Technology – Medium Level – GK Questions

ICANN coordinates domain names, IP addresses, protocol parameters. Multi-stakeholder model.

Digital India Act aims to address platform accountability, user rights, emerging tech governance.

FAME provides demand incentives for EVs and charging infrastructure.

Post-incident review captures lessons learned: what happened, response effectiveness, root causes, improvements. Critical for continuous security program maturity.

ITU Global Cybersecurity Index assesses national cybersecurity commitment across legal, technical, organizational, capacity building, cooperation dimensions.

Red teaming conducts adversarial simulations (cyber, physical, social) to identify gaps in detection, response, resilience. Distinct from vulnerability scanning.

Programmable CBDC allows conditional transfers for specific goods/services (food, education), enhancing policy effectiveness while requiring careful privacy design.

Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC-SHAR) in Andhra Pradesh is ISRO's primary launch port. Handles PSLV, GSLV, SSLV, and future human spaceflight launches.

ISRU extracts water ice, electrolyzes into hydrogen/oxygen for propellant. Critical for sustainable lunar exploration and deep space missions by reducing Earth launch mass.

QEC codes (surface code, Shor code) protect quantum information from decoherence and noise. Critical for fault-tolerant quantum computing but requires significant qubit overhead.

Differential Privacy mathematically guarantees query results don't reveal individual records. Used in census, health analytics, tech telemetry for privacy-preserving insights.

Accountability (GDPR Article 5, DPDP Act Section 8) requires documented policies, training, audits, and breach response procedures. Critical for regulatory compliance.

GDPR Article 35 and DPDP Act Section 10 require DPIAs for processing likely to result in high risk to individuals' rights. Critical for privacy-by-design compliance.

Model extraction queries API to infer model architecture/parameters, enabling intellectual property theft or adversarial example generation. Mitigation: query rate limiting, output perturbation.

Security as Code defines policies in declarative format (OPA, Sentinel), enabling version control, testing, automated enforcement. Critical for scalable cloud security governance.

CWPP provides unified security for VMs, containers, serverless across AWS, Azure, GCP, on-premises. Critical for consistent security posture in hybrid cloud.

Comprehensive cloud security: IaC scanning (Terraform, CloudFormation), container image scanning, runtime protection (Falco, Tetragon). Combined for defense-in-depth.

Application-layer encryption ensures data remains encrypted even if storage or network layers are compromised. Critical for end-to-end data protection in Zero Trust architectures.

Continuous authentication adjusts verification requirements based on behavioral analytics, device posture, location, and other risk signals. Critical for Zero Trust security posture.

Instruction tuning fine-tunes LLMs on instruction datasets, improving task completion and helpfulness.