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Banking and financial Awareness Previous Year Questions

Q 21. The Bank should comply and intimate the compliance of Award to Ombudsman?

(a) Within Two Months
(b) Within 3 months
(c) Within one month
(d) Within one year
(e) None of these
Ans: (c)

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Q 22. How does every bank pay interest on savings?

(a) Daily
(b) Weekly
(c) Fortnightly
(d) Monthly
(e) Quarterly
Ans: (a)

Q 23. Which aspect of a project/ business is/are evaluated in a SWOT Analysis?

(a) Strengths
(b) Weaknesses
(c) Opportunities
(d) Threats
(e) All of these
Ans: (e)

Q 24. Which of the following is/are NOT the functions of a bank?
Accepting deposits from the public
Grant of loans and advances
Providing finance to all those who cannot earn enough to survive

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

Q 25. A bank branch receives a counterfeit note of `100 from the customer, which customer wants it back. Which of the following action should be taken by the Bank?

(a) Will return to customer
(b) Will impound and not return
(c) Will ask for exchange of note
(d) Will replace with genuine note
(e) Will check all the notes in possession with the customer which are not being deposited also
Ans: (b)

Q 26. NEFT and RTGS in banking terminology speak of

(a) various deposit products
(b) various loan products
(c) electronic payment products within a bank
(d) electronic fund transfer from bank to bank
(e) Cheque Truncation Process
Ans: (d)

Q 27. When a customer draws a cheque on a bank

(a) it is a mandate on that bank to pay.
(b) it is a mandate on the Government of India to pay.
(c) it is a mandate on the State Government to pay.
(d) it is a mandate on the RBI to pay.
(e) it is a mandate on the Finance Ministry to pay.
Ans: (a)

Q 28. Ram has been nominated in the Savings account of Sita Ram requests the bank authorities to allow him to operate Sita’s account as she is unwell. What will the bank do?

(a) Bank will allow Ram to operate the account as he is the nominee.
(b) As nomination will come into effect only after death of the depositor, Bank will not allow.
(c) As Ram is, the husband of Sita in addition to being the nominee, the Bank should allow.
(d) Out of pity for Sita and on account of long term relationship. the Bank may allow.
(e) Bank can take a promissory note from Ram and allow him to operate the account.
Ans: (b)

Q 29. Which of the following is ‘material alteration’ of a negotiable instrument?

(a) Converting an order cheque to bearer cheque
(b) Converting a bearer cheque to order cheque
(c) Crossing of an uncrossed cheque
(d) Writing an amount on a blank cheque
(e) Putting a signature on the back of a cheque
Ans: (a)

Q 30. Crossing on a cheque can be cancelled by the ____ of the cheque under his full signature.

(a) payee
(b) drawee
(c) endorser
(d) holder
(e) drawer
Ans: (b)

Q 31. A customer drawing a cheque on a bank has a right to

(a) Take back the cheque from the bank after it is paid
(b) Take back the cheque from the bank after it is paid with the permission of RBI
(c) Stop payment of the cheque before it is paid
(d) Stop payment of the cheque after it is paid
(e) Stop payment of the cheque before it is issued
Ans: (c)

Q 32. Which of the following is not a primary function of a Bank?

(a) Granting Loans
(b) Collecting Cheques/Drafts of customers
(c) Facilitating import of goods
(d) Issuing Bank Drafts
(e) Selling Gold/Silver Coins
Ans: (c)

Q 33. An engineer working in a big city in India wishes to send some money to his/her parents in a small village. How can a bank help him/her ?
A. By issuing a Demand Draft.
B. By opening a letter of credit in the name of his/her parents.
C. Through E-transfer of money

(a) Only A
(b) Only B
(c) Only C
(d) Both A and B
(e) Both A and C
Ans: (e)

Q 34. People normally go to a bank for withdrawal or/and depositing their money. In addition to that banks provide many other services these days. Which of the following is/ are such new services ?
A. Sale of insurance policies.
B. Loans for higher studies for children.
C. Acceptance of bills for Telephone/Electric supply services on behalf of such organizations.

(a) Only A
(b) Only B
(c) Only C
(d) Both A and B
(e) All A, B and C
Ans: (e)

Q 35. Which of the following terms is not related with the banking operations ?

(a) Current Account
(b) Exchange rate
(c) Investment rate
(d) Domestic Saving rate
(e) Veto Power
Ans: (e)

Q 36. Which of the following services relate to execution of transactions directly with consumers, rather than corporations or other banks?

(a) Wholesale Banking Services
(b) Industrial Banking Services
(c) Investment Banking Services
(d) Corporate Banking Services
(e) Retail Banking Services
Ans: (e)

Q 37. The arrangement under which banks sell insurance products acting as the agents of the respective companies is called the

(a) Insurance joint venture
(b) Bancassurance Model
(c) Hybrid Insurance Model
(d) Insurance Broking
(e) Integrated Model
Ans: (b)

Q 38. An engineer working in a big city in India wishes to send some money to his/her parents in a small village. How can a bank help him/her ?
A. By issuing a Demand Draft.
B. By opening a letter of credit in the name of his/her parents.
C. Through E-transfer of money

(a) Only A
(b) Only B
(c) Only C
(d) Both A and B
(e) Both A and C
Ans: (e)

Q 39. A customer drawing a cheque on a bank has a right to

(a) Take back the cheque from the bank after it is paid
(b) Take back the cheque from the bank after it is paid with the permission of RBI
(c) Stop payment of the cheque before it is paid
(d) Stop payment of the cheque after it is paid
(e) Stop payment of the cheque before it is issued
Ans: (c)

Q 40. Some major banks and financial institutions in various Western countries were to wind up their business and/or declare themselves in financial problems during last few years. This trend is technically known as

(a) Devaluation
(b) Deformation
(c) Global Slowdown
(d) Political backdrop
(e) Globalisation
Ans: (c)

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