GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE QUESTIONS FOR SBI P.O & SBI ASSISTANTS EXAM

1. On 3 June 2014, RBI announced its second bi-monthly monetary policy review, in which SLR reduced by?
1) 25 basis points
2) 100 basis points
3) 75 basis points
4) 125 basis points
5) 50 basis points

2. New SLR 22.5% effective from ......
1) 1 July, 2014
2) 1 August, 2014
3) 1 April, 2015
4) 14 June, 2014
5) None

3. On 3 June 2014, RBI decided to continue to provide liquidity under 7-day and 14-day term repos of up to ........ percent of NDTL (Net Demand and Time Liabilities) of the banking system?
1) 1.5
2) 2.0
3) 2.5
4) 1.75
5) 0.75

4. RBI reduced the liquidity provided under the Export Credit Refinance (ECR) facility from 50 percent of eligible Export Credit Outstanding to ......
1) 10%
2)18%
3) 32%
4) 22%
5) 12 %

5. RBI moved away from the sector-finance refinance on the recommendations of ....
1) K.C. Chakravarthy Committee
2) H.R. Khan Committee
3) Urjit Patel Committee
4) Anand Singh Committee
5) None of above

6. The RBI decided to enhance the eligible limit for foreign exchange remittances under the Liberalised Remittance Scheme (LRS) to ...... from the earlier $75,000.
1) $80,000
2) $95,000
3) $1,50,000
4) $2,00,000
5) $1,25,000

7. CPI (Consumer Price Index) inflation, which accelerated to 8.59% in April 2014, targeted down to ....... by January 2015 as per the statement of Raghuram Rajan?
1) 7.5%
2) 6.5%
3) 8.0%
4) 7.0%
5) None

8. RBI’s estimated the GDP expansion coming in at ...... percent for the FY 2014-15?
1) 6
2) 6.5
3) 5.5
4) 8.0
5) None

9. RBI allowed banks to provide loans with tenures of up to .... years to exporters to help them ensure capital flows to fulfil long-term contract on 21 May, 2014?
1) 20
2) 25
3) 10
4) 18
5) None

10. On 22 May 2014, Agence Francaise de Developpement (AFD) extended Line Of Credit (LOC) of ...... million euro to Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Ltd. (IREDA)?
1) 150
2) 200
3) 500
4) 125
5) 100

11. On 29 May 2014, India was granted $1006.20 million for Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan III, the largest ongoing education for all programme in the world by?
1) IDA
2) ADB
3) ODA
4) IMF
5) World Bank

12. Hiroshi Naka was appointed as the Vice President and Auditor General of .......
1) IDA
2) IMF
3) World bank
4) AFD
5) None

13. Which bank name included in second schedule of RBI Act, 1934 on 21 May 2014?
1) Bank of Baroda
2) NABARD
3) Bharathiya Mahila Bank
4) CITI Bank
5) ABN AMRO

14. Minors above ....... years of age can open and operate savings bank account independently as declared by RBI on 7 May 2014?
1) 7
2) 8
3) 10
4 ) 5
5) 3

15. First state Co-operative Bank to have its own ‘Ru-Pay’ ATM cum Debit Card is?
1) Himachal Pradesh
2) Bihar
3) Tamilnadu
4) Rajasthan
5) None

16. The delivery channel for the banking sector in India is ........
1) Call centre
2) Branch
3) Internet
4) Kiosk
5) All of above

17. In the context of banking sector, DRT is associated with ......
1) Recurring Deposits
2) Demand and time liabilities of banks
3) Deposit insurance
4) Loan recovery
5) FDI in banks

18. Debt security issued by companies, having a certain maturity and bearing a stated Coupon Rate is called?
1) Wallet
2) Share
3) Pledge
4) Debenture
5) Lien

19. Which of the following banks manage the general banking and debt account of Telangana state born on 2 June 2014?
1) SBI
2) SIDBI
3) RBI
4) BOB
5) Andhra Bank

20. As a part of Narendra Modi swearing ceremony, SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) Nations leaders attended. Pick the wrong combination?
1) Afghanistan President- Thein Sein.
2) Speaker of Bangladesh Parliament- Dr. Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury.
3) Prime Minister of Pakistan - Nawaz Sharif
4) Prime Minister of Nepal- Sushil Koirala.
5) Prime Minister of Mauritius-
Navinchandra Ramgoolam.

21. To unearth black money, Narendra Modi govt constituted a Special Investigative Team (SIT) on 28 may 2014. Find the correct statement regarding SIT?
1) It will be headed by retired Supreme Court judge Justice MB Shah.
2) Former Supreme Court judge Arijit Pasayat will be the vice-chairman of the panel.
3) Revenue Secretary, CBI and IB directors, Enforcement Directorate official, CBDT Chairman and RBI deputy governor are the panel members.
4) It has the responsibility and duties of investigation, initiation of proceedings and prosecution in cases involving unaccounted money.
5) All of above

22. Operation Green Hunt is associated with?
1) Supply of water to fields in India, not to dry up.
2) Displacing tribal population from national mineral reserves.
3) Sending green corps to the forests to save Green.
4) Appointing Green Police.
5) Counter-insurgency operations against the Maoists.

23. UNCTAD means?
1) United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
2) Union Nations Conference on Trade and Development
3) United Nations Concurrence on Trade and Development
4) United Nodal Conference on Trade and
Development.
5) None

24. Pawan Kumar Chamling has been sworn in as the Chief Minister of ....... on 21 May 2014?
1) Sikkim
2) Meghalaya
3) Tripura
4) Odisha
5) Arunachal Pradesh

25. Who sworn-in as first woman Chief Minister of Gujarat on 22 May 2014?
1) Kamal Beniwal
2) Shushma Swaraj
3) Anandiben Patel
4) Behi Bai patel
5) None

26. A giant torch was unveiled on 17 April 2014 in the honour of which Indian spiritual leader?
1) Chinmoy Kumar Ghose
2) Dalailama
3) Kanchi Sankaracharya
4) OSHO
5) Pandit Ravishankar

27. National Green Tribunal (NGT) on 29 April 2014 prohibited dumping of sewage and waste materials at?
1) Dump Yards
2) Remote uninhabited areas
3) Closed earthen pockets
4) Wet lands
5) None

28. ........ became the first Indian to receive the prestigious Harvard Medal on 29 May 2014?
1) RatanTata
2) Anand G Mahindra
3) Narayan Murthy
4) Raghuveeran
5) None

29. On 29 May 2014, which medal was awarded to the eight Indian soldiers, who lost their lives in peacekeeping operations in 2013?
1) U-Thant
2) UNKF
3) Nobel Peace
4) Templeton
5) Dag Hammarskjold medal

30. Books of Arundhati Roy given. Pick the wrong one?
1) Listening to Grasshoppers
2) Swamy and His Friends
3) The Shape of the Beast
4) The God of Small Things
5) The Algebra of Infinite Justice

31. 'A Bend in the River' written by ......
1) V.S. Naipal
2) Chetan Bhagath
3) Amit Chaudhari
4) Vikram Seth
5) None

32. National Girl Child Day celebrated on?
1) August 14
2) June 25
3) November 25
4) January 24
5) July 3

33. World Consumer Rights Day is celebrated on .......
1) November 30
2) April 15
3) March 15
4) January 25
5) August 25

34. International Labour Day celebrated on?
1) February 2
2) November 1
3) December 1
4) May 1
5) July 1

35. Central Statistical Organisation (CSO) released Provisional and Quarterly Estimate of National Income for the financial year 2013-14. Locate the wrong option?
1) Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate records at 4.7 percent in 2013-14.
2) GDP grows at 4.7% for 2013-14 against 4.5% in 2012-13.
3) Per capita net national income in real terms during 2013-14 is estimated at Rs.49904 as compared to Rs.38856 in 2012-13.
4) GDP growth rate in quarter 4 of the financial year 2013-14 is estimated to be 4.6%.
5) Growth rate in per capita income is estimated at 2.7 percent during 2013-14 as against 2.1 percent during 2012-13.

36. On 2 June 2014, Indian Air Force and which Air Force commenced the bilateral exercise Garuda V at Jodhpur Air Base?
1) German
2) Italian
3) Pakistan
4) US
5) French

37. Solar Impulse 2 made its inaugural flight on 2 May 2014 from Payerne Airfield in?
1) Italy
2) India
3) USA
4) Switzerland
5) Japan

38. Which two nations exercised their veto power against a draft resolution intended to refer the Syrian civil war to the International Criminal Court (ICC) on 22 May 2014?
1) China and France
2) Russia and USA
3) China and Russia
4) UK and USA
5) USA and China

39. Srichand and Gopichand Hinduja became the top billionaires in ...... as per the data released on 11 May 2014?
1) USA
2) France
3) Italy
4) UK
5) Switzerland

40. Top two world’s most expensive economies as per the data released by the World Bank is?
1) India and Pakistan
2) USA and UK
3) China and Switzerland
4) Switzerland and France
5) Switzerland and Norway

41. RBI has sold SDR to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for interim payment to the government to reduce the fiscal deficit in the current financial year on 7 March 2014. SDR stands for ......
1) Share Drawing Rights
2) Sovereign Drawing Rights
3) Special Drawing Rights
4) Structural Drawing Rights
5) None

42. Lewis Clarke is the youngest person set a record to trek to the South Pole. He belongs to?
1) USA
2) UK
3) India
4) Japan
5) New Zealand

43. Which nation got One-Billion Euro assistance package from European Union on 14th April 2014?
1) Russia
2) Afghanistan
3) Ukraine
4) Australia
5) Syria

44. Ukraine currency is?
1) Hryvnia
2) Ruble
3) Dinar
4) Peso
5) Rupee

45. To which neighbor nation India declared the Line Of Credit (LOC) of $1 billion on 13 March 2014 for infra development?
1) Nepal
2) Bhutan
3) Pakistan
4) Afghanistan
5) Bangladesh

ANSWERS:
1-5, 2-4, 3-5, 4-3, 5-3, 6-5, 7-3, 8-3, 9-3, 10-5
11-5, 12-3, 13-3, 14-3, 15-1, 16-5, 17-4, 18-4, 19-3, 20-1
21-5, 22-5, 23-1, 24-1, 25-3, 26-1, 27-4, 28-2, 29-5, 30-2
31-1, 32-4, 33-3, 34-4, 35-3, 36-5, 37-4, 38-3, 39-4, 40-5
41-3, 42-2, 43-3, 44-1, 45-5.

GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE QUESTIONS FOR SBI P.O & SBI ASSISTANTS EXAM 2014

1. Who will take over from S.D. Shibulal as the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Infosys on August 1, 2014?
1) U.B. Pravin Rao
2) K.V. Kamath
3) Srinath Batni
4) Vishal Sikka
5) Rohan Murthy

2. Petro Poroshenko became the President of which of the following countries on June 7, 2014?
1) Belarus
2) Ukraine
3) Georgia
4) Latvia
5) Czech Republic

3. FIFA World Cup was started on June 12, 2014. Which two teams played the first match in Sao Paulo, Brazil?
1) Brazil, Mexico
2) Brazil, Cameroon
3) Brazil, Croatia
4) Spain, Netherlands
5) Spain, Chile

4. Who was appointed as the Solicitor General of India on June 7, 2014?
1) Maninder Singh
2) Tushar Mehta
3) L. Nageshwar Rao
4) Ranjit Kumar
5) P.S. Narasimha

5. Which city will host the world chess championship from November 7 to 28, 2014?
1) Oslo, Norway
2) Madrid, Spain
3) Sofia, Bulgaria
4) Helsinki, Finland
5) Sochi, Russia

6. Reuven Rivlin was elected as the President of which of the following countries on June 10, 2014?
1) Hungary
2) Iceland
3) Israel
4) Italy
5) Macedonia

7. Identify the mismatched pair?
1) Bank rate - 8%
2) Repo rate - 8%
3) Reverse repo rate -7 %
4) Cash reserve ratio - 4%
5) Statutory LiquidityRatio-22.5%

8. Identify the mismatched pair?
Cabinet Minister       -      Portfolio
1) Sadananda Gowda: Railways
2) Harsh Vardhan: Health and Family Welfare
3) Nitin Gadkari: Road Transport and Highways
4) Ananth Kumar: Chemicals and Fertilizers
5) Radha Mohan Singh: Food Processing Industries

9. N.R. Narayana Murthy stepped down as Executive Chairman of which of the following companies on June 14, 2014?
1) TCS
2) Cognizant
3) Infosys
4) Wipro
5) None of these

10. Which country's parliament passed a bill allowing euthanasia for terminally ill children without any age limit in February 2014?
1) Portugal
2) UK
3) Belgium
4) Denmark
5) Netherlands

11. Taishan Station was opened on February 8, 2014. It is the fourth Antarctic research station of?
1) South Korea
2) Japan
3) China
4) Russia
5) North Korea

12. Which of the following is not the name of a station in Antarctica?
1) Dakshin Gangotri
2) Maitri
3) Bharti
4) Great Wall
5) Prithvi

13. Who became the first Indian squash player to win the IMET Open in Bratislava, Slovakia in December 2013?
1) Ravi Dixit
2) Mahesh Mangaonkar
3) Harinder Pal Sandhu
4) Ramit Tandon
5) None of these

14. Which of the following Indian airlines tied up with Tigerair to increase connectivity between flights operated by both carriers?
1) GoAir
2) IndiGo
3) Jetkonnect
4) Kingfisher
5) SpiceJet

15. Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed is thePrime Minister of?
1) Sudan
2) South Sudan
3) Somalia
4) Egypt
5) Ethiopia

16. The 27th South East Asian Games were held in December 2013 in?
1) Vietnam
2) Philippines
3) Thailand
4) Myanmar
5) Indonesia

17. The South East Asian Games is a biennial multi sporting event involving participants from the countries of South East Asia. Which country will host the 2015 South East Asian Games?
1) Singapore
2) Cambodia
3) Malaysia
4) Philippines
5) Brunei

18. India's first supersonic jet fighter was decommissioned after 50 years of service in December 2013. What is its name?
1) Boeing P-12
2) MIG-21 FL
3) Tejas
4) Hawker Hunter
5) IAR-15

19. The cabinet approved a free trade agreement (FTA) in trade and services with which of the following organizations in December 2013?
1) SAARC
2) APEC
3) ASEAN
4) SCO
5) BRICS

20. Which of the following has launched the world's most powerful star-surveying satellite Gaia into space from Kourou in French Guiana?
1) Mexican Space Agency
2) Iranian Space Agency
3) Israeli Space Agency
4) European Space Agency
5) South African National Space Agency

21. Tigerair is a low-cost airline headquartered in?
1) Singapore
2) Kuala Lumpur
3) Jakarta
4) Riyadh
5) Manama

22. European Space Agency is an inter governmental organization of 20 member States. It is headquartered in?
1) London
2) Paris
3) Lisbon
4) Madrid
5) Berlin

23. The Centre has ruled out imposition of the Inner-Line Permit (ILP) system in which of the following States in December 2013?
1) Meghalaya
2) Assam
3) Tripura
4) Manipur
5) West Bengal

24. Inner Line Permit (ILP) is an official travel document issued by an empowered State government to allow inward travel of an Indian citizen into a protected or restricted area for a limited period. Currently ILP is in force in?
1) Arunachal Pradesh
2) Nagaland
3) Mizoram
4) Both 1 and 2
5) All 1, 2 and 3

25. The government has approved a proposal to increase foreign holding in which of the following banks to 62 percent from the current 49 percent?
1) ICICI Bank
2) Axis Bank
3) HDFC Bank
4) Yes Bank
5) IndusInd Bank

26. A committee, set up by the SEBI for reviewing insider trading norms, has submitted its report. The committee was headed by?
1) N.K. Sodhi
2) Nirmal Jain
3) Motilal Oswal
4) Milind Barve
5) None of these

27. Noted writer and journalist Khushwant Singh passed away on March 20, 2014. Which one of the following books was not written by him?
1) Train to Pakistan
2) Truth, Love and a Little Malice
3) A History of the Sikhs
4) Delhi: a Novel
5) The Mountain of Light

28. The Asian Development Bank will provide $350 million loan for improving power transmission and distribution system in?
1) Bihar
2) Jharkhand
3) Chhattisgarh
4) M.P
5) None of these

29. The Reserve Bank of India has advised banks to treat a credit card account as a non performing asset if the customer fails to pay the minimum due amount within?
1) 30 days
2) 60 days
3) 90 days
4) 100 days
5) None of these

30. Which of the following would set up a Central Repository of Information on Large Credits (CRILC) to collect, store and disseminate credit data to lenders?
1) NHB
2) CRISIL
3) RBI
4) CARE
5) SEBI

31. According to the Motilal Oswal annual wealth creation study, which Indian company is the biggest wealth creator during the 2008-2013 period?
1) Tata Consultancy Services
2) ITC
3) HDFC Bank
4) Infosys
5) ICICI Bank

32. JIMEX is a bilateral maritime exercise between India and?
1) Germany
2) Jamaica
3) Jordan
4) Japan
5) None of these

33. Who became the Chief Executive of India unit of the world's largest retailer Wal-Mart in January 2014?
1) Ajay Nihalani
2) B.S. Nagesh
3) Krish Iyer
4) Aditya Nadkarni
5) None of these

34. M.V. Tanksale is the Chief Executive of the Indian Banks' Association. He is the former CMD of?
1) Bank of India
2) Union Bank of India
3) Indian Bank
4) Indian Overseas Bank
5) Central Bank of India

35. Which of the following is a step towards enhancing customer convenience through Anywhere Banking?
1) RTGS
2) NEFT
3) DICGC
4) CBS
5) BPLR

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

GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE QUESTIONS FOR SBI P.O & SBI ASSISTANTS EXAM

1. Which city hosted the 40th G7 Summit on June 4-5, 2014?
1) Brussels (Belgium)
2) Warsaw (Poland)
3) London (UK)
4) Paris (France)
5) Rome (Italy)

2. Which country will become the 19th member of Euro zone on January 1, 2015?
1) Denmark
2) Lithuania
3) Sweden
4) Norway
5) Czech Republic

3. The Madhya Pradesh government has appointed which of the following actors as the brand ambassador for its Mamta Abhiyaan (maternal and child health) campaign?
1) Vidya Balan
2) Sridevi
3) Madhuri Dixit
4) Priyanka Chopra
5) Hema Malini

4. World Environment Day is celebrated every year on June 5. What is the official slogan for the year 2014?
1) Think. Eat. Save
2) Melting Ice-a Hot Topic?
3) Raise Your Voice Not The Sea Level
4) Don't Desert Drylands
5) None of these

