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BlockChain Sample Paper
1. What is a node? 7. Where do you store your
a. A type of cryptocurrency cryptocurrency?
b. A Blockchain a. Bank account
c. A computer on a b. Floppy Disk
Blockchain network c. Wallet
d. An exchange d. In your pocket
2. Who created Bitcoin? 8. What is a miner?
a. Satoshi Nakamoto a. A type of blockchain
b. Samsung b. An algorithm that predicts
c. John Mcafee the next part of the chain
d. China c. A person doing calculations
3. Blockchain is a peer-to-peer to verify a transaction
_____________ distributed ledger
d. Computers that validate
technology that makes the records
and process blockchain
of any digital asset transparent and
transactions
unchangeable. 9. What does P2P stand for?
a. Decentralized a. Peer to Peer
b. Demanding b. Product to Product
c. Secure c. Password to Password
d. Popular d. None of the above
4. Blockchain networks are much 10. Blockchain has ____ versions.
_____ and deal with no real single a. 2
point of failure. b. 3
a. Simpler c. 4
b. Easier to scale d. 5
c. Convenient 11. What are the different types of
d. Fast tokens?
5. Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency, which a. Platform
is an application of Blockchain. b. Privacy
a. True c. Currency
b. False d. All of these
6. Blockchain can perform user 12. Which is NOT a part of
transactions without involving any asymmetric encryption?
third-party intermediaries. a. Mining
a. With the help of the third b. Public key
party c. Passphrase
b. Without involving any d. Private Key
third party 13. What is a blockchain?
c. Without involving any a. A distributed ledger on a
owned peer to peer network
d. Without involving any b. A type of cryptocurrency
authenticated c. An exchange

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 d. A centralized ledger
14. A blockchain enables peer-to-peer
transfer of digital currency without
any intermediaries such as banks.
a. True
b. False
15. What does a block in a Blockchain
have?
a. Header & Digital ledger
b. Bitcoins & Input
c. Transactions & Bitcoins
d. Header & Transaction
16. What does UTXO stand for?
a. Unspent Trade Offer
b. Unspent Transaction
xeroxed Output
c. Unique Transaction Offer
d. Unspent Transaction
Output
17. What is an IDE for programming
on Ethereum Blockchain Network?
a. Remix
b. Ether
c. Visual Studio
d. Jupyter Notebook
18. What is cold storage?
a. A place to hang your coat
b. A private key connected to
the Internet
c. A private key not
connected to the Internet
d. A desktop wallet
19. What powers the Ethereum Virtual
Machine?
a. Gas
b. Rupees
c. Bitcoin
d. Block Rewards
20. Does a transaction generate new
UTXOs for transferring the amount
specified in the input UTXOS?
a. True
b. False
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21. Transaction 0 in every block of the
bitcoin blockchain________.
a. Is for paying the miner fees
b. Does not have any input
UTXO
c. Is called the coinbase
transaction
d. All of the above
22. What is the genesis block?
a. Any block created by the
founder
b. The last block created in the
Blockchain
c. The first block of a
Blockchain
d. The first transaction in each
block
23. __________ receive verify, gather
and execute transactions.
a. Miner nodes
b. Smart Contracts
c. Light wallets
d. Ethereum full node
24. What is Blockchain?
a. A currency
b. A ledger
c. A type of currency
d. A distributed ledger on a
peer-to-peer network
25. Asymmetric encryption uses:
a. Public keys only
b. Private keys only
c. Public and Private keys
d. Proof of Stake
26. What is Proof of Stake?
a. A certificate needed to use
the blockchain
b. A password needed to
access an exchange
c. How private keys are made
d. A transaction and block
verification protocol
27. What is the name of programming
language used on Remix IDE?
 a. Solidity d. Servers
b. GO 34. Bitcoin uses UTXO, Ethereum
c. Python uses:
d. JAVA a. Double spend
28. What is a hash function? b. UTXO
a. A fork c. Account Balance
b. UTXO d. Ether
c. Takes an input of any 35. Ethereum is
length and returns a a. open source supplychain
fixed-length string of networks
numbers and letters b. open source blockchain
d. Gas networks
29. What is the genesis block? c. licensed version
a. Any block created by the d. open source world wide
founder web networks
b. The last block created in the 36. When a record is on a blockchain,
Blockchain who can access it?
c. The first block of a a. Multiple people
Blockchain simultaneously.
d. The first transaction in each b. One person at a time.
block c. Only the people involved in
30. Bitcoin is based on _________ the transaction.
blockchain. d. None of these
a. Private 37. For the simple symmetric key
b. Public example discussed in the lecture, it
c. Public Permissioned is easy to derive the secret key
d. Permissioned from the encrypted data.
31. BATM stands for _____. a. True
a. Bounded access transaction b. False
machine 38. What type of hash function is used,
b. Broadcast ATM when there is a variable number of
c. Bitcoin ATM items to be hashed, such as the
d. Blockchain ATM many state changes in a block?
32. Smart Contract characteristics do a. Complex hash
not include: b. Simple Hash
a. Alterable c. Tree-structured Hash
b. Fast and cost-effective d. Either
c. A high degree of accuracy 39. What is a DApp?
d. Transparency a. A type of cryptocurrency
33. What characteristic makes b. A condiment
blockchain tamper-proof? c. A type of blockchain
a. VPN d. A decentralized
b. Immutability application
c. Cryptocurrency

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 40. Once records are submitted on a which of the following
blockchain, can they be altered? cryptographic algorithm?
a. True a. SHA128
b. False b. SHA256
41. Is it possible to program a c. Both of them
blockchain to record transactions d. None of them
automatically? 48. How often does the Bitcoin ledger
a. True reconcile?
b. False a. Every day
42. What is a LiteClient? b. Every 3 months
a. Allows you to interact c. Every 3 minutes
with the blockchain d. Every 10 minutes
without downloading the 49. Which is/are the applications of
whole blockchain Blockchain?
b. A type of cryptocurrency a. Cross-border payments
c. A platform to develop b. Anti-money laundering
dApps tracking system
d. A server c. Supply chain and logistics
43. What is the process of creating new monitoring
bitcoins popularly known as? d. All the above
a. Finding 50. What is a smart contract?
b. Panning a. Programs stored on a
c. Sourcing blockchain that run when
d. Mining predetermined conditions
44. What does the block in the are met
blockchain consist of? b. Online contract
a. Transaction data c. Digital contract
b. A Hash point d. All the above
c. A Timestamp
d. All of these
45. SHA 256 generates a unique ____
byte signature for a text?
a. 256
b. 32
c. 64
d. 8
46. SHA stands for ?
a. Safe Hash Algorithm
b. Secure Hash Algorithm
c. Safe Hard Algorithm
d. Secure Hard Algorithm
47. Hash identifying each block in the
blockchain is generated using

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