MCQ – GK Questions

SIPP (Scheme for IPR Protection) offers fee rebates and expedited examination for startups. Critical for encouraging innovation and protecting intellectual property.

DPDP Act 2023 mandates explicit consent for sensitive personal data (biometrics, health, etc.), with purpose limitation and data principal rights. Critical for privacy compliance questions.

NIST SP 800-124 covers mobile device management; OWASP MASVS provides mobile app security requirements. Critical for BYOD and mobile enterprise security questions.

Accessible design requires collaboration: UX research, UI implementation, and accessibility expertise (WCAG compliance). Critical for inclusive digital services and legal compliance.

Replication maintains copies of data across nodes for fault tolerance and read scalability. Synchronous (strong consistency) vs asynchronous (eventual consistency). Critical for resilient database design.

KAPILA (Knowledge Assessment and Processing for Innovation and IPR Literacy Awareness) and Innovation Ambassador program build IP culture in HEIs. Critical for academic innovation questions.

Differential Privacy adds noise to aggregates; Federated Learning trains models on-device; SMPC computes jointly without sharing inputs. All enable privacy-preserving analytics. Critical for confidential data science questions.

NIST SP 800-161 and ISO 27036 provide frameworks for supply chain risk management: vendor assessment, contract clauses, continuous monitoring. Critical for third-party risk governance questions.

PMP (PMI) covers traditional project management; PRINCE2 is process-based; Agile/Scrum certifications focus on iterative delivery. All valued for tech project leadership roles.

Caching (Redis, Memcached) stores hot data in RAM for sub-millisecond access, reducing database load. Critical for high-traffic applications. Trade-offs: cache invalidation, consistency.

FFS (₹10,000 crore) managed by SIDBI invests in AIFs that fund startups. Focuses on innovation, job creation, strategic sectors. Part of Startup India ecosystem support.

Anonymization irreversibly removes/alters PII to prevent re-identification. Techniques: k-anonymity, l-diversity, differential privacy. Critical for privacy-preserving analytics and GDPR/DPDP compliance.

IEC 62443 provides cybersecurity standards for industrial automation and control systems (IACS). Addresses OT-specific threats: safety, availability, integrity. Critical for critical infrastructure protection questions.

DevOps Engineers use IaC (Terraform, Ansible), CI/CD, and monitoring to automate infrastructure. Critical for cloud operations and agile delivery. High demand in Indian tech sector.

ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) guarantees reliable transaction processing. Critical for banking, inventory, and other mission-critical applications. NoSQL may relax ACID for scalability.

Startup India facilitates corporate-startup partnerships; many corporates run innovation challenges for pilots. Critical for startup growth and enterprise innovation questions.

Tokenization replaces sensitive values (credit cards) with format-preserving tokens, reversible via secure vault. Used in payments, healthcare. Critical for PCI-DSS compliance and data protection questions.

ISO 27035 and NIST SP 800-61 provide frameworks for incident handling: preparation, detection, analysis, containment, eradication, recovery, lessons learned. Critical for security operations questions.

CCSP (Certified Cloud Security Professional) focuses on cloud; CISSP covers broad security; CISM emphasizes management. All valued for security leadership roles. Critical for cybersecurity career questions.

Inverted Index maps terms to documents containing them, enabling efficient full-text search. Used in Elasticsearch, Solr. Critical for search engines and content management questions.