5. The United Nations Organization (UNO) declared 2014 as the International Year of?
1) Small Island Developing States
2) Sustainable Energy for All
3) Chemistry
4) Forests
5) Natural Fibers

6. Who won the French Open women's singles tennis title on June 7, 2014?
1) Simona Halep (Romania)
2) Andrea Petkovic (Germany)
3) Sara Errani (Italy)
4) Maria Sharapova (Russia)
5) Li Na (China)

7. Which country hosted the fourth edition of the FIFA Under-17 women's world cup football from March 15 to April 4, 2014?
1) Peru
2) Ghana
3) Costa Rica
4) Macedonia
5) Uzbekistan

8. Which one of the following countries is not a part of BCIM corridor?
1) India
2) China
3) Bangladesh
4) Myanmar
5) Bhutan

9. The Secretary General of the Arab League visited India in December 2013. Name him?
1) Samir Nasibi
2) Amr Moussa
3) Essam Sharaf
4) Nabil Elaraby
5) Mohamed Orabi

10. The government has approved Rs 2,035 crore for setting up the National Cancer Institute in Jhajjar in?
1) Punjab
2) Haryana
3) Himachal Pradesh
4) Jharkhand
5) Rajasthan

11. The Judicial Appointments Commission
(JAC) recommends the?
1) Appointment of judges to the
Supreme Court
2) Appointment of judges to the High Courts
3) Transfer of judges of one High Court to another
4) Both 1 and 2
5) All 1, 2 and 3

12. Which of the following States does not have a Legislative Council?
1) Karnataka
2) Maharashtra
3) Jammu and Kashmir
4) Bihar
5) Gujarat

13. India's first Styrene Butadiene Rubber (SBR) plant is in which of the following states?
1) Punjab
2) Haryana
3) Himachal Pradesh
4) Bihar
5) Rajasthan

14. Which state assembly recently passed the anti superstition bill?
1) Tamil Nadu
2) Kerala
3) Maharashtra
4) Karnataka
5) Goa

15. Who among the following designed AK-47 assault rifle?
1) Andrei Sakharov
2) Mikhail Kalashnikov
3) Zhou Yuelong
4) Michiaki Takahashi
5) None of these

16. Which country will host the 2015 FIFA Under-17 world cup football?
1) Chile
2) Russia
3) Tunisia
4) UAE
5) Nigeria

17. Which is the first country to legalize the growing, sale and smoking of marijuana?
1) Colombia
2) Cuba
3) Uruguay
4) USA
5) Mexico

18. Which country began its twoyear term as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on January 1, 2014 after taking the Security Council seat that was rejected by Saudi Arabia?
1) Syria
2) Yemen
3) Qatar
4) Jordan
5) UAE

19. Who has taken over as India's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom in December 2013?
1) Nirupama Rao
2) Sujatha Singh
3) TCA Raghavan
4) Shivshankar Menon
5) Ranjan Mathai

20. LeBron James of USA was chosen as the Associated Press's 2013 male athlete of the year. He is a renowned player in which of the following sports?
1) Swimming
 2) Golf
3) Basketball
4) Baseball
5) Cycling

21. Javed Akhtar won the Sahitya Akademi Award for which of the following books?
1) Lava
2) Miljul Man
3) Nirvaan
4) Korkai
5) None of these

22. Which cricketer was given the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy in December 2013?
1) Cheteshwar Pujara
2) Mahendra Singh Dhoni
3) Hashim Amla
4) Michael Clarke
5) Kumar Sangakkara

23. Which of the following was formerly known as Admiral Gorshkov?
1) INS Chakra
2) INS Vikramaditya
3) INS Arihant
4) INS Vikrant
5) None of these

24. India has developed a tactical surface to surface missile with a range between 60 and 170 km and will offer it to friendly countries. It is called?
1) Nag
2) BrahMos
3) Pragati
4) Dhruv
5) Tejas

25. The world's first green helicopter which is noiseless and emissionfree was tested in which of the following countries?
1) Italy
2) China
3) UK
4) Germany
5) India

26. Jason Day of Australia is associated with which of the following sports?
1) Chess
2) Hockey
3) Tennis
4) Motor Racing
5) Golf

27. 'The Village' (a novel) is written by?
1) R.K. Narayan
2) Mulk Raj Anand
3) Anita Desai
4) Kiran Desai
5) Kamla Das

28. Identify the mismatched pair?
1) BSF - D.K. Pathak
2) CISF - Arvind Ranjan
3) NSG - J.N. Chaudhary
4) ITBP - Subhash Goswamy
5) CRPF - Pradeep Kumar

29. Who among the following is a fifth time Chief Minister?
1) Shivraj Singh Chouhan
2) Raman Singh
3) Vasundhara Raje
4) Lal Thanhawla
5) None of these

30. Xavier Bettel has been the Prime Minister of which of the following European countries since December 4, 2013?
1) Spain
2) Portugal
3) Luxemburg
4) Ireland
5) Iceland

31. India defeated which of the following countries to win the men's world cup Kabaddi in December 2013?
1) USA
2) England
3) Denmark
4) New Zealand
5) Pakistan

32. UK-based retailer Tesco has presence in India through a joint venture with which of the following groups?
1) Aditya Birla
2) Reliance
3) Bharti
4) Munjal
5) None of these

33. Which of the following are not insured by the Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC)?
1) Indian commercial banks
2) Local area banks
3) Regional rural banks
4) Foreign banks functioning in India
5) Primary cooperative societies

34. Which of the following deposits are not insured by the DICGC?
1) Savings deposits
2) Fixed deposits
3) Recurring deposits
4) Current deposits
5) Foreign governments deposits

35. What is the maximum deposit amount insured by the DICGC?
1) Rs 50,000
2) Rs 1,00,000
3) Rs 2,00,000
4) Rs 5,00,000
5) No such limit

36. Dhanush missile was test-firedon November 23, 2013 from a naval ship off Odisha coast. Dhanush is a naval variant of?
1) Prithvi
2) Agni
3) Shourya
4) Astra
5) Akash

37. Purulia Chhau Dance is a renowned tribal martial dance of which of the following States?
1) Chhattisgarh
2) Bihar
3) Assam
4) West Bengal
5) Meghalaya

38. The Supreme Court consists of one Chief Justice and?
1) 25 other judges
2) 28 other judges
3) 30 other judges
4) 29 other judges
5) None of these

ANSWERS:
1) 1 2) 2 3) 3 4) 3 5) 1  6) 4 7) 3 8) 5 9) 4 10) 2
11) 5 12) 5 13) 2 14) 3 15) 2  16) 1 17) 3 18) 4 19) 5 20) 3
21) 1 22) 4 23) 2 24) 3 25) 4  26) 5 27) 2 28) 5 29) 4 30) 3
31) 5 32) 5 33) 5 34) 5 35) 2  36) 1 37) 4 38) 3.

GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE QUESTIONS FOR SBI P.O & SBI ASSISTANTS EXAM 2014

1. Senior Congress leader Kamal Nath was sworn in as the protem speaker of the 16th Lok Sabha by the President Pranab Mukherjee on June 4, 2014. Kamal Nath, a nine-time MP, was elected from which of the following Lok Sabha constituencies in Madhya Pradesh recently?
1) Guna
2) Gwalior
3) Indore
4) Vidisha
5) Chhindwara

2. The Reserve Bank of India has reduced the Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR) by 50 basis points in its bimonthly monetary policy review on June 3, 2014. With effect from June 14, 2014 SLR will be?
1) 23.5%
2) 22.5%
3) 23%
4) 22%
5) 24.5%

3. Who is the highest run maker (660 runs) and winner of the Orange Cap in the Indian Premier League VII?
1) Glenn Maxwell
2) Dwayne smith
3) Robin Uthappa
4) David Warner
5) Suresh Raina

4. Who was named as the world's most powerful woman for the fourth consecutive year by the Forbes magazine?
1) Christine Lagarde (France)
2) Janet Yellen(USA)
3) Melinda Gates (USA)
4) Angela Merkel (Germany)
5) Dilma Rousseff (Brazil)

5. Gopinath Munde died in a road accident in New Delhi on June 3, 2014. He was the Union Minister of?
1) Water Resources
2) Road Transport and Highways
3) Railways
4) Chemicals and Fertilizers
5) Rural Development

6. Which cricketer was named South Africa's Test captain on June 3, 2014?
1) A.B. de Villiers
2) Faf du Plessis
3) Hashim Amla
4) Dale Steyn
5) Morne Morkel

7. World Rabies Day is observed every year on?
1) September 27
2) September 28
3) September 24
4) September 25
5) September 26

8. Which of the following technology giants has launched a healthcare company called Calico in 2013?
1) Apple
2) Microsoft
3) Oracle
4) Google
5) IBM

9. Which of the following is a centrally sponsored scheme for reforming the State higher education system?
1) Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan
2) Midday Meal Scheme
3) Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan
4) Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan
5) Jiyo Parsi

10. The Mahatma Gandhi Pravasi Suraksha Yojana was launched for the first time in?
1) UAE
2) Malaysia
3) USA
4) UK
5) South Africa

11. As per the Raghuram Rajan Committee report which is India's most backward State?
1) Bihar
2) Jharkhand
3) Madhya Pradesh
4) Rajasthan
5) Odisha

12. Irina Bokova of Bulgaria has been elected as the Director- General of which of the following organizations for a second term?
1) WTO
2) UNESCO
3) UNICEF
4) WHO
5) IAEA

13. "Seekho aur Kamao" (Learn & Earn) is a central government scheme for?
1) Women
2) Tribals in Naxal affected districts
3) Minorities
4) Urban poor
5) None of these

