Daily UPSC Prelims Current Affairs – July 06, 2022 [Mock Test]
July 6, 2022 July 6, 2022
1. Consider the following statements:
- Splinternet is defined as the balkanization of the net.
- The division of the internet can be caused by religion; politics; government; technology; commerce; or national interests.
- China’s Great Firewall and Russia’s Kwangmyong are examples of splinternet.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
[A] Only 1 & 2
[B] Only 1
[C] Only 2 & 3
[D] 1, 2 & 3
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Correct Answer: A [Only 1 & 2]
Notes:- The splinternet involves the breaking off — or splintering — of the internet into several fragmented pieces. The division of the internet can be caused by the following: religion; politics; government; technology; commerce; national interests. It is often defined as the balkanization of the net, as nations try to preserve their sovereign identities and economic interests.
- The best-known example is China’s Great Firewall or the Golden Shield Project — also known as the Great Firewall — to censor information based on what the government determines is “safe.” Another example is Kwangmyong, the internet in North Korea, where access to data is not only regulated and limited, but people have to seek special permission to even use it. Iran’s National Information Network is another example, while Russia found a way to wean the country off the global internet in 2019, and instead run an “intranet”.
2. Which of the following terms is defined as the ‘study of visceral organs’?
[A] Lipidomics
[B] Proteomics
[C] Splanchnology
[D] Ethology
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Correct Answer: C [Splanchnology]
Notes:- Lipidomics is the study of the structure and function of the complete set of lipids (the lipidome) produced in a given cell or organism as well as their interactions with other lipids, proteins and metabolites.
- Proteomics is the large-scale study of proteomes. A proteome is a set of proteins produced in an organism, system, or biological context.
- Splanchnology is the study of the visceral organs, i.e. digestive, urinary, reproductive and respiratory systems.
- Ethology is the scientific study of animal behavior—including animal communication, predation, defense, aggression, mating, imprinting, fixed action patterns and releasers, and migration—most often in their natural conditions.
3. Terms, ‘brute-force attack’, ‘SQL injection’, ‘watering hole strategy’, pertain to which of the following?
[A] Military Strategies
[B] Cyber Attacks
[C] Disease Prevention Strategies
[D] None of the above
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Correct Answer: B [Cyber Attacks]
Notes:- A brute-force attack gets its name from the “brutish” or simple methodology employed by the attack. The attacker simply tries to guess the login credentials of someone with access to the target system.
- Structured Query Language (SQL) injection is a common method of taking advantage of websites that depend on databases to serve their users.
- With XSS, or cross-site scripting, the attacker transmits malicious scripts using clickable content that gets sent to the target’s browser. When the victim clicks on the content, the script is executed.
- Watering hole is a computer attack strategy in which an attacker guesses or observes which websites an organization often uses and infects one or more of them with
