-SGD adds noise to gradients during training, providing mathematical privacy guarantees. Critical for training ML models on sensitive data while preventing membership inference.
The practice of scanning container images for vulnerabilities before deployment is called ________ Scanning.
- Engineering Task Force / IETF
- Red Team / Penetration
- Container / Image
- Shor's
Answer: Container / Image
Container image scanning identifies known vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and secrets in images before deployment. Critical for secure CI/CD pipelines in cloud-native environments.
The practice of continuously assessing device security posture before granting access is called ________ Assessment.
- Device Posture
- Intranet
- DID / Decentralized Identifiers
- Parquet
Answer: Device Posture
Device posture assessment evaluates endpoint security: OS patches, antivirus status, encryption, compliance. Critical for Zero Trust access decisions in hybrid environments.
Step-by-step reasoning in LLMs is called Chain-of-________.
- Modem
- Thought
- e-Sign / Aadhaar e-KYC
- Knowledge
Answer: Thought
Chain-of-Thought prompting generates reasoning steps.
Grouping similar data without labels is called ________.
- Differential
- Propellant / ISRU
- Clustering
- Thought
Answer: Clustering
Clustering discovers natural groupings in unlabeled data.
Querying data in object storage is called ________ Query.
- Smart / V2G
- mBridge / Multi-CBDC
- Worm
- Serverless
Answer: Serverless
Serverless query engines query object storage directly.
Processing data as it arrives is called ________ Processing.
- Federated
- Stream
- Green
- Bio-molecular / DNA
Answer: Stream
Stream processing handles continuous data flows.
Proactively searching for threats is called Threat ________.
- FATF / Financial Action Task Force
- Hunting
- Randomized
- Board
Answer: Hunting
Threat hunting uses hypotheses and analytics to find hidden adversaries.