14. The Ujjayanta Palace which served as the meeting place of the Legislative Assembly until 2011 is now a museum. It is situated in?
1) Agartala
2) Kolkata
3) Gangtok
4) Shillong
5) Itanagar

15. Who was appointed as the Chairman of the Board of Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) in November 2013?
1) Ravi Kamal Bhargava
2) Santosh Kumar Mohanty
3) Dinesh Kumar Mehrotra
4) Satyanand Mishra
5) None of these

16. Who has been elected to the United Nations Board of Auditors?
1) P.S. Raghavan
2) Shashikant Sharma
3) Yogesh Agarwal
4) Sharat Sabharwal
5) None of these

17. Who is the only cricketer to win LG ICC People's Choice Award twice?
1) Sachin Tendulkar
2) Kumar Sangakkara
3) Mahendra Singh Dhoni
4) Michael Clarke
5) Virat Kohli

18. Who was honored with the inaugural Centenary Award for Indian Film Personality of the Year in November 2013?
1) Lata Mangeshkar
2) Tanuja
3) Waheeda Rehman
4) Amitabh Bachchan
5) Gulzar

19. The Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought was established in 1988 by the?
1) Amnesty International
2) Government of USSR
3) United Nations Organization
4) European Parliament
5) None of these

20. Srishti Rana of India won which of the following awards in 2013?
1) Miss India
2) Miss World
3) Miss America
4) Miss Earth
5) Miss Asia Pacific World

21. Doris Lessing of UK died on November 17, 2013. In 2007, she became the oldest recipient of the Nobel Prize in which of the following categories?
1) Physics
2) Physiology
3) Literature
4) Chemistry
5) Peace

22. Lawrence Klein of USA passed away on October 20, 2013. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1980 in?
1) Physics
2) Chemistry
3) Medicine
4) Economics
5) None of these

23. Which of the following organizations conducted Cyber Coalition 2013, the largest-ever Cyber exercises to practice averting large-scale, simultaneous cyber attacks on member states?
1) SCO
2) NATO
3) European Union
4) ASEAN
5) APEC

24. Which country has rejected a United Nations resolution urging it to grant citizenship to the Rohingya, a Muslim minority group?
1) Indonesia
 2) Malaysia
3) Myanmar
4) Sri Lanka
5) Philippines

25. J-20 is a stealth fighter aircraft launched by?
1) China
2) USA
3) Pakistan
4) Russia
5) India

26. The theme of which of the following 2013 Summits was "Growth With Equity: Inclusive Development"?
1) G20
2) G8
3) ASEAN
4) East Asia Summit
5) Commonwealth

27. Frederick Sanger of UK died on November 19, 2013. He was awarded the Nobel Prize twice in 1958 and 1980 in?
1) Physics
2) Chemistry
3) Medicine
4) Literature
5) Economics

28. The Marmaray railway tunnel underneath the Bosphorus Straits connects Europe and Asia. It is in?
1) Russia
2) Kazakhstan
3) Turkey
4) Armenia
5) Azerbaijan

29. Julie Bishop visited India recently. She is the Foreign Affairs Minister of?
1) Jamaica
2) UK
3) New Zealand
4) Australia
5) Canada

30. Bharatiya Mahila Bank is headquartered in?
1) Mumbai
2) New Delhi
3) Hyderabad
4) Kolkata
5) Chennai

31. Which is the first country in the world to introduce Tobin tax in 2013?
1) India
2) Italy
3) Germany
4) Slovenia
5) Slovakia

32. Exporters in India get insurance cover and risk cover from?
1) LIC
2) SIDBI
3) NABARD
4) DICGC
5) ECGC

33. Nagzira tiger reserve is the fifth tiger reserve in the State of?
1) Chhattisgarh
2) Rajasthan
3) Maharashtra
4) Madhya Pradesh
5) Himachal Pradesh

34. The Union Cabinet has approved a proposal to create a Legislative Council in which of the following States in November 2013?
1) Nagaland
2) Tripura
3) Meghalaya
4) Assam
5) Manipur

35. Kannur has been declared the first zero-landless district in India. Kannur is in?
1) Karnataka
2) Tamil Nadu
3) Goa
4) Maharashtra
5) Kerala

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

GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE QUESTIONS FOR SBI P.O & SBI ASSISTANTS EXAM

1. The Union Cabinet constituted a special investigation team (SIT) to look into the issue of black money in May 2014. The SIT is headed by?
1) Justice B.S. Chauhan
2) Justice Dipak Misra
3) Justice T.S. Thakur
4) Justice M.B. Shah
5) None of these

2. Who was appointed as the National Security Adviser (NSA) on May30, 2014?
1) M.K. Narayanan
2) Ajit Doval
3) Shyam Saran
4) Rajiv Mathur
5) Dilip Trivedi

3. The 35th edition of the National Games will be held in which of the following States in January- February 2015?
1) Goa
2) Karnataka
3) Kerala
4) Maharashtra
5) Manipur

4. Who was appointed as the Vice President and Auditor General of the World Bank on May 23, 2014?
1) Haruhiko Kuroda
2) Hiroshi Naka
3) Kikuo Iwata
4) Masaaki Shirakawa
5) Takehiko Nakao

5. Who was appointed as the 14th Attorney General of India in May 2014?
1) Rohinton Nariman
2) Gopal Subramaniam
3) Mohan Jain
4) Siddharth Luthra
5) Mukul Rohatgi

6. The European Union banned the import of four vegetables from India from May 1, 2014. Which of the following is not one of them?
1) Eggplant
2) Taro plant
3) Bitter gourd
4) Snake gourd
5) Bottle gourd

7. Which of the following Prizes is given annually to six persons, one from each of the world's six geographic regions?
1) Abel Prize
2) Pulitzer Prize
3) Templeton Prize
4) Nobel Prize
5) Goldman Environmental Prize

8. The Department of Posts has allotted customized pin code to the Supreme Court of India. It is?
1) 100200
2) 112200
3) 110022
4) 110201
5) 111121

9. 'Jiyo Parsi' scheme for containing population decline of Parsis in India was launched by the Ministry of?
1) Home
2) External Affairs
3) Finance
4) Human Resource
Development
5) Minority Affairs

10. Gyan Correa is the Director of which of the following films?
1) The Lunchbox
2) English Vinglish
3) Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
4) Celluloid
5) The Good Road

11. If a Basic Savings Bank Deposit Account (BSBDA) holder has any other existing savings bank account in that bank, he/she will be required to close it within how many days from the date of opening a BSBDA?
1) 15 days
2) 30 days
3) 45 days
4) 60 days
5) 90 days

12. Who is the Chairman of a four member Committee that was appointed to clear the ambiguity between Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Foreign Institutional Investors (FII)?
1) Sumit Bose
2) G.S. Sandhu
3) R.S. Gujral
4) Arvind Mayaram
5) Rajiv Takru

13. The General Anti Avoidance Rules (GAAR) provisions will come into force from?
1) July 1, 2014
2) April 1, 2016
3) April 1, 2015
4) January 1, 2015
5) January 1, 2016

14. Which of the following countries is/are considered Tax Haven?
1) Mauritius
2) Lichtenstein
3) Switzerland
4) Luxemburg
5) All the above

15. Simona Halep is the winner of the 2013 Kremlin Cup held in Moscow. She is a tennis player from?
1) Australia
2) France
3) Romania
4) Russia
5) Kazakhstan

16. Who among the following did not score a double century in one day international cricket matches?
1) Sachin Tendulkar
2) Virendra Sehwag
3) Virat Kohli
4) Rohit Sharma
5) Both 3 and 4

17. The Global Gender Gap Report was first published in 2006 by the?
1) World Bank
2) International Monetary Fund
3) United Nations Development Program
4) World Economic Forum
5) None of these

18. 'Time To Act' is a declaration of the United Nations General Assembly against?
1) Illiteracy
2) Poverty
3) Sexual violence
4) Global warming
5) AIDS

19. Robusta is a species of which of the following crops that has its origins in Africa?
1) Tobacco
2) Rubber
3) Banana
4) Coffee
5) Cocoa

20. The Aswan High Dam is situated in which of the following African countries?
1) Sudan
2) Nigeria
3) Egypt
4) Algeria
5) Tanzania

21. Who played the lead role in the film Paan Singh Tomar?
1) Farhan Akhtar
2) Vinay Pathak
3) Rajkumar Rao
4) Salman Khan
5) Irrfan Khan

22. What does 'S' denote in the abbreviation UNSC?
1) Social
2) Scientific
3) Security
4) Secular
5) Sensitive

23. Which Indian batsman scored the fastest One Day International century (in 52 balls) in October 2013?
1) Rohit Sharma
2) Sachin Tendulkar
3) Virendra Sehwag
4) Shikar Dhawan
5) Virat Kohli

24. Which of the following seeks to check tax avoidance by investors routing their funds through tax havens?
1) GST
2) FDI
3) CCEA
4) GAAR
5) FII

25. Which is the largest recipient of foreign remittances in 2013?
1) India
2) China
3) Philippines
4) Mexico
5) Nigeria

26. 'Migration and Remittance Flows: Recent Trends and Outlook 2013-16' is a report released by the?
1) World Bank
2) United Nations General Assembly
3) United Nations Security Council
4) World Economic Forum
5) International Monetary Fund

