1. Which of the following countries
won the Copa America football
tournament on July 4, 2015?
1) Argentina
2) Paraguay
3) Chile
4) Peru
5) Brazil
2. Nationwide Mobile Number Portability
has been operational
from?
1) July 1, 2015
2) July 3, 2015
3) July 5, 2015
4) July 7, 2015
5) None of these
3. As per the Socio Economic and
Caste Census 2011 (SECC), what
percent of the rural Indians are
illiterates?
1) 32%
2) 44%
3) 36%
4) 40%
5) 41%
4. Who has been named the winner
of the 2015 World Food Prize?
1) M.S. Swaminathan
2) Mahabub ul Haq
3) Muhammad Yunus
4) Fazle Hasan Abed
5) Sanjay Rajaram
5. Tony Tan Keng Yam visited India
in February 2015. He is the
President of?
1) South Korea
2) Vietnam
3) Cambodia
4) Laos
5) Singapore
6. National Rail Museum is located
in?
1) Mumbai
2) Chennai
3) Kolkata
4) Secunderabad
5) New Delhi
7. The International Mountain Day
is observed every year on?
1) December 11
2) October 11
3) November 11
4) September 11
5) August 11
8. Nickolay Mladenov was appointed
as the United Nations Special
Coordinator for the Middle East
peace process on February 5,
2015. He belongs to?
1) Russia
2) Bulgaria
3) Ukraine
4) Georgia
5) Serbia
9. Identify the mismatched pair?
State Chief Minister
1) Jammu & Kashmir - Mufti
Mohammed Sayeed
2) Bihar - Nitish Kumar
3) Odisha - Naveen Patnaik
4) Tripura - T.R. Zeliang
5) Sikkim - Pawan Chamling
10. Who is the deputy Chief Minister
of Delhi?
1) Sandeep Kumar
2) Gopal Rai
3) Asim Ahmed Khan
4) Manish Sisodia
5) Somnath Bharti
11. The World Health Organization
is headquartered in?
1) Austria
2) USA
3) UK
4) Italy
5) Switzerland
12. Which of the following statements
is not correct?
1) Pranab Mukherjee is the author
of "The Dramatic Decade:
The Indira Gandhi Years"
2) BRICS Development Bank is
now known as The New Development
Bank
3) The chief regulator for the commodity
futures market is
Forward Markets Commission
4) Bharatiya Mahila Bank is a
non-scheduled commercial
bank
5) The 2018 Commonwealth Games
will be held in Australia
13. Who was given the Filmfare
Lifetime Achievement Award in
January 2015?
1) Tanuja
2) Waheeda Rehman
3) Kamini Kaushal
4) Hema Malini
5)Jaya Bachchan
14. The Rapid Action Force (RAF) is
a specialized wing of the?
1) CISF
2) BSF
3) CRPF
4) ITBP
5) NSG
15. Which is the second largest river
in India after the river Ganga?
1) Brahmaputra
2) Godavari
3) Krishna
4) Indus
5) Yamuna
16. Ritu Rani is associated with
which of the following sports?
1) Football
2) Cricket
3) Hockey
4) Boxing
5) Shooting
17. Michael Adams of England is
associated with?
1) Billiards
2) Golf
3) Formula one
4) Chess
5) Boxing
18. Who is the author of the book
"The Good, The Bad and The
Ridiculous"?
1) Salman Rushdie
2) Khushwant Singh
3) V.S. Naipaul
4) Arvind Adiga
5) None of these
19. The currency of Oman is?
1) Omani Dollar
2) Omani Ruble
3) Omani Rial
4) Omani Pound
5) Omani Dinar
20. Buying or selling of securities by
a person with access to privileged
information with an objective of
making an illegal gain is called?
1) Cross trading
2) Forward trading
3) Circular trading
4) Insider trading
5) None of these
21. Who was appointed the Director
General of the Council of Scientific
and Industrial Research
(CSIR) in February 2015?
1) M.O. Garg
2) P.K. Kapil
3) D.M. Kale
4) I.M. Mishra
5) A.S. Basu
22. Rafi Ahmed Kidwai National
Postal Academy is situated in?
1) Ghaziabad
2) Lucknow
3) Nagpur
4) Hyderabad
5) New Delhi
23. Which of the following rivers
crosses the equator twice?
1) Amazon
2) Congo
3) Volga
4) Nile
5) Danube
24. Which of the following pairs of
countries and capital cities is not
matched correctly?
1) Argentina – Buenos Aires
2) Colombia – Bogotá
3) Egypt – Cairo
4) Zimbabwe – Harare
5) Peru – Santiago
25. Which one of the following European
Union countries has its
own currency and has not switched
over to Euro?
1) France
2) Germany
3) Italy
4) Spain
5) Sweden
26. Which country recently launched
a new generation navigation satellite
Glonass-K?
1) Japan
2) France
3) Russia
4) China
5) South Korea
27. Who was appointed by the President
Barack Obama as a member
of the Advisory Committee for
Trade Policy and Negotiations in
February 2015?
1) Indra Nooyi
2) Ajay Banga
3) Padmasree Warrior
4) Punit Renjen
5) None of these
28. Which one of the following countries
does not have a female
President at present?
1) Brazil
2) Argentina
3) Venezuela
4) Chile
5) Croatia
29. Sergio Mattarella assumed office
as the President of which of the
following countries on February
3, 2015?
1) Greece
2) Italy
3) Bulgaria
4) Slovenia
5) Spain
30. Who is the present Defense
Secretary of the United States of
America?
1) Chuck Hagel
2) Robert Gates
3) John Kerry
4) Ashton Carter
5) Leon Panetta
31. Which of the following films
won the Best Picture award at the
87th Academy awards in February
2015?
1) Boyhood
2) Whiplash
3) Still Alice
4) Birdman
5) None of these
32. Bhalachandra Nemade was chosen
for the Jnanpith Award 2014.
He is an eminent writer in which
of the following languages?
1) Kannada
2) Marathi
3) Sanskrit
4) Hindi
5) Bengali
33. The abbreviation "EPOS" stands
for?
1) Electronic Purchase of Sale
2) Electronic Payment of Sale
3) Electronic Point of Sale
4) Electronic Price of Sale
5) None of these
34. Nikkei 225 is a stock market index
of?
1) Shanghai stock exchange
2) Tokyo stock exchange
3) New York stock exchange
4) Beijing stock exchange
5) None of these
35. Which country won the African
Nations Cup football tournament
on February 8, 2015?
1) Ghana
2) Cameroon
3) Senegal
4) South Africa
5) Ivory Coast
36. Who is the Deputy Chief Minister
of Jammu & Kashmir?
1) Priya Sethi
2) Aasiya Naqqash
3) Mehbooba Mufti
4) Nirmal Singh
5) None of these
37. Dunya Maumoon visited India in
February 2015. She is the Foreign
Minister of?
1) Malaysia
2) Maldives
3) Afghanistan
4) Iraq
5) Iran
38. Who founded Prarthana Samaj in
1867?
1) Swami Vivekananda
2) Ramakrishna Paramahansa
3) Aatmaram Pandurang
4) Mahadev Govind Ranade
5) Dayananda Saraswati
39. Indira Gandhi National Forest
Academy is in?
1) Mussorie
2) Darjeeling
3) Kolkata
4) Dehradun
5) Bhubaneswar
Answers
1) 3 2) 2 3) 3 4) 4 5) 5
6) 5 7) 1 8) 2 9) 4 10) 4
11) 5 12) 4 13) 3 14) 3 15) 2
16) 3 17) 4 18) 2 19) 3 20) 4
21) 1 22) 1 23) 2 24) 5 25) 5
26) 3 27) 2 28) 3 29) 2 30) 4
31) 4 32) 2 33) 3 34) 2 35) 5
36) 4 37) 2 38) 3 39) 4.
Sunday, July 12, 2015
Thursday, July 9, 2015
GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE QUESTIONS FOR UNITED INDIA INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED ASSISTANT EXAM 2015
1. What is the aim of formulating Banking Ombudsman Scheme by RBI?
1) To promote the deposits in the unbanked areas as the part of financial inclusion.
2) To promote lending among the poor people, as they are depending on non-institutional sources.
3) To redress the grievances or complaints arising out of the deficiency in the banking services.
4) To universalize the discount of commercial bills issued.
5) To incorporate the list of scheduled banks in the RBI Act 1934.
2. RBI introduced Banking Ombudsman Scheme as per Section 35 A of .............
1) Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881
2) SARFAESI Act, 2002
3) Banking Regulation Act, 1949
4) FEMA, 1999
5) RBI Act, 1934
3. Ombudsman scheme first introduced in ........
1) USA
2) India
3) Australia
4) France
5) UK
4. Which bank covered under the Banking Ombudsman Scheme?
1) Scheduled Public Sector Banks
2) Scheduled Private Sector Banks
3) Regional Rural Banks
4) Scheduled Primary Co-operative Banks
5) All of above
5. Banking Ombudsman is a senior official appointed by ..........
1) Finance Minister
2) RBI
3) SEBI
4) FSDC
5) None
6. Banking Ombudsman Scheme come into effect from .............
1) 2000
2) 1995
3) 1999
4) 2010
5) 1981
7. As per the present rules, any person can file a compliant before the Banking Ombudsman, if the satisfied reply is not received from the bank within a period of ......
1) one month
2) three months
3) two months
4) six months
5) None
8. When the Ombudsman rejects the compliant of the customer?
1) If the customer does not approach the bank first.
2) One has not made the complaint within one year from the date one has received the reply of the bank or if no reply is received if it is more than one year and one month from the date of representation to the bank.
3) Subject matter of the complaint is pending for disposal / has already been dealt with at any other forum like court of law, consumer court.
4) Complaint is frivolous or vexatious.
5) In all above cases, the ombudsman will not accept the compliant from customer.
9. The fee collected by Ombudsman to take compliant from the customer .............
1) Rs.5
2) Rs.100
3) Rs.10
4) Fix by the bank
5) No fee collects by the Ombudsman
10. The Ombudsman take the compliant and can take action if ..........
1) Non - payment or delay in payment of inward remittances.
2) Non - credit of proceeds to parties accounts, non - payment of deposit or non - observance of the Reserve Bank directives.
3) Not accepting the legal tender and or for charging of commission in respect thereof.
4) Inordinate delay in the payment or collection of cheques, drafts, bills.
5) In the all above cases the ombudsman take action against bank.
11. When the Ombudsman take action against the bank?
1) Collecting charges without adequate prior notice to the customer.
2) Refusal to accept or delay in accepting payment towards taxes, as required by government.
3) Refusal to close or delay in closing the accounts.
4) Non-observance of Reserve Bank guidelines on engagement of recovery agents by banks.
5) In the above all cases, Ombudsman take action against the bank.
12. On 24 May 2007, RBI framed a rule that any customer not satisfied with ombudsman decision, then the customer can put an appeal to ...........
1) Governor, RBI
2) Governor of that State
3) Finance Minister of India
4) President of India
5) Deputy Governor of RBI
13. RBI amended Banking Ombudsman Scheme includes complaints relating to Internet Banking and Non-adherence to BCSBI Code on 5 February 2009. BCSBI stands for ..........
1) Banking Core and Standards Board of India.
2) Banking Codes and State Board of India.
3) Banking Codes and Standards Board of India.
4) Business Codes and Standards Board of India.
5) Banking Codes and Standards Bureau of India.
14. RBI constituted committee under the chairmanship of ........... to review the Ombudsman Scheme on 7 January 2013.
1) C. Rangarajan
2) Suma Chakrabarti
3) Suma Varma
4) Usha Thorat
5) None
15. Banking Ombudsman can grant compensation up to .........
1) Rs.50 Lakh
2) Rs.10 Lakh
3) Rs.35 Lakh
4) Rs.5 Lakh
5) None
16. For mental agony, the Ombudsman can grant compensation up to ..........
1) Rs.1 Lakh
2) Rs.2 Lakh
3) Rs.25 Lakh
4) Rs.10 Lakh
5) None
17. On 11 May 2015, RBI advised all public sector banks and some private and foreign banks to appoint an internal ombudsman. The internal ombudsman would be designated as CSSO. CSSO stands for ..........
1) Central Customer Service Officer
2) Chief Customs Service Officer
3) Core Customer Service Officer
4) Chief Customer Second Officer
5) Chief Customer Service Officer
18. On how many grounds of complaints / deficiencies in bank services, the present Banking Ombudsman Scheme providing relief to bank customers?
1) 18
2) 75
3) 4
4) 11
5) 27
19. 41st G7 summit was held in Schloss Elmau, Krun, Bavaria in...
1) France
2) Canada
3) Japan
4) Germany
5) Italy
20. What is the Theme of G7 Summit 2015?
1) Save the World from Recession
2) Right decision for Right Action
3) Think Ahead. Act Together
4) Together for a Nice future
5) None of above
21. Union Ministry of Roads Transport & Highways announced which project of linking borders and coastal areas with road network?
1) Bharat Mala
2) Bharat Sagar
3) Bharat Chandrika
4) Pradhanmanthri Grameena Sadak Yozana
5) Bharat Anubandh
22. Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways is .........
1) Nitin Gadkari
2) Arun Jaitley
3) Smriti Irani
4) Suresh Prabhu
5) Sadananda Gowda
23. Alandur to Koyabedu, the 10 - km stretch of Metro Rail service launched on 29 June 2015 launched in .........
1) Chennai
2) Mumbai
3) Delhi
4) Hyderabad
5) Kolkata
24. Which state became the largest Producer of Solar Power after installing 1167 MW solar power plant, demoting Gujarat to second position?
1) Tamilnadu
2) MP
3) Rajasthan
4) HP
5) Haryana
25. CTBT Stands for ..........
1) Combined Test Ban Treaty
2) Comprehensive Tool Ban Treaty
3) Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
4) Collective Test Ban Treaty
5) None
26. Indo-Bangladesh ODI series won by Bangladesh. The man of the series is ........
1) Mashrafe Mortaza
2) Mohammad Mushfiqur Rahim
3) M.S. Dhoni
4) Mustafizur Rahman
5) Virat Kohli
27. FIFA U-20 World Cup won by ..........
1) Serbia
2) Brazil
3) Argentina
4) South Africa
5) Uruguay
28. Which Indian scripted history by becoming the first Indian basketball player to be drafted in the National Basketball Association (NBA) on 26 June 2015?
1) Narender Kumar
2) Joginder Singh
3) Satnam Singh Bhamara
4) Amit Pal Singh
5) None
29. First Day - Night Cricket match will be played on 27th November 2015 at .......... between Australia and New Zealand.
1) Adelaide Oval Stadium (Aus)
2) Sydney Cricket Ground (Aus)
3) Brisbane Cricket Ground (Aus)
4) Eden Park (New Zealand)
5) Basin Reserve (New Zealand)
30. One of the oldest galaxies in the universe, CR7 (COSMOS Redshift 7) has been named after ........
1) Diego Maradona
2) Viswanathan Anand
3) Lionel Messi
4) Gerard Pique
5) Cristiano Ronaldo
31. Bharti Airtel has become the 3rd largest telecom company in the world having 303 million subscribers. Which company is top in this list having 626.27 miilion subscribers?
1) Aircel
2) China Mobile
3) Vodafone
4) Unimobile
5) MTS
32. 'Transcendence My Spiritual Experiences with Pramukh Swamiji' co-authored by A.P. J. Abdul Kalam and ..........
1) Manav Gupta
2) R. Narasimha
3) Sivathanu Pillai
4) YS Rajan
5) Arun Tiwari
33. 16th World Sanskrit Conference hosted by .........
1) Thailand
2) Japan
3) USA
4) Sri Lanka
5) Nepal
34. New president of ICC (International Cricket Council) is ........
1) Ravi Shastri
2) N. Srinivasan
3) Lalit Modi
4) Zaheer Abbas
5) Mustafa Kamal
35. ICC (International Cricket Council) headquarters located at ..........
1) Mumbai
2) Sydney
3) Lords
4) Dubai
5) New Delhi
36. Present chairperson of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT)?
1) Anita Kapur
2) Arun Jaitley
3) Rajiv Mehrishi
4) Raghuram Rajan
5) Chitra Ramkrishna
37. Tanzania president visited India. He is .......
1) Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
2) Mulatu Teshome
3) James Michel
4) Beji Caid Essebsi
5) Jakaya Kikwete
38. The capital of Tanzania ...........
1) Cairo
2) Addis Ababa
3) Victoria
4) Tunis
5) Dodoma
39. The currency of Tanzania ...........
1) Pound
2) Birr
3) Rupee
4) Dinar
5) Shilling
40. On whose memory, the National Statistics Day observes on 29th June every year on the eve of his birth day?
1) Chidambara Chandrasekaran
2) J.K. Ghosh
3) Pranab Kumar Sen
4) Samarendra Nath Roy
5) Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
41. Bimal Roy was removed as the chief of .....
1) DRDO
2) Indian Statistical Institute
3) Delhi Law minister
4) Chairman, National Human Rights Commission
5) None
42. Who has been appointed as the Director of Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) recently?
1) G. Satish Reddy
2) S. Christopher
3) Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay
4) R.C. Tayal
5) K.V. Chowdary
43. Election Commission of India suspended the recognition of ......
1) PDP
2) BSP
3) BJP
4) Congress (I)
5) NPP
ANSWERS:
1-3, 2-3, 3-5, 4-5, 5-2, 6-2, 7-1, 8-5, 9-5, 10-5
11-5, 12-5, 13-3, 14-3, 15-2, 16-1, 17-5, 18-5, 19-4, 20-3
21-1, 22-1, 23-1, 24-3, 25-3, 26-4, 27-1, 28-3, 29-1, 30-5
31-2, 32-5, 33-1, 34-4, 35-4, 36-1, 37-5, 38-5, 39-5, 40-5, 41-2, 42-3, 43-5
1) To promote the deposits in the unbanked areas as the part of financial inclusion.
2) To promote lending among the poor people, as they are depending on non-institutional sources.
3) To redress the grievances or complaints arising out of the deficiency in the banking services.
4) To universalize the discount of commercial bills issued.
5) To incorporate the list of scheduled banks in the RBI Act 1934.
2. RBI introduced Banking Ombudsman Scheme as per Section 35 A of .............
1) Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881
2) SARFAESI Act, 2002
3) Banking Regulation Act, 1949
4) FEMA, 1999
5) RBI Act, 1934
3. Ombudsman scheme first introduced in ........
1) USA
2) India
3) Australia
4) France
5) UK
4. Which bank covered under the Banking Ombudsman Scheme?
1) Scheduled Public Sector Banks
2) Scheduled Private Sector Banks
3) Regional Rural Banks
4) Scheduled Primary Co-operative Banks
5) All of above
5. Banking Ombudsman is a senior official appointed by ..........
1) Finance Minister
2) RBI
3) SEBI
4) FSDC
5) None
6. Banking Ombudsman Scheme come into effect from .............
1) 2000
2) 1995
3) 1999
4) 2010
5) 1981
7. As per the present rules, any person can file a compliant before the Banking Ombudsman, if the satisfied reply is not received from the bank within a period of ......
1) one month
2) three months
3) two months
4) six months
5) None
8. When the Ombudsman rejects the compliant of the customer?
1) If the customer does not approach the bank first.
2) One has not made the complaint within one year from the date one has received the reply of the bank or if no reply is received if it is more than one year and one month from the date of representation to the bank.
3) Subject matter of the complaint is pending for disposal / has already been dealt with at any other forum like court of law, consumer court.
4) Complaint is frivolous or vexatious.
5) In all above cases, the ombudsman will not accept the compliant from customer.
9. The fee collected by Ombudsman to take compliant from the customer .............
1) Rs.5
2) Rs.100
3) Rs.10
4) Fix by the bank
5) No fee collects by the Ombudsman
10. The Ombudsman take the compliant and can take action if ..........
1) Non - payment or delay in payment of inward remittances.
2) Non - credit of proceeds to parties accounts, non - payment of deposit or non - observance of the Reserve Bank directives.
3) Not accepting the legal tender and or for charging of commission in respect thereof.
4) Inordinate delay in the payment or collection of cheques, drafts, bills.
5) In the all above cases the ombudsman take action against bank.
11. When the Ombudsman take action against the bank?
1) Collecting charges without adequate prior notice to the customer.
2) Refusal to accept or delay in accepting payment towards taxes, as required by government.
