2023 · Q59
Which one of the following statements best describes the term ‘Prowess’, sometimes seen in news?
Indian EconomyGrowth and sectors
- AA special-purpose supercomputer with a hardware architecture dedicated to a single problem
- BA database of the financial performance of companies that is specially designed for academia
- CA computing machine that uses the properties of quantum physics to store data and perform computation
- DA database in which collection and storing of data is done on user’s system and this is basically designed for a single user
Explanation
'Prowess' is the well-known database of the financial performance of Indian companies maintained by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), widely used by academia and researchers. It is not a supercomputer, a quantum machine, or a single-user local database. Hence (b).