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The practice of proactively searching for threats that evade automated detection is called Threat ________.
- Ka
- Gate-All-Around / GAA
- Hunting
- Digital Personal Data Protection
Answer: Hunting
Threat hunting uses hypotheses, analytics, and analyst expertise to find hidden adversaries. Complements automated detection. Critical for advanced persistent threat defense.
The technique that enables LLMs to generate code by learning from programming language corpora is called Code ________.
- Graphene
- LLM / Generation
- WTO / OECD
- Purpose
Answer: LLM / Generation
Code LLMs (Codex, CodeLlama) trained on code repositories enable natural language to code generation, debugging, and documentation. Critical for developer productivity tools.
The international organization that develops global internet governance policies is called Internet ________.
- Platform
- Firewall
- RTI Online
- Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers / ICANN
Answer: Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers / ICANN
ICANN coordinates domain names, IP addresses, protocol parameters. Multi-stakeholder model ensures open, interoperable internet. India participates through government and civil society.
The Indian policy for promoting research and development in emerging technologies is called National Mission on ________.
- NIA / CBI Cyber Cell
- Second
- Carbon
- Interdisciplinary Cyber Physical Systems / NM-ICPS
Answer: Interdisciplinary Cyber Physical Systems / NM-ICPS
NM-ICPS (DST) funds R&D in AI, IoT, robotics, quantum technologies. Aims to build indigenous capabilities and innovation ecosystem. Critical for strategic technology questions.
The technique that splits data into training and testing sets while preserving class distribution is called ________ Sampling.
- Parquet
- Stratified
- OECD / UNESCO
- Principle, Privilege
Answer: Stratified
Stratified sampling maintains class proportions in train/test splits, critical for imbalanced classification tasks. Prevents evaluation bias from skewed splits.
The process of documenting and analyzing security incidents for improvement is called Post-________ Review.
- Accountability
- Village
- SWAYAM / NPTEL
- Incident
Answer: Incident
Post-incident review captures lessons learned: what happened, response effectiveness, root causes, improvements. Critical for continuous security program maturity.
The technique that enables LLMs to learn from feedback without explicit labels is called ________ Learning.
- Reinforcement / RLHF
- Multimodal
- Reinforcement
- Building Energy / BEMS
Answer: Reinforcement / RLHF
Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) trains reward models from human preferences, then optimizes LLM to maximize rewards. Critical for aligning AI with human values.
The international framework for cross-border data flows and digital trade is being developed by ________.
- Carbon
- WTO / OECD
- Index / GCI
- Academic Bank of Credits / DigiLocker
Answer: WTO / OECD
WTO e-commerce negotiations and OECD digital economy work address cross-border data flows, digital taxation, consumer protection. India actively participates in shaping global digital trade rules.
The Indian initiative for promoting digital payments and financial inclusion is called ________.
- Events / Messages
- Aditya
- Container / Image
- Digital India / UPI
Answer: Digital India / UPI
Digital India encompasses UPI, Aadhaar, DigiLocker for inclusive digital services. UPI enables instant, interoperable payments driving financial inclusion. Critical for digital economy questions.
The technique that converts categorical variables into numerical format for ML models is called ________ Encoding.
- -a
- Red Team / Penetration
- P4 / Programmable
- Label / One-Hot
Answer: Label / One-Hot
Categorical encoding: label encoding for ordinal variables, one-hot for nominal, target encoding for high-cardinality. Choice impacts model performance and interpretability.
The framework that standardizes security control implementation for cloud environments is called ________.
- Fairness
- Aadhaar
- CSA CCM / Cloud Controls Matrix
- Frequency
Answer: CSA CCM / Cloud Controls Matrix
Cloud Security Alliance Cloud Controls Matrix provides comprehensive security controls for cloud services, mapped to standards like ISO 27001, NIST. Critical for cloud security governance.
The technique that enables LLMs to generate multiple plausible responses and select the best is called ________ Sampling.
- -a
- Stake
- kube-scheduler
- Beam / Nucleus
Answer: Beam / Nucleus
Advanced decoding: beam search explores multiple hypotheses, nucleus (top-p) sampling truncates low-probability tokens. Balance diversity and coherence in text generation.
The Indian policy for promoting electric vehicle adoption through subsidies is called ________ India.
- FAME
- TDMA
- e-NAM
- ETL
Answer: FAME
FAME (Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Electric Vehicles) India provides demand incentives for EVs and charging infrastructure. Phase-II focuses on public transport and shared mobility.
The technique that reduces model complexity to prevent overfitting is called ________.
- Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers / ICANN
- Common
- Pruning
- Regularization
Answer: Regularization
Regularization (L1/Lasso, L2/Ridge, Dropout) adds penalty terms to loss function or randomly drops units during training. Prevents overfitting by discouraging complex models. Critical for generalization.
The practice of simulating cyberattacks to test organizational defenses is called ________ Testing.
- Integration / Warehousing
- Vision
- Red Team / Penetration
- Account Aggregator
Answer: Red Team / Penetration
Red teaming conducts adversarial simulations (cyber, physical, social) to identify gaps in detection, response, and resilience. Distinct from vulnerability scanning. Critical for mature security programs.
The technique that enables LLMs to reason about visual inputs by combining vision and language models is called ________.
- SWAYAM / NPTEL
- e-Sign / Aadhaar e-KYC
- dimensions
- Multimodal Learning
Answer: Multimodal Learning
Multimodal models (CLIP, LLaVA) process text, images, audio jointly, enabling visual question answering, image captioning, and cross-modal retrieval. Critical for next-gen AI applications.
The Indian initiative for promoting semiconductor manufacturing is called India ________ Mission.
- Events / Messages
- Firewall
- Artemis
- Semiconductor
Answer: Semiconductor
India Semiconductor Mission implements ₹76,000 crore incentive scheme for fabs, display fabs, ATMP, design. Partnerships with global players announced. Critical for tech sovereignty questions.
The technique that combines multiple models to improve prediction accuracy is called ________ Learning.
- Ensemble
- Supervised
- Stream
- Augmented
Answer: Ensemble
Ensemble methods (bagging, boosting, stacking) combine weak learners to reduce variance, bias, or improve predictions. Random Forests and Gradient Boosting are widely used ensemble techniques.
The process of containing and eradicating threats after detection is called Incident ________.
- Consortium
- Response
- Virtualization / NFV
- Work
Answer: Response
Incident response follows structured phases: preparation, detection, containment, eradication, recovery, lessons learned. Critical for minimizing breach impact and improving defenses.
The technique that enables LLMs to plan and execute multi-step tasks autonomously is called ________ Agents.
- Device Posture
- Red Team / Penetration
- AI / Autonomous
- Partitioning
Answer: AI / Autonomous
AI agents combine LLMs with planning, tool use, memory for autonomous task execution. Applications: research assistants, customer service, workflow automation. Critical for next-gen AI systems.