3) Refusal to close or delay in closing the accounts.
4) Non-observance of Reserve Bank guidelines on engagement of recovery agents by banks.
5) In the above all cases, Ombudsman take action against the bank.
12. On 24 May 2007, RBI framed a rule that any customer not satisfied with ombudsman decision, then the customer can put an appeal to ...........
1) Governor, RBI
2) Governor of that State
3) Finance Minister of India
4) President of India
5) Deputy Governor of RBI
13. RBI amended Banking Ombudsman Scheme includes complaints relating to Internet Banking and Non-adherence to BCSBI Code on 5 February 2009. BCSBI stands for ..........
1) Banking Core and Standards Board of India.
2) Banking Codes and State Board of India.
3) Banking Codes and Standards Board of India.
4) Business Codes and Standards Board of India.
5) Banking Codes and Standards Bureau of India.
14. RBI constituted committee under the chairmanship of ........... to review the Ombudsman Scheme on 7 January 2013.
1) C. Rangarajan
2) Suma Chakrabarti
3) Suma Varma
4) Usha Thorat
5) None
15. Banking Ombudsman can grant compensation up to .........
1) Rs.50 Lakh
2) Rs.10 Lakh
3) Rs.35 Lakh
4) Rs.5 Lakh
5) None
16. For mental agony, the Ombudsman can grant compensation up to ..........
1) Rs.1 Lakh
2) Rs.2 Lakh
3) Rs.25 Lakh
4) Rs.10 Lakh
5) None
17. On 11 May 2015, RBI advised all public sector banks and some private and foreign banks to appoint an internal ombudsman. The internal ombudsman would be designated as CSSO. CSSO stands for ..........
1) Central Customer Service Officer
2) Chief Customs Service Officer
3) Core Customer Service Officer
4) Chief Customer Second Officer
5) Chief Customer Service Officer
18. On how many grounds of complaints / deficiencies in bank services, the present Banking Ombudsman Scheme providing relief to bank customers?
1) 18
2) 75
3) 4
4) 11
5) 27
19. 41st G7 summit was held in Schloss Elmau, Krun, Bavaria in...
1) France
2) Canada
3) Japan
4) Germany
5) Italy
20. What is the Theme of G7 Summit 2015?
1) Save the World from Recession
2) Right decision for Right Action
3) Think Ahead. Act Together
4) Together for a Nice future
5) None of above
21. Union Ministry of Roads Transport & Highways announced which project of linking borders and coastal areas with road network?
1) Bharat Mala
2) Bharat Sagar
3) Bharat Chandrika
4) Pradhanmanthri Grameena Sadak Yozana
5) Bharat Anubandh
22. Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways is .........
1) Nitin Gadkari
2) Arun Jaitley
3) Smriti Irani
4) Suresh Prabhu
5) Sadananda Gowda
23. Alandur to Koyabedu, the 10 - km stretch of Metro Rail service launched on 29 June 2015 launched in .........
1) Chennai
2) Mumbai
3) Delhi
4) Hyderabad
5) Kolkata
24. Which state became the largest Producer of Solar Power after installing 1167 MW solar power plant, demoting Gujarat to second position?
1) Tamilnadu
2) MP
3) Rajasthan
4) HP
5) Haryana
25. CTBT Stands for ..........
1) Combined Test Ban Treaty
2) Comprehensive Tool Ban Treaty
3) Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
4) Collective Test Ban Treaty
5) None
26. Indo-Bangladesh ODI series won by Bangladesh. The man of the series is ........
1) Mashrafe Mortaza
2) Mohammad Mushfiqur Rahim
3) M.S. Dhoni
4) Mustafizur Rahman
5) Virat Kohli
27. FIFA U-20 World Cup won by ..........
1) Serbia
2) Brazil
3) Argentina
4) South Africa
5) Uruguay
28. Which Indian scripted history by becoming the first Indian basketball player to be drafted in the National Basketball Association (NBA) on 26 June 2015?
1) Narender Kumar
2) Joginder Singh
3) Satnam Singh Bhamara
4) Amit Pal Singh
5) None
29. First Day - Night Cricket match will be played on 27th November 2015 at .......... between Australia and New Zealand.
1) Adelaide Oval Stadium (Aus)
2) Sydney Cricket Ground (Aus)
3) Brisbane Cricket Ground (Aus)
4) Eden Park (New Zealand)
5) Basin Reserve (New Zealand)
30. One of the oldest galaxies in the universe, CR7 (COSMOS Redshift 7) has been named after ........
1) Diego Maradona
2) Viswanathan Anand
3) Lionel Messi
4) Gerard Pique
5) Cristiano Ronaldo
31. Bharti Airtel has become the 3rd largest telecom company in the world having 303 million subscribers. Which company is top in this list having 626.27 miilion subscribers?
1) Aircel
2) China Mobile
3) Vodafone
4) Unimobile
5) MTS
32. 'Transcendence My Spiritual Experiences with Pramukh Swamiji' co-authored by A.P. J. Abdul Kalam and ..........
1) Manav Gupta
2) R. Narasimha
3) Sivathanu Pillai
4) YS Rajan
5) Arun Tiwari
33. 16th World Sanskrit Conference hosted by .........
1) Thailand
2) Japan
3) USA
4) Sri Lanka
5) Nepal
34. New president of ICC (International Cricket Council) is ........
1) Ravi Shastri
2) N. Srinivasan
3) Lalit Modi
4) Zaheer Abbas
5) Mustafa Kamal
35. ICC (International Cricket Council) headquarters located at ..........
1) Mumbai
2) Sydney
3) Lords
4) Dubai
5) New Delhi
36. Present chairperson of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT)?
1) Anita Kapur
2) Arun Jaitley
3) Rajiv Mehrishi
4) Raghuram Rajan
5) Chitra Ramkrishna
37. Tanzania president visited India. He is .......
1) Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
2) Mulatu Teshome
3) James Michel
4) Beji Caid Essebsi
5) Jakaya Kikwete
38. The capital of Tanzania ...........
1) Cairo
2) Addis Ababa
3) Victoria
4) Tunis
5) Dodoma
39. The currency of Tanzania ...........
1) Pound
2) Birr
3) Rupee
4) Dinar
5) Shilling
40. On whose memory, the National Statistics Day observes on 29th June every year on the eve of his birth day?
1) Chidambara Chandrasekaran
2) J.K. Ghosh
3) Pranab Kumar Sen
4) Samarendra Nath Roy
5) Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
41. Bimal Roy was removed as the chief of .....
1) DRDO
2) Indian Statistical Institute
3) Delhi Law minister
4) Chairman, National Human Rights Commission
5) None
42. Who has been appointed as the Director of Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) recently?
1) G. Satish Reddy
2) S. Christopher
3) Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay
4) R.C. Tayal
5) K.V. Chowdary
43. Election Commission of India suspended the recognition of ......
1) PDP
2) BSP
3) BJP
4) Congress (I)
5) NPP
ANSWERS:
1-3, 2-3, 3-5, 4-5, 5-2, 6-2, 7-1, 8-5, 9-5, 10-5
11-5, 12-5, 13-3, 14-3, 15-2, 16-1, 17-5, 18-5, 19-4, 20-3
21-1, 22-1, 23-1, 24-3, 25-3, 26-4, 27-1, 28-3, 29-1, 30-5
31-2, 32-5, 33-1, 34-4, 35-4, 36-1, 37-5, 38-5, 39-5, 40-5, 41-2, 42-3, 43-5
Monday, July 6, 2015
Banking Awareness Practice Questions for Bank Exams
1. The main function of an Asset Management Company is to:
a) hold the securities of various schemes
b) manage the funds by making investments in various types of securities
c) hold its property for the benefit of the unit holders
d) act on behalf of SEBI
e) All the above
2. What is the purpose of reduction in Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR)?
a) Reduce Credit Flow
b) Enhance Credit Flow
c) Enhance availability of cash
d) Reduce Cash transactions
e) None of the above
3. In India, conventionally, bonds are issued by institutions in ____ sector while debentures by corporate
in ____ sector.
a) private, public
b) public, private
c) either a or b
d) cooperative, NBFC
e) None of the above
4. Who notifies Foreign Trade Policy?
a) RBI
b) DGFT
c) Govt. of India
d) ECGC
e) None of the above
5. Cash kept in the currency chest is owned by?
a) Currency Chest branch bank
b) State Bank of India
c) Central Government
d) Reserve Bank of India
e) None of the above
6. Expand the term LIBOR as used in financial banking sectors?
a) Local Indian Bank Offered Rate
b) London-India Bureau of Regulations
c) Liberal International Bank Official Ratio
d) London Inter Bank Offered Rate
e) None of the above
7. Which one of the following rates is NOT decided by the RBI?
a) Bank Rate
b) Repo Rate
c) Reverse Repo Rate
d) Income Tax Rates
e) Only a & b
8. When more than one bank is allowing credit facilities to one party in coordination with each other under a formal arrangement, the arrangement is generally known as:
a) Participation
b) Consortium
c) Syndication
d) Multiple Banking
e) All the above
9. The headquarters of International Monetary Fund is ___
a) Geneva
b) Paris
c) London
d) Manila
e) Washington
10. The first insurance company was started in India in 1818 at:
a) Kolkata
b) Chennai
c) Mumbai
d) New Delhi
e) Allahabad
11. Which one of the following is not a "Money Market Instrument"?
a) Treasury Bills
b) Commercial Paper
c) Equity Shares
d) Certificate of Deposit
e) All the above
12. The Banking Codes and Standards Board of India was registered on 18 February, 2006 under
which of the following RBI Act?
a) Banking Regulation Act
b) The Societies Registration Act, 1860
c) Cooperative Societies Act
d) None of the above
e) All the above
13. Who is the chairman of Governing Council of BCSBI (Banking Codes and Standards Board of
India)?
a) K.C. Chakrabarty
b) A.C. Mahajan
c) HS Khurana
d) M.V. Nair
e) Salman Khurshid
14. Payment of cheques is governed by sections under_____:
a) Banking Regulation Act 1949
b) RBI Act 1934
c) Negotiable Instruments Act 1881
d) Prevention of Money Laundering Act 2002
e) None of the above
15. The Headquarters of Bank of International settlement is located at:
a) New York
b) London
c) Washington
d) Paris
e) Basel (Switzerland)
16. The Act governing forex activities in India is:
a) RBI act
b) FERA
c) FEMA
d) SEBI
e) Finance Ministry
17. Sri Arun Shrivastava has taken over charge on 15.05.2015 as new CMD of ____ bank.
a) Union Bank of India
b) United Bank of India
c) Syndicate Bank
d) Andhra Bank
e) Allahabad Bank
18. RBI advised Banks that all new cards issued - debit and credit, domestic and International shall be EMV (Europay MasterCard Visa) chip and pin based cards with effect from:
a) 1st September 2015
b) 1st October 2015
c) 1st November 2015
d) 1st August 2015
e) 15th August 2015
19. Benefits in core banking system are:
a) Reliable centralized data recovery
b) Data warehousing and data mining technologies
c) Integrated customer centric services
d) Core infrastructure can be used for future expansion
e) All the above
20. NRI Deposits are classified under:
a) Capital a/c
b) Current a/c
c) Special Foreign Deposit Account
d) Either b or c
e) None of the Above
21. Which of the following can be called as intermediary in the Financial System?
a) Insurance companies
b) Banking companies
c) Mutual funds
d) All the above
e) None of the above
22. Which type of machine is used by Business Correspondents?
a) Micro ATMs
b) POS
c) Biometric Card Reader
d) Solar empowered
e) Water resistant
23. The ceiling for repatriation of funds from NRE/FCNR accounts is:
a) Rs.2 lakhs
b) Rs.5 lakhs
c) Rs.10 lakhs
d) No ceiling
e) None of the above
24. Some banks are financing big projects like construction of roads, bridges etc. Financing
such projects means banks are helping exactly in:
a) Infrastructural Development
b) Project Management
c) Developing core sector Industry
d) Financial Inclusion
e) All of the above
25. Debentures are governed by____
a) Law of Contract
b) BR Act
c) Company Law
d) Banking Regulation Act
e) None of the above
26. The maturity period of CDs (Certificate of Deposit) issued by banks should not be less than ____ and not more than _____, from the date of issue.
a) 7 days, 6 months
b) 7 days, 1 year
c) 15 days, 6 months
d) 15 days, 1 year
e) 90 days, 180 days
27. The Main activity of the Financial Intelligence Unit India (FIU-IND) is to control:
a) Tax Evasion
b) Money Laundering
c) Terrorism
d) Avoiding NPAs
e) Avoiding frauds in ATMs
28. Infusion of liquidity, by RBI, is done through _____ from / to banks under a _____ transaction.
a) borrowing, repo
b) borrowing, reverse repo
c) lending, repo
d) lending, reverse repo
e) None of the above
29. Crossing a cheque is a direction to the:
a) Drawer
b) Payee
c) Paying Banker
d) Clearing House
e) Collecting banker
30. The minimum amount for which a CD (Certificate of Deposit) can be issued is:
a) Rs. 1 lakh
b) Rs. 2 lakh
c) Rs. 5 lakh
d) Rs. 10 lakh
e) Rs. 20 lakh
31. A rate of exchange established between any two currencies on the basis of the respective quotation
of each currency in terms of a third currency is known as:
a) Cross rate
b) Merchant rate
c) Wash rate
d) Composite rate
e) None of the above
32. CIBIL as a credit bureau caters to:
a) Consumer segments
b) Commercial segments
c) Both commercial and consumer segments
d) Nationalized Banks only
e) Private Banks only
33. Kishore Biyani-led Future Group agreed to merge its retail business stock deal worth Rs. 750
crore to create one of the biggest supermarket chains with Rs. 15,000 crore turnover with which of the following organizations?
a) V-Mart Retail
b) Shoppers Stop
c) Bharti Retail
d) Koutons Retail India
e) None of the above
ANSWERS
1) b 2) b 3) b 4) b 5) d 6) d 7) d 8) b 9) e 10) a
11) c 12) b 13) b 14) c 15) e 16) c 17) c 18) a 19) e 20) a
21) d 22) c 23) d 24) a 25) c 26) b 27) b 28) c 29) c 30) a
31) a 32) c 33) c
a) hold the securities of various schemes
b) manage the funds by making investments in various types of securities
c) hold its property for the benefit of the unit holders
d) act on behalf of SEBI
e) All the above
2. What is the purpose of reduction in Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR)?
a) Reduce Credit Flow
b) Enhance Credit Flow
c) Enhance availability of cash
d) Reduce Cash transactions
e) None of the above
3. In India, conventionally, bonds are issued by institutions in ____ sector while debentures by corporate
in ____ sector.
a) private, public
b) public, private
c) either a or b
d) cooperative, NBFC
e) None of the above
4. Who notifies Foreign Trade Policy?
a) RBI
b) DGFT
c) Govt. of India
d) ECGC
e) None of the above
5. Cash kept in the currency chest is owned by?
a) Currency Chest branch bank
b) State Bank of India
c) Central Government
d) Reserve Bank of India
e) None of the above
6. Expand the term LIBOR as used in financial banking sectors?
a) Local Indian Bank Offered Rate
b) London-India Bureau of Regulations
c) Liberal International Bank Official Ratio
d) London Inter Bank Offered Rate
e) None of the above
7. Which one of the following rates is NOT decided by the RBI?
a) Bank Rate
b) Repo Rate
c) Reverse Repo Rate
d) Income Tax Rates
e) Only a & b
8. When more than one bank is allowing credit facilities to one party in coordination with each other under a formal arrangement, the arrangement is generally known as:
a) Participation
b) Consortium
c) Syndication
d) Multiple Banking
e) All the above
9. The headquarters of International Monetary Fund is ___
a) Geneva
b) Paris
c) London
d) Manila
e) Washington
10. The first insurance company was started in India in 1818 at:
a) Kolkata
b) Chennai
c) Mumbai
d) New Delhi
e) Allahabad
11. Which one of the following is not a "Money Market Instrument"?
a) Treasury Bills
b) Commercial Paper
c) Equity Shares
d) Certificate of Deposit
e) All the above
12. The Banking Codes and Standards Board of India was registered on 18 February, 2006 under
which of the following RBI Act?
a) Banking Regulation Act
b) The Societies Registration Act, 1860
c) Cooperative Societies Act
d) None of the above
e) All the above
13. Who is the chairman of Governing Council of BCSBI (Banking Codes and Standards Board of
India)?
a) K.C. Chakrabarty
b) A.C. Mahajan
c) HS Khurana
d) M.V. Nair
e) Salman Khurshid
14. Payment of cheques is governed by sections under_____:
a) Banking Regulation Act 1949
b) RBI Act 1934
c) Negotiable Instruments Act 1881
d) Prevention of Money Laundering Act 2002
e) None of the above
15. The Headquarters of Bank of International settlement is located at:
a) New York
b) London
c) Washington
d) Paris
e) Basel (Switzerland)
16. The Act governing forex activities in India is:
a) RBI act
b) FERA
c) FEMA
d) SEBI
e) Finance Ministry
17. Sri Arun Shrivastava has taken over charge on 15.05.2015 as new CMD of ____ bank.
a) Union Bank of India
b) United Bank of India
c) Syndicate Bank
d) Andhra Bank
e) Allahabad Bank
18. RBI advised Banks that all new cards issued - debit and credit, domestic and International shall be EMV (Europay MasterCard Visa) chip and pin based cards with effect from:
a) 1st September 2015
b) 1st October 2015
c) 1st November 2015
d) 1st August 2015
e) 15th August 2015
19. Benefits in core banking system are:
a) Reliable centralized data recovery
b) Data warehousing and data mining technologies
c) Integrated customer centric services
d) Core infrastructure can be used for future expansion
e) All the above
20. NRI Deposits are classified under:
a) Capital a/c
b) Current a/c
c) Special Foreign Deposit Account
d) Either b or c
e) None of the Above
21. Which of the following can be called as intermediary in the Financial System?
a) Insurance companies
b) Banking companies
c) Mutual funds
d) All the above
e) None of the above
22. Which type of machine is used by Business Correspondents?
a) Micro ATMs
b) POS
c) Biometric Card Reader
d) Solar empowered
e) Water resistant
23. The ceiling for repatriation of funds from NRE/FCNR accounts is:
a) Rs.2 lakhs
b) Rs.5 lakhs
c) Rs.10 lakhs
d) No ceiling
e) None of the above
24. Some banks are financing big projects like construction of roads, bridges etc. Financing
such projects means banks are helping exactly in:
a) Infrastructural Development
b) Project Management
c) Developing core sector Industry
d) Financial Inclusion
e) All of the above
25. Debentures are governed by____
a) Law of Contract
b) BR Act
c) Company Law
d) Banking Regulation Act
e) None of the above
26. The maturity period of CDs (Certificate of Deposit) issued by banks should not be less than ____ and not more than _____, from the date of issue.
a) 7 days, 6 months
b) 7 days, 1 year
c) 15 days, 6 months
d) 15 days, 1 year
e) 90 days, 180 days
27. The Main activity of the Financial Intelligence Unit India (FIU-IND) is to control:
a) Tax Evasion
b) Money Laundering
c) Terrorism
d) Avoiding NPAs
e) Avoiding frauds in ATMs
28. Infusion of liquidity, by RBI, is done through _____ from / to banks under a _____ transaction.
a) borrowing, repo
b) borrowing, reverse repo
c) lending, repo
d) lending, reverse repo
e) None of the above
29. Crossing a cheque is a direction to the:
a) Drawer
b) Payee
c) Paying Banker
d) Clearing House
e) Collecting banker
30. The minimum amount for which a CD (Certificate of Deposit) can be issued is:
a) Rs. 1 lakh
b) Rs. 2 lakh
c) Rs. 5 lakh
d) Rs. 10 lakh
e) Rs. 20 lakh
31. A rate of exchange established between any two currencies on the basis of the respective quotation
of each currency in terms of a third currency is known as:
a) Cross rate
b) Merchant rate
c) Wash rate
d) Composite rate
e) None of the above
32. CIBIL as a credit bureau caters to:
a) Consumer segments
b) Commercial segments
c) Both commercial and consumer segments
d) Nationalized Banks only
e) Private Banks only
33. Kishore Biyani-led Future Group agreed to merge its retail business stock deal worth Rs. 750
crore to create one of the biggest supermarket chains with Rs. 15,000 crore turnover with which of the following organizations?
