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Banking Awareness | Set 8

1. Which of the following is the full form of the term SLR as used in the banking sector?

Correct : B. Statutory Liquidity Ratio

2. What is ‗STT‘?

Correct : B. Securities transaction tax

3. The custodian of FOREX Reserve of GOI is

Correct : C. RBI

4. Expand FIPB –

Correct : C. Foreign Investment Promotion Board

5. Which of the following will be the authorised operational units?

Correct : B. BBPOU

6. In primary and secondary markets dealer of e) None of these Government securities is known as?

Correct : C. Primary dealer

7. What is the maximum age for MD and CEO in Private Sector Banks set by RBI?

Correct : A. 70

8. have been awarded the license by the Central Bank to operate Bharat Bill Payment System (BBPS) recently.

Correct : A. Common Service Centres (CSC)

9. Commercial paper may be issued for a period of ?

Correct : C. 7 days to one year

10. is the rate at which commercial banks charge on their surplus funds with RBI.

Correct : B. Reverse Repo Rate

11. Loan for fish rearing is covered under Prirority Sector as advances

Correct : D. Direct Agriculture

12. Large amounts of cheques are processed by using

Correct : B. MICR

13. Which of the following cannot be called as a Debt Instrument as referred in financial transactions?

Correct : C. Stocks

14. What is the condition for a bank to be called a "Scheduled Bank" ?

Correct : B. Its branch network should be over 100

15. A worldwide financial messaging network which exchange messages between banks and financial institutions is known as-

Correct : B. SWIFT

16. Which of the following is not a ‗Money Market Instrument‘?

Correct : D. Equity shares

17. Which is the first Indian company to be listed in NASDAQ ?

Correct : D. Infosys

18. Loans of very small amount given to low income group is called-

Correct : D. Micro Credit

19. Bank rate implies the rate of interest-

Correct : D. At which the RBI discounts the Bill of Exchange

20. What do you mean by Mortgage?

Correct : B. A security created on immovable property for a loan given by a bank

21. The Bank of Calcutta, Bank of Bombay and Bank of Madras were merged in 1921 to form

Correct : B. Imperial Bank of India

22. Monetary Policy of RBI does not include             ?

Correct : B. Reduction of taxes

23. Monetary policy committee will consist of how many members?

Correct : C. 6

24. If the RBI increase reverse repo rate, consequently

Correct : A. Banks will have less money to lend

25. If the stock markets are declining then it is called as .

Correct : C. Bear run

26. To maintain price stability, while keeping in mind the objective of growth, RBI Act 1934 has been amended by the finance Act, 2016 to provide for a statutory and institutionalized framework for MPC. In this context, MPC stands for .

Correct : E. Monetary Policy Committee

27. RBI issue currency rupee notes on bases of                       .

Correct : D. Only a and b

28. Who is the ex-officio chairperson of the Monetary policy Committee (MPC)?

Correct : C. RBI Governor

29. What is inflation?

Correct : C. increase in value of commodities

30. Which of the following is/are essential features of a genuine currency note?

Correct : D. All of the above

31. What is Call Money ?

Correct : A. Money borrowed or lent for a day or over night

32. NCAER is located in

Correct : B. New Delhi

33. The headquarters of Investment Information & Credit Rating Agency(ICRA) Limited is located in

Correct : D. Gurugram

34. Which of the following is a measure taken by Reserve Bank of India to control inflation in our country?

Correct : D. Raising of Repo / Reverse Repo Rate

35. The Indian person who received the Nobel Prize in Economic?

Correct : C. Amartya Sen

36. What does the M in M-banking stands for?

Correct : E. mobile

37. Where is the head quarter of sequrities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)?

Correct : C. Mumbai

38. What is Repo Rate?

Correct : B. It is a rate at which RBI buys government securities from banks

39. Which of the following committees has given its recommendations on ‗Financial Inclusion‘?

Correct : B. Rangrajan Committee

40. A customer wishes to purchase some US dollars in India. She/he should go to:

Correct : C. RBI or any branch of a bank which is authorized for such business

41. Which of the following products of a bank is specifically designed to provide financial help to children in their higher studies in India or in a foreign nation?

Correct : C. Educational loan

42. Which amongst the following organizations make major credit policies for the RRBs?

Correct : A. NABARD

43. The head office of the National bank for agriculture and rural development (NABARD) is located in?

Correct : C. Mumbai

44. Which of the following is an easy way of providing credit to the farmer community?

Correct : A. Kisan credit card

45. Many times we read in newspapers that the RBI has revised certain rates/ ratios under LAF. What is the full form of LAF?

Correct : A. Liquidity Adjustment Facility.

46. Which of the following is an international forum to discuss and implement supervisory norms in all the banks of the world?

