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Cloud certifications validate expertise in architecture, security, operations.
- True
- False
Answer: True
Cloud certifications are valued by employers for cloud roles.
GitOps uses Git repositories as single source of truth for deployments.
- True
- False
Answer: True
GitOps declaratively defines desired state in Git; operators sync cluster state.
Event-Driven Architecture uses ________ for communication between loosely coupled services.
- Thought
- Events / Messages
- Parameter
- Doping
Answer: Events / Messages
Event-Driven Architecture uses events/messages for service communication via brokers.
Graph databases are best suited for storing hierarchical data like social graphs.
- Key-Value
- Document
- Graph
- Column-Family
Answer: Graph
Graph databases store nodes/edges for relationships, enabling efficient traversal.
NFV virtualizes network functions on commodity hardware.
- True
- False
Answer: True
NFV runs network services as software on standard servers, reducing cost and increasing flexibility.
Digital twins create virtual replicas of physical systems for simulation.
- True
- False
Answer: True
Digital twins combine IoT, AI, simulation to model physical assets for predictive maintenance.
The organization that develops global web standards is called World Wide Web ________.
- margin
- IPR / Intellectual Property Rights
- Atomicity
- Consortium
Answer: Consortium
W3C develops web standards ensuring interoperability, accessibility, innovation.
Which platform enables verified digital document storage for citizens?
- DigiLocker
- e-Sign
- Aadhaar
- UMANG
Answer: DigiLocker
DigiLocker enables citizens to store/share government-issued documents digitally with legal validity.
The Digital India Act proposal includes provisions for algorithmic transparency.
- True
- False
Answer: True
Digital India Act aims to address platform accountability, user rights, emerging tech governance.
Which principle requires collecting only necessary personal information?
- Lawfulness
- Data Minimization
- Accountability
- All of these
Answer: Data Minimization
Data minimization limits collection to what's necessary for specified purpose.
The data format optimized for columnar storage and analytics is called ________.
- e-Sign / Aadhaar e-KYC
- Digital India / UPI
- Parquet
- Latency
Answer: Parquet
Parquet is columnar storage format optimized for analytics: efficient compression, predicate pushdown.
Which pattern enables gradual rollout of new features to a subset of users?
- Blue-Green
- Canary
- Feature Flags
- All of these
Answer: All of these
Safe deployment patterns enable zero-downtime, low-risk releases.
India's UPI system has inspired similar real-time payment frameworks globally.
- True
- False
Answer: True
UPI's success led to international linkages: Singapore, UAE, France discussions.
The Indian initiative for developing indigenous semiconductor manufacturing is called India ________ Mission.
- Rectifier
- Stake / PoS
- Diffie-Hellman
- Semiconductor
Answer: Semiconductor
India Semiconductor Mission implements ₹76,000 crore incentive scheme for fabs, display fabs, design.
Smart contracts enable automated execution of agreements when predefined conditions are met.
- Digital Identity
- Smart Contracts
- Tokenization
- Consensus Algorithms
Answer: Smart Contracts
Smart contracts are self-executing programs stored on blockchain that automatically enforce terms.
CBDCs are sovereign digital currency issued by central banks with legal tender status.
- True
- False
Answer: True
CBDCs differ from cryptocurrencies: issued by central banks, legal tender, regulated monetary policy.
Green hydrogen is produced via electrolysis using ________ electricity.
- Coal
- Renewable
- Nuclear
- All of these
Answer: Renewable
Green hydrogen uses renewable-powered electrolysis, producing only water as byproduct.
The Indian mission designed to study the Sun's corona and space weather is called ________-L1.
- Masked
- Forecasting
- Aditya
- Tree / Acyclic Graph
Answer: Aditya
Aditya-L1 positioned at Sun-Earth L1 point for uninterrupted solar observation.
Federated Learning enables machine learning on decentralized data without sharing raw datasets.
- True
- False
Answer: True
Federated Learning trains models across devices/servers holding local data, sharing only model updates.
The technique that analyzes network traffic patterns to detect anomalies without known signatures is called ________ Analytics.
- Behavioral
- Pruning
- Oxygen / ISRU
- Model / Pipeline
Answer: Behavioral
Behavioral Analytics uses ML to establish baselines of normal behavior and flag deviations indicating threats.