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The platform that enables online filing of income tax returns is called ________ Portal.
- Education
- e-Filing
- Parquet
- SWAYAM / NPTEL
Answer: e-Filing
Income Tax e-Filing Portal enables online return submission, refund tracking, compliance services. Integrated with Aadhaar, PAN, pre-filled data. Critical for digital tax administration.
The technique that groups similar data points without predefined labels is called ________.
- BharatKosh / e-Payments
- Telecommunication / ITU
- Gate-All-Around / GAA
- Clustering
Answer: Clustering
Clustering (K-means, hierarchical, DBSCAN) discovers natural groupings in unlabeled data. Applications: customer segmentation, anomaly detection, document organization.
The visualization type best for showing correlation between two continuous variables is ________ Plot.
- Bias / Fairness
- Responsibility Segregation / CQRS
- Differential
- Scatter
Answer: Scatter
Scatter plots display individual data points for two variables, revealing correlations, clusters, outliers. Foundation for regression analysis and exploratory data science.
The process of combining data from multiple sources into a unified view is called Data ________.
- Governance
- Integration / Warehousing
- Containerization
- Situ / ISRU
Answer: Integration / Warehousing
Data integration combines disparate sources via ETL/ELT, virtualization, or federation. Enables unified analytics, reporting, and decision-making. Critical for enterprise data strategy.
The technology that enables querying data directly in object storage without loading into database is called ________ Query.
- Astra
- Government Securities / G-Sec
- Serverless / Athena
- Footprint / Intensity
Answer: Serverless / Athena
Serverless query engines (AWS Athena, Google BigQuery) enable SQL queries directly on data in object storage using schema-on-read. Eliminates ETL for ad-hoc analysis. Pay-per-query pricing.
The data format optimized for columnar storage and analytics workloads is called ________.
- Device Posture
- Parquet
- Second
- Response
Answer: Parquet
Parquet is columnar storage format optimized for analytics: efficient compression, predicate pushdown, schema evolution. Reduces I/O by reading only required columns. Used in Spark, Hive, Presto.
The international framework for responsible AI development adopted by India is called ________ AI Principles.
- UPI
- OECD
- SLA
- SLAAC
Answer: OECD
OECD AI Principles (2019) provide values-based guidelines: inclusive growth, human-centered values, transparency, robustness, accountability. India endorses for domestic policy alignment.
The Indian initiative for promoting open-source software in government is called ________ Policy.
- e₹ / Digital Rupee
- Fourth
- Partitioning
- FOSS / Free and Open Source Software
Answer: FOSS / Free and Open Source Software
MeitY's FOSS policy encourages government adoption of open-source for cost-effectiveness, security, and vendor independence. Critical for sustainable digital governance.
The practice of proactively searching for threats that evade automated detection is called Threat ________.
- Ka
- Gate-All-Around / GAA
- Hunting
- Digital Personal Data Protection
Answer: Hunting
Threat hunting uses hypotheses, analytics, and analyst expertise to find hidden adversaries. Complements automated detection. Critical for advanced persistent threat defense.
The technique that enables LLMs to generate code by learning from programming language corpora is called Code ________.
- Graphene
- LLM / Generation
- WTO / OECD
- Purpose
Answer: LLM / Generation
Code LLMs (Codex, CodeLlama) trained on code repositories enable natural language to code generation, debugging, and documentation. Critical for developer productivity tools.
The international organization that develops global internet governance policies is called Internet ________.
- Platform
- Firewall
- RTI Online
- Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers / ICANN
Answer: Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers / ICANN
ICANN coordinates domain names, IP addresses, protocol parameters. Multi-stakeholder model ensures open, interoperable internet. India participates through government and civil society.
The Indian policy for promoting research and development in emerging technologies is called National Mission on ________.
- NIA / CBI Cyber Cell
- Second
- Carbon
- Interdisciplinary Cyber Physical Systems / NM-ICPS
Answer: Interdisciplinary Cyber Physical Systems / NM-ICPS
NM-ICPS (DST) funds R&D in AI, IoT, robotics, quantum technologies. Aims to build indigenous capabilities and innovation ecosystem. Critical for strategic technology questions.
The technique that splits data into training and testing sets while preserving class distribution is called ________ Sampling.
- Parquet
- Stratified
- OECD / UNESCO
- Principle, Privilege
Answer: Stratified
Stratified sampling maintains class proportions in train/test splits, critical for imbalanced classification tasks. Prevents evaluation bias from skewed splits.
The process of documenting and analyzing security incidents for improvement is called Post-________ Review.
- Accountability
- Village
- SWAYAM / NPTEL
- Incident
Answer: Incident
Post-incident review captures lessons learned: what happened, response effectiveness, root causes, improvements. Critical for continuous security program maturity.
The technique that enables LLMs to learn from feedback without explicit labels is called ________ Learning.
- Reinforcement / RLHF
- Multimodal
- Reinforcement
- Building Energy / BEMS
Answer: Reinforcement / RLHF
Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) trains reward models from human preferences, then optimizes LLM to maximize rewards. Critical for aligning AI with human values.
The international framework for cross-border data flows and digital trade is being developed by ________.
- Carbon
- WTO / OECD
- Index / GCI
- Academic Bank of Credits / DigiLocker
Answer: WTO / OECD
WTO e-commerce negotiations and OECD digital economy work address cross-border data flows, digital taxation, consumer protection. India actively participates in shaping global digital trade rules.
The Indian initiative for promoting digital payments and financial inclusion is called ________.
- Events / Messages
- Aditya
- Container / Image
- Digital India / UPI
Answer: Digital India / UPI
Digital India encompasses UPI, Aadhaar, DigiLocker for inclusive digital services. UPI enables instant, interoperable payments driving financial inclusion. Critical for digital economy questions.
The technique that converts categorical variables into numerical format for ML models is called ________ Encoding.
- -a
- Red Team / Penetration
- P4 / Programmable
- Label / One-Hot
Answer: Label / One-Hot
Categorical encoding: label encoding for ordinal variables, one-hot for nominal, target encoding for high-cardinality. Choice impacts model performance and interpretability.
The framework that standardizes security control implementation for cloud environments is called ________.
- Fairness
- Aadhaar
- CSA CCM / Cloud Controls Matrix
- Frequency
Answer: CSA CCM / Cloud Controls Matrix
Cloud Security Alliance Cloud Controls Matrix provides comprehensive security controls for cloud services, mapped to standards like ISO 27001, NIST. Critical for cloud security governance.
The technique that enables LLMs to generate multiple plausible responses and select the best is called ________ Sampling.
- -a
- Stake
- kube-scheduler
- Beam / Nucleus
Answer: Beam / Nucleus
Advanced decoding: beam search explores multiple hypotheses, nucleus (top-p) sampling truncates low-probability tokens. Balance diversity and coherence in text generation.