Current Affairs, General and Banking Knowledge Thread For Bank Aspirants

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1) For paying which among the following will a bank standing order be

suitable?

(a) Telephone bills

(b) Electricity bills

(c) Grocery bills

(d) Mortgage repayments

2) A Bank draft can be defined as a/an

(a) Letter from commercial bank

(b) Cheque drawn on the bank itself

(c) Direction to a banker to collect a customer's debt

(d) Instruction to dishonour a stop payment

3) When RBI sells Government securities, its result is that

(a) The liquidity in the banking system increases

(b) The liquidity in the banking system remains unchanged

(c) The liquidity in the banking system gets diminished

(d) None of the above

4) It has been made mandatory for NBFCs to get themselves registered with

€Ĺš €Ĺš before July 8, 1997.

(a) RBI

(b) SEBI

(c) Ministry of Finance

(d) CBDT

5) Which of the following is not an instrument in the hands of RBI to check

the inflation in our country?

(a) Open Market Operations (OMO)

(b) Special Drawing Rights (SDR)

(c) Bank Rate (BR)

(d) Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR)

6) In India which among the following is/are a part of Legal Tender Money?

(a) Both coins and currency notes

(b) Both coins and bank drafts

(c) Both currency notes and SDRs

(d) Only currency notes issued by RBI

7) __________has become the 1st state in India to launch RBI's e- payment

system for commercial tax payers.

(a) Goa

(b) Kerala

(c) Karnataka

(d) Maharashtra

8) In which among the following types comes the Interest Rate Risk?

(a) Credit risk

(b) Market risk

(c) Operational risk

(d) All the above

9) Which among the following is true regarding Forex (Foreign Exchange)

Markets?

(a) Foreign Exchange markets are a type of localized markets

(b) Foreign exchange markets operate within the time zone of region

(c) Foreign exchange markets are dynamic and round the clock markets

(d) Foreign exchange markets are used only for business transactions

10) Securities Trading Corporation of India Limited (STCI) has been promoted

jointly by __________and Public sector Banks.

(a) SEBI

(b) RBI

(c) SIDBI

(d) ICICI Ltd

11) ____________is an agreement under which an issuing Bank at the

request of the Importer undertakes to make payment to the exporter against

certain specified documents.

(a) Bill of exchange

(b) Letter of Exchange

(c) Letter of Credit

(d) Bill of entry


12) Which in the list is not a valid attribute or criteria for selecting a market segment?

(a) Measurability

(b) Accessibility

(c) Stable and consistent

(d) None of these

13) In Marketing, _____ describes the values of having a well known brand name.

(a) Brand Loyalty

(b) Brand equity

(c) Brand value

(d) None of these

14) In product life cycle, Break even happens normally in which phase?

(a) Introduction

(b) Growth

(c) Maturity

(d) Decline

15) Services offered by the banks fall under which category of goods?

(a) Tangible

(b) Capital goods

(c) Intangible

(d) Decline

16) A characteristic of the ASCII code is

(a) Its limitation to a maximum of 96 character configuration

(b) Its use of the zone codes 1010, 1011, and 1100

(c) Its independence from Hollerith code

(d) All of these

17) The computer code for interchange of information between terminals is?

(a) ASCII

(b) BDCB

(c) BCDIC

(d) Hollerith

18) The daily processing of corrections to customer accounts best exemplifies

the processing mode of

(a) Batch processing

(b) Real time processing

(c) Time sharing

(d) Offline processing

19) A temporary storage area, attached to the CPU, for I/O operations, is a

(a) Channel

(b) Buffer

(c) Register

(d) Core

20) Which of the following is true?

(a) Plotter are not available for microcomputer systems

(b) Micro computer are not programmed like conventional computers

(c) Mini computers are task oriented

(d) The contents of ROM are easily changed



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India in June 2013 offered _______ million Dollars credit to Myanmar for establishing a Special Economic Zone at Sittwe in Myanmar's Buyer's Credit Scheme under National Export Insurance Account?

The cash strapped new Government of Pakistan on 12 June 2013 announced hike of ___________ percent in its defence budget to 627 billion rupees for the fiscal 2013-14?

The Lower House of the Parliament of Russia on 11 June 2013 approved a bill that stigmatized gay people and banned providing children any information about homosexuality in the country. What is the name of the Lower House of Parliament in Russia?

Quiz 36 and 37..... do find attachments.... :smile:

Nuclear Reactors of Areva, the French company will start the production first in China before supplying the production to _____________ in Maharashtra. The French Ambassador to India Francois Richier announced that Areva will facilitate two reactors to China. These reactors are under construction.

World observed the World Refugee Day for the first time in the year?

World Music Day is celebrated every year on?

What is the meaning of the word, Fête de la Musique?

World Music Day for the first time was celebrated in the year and in which city?

India, the United States and Australia in the third week of May 2013 came together to develop new _____________ of rice and wheat, two of the major crops in the world?

IMF in May 2013 lowered its forecast of Chinese Economic Growth Rate at _______?

As per latest Report by the Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) which country is the largest consumer and producer of Chickpeas in the world?

What Percent of Equity sale was approved by Coal India Limited in an Inter-Ministerial Group (IMG) on 10 May 2013?

By what percentage Retail inflation declined in April 2013 because of reduction in prices of vegetables, edible oil and protein-based items as per the data released on 13 May 2013.

By what percent the Indian exports grew in the month of April 2013 and stood at 24.16 billion US Dollar.

Who beat FRENCH OPEN winner Rafael Nadal in Wimbledon Open 2013 (Lawn Tennis) (12 time grand slam champion) in the first round match ????

Which state has proposed to set up india's first islamic bank ??

Trade control in india is regulated by

In which year, India launched its Family planning program ?