a) V-Mart Retail
b) Shoppers Stop
c) Bharti Retail
d) Koutons Retail India
e) None of the above
ANSWERS
1) b 2) b 3) b 4) b 5) d 6) d 7) d 8) b 9) e 10) a
11) c 12) b 13) b 14) c 15) e 16) c 17) c 18) a 19) e 20) a
21) d 22) c 23) d 24) a 25) c 26) b 27) b 28) c 29) c 30) a
31) a 32) c 33) c
LIC AAO Exam General Awareness and Current Affairs Solved Paper (Exam Held On: 22-03-2015)
1. The United Nations University established in 1973 is the academic and research arm of the United Nations. It is headquartered in–
(a) New York, USA (b) Washington DC, USA
(c) Tokyo, Japan (d) Geneva, Switzerland
(e) Manila, Philippines (Ans : c)
2. Shri Narendra Singh Tomar, the Union Minister for Mines and Steel is a Member of Parliament from the Indian State of–
(a) Bihar (b) Maharashtra (c) Rajasthan
(d) Madhya Pradesh (e) Chattisgarh (Ans : d)
3. PM Shri Narendra Modi has recently dedicated to the nation two units, each of 600 MW of the Shree Singaji Thermal Power Plant in–
(a) Ujjain District (b) Khandwa District (c) Ratlam District
(d) Bhopal District (e) Indore District (Ans : b)
4. The committee recently set up by the Central Government to interact with industry on tax laws to give recommendations to CBDT and CBEC for issuance of clarifications when necessary, is headed by–
(a) Arvind Goswami (b) Arvind Subramaniam (c) Arvind Mayaram
(d) Vijay Kelkar (e) Ashok Lahiri (Ans : e)
5. According to the Public Enterprises Survey recently tabled in Parliament, the most profitable Public Sector Enterprise during 2013-2014 was–
(a) BSNL (b) ONGC (c) NTPC (d) NMDC (e) NPCL (Ans : b)
6. In terms of the Motor Vehicle Agreement signed between the two countries during the recent 18th SAARC Summit at Nepal, a direct bus service has recently been launched in March 2015 between Varanasi and–
(a) Lahore, Pakistan (b) Kathmandu, Nepal (c) Thimphu, Bhutan
(d) Kabul, Afghanistan (e) Dhaka, Bangladesh (Ans : b)
7. The 'Armed Forces Flag Day' is observed every year on the–
(a) 26th October (b) 21st November (c) 18th December
(d) 7th December (e) 21st September (Ans : d)
8. 'Vishu' is the New Year day and a Hindu festival celebrated in the Indian State of–
(a) Karnataka (b) Goa (c) Telangana (d) Odisha (e) Kerala (Ans : e)
9. Sushil Kumar is associated with the sports of–
(a) Tennis (b) Basketball (c) Football (d) Wrestling (e) Golf (Ans : d)
10. The 'Shwedagon Pagoda' also known as 'Great Dagon Pagoda' and the 'Golden Pagoda' is situated in–
(a) Mumbai, India (b) Tokyo, Japan (c) Yangon, Myanmar
(d) Kyoto, Japan (e) Thimphu, Bhutan (Ans : c)
11. The capital of the Myanmar is–
(a) Thimphu (b) Putrajaya (c) Langkawi (d) Naypyidaw (e) Punakha (Ans : d)
12. The World's largest and tallest Indian National flag was recently unfurled in–
(a) Faridabad (b) Gurgaon (c) Kamal (d) Ghaziabad (e) Panipat (Ans : a)
13. As per 2011 census, the total number of children in the age-group 0-6 years was–
(a) 185. 8 million (b) 198. 8 million (c) 221. 8 million
(d) 189. 8 million (e) 158. 8 million (Ans : e)
14. 'G. Karthikeyan', who recently passed away at Bengaluru was the speaker of the Legislative Assembly of–
(a) Karnataka (b) Kerala (c) Telangana (d) Tamil Nadu (e) Andhra Pradesh (Ans : b)
15. In the budget for 2015-2016, the Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley has proposed to set up a centre for film production, animation and gaming in the State of–
(a) Haryana (b) Meghalaya (c) Andhra Pradesh
(d) Jammu and Kashmir (e) Arunachal Pradesh (Ans : e)
16. The film 'Ida' named as the 'Best Foreign Language Film' at the 87th Academy Awards 2015 is–
(a) a Polish drama film (b) a French family drama film
(c) an American comedy film (d) a Russian short story film
(e) a British documentary film (Ans : a)
17. Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, India's largest drug maker, has recently announced that it would acquire the oplates business of British drug maker Glaxo Smith Kline(GSK) in–
(a) Europe (b) USA (c) New Zealand (d) Asia (e) Australia (Ans : e)
18. The first woman to be appointed as a Director on the board of Reliance industries- the nation's largest private sector company is–
(a) Tina Anil Ambani (b) Meera Sanyal (c) Nita Mukesh Ambani
(d) Usha Thorat (e) Kokilaben Ambani (Ans : c)
19. The Lok Sabha recently passed the Insurance Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2015, that proposes to raise the foreign investment cap in the insurance sector from 26 percent to–
(a) 69 percent (b) 51 percent (c) 59 percent (d) 55 percent (e) 49 percent (Ans : e)
20. Who amongst the following has recently been elected as the new President of BCCI ?
(a) N. Srinivasan (b) Rajiv Shukla (c) Sanjay Patel
(d) Jagmohan Dalmiya (e) Anurag Thakur (Ans : d)
21. 880 MW Kaiga Atomic Power Plant is situated near the river Kali in the Indian State of–
(a) Tamil Nadu (b) Kerala (c) Andhra Pradesh (d) Karnataka (e) Maharashtra (Ans : d)
22. The currency of the 'Republic of South Africa' is–
(a) Rand (b) Rial (e) Ruble (d) Riyal (e) Rial (Ans : a)
23. 'Fugdi' is a traditional folk dance popular in the Indian State of–
(a) Goa (b) Bihar (c) Odisha (d) Chattisgarh (e) Gujarat (Ans : a)
24. The 'CNSA' is the national space agency of–
(a) Soviet Union (b) Republic of Singapore (c) Russian Federation
(d) People's Republic of China (e) United States of America (Ans : d)
25. In the recent Union Budget 2015, the Union Minister of Finance has proposed to support the 'Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana' which aims to boost–
(a) Floriculture Production (b) Drip Irrigation (c) Watershed Development
(d) Minor Irrigation (e) Organic Farming (Ans : c)
26. The RBI has recently allowed Indians to carry high value denomination notes while travelling to Nepal and Bhutan within a limit of–
(a) Rs. 20,000/- (b) Rs. 30,000/- (c) Rs. 35,000/-
(d) Rs. 25,000/- (e) Rs. 40,000/- (Ans : d)
27. Reliance infrastructure with its wholly-owned subsidiary Reliance Defence Systems Private Ltd. has. recently announced the acquisition of Pipavav Defence Company Limited based in–
(a) Tamil Nadu (b) Maharashtra (c) Goa (d) Kerala (e) Gujarat (Ans : b)
28. Tile abbreviation 'CSR' stands for–
(a) Collective Social Responsibility (b) Collective Shared Responsibility
(c) Corporate Social Responsibility (d) Corporate Shared Responsibility
(e) Commercial Shared Responsibility (Ans : c)
29. For highlighting women's safety, the National Insurance of gender justice has recently honoured film actress–
(a) Rani Mukherji (b) Vidya Balan (c) Jaya Bachchan
(d) Priyanka Chopra (e) Hema Malini (Ans : a)
30. The global meet on countering Violent Extremism was recently held in–
(a) London, UK (b) New York, USA (c) Washington, USA
(d) Ottawa, Canada (e) Paris, France (Ans : c)
(a) New York, USA (b) Washington DC, USA
(c) Tokyo, Japan (d) Geneva, Switzerland
(e) Manila, Philippines (Ans : c)
2. Shri Narendra Singh Tomar, the Union Minister for Mines and Steel is a Member of Parliament from the Indian State of–
(a) Bihar (b) Maharashtra (c) Rajasthan
(d) Madhya Pradesh (e) Chattisgarh (Ans : d)
3. PM Shri Narendra Modi has recently dedicated to the nation two units, each of 600 MW of the Shree Singaji Thermal Power Plant in–
(a) Ujjain District (b) Khandwa District (c) Ratlam District
(d) Bhopal District (e) Indore District (Ans : b)
4. The committee recently set up by the Central Government to interact with industry on tax laws to give recommendations to CBDT and CBEC for issuance of clarifications when necessary, is headed by–
(a) Arvind Goswami (b) Arvind Subramaniam (c) Arvind Mayaram
(d) Vijay Kelkar (e) Ashok Lahiri (Ans : e)
5. According to the Public Enterprises Survey recently tabled in Parliament, the most profitable Public Sector Enterprise during 2013-2014 was–
(a) BSNL (b) ONGC (c) NTPC (d) NMDC (e) NPCL (Ans : b)
6. In terms of the Motor Vehicle Agreement signed between the two countries during the recent 18th SAARC Summit at Nepal, a direct bus service has recently been launched in March 2015 between Varanasi and–
(a) Lahore, Pakistan (b) Kathmandu, Nepal (c) Thimphu, Bhutan
(d) Kabul, Afghanistan (e) Dhaka, Bangladesh (Ans : b)
7. The 'Armed Forces Flag Day' is observed every year on the–
(a) 26th October (b) 21st November (c) 18th December
(d) 7th December (e) 21st September (Ans : d)
8. 'Vishu' is the New Year day and a Hindu festival celebrated in the Indian State of–
(a) Karnataka (b) Goa (c) Telangana (d) Odisha (e) Kerala (Ans : e)
9. Sushil Kumar is associated with the sports of–
(a) Tennis (b) Basketball (c) Football (d) Wrestling (e) Golf (Ans : d)
10. The 'Shwedagon Pagoda' also known as 'Great Dagon Pagoda' and the 'Golden Pagoda' is situated in–
(a) Mumbai, India (b) Tokyo, Japan (c) Yangon, Myanmar
(d) Kyoto, Japan (e) Thimphu, Bhutan (Ans : c)
11. The capital of the Myanmar is–
(a) Thimphu (b) Putrajaya (c) Langkawi (d) Naypyidaw (e) Punakha (Ans : d)
12. The World's largest and tallest Indian National flag was recently unfurled in–
(a) Faridabad (b) Gurgaon (c) Kamal (d) Ghaziabad (e) Panipat (Ans : a)
13. As per 2011 census, the total number of children in the age-group 0-6 years was–
(a) 185. 8 million (b) 198. 8 million (c) 221. 8 million
(d) 189. 8 million (e) 158. 8 million (Ans : e)
14. 'G. Karthikeyan', who recently passed away at Bengaluru was the speaker of the Legislative Assembly of–
(a) Karnataka (b) Kerala (c) Telangana (d) Tamil Nadu (e) Andhra Pradesh (Ans : b)
15. In the budget for 2015-2016, the Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley has proposed to set up a centre for film production, animation and gaming in the State of–
(a) Haryana (b) Meghalaya (c) Andhra Pradesh
(d) Jammu and Kashmir (e) Arunachal Pradesh (Ans : e)
16. The film 'Ida' named as the 'Best Foreign Language Film' at the 87th Academy Awards 2015 is–
(a) a Polish drama film (b) a French family drama film
(c) an American comedy film (d) a Russian short story film
(e) a British documentary film (Ans : a)
17. Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, India's largest drug maker, has recently announced that it would acquire the oplates business of British drug maker Glaxo Smith Kline(GSK) in–
(a) Europe (b) USA (c) New Zealand (d) Asia (e) Australia (Ans : e)
18. The first woman to be appointed as a Director on the board of Reliance industries- the nation's largest private sector company is–
(a) Tina Anil Ambani (b) Meera Sanyal (c) Nita Mukesh Ambani
(d) Usha Thorat (e) Kokilaben Ambani (Ans : c)
19. The Lok Sabha recently passed the Insurance Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2015, that proposes to raise the foreign investment cap in the insurance sector from 26 percent to–
(a) 69 percent (b) 51 percent (c) 59 percent (d) 55 percent (e) 49 percent (Ans : e)
20. Who amongst the following has recently been elected as the new President of BCCI ?
(a) N. Srinivasan (b) Rajiv Shukla (c) Sanjay Patel
(d) Jagmohan Dalmiya (e) Anurag Thakur (Ans : d)
21. 880 MW Kaiga Atomic Power Plant is situated near the river Kali in the Indian State of–
(a) Tamil Nadu (b) Kerala (c) Andhra Pradesh (d) Karnataka (e) Maharashtra (Ans : d)
22. The currency of the 'Republic of South Africa' is–
(a) Rand (b) Rial (e) Ruble (d) Riyal (e) Rial (Ans : a)
23. 'Fugdi' is a traditional folk dance popular in the Indian State of–
(a) Goa (b) Bihar (c) Odisha (d) Chattisgarh (e) Gujarat (Ans : a)
24. The 'CNSA' is the national space agency of–
(a) Soviet Union (b) Republic of Singapore (c) Russian Federation
(d) People's Republic of China (e) United States of America (Ans : d)
25. In the recent Union Budget 2015, the Union Minister of Finance has proposed to support the 'Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana' which aims to boost–
(a) Floriculture Production (b) Drip Irrigation (c) Watershed Development
(d) Minor Irrigation (e) Organic Farming (Ans : c)
26. The RBI has recently allowed Indians to carry high value denomination notes while travelling to Nepal and Bhutan within a limit of–
(a) Rs. 20,000/- (b) Rs. 30,000/- (c) Rs. 35,000/-
(d) Rs. 25,000/- (e) Rs. 40,000/- (Ans : d)
27. Reliance infrastructure with its wholly-owned subsidiary Reliance Defence Systems Private Ltd. has. recently announced the acquisition of Pipavav Defence Company Limited based in–
(a) Tamil Nadu (b) Maharashtra (c) Goa (d) Kerala (e) Gujarat (Ans : b)
28. Tile abbreviation 'CSR' stands for–
(a) Collective Social Responsibility (b) Collective Shared Responsibility
(c) Corporate Social Responsibility (d) Corporate Shared Responsibility
(e) Commercial Shared Responsibility (Ans : c)
29. For highlighting women's safety, the National Insurance of gender justice has recently honoured film actress–
(a) Rani Mukherji (b) Vidya Balan (c) Jaya Bachchan
(d) Priyanka Chopra (e) Hema Malini (Ans : a)
30. The global meet on countering Violent Extremism was recently held in–
(a) London, UK (b) New York, USA (c) Washington, USA
(d) Ottawa, Canada (e) Paris, France (Ans : c)
Saturday, July 4, 2015
GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE QUESTIONS FOR ALL BANK EXAMS
1. Union government on 23 June 2015 promised to inject about ........ into stateowned banks in 2015-16?
1) $ 3 billion
2) $ 3.5 billion
3) $ 1.5 billion
4) $ 1 billion
5) $ 4 billion
2. RBI has extended the date to exchange pre- 2005 bank notes till...
1) August 1st 2015
2) July 31st 2015
3) December 31st 2015
4) January 31st 2016
5) June 30th 2016
3. The Lok Sabha on 13 May cleared the Negotiable Instruments (Amendment) Bill, 2015. It provides that cases of bouncing of cheques can be filed only in a court in whose jurisdiction the .....
1) drawer bank head office lies.
2) bank branch of the Drawer (person who issues the cheque) lies.
3) all cases transferred to Mumbai, as RBI has headquarters there.
4) payee bank's headquarters lies.
5) bank branch of the payee (person who receives the cheque) lies.
4. Since 2010, which financial regulator has been conducting Consumer Confidence Survey (CCS) on a quarterly basis to gauge economic conditions and employment prospects?
1) SEBI
2) NABARD
3) CRISIL
4) RBI
5) IBPS
5. White label operator, Tata Communications Payment Solutions partnered with ......, a payment technology provider, to set up more ATM services in rural unbanked regions.
1) Oxygen
2) Vodafone
3) FINO PayTech
4) FARGO
5) None
6. RBI on 9 June 2015 said Indian corporate eligible to raise ECB are permitted to issue Rupee linked bonds overseas. ECB stands for ........
1) End Commercial Borrowings
2) External Core Borrowings
3) External Commercial Borrowings
4) External Commercial Benefits
5) None
7. Which bank issued first 'contactless' debit and credit cards, enabling its customers to make electronic payments by just waving the cards near the merchant terminal in lieu of dipping or swiping them in India?
1) SBI
2) Andhra Bank
3) ICICI
4) Allahabad Bank
5) Union Bank of India
8. The RBI has relaxed 2-factors authentication norms for contactless cards upto Rs.2,000 using NFC enabled credit and debit cards. Which of the following statements correct?
1) Customers can now make payments up to Rs.2,000 using NFC enabled credit and debit cards without punching the password at any retail outlet.
2) Beyond this transaction limit, the card has to be processed as a contact payment and authentication and PIN will be mandatory.
3) These rules will not be applicable to ATM transactions irrespective of transaction value and Card Not Present transactions (CNP).
4) NFC stands for Near Field Communication
5) All of above
9. Which of the following statement is wrong?
1) 'Tap and pay' refers to the use of Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, enabling users to
make payments by waving or tapping the card near the contactless reader.
2) Customers may look for the 'contactless' logo on the card.
3) Contactless POS are different from Ordinary POS.
4) POS stands for Point of Sales Terminal.
5) None
10. First contactless card in the world issued by ...........
1) Barclays Bank in 2008
2) Standard Chartered Bank in 2009
3) ICICI Bank in 2015
4) UBI in 2014
5) None
11. Which is the first commercial bank in India initiated to have Television Banking (TVB), avail the banking information on TV screens. This enable TV viewers to access information of Bank's services and products,
from the convince of their homes?
1) SBI
2) Corporation Bank
3) ICICI
4) Canara Bank
5) Tamilnadu Mercantile Bank Limited
12. New Development Bank (NDB) details given. Locate the wrong option.
1) The decision to set up this bank was taken at the 5th BRICS summit held in Durban, South Africa in 2013.
2) The bank headquarters is in Shanghai, China.
3) It is being seen as an alternative to the existing US-dominated World Bank and International Monetary Fund.
4) Its total out lay $ 1000 billion.
5) India is active partner in the NDB.
13. First head of the New Development Bank is......
1) K.V. Kamath
2) Jim Yong Kim
3) Christine Lagarde
4) Kaushik Basu
5) Sunil Sabharwal
14. India's first multi social payment app 'Ping Pay' launched by .....
1) HSBC
2) Corporation Bank
3) SBI
4) Axis Bank
5) ICICI
15. From 1 April 2015, the Insurance Australia Group Ltd (IAG) increase its stake in SBI General Insurance (SBIGI) from 26 percent to .......
1) 49%
2) 35%
3) 85%
4) 74%
5) 100%
16. The IAP (Indian Academy of Pediatrics) Health Phone programme details given. The correct option is .......
1) It is a public private partnership initiative that is supported by Vodafone India.
2) The programme use mobile phones in the country to educate over six million girls and women between 13 and 35 years of age.
3) Vodafone will send out approximately 300 million text messages to its subscribers every year to promote the scheme.
4) Three-year campaign is expected to benefit the health of 60 million children in India born by 2025.
5) All of above
17. Union Minister of Women and Child Development is .......
1) Maneka Sanjay Gandhi
2) Najma A. Heptulla
3) Jagat Prakash Nadda
4) Chaudhary Birender Singh
5) Thaawar Chand Gehlot
18. Who was selected for the 28th Moorti Devi Award for the year 2014 for his book Vyomkesh Darvesh?
1) Bhalchandra Vanaji Nemade
2) Veerappa Moiley
3) Vishwanath Tripathi
4) Kedarnath Biswas
5) None of above
19. Moorti Devi Award declares by ......
1) K.K. Birla Foundation
2) TATA Foundation
3) Jnanpith Foundation
4) Dhirubhai Ambani Foundation
5) Melinda Gates Foundation
20. Which district was conferred with UN Public Service Award for 'Open Defecation Free' district in country on 26 June 2015?
1) Ernakulam in Kerala
2) Nellore in Andhra Pradesh
3) Nadia in West Bengal
4) Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir
5) Hissar in Haryana
21. UNESCO - Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2015 conferred on ...... a Syrian journalist and advocate. The award set up in 1997.
