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The resource extracted from lunar regolith that can be used for rocket fuel is water ice.
- True
- False
Answer: True
Lunar water ice can be electrolyzed into hydrogen and oxygen for rocket propellant. Enables in-situ resource utilization for sustainable lunar exploration.
India's National Mission on Quantum Technologies allocates ₹8000 crore over 5 years.
- True
- False
Answer: True
NM-QTA allocates ₹8000 crore for quantum computing, communication, sensing, materials research. Implemented by DST with IITs, IISc participation.
The technique that enables querying encrypted databases without decrypting the data is called ________ Encryption.
- End-to-End / Comprehensive
- Stream
- Reinforcement
- Searchable / Homomorphic
Answer: Searchable / Homomorphic
Searchable Encryption enables keyword search on ciphertext; Homomorphic Encryption enables computation on encrypted data. Both preserve privacy.
The Right to Portability allows individuals to receive their personal data in a structured, commonly used format.
- True
- False
Answer: True
Right to Portability enables individuals to obtain and reuse their personal data across services. Promotes competition and user control.
Which pattern enables automatic recovery from instance failures?
- Self-Healing
- Circuit Breaker
- Retry Logic
- All of these
Answer: All of these
Resilience patterns: self-healing replaces failed instances, circuit breaker prevents cascading failures, retry logic handles transient errors.
The Indian initiative that provides free high-speed internet to students in rural areas via satellite is called ________.
- PM-WANI
- RBI
- L1
- AePS
Answer: PM-WANI
PM-WANI enables public Wi-Fi hotspots via PDOs using satellite/fiber backhaul. Aims to provide affordable internet access in rural/remote areas.
Which initiative supports rural innovation through technology and entrepreneurship?
- Village Entrepreneurship Program
- Digital Village Initiative
- Both A and B
- Neither
Answer: Both A and B
Programs under Digital India promote rural startups: CSCs for service delivery, agri-tech incubators. Critical for inclusive innovation.
The program that provides mentorship and funding to deep tech startups in strategic sectors is called ________-PRAYAS.
- UNIQUE
- NIDHI
- ROM
- UPI
Answer: NIDHI
NIDHI-PRAYAS (DST) provides prototyping grants for deep tech startups in strategic sectors. Part of national innovation ecosystem.
The Startup India initiative provides tax benefits, easier compliance, and IPR fast-tracking for recognized startups.
- True
- False
Answer: True
Startup India offers 3-year income tax exemption, self-certification compliance, fast-track patent examination for DPIIT-recognized startups.
The concept of 'technological sovereignty' emphasizes reducing dependence on foreign technology through domestic innovation.
- True
- False
Answer: True
Technological sovereignty promotes domestic R&D, manufacturing, standards to reduce strategic dependencies. Critical for India's tech policy and security.
The Indian authority that monitors suspicious cryptocurrency transactions for money laundering is ________.
- L1
- SPADEX
- FIU-IND
- F1
Answer: FIU-IND
Financial Intelligence Unit-India receives, analyzes, disseminates financial intelligence including crypto transactions. VASPs must register and report.
The technique that enables verification of identity without revealing underlying attributes is called Zero-________ Proofs.
- Knowledge
- Ground Station
- Rectifier
- Healthcare Professionals
Answer: Knowledge
Zero-Knowledge Proofs enable proving statements without revealing underlying data. Critical for privacy-preserving authentication and selective disclosure.
Membership inference attacks determine whether specific individuals were in a model's training data.
- True
- False
Answer: True
Membership inference exploits model confidence scores to infer training data membership. Mitigation: differential privacy, regularization, output perturbation.
Which technique detects when ML model performance degrades due to changing data distributions?
- Data Drift Detection
- Concept Drift Detection
- Both A and B
- Neither
Answer: Both A and B
Data drift: input feature distribution changes; concept drift: relationship between features and target changes. Monitoring both enables timely model retraining.
The Indian government's initiative for promoting semiconductor manufacturing is called India ________ Mission.
- Label / One-Hot
- Healthcare Professionals
- Semiconductor
- Graphene
Answer: Semiconductor
India Semiconductor Mission implements ₹76,000 crore incentive scheme for semiconductor fabs, display fabs, ATMP, design ecosystem.
The program that supports student innovation through grants and mentorship in educational institutions is called Atal ________ Labs.
- margin
- Tinkering
- Hunting
- Classification
Answer: Tinkering
Atal Tinkering Labs provide makerspaces with tools for students to innovate. Fosters creativity, problem-solving, entrepreneurship from school level.
The framework that provides guidelines for software security testing is called OWASP ________.
- BharatKosh / e-Payments
- ASVS / Application Security Verification Standard
- Booting
- Virtualization / NFV
Answer: ASVS / Application Security Verification Standard
OWASP ASVS provides security requirements and testing guidelines for web applications. Critical for secure software development lifecycle.
The technique that replaces sensitive data with non-sensitive equivalents while preserving format is called ________.
- Government Securities / G-Sec
- Shor's
- Tokenization
- Worm
Answer: Tokenization
Tokenization replaces sensitive values with format-preserving tokens, reversible via secure vault. Used in payments, healthcare for PCI-DSS compliance.
The Right to Erasure allows individuals to request deletion of their personal data under DPDP Act.
- True
- False
Answer: True
Right to Erasure (Right to be Forgotten) allows individuals to request deletion when data no longer necessary or consent withdrawn. Critical for privacy compliance.
Data poisoning attacks manipulate training data to compromise model behavior during inference.
- True
- False
Answer: True
Data poisoning injects malicious samples into training data to cause targeted misclassifications or backdoors. Mitigation: data validation, robust training, anomaly detection.