27. Which of the following committees looked into the backwardness of States?
1) Vijay Kelkar Committee
2) C. Rangarajan Committee
3) Raghuram Rajan Committee
4) Y.V. Reddy Committee
5) None of these

28. Based on Multi Dimensional Index (MDI) scores, which is the most developed State in India?
1) Goa
2) Kerala
3) Tamil Nadu
4) Punjab
5) Maharashtra

29. Which of the following panels has recommended a ban on development activities in 60,000 sq km ecologically sensitive area in Western Ghats?
1) Rajendra Pachauri
2) K. Kasturirangan
3) U.R. Rao
4) Arundhati Roy
5) Anil Kakodkar

30. Which team won the Women's Hockey Asia Cup 2013 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia?
1) Japan
2) South Korea
3) India
4) China
5) Malaysia

31. Which of the following was set up on the recommendations of Royal Commission on Indian Currency and Finance?
1) EXIM Bank
2) NABARD
3) SBI
4) BSE
5) RBI

32. Indian Banks' Association (IBA) was formed in which of the following years?
1) 1947
2) 1946
3)1950
4) 1956
5)1951

33. The central office of the Reserve Bank of India was permanently shifted to Mumbai from Kolkata in?
1) 1935
2) 1936
3) 1937
4) 1949
5)1947

34. UK's Department for International Development (DFID) has launched a new affordable housing scheme for low-income households in urban areas of India in collaboration with the?
1) SBI
2) SIDBI
3) HUDCO
4) NHB
5) NABARD

35. Who is the author of the book 'Gulliver's Travels'?
1) Charles Dickens
2) Charles Lamb
3) T.S. Eliot
4) O Henry
5) Jonathan Swift

36. Which of the following constitutional amendments is known as 'Mini Constitution'?
1) 40th
2) 42nd
3) 41st
4) 45th
5) None of these

ANSWERS:
1) 4 2) 2 3) 3 4) 2  5) 5 6) 5 7) 5 8) 4  9) 5 10) 5
11) 2 12) 4  13) 2 14) 5 15) 3 16) 3  17) 4 18) 3 19) 4 20) 3
21) 5 22) 3 23) 5 24) 4 25) 1 26) 1 27) 3 28) 1  29) 2 30) 1
31) 5 32) 2 33) 3 34) 4 35) 5 36) 2

GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE QUESTIONS FOR SBI P.O & SBI ASSISTANTS EXAM 2014

1. The Central bank declared key rate from time to time. It is .......
1) Statutory Liquidity Ratio
2) Cash Reserve Ratio
3) Reverse Repo Rate
4) Repo Rate
5) All of above

2. The bank in India has to maintain at the close of business every day, a minimum proportion of their net demand and time liabilities as liquid assets in the form of cash, gold and un-encumbered approved securities.
The ratio of liquid assets to demand and time liabilities is known as ........
1) Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR)
2) Liquidity Stability Ratio (LSR)
3) Reverse Repo Rate
4) Liquidity Adjustment Facility (LAF)
5) Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR)

3. The present Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR) is ........
1) 22%
2) 27%
3) 20%
4) 28%
5) None of above

4. If Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR) raises by RBI, then bank funds....
1) Expand
2) Expand and shrink
3) Expand in the lengthy way
4) Shrink
5) None

5. If the Central bank slashes SLR by 1%, approximately how much liquidity increases in the economy?
1) Rs.30,000 crores
2) Rs.40,000 crores
3) Rs.10,000 crores
4) Rs.60,000 crores
5) Rs.1,50,000 crores

6. The SLR increases, then the liquidity in the economy ........
1) Increase
2) Increase by
100 times
3) Zero
4) Infinitive
5) Decrease

7. If Statutory Liquidity Ratio increases, the availability of bank loans ......
1) Increase
2) Decrease to zero percent
3) Become negative
4) Decrease
5) None

8. SLR increased by RBI, then inflation level ....
1) Increases
2) Decreases at the discretion of RBI
3) Zero
4) Decreases
5) Infinitive

9. Once SLR announced, that percentage is valid ....
1) For 1 year
2) For 2 years
3) For 6 months
4) For 9 months
5) Till it changes

10. If SLR raises, offer of base rate by banks ...
1) Increases
2) Decreases to more level
3) Becomes Zero
4) Decreases
5) Infinitive

11. In the first bi-monthly monetary policy review done by RBI on 1 April 2014, the SLR changed by how much percent?
1) 1%
2) 5%
3) 8%
4) SLR not changed by RBI
5) In bi-monthly monetary policy reviews, RBI cannot change SLR

12. Non-Banking Finance Companies (NBFCs), as per the provision in the new Companies Act, have to maintain what percent of the monies in low-interest securities or SLR-backed instruments?
1) 30%
2) 10%
3) 35%
4) 15%
5) 25%

13. In its first bi-monthly monetary policy statement issued on 1 April 2014, the RBI announced which major relief for saving bank account holders?
1) Customers need not submit photograph at the time of opening of Demand Deposits.
2) Signature may not be tallied for non-local station cheques.
3) Account holder not responsible for the deposited funds, so he is indirectly allowed to do money laundering.
4) Banks to cut down services on low-balance accounts and do away with fines.
5) Nomination once given, it is final and cannot be changed later.

14. RBI’s high level working group has suggested forming a Financial Resolution Authority (FRA) that would be responsible for the resolution of failed and distressed financial institutions in India. The group headed by ........
1) Raghuram Rajan
2) P.J. Nayak
3) Anand Sinha
4) K.C. Chakravarthy
5) None

15. Why did SEBI issue detailed corporate governance norms for listed companies on 17th April 2014?
1) In order to tell the RBI intervention.
2) To tell the importance of financial limits of companies.
3) To encourage companies to adopt best practices on governance.
4) In order to punish the evaders of transaction tax payers.
5) None

16. On 9 May 2014, RBI barred Indian companies from raising money from subsidiaries of Indian banks overseas through ECBs to refinance rupee loans. ECB stands for...
1) Easy Commercial Barrowings
2) Early Commercial Barrowings
3) Entry Commercial Barrowings
4) External Core Barrowings
5) External Commercial Barrowings

17. Air India decided to join which international airlines network from 1 July 2014?
1) Star Alliance
2) Kingfisher
3) Air Asia
4) Cathey Pacific
5) None

18. On 15 May 2014, RBI announced it launches inflation-linked bonds every month, starting 4 June 2014, to attract household savings of up to .............. discourage investments in gold.
1) Rs.5,000 crore
2) Rs.25,000 crore
3) Rs.45,000 crore
4) Rs.75,000 crore
5) Rs.15,000 crore

19. Which nation replaced Mauritius as the top source of foreign direct investment to India, accounting for about 25 percent of FDI inflows in 2013-14 as per the data of the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) released on 25 May 2014?
1) Canada
2) USA
3) Singapore
4) France
5) Japan

20. Nokia’s mobile handset business taken over by whom for over $ 7.2 billion on 25 April 2014?
1) Samsung
2) Airtel
3) Uninor
4) Microsoft
5) TCS

21. Sukuma district is more effected by Naxalite attacks these days. It is in......
1) Jharkhand
2) Bihar
3) Odisha
4) Chhattisgarh
5) Goa

22. Which famous Hindu festival was celebrated in Rajasthan, where tourists from various parts of the world visited to celebrate the three-day-long festival?
1) Dhanu Yatra
2) Gangaur
3) Pushkar Mela
4) Desert Festival
5) None

23. ......has been named Chef-de-Mission of India’s Common Wealth Games contingent for the games to be held in Glasgow in July 2014?
1) Kamalesh Sharma
2) T.C.A. Raghavan
3) Raj Singh
4) Inderjith Guptha
5) Keerthi Swamy

24. Which of the following teams has won the Santosh Trophy 2014 football tournament recently?
1) Railways
2) Punjab
3) Mizoram
4) Kerala
5) None of above

25. Sania Mirza and Cara Black won WTA Portugal Open 2014 women’s doubles title on 3 May 2014. Sania belongs to India and Cara Black belongs to ......
1) Serbia
2) France
3) USA
4) Zimbabwe
5) South Africa

26. Para Olympician Sharath Gayakwad won two Bronze and one Silver at the IDM (Internationalen Deutschen Meisterschaften) on 27 April 2014. He is a...
1) Swimmer
2) Cyclist
3) Cricket Player
4 ) Shot put player
5) None

27. The Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation(APEC) details are given. Locate the correct option.
1) It is the group of 21 Asia Pacific nations.
2) It is an economic forum established in 1989.
3) Its head quarters is in Singapore and India is not a member in it.
4) It holds 40% of the world population.
5) All of above

28. 25th APEC summit held on 5-7 October 2013 at ......
1) New Delhi
2) Bali
3) Moscow
4) Canberra
5) None

29. 26th APEC summit in November 2014 to be held in .....
1) New York
2) Beijing
3) Singapore
4) Taiwan
5) None

30. United Nations International Telecommunications Union (ITU) said how many internet users will be there by end of 2014?
1) 3 billion users
2) 13 billion users
3) 23 billion users
4) 2 billion users
5) 4 billion users

31. United Nations International Telecommunications (ITU) established on 17 May 1865. Its’ head quarters is in Geneva, Switzerland. Its head is Hamadoun Toure belongs to ......
1) Mali
2) Maldives
3) Egypt
4) Chile
5) None

32. Sushma Swaraj became the first......
1) Women governor of any state in India
2) Women home minister of India
3) Lady speaker of Loksabha
4) External Affairs Minister of India
5) Health Minister of India