1) Mazen Darwish
2) Edward Snowden
3) Taslima Nasreen
4) Salman Rushdie
5) None
22. UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) was established in ............
1) 1945
2) 1946
3) 1947
4) 1948
5) 1957
23. UNESCO headquarters is in ......
1) Paris
2) New York
3) Montreal
4) Geneva
5) Vienna
24. UNESCO chief .......
1) Irina Bokova
2) Anthony Lake
3) Raymond Benjiman
4) Margert Chan
5) Yukiya Amano
25. The 2015 National Geographic Bee Championship won by ......
1) Tine Valencic
2) Rahul Nagvekar
3) Sathwik Karnik
4) Akhil Rekulapelli
5) Karan Menon
26. UK Author Ali Smith won the 2015 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction for her novel......
1) How to be Both
2) A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing
3) May We Be Forgiven
4) The Song of Achilles
5) None
27. 'Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star' conferred on ........
1) Ajith Doval
2) Arvind Subramaniam
3) G.Satish Reddy
4) S.Ramadorai
5) C.N.R.Rao
28. Who was conferred with the Columbia's highest civilian award Orden de la Democracia Simon Bolivar en el grado de cruz Caballero (Order of the Democracy Simon Bolivar) by Columbia?
1) Jaggi Vasudev
2) Baba Ramdev
3) Ravi Shankar
4) Jayendra Saraswathi
5) Swami Rambhadracharya
29. Ravi Shankar is the founder of .....
1) Isha Foundation
2) Patanjali Foundation
3) Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham
4) Art of Living Foundation
5) Chitrakoot Ashram
30. Man Booker International Prize get cash prize ........... awarded to a living author.
1) $ 90,000
2) £ 30,000
3) £ 60,000
4) £ 70,000
5) £ 20,000
31. For which book Aravind Adiga won the Man Booker International Prize 2008?
1) White Tiger
2) Half Girlfriend
3) The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
4) Malgudi Days
5) Wings of Fire
32. For which book Kiran Desai won the Man Booker International Prize 2006?
1) The Inheritance of Loss
2) India Wins Freedom
3) The Insider
4) Wings of Fire
5) Without Fear: The Life and Trial of Bhagat Singh
33. Arundhati Roy got Man Booker International Prize 1997 for her book of .....
1) The God of Small Things
2) Coolie
3) The Golden Threshold
4) The Discovery of India
5) My Experiments With Truth
34. Which Indian Author nominated for Man Booker International Prize 2015?
1) Rohinton Mistry
2) U R Ananthamurthy
3) Amitav Ghosh
4) Mahasweta Devi
5) Salman Rushdie
35. Which Hungarian writer on 19 May 2015 won the prestigious Man Booker International Prize for 2015?
1) Sandor Weores
2) Peter Esterhazy
3) Laszlo Krasznahorkai
4) Mih·ly Vorosmarty
5)None
36. The highest award in cinema Dadasaheb Phalke Award instituted in..
1) 1991
2) 1947
3) 1983
4) 1992
5) 1969
37. 'Sourav Ganguly: Cricket, Captaincy and Controversy' written by ......
1) Ranjan Sodhi
2) V.K. Naryan
3) Jeffrey Boycott
4) Saptarshi Sarkar
5) Dungarpur
ANSWERS:
1-1, 2-3, 3-5, 4-4, 5-3, 6-3, 7-3, 8-5, 9-3, 10-1
11-3, 12-4, 13-1, 14-4, 15-1, 16-5, 17-1, 18-3, 19-3, 20-3
21-1, 22-1, 23-1, 24-1, 25-5, 26-1, 27-5, 28-3, 29-4, 30-3
31-1, 32-1,33-1, 34-3, 35-3,36-5, 37-4
1) $ 3 billion
2) $ 3.5 billion
3) $ 1.5 billion
4) $ 1 billion
5) $ 4 billion
2. RBI has extended the date to exchange pre- 2005 bank notes till...
1) August 1st 2015
2) July 31st 2015
3) December 31st 2015
4) January 31st 2016
5) June 30th 2016
3. The Lok Sabha on 13 May cleared the Negotiable Instruments (Amendment) Bill, 2015. It provides that cases of bouncing of cheques can be filed only in a court in whose jurisdiction the .....
1) drawer bank head office lies.
2) bank branch of the Drawer (person who issues the cheque) lies.
3) all cases transferred to Mumbai, as RBI has headquarters there.
4) payee bank's headquarters lies.
5) bank branch of the payee (person who receives the cheque) lies.
4. Since 2010, which financial regulator has been conducting Consumer Confidence Survey (CCS) on a quarterly basis to gauge economic conditions and employment prospects?
1) SEBI
2) NABARD
3) CRISIL
4) RBI
5) IBPS
5. White label operator, Tata Communications Payment Solutions partnered with ......, a payment technology provider, to set up more ATM services in rural unbanked regions.
1) Oxygen
2) Vodafone
3) FINO PayTech
4) FARGO
5) None
6. RBI on 9 June 2015 said Indian corporate eligible to raise ECB are permitted to issue Rupee linked bonds overseas. ECB stands for ........
1) End Commercial Borrowings
2) External Core Borrowings
3) External Commercial Borrowings
4) External Commercial Benefits
5) None
7. Which bank issued first 'contactless' debit and credit cards, enabling its customers to make electronic payments by just waving the cards near the merchant terminal in lieu of dipping or swiping them in India?
1) SBI
2) Andhra Bank
3) ICICI
4) Allahabad Bank
5) Union Bank of India
8. The RBI has relaxed 2-factors authentication norms for contactless cards upto Rs.2,000 using NFC enabled credit and debit cards. Which of the following statements correct?
1) Customers can now make payments up to Rs.2,000 using NFC enabled credit and debit cards without punching the password at any retail outlet.
2) Beyond this transaction limit, the card has to be processed as a contact payment and authentication and PIN will be mandatory.
3) These rules will not be applicable to ATM transactions irrespective of transaction value and Card Not Present transactions (CNP).
4) NFC stands for Near Field Communication
5) All of above
9. Which of the following statement is wrong?
1) 'Tap and pay' refers to the use of Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, enabling users to
make payments by waving or tapping the card near the contactless reader.
2) Customers may look for the 'contactless' logo on the card.
3) Contactless POS are different from Ordinary POS.
4) POS stands for Point of Sales Terminal.
5) None
10. First contactless card in the world issued by ...........
1) Barclays Bank in 2008
2) Standard Chartered Bank in 2009
3) ICICI Bank in 2015
4) UBI in 2014
5) None
11. Which is the first commercial bank in India initiated to have Television Banking (TVB), avail the banking information on TV screens. This enable TV viewers to access information of Bank's services and products,
from the convince of their homes?
1) SBI
2) Corporation Bank
3) ICICI
4) Canara Bank
5) Tamilnadu Mercantile Bank Limited
12. New Development Bank (NDB) details given. Locate the wrong option.
1) The decision to set up this bank was taken at the 5th BRICS summit held in Durban, South Africa in 2013.
2) The bank headquarters is in Shanghai, China.
3) It is being seen as an alternative to the existing US-dominated World Bank and International Monetary Fund.
4) Its total out lay $ 1000 billion.
5) India is active partner in the NDB.
13. First head of the New Development Bank is......
1) K.V. Kamath
2) Jim Yong Kim
3) Christine Lagarde
4) Kaushik Basu
5) Sunil Sabharwal
14. India's first multi social payment app 'Ping Pay' launched by .....
1) HSBC
2) Corporation Bank
3) SBI
4) Axis Bank
5) ICICI
15. From 1 April 2015, the Insurance Australia Group Ltd (IAG) increase its stake in SBI General Insurance (SBIGI) from 26 percent to .......
1) 49%
2) 35%
3) 85%
4) 74%
5) 100%
16. The IAP (Indian Academy of Pediatrics) Health Phone programme details given. The correct option is .......
1) It is a public private partnership initiative that is supported by Vodafone India.
2) The programme use mobile phones in the country to educate over six million girls and women between 13 and 35 years of age.
3) Vodafone will send out approximately 300 million text messages to its subscribers every year to promote the scheme.
4) Three-year campaign is expected to benefit the health of 60 million children in India born by 2025.
5) All of above
17. Union Minister of Women and Child Development is .......
1) Maneka Sanjay Gandhi
2) Najma A. Heptulla
3) Jagat Prakash Nadda
4) Chaudhary Birender Singh
5) Thaawar Chand Gehlot
18. Who was selected for the 28th Moorti Devi Award for the year 2014 for his book Vyomkesh Darvesh?
1) Bhalchandra Vanaji Nemade
2) Veerappa Moiley
3) Vishwanath Tripathi
4) Kedarnath Biswas
5) None of above
19. Moorti Devi Award declares by ......
1) K.K. Birla Foundation
2) TATA Foundation
3) Jnanpith Foundation
4) Dhirubhai Ambani Foundation
5) Melinda Gates Foundation
20. Which district was conferred with UN Public Service Award for 'Open Defecation Free' district in country on 26 June 2015?
1) Ernakulam in Kerala
2) Nellore in Andhra Pradesh
3) Nadia in West Bengal
4) Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir
5) Hissar in Haryana
21. UNESCO - Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2015 conferred on ...... a Syrian journalist and advocate. The award set up in 1997.
1) Mazen Darwish
2) Edward Snowden
3) Taslima Nasreen
4) Salman Rushdie
5) None
22. UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) was established in ............
1) 1945
2) 1946
3) 1947
4) 1948
5) 1957
23. UNESCO headquarters is in ......
1) Paris
2) New York
3) Montreal
4) Geneva
5) Vienna
24. UNESCO chief .......
1) Irina Bokova
2) Anthony Lake
3) Raymond Benjiman
4) Margert Chan
5) Yukiya Amano
25. The 2015 National Geographic Bee Championship won by ......
1) Tine Valencic
2) Rahul Nagvekar
3) Sathwik Karnik
4) Akhil Rekulapelli
5) Karan Menon
26. UK Author Ali Smith won the 2015 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction for her novel......
1) How to be Both
2) A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing
3) May We Be Forgiven
4) The Song of Achilles
5) None
27. 'Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star' conferred on ........
1) Ajith Doval
2) Arvind Subramaniam
3) G.Satish Reddy
4) S.Ramadorai
5) C.N.R.Rao
28. Who was conferred with the Columbia's highest civilian award Orden de la Democracia Simon Bolivar en el grado de cruz Caballero (Order of the Democracy Simon Bolivar) by Columbia?
1) Jaggi Vasudev
2) Baba Ramdev
3) Ravi Shankar
4) Jayendra Saraswathi
5) Swami Rambhadracharya
29. Ravi Shankar is the founder of .....
1) Isha Foundation
2) Patanjali Foundation
3) Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham
4) Art of Living Foundation
5) Chitrakoot Ashram
30. Man Booker International Prize get cash prize ........... awarded to a living author.
1) $ 90,000
2) £ 30,000
3) £ 60,000
4) £ 70,000
5) £ 20,000
31. For which book Aravind Adiga won the Man Booker International Prize 2008?
1) White Tiger
2) Half Girlfriend
3) The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
4) Malgudi Days
5) Wings of Fire
32. For which book Kiran Desai won the Man Booker International Prize 2006?
1) The Inheritance of Loss
2) India Wins Freedom
3) The Insider
4) Wings of Fire
5) Without Fear: The Life and Trial of Bhagat Singh
33. Arundhati Roy got Man Booker International Prize 1997 for her book of .....
1) The God of Small Things
2) Coolie
3) The Golden Threshold
4) The Discovery of India
5) My Experiments With Truth
34. Which Indian Author nominated for Man Booker International Prize 2015?
1) Rohinton Mistry
2) U R Ananthamurthy
3) Amitav Ghosh
4) Mahasweta Devi
5) Salman Rushdie
35. Which Hungarian writer on 19 May 2015 won the prestigious Man Booker International Prize for 2015?
1) Sandor Weores
2) Peter Esterhazy
3) Laszlo Krasznahorkai
4) Mih·ly Vorosmarty
5)None
36. The highest award in cinema Dadasaheb Phalke Award instituted in..
1) 1991
2) 1947
3) 1983
4) 1992
5) 1969
37. 'Sourav Ganguly: Cricket, Captaincy and Controversy' written by ......
1) Ranjan Sodhi
2) V.K. Naryan
3) Jeffrey Boycott
4) Saptarshi Sarkar
5) Dungarpur
ANSWERS:
1-1, 2-3, 3-5, 4-4, 5-3, 6-3, 7-3, 8-5, 9-3, 10-1
11-3, 12-4, 13-1, 14-4, 15-1, 16-5, 17-1, 18-3, 19-3, 20-3
21-1, 22-1, 23-1, 24-1, 25-5, 26-1, 27-5, 28-3, 29-4, 30-3
31-1, 32-1,33-1, 34-3, 35-3,36-5, 37-4
Thursday, July 2, 2015
United India Insurance Company Ltd. Recruitment of 750 Assistant Posts
United India Insurance Company Limited has issued notification for the recruitment of Assistant vacancies.
Post Details:
Assistant: 750 Posts (Andhra Pradesh: 24 Posts & Telangana: 26 Posts)
Age (as on 30.6.2015): Minimum Age- 18 years and Maximum Age- 28 years (as on 30.06.2015).
Qualification: Graduate or Pass in HSC / equivalent (12th pass) examination with 60% marks and knowledge of Regional Language i.e. Language of the State of Recruitment is essential.
Selection Process: Based on online examination, Interview & computer proficiency test.
How to Apply: Candidates may apply online through website.
Starting Date to Apply Online: 07.07.2015.
Last Date to Apply Online: 20.07.2015.
Tentative Date of Online Exam: 30.08.2015.
For Notification Click Here
Post Details:
Assistant: 750 Posts (Andhra Pradesh: 24 Posts & Telangana: 26 Posts)
Age (as on 30.6.2015): Minimum Age- 18 years and Maximum Age- 28 years (as on 30.06.2015).
Qualification: Graduate or Pass in HSC / equivalent (12th pass) examination with 60% marks and knowledge of Regional Language i.e. Language of the State of Recruitment is essential.
Selection Process: Based on online examination, Interview & computer proficiency test.
How to Apply: Candidates may apply online through website.
Starting Date to Apply Online: 07.07.2015.
Last Date to Apply Online: 20.07.2015.
Tentative Date of Online Exam: 30.08.2015.
For Notification Click Here
Sunday, June 28, 2015
GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE QUESTIONS FOR ALL BANK EXAMS
1. Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) released Global Peace Index 2015 on June16, 2015. What is India’s rank?
1) 138
2) 134
3) 143
4) 139
5) 140
2. Which tennis legend was appointed the Ayurveda brand ambassador of Kerala on June 24, 2015?
1) Andre Agassi
2) Steffi Graf
3) Maria Sharapova
4) Boris Becker
5) Pete Sampras
3. Sheila Kaul passed away on June 13, 2015. She was a former Governor of?
1) Uttar Pradesh
2) Madhya Pradesh
3) Himachal Pradesh
4) West Bengal
5) Jharkhand
4. Mogens Lykketoft was elected as President of the United Nations General Assembly in June 2015. He belongs to?
1) UK
2) France
3) Italy
4) Denmark
5) Norway
5. Institute for Economics and Peace is headquartered in?
1) Sydney
2) Geneva
3) Berne
4) Manila
5) Oslo
6. The world’s first mangrove zoo will be set up in?
1) Tripura
2) Odisha
3) Manipur
4) Jharkhand
5) West Bengal
7. UNO declared 2015 as the International Year of?
1) Crystallography
2) Light and Light based Technologies
3) Yoga
4) Family Farming
5) Cooperatives
8. The first development financial institution in India is?
1) IDBI
2) Exim Bank
3) IFCI
4) SIDBI
5) ICICI
9. The world’s largest vertical maze, Maze Tower, is in?
1) Dubai
2) Kuala Lumpur
3) New York
4) Jakarta
5) Riyadh
10. Charlie Hebdo’s office was attacked by terrorists in January 2015. It is a satirical weekly magazine based in?
1) Spain
2) Germany
3) France
4) Hungary
5) Portugal
11. The 2017 women’s cricket world cup will be held in?
1) India
2) Australia
3) West Indies
4) England
5) New Zealand
12. Who won the 7th Chennai International Open Grandmaster chess tournament in January 2015?
1) Popov Ivan
2) Ramnath Bhuvanesh
3) R. Siddharth
4) Dzhumaev Marat
5) Mozharov Mikhail
13. Which of the following is a successor body of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)?
1) World Bank
2) IMF
3) WTO
4) OECD
5) WEF
14. Which country was formerly known as Nyasaland?
1) Zambia
2) Tanzania
3) Mozambique
4) Malawi
5) Sudan
15. Which of the following organizations has seven members?
1) SAARC
2) NATO
3) BIMSTEC
4) OPEC
5) ASEAN
16. According to the ‘Status of Tigers in India 2014’ report what is the population of tigers?
1) 1706
2) 1411
3) 2226
4) 1909
5) 1826
17. India is home to what percent of the world’s tiger population?
1) 60%
2) 65%
3) 75%
4) 70%
5) 55%
18. Who was named as the Governor of the Year in the Central Banking Awards for 2015?
1) Ben Bernanke
2) Janet Yellen
3) Raghuram Rajan
4) Mark Carney
5) None of these
19. Which State got the National Award for e-Governance for the best district level initiative in India?
1) Haryana
2) Punjab
3) Sikkim
4) Gujarat
5) Jammu & Kashmir
20. Sukanya Samruddhi Account was launched by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on
January 22, 2015 from?
1) Ambala
2) Panipat
3) Hissar
4) Karnal
5) Faridabad
21. India’s foreign direct investment increased by what per cent in 2014, as per a UN report released in January 2015?
1) 26%
2) 30%
3) 14%
4) 18%
5) 20%
22. Leander Paes and which of the following female tennis players won the 2015 Australian Open
Mixed Doubles title?
1) Kristina Mladenovic
2) Martina Hingis
3) Sania Mirza
4) Lucie Safarova
5) Simona Halep
23. Who won the women’s singles title of the Syed Modi International Masters Badminton tournament
in Lucknow on January 25, 2015?
1) Carolina Marin
2) P. V. Sindhu
3) Saina Nehwal
4) Li Xuerai
5) None of these
24. National Academy of Direct Taxes is located in?
1) Mumbai
2) Pune
3) Thane
4) Nagpur
5) Surat
25. The technique of inducing rain from cloud is called?
1) Cloud Control
2) Cloud Computing
3) Cloud Engineering
4) Cloud Seeding
5) None of these
26. Indian Statistical Institute was founded by?
1) R.C. Bose
2) J.M. Sengupta
3) R.R. Bahadur
4) P.C. Mahalanobis
5) C.R. Rao
27. Arihant is a?
1) Unmanned combat aerial vehicle
2) Multi barrel rocket launcher
3) Surface to air missile
4) Nuclear submarine
5) None of these
28. Baiji oil refinery is located in?
1) Iran
2) Iraq
3) Syria
4) Russia
5) Sudan
29. World Vitiligo Day is observed on?
1) June 25
2) June 26
3) June 23
4) June 24
5) June 28
30. Sukanya Samridhi Account will enable parents to open bank accounts of girls who are under?
1) 12 years
2) 15 years
3) 10 years
4) 18 years
5) 14 years
31. The Venture Capital Fund for Scheduled Castes was launched by the Union Ministry of?
1) Urban Development
2) Rural Development
3) Home
4) Finance
5) Social Justice and Empowerment
32. The 13th Foreign Ministers Meeting of the Russia-India- China trilateral was held in February 2015 in?
1) Beijing
2) Moscow
3) Yekaterinburg
4) New Delhi
5) Sochi
33. Which of the following is a 21- nation grouping of Pacific Rim countries?
1) ASEAN
2) SCO
3) EAS
4) BASIC
5) APEC
34. The first district in India to have complete rural broadband coverage is?
1) Ernakulam
2) Kollam
3) Idukki
4) Palakkad
5) Thrissur
35. Which country topped the list of 93 countries in the 2014 edition of Global Talent Competitive Index?
1) Switzerland
2) Singapore
3) Luxembourg
4) USA
5) Canada
36. What is India’s rank in the Global Talent Competitive Index that was released by the INSEAD Business School in January 2015?
