IBPSGeneral Awareness

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1 IBPSGeneral Awareness 1. Bank for International Settlements (BIS) serves central banks in their pursuit of monetary and financial stability to foster international cooperation in those areas and to act as a bank for central banks. Its head office is in Basel. Where is Basel? 1) France 2) Switzerland 3) Germany 4) Japan 5) Australia 2. BIS was established on 17 th May... 1) ) ) ) ) BIS has two representative offices. One in Hong Kong and another one in... 1) India 2) Mexico 3) China 4) Japan 5) Switzerland 4. BIS board of Directors meet continuously for the smooth working of BIS. BIS chairman is? 1) Christine Legarde 2) Christian Noyer 3) Stephen S Poloz 4) Ignazio Visco 5. Which Indian is one of the Board of Directors in BIS (Bank for International Settlements)? 1) Arun Jaitley 2) Chidambaram 3) Raghuram Rajan 4)Arundhathi Subramanyam 5) S. S. Mundra th annual general meeting of BIS held at... 1) Berlin 2) Tokyo 3) Basel 4) New Delhi 7. Which international committee formulates broad supervisory standards and guidelines and recommends statements of best practice in banking supervision? 1) IMFC 2) FEDBANK 3) BASEL 4) WTO 5) WEF R PROBATIONARY OFFICERS

2 8. Present chairman of BASEL committee is... 1) Stefan Ingves 2) Irving Fisher 3) William Coen 4) Roger Fedrik 9. Stefan Ingves belongs to... 1) Japan 2) China 3) USA 4) Sweden 5) India 10. The BASEL II committee recommendations given below. Pick up correct one. 1) BASEL II committee combined all the types of risks in to three categories. 2) They are credit risk, market risk and operations risk. 3) The committee identified three pillars of risk management. 4) They are minimum capital requirement (also called Capital Adequacy Ratio, supervisory review process and market discipline). 5) All of above 11. Capital Adequacy Ratio means... 1) A ratio of bank's deposits to its risk. 2) A ratio of central bank's deposits to its risk. 3) A ratio of a bank's capital to its risk. 4) A ratio of bank's capital to its total deposits. 12. The correct formula of Capital Adequacy Ratio (CAR)... Tier I capital + Tier II capital 1) 10 Tier I capital Tier II capital 2) 100 Tier I capital Tier II capital 3) 100 Tier I capital Tier II capital 4) 100 Tier I capital + Tier II capital 5) 100

3 13. Tier I capital and Tier II capital details are given. Pick up correct one. 1) Tier I capital includes equity capital and disclosed reserves. 2) Usually the stock under Tier I capital is not irredeemable and non - cumulative. 3) Tier II capital is a secondary bank capital that includes items such as undisclosed reserves, general loss reserves. 4) Tier II capital includes subordinated term debt also. 5) All of above 14. Basel III norms fully implemented by 1 st January 2019 by the member nations banks, but RBI said it is giving little bit relaxation that Indian banks, which must fully implement the BASEL III norms by... 1) 31 st March ) 31 st March ) 31 st March ) 30 st September As per Basel III, banks would be required to maintain capital Adequacy Ratio of... including Capital conservation buffer (CCB)? 1) ) ) 9.5 4) 8.5 5) As per Basel III core capital would be... 1) 8.0% 2) 4.0% 3) 10.5% 4)11.75% 17. As per Basel III common equity in tier-1 capital would be... 1) 7% 2) 8.5% 3) 10% 4) 9% 5) 1% 18. Union Cabinet raised the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) limit in Defence sector from 26 percent to... 1) 49% 2) 74% 3) 100% 4) 51% 19. Rashtriya Gokul Mission launched by Union Government on 28 th July 2014 to promote conservation and development of indigenous breeds of... 1) Pigeons 2) Buffalos 3) Cows 4) Tigers

4 20. Union Labour and Employment Minister is... 1) Narendra Singh Tomar 2) Najma Hepthulla 3) Ram Vilas Paswan 4) Dharmendra Pradhan 5) V.K. Singh 21. Kamal Beniwal, the governor of... was removed from office by president of India on 6 th August ) Mizoram 2) Manipur 3) Assam 4) Tripura 5) Arunachal Pradesh 22. Robert Frederick Panara died recently in USA. He is an expert in... 1) Chess Play 2) Sea Studies 3) Deaf Studies 4) Marine Study 23. Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission is... 1) P.L. Punia 2) Mamatha Sharma 3) R. K. Sinha 4) Kushal Singh 24. Nehchal Sandhu resigned on 30 th July He is a... 1) National Security Advisor 2) Advisor to PM on skill development 3) Advisor to PM on Science and Technology 4) Deputy National Security Advisor 25. 'Copley Medal ' conferred by Royal Society of London on... who discovered DNA fingerprinting in ) Robert Edwards 2) Tim Berners-Lee 3) Prof Sir Alec Jeffreys 4)Thoma Edison 26. Bharat Gaurav declared by East Bengal Club. This year this award conferred on. 1) Lata Mangeshkar 2) Bachendri Pal 3) Vikas Goud 4) Abhinav Bhindra 5) Poorna Malavath was selected as the chairperson of the Arjuna Awards Selection Committee on 7 th August ) Gavaskar 2) Vijaya Kumar 3) Kapil Dev 4) Raj Nath Singh 5) Jaspal Rana

