Current Affairs, General and Banking Knowledge Thread For Bank Aspirants

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POSCO steel company of south korea ,.... P stands for ---

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Howz ur RBI grade B preparation going on guys ?? What r ur plans and strategies 2 crack d exam??

Puys......i have exam on this sunday for Agriculture insurance company for HR stream...so for 2 days, i will not be able take any quiz.....so if anyone want to host any quiz for 2 days...he is welcome....feel free to take initiative if you want.....keep sharing and learning ...... :smile: :smile: ...sorry from my side that i won't make it for you for 2 days.....sure i will host quiz in coming days...keep visiting.... :smile:

Hello puys, I have some plans for you all and me as well......(for upcoming exams preparation)


1) Conducting Quiz for all sections on different days
2) Questions will be 30 around and time will be of 30 mins. (to increase speed)
3) discussing one hot issues each day(Group discussion)
4) No posts while having quiz time and discussion time.
5) Interview tips and guidance discussion as well if anyone have (experienced in PSU or Other exams)
6) i request all for not to offend any person, no remarks, no mockery of anyone's weakness here.(Boost the confidence of every member to participate and encourage them to join)

Suggestions are invited....open for all...what are your views puys... ??? πŸ˜ƒπŸ˜ƒπŸ˜ƒπŸ˜ƒ

Today's Quiz from my side.... hope you all find it useful


Q1 Market segmentation is useful for

1) Preferential Marketing

2) Target existing markets.

3) Identifying prospects

4) Knowing customers taste


Q2 How will words appear on a word doc page? We call it as?

1) Text formatting

2) Character formatting

3) Point size

4) Type face


Q3 As per the annual report of " State of mothers 2013" India's rank in Mother safety is

1) 142

2) 140

3) 176

4) 150


Q4) Recently hill forts of which state were added to UNESCO world heritage list?

1) Gujarat

2) Rajasthan

3) Karnataka

4) Tamilnadu


Q5) According to a recent study, an increase in mercury level is leading to decline of which species?

1) Polar Bear

2) Wild Goats

3) Penguins

4) Artic Fox

Q6) Approximately what fraction of India's total export is contributed by the MSME sector?


1) 20%

2) 30%

3) 40%

4) 50%

Q7 Once an budget has been presented in the parliament, the government has to get all the money bills related to the budget passed within?

1) 30 days

2) 45 days

3) 60 days

4) 90 days


Q8) Recently RBI has simplified KYC norms for which of the following?

1) Self help groups

2) Joint liability Companies

3) Primary agricultural societies

4) All of them


Q9) The flags of which of the following entities also have their map on them?

1) Kosovo

2) Cyprus

3) Vatican City

4) 1&2

5) All of them


Q10) Narcopolis is a book written by?

1) Jeet Thayil

2) Anita Desai

3) Arvind Adiga

4) Chetan Bhagat


Q11) BANCON 2013 was hosted by?

1) Bank of Maharashtra

2) Bank of Baroda

3) SBI

4) PNB


Q12) In this year's union budget ministry of agriculture was allocated?

1) Rs 27049 Crore

2) Rs 25000 Crore

3) Rs 14000 Crore

4) Rs 83000 Crore


Q13) In MS Access, a table can have how many primary keys?

1) One

2) Two

3) Three

4) Four


Q14) Which of the following is applicable in case of books?

1) Copyright

2) Patent

3) Legal Right

4) Trademark


Q15) SPV in financial sector means?

1) Special purpose vehicle

2) Special Project vehicle

3) Special Project


Answers are in the word doc attached along with the post, they have been marked in bold...


@nikskrish @explore9 @goku007 @shreyas1best @Sidharth_150 @manjarikumari @mansi_raut @pramodk and all other followers of this thread

do check out the Quiz πŸ˜ƒ

@nikskrish @Sidharth_150 @goku007 @shreyas1best and other followers of the thread,

do check out the quiz for today

As nikskrish isnt able to post the quiz, I am giving it a try.

Today's quiz is with an eye on upcoming RBI assistant and grad B xam.. Hope everybody finds it useful.