1) 63
2) 78
3) 65
4) 67
5) 75
37. Yingluck Shinawatra was impeached by the Parliament in January 2015. She is the former Prime Minister of?
1) Cambodia
2) Laos
3) Thailand
4) Vietnam
5) Myanmar
38. Which country was the largest recipient of FDI in 2014?
1) China
2) USA
3) Singapore
4) Brazil
5) India
39. The Ra’ad is an air-launched cruise missile (ALCM) developed by?
1) Israel
2) Afghanistan
3) North Korea
4) Pakistan
5) Myanmar
40. Which of the following is the capital of Turkey?
1) Antalya
2) Istanbul
3) Izmir
4) Adana
5) Ankara
ANSWERS:
1) 3 2) 2 3) 3 4) 4 5) 1 6) 5 7) 2 8) 3 9) 1 10) 3
11) 4 12) 1 13) 3 14) 4 15) 3 16) 3 17) 4 18) 3 19) 5 20) 2
21) 1 22) 2 23) 3 24) 4 25) 4 26) 4 27) 4 28) 2 29) 1 30) 3
31) 5 32) 1 33) 5 34) 3 35) 1 36) 2 37) 3 38) 1 39) 4 40) 5
1) 138
2) 134
3) 143
4) 139
5) 140
2. Which tennis legend was appointed the Ayurveda brand ambassador of Kerala on June 24, 2015?
1) Andre Agassi
2) Steffi Graf
3) Maria Sharapova
4) Boris Becker
5) Pete Sampras
3. Sheila Kaul passed away on June 13, 2015. She was a former Governor of?
1) Uttar Pradesh
2) Madhya Pradesh
3) Himachal Pradesh
4) West Bengal
5) Jharkhand
4. Mogens Lykketoft was elected as President of the United Nations General Assembly in June 2015. He belongs to?
1) UK
2) France
3) Italy
4) Denmark
5) Norway
5. Institute for Economics and Peace is headquartered in?
1) Sydney
2) Geneva
3) Berne
4) Manila
5) Oslo
6. The world’s first mangrove zoo will be set up in?
1) Tripura
2) Odisha
3) Manipur
4) Jharkhand
5) West Bengal
7. UNO declared 2015 as the International Year of?
1) Crystallography
2) Light and Light based Technologies
3) Yoga
4) Family Farming
5) Cooperatives
8. The first development financial institution in India is?
1) IDBI
2) Exim Bank
3) IFCI
4) SIDBI
5) ICICI
9. The world’s largest vertical maze, Maze Tower, is in?
1) Dubai
2) Kuala Lumpur
3) New York
4) Jakarta
5) Riyadh
10. Charlie Hebdo’s office was attacked by terrorists in January 2015. It is a satirical weekly magazine based in?
1) Spain
2) Germany
3) France
4) Hungary
5) Portugal
11. The 2017 women’s cricket world cup will be held in?
1) India
2) Australia
3) West Indies
4) England
5) New Zealand
12. Who won the 7th Chennai International Open Grandmaster chess tournament in January 2015?
1) Popov Ivan
2) Ramnath Bhuvanesh
3) R. Siddharth
4) Dzhumaev Marat
5) Mozharov Mikhail
13. Which of the following is a successor body of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)?
1) World Bank
2) IMF
3) WTO
4) OECD
5) WEF
14. Which country was formerly known as Nyasaland?
1) Zambia
2) Tanzania
3) Mozambique
4) Malawi
5) Sudan
15. Which of the following organizations has seven members?
1) SAARC
2) NATO
3) BIMSTEC
4) OPEC
5) ASEAN
16. According to the ‘Status of Tigers in India 2014’ report what is the population of tigers?
1) 1706
2) 1411
3) 2226
4) 1909
5) 1826
17. India is home to what percent of the world’s tiger population?
1) 60%
2) 65%
3) 75%
4) 70%
5) 55%
18. Who was named as the Governor of the Year in the Central Banking Awards for 2015?
1) Ben Bernanke
2) Janet Yellen
3) Raghuram Rajan
4) Mark Carney
5) None of these
19. Which State got the National Award for e-Governance for the best district level initiative in India?
1) Haryana
2) Punjab
3) Sikkim
4) Gujarat
5) Jammu & Kashmir
20. Sukanya Samruddhi Account was launched by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on
January 22, 2015 from?
1) Ambala
2) Panipat
3) Hissar
4) Karnal
5) Faridabad
21. India’s foreign direct investment increased by what per cent in 2014, as per a UN report released in January 2015?
1) 26%
2) 30%
3) 14%
4) 18%
5) 20%
22. Leander Paes and which of the following female tennis players won the 2015 Australian Open
Mixed Doubles title?
1) Kristina Mladenovic
2) Martina Hingis
3) Sania Mirza
4) Lucie Safarova
5) Simona Halep
23. Who won the women’s singles title of the Syed Modi International Masters Badminton tournament
in Lucknow on January 25, 2015?
1) Carolina Marin
2) P. V. Sindhu
3) Saina Nehwal
4) Li Xuerai
5) None of these
24. National Academy of Direct Taxes is located in?
1) Mumbai
2) Pune
3) Thane
4) Nagpur
5) Surat
25. The technique of inducing rain from cloud is called?
1) Cloud Control
2) Cloud Computing
3) Cloud Engineering
4) Cloud Seeding
5) None of these
26. Indian Statistical Institute was founded by?
1) R.C. Bose
2) J.M. Sengupta
3) R.R. Bahadur
4) P.C. Mahalanobis
5) C.R. Rao
27. Arihant is a?
1) Unmanned combat aerial vehicle
2) Multi barrel rocket launcher
3) Surface to air missile
4) Nuclear submarine
5) None of these
28. Baiji oil refinery is located in?
1) Iran
2) Iraq
3) Syria
4) Russia
5) Sudan
29. World Vitiligo Day is observed on?
1) June 25
2) June 26
3) June 23
4) June 24
5) June 28
30. Sukanya Samridhi Account will enable parents to open bank accounts of girls who are under?
1) 12 years
2) 15 years
3) 10 years
4) 18 years
5) 14 years
31. The Venture Capital Fund for Scheduled Castes was launched by the Union Ministry of?
1) Urban Development
2) Rural Development
3) Home
4) Finance
5) Social Justice and Empowerment
32. The 13th Foreign Ministers Meeting of the Russia-India- China trilateral was held in February 2015 in?
1) Beijing
2) Moscow
3) Yekaterinburg
4) New Delhi
5) Sochi
33. Which of the following is a 21- nation grouping of Pacific Rim countries?
1) ASEAN
2) SCO
3) EAS
4) BASIC
5) APEC
34. The first district in India to have complete rural broadband coverage is?
1) Ernakulam
2) Kollam
3) Idukki
4) Palakkad
5) Thrissur
35. Which country topped the list of 93 countries in the 2014 edition of Global Talent Competitive Index?
1) Switzerland
2) Singapore
3) Luxembourg
4) USA
5) Canada
36. What is India’s rank in the Global Talent Competitive Index that was released by the INSEAD Business School in January 2015?
1) 63
2) 78
3) 65
4) 67
5) 75
37. Yingluck Shinawatra was impeached by the Parliament in January 2015. She is the former Prime Minister of?
1) Cambodia
2) Laos
3) Thailand
4) Vietnam
5) Myanmar
38. Which country was the largest recipient of FDI in 2014?
1) China
2) USA
3) Singapore
4) Brazil
5) India
39. The Ra’ad is an air-launched cruise missile (ALCM) developed by?
1) Israel
2) Afghanistan
3) North Korea
4) Pakistan
5) Myanmar
40. Which of the following is the capital of Turkey?
1) Antalya
2) Istanbul
3) Izmir
4) Adana
5) Ankara
ANSWERS:
1) 3 2) 2 3) 3 4) 4 5) 1 6) 5 7) 2 8) 3 9) 1 10) 3
11) 4 12) 1 13) 3 14) 4 15) 3 16) 3 17) 4 18) 3 19) 5 20) 2
21) 1 22) 2 23) 3 24) 4 25) 4 26) 4 27) 4 28) 2 29) 1 30) 3
31) 5 32) 1 33) 5 34) 3 35) 1 36) 2 37) 3 38) 1 39) 4 40) 5
Thursday, June 18, 2015
State Bank of India and Associate Banks clerical cadre exam General Awareness Solved Paper (Exam held on: 15-02-2015)
1. Jim Corbett National Park, India's oldest national park. It is located in the state of India, which of the following?
(A) HP, (b), Uttar Pradesh (c) Punjab (d) Uttarakhand (e) Arunachal Pradesh (Ans: d)
2. The disposal of complaints against the shortcomings of the services of banks, the RBI is not independent officer appointed following is-
(A) in each bank manager main complaint (b) CVO
(C) the appointment of such an officer is not (d) Banking Ombudsman
(E) Kmpiliyans Officer (Ans: d)
3. The capital of Denmark Forms
(A) Munich (b) Prague (c) Hamburg (d) Heisenberg (e) Copenhagen (Ans: e)
4. Which of the following assets in the bank's balance sheet?
(A) paid-up capital (b) of its savings deposits (c) investments in Government Securities
(D) the accrued Consolidated Fund (e) the current deposits (Ans: c)
5. The United Nations Cilderen Fund (UNCEF), is a program of the United Nations. For the development of babies and mothers in developing countries provides humanitarian assistance. Its headquarters in the following cities is-
(A) Geneva (Switzerland) (b) Paris (France) (c) of Vienna (Austria)
(D) New York (USA) (e) to Rome (Italy) (Ans: d)
6. 'Odyssey of My Life' book-the autobiography of the following persons
(A) Shivraj Patil (b) R. R. Patil (c) Sandeep Patil
(D) Smita Patil (e) Patil (Ans: a)
7. The Union Human Resource Development Minister, Smriti Irani, Indian Institute of Management in Andhra Pradesh (i. I. M.), The foundation laid in ..........
(A) to Tirupati (b) Nellore (c) Visakhapatnam
(D) Guntur (e) Vijayawada (Ans: c)
8. Tue 11 years ago on the surface of the planet 'Beagle 2', a space probe which was lost, he's got now. It was released in 2003 by .........
(A) the Soviet space program, (b) the Israeli Space Agency
(C) Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (d) China National Space Admini-Streshn
(E) the European Space Agency (Ans: e)
9. Human-interest utilization of water resources and conservation to generate awareness month Government ......... "India Water Week 'celebrated.
(A) December 14 (b) February 15 (c) October 14
(D) January, 15 (e) November, 14 (Ans: d)
10. Very recently, men's tenth 'Savio Cup All India basketball tournament was won by the ..........
(A) Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) (b) Indian Overseas Bank
(C) Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited. (D) Indian Oil Corporation Limited.
(E) State Bank of India (Ans: a)
11. More recently, Mr. Deepak Kumar Upadhyaya ......... Government has nominated ambassador to India.
(A) Mauritius (b) Nepal (c) Bhutan (d) Fiji (e) Maldives (Ans: b)
12. Every year the Indian Army Day is celebrated on ..........
(A) 15 March (b) 15 December (c) 15 January (d) 15 August (e) 15 October (Ans: c)
13. ......... protect animals to minimize economic losses of animal recently, 'the defense of Blue titled vaccine is released.
(A) foot-mouth virus Tongue (b) Blue Tongue virus (c) bird flu virus
(D) road, water disease (e) swine flu virus (Ans: b)
14. According to the 2011 census (0-6) had the sex ratio among children in the age group
(A) 1000 Knyayen than boys, 969 (b) 1000 939 Knyayen than boys
(C) 1000 Knyayen than boys, 919 (d) 1000 959 Knyayen than boys
(E) 1000 929 Knyayen than boys (Ans: c)
15. In India, developed and capable of carrying nuclear warheads "fearless called subsonic cruise missile capability is .......... kilometers.
(A) 1000 (b) 3700 (c) 700 (d) 1700 (e) 2700 (Ans: a)
16. Which of the following is the world's largest gold-producing country?
(A) Canada (b) China (c) Peru (d) Australia (e) Colombia (Ans: b)
17. Which of the following recent Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) has been appointed the chairperson?
(A) Phlaj Nhlani (b) sky Nhlani (c) Shiba Nhlani
(D) Govind Nhlani (e) Dayal Nhlani (Ans: a)
18. Which of the following is not the primary function of a bank?
(A) deposit (Deposit) Acceptance (b) checks to clear
(C) information about a client's financial situation and perspective
(D) foreign trade subsidize (e) Loans and advances to (Ans: c)
19. According to the 2011 census, the total population of the economically active population had part
(A) 55.5% (b) 52.5% (c) 42.5% (d) 62.5% (e) 48.5% (Ans: d)
20. More recently, the weather satellite "Fengyon it off 'was followed by the launch ...........
(A) Japan (b) China (c) Russia (d) France (e) Germany (Ans: b)
21. Which of the following in India's financial system regulator (Regulator) it?
(A) options other than the
(B) SEBI (c) CRISIL (d) TRAN (e) CERC (Ans: b)
22. Shivalik, external Himalayan mountain range, the range is 2,400 km long and Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and passes through ..........
(A) Punjab (b) Uttar Pradesh (c) Haryana (d) Jammu and Kashmir (e) Rajasthan (Ans: a)
23. The abbreviation 'PLA' fully Forms
(A) Private Liberation Army (b) People's Liberation Armed Force
(C) Public Liberation Army (d) People's Liberation Army
(E) People's Liberty Army (Ans: d)
24. 'SARF AESI Act 2001', the following applies to the banking industry is-
(A) conditions of service of staff to legalistic
(B) the appointment of bank directors named
(C) other than the options
(D) Streamlining Dokumenteshn
(E) of outstanding loans to facilitate the use of security forces to Bsuli (Ans: e)
25. January 15, 2015 the RBI repo rate reduction of what percentage?
(A) 0.6 (b) 0.25 (c) 1.00 (d) 0.75 (e) 0.4 (Ans: b)
26. NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in Manhattan, the earth's temperature, according to the records, the hottest year quotas by 1990
(A) 2001 (b) 2014 (c) 1997 (d) 2005 (e) 2010 (Ans: b)
27. 'Mohiniyttm', India is following state folk dance?
(A) Assam (b) Kerala (c) Orissa (d) Arunachal Pradesh (e) Telangana (Ans: b)
28. Micro-credit and micro-finance as a concept to provide the following Murtt check out who was decorated with the Nobel Prize?
(A) Professor Muhammad Yunus (b) the names of options other than
(C) Professor Amartya Sen (d) Jean Tirole (e) Professor Jagdish Bhagwati (Ans: a)
29. renminbi (Renminbi) following the country's currency is-
(A) China (b) Bulgaria (c) People's Republic of Korea
(D) Ethiopia (e) Banglods (Ans: a)
30. loans given by banks to exporters, "Export Credit" is called. In the event of any danger of falling exports are guaranteed by these is-
(A) EXIM Bank (b) the Ministry of Internal Trade, Goa (c) ECGC
(D) DICGC (e) other than the options (Ans: c)
31. An emerging web browser named 'Spertan' whose development has the following replacement for Microsoft Forms
(A) Safari (b) Opera (c) Internet Explorer
(D) Firefox (e) Chrome (Ans: c)
32. Lord Sri Krishna Manohar Parrikar Ministry .......... Union Cabinet minister.
(A) railway (b) Law and Justice (c) Steel and Mines
(D) immunity (e) Civil Aviation (Ans: d)
Of lending 33. Which of the following is the most secure way?
(A) Lien (b) Assignment (c) Pledge (d) Hypotheciation (e) Mortgage (Ans: e)
34. "Asian News International news agency headquartered in the following location is-
(A) Singapore (b), New Delhi (c) Rawalpindi (d) TOKYO (e) to Beijing (China) (Ans: b)
35. SCS entrepreneurship (Entrepreneurship) to encourage the government recently ........... 'Adventure fund for the SCs' has been established.
(A) Bihar (b) Uttar Pradesh (c) Rajasthan (d), Maharashtra (e) India (Ans: e)
36. A bank's deposit and loan ratio is called ..........
(A) Ankpikok Coverage ratio (b) return on assets ratio (c) Asset coverage ratio
(D) CD Ratio (e) other than the options (Ans: e)
37. 6 metropolitan cities of India, the Reserve Bank Rs. 65 million price for apartments .......... home-loan limit is determined.
(A) Rs. 47 million (b) Rs. 4.5 million (c) Cr. 42 million
(D) Rs. 50 million (e) of Rs. 41 million (Ans: d)
38. Which of the following Negotiable instrument (bill .....) it?
(A) a bank fixed deposits (b) any p. S. U. Shares issued by Certificate
(C) has been issued by a bank demand draft (d) debentures of a company
(E) the receipt of any airline-service company (Ans: c)
39. Which of the following sports lore Arunachal Pradesh Jimjang Deru just recently made his own national record to undermine?
(A) Boxing (b) archery (c) wrestling
(D) Athletics (e) Lifting (Ans: e)
40. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, scientists recently, the discovery of planets with substantially similar to Earth. The naming of these planets is the name of ..........
(A) Kinstn Kinstn 410b and 440b (b) Kepler Kepler 438b and 442b
(C) Kirakon Kirakon 420b and 440b (d) litmus litmus 414b and 441b
(E) Lulin Lulin 410b and 421b (Ans: b)
(A) HP, (b), Uttar Pradesh (c) Punjab (d) Uttarakhand (e) Arunachal Pradesh (Ans: d)
2. The disposal of complaints against the shortcomings of the services of banks, the RBI is not independent officer appointed following is-
(A) in each bank manager main complaint (b) CVO
(C) the appointment of such an officer is not (d) Banking Ombudsman
(E) Kmpiliyans Officer (Ans: d)
3. The capital of Denmark Forms
(A) Munich (b) Prague (c) Hamburg (d) Heisenberg (e) Copenhagen (Ans: e)
4. Which of the following assets in the bank's balance sheet?
(A) paid-up capital (b) of its savings deposits (c) investments in Government Securities
(D) the accrued Consolidated Fund (e) the current deposits (Ans: c)
5. The United Nations Cilderen Fund (UNCEF), is a program of the United Nations. For the development of babies and mothers in developing countries provides humanitarian assistance. Its headquarters in the following cities is-
(A) Geneva (Switzerland) (b) Paris (France) (c) of Vienna (Austria)
(D) New York (USA) (e) to Rome (Italy) (Ans: d)
6. 'Odyssey of My Life' book-the autobiography of the following persons
(A) Shivraj Patil (b) R. R. Patil (c) Sandeep Patil
(D) Smita Patil (e) Patil (Ans: a)
7. The Union Human Resource Development Minister, Smriti Irani, Indian Institute of Management in Andhra Pradesh (i. I. M.), The foundation laid in ..........
(A) to Tirupati (b) Nellore (c) Visakhapatnam
(D) Guntur (e) Vijayawada (Ans: c)
8. Tue 11 years ago on the surface of the planet 'Beagle 2', a space probe which was lost, he's got now. It was released in 2003 by .........
(A) the Soviet space program, (b) the Israeli Space Agency
(C) Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (d) China National Space Admini-Streshn
(E) the European Space Agency (Ans: e)
9. Human-interest utilization of water resources and conservation to generate awareness month Government ......... "India Water Week 'celebrated.
(A) December 14 (b) February 15 (c) October 14
(D) January, 15 (e) November, 14 (Ans: d)
10. Very recently, men's tenth 'Savio Cup All India basketball tournament was won by the ..........
(A) Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) (b) Indian Overseas Bank
(C) Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited. (D) Indian Oil Corporation Limited.
(E) State Bank of India (Ans: a)
11. More recently, Mr. Deepak Kumar Upadhyaya ......... Government has nominated ambassador to India.
(A) Mauritius (b) Nepal (c) Bhutan (d) Fiji (e) Maldives (Ans: b)
12. Every year the Indian Army Day is celebrated on ..........
(A) 15 March (b) 15 December (c) 15 January (d) 15 August (e) 15 October (Ans: c)
13. ......... protect animals to minimize economic losses of animal recently, 'the defense of Blue titled vaccine is released.
(A) foot-mouth virus Tongue (b) Blue Tongue virus (c) bird flu virus
(D) road, water disease (e) swine flu virus (Ans: b)
14. According to the 2011 census (0-6) had the sex ratio among children in the age group
(A) 1000 Knyayen than boys, 969 (b) 1000 939 Knyayen than boys
(C) 1000 Knyayen than boys, 919 (d) 1000 959 Knyayen than boys
(E) 1000 929 Knyayen than boys (Ans: c)
15. In India, developed and capable of carrying nuclear warheads "fearless called subsonic cruise missile capability is .......... kilometers.