33. Election Queue Management System first time introduced in the Burdwan district in ........ on 30th April 2014 on the eve of 2014 General Elections?
1) AP
2) Tamilnadu
3) Bihar
4) Odisha
5) West Bengal

34. President Paul Kagame lit a torch which will burn for 100 days, the length of time a shameful genocide lasted in the country in 1994 in which at least 8 lakh people were killed. Paul Kagame is the President of .....
1) Rwanda
2) South Africa
3) Zambia
4) Nigeria
5) Tanzania

35. South Sudan and the nation’s rebel army signed a peace deal on 9 May 2014. The currency of South Sudan is..........
1) South Sudan Dollar
2) South Sudan Euro
3) South Sudan Ruble
4) South Sudan Pound
5) None

36. IRDA (Insurance Regulatory Authority of India) earmarked......as Insurance day, on which day it came in to existence in the year 2000?
1) 8 Jan
2) 15 Apr
3) 20 May
4) 19 Apr
5) None

37. Who heads the committee to assess implementation of the Sachar Committee recommendations
and the Prime Minister’s 15- point programme for minorities submitted its report recently?
1) Vijay C Kelkar
2) V.R. Krishna Iyer
3) Amitabh Kundu
4) Saroja Pandey
5) None

38. ‘Water, Peace and War - Confronting the Global Water Crisis’ written by......
1) Begum Raisana
2) Graham Poiana
3) Brahma Chellaney
4) Rahamani Chattopadhyay
5) None

39. 'Hard Choices' written by......
1) John Swift
2) Abdul Kalam
3) Hillary Clinton
4) Obama
5) Osama Bin Laden

40. Akash missile successfully test fired from Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur in Odisha. It is a......
1) Surface to air missile
2) Surface to surface missile
3) Air to air missile
4) Air to water missile
5) None

41. Which company acquired Cadbury India?
1) Parle
2) Britania
3) Mondelez India
4) COCO India
5) 5 Star

42. The process through which an investor’s physical share certificate gets converted to electronic format which is maintained in an account with the Depository Participant, is termed as ......
1) Materialization
2) Polarization
3) Conversion
4) Prioritization
5) Dematerialization

ANSWERS:

1-5, 2-5, 3-5, 4-4, 5-4, 6-5, 7-4, 8-4, 9-5, 10-4
11-4, 12-4, 13-4, 14-3, 15-3, 16-5, 17-1, 18-5, 19-3, 20-4
21-4, 22-3, 23-3, 24-3, 25-4, 26-1, 27-5, 28-2, 29-2, 30-1
31-1, 32-4, 33-5, 34-1, 35-4, 36-4, 37-3, 38-3, 39-3, 40-1, 41-3, 42-5

BANKING AWARENESS PRACTICE QUESTIONS FOR BANK EXAMS

1. Which of the following is NOT a banking related term?
a) SWIFT
b) CAMELS
c) TRIPS
d) CAR
e) STRIPS

2. Which of the following is not a component of bank deposits?
a) Fixed deposit
b) Current A/c deposit
c) Recurring Deposit
d) Safe deposits
e) None of these

3. Which of the following taglines is NOT associated with the State Bank of India?
a) Pure banking, nothing else
b) The name you can bank upon
c) Nation Bank on us
d) Banker to every Indian
e) With you all the way

4. KYC Guidelines have been issued by RBI Under the provisions of?
a) Banking Regulation Act
b) RBI Act
c) Negotiable Instrument Act
d) Prevention of Money Laundering Act
e) None of these

5. In the context of banking sector, DRT is associated with?
a) Recurring
b) Loan recovery
c) Deposit insurance
d) Demand and time liabilities of banks
e) None of these

6. What is meant by a Scheduled Bank?
a) A Bank functioning under provisions of Banking Regulation Act, 1949
b) A Bank included in 2nd scheduled of RBI Act 1934
c) A Bank incorporated under banking companies Act, 1956
d) A Bank authorized to do Banking Functions
e) None of these

7. The issue of fresh securities by an unlisted company for the first time is called?
a) Exchange traded Fund
b) Initial Public Offering
c) Rights issue
d) Follow-on Public Offering
e) None of these

8. Fixed deposits are for the bank______
a) Fixed Assets
b) Time liability
c) Demand liability
d) Current Assets
e) None of these

9. Expanded form of the term CAGR?
a) Calculated Annual Growth Rate
b) Compounded Annual Growth Rate
c) Corresponding Annual Growth Rate
d) Corrected Annual Growth Rate
e) Comparative Annual Growth Rate

10. With reference to a cheque which of the following is a 'Drawee Bank'?
a) The Bank that collects the cheque
b) The endorsee's bank
c) The Payee's cheque
d) The endorser's bank
e) The bank upon which the cheque is drawn

11. What does letter 'A' denote in the term LAF?
a) Adequacy
b) Addition
c) Adjustment
d) Advance
e) Accreditation

12. The term 'BSR' refers to?
a) Banks Selling Rate
b) Basic Statistical Returns
c) Annual returns submitted by banks to RBI in respect of priority sector advances
d) Quarterly statement of advances to agriculture
e) None of the above

13. Which of the following is NOT considered a part of time and demand liabilities of the banks for the purpose of cash reserve ratio?
a) Paid-up capital
b) Fixed deposit
c) Savings deposit
d) Recurring deposit
e) None of these

14. ______ Rate is Controlled by the individual Banks?
a) Bank Rate
b) Base Rate
c) CRR
d) Repo Rate
e) SLR

15. What is the expanded form of ECS as used in banking sector?
a) Effective Clearing System
b) Electronic Confirmation System
c) Electronic Clearing System
d) Enabled Clearing System
e) None of these

16. Who becomes the first President of Administrative Tribunal of the Asian
Development Bank (ADB)?
a) Christine lagarde
b) Pascal lamey
c) Surin Pitsuwan
d) Lakshmi Swaminathan
e) Ashwini Chandran

17. Which of the following is NOT a mode of foreign capital inflow in India?
a) No-Frill Account
b) FDI
c) FII
d) NRI Account
e) None of these

18. Truncated Cheque means?
a) Shared Clearing
b) Cheques presented will be processed by the depositing branch itself
c) Physical movement of instruments from branch to clearing house
d) Movement of electronic image instead of physical movement of instruments
e) None of these

19. Which of the following assets can be mortgaged?
a) Stock
b) Book debts
c) National Saving Certificates
d) Shares
e) Land and Building

20. Fiscal Policy refers to?
a) Balance of Payments
b) Govt. taxes, expenditure and borrowings
c) Govt. borrowings from Equity Market
d) Sale and purchase of securities by RBI
e) None of these

ANSWERS:
 1. c; 2. d; 3. b; 4. a; 5. b; 6. b; 7. b; 8.
b; 9. b; 10. e; 11. c; 12. b; 13. a; 14. b; 15. c;
16. d; 17. a; 18. d; 19. e; 20. b.

GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE QUESTIONS FOR SBI P.O & SBI ASSISTANTS EXAM

1. Which one of the following banks was included in the Second Schedule to the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 on May 21, 2014?
1) Axis Bank
2) Yes Bank
3) IndusInd Bank
4) Bharatiya Mahila Bank
5) None of these

2. Anandiben Patel took charge as the first woman Chief Minister of which of the following States on May 22, 2014?
1) Maharashtra
2) Gujarat
3) Rajasthan
4) Goa
5) Chhattisgarh

3. The Reserve Bank of India, for the benefit of the persons with disabilities, instructed that banks should make all new ATMs installed from which of the following dates as talking ATMs with Braille keypads?
1) June1, 2014
2) July 1, 2014
3) August 15, 2014
4) January 1, 2015
5) April 1, 2015

4. Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg was honored with the first-ever Genesis Prize on May 22, 2014. The $1 million Genesis Prize is given by which of the following countries?
1) USA
2) Germany
3) Israel
4) UK
5) Canada

5. Who took over as the new Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) on May 22, 2014?
1) Syed Asif Ibrahim
2) Vijai Sharma
3) Sharat Sabharwal
4) Basant Seth
5) Rajiv Mathur

6. SIMBEX-14 was started off the Andaman and Nicobar Islands on May 22, 2014. It is an annual joint naval exercise conducted by India and?
1) Saudi Arabia
2) Spain
3) Singapore
4) Sri Lanka
5) South Africa

7. Pakistan's teenage education activist Malala Yousafzai did not win which of the following Prizes/Awards in 2013?
1) Sakharov Prize
2) Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Award
3) Clinton Global Citizen Award
4) Anna Politkovskaya Award
5) South-South Award

8. G-4 countries are pushing for the inclusion of more countries in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). Which one of the following countries is not a G-4 country?
1) Brazil
2) Germany
3) Japan
4) India
5) Italy

9. The Finance Commission submits its report to the?
1) Lok Sabha
2) Finance Minister
3) President
4) Prime Minister
5) Planning Commission

10. Who is/are the winners of the Clinton Global Citizens Awards for the year 2013?
1) Malala Yousafzai
2) Bunker Roy
3) Rafiq Kathwari
4) Both 1 and 2
5) All 1, 2 and 3

11. Which one of the following Rajiv Khel Ratna Award winners is not a Shooter?
1) Anjali Bhagwat
2) Anju Bobby George
3) Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
4) Manavjit Singh Sandhu
5) Gagan Narang

12. The Karera Wildlife Sanctuary is situated in the Shivpuri district of?
1) Uttarakhand
2) Maharashtra
3) Gujarat
4) Uttar Pradesh
5) Madhya Pradesh