Q 1) What is zero based budgeting

1) Infinite deficit financing

2) No curtailment in unproductive activities

3) No appraisal of new programs

4) Preparation of new budget every time


Q2) Which sector contributes highest share in gross domestic savings

1) Domestic sector

2) Public sector

3) Government sector

4) Private corporate sector


Q3) Which measure can check inflation?

1) Surplus budgeting

2) Increase in direct transaction

3) Curtailment in public expenditure

4) All of these


Q4) What is MERCOSUR?

1) A program of world bank for poverty eradication

2) Free trade zone of south America

3) A Free trade agreement between EU and South America

4) A treaty between India and Nepal for trade.


Q5) Which of the following contributes highest revenue to exchequer?

1) Corporate Tax

2) Income Tax

3) Service Tax

4) Customs Duty


Q6) Planning and poor a famous book is written by

1) B S Minhas

2) John Maynard Keynes

3) Adam Smith

4) Stephen King


Q7) Primary deficit is measured by fiscal deficit less

1) Revenue deficit

2) Interest payments

3) Public debt

4) Depreciation


Q8) SDR a currency of IMF is in which form?

1) Paper currency

2) Gold reserves

3) Book entry

4) Silver and gold both


Q9) Which of the following is not an quantitative measure for credit control?

1) Open market operations

2) SLR requirements

3) Bank rate

4) Margin requirement for loans


Q10) National income in India is measured by?

1) Planning commission

2) Finance commission

3) Indian statistical institute

4) Central statistical organization

For answers please refer to the doc attached with the post, they have been marked in bold.
@nikskrish @blacksands : This method of putting up the Qs on PG and answer in Word file is great..!!
Can u plz compile the entire Quiz collection into one such Word File? It will be of great help..!!
@techack ye lo all the quizzes in one place mg .... ans in red ...

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Quiz 30


1) Which of the following is the principal liability of the banks ?


A) Deposits

B) Non deposit Borrowings

C) Equity Capital

D) Loans


2) Short fall in fulfilling the targets of priority sector and agricultural

finance by domestic commercial banks shall be deposited with

which of the below entity?


A) RIDF

B) SIDBI

C) RBI

D) IDBI



3) The principal source of bank's revenue is dependent on which of the following ?


A) Income from cash assets

B) miscellaneous income

C) loans and securities

D) deposit costs


4) LIBOR stands for ?


A) london interbank offered rate

B) london intra bank offer rate

C) lower inter bank offer rate

D) none of these


5) Banks can increase the net income by the following options ?


A) Improving tax management to reduce tax liabilities

B) shifting their preferences towards less costly deposits and other borrowings

C) increasing the average yield on each asset

D) all of the above


6) which of the following are part of the financial outflows of banks ?


A) deposit costs

B) non deposit borrowing costs

C) salaries and wages expenses

D) all of these


7) which of the following is not an imperfect note ?


A) washed note

B) bleached note

C) mutilated note

D) oiled note


8) which of the following committee is related to Micro financing ?


A) Nayak committee

B) tandon committee

C) vyas committee

D) narasimham committee


9) funded services under corporate banking does not include ?


A) working capital finance

B) bill discounting

C) export credit

D) letters of credit


10) what is the short cut key to display save as dialog box in microsoft word ?


A) F5

B) F1

C) F12

D) F11


11) cache memory is an example of which of the following ?


A) Virtual memory

B) non volatile memory

C) static random access memory

D) Secondary memory


12) A system software includes which of them in the list ?


A) linkers

B) debuggers

C) compilers

D) all of these


13) the keys ctrl, shift, alt are also known as ??


A) function keys

B) modifier keys

C) supporting keys

D) none of these


14) which of these settings are automatic and standardized ??


A) peripheral

B) default

C) use friendly

D) none of these


15) data redundancy can be eliminated by using proper ?


A) operating system

B) database management system

C) network system

D) ERP


16) Which indian movie has won the P A Backer Foundation award for best

movie in the year 2012 in april 2013?


A) indian rupee

B) spirit

C) jawan of vellimala

D) Leela the never ending play


17) Which internet company has acquired mobile app builder company

named as Parse in april 2013?


A) facebook

B) yahoo

C) microsoft

D) google


18) which state has announced to set up first public health university

in india recently in april 2013?