(A) 1000 (b) 3700 (c) 700 (d) 1700 (e) 2700 (Ans: a)
16. Which of the following is the world's largest gold-producing country?
(A) Canada (b) China (c) Peru (d) Australia (e) Colombia (Ans: b)
17. Which of the following recent Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) has been appointed the chairperson?
(A) Phlaj Nhlani (b) sky Nhlani (c) Shiba Nhlani
(D) Govind Nhlani (e) Dayal Nhlani (Ans: a)
18. Which of the following is not the primary function of a bank?
(A) deposit (Deposit) Acceptance (b) checks to clear
(C) information about a client's financial situation and perspective
(D) foreign trade subsidize (e) Loans and advances to (Ans: c)
19. According to the 2011 census, the total population of the economically active population had part
(A) 55.5% (b) 52.5% (c) 42.5% (d) 62.5% (e) 48.5% (Ans: d)
20. More recently, the weather satellite "Fengyon it off 'was followed by the launch ...........
(A) Japan (b) China (c) Russia (d) France (e) Germany (Ans: b)
21. Which of the following in India's financial system regulator (Regulator) it?
(A) options other than the
(B) SEBI (c) CRISIL (d) TRAN (e) CERC (Ans: b)
22. Shivalik, external Himalayan mountain range, the range is 2,400 km long and Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and passes through ..........
(A) Punjab (b) Uttar Pradesh (c) Haryana (d) Jammu and Kashmir (e) Rajasthan (Ans: a)
23. The abbreviation 'PLA' fully Forms
(A) Private Liberation Army (b) People's Liberation Armed Force
(C) Public Liberation Army (d) People's Liberation Army
(E) People's Liberty Army (Ans: d)
24. 'SARF AESI Act 2001', the following applies to the banking industry is-
(A) conditions of service of staff to legalistic
(B) the appointment of bank directors named
(C) other than the options
(D) Streamlining Dokumenteshn
(E) of outstanding loans to facilitate the use of security forces to Bsuli (Ans: e)
25. January 15, 2015 the RBI repo rate reduction of what percentage?
(A) 0.6 (b) 0.25 (c) 1.00 (d) 0.75 (e) 0.4 (Ans: b)
26. NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in Manhattan, the earth's temperature, according to the records, the hottest year quotas by 1990
(A) 2001 (b) 2014 (c) 1997 (d) 2005 (e) 2010 (Ans: b)
27. 'Mohiniyttm', India is following state folk dance?
(A) Assam (b) Kerala (c) Orissa (d) Arunachal Pradesh (e) Telangana (Ans: b)
28. Micro-credit and micro-finance as a concept to provide the following Murtt check out who was decorated with the Nobel Prize?
(A) Professor Muhammad Yunus (b) the names of options other than
(C) Professor Amartya Sen (d) Jean Tirole (e) Professor Jagdish Bhagwati (Ans: a)
29. renminbi (Renminbi) following the country's currency is-
(A) China (b) Bulgaria (c) People's Republic of Korea
(D) Ethiopia (e) Banglods (Ans: a)
30. loans given by banks to exporters, "Export Credit" is called. In the event of any danger of falling exports are guaranteed by these is-
(A) EXIM Bank (b) the Ministry of Internal Trade, Goa (c) ECGC
(D) DICGC (e) other than the options (Ans: c)
31. An emerging web browser named 'Spertan' whose development has the following replacement for Microsoft Forms
(A) Safari (b) Opera (c) Internet Explorer
(D) Firefox (e) Chrome (Ans: c)
32. Lord Sri Krishna Manohar Parrikar Ministry .......... Union Cabinet minister.
(A) railway (b) Law and Justice (c) Steel and Mines
(D) immunity (e) Civil Aviation (Ans: d)
Of lending 33. Which of the following is the most secure way?
(A) Lien (b) Assignment (c) Pledge (d) Hypotheciation (e) Mortgage (Ans: e)
34. "Asian News International news agency headquartered in the following location is-
(A) Singapore (b), New Delhi (c) Rawalpindi (d) TOKYO (e) to Beijing (China) (Ans: b)
35. SCS entrepreneurship (Entrepreneurship) to encourage the government recently ........... 'Adventure fund for the SCs' has been established.
(A) Bihar (b) Uttar Pradesh (c) Rajasthan (d), Maharashtra (e) India (Ans: e)
36. A bank's deposit and loan ratio is called ..........
(A) Ankpikok Coverage ratio (b) return on assets ratio (c) Asset coverage ratio
(D) CD Ratio (e) other than the options (Ans: e)
37. 6 metropolitan cities of India, the Reserve Bank Rs. 65 million price for apartments .......... home-loan limit is determined.
(A) Rs. 47 million (b) Rs. 4.5 million (c) Cr. 42 million
(D) Rs. 50 million (e) of Rs. 41 million (Ans: d)
38. Which of the following Negotiable instrument (bill .....) it?
(A) a bank fixed deposits (b) any p. S. U. Shares issued by Certificate
(C) has been issued by a bank demand draft (d) debentures of a company
(E) the receipt of any airline-service company (Ans: c)
39. Which of the following sports lore Arunachal Pradesh Jimjang Deru just recently made his own national record to undermine?
(A) Boxing (b) archery (c) wrestling
(D) Athletics (e) Lifting (Ans: e)
40. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, scientists recently, the discovery of planets with substantially similar to Earth. The naming of these planets is the name of ..........
(A) Kinstn Kinstn 410b and 440b (b) Kepler Kepler 438b and 442b
(C) Kirakon Kirakon 420b and 440b (d) litmus litmus 414b and 441b
(E) Lulin Lulin 410b and 421b (Ans: b)
Sunday, June 14, 2015
SBI PROBATIONARY OFFICERS EXAM GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE MCQs
1. Loans given to small-scale and ancillary industries are treated as priority sector lending. Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development (MSMED) Act was passed in ...
1) 2010
2) 2006
3) 2009
4) 2004
5) 2008
2. As per MSMED Act, if an enterprise engaged in the manufacture or production, processing or preservation of goods a micro enterprise is an enterprise where investment in plant and machinery does not exceed .......
1) Rs.25 lakh
2) Rs.12 lakh
3) Rs.5 lakh
4) Rs.15 lakh
5) Rs.1 lakh
3. On 29 April 2015, RBI set a target of ANBC (Adjusted Net Bank Credit) prescribed for Micro Enterprises, to be achieved in a phased manner i.e. 7 percent by
1) March 2019
2) March 2017
3) December 2016
4) April 2018
5) March 2016
4. A target of ANBC (Adjusted Net Bank Credit) has been prescribed for Micro Enterprises, to be achieved in a phased manner i.e. 7.5 percent by .......
1) March 2017
2) March 2018
3) Dec 2017
4) Jan 2019
5) None
5. The target of ANBC has been prescribed for Micro Enterprises, to be achieved in a phased manner i.e. 7 percent by March 2016 and 7.5 percent by March 2017 for domestic banks. What about this target for foreign banks where they have less than 20 branches in India?
1) The above targets to be achieved by March 2020.
2) The above targets to be achieved by March 2018.
3) The above targets to be achieved by March 2017.
4) The above targets to be achieved by March 2019.
5) No targets assigned for these banks.
6. A small enterprise is an enterprise where the investment in plant and machinery is more than Rs.25 lakh but does not exceed ....... If an enterprise engaged in the manufacture or production, processing or preservation of goods.
1) Rs.5 crore
2) Rs.3 crore
3) Rs.2 crore
4) Rs.15 crore
5) None
7. Medium enterprise is an enterprise where the investment in plant and machinery is more than Rs.5 crore but does not exceed.... If an enterprise engaged in the manufacture or production, processing or preservation of goods.
1) Rs.50 crore
2) Rs.5 crore
3) Rs.10 crore
4) Rs.100 crore
5) None
8. As per MSMED Act 2006, if an enterprise engaged in providing or rendering of services and whose investment in equipment, it is a micro enterprise is an enterprise where the investment in equipment does not exceed ........
1) Rs.10 lakh
2) Rs.25 lakh
3) Rs.100 lakh
4) Rs.70 lakh
5) Rs.50 lakh
9. Small enterprise is an enterprise where the investment in equipment (in rendering of services) is more than Rs.10 lakh but does not exceed ........
1) Rs.10 crore
2) Rs.5 crore
3) Rs.1 crore
4) Rs.2 crore
5) Rs.20 crore
10. The medium enterprise is an enterprise where the investment in equipment (in rendering of services) is more than Rs.2 crore but does not exceed .........
1) Rs.10 crore
2) Rs.8 crore
3) Rs.50 crore
4) Rs.3 crore
5) Rs.5 crore
11. All loans to units in the KVI sector will be eligible for classification under the sub-target of 7
percent / 7.5 percent prescribed for Micro Enterprises under priority sector. KVI stands for .......
1) Khadi and Village Industries Sector
2) Khaki and Village Industries Sector
3) Khadi and Vicinity Industries Sector
4) Khadi and Village Infrastructure Sector
5) None of above
12. The credit outstanding under general credit cards also come under the 'other finance to MSMEs'. Here the general credit cards include ..........
1) Artisan Credit Card
2) Laghu Udyami Card
3) Swarojgar Credit Card
4) Weaver's Card
5) All of above
13. Prime Minister's Task Force on MSMEs headed by whom prescribed few targets for banks for lending to the Micro and Small Enterprise (MSE) sector?
1) T.K.A. Nair
2) Lakdawala
3) Sundarama Ganesan
4) Pradhymna Kumar
5) None
14. Ministry of MSME, Government of India and ........ set up the Credit Guarantee Fund Trust for Micro and Small Enterprises with a view to facilitate flow of credit to the MSE sector without the need for collaterals / third party guarantees.
1) RBI
2) IDBI
3) SIDBI
4) NABARD
5) None
15. A viable / potentially viable unit may apply for a debt restructuring if it shows early stage of sickness. It is called .........
1) debt restructuring of advances
2) debt cancellation of advances
3) debt trapping
4) debt postponement
5) None
16. RBI set guidelines on OTS for MSEs for settlement of their NPAs. OTS means ........
1) Order Time Settlement Scheme
2) One Take Settlement Scheme
3) One Time Settlement Scheme
4) One Time Score Scheme
5) None
17. RSETIs set up to provide training for MSE (Micro and Small Entrepreneurs). RSETI means .......
1) Rural Self Empowerment Training Institutes
2) Rural School Employment Training Institutes
3) Rural Study Employment Training Institutes
4) Regular Self Employment Training Institutes
5) None
18. Banks also provide assistance to the MSE entrepreneurs through their FLC. FLC stands for ........
1) Front Literacy Centre
2) Financial Literacy Centre
3) First Literacy Centre
4) Fourth Literacy Centre
5) None
19. Government of India has enacted the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development (MSMED) Act, 2006. As per this act within a maximum of how many days, the buyers have to make the payments for the goods and services received by them from Micro, Small Enterprises?
1) 15 days
2) 30 days
3) 10 months
4) 2 weeks
5) 100 days
20. Union Cabinet on 30 May 2015 has given its approval for MOU between India and ...... on cooperation in the field of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises.
1) Sweden
2) Norway
3) Austria
4) Sri Lanka
5) USA
21. On 1 June 2015, which nation has unveiled the world's first facial recognition ATM?
1) USA
2) UK
3) Israel
4) India
5) China
22. Which bank on 29 May 2015 launched an Online Customer Acquisition Solution (OCAS)?
1) ICICI
2) IndusInd bank
3) SBI
4) Kotak Bank
5) HDFC
23. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has inaugurated New Bank Note Paper Line of 6000 MT capacity at ....... on 30 May 2015.
1) Hoshangabad, MP
2) Nashik, Maharashtra
3) Kochi, Kerala
4) Chennai, Tamilnadu
5) Shimla, HP
24. Your portfolio contains 85 percent stocks, 10 percent bonds, and 5 percent cash. Experts would agree that your portfolio is ...
1) Moderate
2) Simple
3) Soft
4) Zero
5) Aggressive
25. India’s first television channel Kisan Channel dedicated to farmers by PM on 27th May 2015. The channel belongs to .....
1) Zee
2) Sony
3) Star Plus
4) Doordarshan
5) ETV
26. Nelong Valley opened for tourists on 21 May 2015. It is in ........
1) Jharkhand
2) MP
3) Kerala
4) Uttarakhand
5) Gujarat
27. Valley of Flowers is a National Park located in West Himalaya, is in the state of .......
1) AP
2) Uttarakhand
3) Kerala
4) Tamilnadu
5) Haryana
28. The list of valleys in the world given. Locate the correct combination.
1) India - Damodar Valley
2) USA - Silicon Valley
3) Israel - Jordan Rift Valley
4) Pakistan - Swat Valley
5) All of above
29. ISIS captures Palmyra, the ancient city on 21 May 2015. It is in .......
1) Iraq
2) Afghanistan
3) Iran
4) Syria
5) None
30. ISIS stands for (terrorist organization)
1) Islamic State in Iran and Syria
2) Islamic State in Iraq and Somalia
3) Islamic Sovereignty in Iraq and Syria
4) Islamic State in Iraq and Syria
5) None of above
31. China has again termed the McMahon Line on the India - China boundary as illegal on 25 May 2015. With this, China has reaffirmed its claims on ........ which, it says, is a part of Southern Tibet.
1) Sikkim
2) Manipur
3) Arunachal Pradesh
4) Meghalaya
5) Assam
32. The Boundary Lines between nations given. Pick the wrong combination.
1) India and Pakistan - Radcliffe Line
2) Germany and Poland - Hindenburg Line
3) Germany and France - Maginot Line
4) Russia and Finland - Mannerheim Line
5) None
33. India and ........ signed a Joint Vision Statement on Defence Cooperation for the period 2015 - 20 recently.
1) USA
2) Japan
3) South Korea
4) Vietnam
5) Sweden
34. Who has been appointed as the new Chancellor of Nalanda University?
1) John Marshall
2) Meghnadh Desai
3) George Yeo
4) Goh Chok Tong
5) None of above
35. Arunachal Pradesh Governor is .......
1) Jyoti Prasad Rajkhowa
2) P.B. Acharya
3) Krishan Kant Paul
4) V. Shanmuganathan
5) Tathagata Roy
36. Who has been appointed as the new union Cabinet Secretary with effect from 13th June'15?
1) Nripendra Mishra
2) Ajit Seth
3) Pradeep Kumar Sinha
4) R.K. Mathur
5) L.C. Goyal
37. USA Secretary of state is ........
1) John Kerry
2) William Hague
3) Sergei Lavrov
4) Wang Yi
5) Hina Rabbani Khar
38. 'Nai Roshni' is the new scheme for ..........
1) Girl Child
2) Telling India is the destination for Manufacturing
3) BPL families to have no-frill accounts
4) Leadership scheme for Minority Women
5) People to participate in the online discussion of Twitter online account with government officials.
39. On 29 May 2015, NOFN proposed to increase the scope of the project that will entail three fold increase in cost to Rs.72,778 crore from about Rs.20,000 crore approved earlier. NOFN stands for...?
1) National Origin Fiber Network
2) National Original Fiber Network
3) Ninth Optical Fiber Network
4) National Optical FAB Network
5) National Optical Fiber Network
40. What is the theme of the Sixth Edition of National Conference on Nuclear Energy?
1) Save Earth, Protect Nuclear Energy
2) Nuclear Energy for Sustainable approach
3) Nuclear Energy: a clean energy option
4) Nuclear Energy: Future Perfect
5) None of these
ANSWERS:
1-2, 2-1, 3-5, 4-1, 5-5, 6-1, 7-3, 8-1, 9-4, 10-5,
11-1, 12-5, 13-1, 14-3, 15-1 16-3, 17-3, 18-2, 19-2, 20-1,
21-5, 22-3, 23-1, 24-5, 25-4, 26-4, 27-2, 28-5, 29-4, 30-4,
31-3, 32-5 33-4, 34-3, 35-1, 36-3, 37-1, 38-4, 39-5, 40-3
1) 2010
2) 2006
3) 2009
4) 2004
5) 2008
2. As per MSMED Act, if an enterprise engaged in the manufacture or production, processing or preservation of goods a micro enterprise is an enterprise where investment in plant and machinery does not exceed .......
1) Rs.25 lakh
2) Rs.12 lakh
3) Rs.5 lakh
4) Rs.15 lakh
5) Rs.1 lakh
3. On 29 April 2015, RBI set a target of ANBC (Adjusted Net Bank Credit) prescribed for Micro Enterprises, to be achieved in a phased manner i.e. 7 percent by
1) March 2019
2) March 2017
3) December 2016
4) April 2018
5) March 2016
4. A target of ANBC (Adjusted Net Bank Credit) has been prescribed for Micro Enterprises, to be achieved in a phased manner i.e. 7.5 percent by .......
1) March 2017
2) March 2018
3) Dec 2017
4) Jan 2019
5) None
5. The target of ANBC has been prescribed for Micro Enterprises, to be achieved in a phased manner i.e. 7 percent by March 2016 and 7.5 percent by March 2017 for domestic banks. What about this target for foreign banks where they have less than 20 branches in India?
1) The above targets to be achieved by March 2020.
2) The above targets to be achieved by March 2018.
3) The above targets to be achieved by March 2017.
4) The above targets to be achieved by March 2019.
5) No targets assigned for these banks.
6. A small enterprise is an enterprise where the investment in plant and machinery is more than Rs.25 lakh but does not exceed ....... If an enterprise engaged in the manufacture or production, processing or preservation of goods.
1) Rs.5 crore
2) Rs.3 crore
3) Rs.2 crore
4) Rs.15 crore
5) None
7. Medium enterprise is an enterprise where the investment in plant and machinery is more than Rs.5 crore but does not exceed.... If an enterprise engaged in the manufacture or production, processing or preservation of goods.
1) Rs.50 crore
2) Rs.5 crore
3) Rs.10 crore
4) Rs.100 crore
5) None
8. As per MSMED Act 2006, if an enterprise engaged in providing or rendering of services and whose investment in equipment, it is a micro enterprise is an enterprise where the investment in equipment does not exceed ........
1) Rs.10 lakh
2) Rs.25 lakh
3) Rs.100 lakh
4) Rs.70 lakh
5) Rs.50 lakh
9. Small enterprise is an enterprise where the investment in equipment (in rendering of services) is more than Rs.10 lakh but does not exceed ........
1) Rs.10 crore
2) Rs.5 crore
3) Rs.1 crore
4) Rs.2 crore
5) Rs.20 crore
10. The medium enterprise is an enterprise where the investment in equipment (in rendering of services) is more than Rs.2 crore but does not exceed .........
1) Rs.10 crore
2) Rs.8 crore
3) Rs.50 crore
4) Rs.3 crore
5) Rs.5 crore
11. All loans to units in the KVI sector will be eligible for classification under the sub-target of 7
percent / 7.5 percent prescribed for Micro Enterprises under priority sector. KVI stands for .......
1) Khadi and Village Industries Sector
2) Khaki and Village Industries Sector
3) Khadi and Vicinity Industries Sector
4) Khadi and Village Infrastructure Sector
5) None of above
12. The credit outstanding under general credit cards also come under the 'other finance to MSMEs'. Here the general credit cards include ..........
1) Artisan Credit Card
2) Laghu Udyami Card
3) Swarojgar Credit Card
4) Weaver's Card
5) All of above
13. Prime Minister's Task Force on MSMEs headed by whom prescribed few targets for banks for lending to the Micro and Small Enterprise (MSE) sector?
1) T.K.A. Nair
2) Lakdawala
3) Sundarama Ganesan
4) Pradhymna Kumar
5) None
14. Ministry of MSME, Government of India and ........ set up the Credit Guarantee Fund Trust for Micro and Small Enterprises with a view to facilitate flow of credit to the MSE sector without the need for collaterals / third party guarantees.
1) RBI
2) IDBI
3) SIDBI
4) NABARD
5) None
15. A viable / potentially viable unit may apply for a debt restructuring if it shows early stage of sickness. It is called .........