13. Which Indian social activist founded the Barefoot College in the village of Tilonia in Rajasthan in 1972?
1) Medha Patkar
2) Ramesh Agarwal
3) Sandeep Pandey
4) Bunker Roy
5) None of these

14. The P5+1 is a group of six world powers which joined the diplomatic efforts with Iran with regard to its nuclear program. Which country does 1 refer to in P5+1?
1) India
2) Brazil
3) Canada
4) South Africa
5) Germany

15. The Reserve Bank of India became a State-owned institution in?
1) 1934
2) 1935 3) 1949
4) 1950
5) 1947

16. According to the first Global Slavery Index published in October 2013, which country has the highest proportion of slaves in the world?
1) Mauritania
2) Haiti
3) Pakistan
4) India
5) Nepal

17. The United States will use Mihail Kogalniceanu (MK) Air Base for Afghan pull out. MK Air Base is in?
1) Kyrgyzstan
2) Romania
3) Russia
4) Ukraine
5) Moldova

18. The Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR) should be maintained in the form of?
1) Cash
2) Gold
3) Government approved securities
4) Any of the above
5) None of the above

19. Which of the following can be called a demand liability?
1) Deposit maintained in savings account
2) Deposit maintained in current account
3) Fixed deposit for six months
4) Both 1 and 2
5) All 1, 2 and 3

20. Mulatu Teshome has been the President of which of the following African countries since October 7, 2013?
1) Somalia
2) Liberia
3) Gambia
4) Ethiopia
5) Zambia

21. Ruchira Kamboj has been appointed as the Permanent Representative of India to?
1) UNICEF
2) UNEP
3) UNESCO
4) WHO
5) FAO

22. The Indian Newspaper Society (INS) is an organization that plays a major role in protecting and promoting the freedom of press in India. It was founded in 1939 with headquarters in?
1) Mumbai
2) New Delhi
3) Kolkata
4) Chennai
5) Jaipur

23. Which of the following award/prizes is popularly called the Jewish Nobel Prize?
1) Pritzker prize
2) Abel Prize
3) Templeton Prize
4) Goldman Environmental Prize
5) Genesis Prize

24. The first national Yash Chopra Memorial Award was presented to which of the following film personalities in October 2013?
1) Amitabh Bachchan
2) Gulzar
3) Lata Mangeshkar
4) A.R. Rehman
5) Tanuja

25. The University of British Columbia's Faculty of Law awarded the inaugural Allard Prize for International Integrity to which of the following Indians in September 2013?
1) Kiran Bedi
2) Medha Patkar
3) Arvind Kejriwal
4) Anna Hazare
5) Chandi Prasad Bhat

26. Who won the International Press Institute (IPI) India Award for Excellence in Journalism in October 2013?
1) Rajdeep Sardesai
2) Karan Thapar
3) Sagarika Ghose
4) Fareed Zakaria
5) Prannoy Roy

27. Global Competitiveness Report (GCR) is an annual report published by the?
1) World Bank
2) IMF
3) WTO
4) WEF
5) None of these

28. Which of the following is an inter-school football tournament in India?
1) Subroto Cup
2) Santosh Trophy
3) Durand Cup
4) B.C. Roy Trophy
5) Rovers Cup

29. Who won the prestigious Velo d'Or award in 2013?
1) Nairo Quintana
2) Chris Froome
3) Alberto Contador
4) Bradley Wiggins
5) Philippe Gilbert

30. Who among the following is not a Golf player?
1) Ryan Moore
2) Scott Hend
3) Anirban Lahiri
4) Adam Scott
5) Fernando Alonso

31. Who is the Chairman of the Railway Board?
1) Alok Johri
2) Subodh Kumar Jain
3) A.K. Mittal
4) Arunendra Kumar
5) None of these

32. Subhash Goswami is the Director General of the?
1) Border Security Force
2) National Security Guard
3) Indo-Tibetan Border Police
4) Central Industrial Security Force
5) None of these

33. India has resumed military assistance to which of the following countries in October 2013, after nine years of suspension?
1) Nepal
2) Bangladesh
3) Sri Lanka
4) Pakistan
5) Burma

34. Who is the co-author of the book 'I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban'?
1) Graham Phillips
2) Christina Lamb
3) John Kay
4) Felicity Green
5) David Astor

35. Which of the following have been named as the new 'hope spots' by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)?
1) Andaman & Nicobar Islands
2) Lakshadweep
3) Dadra & Nagar Haveli
4) Both 1 and 2
5) All 1, 2 and 3

36. The Supreme Court directed the Centre and State governments to provide what percent job reservations to disabled persons in their departments, companies and PSUs?
1) One
2) Two
3) Three
4) Four
5) None of these

37. The World Health Organization (WHO) has approved SA14-14-2, a new cheaper vaccine against Japanese Encephalitis made in?
1) India
2) China
3) USA
4) Russia
5) Japan

38. Which of the following refers to a loan with a low interest rate?
1) Hot Money
2) Call Money
3) Dear Money
4) Cheap Money
5) None of these

39. With regard to Banking in India, which one of the following events took place in 1975?
1) Establishment of NABARD
2) Second phase of Nationalization of Banks
3) Nationalization of SBI
4) Establishment of the first Regional Rural Bank
5) Merger of New Bank of India with Punjab National Bank

40. NPCDCS program does not aim at preventing and controlling which one of the following diseases?
1) Cancer
2) Diabetes
3) Cardiovascular diseases
4) Stroke
5) Polio

ANSWERS:
1) 4 2) 2 3) 2 4) 3  5) 5 6) 3 7) 5 8) 5  9) 3 10) 4
11) 2 12) 5  13) 4 14) 5 15) 3 16) 1  17) 2 18) 4 19) 4 20) 4
21) 3 22) 2 23) 5 24) 3  25) 4 26) 2 27) 4 28) 1 29) 2 30) 5
31) 4 32) 3 33) 1 34) 2 35) 4 36) 3  37) 2 38) 4 39) 4 40) 5

GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE QUESTIONS FOR SBI P.O & SBI ASSISTANTS EXAM 2014

1. The delivery of financial services, at affordable costs or at no costs, to sections of disadvantaged and low income segments of society is called ..........
1) Financial exclusion
2) Financial interpretation
3) Financial selection
4) Financial declaration
5) Financial inclusion

2. Which among the following statements is correct regarding the financial inclusion?
i) bringing of banking services to rural areas as it is a formal route of deposits and lending.
ii) creating the awareness about the legal financial services to escape from the clutches of money lenders.
iii) creating the cheap and best modes of the services in the fields of deposits and fund transfers.
iv) introducing the financial inclusion to bring the transparency in the application of central and state government schemes.
v) not providing the CBS (Core Banking Scheme) to rural people as the majority of them are farmers. Financial inclusion excluded the illiterates.
1) i, ii, iii
2) ii, iii, iv
3) i, ii, iii, iv
4) iv, v
5) i, iii, v

3. Which commission recommendations were incorporated in RBI monetary review policy, proposed to introduce No Frill Accounts as a part of financial inclusion?
1) Rangarajan
2) Subba Rao
3) Khan
4) P.J.Nayak
5) None

4. Who appointed Nachiket Mor committee to assess the approach to financial inclusion on 4 September 2013?
1) SEBI
2) Government of India
3) RBI
4) NHB
5) NABARD

5. Which campaign aims to bring banking services to large rural areas launched on 10 February 2011?
1) Swawalamban
2) Swayam
3) Swabhimaan
4) Sthiramaann
5) Sakthiman

6. A person/ institution/ organization represents the bank in village areas to provide banking services is called ........
1) Business Correspondent Scheme
2) Banking Friendly Scheme
3) Banking Flag Scheme
4) Banking Rupee Scheme
5) None

7. As the Business Correspondent Scheme is also the part of financial inclusion as per the order issued by RBI on 25 January 2006, the services can be provided includes .........
i) cash deposit ii) disbursal of small credit
iii) recovery of loan
iv) sale of micro insurance/ mutual fund products/ pension products
v) opening of locker in the premises of village
1) i, ii, iii, iv
2) i, ii, iv, v
3) ii, iii, v
4) i, v
5) i, ii, iii, iv, v

8. Which branches can be opened to co-ordinate the work of Business Correspondent?
1) BC branch
2) Head branch
3) Ultra small branch
4) Top branch
5) None

9. Ultra small branches are part of financial inclusion to be opened in rural areas. In 2013-14, these rural branches extensively opened in .........
1) Central India
2) North India
3) East India
4) West India
5) North west of India

10. Regional Rural Banks must open at least .................... percent of branches in the populated areas less than 10000 as a part of financial inclusion.
1) 15
2) 50
3) 25
4) 75
5) 40

11. Which bank opened Customer Service Point (CSP) to extend financial inclusion targeting urban poor?
1) Union Bank of India
2) ICICI
3) SBI
4) Syndicate Bank
5) Yes Bank

12. For financial inclusion and to facilitate low-income group customers, which SBI subsidiary inaugurated NO FRILLS ACCOUNT by name 'Saral Bachat Khata'?
1) State Bank of Bikaner and Jaipur
2) State Bank of Hyderabad
3) State Bank of Mysore
4) State Bank of Travancore
5) State Bank of Patiala

13. Project Namaskar launched by which bank as part of financial inclusion ..........?
1) PNB
2) Axis Bank
3) ICICI
4) CBI
5) SBI