A) west bengal

B) odisha

C) assam

D) bihar


19) in marketing, zero level channel stands for ??


A) Retailers directly selling to the consumer

B) sales persons directly selling to the consumer

C) manufacturer directly selling to the consumer

D) None of these


20) In BCG matrix, business divisions with low growth rate and

high market share are termed as ?


A) Question mark

B) star performers

C) dogs

D) cash cows



All the best..... :smile: smile:

some1 plz provide me link to apply for rbi assistant ???

Hello all,

I am inviting you for quiz at 10:15 PM.....

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Quiz-31

1) Name the port whose operational controlled were transferred in the hands of

Chinese Overseas Port Holdings Ltd. by Pakistan in the last week of January 2013.


A) Keti Bandar Port

B) Gwadar port

C) Karachi Port

D) Bin Qasim Port

2) Name the person who was nominated as the U.S. interior secretary for looking

after the huge energy reserves as well as the national parks by the US President

Barack Obama in February 2013.


A) Sally Jewell

B) Anne Marbury Hutchinson

C) Phillis Wheatley

D) Sarah Josepha Hale

3) What amount of loan is supposed to be provided by Asian Development Bank

to India over next 3 years?


A) 6 Billion Dollars

B) 4.5 Billion Dollars

c) 4 Billion Dollars

D) 4.8 billion dollars

4) Name the International tennis Player who had won Men's Singles Trophy in the

Madrid Open 2013 ?(Lawn tennis)


A) Stanislas Wawrinka

B) Rafael Nadal

C) Andy Murray

D) Novak Djokovic

5) The Boxers from which Country won the 2013 Invitational FXTM International

Limassol Boxing Cup held in Limassol, Cyprus on 19 May 2013.


A) Belgium

B) Germany

C) Pakistan

D) India

6) What is the name of six huge wildfires that broke out in California on

2 May 2013 near Camarillo?


A) McNally Fire

B) Camarillo Springs Wildfire

C) Esperanza Fire

D) Cedar Fire

7) Who bought Online mapping service WAZE for a deal of 1.03 billion dollars recently?

A) Samsung

B) Apple

C) Google

D) Nokia

8) Which African country passed a bill, in which gay marriages were declared

as criminal offence?

A) Nigeria

B) Libya

C) Mauritius

D) Namibia

9) Name of Afghanistan parliament

A) Shora

B) Majlis

C) parliament

D) Majesty

10) In which state of India, gold coins dating back to gupta period were unearthed

on 1st June 2013?

A) west Bengal

B) Punjab

C) Maharashtra

D) Gujarat

11) What is the name of India's first SEBI registered venture capital fund which

was launched on 6th June??

A) Dali Indian chamber of commerce and industry

B) Dalit Indian chamber of culture and industry

C) Dalit Indian chamber of commodity and industry

D) Dalit Indian chamber of corporation and industry

12) What is the name of book authored by rukhsar amrohvi which was released

by Mr. amid ansari on 6th June?

A) Hum kaise rakhwale hain

B) Dard e dil likhun kab tak

C) Dil tu Dena hu tha

D) Roshan andhere

13) In Ecommerce and marketing, B2C stands for??

A) Business to customer

B) Consumer to business

C) Business to consumer

D) None of these

14) Why does company establish sales territories?

A) To reduce selling expenses

B) To improve sales force efficiency

C) To secure optimum market coverage

D) None of these

15) Which in the list is not a part of 4 C's of marketing?

A) Creativity

B) Consumer

C) Cost

D) Convenience

16) Who is a first person to suggest an idea to buy/use a product/service?

A) Initiator

B) Influencer

C) Decider

D) None of these

17) An email address contains?

A) Username followed by password

B) Username followed by domain name

C) Domain name followed by user name

D) None of these

18) In networking, VPN stands for?

A) Virtual private network

B) Virtual personal network

C) Virtual public network

D) None of these

19) Keyboard shortcuts are used to view the properties of selected object?

A) shift+ enter

B) shift+ space

C) alt+enter

D) ctrl+enter

20) Which in the list stores the intermediate data when computer processes the data??

A) Hard disk

B) ROM

C) RAM

D) None of these


All the best......good luck....Answers will be available after 10:50 PM with word file attached here.. πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