Sunday, August 31, 2014

GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE MCQs FOR SBI PO EXAM

1. The ultimate controller of rules of bank deposits is .........
1) SBI
2) Finance Secretary
3) Ministry of Finance
4) Controller of Deposits
5) RBI

2. Important two streams of bank deposits in India ........
1) Functional deposit and Demand deposit
2) Low demand deposit and Demand deposit
3) Term deposit and Flexi deposit
4) Term deposit and Demand deposit
5) None

3. In the term deposit, two important types of bank accounts are .........
1) Savings account and Fixed deposit
2) Fixed deposit and Current account
3) Savings deposit and Current account
4) Fixed deposit and Recurring deposit
5) None of above

4. The highlight of Term Deposit is ........
1) Deposit accepted for fixed term
2) Cumulative rate of interest option
3) No instinct to spend
4) Loan options available
5) All of above

5. Which among the following accounts fetch the highest rate of interest?
1) Savings deposits
2) Recurring deposits
3) Fixed deposits
4) Current account deposits
5) All of above

6. Which of the following option not available in fixed deposits?
1) Cheque facility
2) ATM card
3) Withdrawal form facility
4) Online fund transfer
5) All of above

7. Usually the banks in our country, declare the additional rate of interest to ....... on fixed
deposits.
1) Senior citizens
2) Political parties
3) Educated people
4) Government officials
5) Defaulter of loans

8. Whether joint account can be opened in the fixed deposit?
1) No
2) Yes, but one of the joint account holders must not be bank employee.
3) Yes
4) Yes, but the joint account holders must declare they are not having joint account in the different bank.
5) Yes, but the joint account holders must get permission from RBI.

9. Banks are not permitted to pay commission to employees/ firms/ organizations to mobilize deposits. However banks can pay commission to mobilize deposits to whom as per the present rules of RBI?
1) Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs)
2) Self Help Groups (SHGs)
3) Micro Finance Institutions (MFIs)
4) Civil Society Organisations (CSOs)
5) All of above

10. Banks allow the prematurity of fixed deposits. Then they usually collect penal rate of interest on .......... for the premature withdrawal of fixed deposits.
1) Principal
2) Rate of interest
3) Minimum deposit amount
4) Maturity amount
5) All of above

11. On 24 January 2013, the RBI revised premature deposit rules of ..........
1) Small savings accounts
2) Small value fixed deposit accounts
3) Big size savings accounts
4) Dollar savings accounts
5) Large value fixed deposit accounts

12. The new rules of large value fixed deposit accounts include ..........
1) Bank can fix the differential interest rates on large size term deposits.
2) Here large value fixed deposit means above 1 crore.
3) For the large value fixed deposits banks should discourage the pre-mature withdrawals.
4) 1 & 2 only
5) All of above

13. Fixed deposits can have ...........
1) Nomination facility
2) Nomination facility with the
permission of Bank Chairman
3) Nomination facility by taking special permission from bank
4) Nomination facility on the day of closing
5) Nomination facility with the permission of person who introduced him to open
account

14. Some time banks offer special term deposits with Lock-in-period. Lock-in-period means .......
1) Locker provided under this deposit
2) Locker facility denied
3) During this period, the deposit holder cannot open another account
4) During this period, banks do not allow the prematurity
5) None of above

15. In the tax saver fixed deposit accounts, the deposit holder saving which tax?
1) Sales Tax
2) VAT
3) Excise Duty
4) Income Tax
5) Property Tax

16. Whether a customer can opt premature of his fixed deposit and deposit the same amount in Savings Account?
1) No, because one cannot cancel the fixed deposit and move the same amount into savings account
2) Yes, but he has to penalty for pre maturity of deposit and also pay penalty to deposit in savings account
3) Yes, as he is free to use that amount in any way
4) No, as one cannot do both fixed deposit and savings deposit transactions in a day
5) None of above

17. A deposit account which enables a depositor particularly in fixed income group to save by paying into the account an agreed fixed sum of money monthly over a stipulated period is called .........
1) Recurring Deposit
2) Fixed Deposit
3) Minor Account
4) Savings Account
5) Corporate Account

