Medium Level – GK Questions

Privacy principles: Purpose Limitation (collect for specified purpose), Data Minimization (only necessary data), Storage Limitation (retain no longer than needed). Core to DPDP/GDPR compliance.

Secrets managers (HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager) encrypt, access-control, and auto-rotate secrets. Critical for preventing credential leaks and compliance.

NIST SP 800-161 covers supply chain risk; SLSA (Supply-chain Levels for Software Artifacts) defines integrity levels for build processes. Critical for secure software delivery questions.

GPAI (founded 2020) brings together experts for responsible AI development: research, policy, best practices. India is founding member. Critical for international AI governance questions.

CISM (management), CRISC (risk), CGRC (governance) validate leadership skills for security programs. Critical for CISO and governance roles.

Saga breaks transactions into local steps with compensating actions for failures. Avoids distributed locks. Critical for consistency in microservices architectures.

Temporal Tables (SQL:2011) automatically track row history; PITR restores database to specific timestamp. Critical for audit, compliance, and debugging.

LLDP (Link Layer Discovery Protocol, IEEE) and CDP (Cisco Discovery Protocol) enable devices to advertise identity/capabilities. Critical for network management and troubleshooting.

EMCs offer shared facilities for electronics manufacturing; T-Hub Hardware Lab provides prototyping equipment. Critical for deep tech startup support.

NeGP (2006) launched Mission Mode Projects: e-District, e-Panchayat, CSCs. Foundation for Digital India's service delivery transformation.

IT Act Section 43A, DPDP Act, and CERT-In Direction 20 require breach reporting. Timelines vary: CERT-In mandates 6-hour reporting for certain incidents. Critical for incident response compliance.

Automated remediation uses policies and scripts to fix misconfigurations (e.g., close public ports) without manual intervention. Critical for scalable cloud security operations.

CIS Benchmarks provide hardening guidelines; NIST SP 800-190 covers container security lifecycle. Critical for cloud-native security questions.

Digital twins combine IoT, AI, and simulation to model physical assets: factories, cities, power grids. Enables predictive maintenance and scenario testing. Critical for Industry 4.0 questions.

Quality roles collaborate: QA (manual testing), SDET (test automation), DevOps (pipeline integration). Critical for agile, high-quality software delivery.

Pub-Sub uses brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ) for asynchronous communication, enabling scalability and resilience. Critical for event-driven and microservices architectures.

Indexing speeds lookups; partitioning splits large tables; clustering physically orders data by key. All improve query performance. Critical for database tuning questions.

QKD leverages no-cloning theorem and measurement disturbance to detect interception. Provides information-theoretic security for key exchange. Critical for future-proof cryptography questions.

Stree Shakti offers concessional loans for women; MUDRA provides microloans with focus on women entrepreneurs. Critical for inclusive entrepreneurship questions.

BharatKosh consolidates government payment gateways for fees, taxes, donations. Supports UPI, cards, netbanking. Critical for cashless governance and financial inclusion.