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Banking and financial Awareness Previous Year Questions

Q 41. An ECS transaction gets bounced and you are unable to recover your money from your customer. Under which Act criminal action can be initiated ?

(a) Indian Penal Code
(b) Negotiable Instruments Act
(c) Criminal Procedure Code
(d) Payment and Settlements Act
(e) Indian Contract Act
Ans: (d)

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Q 42. Government as part of the recaptalisation plan, infused capital in State Bank of India recently. Indicate the approximate capital infusion.

(a) ` 500 cr.
(b) ` 1,000 cr.
(c) ` 1,500 cr.
(b) ` 2,000 cr.
(e) ` 3,000 cr.
Ans: (e)

Q 43. The NRIs while investing in the equity of a company cannot buy more than prescribed percentage of the paid up capital of that company. What is the prescribed percentage?

(a) 2%
(b) 3%
(c) 4%
(d) 5%
(e) 6%
Ans: (d)

Q 44. Which of the following is an investment advisory discipline?

(a) Corporate Industrial Finance
(b) Offshare Banking
(c) Wholesale Banking
(d) Wealth Management
(e) Trade Finance
Ans: (d)

Q 45. The process by which a life insurance policyholder can transfer all rights, title and interest- under a policy contract to a third person is known as

(a) Assignment of the policy
(b) Hypothecation of the policy
(c) Reinvestment of the policy
(d) Negotiation of the policy
(e) Nomination of the policy
Ans: (a)

Q 46. Which of the following is not a mode of foreign capital inflow in India ?

(a) FDI
(b) NRI deposits
(c) FII
(d) No frills accounts
(e) None of these
Ans: (d)

Q 47. Which of the following aptly describes the business of insurance?

(a) Insurance is about collective hearing of risk
(b) Insurance pays to one person from money collected from another person
(c) Insurance is about disaster management
(d) Insurance is-about paying for others’ mistakes
(e) None of these
Ans: (a)

Q 48. The maximum amount of the total revenue earned by the Government of India comes from

(a) Income Tax
(b) Customs Duty
(c) Excise Duty
(d) Value Added Tax
(e) Corporate Tax
Ans: (c)

Q 49. ‘Financial Inclusion’ is the latest powerful tool adopted by the Reserve Bank of lndia to fulfil the basic objective of

(a) upliftment of population lying Below Poverty Line
(b) connecting every Indian to the Country’s Banking System
(c) ensuring bank finance to all the landless agriculturists
(d) overall financial growth backed by inflation control
(e) inclusion of latest technology in Financial Sector of the country
Ans: (b)

Q 50. Money laundering means

(a) Hiding of income source mainly to avoid Income Tax
(b) Money acquired through criminal source
(c) Money acquired from undisclosed sources and deposited in foreign banks
(d) Process of conversion of money obtained illegally to appear to have originated from legitimate sources
(e) Money acquired from drug trafficking
Ans: (d)

Q 51. Who amongst the following presented the Union Budget 2012 – 13 in the Parliament?

(a) Manmohan Singh
(b) P. Chidambaram
(c) Sonia Gandhi
(d) Lalu Prasad Yadav
(e) Pranab Mukherjee
Ans: (e)

Q 52. As per new estimate what is per capita income in India ?

(a) ` 30,000/-
(b) ` 40,000/-
(c) More than ` 50,000/- but less than ` 58,000/-
(d) ` 60,000/-
(e) More than ` 75,000/- but less than ` 1 Lac
Ans: (c)

Q 53. The Reserve Bank of India does NOT decide the _______.

(a) Rate of Repo and Reverse Repo
(b) Marginal Standing Facility Rates
(c) Bank Rate
(d) Rate of Dearness Allowance to Govt. Employees
(e) Statutory Liquidity Ratio
Ans: (d)

Q 54. Which of the following is an investment advisory discipline?

(a) Corporate Industrial Finance
(b) Offshare Banking
(c) Wholesale Banking
(d) Wealth Management
(e) Trade Finance
Ans: (d)

Q 55. According to the provisions of the income Tax Act, 1961 a resident individual is categorise as a ‘very senior citizen’ when he is

(a) 80 years of age or older
(b) 75 years of age or older
(c) 90 years of age or older
(d) 85 years of age or older
(e) 65 years of age or older
Ans: (a)

Q 56. Which of the following is/are the objective of the new industrial policy of the Government of India ?
To transform India into a major partner and player in the global trade
To maintain a sustained growth in productivity
To become the biggest exporter of horticultural products in South East Asia

(a) Only
(b) Only
(c) Only and
(d) Only and
(e) All , and
Ans: (c)

Q 57. Which of the following is/are commodity/ies on which subsidy is given to farmers/poor in India?

(a) Fertilizer
(b) Kerosene (c) LPG

(a) Only (a)
(b) Only (b)
(c) Only(c)
(d) Only

(a) and (c)
(e) All (a),
(b) and (c)
Ans: (e)

Q 58. If Indian Banking industry had demonstrated its resilience to external shocks in 2008-09, the credit goes to
Policies of the RBI & the Government of India
Strength of Indian Business Houses
Foreign aid/investments to Indian companies

(a) Only
(b) Only
(c) Only
(d) All , and
(e) None of these
Ans: (d)

Q 59. Which of the following correctly explains Reverse Merger?

(a) It is the acquisition of a private company by a public company
(b) It is also known as Special Takeover
(c) The privately traded corporation is called a “shell”
(d) It involves the reorganization of capitalization of the acquiring company
(e) All of the above
Ans: (d)

Q 60. Which of the following is/are commodity/ies on which subsidy is given to farmers/ poor in India?
Fertiliser Kerosene
LPG

(a) Only
(b) Only
(c) Only
(d) Only &
(e) All , &
Ans: (e)

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