14. On 26 January 2014, who appreciated the work of Central Bank of India financial
inclusion?
1) World Bank
2) IMF
3) IDA
4) ADB
5) UNDP

15. Madhya Pradesh Government's financial inclusion model is ........
1) Samrat
2) Sammelan
3) Samruddhi
4) Swalamban
5) None

16. Vidyut Vyapar Nigam, the unit of NTPC provide uninterrupted 250 megawatt power supply to .........
1) Sri Lanka
2) Bangladesh
3) Myanmar
4) Pakistan
5) Afghanistan

17. Asian Development Bank released a report on 1st April 2014, stating that the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of India to be ....... in 2014-15.
1) 5.5 percent
2) 8.5 percent
3) 6.5 percent
4) 7.5 percent
5) None

18. On 30 March 2014, the President of India cleared the re-promulgation of the SEBI Ordinance Securities Laws (Amendment) Bill 2013. The ordinance aims to give powers to Securities and Exchanges Board of India (SEBI) to act against what/ whom?
1) Insider trading
2) FDI
3) Ponzi schemes
4) Cross selling
5) Stock frauds

19. On 19 March 2014, where SEBI launched its local office for spreading financial literacy and redressing center?
1) Mumbai
2) Hyderabad
3) Chennai
4) Bangalore
5) Ranchi

20. Which state registered India's fastest growing State with its Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) growing at 15.05 percent during 2012-13, as per the latest data released by the Central Statistics Office
recently?
1) Gujarat
2) Madhya Pradesh
3) Bihar
4) Goa
5) AP

21. Time period during the loan term when the borrower is not required to make any repayment, is termed as ..............
1) Amortization
2) Waiver
3) Probate
4) Default
5) Moratorium

22. We often come across the term CSR used in Company Law. What does letter S denote in the word CSR?
1) Stolen
2) Special
3) Social
4) Solo
5) Stimulate

23. World Green Economy Summit (WGES) 2014 recently held at ..........
1) The Hague
2) Madrid
3) Dubai
4) New Delhi
5) Tokyo

24. On 14 April 2014, which nation announced that it would not contribute its funding to the Commonwealth Secretariat, as it was unable to stand for the defence of the basic principles of freedom, democracy and respect for human dignity in Sri Lanka?
1) India
2) UK
3) Pakistan
4) New Zealand
5) Canada

25. 8th G-20 summit held at St. Petersburg (Russia) in 2013. In 2014 the 9th summit to be held at Brisbane in...
1) Italy
2) Canada
3) Australia
4) South Africa
5) Germany

26. AQUATM release one liter water for one rupee and also it can be operated through prepaid card launched by Vandana Foundation, a non - profit company. First AQUATM launched on 23 March 2014 at....
1) Mumbai
2) Kolkatta
3) Chennai
4) Pune
5) None

27. First double-decker flyover of India was opened for public use on 18 April 2014 in ....
1) Mumbai
2) Delhi
3) Hyderabad
4) Pune
5) Chennai

28. Who was ranked No. 10 in Women's Squash Association (WSA) rankings released on 1 May 2014, after her winning in Texas open 2014?
1) Joshna Chinappa
2) Deepika Kumari
3) Dipika Pallikal
4) Anaka Alankamony
5) None

29. Which famous female snooker player won the World Women's Senior Snooker title 2014 on 22 April 2014?
1) Kalanidhi Parker
2) Reanne Evans
3) Chitra Magimairaj
4) Rama Panditha Malini
5) None

30. The terms Advantage, Bully, Centre Forward, Flick, Goal Line, Halfway Line and Stick used in ........
1) Foot ball
2) Billiards
3) Volley ball
4) Cricket
5) Hockey

31. Which nation crossed South Africa to become Africa's biggest economy on 7 April
2014?
1) Kenya
2) Ghana
3) Nigeria
4) Cameroon
5) None

32. Chung Hong-won tendered his resignation on 27 April 2014 over a ship accident that claimed several lives in the country. He is the Prime Minister of ..........
1) Hong Kong
2) Macau
3) South Korea
4) Malaysia
5) None

33. Robert Edwards, the British Nobel Laureate who pioneered the development of In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) that led to the birth of the world's first ''test tube baby'', died on 10 April 2014. He belongs to ........
1) USA
2) France
3) UK
4) Germany
5) Italy

34. On 1 May 2014, the Union Cabinet approved to set up Polavaram Project Authority (PPA) to see that Polavaram irrigation project construction go well. Where is polavaram irrigation project?
1) Tamilnadu
2) Karnataka
3) Madhya Pradesh
4) Maharashtra
5) Andhra Pradesh

35. On 24 April 2014 Supreme Court ordered that the special audit of property, assets and accounts of Kerala's Sree Padmanabha Swamy temple to be conducted under the supervision of ..........
1) Pratip Chaudari
2) Shashikanth Sharma
3) Sadasivam
4) R.M. Lodha
5) Vinod Rai

36. India and which other two nations join hands on 18 April 2014 and proposed an initiative for Kanchenjunga trans-boundary landscape to address biodiversity conservation in a sustainable way in the Himalayan region?
1) Pakistan and Bhutan
2) Bangladesh and Myanmar
3) Sri Lanka and Maldives
4) Nepal and Bhutan
5) Nepal and Bangladesh

37. Union Home Ministry on 13 April 2014 for the first time approved the recruitment of young women as combat officers in SSB, the second largest border guarding force. SSB stands for .............
1) Sashastra Seema Bal
2) Secondary Seema Bal
3) Standard Seema Bal
4) Second Seema Bal
5) None

38. India made EVMs (Electronic Voting Machine) to be exported to ........ to use in the elections held in the month of November 2014?
1) Somalia
2) Myanmar
3) Zimbabwe
4) Namibia
5) None

39. EU banned the import of which major fruit from India recently?
1) Guava
2) Pineapple
3) Black grape
4) Red orange
5) Alphonso mango

40. World Malaria day observed on ..........
1) 4 April
2) 13 April
3) 25 April
4) 15 April
5) None

41. Supreme Court asked which committee to investigate the IPL 2013 spot fixing and betting scandal, further on 22 April 2014?
1) Gavaskar
2) Sivalal Yadav
3) N.Srinivasan
4) Mukul Mudgal
5) Gurunath Meiyappan

42. India successfully test fired Astra missile on
4 May 2014. It is ..........
1) Air to Surface missile
2) Surface to Air missile
3) Surface to Surface missile
4) Air to Air missile
5) None

ANSWERS:

1-5, 2-3, 3-3, 4-3, 5-3, 6-1, 7-1, 8-3, 9-1, 10-3
11-3, 12-1, 13-1, 14-5, 15-3, 16-2, 17-1, 18-5, 19-5, 20-3
21-5, 22-3, 23-3, 24-5, 25-3, 26-1, 27-1, 28-3, 29-3, 30-5
31-3, 32-3, 33-3, 34-5, 35-5, 36-4, 37-1, 38-4, 39-5, 40-3, 41-4, 42-4.

GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE MCQs FOR SBI P.O & SBI ASSISTANTS EXAM

1.  Recently RBI has released, the Report of the Technical Committee on Enabling PKI in Payment System Applications. Expand the term PKI.

(1) Public Key Information

(2) Public Key Infrastructure

(3) Payment Key Information

(4) Private Key Infrastructure

(5) None of these

2.    Which among the following countries was ranked as the cheapest among the major world economies in a latest report by Germany’s Deutsche Bank?

(1) India                             
(2) Japan

(3) Norway                                    
(4) China

(5) None of these

3.    Which firm became the first Indian retail e-commerce to file for an initial public offering (IPO) on NASDAQ and to be listed on this US stock exchange?

(1) Big Bazzar                   
(2) Home Shop 18

(3) Fair Price                    
(4) Easyday

(5) None of these

4.    Which among the following company will acquire Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited for US$4 BILLION as announced by the two companies?

(1) Novartis India Ltd                               

(2) Sun Pharmaceuticals Limited

(3) Glaxosmithkline Pharmaceuticals Ltd

(4) Alpa Laboratories Ltd

(5) None of these

5.    Recently ING Vysya Life Insurance Company Ltd has become ______?

(1) Exide Life Insurance Company

(2)  General Insurance Company

(3) Export Credit Gurantee Insurance Company

(4) Oriental Insurance Company Ltd.

(5) None of these

6.    18^th SAARC Summit 2014  will be held in ____?

(1) Sri Lanka                     
(2) Bhutan

(3) Maldives                      
(4) Nepal

(5) None of these

7.    Recently India Election commission has offered its expertise in election management and electoral roll preparations to which among the following countries?

(1) Azerbaijan                    
(2) Canada

(3) Poland                         
(4) Maldives

(5) Yemen

8.    Who among the following is the winner of the GD Birla Award 2013?

(1) Rajesh Gopakumar     
(2) Mathangi Sathyamurthy

(3) Vijay Seshadri             
(4) Ramesh Agrawal

(5) None of these

9.    Who among the following actress won the Best Actress Award in the National Film Awards 2014?

(1) Alka Sahania               
(2) Geetanjali Thapa

(3) Deepika Padukone      
(4) Katreena Kaif

(5) None of these

10.  Book: My Years with Rajiv and Sonia is authored by :

(1) Sameer Kochhar        

(2) R L Bhat

(3) R.D.Pradhan              

(4) Kapil Sibbal

(5) None of  these

ANSWERS:

1) 2 2) 1 3) 2 4) 2   5) 1 6) 4 7) 5 8) 1  9) 2 10) 3