1) debt restructuring of advances
2) debt cancellation of advances
3) debt trapping
4) debt postponement
5) None
16. RBI set guidelines on OTS for MSEs for settlement of their NPAs. OTS means ........
1) Order Time Settlement Scheme
2) One Take Settlement Scheme
3) One Time Settlement Scheme
4) One Time Score Scheme
5) None
17. RSETIs set up to provide training for MSE (Micro and Small Entrepreneurs). RSETI means .......
1) Rural Self Empowerment Training Institutes
2) Rural School Employment Training Institutes
3) Rural Study Employment Training Institutes
4) Regular Self Employment Training Institutes
5) None
18. Banks also provide assistance to the MSE entrepreneurs through their FLC. FLC stands for ........
1) Front Literacy Centre
2) Financial Literacy Centre
3) First Literacy Centre
4) Fourth Literacy Centre
5) None
19. Government of India has enacted the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development (MSMED) Act, 2006. As per this act within a maximum of how many days, the buyers have to make the payments for the goods and services received by them from Micro, Small Enterprises?
1) 15 days
2) 30 days
3) 10 months
4) 2 weeks
5) 100 days
20. Union Cabinet on 30 May 2015 has given its approval for MOU between India and ...... on cooperation in the field of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises.
1) Sweden
2) Norway
3) Austria
4) Sri Lanka
5) USA
21. On 1 June 2015, which nation has unveiled the world's first facial recognition ATM?
1) USA
2) UK
3) Israel
4) India
5) China
22. Which bank on 29 May 2015 launched an Online Customer Acquisition Solution (OCAS)?
1) ICICI
2) IndusInd bank
3) SBI
4) Kotak Bank
5) HDFC
23. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has inaugurated New Bank Note Paper Line of 6000 MT capacity at ....... on 30 May 2015.
1) Hoshangabad, MP
2) Nashik, Maharashtra
3) Kochi, Kerala
4) Chennai, Tamilnadu
5) Shimla, HP
24. Your portfolio contains 85 percent stocks, 10 percent bonds, and 5 percent cash. Experts would agree that your portfolio is ...
1) Moderate
2) Simple
3) Soft
4) Zero
5) Aggressive
25. India’s first television channel Kisan Channel dedicated to farmers by PM on 27th May 2015. The channel belongs to .....
1) Zee
2) Sony
3) Star Plus
4) Doordarshan
5) ETV
26. Nelong Valley opened for tourists on 21 May 2015. It is in ........
1) Jharkhand
2) MP
3) Kerala
4) Uttarakhand
5) Gujarat
27. Valley of Flowers is a National Park located in West Himalaya, is in the state of .......
1) AP
2) Uttarakhand
3) Kerala
4) Tamilnadu
5) Haryana
28. The list of valleys in the world given. Locate the correct combination.
1) India - Damodar Valley
2) USA - Silicon Valley
3) Israel - Jordan Rift Valley
4) Pakistan - Swat Valley
5) All of above
29. ISIS captures Palmyra, the ancient city on 21 May 2015. It is in .......
1) Iraq
2) Afghanistan
3) Iran
4) Syria
5) None
30. ISIS stands for (terrorist organization)
1) Islamic State in Iran and Syria
2) Islamic State in Iraq and Somalia
3) Islamic Sovereignty in Iraq and Syria
4) Islamic State in Iraq and Syria
5) None of above
31. China has again termed the McMahon Line on the India - China boundary as illegal on 25 May 2015. With this, China has reaffirmed its claims on ........ which, it says, is a part of Southern Tibet.
1) Sikkim
2) Manipur
3) Arunachal Pradesh
4) Meghalaya
5) Assam
32. The Boundary Lines between nations given. Pick the wrong combination.
1) India and Pakistan - Radcliffe Line
2) Germany and Poland - Hindenburg Line
3) Germany and France - Maginot Line
4) Russia and Finland - Mannerheim Line
5) None
33. India and ........ signed a Joint Vision Statement on Defence Cooperation for the period 2015 - 20 recently.
1) USA
2) Japan
3) South Korea
4) Vietnam
5) Sweden
34. Who has been appointed as the new Chancellor of Nalanda University?
1) John Marshall
2) Meghnadh Desai
3) George Yeo
4) Goh Chok Tong
5) None of above
35. Arunachal Pradesh Governor is .......
1) Jyoti Prasad Rajkhowa
2) P.B. Acharya
3) Krishan Kant Paul
4) V. Shanmuganathan
5) Tathagata Roy
36. Who has been appointed as the new union Cabinet Secretary with effect from 13th June'15?
1) Nripendra Mishra
2) Ajit Seth
3) Pradeep Kumar Sinha
4) R.K. Mathur
5) L.C. Goyal
37. USA Secretary of state is ........
1) John Kerry
2) William Hague
3) Sergei Lavrov
4) Wang Yi
5) Hina Rabbani Khar
38. 'Nai Roshni' is the new scheme for ..........
1) Girl Child
2) Telling India is the destination for Manufacturing
3) BPL families to have no-frill accounts
4) Leadership scheme for Minority Women
5) People to participate in the online discussion of Twitter online account with government officials.
39. On 29 May 2015, NOFN proposed to increase the scope of the project that will entail three fold increase in cost to Rs.72,778 crore from about Rs.20,000 crore approved earlier. NOFN stands for...?
1) National Origin Fiber Network
2) National Original Fiber Network
3) Ninth Optical Fiber Network
4) National Optical FAB Network
5) National Optical Fiber Network
40. What is the theme of the Sixth Edition of National Conference on Nuclear Energy?
1) Save Earth, Protect Nuclear Energy
2) Nuclear Energy for Sustainable approach
3) Nuclear Energy: a clean energy option
4) Nuclear Energy: Future Perfect
5) None of these
ANSWERS:
1-2, 2-1, 3-5, 4-1, 5-5, 6-1, 7-3, 8-1, 9-4, 10-5,
11-1, 12-5, 13-1, 14-3, 15-1 16-3, 17-3, 18-2, 19-2, 20-1,
21-5, 22-3, 23-1, 24-5, 25-4, 26-4, 27-2, 28-5, 29-4, 30-4,
31-3, 32-5 33-4, 34-3, 35-1, 36-3, 37-1, 38-4, 39-5, 40-3
SBI PROBATIONARY OFFICERS EXAM GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE QUESTIONS
1. The Housing Loans also come under Priority Sector Lending (PSL). Why the housing also include in the Priority sector lending?
1) it boosts cement industry
2) it boosts electronics and electrical industry.
3) it provides employment to unorganized labour.
4) it is one of the basic needs of human being.
5) All of the above are the reasons to include housing loan under PSL
2. The housing loans consist of....
1) for the construction of a house.
2) repair (maintenance) and / or renewal of a house.
3) clearance of slums and rehabilitation of disaster-stricken masses to temporary refuge shelters
4) 1 & 2 only
5) All of above
3. On 23 April 2015, RBI revamps priority sector lending norms in the case of home loans. As per these norms loans of up to Rs.28 lakh to individuals in metropolitan centres willqualify as Priority Sector Lending, provided the overall cost of the dwelling unit is....
1) Rs.50 lakh
2) Rs.30 lakh
3) Rs.55 lakh
4) Rs.45 lakh
5) Rs.35 lakh
4. Employees' Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) and insurance firms will deploy ...... of their corpus towards home loans of up to Rs.25 lakh for low-cost housing.
1) 7%
2) 10%
3) 18%
4) 20%
5) 15%
5. India's largest mortgage lender is ...
1) SBI
2) Axis Bank
3) Corporation Bank
4) HDFC
5) ICICI
6. On 1 June 2015, 'Her Ghar Her Car' scheme launched by which bank, having an objective of reaching out to women in the country and empowering them to take decisions that can change the course of their family and society at large?
1) RBI
2) SBH
3) NHB
4) IDBI
5) SBI
7. HUDCO (Housing & Urban Development Corporation Limited) was established as a premier techno-financing company set up in 1970 by the Government of India to accelerate the pace of housing and urban development in the country. HUDCO has corporate office located at .....
1) Mumbai
2) Chennai
3) New Delhi
4) Calcutta
5) Hyderabad
8. Present Chairman of HUDCO is ....
1) Dr.M. Ravikanth
2) Mohammad Mustafa
3) M. S. Raghavan
4) Harsh Kumar Bhanwala
5) Kshatrapati Shivaji
9. EWS rural housing scheme for the land owning category Village abadi scheme including repairs offered by HUDCO. EWS stands for?
1) Educationally Weaker Sections
2) Economically Women Sections
3) Empowerment Weaker Sections
4) Entertainment Weaker Sections
5) Economically Weaker Sections
10. HUDCO has been striving to make 'Housing for All' a reality. It initiated RTO scheme to see that even a common man should have a house. What is the expansion of RTO?
1) Right To Own
2) Ring To Own
3) Rent To Own
4) Rough To Own
5) None of above
11. Union Minister for Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation and Parliamentary Affairs is .......
1) M. Venkaiah Naidu
2) Thaawar Chand Gehlot
3) Jual Oram
4) Chaudhary Birender Singh
5) Narendra Singh Toma
12. Loan given for undertaking repairs, renovations and / or up gradation is called .....
1) Home Damage Loan
2) Home Improvement Loan
3) Home Custody Loan
4) Home Consumption Loan
5) All of above
13. Important statements of Bridge Loan in Home Loan given. Pick the wrong statement.
1) Bridge Loan also available in Home Loans.
2) It is designed for people who wish to sell the existing home and purchase another.
3) It helps finance the new home, until a buyer is found for the old home.
4) It is not available in Metro cities.
5) None
14. Balance Transfer Loan is the familiar term used in Bank Loans. How it helps the home loan buyer?
1) It transfer the loan of one person to another person by making personal contract.
2) This loan helps to clear an existing home loan by availing a new loan from another lender.
3) It helps the borrower to transfer his loan to his neighbours.
4) It transfers the loan from one bank to RBI. The customer pays rate of interest to RBI.
5) None
15. National Housing Bank (NHB) was set up on 9th July .......
1) 2005
2) 1994
3) 1991
4) 1988
5) 2000
16. For tracking prices of residential properties in India, who launched the index by name 'RESIDEX'?
1) NHB
2) NABARD
3) RBI
4) Syndicate Bank
5) None
17. On 2 March 2015, RBI included which filed loans as part of Priority Sector Lending?
1) sanitation
2) health care
3) drinking water
4) renewable energy
5) All of above
18. On 25 February 2015, RBI said ....... given to account holders under Jan Dhan Yozana come under Priority sector holding.
1) zero balance facility
2) free online facility
3) free passbook facility
4) free SMS facility
5) overdraft facility
19. RBI on 5 March 2015 eased the norms for home loans for up to ........ by allowing banks to include stamp duty and registration charges to the cost of a unit?
1) Rs.15 lakh
2) Rs.5 lakh
3) Rs.10 lakh
4) Rs.20 lakh
5) None
20. Full form of NECS ........
1) National Electronic Clearing Service
2) National Electrical Clearing Service
3) National Electronic Close Service
4) Ninth Electronic Clearing Service
5) None
21. AEBAS stands for..?
1) Aadhaar Enabled Biometric Attendance System
2) Attendance Enabled Biometric Apply System
3) Aadhaar Enabled Biometric Accuracy System
4) Aadhaar End Biometric Attendance System
5) None
22. Pick the wrong abbreviation used in Banking and Financial Sectors.
1) ADR - American Donation Receipts
2) CCIL - Clearing Corporation of India Ltd
3) CRISIL - Credit Rating Information Services of India Ltd
4) CBLO - Collateralized Borrowing and Lending Obligation
5) CPI - Consumer Price Index
23. First state implemented ABPS [Aadhaar Based Payment System] in country on 30 May 2015?
1) Himachal Pradesh
2) Haryana
3) Jammu and Kashmir
4) Odisha
5) Bihar
24. On 28 May 2015, a Mega Food Park was inaugurated at Nalbari in .......
1) Meghalaya
2) Manipur
3) Arunachal Pradesh
4) AP
5) Assam
25. 4th North East Youth Festival has celebrated in ......
1) Manipur
2) Meghalaya
3) Arunachal Pradesh
4) Assam
5) Tripura
26. On 22 May 2015, which state issued an ordinance for formation of a Commission for Forward Communities?
1) AP
2) Telangana
3) MP
4) Delhi
5) Kerala
27. On 28 May 2015, who was appointed as DRDO chief?
1) Arup Raha
2) Ajith Doval
3) Dalbir Singh Suhag
4) R.K. Dhowan
5) S. Christopher
28. Who was appointed as the scientific advisor to defence minister on 28 May 2015?
1) Manohar Parikar
2) Rao Inderjit Singh
3) G. Sateesh Reddy
4) Ajith Doval
5) Pranab Mukharjee
29. 68th Session of the World Health Assembly (WHA) at ..... between 18-27 May 2015.
1) Geneva
2) Rome
3) New York
4) Canberra
5) London
30. Which nation assumed the presidency of the 68th World Health Assembly (WHA)?
1) Canada
2) Thailand
3) India
4) China
5) South Africa
31. Union Minister of Health & Family Welfare is ........
1) Jagat Prakash Nadda
2) Harshavardhan
3) Maneka Gandhi
4) Rajnath Singh
5) Arun Jaitley
32. Who is the chief security advisor to PM?
1) S.Rama dorai
2) C.N.R.Rao
3) Ajith Doval
4) Aravind Subramaniam
5) None
33. Alok Kumar and Jitendra Kumar are appointed as the two advisors of ......
1) Niti Aayog
2) FM
3) Ministry of Defence
4) RBI
5) CBDT
34. On 1 June 2015, the Government has proposed to soon open 1000 more stores under the 'Jan Aushadhi Scheme'. The aim of the scheme is .......
1) to provide water to agriculture land
2) to provide skill training to rural youth
3) to provide pension to workers in unorganized sector
4) to provide life insurance to all at the nominal premium
5) to make available quality generic medicines at affordable prices through these special outlets
35. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated the upgraded steel plant of IISCO (Indian Iron & Steel Company) that has the country’s largest blast furnace on 10 May 2015 at ........... in West Bengal?
1) Burnapur
2) Durgapur
3) Roorkela
4) Bhilai
5) Bokoro
36. National Green Tribunal (NGT) imposed a penalty of nearly Rs.140 crore on two builders constructing a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) on Bellandur wetlands. Where is the Bellandur wetlands?
1) Maharashtra
2) Kerala
3) Tripura
4) Karnataka
5) Tamil nadu
37. Lakes list given. Locate the wrong option.
1) Kolleru Lake - AP
2) Dal Lake - Haryana
3) Ulsoor or Halasuru - Karnataka
4) Ashtamudi Lake - Kerala
5) Sambhar Salt Lake - Rajasthan
38. In which Navy exercise, the two Indian naval ships, INS Satpura and INS Kamorta, have participated in the bilateral naval exercise with the Singapore Navy
1) GARUDA
2) INDRA
3) SURYA KIRAN
4) SIMBEX
5) MAITHRI
39. Union government on 15 May 2015 launched ....... . Award Scheme. The scheme is intended to encourage and incentivize Public Health Facilities (PHFs) in the country for maintaining the facilities clean and hygienic.
1) Kayakalp
2) Pravesthi
3) Shubratha
4) Manovikas
5) Parisuddh
40. On 31 May 2015, Deepika Kumari won bronze in Archery World Cup. The event held at Antalya in .......
1) USA
2) Saudi
3) India
4) Afghanistan
5) Turkey
ANSWERS:
1-5, 2-5, 3-5, 4-5, 5-4, 6-5, 7-3, 8-1, 9-5, 10-3
11-1, 12-2, 13-4, 14-2, 15-4, 16-1, 17-5, 18-5, 19-3, 20-1
21-1, 22-1, 23-1, 24-5, 25-4, 26-5, 27-5, 28-3, 29-1, 30-3
31-1, 32-3, 33-1, 34-5, 35-1, 36-4, 37-2, 38-4, 39-1, 40-5.
1) it boosts cement industry
2) it boosts electronics and electrical industry.
3) it provides employment to unorganized labour.
4) it is one of the basic needs of human being.
5) All of the above are the reasons to include housing loan under PSL
2. The housing loans consist of....
1) for the construction of a house.
2) repair (maintenance) and / or renewal of a house.
3) clearance of slums and rehabilitation of disaster-stricken masses to temporary refuge shelters
4) 1 & 2 only
5) All of above
3. On 23 April 2015, RBI revamps priority sector lending norms in the case of home loans. As per these norms loans of up to Rs.28 lakh to individuals in metropolitan centres willqualify as Priority Sector Lending, provided the overall cost of the dwelling unit is....
1) Rs.50 lakh
2) Rs.30 lakh
3) Rs.55 lakh
4) Rs.45 lakh
5) Rs.35 lakh
4. Employees' Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) and insurance firms will deploy ...... of their corpus towards home loans of up to Rs.25 lakh for low-cost housing.
1) 7%
2) 10%
3) 18%
4) 20%
5) 15%
5. India's largest mortgage lender is ...
1) SBI
2) Axis Bank
3) Corporation Bank
4) HDFC
5) ICICI
6. On 1 June 2015, 'Her Ghar Her Car' scheme launched by which bank, having an objective of reaching out to women in the country and empowering them to take decisions that can change the course of their family and society at large?
1) RBI
2) SBH
3) NHB
4) IDBI
5) SBI
7. HUDCO (Housing & Urban Development Corporation Limited) was established as a premier techno-financing company set up in 1970 by the Government of India to accelerate the pace of housing and urban development in the country. HUDCO has corporate office located at .....
1) Mumbai
2) Chennai
3) New Delhi
4) Calcutta
5) Hyderabad
8. Present Chairman of HUDCO is ....
1) Dr.M. Ravikanth
2) Mohammad Mustafa
3) M. S. Raghavan
4) Harsh Kumar Bhanwala
5) Kshatrapati Shivaji
9. EWS rural housing scheme for the land owning category Village abadi scheme including repairs offered by HUDCO. EWS stands for?
1) Educationally Weaker Sections
2) Economically Women Sections
3) Empowerment Weaker Sections
4) Entertainment Weaker Sections
5) Economically Weaker Sections
10. HUDCO has been striving to make 'Housing for All' a reality. It initiated RTO scheme to see that even a common man should have a house. What is the expansion of RTO?
1) Right To Own
2) Ring To Own
3) Rent To Own
4) Rough To Own
5) None of above
11. Union Minister for Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation and Parliamentary Affairs is .......
1) M. Venkaiah Naidu
2) Thaawar Chand Gehlot
3) Jual Oram
4) Chaudhary Birender Singh
5) Narendra Singh Toma
12. Loan given for undertaking repairs, renovations and / or up gradation is called .....
1) Home Damage Loan
2) Home Improvement Loan
3) Home Custody Loan
4) Home Consumption Loan
5) All of above
13. Important statements of Bridge Loan in Home Loan given. Pick the wrong statement.
1) Bridge Loan also available in Home Loans.
2) It is designed for people who wish to sell the existing home and purchase another.
3) It helps finance the new home, until a buyer is found for the old home.
4) It is not available in Metro cities.
5) None
14. Balance Transfer Loan is the familiar term used in Bank Loans. How it helps the home loan buyer?
1) It transfer the loan of one person to another person by making personal contract.
2) This loan helps to clear an existing home loan by availing a new loan from another lender.
3) It helps the borrower to transfer his loan to his neighbours.
4) It transfers the loan from one bank to RBI. The customer pays rate of interest to RBI.
5) None
15. National Housing Bank (NHB) was set up on 9th July .......
1) 2005
2) 1994
3) 1991
4) 1988
5) 2000
16. For tracking prices of residential properties in India, who launched the index by name 'RESIDEX'?
1) NHB
2) NABARD
3) RBI
4) Syndicate Bank
5) None
17. On 2 March 2015, RBI included which filed loans as part of Priority Sector Lending?
1) sanitation
2) health care
3) drinking water
4) renewable energy
5) All of above
18. On 25 February 2015, RBI said ....... given to account holders under Jan Dhan Yozana come under Priority sector holding.
1) zero balance facility
2) free online facility
3) free passbook facility
4) free SMS facility
5) overdraft facility
19. RBI on 5 March 2015 eased the norms for home loans for up to ........ by allowing banks to include stamp duty and registration charges to the cost of a unit?