18. NBFC (Non-Banking Finance Company) allowed to accept / renew public deposits for a minimum period of 12 months and maximum period of .........
1) 10 months
2) 20 months
3) 30 months
4) 60 months
5) 80 months

19. NBFCs cannot offer interest rates higher than the ceiling rate prescribed by RBI from time to time. As per the present rules, the present ceiling is .........
1) 7.5 percent per annum
2) 10.5 percent per annum
3) 24.0 percent per annum
4) 12.5 percent per annum
5) 16.5 percent per annum

20. On 21 August 2014, RBI in its annual report said that its surplus (profit ) for the financial year 2013-14 come down to ......... percent to Rs.52,679 crore as its interest income from investments in foreign sovereign bonds declined.
1) 12.25%
2) 7.5%
3) 18.5%
4) 20.5%
5) 14.75%

21. On 18 July 2014, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has allowed raising foreign investment limit
under portfolio investment in Kotak Mahindra Bank to .........
1) 74%
2) 51%
3) 70%
4) 100%
5) 40%

22. Nick Clegg and Arun Jaitley discussed various matters of mutual interest, including the retrospective tax amendment issue on 25 August 2014. Nick Clegg is the .........
1) Vice - president of USA
2) President of France
3) Director General, WTO
4) UK Deputy Prime Minister
5) None

23. A scientific way of measuring, monitoring and managing the various risks that banks or financial institutions are exposed during the course of their operations is called ........
1) Asset Liability Management
2) Public Rating
3) Asset Securitisation
4) Asset Classification
5) Liability Classification

24. CONCOR was granted the Navarathna status on 23 July 2014 by the Department of Public Enterprises under Union Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises. CONCOR stands for ..........
1) Charcoal Corporation of India Limited
2) Coal Corporation of India Limited
3) Container Corporation of India Limited
4) Cement Corporation of India Limited
5) None

25. Who is the minister for Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises?
1) Ananth Kumar
2) Narendra Singh Tomar
3) Anant Geete
4) Jual Oram
5) None

26. CONCOR was incorporated in March 1988, commenced the operations from .........
1) 1991
2) 1992
3) 1989
4) 2000
5) None

27. Present Chairman and MD of CONCOR?
1) Anil Kumar Gupta
2) Rajiv Rudi
3) V. Verma
4) Cyrus Mystry
5) None of above

28. CONCOR registered office located at .........
1) Hyderabad
2) Pune
3) New Delhi
4) Bangalore
5) None

29. SEBI issued draft regulations for infrastructure investment trusts. As per it the trusts can raise money either through a public issue or a private placement, with a minimum issue size of .........
1) Rs.50 crore
2) Rs.100 crore
3) Rs.300 crore
4) Rs. 250 crore
5) None

30. On 15 July, 2014 SEBI barred B Ramalinga Raju, the founder of Satyam Computers
from accessing the capital markets for ........
1) 10 years
2) 18 years
3) 7 years
4) 5 years
5) 14 years

31. Who was appointed as Chairman of Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on 20 August
2014?
1) Mallikarjun Kharge
2) Rahul Gandhi
3) K.V. Thomas
4) Thambidurai
5) None

32. New Chairman of Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) is .........
1) Rana Kapoor
2) Sidharth Birla
3) Ajay S. Shriram
4) K V Chowdary
5) R Chandrasekaran

33. Granville Austin recently died. He is a .........
1) Famous biologist
2) Notable Indian Constitution expert
3) Nobel laureate
4) Cosmologist
5) None

34. 'The Indian Constitution: Cornerstone of a Nation' written by .........
1) F. Nariman
2) R.M. Lodha
3) Ram Jethmalani
4) Markandey Katju
5) Granville Austin

35. World-renowned yoga guru Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar died on 20 August 2014. He born in .........
1) Tamilnadu
2) AP
3) Karnataka
4) Bihar
5) Rajasthan

ANSWERS:
1-5, 2-4, 3-4, 4-5, 5-3, 6-5, 7-1, 8-3, 9-2, 10-2
11-5, 12-5, 13-1, 14-4, 15-4, 16-3, 17-1, 18-4, 19-4, 20-5
21-5, 22-4, 23-1, 24-3, 25-3, 26-3, 27-1, 28-3, 29-4, 30-5, 31-3, 32-4, 33-2, 34-5, 35-3