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The Digital India Act proposal includes provisions for algorithmic transparency.
- True
- False
Answer: True
Digital India Act aims to address platform accountability, user rights, emerging tech governance.
Which principle requires collecting only necessary personal information?
- Lawfulness
- Data Minimization
- Accountability
- All of these
Answer: Data Minimization
Data minimization limits collection to what's necessary for specified purpose.
The data format optimized for columnar storage and analytics is called ________.
- e-Sign / Aadhaar e-KYC
- Digital India / UPI
- Parquet
- Latency
Answer: Parquet
Parquet is columnar storage format optimized for analytics: efficient compression, predicate pushdown.
Which pattern enables gradual rollout of new features to a subset of users?
- Blue-Green
- Canary
- Feature Flags
- All of these
Answer: All of these
Safe deployment patterns enable zero-downtime, low-risk releases.
India's UPI system has inspired similar real-time payment frameworks globally.
- True
- False
Answer: True
UPI's success led to international linkages: Singapore, UAE, France discussions.
The Indian initiative for developing indigenous semiconductor manufacturing is called India ________ Mission.
- Rectifier
- Stake / PoS
- Diffie-Hellman
- Semiconductor
Answer: Semiconductor
India Semiconductor Mission implements ₹76,000 crore incentive scheme for fabs, display fabs, design.
Smart contracts enable automated execution of agreements when predefined conditions are met.
- Digital Identity
- Smart Contracts
- Tokenization
- Consensus Algorithms
Answer: Smart Contracts
Smart contracts are self-executing programs stored on blockchain that automatically enforce terms.
CBDCs are sovereign digital currency issued by central banks with legal tender status.
- True
- False
Answer: True
CBDCs differ from cryptocurrencies: issued by central banks, legal tender, regulated monetary policy.
Green hydrogen is produced via electrolysis using ________ electricity.
- Coal
- Renewable
- Nuclear
- All of these
Answer: Renewable
Green hydrogen uses renewable-powered electrolysis, producing only water as byproduct.
The Indian mission designed to study the Sun's corona and space weather is called ________-L1.
- Masked
- Forecasting
- Aditya
- Tree / Acyclic Graph
Answer: Aditya
Aditya-L1 positioned at Sun-Earth L1 point for uninterrupted solar observation.
Federated Learning enables machine learning on decentralized data without sharing raw datasets.
- True
- False
Answer: True
Federated Learning trains models across devices/servers holding local data, sharing only model updates.
The technique that analyzes network traffic patterns to detect anomalies without known signatures is called ________ Analytics.
- Behavioral
- Pruning
- Oxygen / ISRU
- Model / Pipeline
Answer: Behavioral
Behavioral Analytics uses ML to establish baselines of normal behavior and flag deviations indicating threats.
AI Ethics Officers govern responsible AI: bias mitigation, explainability, compliance.
- True
- False
Answer: True
AI Ethics Officers are emerging roles focused on ensuring AI systems are fair, transparent, accountable.
SDN decouples network control plane from data plane for programmable networks.
- True
- False
Answer: True
SDN centralizes control in software controllers, enabling dynamic traffic management, automation.
The technology that enables immersive virtual experiences through head-mounted displays is called ________ Reality.
- Object
- Virtual
- Bio-molecular / DNA
- Green
Answer: Virtual
Virtual Reality creates simulated 3D environments that users can interact with using headsets and controllers.
The platform that enables verified digital document storage and sharing for citizens is called ________.
- DigiLocker
- Astra
- Second
- Partitioning
Answer: DigiLocker
DigiLocker enables citizens to store/share government-issued documents digitally. Documents have legal validity under IT Act.
The technique that enables prediction of future values based on historical time series data is called Time Series ________.
- PM-WANI / BharatNet
- Entanglement
- Forecasting
- Academic Bank of Credits / DigiLocker
Answer: Forecasting
Time series forecasting models temporal patterns for demand prediction, anomaly detection, capacity planning.
Which chart type is most effective for showing trends over time?
- Line Chart
- Area Chart
- Both A and B
- Bar Chart
Answer: Both A and B
Time series visualization: line charts show trends clearly, area charts emphasize volume. Both effective for temporal data analysis.
Which principle requires collecting only necessary personal information for AI training?
- Lawfulness
- Data Minimization
- Accountability
- All of these
Answer: Data Minimization
Data minimization limits collection to what's necessary for specified purpose. Reduces privacy risks, storage costs, breach impact.
The principle that requires AI systems to be understandable to non-technical stakeholders is called ________.
- Common
- Transparency
- CARTOSAT / EOS
- Astra
Answer: Transparency
Transparency (Explainable AI/XAI) ensures AI decisions can be interpreted by humans. Critical for trust, debugging, regulatory compliance.