5 28. Who heads the Dronacharya Award Selection Committee appointed on 7 th August 2014? 1) P.V. Sindhu 2) Abhinav Bhindra 3) Ajitpal Singh 4) N. Srinivasan 29. Lok Sabha speaker Sumitra Mahajan set up committee under the chairmanship of... to review Parliament security on 7 th August ) Anil Goswami 2) R.K. Singh 3) G.K. Pillai 4) Aravind Mayaram 5) Saurabh Chandra 30. Liberia declared a state of emergency over the outbreak of Ebola Virus on 6 th August Liberia capital is Monrovia, currency is the Liberian Dollar and its president is... 1) Joseph Boakai 2) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf 3) Alex J. Tyler 4) Rongoti Pakei 31. Which nation top in the medal tally clinching 58 Gold medals in the recent concluded CWG 2014? 1) India 2) Scotland 3) England 4) Australia 5) Canada 32. India won 15 Gold, 30 Silver and... bronze to stand in the 5 th position in the CWG. 1) 18 2) 17 3) 20 4) India won the highest medals (4 Gold, 9 Silver and 4 Bronze) in... in the CWG ) Wrestling 2) Boxing 3) Badminton 4) Shooting 5) Weight lifting 34. In which event, India won the highest 5 gold medals in Glasgow CWG? 1) Weightlifting 2) Badminton 3) Athletics 4) Wrestling 5) Shooting 35. Sanjita Khumukchan won the gold in CWG from India in the Women's Weightlifting (48 kg). She belongs to... 1) Telengana 2) AP 3) Sikkim 4) Manipur 5) Goa

6 36. Sukhen Dey won the gold in which event in CWG? He belongs to West Bengal. 1) Shooting 2) Badminton 3) Athletics 4) Weightlifting 37. In the men's 77 kg weightlifting event, who got gold in CWG. He belongs to Tamilnadu? 1) Jitu Rai 2) Vikas Gowda 3) Kashyap Parupalli 4) Sathish Sivalingam 5) Amit Kumar 38. Union Health Minister asked all Indian airports to setup Ebola check posts to screen and track passengers travelling from... on 6 th August ) West Africa 2) USA 3) Middle Asia 4) South East Asia 39. HRD ministry set up a four member committee to review the present status of University Grants Commission (UGC) on 3 rd August 2014 under the chairmanship of... 1) Abdul Kalam 2) Smrithi Irani 3) Hari Gautam 4) Ved Prakash 40. Third phase of Science Express Biodiversity Special (SEBS) was flagged off on 28 th July 2014 from... 1) Uddampur Railway Station 2)Manwel Railway Station 3) Chennai Railway Station 4) Shirdi Railway Station 5) Safdarjung Railway Station 41. Repurchase of its own company or bonds from the holders is called... 1) Roll back 2) Steep back 3) Buy back 4) Veil back 5) Step back 42. Sale of shareholding by an individual or institution in order to raise cash is called? 1) Sale 2) Pledge 3) Correlative Money 4) Disinvestments 43. An organization that mobilizes the surpluses of savers and invests the same in different securities is... 1) Mutual Fund 2) Post Office Securities 3) Micro Finance Institutes 4) Currency Agencies

7 44. On 10 th July 2014, UNO World Urbanization Prospects report released. As per it the most populous country in the world is Tokyo having 38 million population. Which city got second rank having 25 million population? 1) New York 2) Milan 3) Jakarta 4) Ottawa 5) New Delhi 45. 'Strictly Personal: Manmohan and Gursharan' written by... 1) Sanjay Baru 2) Ketan Parekh 3) Paban Parekh 4) Daman Singh 46. 'Manpower Planning in Judiciary' is a report submitted to Central Government by Law Commission. The present 20 th Law commission headed by... 1) Justice Sadasivam 2) Justice R.M. Lodha 3) Justice A.P. Shah 4) Justice Dalveer Bhandari 5) Justice Lahoti ANSWERS 1-2; 2-2; 3-2; 4-2; 5-3; 6-3; 7-3; 8-1; 9-4; 10-5; 11-3; 12-5; 13-5; 14-2; 15-1; 16-1; 17-1; 18-1; 19-3; 20-1; 21-1; 22-3; 23-3; 24-4; 25-3; 26-2; 27-3; 28-3; 29-2; 30-2; 31-3; 32-4; 33-4; 34-4; 35-4; 36-4; 37-4; 38-1; 39-3; 40-5; 41-3; 42-4; 43-1; 44-5; 45-4; Writer: A. Veera Swamy