Technology – GK Questions

Q: The Indian government's initiative for promoting semiconductor manufacturing is called India ________ Mission.

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

Q: The program that supports student innovation through grants and mentorship in educational institutions is called Atal ________ Labs.

Tinkering – Atal Tinkering Labs provide makerspaces with tools for students to innovate. Fosters creativity, problem-solving, entrepreneurship from school level.

Q: The framework that provides guidelines for software security testing is called OWASP ________.

ASVS / Application Security Verification Standard – OWASP ASVS provides security requirements and testing guidelines for web applications. Critical for secure software development lifecycle.

Q: Which DeFi risk arises from smart contract vulnerabilities that can be exploited by attackers?

All of these – DeFi risks: smart contract bugs enable fund theft, oracle manipulation feeds false prices, impermanent loss affects liquidity providers. Critical for DeFi security understanding.

Q: Which advantage do neuromorphic chips offer over traditional GPUs for AI inference?

Lower Energy Consumption – Neuromorphic chips achieve orders-of-magnitude better energy efficiency by mimicking brain's event-driven, sparse computation. Critical for edge AI and sustainable computing.

Q: The computing paradigm that uses quantum mechanical phenomena for solving optimization problems is called ________ Annealing.

Quantum – Quantum annealing uses quantum tunneling to find global minima in optimization landscapes. Suitable for logistics, finance, machine learning. Different from gate-based quantum computing.

Q: The technique that replaces sensitive data with non-sensitive equivalents while preserving format is called ________.

Tokenization – Tokenization replaces sensitive values with format-preserving tokens, reversible via secure vault. Used in payments, healthcare for PCI-DSS compliance.

Q: The Right to Erasure allows individuals to request deletion of their personal data under DPDP Act.

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to Erasure (Right to be Forgotten) allows individuals to request deletion when data no longer necessary or consent withdrawn.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.

Q: The technique that reconstructs sensitive attributes from model predictions is called Model ________ Attack.

Inversion – Model inversion exploits model outputs to infer sensitive training data attributes. Critical privacy risk for ML systems handling personal data.

Q: Data poisoning attacks manipulate training data to compromise model behavior during inference.

True – Data poisoning injects malicious samples into training data to cause targeted misclassifications or backdoors. Mitigation: data validation, robust training, anomaly detection.