1) Rs.15 lakh
2) Rs.5 lakh
3) Rs.10 lakh
4) Rs.20 lakh
5) None
20. Full form of NECS ........
1) National Electronic Clearing Service
2) National Electrical Clearing Service
3) National Electronic Close Service
4) Ninth Electronic Clearing Service
5) None
21. AEBAS stands for..?
1) Aadhaar Enabled Biometric Attendance System
2) Attendance Enabled Biometric Apply System
3) Aadhaar Enabled Biometric Accuracy System
4) Aadhaar End Biometric Attendance System
5) None
22. Pick the wrong abbreviation used in Banking and Financial Sectors.
1) ADR - American Donation Receipts
2) CCIL - Clearing Corporation of India Ltd
3) CRISIL - Credit Rating Information Services of India Ltd
4) CBLO - Collateralized Borrowing and Lending Obligation
5) CPI - Consumer Price Index
23. First state implemented ABPS [Aadhaar Based Payment System] in country on 30 May 2015?
1) Himachal Pradesh
2) Haryana
3) Jammu and Kashmir
4) Odisha
5) Bihar
24. On 28 May 2015, a Mega Food Park was inaugurated at Nalbari in .......
1) Meghalaya
2) Manipur
3) Arunachal Pradesh
4) AP
5) Assam
25. 4th North East Youth Festival has celebrated in ......
1) Manipur
2) Meghalaya
3) Arunachal Pradesh
4) Assam
5) Tripura
26. On 22 May 2015, which state issued an ordinance for formation of a Commission for Forward Communities?
1) AP
2) Telangana
3) MP
4) Delhi
5) Kerala
27. On 28 May 2015, who was appointed as DRDO chief?
1) Arup Raha
2) Ajith Doval
3) Dalbir Singh Suhag
4) R.K. Dhowan
5) S. Christopher
28. Who was appointed as the scientific advisor to defence minister on 28 May 2015?
1) Manohar Parikar
2) Rao Inderjit Singh
3) G. Sateesh Reddy
4) Ajith Doval
5) Pranab Mukharjee
29. 68th Session of the World Health Assembly (WHA) at ..... between 18-27 May 2015.
1) Geneva
2) Rome
3) New York
4) Canberra
5) London
30. Which nation assumed the presidency of the 68th World Health Assembly (WHA)?
1) Canada
2) Thailand
3) India
4) China
5) South Africa
31. Union Minister of Health & Family Welfare is ........
1) Jagat Prakash Nadda
2) Harshavardhan
3) Maneka Gandhi
4) Rajnath Singh
5) Arun Jaitley
32. Who is the chief security advisor to PM?
1) S.Rama dorai
2) C.N.R.Rao
3) Ajith Doval
4) Aravind Subramaniam
5) None
33. Alok Kumar and Jitendra Kumar are appointed as the two advisors of ......
1) Niti Aayog
2) FM
3) Ministry of Defence
4) RBI
5) CBDT
34. On 1 June 2015, the Government has proposed to soon open 1000 more stores under the 'Jan Aushadhi Scheme'. The aim of the scheme is .......
1) to provide water to agriculture land
2) to provide skill training to rural youth
3) to provide pension to workers in unorganized sector
4) to provide life insurance to all at the nominal premium
5) to make available quality generic medicines at affordable prices through these special outlets
35. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated the upgraded steel plant of IISCO (Indian Iron & Steel Company) that has the country’s largest blast furnace on 10 May 2015 at ........... in West Bengal?
1) Burnapur
2) Durgapur
3) Roorkela
4) Bhilai
5) Bokoro
36. National Green Tribunal (NGT) imposed a penalty of nearly Rs.140 crore on two builders constructing a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) on Bellandur wetlands. Where is the Bellandur wetlands?
1) Maharashtra
2) Kerala
3) Tripura
4) Karnataka
5) Tamil nadu
37. Lakes list given. Locate the wrong option.
1) Kolleru Lake - AP
2) Dal Lake - Haryana
3) Ulsoor or Halasuru - Karnataka
4) Ashtamudi Lake - Kerala
5) Sambhar Salt Lake - Rajasthan
38. In which Navy exercise, the two Indian naval ships, INS Satpura and INS Kamorta, have participated in the bilateral naval exercise with the Singapore Navy
1) GARUDA
2) INDRA
3) SURYA KIRAN
4) SIMBEX
5) MAITHRI
39. Union government on 15 May 2015 launched ....... . Award Scheme. The scheme is intended to encourage and incentivize Public Health Facilities (PHFs) in the country for maintaining the facilities clean and hygienic.
1) Kayakalp
2) Pravesthi
3) Shubratha
4) Manovikas
5) Parisuddh
40. On 31 May 2015, Deepika Kumari won bronze in Archery World Cup. The event held at Antalya in .......
1) USA
2) Saudi
3) India
4) Afghanistan
5) Turkey
ANSWERS:
1-5, 2-5, 3-5, 4-5, 5-4, 6-5, 7-3, 8-1, 9-5, 10-3
11-1, 12-2, 13-4, 14-2, 15-4, 16-1, 17-5, 18-5, 19-3, 20-1
21-1, 22-1, 23-1, 24-5, 25-4, 26-5, 27-5, 28-3, 29-1, 30-3
31-1, 32-3, 33-1, 34-5, 35-1, 36-4, 37-2, 38-4, 39-1, 40-5.
Tuesday, June 9, 2015
GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE QUESTIONS FOR SBI P.O. EXAM
1. World Environment Day (WED) was celebrated on June 5, 2015. The theme for this year’s WED is?
1) Seven Billion Dreams. One Planet. Consume with Care
2) Small Islands and Climate Change
3) Think.Eat.Save
4) Many Species. One Planet. One Future
5) None of these
2. The Reserve Bank of India cut the repo rate on June 2, 2015 by 25 basis points. What is the present
repo rate?
1) 6.25 per cent
2) 7.25 per cent
3) 8.25 per cent
4) 8.5 per cent
5) 6.5 per cent
3. Ameenah Gurib-Fakim is the first woman President of?
1) Liberia
2) Benin
3) Mauritius
4) Gabon
5) Namibia
4. Who took over as Scientific Advisor to the Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on June 4, 2015?
1) Bikash Bhattacharya
2) Tessy Thomas
3) M.P. Kaushik
4) G. Satheesh Reddy
5) Venkatnarayana Raju
5. Who won the prestigious DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2015?
1) Neel Mukherjee
2) Amitav Ghosh
3) Anita Desai
4) Kiran Desai
5) Jhumpa Lahiri
6. Which bank launched ‘Digital Village’ project while adopting an entire village, Akodara in Gujarat on January 2, 2015?
1) SBI
2) Axis Bank
3) HDFC Bank
4) ICICI Bank
5) None of these
7. Edgar Lungu assumed office as the President of which of the following countries on January 25,
2015?
1) Somalia
2) Mali
3) Zambia
4) Sudan
5) South Sudan
8. Who took over as the Chairman of African Union in January 2015?
1) Robert Mugabe
2) Jacob Zuma
3) Goodluck Jonathan
4) Yoweri Museveni
5) None of these
9. Which of the following programmes made its way into the Guinness World Records in January
2015?
1) Swachh Bharat
2) Jan Dhan Yojana
3) Make in India
4) Digital India
5) None of these
10. A.B. de Villiers of South Africa smashed the fastest century in one day internationals against
which of the following countries in January 2015?
1) Sri Lanka
2) India
3) Bangladesh
4) Zimbabwe
5) West Indies
11. With regard to credit card or debit card, the abbreviation CVV stands for?
1) Card Virtual Valuation
2) Core Virtual Value
3) Card Vulnerability Value
4) Card Verification Value
5) None of these
12. Which of the following is India’s first credit information company?
1) CIBIL
2) CRISIL
3) ICRA
4) CARE
5) None of these
13. Which of the following countries is not a member of OPEC?
1) Algeria
2) Libya
3) Venezuela
4) Ecuador
5) Syria
14. Klaus Iohannis took over as the President of which of the following countries on December 21,
2014?
1) Switzerland
2) Germany
3) Romania
4) Albania
5) Serbia
15. Who is the first woman Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA)?
1) Jyotsna Suri
2) M. Sathiyavathy
3) Anita Kapur
4) Nidhi Razdan
5) None of these
16. Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) commissioned 28 MW Nyaborongo Hydro Electric
Project in?
1) Zimbabwe
2) Kenya
3) Ethiopia
4) Rwanda
5) South Africa
17. Finance Industry Development Council (FIDC) is a self-regulatory organization for?
1) RRBs
2) Cooperative Banks
3) NBFCs
4) MFIs
5) Insurance companies
18. Identify the mismatched pair.
1) Hiroshima Day – August 6
2) Anti Tobacco day – May 31
3) Ozone day – September 16
4) Earth Day – March 21
5) AIDS Day – December 1
19. CP is an unsecured money market instrument issued in the form of a promissory note. In the abbreviation
CP, ‘P’ stands for?
1) Promissory
2) Paper
3) Portfolio
4) Position
5) Payment
20. Who is the author of the book ‘Born Again on the Mountain’?
1) Raha Moharrak
2) Bachendri Pal
3) Arunima Sinha
4) Prmlata Agarwal
5) None of these
21. Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic is the first female President of?
1) Croatia
2) Latvia
3) Lithuania
4) Estonia
5) Bulgaria
22. Modibo Keita was appointed as the Prime Minister of which of the following countries in January
2015?
1) Uganda
2) Mali
3) Togo
4) Nigeria
5) Ghana
23. Which country won the Hopman Cup tennis tournament in Perth, Australia in January 2015?
1) USA
2) France
3) Poland
4) Great Britain
5) Australia
24. Who among the following won Padma Bhushan this year?
1) N. Gopalaswami
2) Subhash Kashyap
3) Harish Salve
4) Both 1 and 2
5) 1, 2 and 3
25. Mark Knowles was declared the 2014 International Player of the Year by the International Hockey Federation. He plays for?
1) Netherlands
2) Germany
3) Australia
4) Spain
5) UK
26. Who won the Ballon d’Or World Footballer of the Year in January 2015 for the second year in a row?
1) Lionel Messi
2) Neuer
3) James Rodriguez
4) Cristiano Ronaldo
5) Miroslav Klose
27. Who was chosen for the Vikram Sarabhai memorial award in January 2015?
1) G. Satheesh Reddy
2) Avinash Chander
3) M.Y.S. Prasad
4) K. Radhakrishnan
5) None of these
28. Who became the first woman to lead the Inter-Services Guard of Honor which was inspected by US President Barack Obama at Rashtrapati Bhavan on January 25, 2015?
1) Anjali Gupta
2) Pooja Thakur
3) Shalini
4) Deepika Misra
5) Karishma Sethi
29. Legendary cartoonist R.K. Laxman passed away in January 2015. He was the creator of?
1) Uncle Anu
2) Chacha Chaudhari
3) Amul girl
4) Common Man
5) Mungeri Lal
30. B.G. Verghese died recently. He was a renowned?
1) Actor
2) Director
3) Scientist
4) Hockey player
5) Journalist
31. James Rodriguez won the FIFA goal of the year award in January 2015. He plays for?
1) Uruguay
2) Colombia
3) Argentina
4) Peru
5) Brazil
32. A.S. Kiran Kumar is the?
1) Director of CBI
2) Director General of DRDO
3) Director of IB
4) Chairman of ISRO
5) None of these
33. Who was sworn in as the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka in January 2015?
1) Maithripala Sirisena
2) Mahinda Rajapakse
3) Ranil Wickramasinghe
4) Sarath Fonseka
5) None of these
34. Beji Caid Essebsi is the current President of?
1) Algeria
2) Tunisia
3) Nigeria
4) Egypt
5) Morocco
35. Who won the Chennai Open men’s singles tennis title in Chennai in January 2015?
1) Aljaz Bedene
2) Jonathan Marray
3) Andy Murray
4) Leander Paes
5) Stanislas Wawrinka
36. Who among the following is not a Padma Vibhushan winner this year?
1) L.K. Advani
2) Dilip Kumar
3) M.R. Srinivasan
4) Veerendra Heggade
5) Rajat Sharma
37. With regard to WTO, what is the full form of TFA?
1) Trade Factoring Agreement
2) Trade Facilitation Agreement
3) Trade Fostering Agreement
4) Trade Featuring Agreement
5) None of these
38. Who won the London classic chess title in December 2014?
1) Michael Adams
2) Magnus Carlsen
3) Vladimir Kramnik
4) Viswanathan Anand
5) None of these
39. Olof Palme Human Rights Prize is given by which of the following countries?
1) Norway
2) Finland
3) Sweden
4) Iceland
5) Ireland
40. Shinzo Abe was reelected as the Prime Minister of which of the following countries in December 2014?
1) South Korea
2) North Korea
3) Philippines
4) Japan
5) Thailand
ANSWERS:
1) 1 2) 2 3) 3 4) 4 5) 5 6) 4 7) 3 8) 1 9) 2 10) 5
11) 4 12) 1 13) 5 14) 3 15) 2 16) 4 17) 3 18) 4 19) 2 20) 3
21) 1 22) 2 23) 3 24) 5 25) 3 26) 4 27) 3 28) 2 29) 4 30) 5
31) 2 32) 4 33) 3 34) 2 35) 5 36) 5 37) 2 38) 4 39) 3 40) 4
1) Seven Billion Dreams. One Planet. Consume with Care
2) Small Islands and Climate Change
3) Think.Eat.Save
4) Many Species. One Planet. One Future
5) None of these
2. The Reserve Bank of India cut the repo rate on June 2, 2015 by 25 basis points. What is the present
repo rate?
1) 6.25 per cent
2) 7.25 per cent
3) 8.25 per cent
4) 8.5 per cent
5) 6.5 per cent
3. Ameenah Gurib-Fakim is the first woman President of?
1) Liberia
2) Benin
3) Mauritius
4) Gabon
5) Namibia
4. Who took over as Scientific Advisor to the Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on June 4, 2015?
1) Bikash Bhattacharya
2) Tessy Thomas
3) M.P. Kaushik
4) G. Satheesh Reddy
5) Venkatnarayana Raju
5. Who won the prestigious DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2015?
1) Neel Mukherjee
2) Amitav Ghosh
3) Anita Desai
4) Kiran Desai
5) Jhumpa Lahiri
6. Which bank launched ‘Digital Village’ project while adopting an entire village, Akodara in Gujarat on January 2, 2015?
1) SBI
2) Axis Bank
3) HDFC Bank
4) ICICI Bank
5) None of these
7. Edgar Lungu assumed office as the President of which of the following countries on January 25,
2015?
1) Somalia
2) Mali
3) Zambia
4) Sudan
5) South Sudan
8. Who took over as the Chairman of African Union in January 2015?
1) Robert Mugabe
2) Jacob Zuma
3) Goodluck Jonathan
4) Yoweri Museveni
5) None of these
9. Which of the following programmes made its way into the Guinness World Records in January
2015?
1) Swachh Bharat
2) Jan Dhan Yojana
3) Make in India
4) Digital India
5) None of these
10. A.B. de Villiers of South Africa smashed the fastest century in one day internationals against
which of the following countries in January 2015?
1) Sri Lanka
2) India
3) Bangladesh
4) Zimbabwe
5) West Indies
11. With regard to credit card or debit card, the abbreviation CVV stands for?
1) Card Virtual Valuation
2) Core Virtual Value
3) Card Vulnerability Value
4) Card Verification Value
5) None of these
12. Which of the following is India’s first credit information company?
1) CIBIL
2) CRISIL
3) ICRA
4) CARE
5) None of these
13. Which of the following countries is not a member of OPEC?
1) Algeria
2) Libya
3) Venezuela
4) Ecuador
5) Syria
14. Klaus Iohannis took over as the President of which of the following countries on December 21,
2014?
1) Switzerland
2) Germany
3) Romania
4) Albania
5) Serbia
15. Who is the first woman Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA)?
1) Jyotsna Suri
2) M. Sathiyavathy
3) Anita Kapur
4) Nidhi Razdan
5) None of these
16. Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) commissioned 28 MW Nyaborongo Hydro Electric
Project in?
1) Zimbabwe
2) Kenya
3) Ethiopia
4) Rwanda
5) South Africa
17. Finance Industry Development Council (FIDC) is a self-regulatory organization for?
1) RRBs
2) Cooperative Banks
3) NBFCs
4) MFIs
5) Insurance companies
18. Identify the mismatched pair.
1) Hiroshima Day – August 6
2) Anti Tobacco day – May 31
3) Ozone day – September 16
4) Earth Day – March 21
5) AIDS Day – December 1
19. CP is an unsecured money market instrument issued in the form of a promissory note. In the abbreviation
CP, ‘P’ stands for?
1) Promissory
2) Paper
3) Portfolio
4) Position
5) Payment
20. Who is the author of the book ‘Born Again on the Mountain’?
1) Raha Moharrak
2) Bachendri Pal
3) Arunima Sinha
4) Prmlata Agarwal
5) None of these
21. Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic is the first female President of?
1) Croatia
2) Latvia
3) Lithuania
4) Estonia
5) Bulgaria
22. Modibo Keita was appointed as the Prime Minister of which of the following countries in January
2015?
1) Uganda
2) Mali
3) Togo
4) Nigeria
5) Ghana
23. Which country won the Hopman Cup tennis tournament in Perth, Australia in January 2015?
1) USA
2) France
3) Poland
4) Great Britain
5) Australia
24. Who among the following won Padma Bhushan this year?
1) N. Gopalaswami
2) Subhash Kashyap
3) Harish Salve
4) Both 1 and 2
5) 1, 2 and 3
25. Mark Knowles was declared the 2014 International Player of the Year by the International Hockey Federation. He plays for?
1) Netherlands
2) Germany
3) Australia
4) Spain
5) UK
26. Who won the Ballon d’Or World Footballer of the Year in January 2015 for the second year in a row?
1) Lionel Messi
2) Neuer
3) James Rodriguez
4) Cristiano Ronaldo
5) Miroslav Klose
27. Who was chosen for the Vikram Sarabhai memorial award in January 2015?
1) G. Satheesh Reddy
2) Avinash Chander
3) M.Y.S. Prasad
4) K. Radhakrishnan
5) None of these
28. Who became the first woman to lead the Inter-Services Guard of Honor which was inspected by US President Barack Obama at Rashtrapati Bhavan on January 25, 2015?
1) Anjali Gupta
2) Pooja Thakur
3) Shalini
4) Deepika Misra
5) Karishma Sethi
29. Legendary cartoonist R.K. Laxman passed away in January 2015. He was the creator of?
1) Uncle Anu
2) Chacha Chaudhari
3) Amul girl
4) Common Man
5) Mungeri Lal
30. B.G. Verghese died recently. He was a renowned?
1) Actor
2) Director
3) Scientist
4) Hockey player
5) Journalist
31. James Rodriguez won the FIFA goal of the year award in January 2015. He plays for?
1) Uruguay
2) Colombia
3) Argentina
4) Peru
5) Brazil
32. A.S. Kiran Kumar is the?
1) Director of CBI
2) Director General of DRDO
3) Director of IB
4) Chairman of ISRO
5) None of these
33. Who was sworn in as the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka in January 2015?
1) Maithripala Sirisena
2) Mahinda Rajapakse
3) Ranil Wickramasinghe
4) Sarath Fonseka
5) None of these
34. Beji Caid Essebsi is the current President of?
1) Algeria
2) Tunisia
3) Nigeria
4) Egypt
5) Morocco
35. Who won the Chennai Open men’s singles tennis title in Chennai in January 2015?
1) Aljaz Bedene
2) Jonathan Marray
3) Andy Murray
4) Leander Paes
5) Stanislas Wawrinka
36. Who among the following is not a Padma Vibhushan winner this year?
1) L.K. Advani
2) Dilip Kumar
3) M.R. Srinivasan
4) Veerendra Heggade
5) Rajat Sharma
37. With regard to WTO, what is the full form of TFA?
1) Trade Factoring Agreement
2) Trade Facilitation Agreement
3) Trade Fostering Agreement
4) Trade Featuring Agreement
5) None of these
38. Who won the London classic chess title in December 2014?
1) Michael Adams
2) Magnus Carlsen
3) Vladimir Kramnik
4) Viswanathan Anand
5) None of these
39. Olof Palme Human Rights Prize is given by which of the following countries?
1) Norway
2) Finland
3) Sweden
4) Iceland
5) Ireland
40. Shinzo Abe was reelected as the Prime Minister of which of the following countries in December 2014?
1) South Korea
2) North Korea
3) Philippines
4) Japan
5) Thailand
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