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Which brain-inspired feature enables neuromorphic chips to achieve ultra-low power for always-on AI?
- Spiking Neurons
- Event-Driven Processing
- Both A and B
- Neither
Answer: Both A and B
Spiking neurons fire only when needed; event-driven processing handles only changes. Combined enable orders-of-magnitude better energy efficiency than GPUs for edge AI.
The technology that uses DNA strands for massively parallel computation is called ________ Computing.
- DNA / Molecular
- Inversion
- Green / Energy-Efficient
- Artifact / Model Registry
Answer: DNA / Molecular
DNA computing leverages biochemical reactions for parallel problem-solving. Research stage with potential for combinatorial optimization, cryptography, archival storage.
Quantum error correction requires encoding logical qubits across multiple physical qubits to detect and correct errors.
- True
- False
Answer: True
QEC codes (surface code, Shor code) protect quantum information from decoherence and noise. Critical for fault-tolerant quantum computing but requires significant qubit overhead.
Which quantum algorithm provides quadratic speedup for unstructured search problems?
- Shor's Algorithm
- Grover's Algorithm
- Quantum Phase Estimation
- Variational Quantum Eigensolver
Answer: Grover's Algorithm
Grover's Algorithm searches unsorted database of N items in O(√N) queries vs O(N) classically. Applications: optimization, cryptography, machine learning enhancement.
The technique that enables data analysis while protecting individual identities through statistical noise is called ________ Privacy.
- Virtualization / NFV
- Hunting
- Differential
- Device Posture
Answer: Differential
Differential Privacy mathematically guarantees query results don't reveal individual records. Used in census, health analytics, tech telemetry for privacy-preserving insights.
The principle of accountability requires organizations to demonstrate compliance with data protection regulations.
- True
- False
Answer: True
Accountability (GDPR Article 5, DPDP Act Section 8) requires documented policies, training, audits, and breach response procedures. Critical for regulatory compliance.
Which regulation requires Data Protection Impact Assessments for high-risk processing activities?
- GDPR
- DPDP Act 2023
- Both A and B
- Neither
Answer: Both A and B
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.
The technique that protects ML models by adding calibrated noise to outputs to prevent inference attacks is called ________ Privacy.
- Nature-based / Biological
- margin
- Differential
- Account Aggregator
Answer: Differential
Differential Privacy adds mathematical noise to model outputs, providing provable privacy guarantees against membership inference and model inversion attacks.
Model extraction attacks reconstruct proprietary ML models by querying prediction APIs.
- True
- False
Answer: True
Model extraction queries API to infer model architecture/parameters, enabling intellectual property theft or adversarial example generation. Mitigation: query rate limiting, output perturbation.
Which attack manipulates the training process to embed backdoors that activate on specific triggers?
- Data Poisoning
- Backdoor Attack
- Model Stealing
- Membership Inference
Answer: Backdoor Attack
Backdoor attacks inject malicious patterns during training that cause targeted misclassification when trigger present. Critical threat requiring robust training data validation.
The practice of managing cloud security policies as code for version control and automation is called Security as ________.
- Label / One-Hot
- Interdisciplinary Cyber Physical Systems / NM-ICPS
- Code
- in-the-loop
Answer: Code
Security as Code defines policies in declarative format (OPA, Sentinel), enabling version control, testing, automated enforcement. Critical for scalable cloud security governance.
Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) secure workloads across multi-cloud and hybrid environments.
- True
- False
Answer: True
CWPP provides unified security for VMs, containers, serverless across AWS, Azure, GCP, on-premises. Critical for consistent security posture in hybrid cloud.
Which cloud security practice involves automatically scanning infrastructure code for misconfigurations before deployment?
- IaC Scanning
- Container Scanning
- Runtime Protection
- All of these
Answer: All of these
Comprehensive cloud security: IaC scanning (Terraform, CloudFormation), container image scanning, runtime protection (Falco, Tetragon). Combined for defense-in-depth.
The practice of encrypting data at the application level before storage or transmission is called ________ Encryption.
- Cell / Location-Based
- Quantum Annealing
- Application-Layer
- End-to-End
Answer: Application-Layer
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 in Zero Trust requires re-verifying user identity throughout a session based on risk context.
- True
- False
Answer: True
Continuous authentication adjusts verification requirements based on behavioral analytics, device posture, location, and other risk signals. Critical for Zero Trust security posture.
Which Zero Trust implementation strategy involves creating dynamic, identity-based network perimeters?
- Software-Defined Perimeter
- Micro-segmentation
- Both A and B
- Neither
Answer: Both A and B
Software-Defined Perimeter (SDP) creates identity-based perimeters; micro-segmentation isolates workloads. Both implement Zero Trust by limiting access to authenticated, authorized entities only.
Instruction tuning adapts LLMs to follow user instructions by training on ________-response pairs.
- Interdisciplinary Cyber Physical Systems / NM-ICPS
- Latency
- Bias / Fairness
- Prompt
Answer: Prompt
Instruction tuning fine-tunes LLMs on instruction datasets, improving task completion and helpfulness.
The technique that splits data into training and testing sets while preserving class distribution is called Stratified Sampling.
- True
- False
Answer: True
Stratified sampling maintains class proportions in train/test splits, critical for imbalanced classification.
Content Delivery Networks cache content at edge locations to reduce ________ for global users.
- Parquet
- ABHA / Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission
- Latency
- Drone
Answer: Latency
CDNs distribute content to edge locations near users, reducing latency and origin load.
The National Education Policy 2020 mandates integration of coding and AI literacy from ________ school.
- Auditing / Assessment
- Board
- Container / Image
- Middle
Answer: Middle
NEP 2020 emphasizes computational thinking, coding, AI exposure from Class 6 onwards.