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1 SBI(PO).qxd 15-7 pb-2 corrected SBI PROBATIONARY OFFICERS GENERAL AWARENESS 1. Which microfinance Company got license from RBI on 2 nd April 2014 along with IDFC? 1) Muthoot Finance LTD 2) South India Bank 3) Bandhan Financial Services 4) Manappuram Finance LTD 5) Margadarsi Chit Fund Private Limited 2. Bandhan Financial Services got a license to start a bank working from... 1) Chennai 2) Kolkata 3) Pune 4) Mumbai 5) Ahmadabad 3. Who is the Founder, Chairman and Managing Director of Bandhan Financial Services Limited, the first micro finance company to receive banking license in India? 1) Dr. Rajiv B.Lal 2) K.V. Kamath 3) Chandra Shekhar Ghosh 4) Nikesh Arora 5) Sunil Sabharwal 4. In which year Bandhan Financial Services Limited was formed to address the dual objective of poverty alleviation and women empowerment? 1) ) ) ) ) The Stake holder in Bandhan Bank is... 1) International Finance Corporation (IFC) the wing of World Bank Group 2) Singapore s sovereign wealth fund GIC 3) SIDBI 4) RBI 5) 1, 2 and 3 6. Who was appointed as the Chairman of newly established Bandhan Bank? (He is the former Chief Economic Advisor in the Union Ministry of Finance, Government of India.) 1) Aravind Mayaram 2) Aravind Subramanyam 3) Ashok Kumar Lahiri 4) Ila Patnaik 5) Raghuram Rajan 7. Finance Ministry appointed a high level committee to interact with trade and industry on tax related issues headed by... on 3 rd December ) Ashok Kumar Lahiri 2) D. Subba Rao 3) Pranjul Bhandari 4) Arvind Virmani 5) Kaushik Basu 8. Who was appointed as the new MD and CEO of housing finance sector regulator, National Housing Bank (NHB)? 1) Aditya Puri 2) Chanda Kocchar 3) Sriram Kalyanaraman 4) Deepak Parekh 5) Mrs. Shyamala Gopinath

2 9. Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) permitted which bank on 3 rd July 2015 to raise foreign investment limit to 55 %? 1) Kotak Mahindra Bank 2) ING Vysya Bank 3) IndusInd Bank 4) YES Bank 5) Tamilnad Mercantile Bank Limited 10. In order to improve credit discipline and reduce NPA level, on 2 nd July 2015 RBI asked lenders to make use of credit information available with CRILC for opening of current accounts. CRILC stands for... 1) Control Repository of Information on Large Credits 2) Central Response of Information on Large Credits 3) Central Repository of Information on Long Credits 4) Central Repository of Information on Large Credits 5) None 11. InTouch and InTouch Light, the two formats of branches are part of... digital banking strategy 1) Kotak Mahindra bank 2) HDFC Bank 3) YES Bank 4) SBI 5) ICICI 12. The InTouch and InTouch Light formats of SBI branch offer... 1) instant account opening 2) instant issuance of debit card 3) live interaction with experts 4) opportunity to buy financial products and home loans under a single roof 5) All of above 13. Which state government has decided to form a non-banking financial services (NBFS) institution to utilize the surplus money with state-run corporations in form of bank deposits on 30 th June 2015? 1) Assam 2) Kerala 3) Maharashtra 4) Haryana 5) Delhi 14. Money which is frequently transferred between financial institutions in an attempt to maximize interest or capital gain is called... 1) Fiat Money 2) Zero Money 3) Hot money 4) No Money 5) None of above 15. Near money means... 1) The money exchanged with Dollars 2) Money with lower denomination 3) Money in the NRI Account, access by Online Banking 4) Highly liquid assets that can easily be converted into cash 5) None of above

3 16. Money declared as legal tender by government is called... 1) Role Money 2) Key Money 3) Fiat Money 4) Deemed Money 5) Near Money 17. If money borrowed or lent for a day or overnight, that money is called... 1) Hot money 2) Soft money 3) Near money 4) Call Money 5) Dear money 18. A hike in the price of money due to general fall in the price level is called... 1) Appreciation of Money 2) Depreciation of Money 3) Cancellation of Money 4) True Money 5) Falling Money 19. A loan or credit available with a low interest rate is called... 1) Cheap Money 2) Easy Money 3) Fool Money 4) Call Money 5) None of above 20. The money available at high rate of interest is called... 1) Near money 2) Hot money 3) Optional money 4) Fiat money 5) Dear money 21. MMID stands for... 1) Mobile Mint Identifier 2) Mobile Mind Identifier 3) Mobile Money Identifier 4) Most Money Identifier 5) None 22. 'One rank One Pension' scheme relates to... 1) Bank Employees 2) NRIs 3) Unorganised sector Employees 4) Anganwadi Workers 5) Ex- service men 23. National Institute of Ayurveda located at... 1) Hyderabad 2) Nagpur 3) Chennai 4) Jaipur 5) None of above 24. National Institute of Naturopathy located at... 1) Chennai 2) Tiruvananthapuram 3) Kollam 4) Pune 5) Coimbatore 25. World Food Prize 2015 conferred on Sir Fazle Hasan Abed. He belongs to... 1) Iran 2) UK 3) Bangladesh 4) UAE 5) USA 26. G D Birla Award for Scientific Research for 2014 conferred on... 1) Ramam Saha Upadhyayi 2) Sanjeev Galande 3) Trinath Kaushik 4) Chandra Kumar Bhanvathi 5) None of above

