Technology – True/False – GK Questions

Model Cards (Google proposal) document: intended use, training data, evaluation metrics, ethical considerations. Enable informed deployment and accountability. Adopted by many AI developers globally.

Stablecoins (USDT, USDC) maintain value via reserves or algorithms. Used for trading, remittances, DeFi. Regulatory focus: reserve transparency, redemption rights, systemic risk. Critical for crypto ecosystem understanding.

Wholesale CBDC enables real-time gross settlement between banks, central counterparties, and financial institutions. Improves efficiency, reduces counterparty risk, and enables new financial products.

FATF (Financial Action Task Force) Travel Rule requires VASPs to share sender/receiver information for crypto transactions above threshold. India aligns regulations with FATF standards for anti-money laundering.

e₹ (e-Rupee) is RBI-issued digital token representing sovereign currency. Two types: retail (e₹-R) for public transactions via wallets, wholesale (e₹-W) for interbank settlements. Built on distributed ledger technology.

Green hydrogen (renewable-powered electrolysis) produces only water as byproduct. Critical for decarbonizing hard-to-abate sectors: steel, cement, shipping. India's National Green Hydrogen Mission targets production leadership.

Reusable rockets (SpaceX Falcon 9, ISRO RLV-TD) recover and refurbish boosters, reducing launch costs by 30-70%. Critical for sustainable space economy and frequent satellite deployments.

Moon's south pole has permanently shadowed craters with water ice, valuable for future lunar bases (life support, rocket fuel). Chandrayaan-3's Pragyan rover analyzed soil composition. Critical for space resource questions.

LEO satellites (~500-2000 km altitude) have lower propagation delay (~20-50ms) vs GEO (~35,786 km, ~250ms latency). Critical for real-time applications: video calls, gaming, financial trading.

Quantum supremacy (Google 2019) demonstrated solving a specific contrived problem faster than classical supercomputers. It does NOT mean universal superiority. Most practical problems still favor classical computers.

QKD uses no-cloning theorem and measurement disturbance to detect eavesdropping during key exchange. Provides provable security unlike computational security of RSA/ECC. Deployed in limited networks globally.

#AIforAll (NITI Aayog) focuses on leveraging AI for social empowerment: AI for farmers, teachers, doctors. Balances innovation with ethics, inclusion, and national interest. Critical for AI policy questions.

DPDP Act mandates transparency in automated decisions: individuals have right to explanation for decisions affecting rights, benefits, or obligations. Aligns with global standards like GDPR Article 22.

Algorithmic accountability mandates transparency in AI: documenting data sources, model design, testing, and decision logic. Enables auditing, bias detection, and redressal. Supported by DPDP Act and sectoral guidelines.

CSPM automates detection/remediation of cloud misconfigurations: public storage, weak IAM, unencrypted data. Critical for preventing cloud breaches.

Strangler Fig incrementally replaces monolith features with microservices behind API gateway. Reduces risk vs big-bang rewrite. Critical for legacy modernization questions.

e-Taal (Electronic Transaction Aggregation and Analysis Layer) aggregates transaction data from government portals for monitoring and decision-making. Critical for digital governance analytics.

Frugal innovation (Jugaad) emphasizes simplicity, affordability, and sustainability. India's strength in healthcare, agriculture, and fintech. Critical for inclusive development questions.

NFV virtualizes firewalls, load balancers, routers on commodity servers. Enables agility, cost reduction, and innovation. Critical for telecom modernization questions.

Secrets managers (HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager) encrypt, access-control, and auto-rotate secrets. Critical for preventing credential leaks and compliance.