Correct : A. Basel Committee

47. What is the full form of NBFC as used in the financial sector?

Correct : E. None of these

48. The functions of the lead bank are performed by:

Correct : D. A bank designed for this purpose

49. Central Co-operative banks work at:

Correct : A. District level

50. The largest public sector commercial bank of India is the

Correct : C. SBI

51. Which one of the following statements is correct regarding increase in the CRR in India?

Correct : B. It reduces credit creation

52. Which among the following sectors contributes most to the saving in India?

Correct : D. Household sector

53. Government of India, for the first time nationalized 14 large commercial banks in the year

Correct : C. 1969

54. PAN card issued by the income tax department cannot be used for which of the following purpose?

Correct : B. Proof of a registered tax payer

55. Mohammad yunnus, who has been awarded Nobel peace prize in 2006, is a citizen of

Correct : A. Bangladesh

56. Which of the following is not a banking related term?

Correct : D. Radiation

57. Insurances service provided by various bank is commonly known as:

Correct : D. Banc assurance

58. In India, the bank NABARD does not provide refinance to:

Correct : D. Export-import bank

59. ‗Repo Rate‘ is the rate at which:

Correct : C. The RBI lends to banks

60. Which of the following public sector bank emblem figures a dog and the words ‗faithful, friendly‘ in it?

Correct : D. Syndicate bank

61. Which is the highest bank in the banking structure of India?

Correct : D. RBI

62. Which of the following payment instrument introduced by the banks is known as plastic money?

Correct : B. Credit Cards

63. Which one of the following is a private bank?

Correct : D. Punjab Bank

64. Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched?

Correct : D. IDBI … World bank

65. In banking, CORE stands for .

Correct : A. Centralized Online Real-Time Exchange

66. received Reserve Bank of India (RBI)‘s permission to open its first international branch in Dubai. ?

Correct : A. Federal Bank

67. Monetary Policy as an arm of the economic policy is administered by

Correct : B. Reserve Bank of India

68. The appointments of Banking Ombudsman will be carried out by which of the following?

Correct : B. RBI

69. India‘s first banking robot Lakshmi launched by in Chennai (Tamil Nadu). Lakshmi will be first onsite huamanoid (robot) in India ?

Correct : B. City Union Bank

70. When Banks accept a fixed sum of money from an individual for a definite term and pay on Maturity with interest, the deposit is known as

Correct : B. term Deposit

71. Regional Rural Banks are sponsored by

Correct : A. Nationalised Commercial Bank

72. Which Bank is called Apex Bank?

Correct : C. Reserve Bank of India

73. Which of the following is known as demat accounts?

Correct : A. Accounts in which share of various companies are traded in electric form.

74. When a bank returns a cheque unpaid, it is called

Correct : D. dishonour of the cheque

75. The rate at which banks borrows from the RBI is called

Correct : B. Repo Rate

76. What was the purpose of setting up Narsimhan committee-2?

Correct : B. banking reform process

77. Which of the following terms is used in Banking?

Correct : E. Inflation

78. Initial repayment holiday given to borrower for repayment of loan is called as

Correct : B. moratorium

79. Which of the following is the Banker of the Banks?

Correct : C. RBI

80. The Bank of Calcutta, Bank of Bombay and Bank of Madras were merged in 1921 to form

Correct : B. Imperial Bank of India

81. Which report is published by World Bank every year?

Correct : B. world development report

82. Payment of a cheque cannot be made on a cash counter of the bank if the cheque is:-

Correct : B. cross

83. What is a corporate Hedging?

Correct : B. It is a mechanism to protect firm’s Exposure to market risk

84. Which of the following institutions is involved in granting Housing Loans?

Correct : E. HDFC

85. Expand terms means IFRS

Correct : D. International Financial Reporting Standards

86. Banks keep notes/ coins in Currency Chest on Behalf of which of the following?

Correct : C. The Reserve Bank of India

87. The Chairman of SEBI is nominated by?

Correct : C. Government of India

88. Banking services provided to Special Economic Zones(SEZ) units have been exempted from

Correct : D. Service Tax

89. What is the full form of forex?

Correct : B. Foreign Exchange

90. Stock Exchanges generally work in -

Correct : B. Secondary Market

91. Loan of very sall amount given to low income group is called-

Correct : D. Micro Credit

92. Increase in net RBI creit for central government represents-

Correct : B. monetized deficit

93. Where is the head quarter of world Health organization (WHO)?

Correct : B. Jineva

94. Merchant banking in India is governed by:-

Correct : A. SEBI

95. Which of the following agencies in India is responsible for computation of national income?

Correct : B. CSO

96. Currency Swap is an instrument to manage

Correct : D. cash flows in different currency

97. A bank's 'fixed deposit' is also referred to as a............?

Correct : A. term deposit

98. In order to attract more foreign exchange the Govt of India decided to allow foreign investment in LLP firms.What is full form of ―LLP‖ as used in this reference?

Correct : E. Limited Liability Partnership

99. Which of the following bank had its old name as ‗Devkaran Nanji Banking Company Limited‘?

Correct : B. Dena Bank

100. In banking parlance, ‗NPA‘ stands for                    ?

Correct : B. Non Performing Asset