4 27. Operation Shiva relates to... 1) rescue of Uttarakhand debris 2) rescue of Indian workers from Yemen 3) bringing back the criminals to normal society by Mumbai Police 4) bringing back black money from Switzerland 5) provide security for Amarnath Yatra 28. National Green Tribunal (NGT) on 2 nd July 2015 imposed a complete ban on plastic bags in the pilgrimage towns of... 1) Haridwar and Varanasi 2) Varanasi and Rishikesh 3) Tirupathi and Rishikesh 4) Haridwar and Rishikesh 5) None of above 29. Which of the following non-asian country has decided to join Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank as a founding member? 1) USA 2) Germany 3) Australia 4) South Korea 5) France 30. India will be the partner country for Russian Industrial Trade Fair INNOPROM 2016 to be held in... 1) Moscow 2) Saint Petersburg 3) Novosibirsk 4) Yekaterinburg 5) Nizhny Novgorod 31. FIFA (Federation Internationale de Football Association) 2014 foot ball cup won by... 1) Germany 2) Italy 3) France 4) USA 5) Uruguay 32. In FIFA 2014, Golden Ball award conferred on... 1) James Rodriguez 2) Manuel Neuer 3) Ferndadz Amla 4) Lionel Messi 5) None 33. FIFA 2014 host Brazil. FIFA 2018 host is... 1) Russia 2) Qatar 3) Brazil 4) South Africa 5) Germany 34. FIFA 2022 host is... 1) Qatar 2) Russia 3) Brazil 4) South Africa 5) Argentina 35. FIFA 2014 Runner is... 1) Argentina 2) Netherlands 3) Brazil 4) UK 5) Russia 36. FIFA 2015 U-17 World Cup host by... 1) Chile 2) USA 3) Argentina 4) France 5) Italy

5 37. The list of coming major Sports events in 2015 given. Locate the correct option. 1) World Archery Championships - Copenhagen - Denmark 2) Military World Games - Mungyeong - South Korea 3) International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) world Championship - Beijing - China 4) World Weightlifting Championships - Houston - USA 5) All of above 38. The COPA AMERICA 2015 details given. Identify the correct statement. 1) COPA AMERICA is an international football tournament for national teams in South America 2) 2015 Championship is the 44 th in series 3) Host is Chile 4) Winner Chile and Runner Argentina 5) All of above 39. On 2 nd July 2015 Central Government gave its approval to the Central Sector Scheme for Promotion of National Agricultural Market through ATIF. ATIF stands for... 1) Agri - Tech Initial Fund 2) Agri - Tech Industrial Fund 3) Agri - Tech Indian Fund 4) Arid - Tech Infrastructure Fund 5) Agri - Tech Infrastructure Fund 40. Government of India on 1 st July 2015 approved the setting up of an Online National Agriculture Market to... 1) provide more options to sellers for selling their produce. 2) provide more options to farmers for selling their produce. 3) provide more options to buyers for reselling their produce. 4) provide more options to farmers for storing their produce 5) None 41. Matti Makkonen, the man responsible for conceiving the idea of short messaging service (SMS) technology, died on 30 th June He belongs to... 1) UK 2) Netherlands 3) Finland 4) Australia 5) New Zeeland 42. Who was appointed as Executive Director of Amnesty International India on 18 th June 2015? 1) Arjun Patel 2) Aakshay Patel 3) Aakar Patel 4) Ramanujam Vatsava 5) Chandana Swamy 43. 'Satantango', 'The Melancholy of Resistance' written by...? 1) Magda Szabo 2) Gyula Illyes 3) Imre Kertesz 4) Laszlo Krasznahorkai 5) None

6 44. India slapped anti - dumping duty on... imports from China, Malaysia and South Korea on 6 th June ) Rice 2) Meat 3) Soft Ware Services 4) Steel 5) Coal 45. One - day International Conference on Nepal's Reconstruction (ICNR) concluded on 25 th June 2015 at... 1) New Delhi 2) Geneva 3) Rome 4) Washington 5) Kathmandu KEY 1-3; 2-2; 3-3; 4-4; 5-5; 6-3; 7-1; 8-3; 9-1; 10-4; 11-4; 12-5; 13-3; 14-3; 15-4; 16-3; 17-4; 18-1; 19-1; 20-5; 21-3; 22-5; 23-4; 24-4; 25-3; 26-2; 27-5; 28-4; 29-3; 30-4; 31-1; 32-4; 33-1; 34-1; 35-1; 36-1; 37-5; 38-5; 39-5; 40-2; 41-3; 42-3; 43-4; 44-4; Writer : A. Veeraswamy

SBI Probationary Officers General Awareness

SBI Probationary Officers General Awareness 1. As per the order of RBI, the existing 'No-Frill' accounts may be treated as... 1) Basic Savings Bank Deposit Account (BSBDA) 2) Basic Savings Book Deposit