GK Questions

IBN uses AI/ML to interpret business intent (e.g., 'prioritize VoIP'), auto-configure network, and continuously verify compliance. Reduces manual errors and operational complexity. Critical for autonomous networks questions.

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

RTI Online Portal (rtionline.gov.in) enables citizens to file Right to Information applications digitally, pay fees online, and track status. Enhances transparency and accountability in governance.

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.

CASBs sit between users and cloud services to enforce: access control, data loss prevention, threat protection, and compliance. Critical for securing SaaS adoption in enterprises.

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.

Technological sovereignty (Atmanirbhar Bharat) promotes domestic R&D, manufacturing, and standards to reduce strategic dependencies. Critical for understanding India's tech policy and security 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.

Event Sourcing records all state changes as events, enabling reconstruction of any historical state. Supports audit, debugging, and CQRS patterns. Critical for compliant, auditable systems design.

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.

SLAAC (Stateless Address Autoconfiguration) uses router advertisements and MAC addresses to generate IPv6 addresses. Reduces management overhead vs DHCPv6. Critical for IPv6 deployment questions.

NIDHI-PRAYAS (DST) funds prototyping; Startup India offers tax benefits; AIM establishes incubators. Together they support innovation from ideation to scale. Critical for entrepreneurship ecosystem questions.

e-Office replaces paper files with digital workflows: creation, routing, approval, archiving. Improves efficiency, transparency, and remote work capability. Part of Digital India's governance transformation.

Searchable Encryption enables keyword search on ciphertext; Homomorphic Encryption enables computation on encrypted data. Both preserve privacy while enabling functionality. Critical for confidential cloud computing questions.

Zero Trust implements: identity verification, least privilege, micro-segmentation, continuous monitoring. Assumes no implicit trust based on network location. Critical for modern security architecture questions.

C2M2 (Cybersecurity Capability Maturity Model) by US DOE assesses/improves cybersecurity in energy, water, and other critical sectors. Adopted globally for infrastructure resilience. Critical for critical infrastructure protection questions.

Modern trade agreements (DEPA, RCEP digital chapters) cover: cross-border data flows, data localization, e-commerce, and digital services taxation. Critical for understanding global digital economy governance.

Data scientists need: ML for modeling, SQL for data access, visualization for communication, plus domain knowledge. India's growing data economy demands multi-skilled professionals. Critical for tech career planning questions.

Microservices decompose applications into independent services communicating via REST/HTTP APIs. Enables independent deployment, scaling, and technology diversity. Critical for modern cloud-native development questions.

Sharding partitions data horizontally across nodes based on key ranges or hashes, enabling horizontal scaling. Critical for handling large datasets in distributed databases. Trade-offs: cross-shard queries complexity.