Technology – Fill in the Blank – GK Questions

Molecular computing uses DNA, proteins, or cellular processes for massive parallelism. Research stage with potential for ultra-low power, complex problem solving.

NM-QTA funds quantum computing, communication, sensing, materials research. Implemented by DST with IITs, IISc participation.

Purpose Limitation prevents function creep by ensuring data is used only as consented. Core principle in GDPR, DPDP Act, and global privacy frameworks.

Randomized smoothing provides certified robustness guarantees against adversarial perturbations by averaging predictions over noisy inputs.

IaC scanning (Checkov, tfsec) analyzes Terraform/CloudFormation for misconfigurations before deployment. Critical for shift-left security in DevOps.

NIST SP 800-207 provides comprehensive Zero Trust guidance: identity verification, device trust, network segmentation, continuous monitoring.

Chandrayaan-3's Vikram lander and Pragyan rover analyzed lunar soil near south pole, searching for water ice and studying surface composition.

DNA data storage offers extreme density (exabytes/gram) and longevity (thousands of years). Research ongoing at IITs and global labs for archival applications.

DPDP Act 2023 establishes framework for processing digital personal data in India, with rights for data principals and obligations for data fiduciaries.

DP-SGD adds noise to gradients during training, providing mathematical privacy guarantees. Critical for training ML models on sensitive data while preventing membership inference.

Container image scanning identifies known vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and secrets in images before deployment. Critical for secure CI/CD pipelines in cloud-native environments.

Device posture assessment evaluates endpoint security: OS patches, antivirus status, encryption, compliance. Critical for Zero Trust access decisions in hybrid environments.

Chain-of-Thought prompting generates reasoning steps.

Clustering discovers natural groupings in unlabeled data.

Serverless query engines query object storage directly.

Stream processing handles continuous data flows.

Threat hunting uses hypotheses and analytics to find hidden adversaries.

End-to-end encryption protects data throughout lifecycle.

Principle of Least Privilege restricts access to essentials.

FAME provides demand incentives for EVs and charging.