Technology – Fill in the Blank – GK Questions

Event-Driven Architecture uses events/messages for service communication via brokers.

W3C develops web standards ensuring interoperability, accessibility, innovation.

Parquet is columnar storage format optimized for analytics: efficient compression, predicate pushdown.

India Semiconductor Mission implements ₹76,000 crore incentive scheme for fabs, display fabs, design.

Aditya-L1 positioned at Sun-Earth L1 point for uninterrupted solar observation.

Behavioral Analytics uses ML to establish baselines of normal behavior and flag deviations indicating threats.

Virtual Reality creates simulated 3D environments that users can interact with using headsets and controllers.

DigiLocker enables citizens to store/share government-issued documents digitally. Documents have legal validity under IT Act.

Time series forecasting models temporal patterns for demand prediction, anomaly detection, capacity planning.

Transparency (Explainable AI/XAI) ensures AI decisions can be interpreted by humans. Critical for trust, debugging, regulatory compliance.

e₹ (e-Rupee) is RBI-issued digital token representing sovereign currency. Two types: retail (e₹-R) for public transactions, wholesale (e₹-W) for interbank settlements.

Differential Privacy mathematically guarantees that query results don't reveal individual records. Used in census data, health analytics, tech company telemetry.

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

IaC (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation) defines infrastructure in declarative code, enabling version control, peer review, automated testing, consistent deployments.

Machine Learning enables systems to learn patterns from data and improve performance on tasks without explicit programming. Types: supervised, unsupervised, reinforcement.

DILRMP digitizes land records, integrates with Aadhaar, enables online mutation, reduces disputes. Critical for property rights, credit access, governance transparency.

W3C DID Specification enables users to create/own identifiers without central authorities. DIDs resolve to DID Documents containing public keys and service endpoints.

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.

Clustering (K-means, hierarchical, DBSCAN) discovers natural groupings in unlabeled data. Applications: customer segmentation, anomaly detection, document organization.

Scatter plots display individual data points for two variables, revealing correlations, clusters, outliers. Foundation for regression analysis and exploratory data science.