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Banking and financial Awareness Previous Year Questions

Q 41. The competitive position of a company can be improved by __________.

(a) increasing the selling price
(b) reducing the margin
(c) ignoring competitors
(d) increasing the cost price
(e) understanding and fulfilling customers’ needs
Ans: (e)

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Q 42. Banks’ mandatory lending to farmers for agriculture, micro and small enterprises and other weaker sections where in banks are required to lend up to 40% of the loans is generally described as

(a) Para banking
(b) Sub-prime lending
(c) Retail lending
(d) Non-priority sector lending
(e) Priority sector lending
Ans: (e)

Q 43. In India, which of the following have the highest share in the disbursement of credit to agriculture and allied activities?

(a) Commercial Banks
(b) Cooperative Banks
(c) Private Sector Banks
(d) Microfinance Institutions
(e) Regional Rural Banks
Ans: (a)

Q 44. As decided by the Reserve Bank of India, all the villages with a population of 2000 will have access to financial services by the end of _____

(a) 2009–10
(b) 2010–11
(c) 2011–12
(d) 2012–13
(e) None of these
Ans: (c)

Q 45. The government and the RBI had set a target to cover 73,000 villages having population in excess of 2000 to provide access to banking services, by March 2012. The name given to this scheme is

(a) Swabhimaan
(b) Swavalamban
(c) Saral
(d) Connecting Banks
(e) None of these
Ans: (a)

Q 46. RBI appointed a committee under the chairmanship of D. Mohanty to look into

(a) 2G spectrum scam
(b) Implementation of Base Rate
(c) Bank’s Saving Interest rate
(d) Inflation
(e) None of these
Ans: (b)

Q 47. Interest payable on saving bank accounts is

(a) not regulated by RBI.
(b) regulated by State Governments
(c) regulated by Central Government
(d) regulated by RBI
(e) regulated by Finance minister.
Ans: (d)

Q 48. Which of the following is the correct statement?

(a) State bank of India is the sole authority to issue and manage currency in India.
(b) A nationalized bank is the sole authority to Issue and manage currency in India
(c) A cooperative bank is the sole authority to issue and manage currency in India.
(d) RBI is the sole authority to issue and manage currency in India.
(e) None of these
Ans: (d)

Q 49. Financial inclusion means provision of

(a) financial services namely payments, remittances, savings, loans and Insurance at affordable cost to persons not yet given the same.
(b) ration at affordable cost to persons not yet given the same.
(c) house at affordable cost to persons not yet given the same.
(d) food at affordable cost to persons not yet given the same.
(e) education at affordable cost to persons not yet given the same.
Ans: (a)

Q 50. Upper limit prescribed for RTGS transaction is

(a) `1 lac
(b) `2 lacs
(c) `5 lacs
(d) `50 lacs
(e) No upper limit is prescribed
Ans: (e)

Q 51. A centralized database with on line connectivity to branches, internet as well as ATM network which has been adopted by almost all major banks of our country is known as

(a) Investment banking
(b) core banking
(c) mobile banking
(d) national banking
(e) specialized banking
Ans: (b)

Q 52. Which of the following is NOT a function of the Reserve Bank of India ?

(a) Fiscal Policy Functions
(b) Exchange Control Functions
(c) Issuance, Exchange and destruction of currency notes
(d) Monetary Authority Functions
(e) Supervisory and Control Functions
Ans: (a)

Q 53. What is the maximum deposit amount insured by DICGC ?

(a) `2,00,000 per depositor per bank
(b) `2,00,000 per depositor across all banks
(c) `1,00,000 per depositor per bank
(d) `1,00,000 per depositor across all banks
(e) None of these
Ans: (d)

Q 54. With reference to a cheque which of the following is the “drawee bank” ?

(a) The bank that collects the cheque
(b) The payee’s bank
(c) The endorsee’s bank
(d) The endorser’s bank
(e) The bank upon which the cheque is drawn
Ans: (e)

Q 55. Banks in India are required to maintain a portion of their demand and time liabilities with the Reserve Bank of India. This portion is called _____________.

(a) Statutory Liquidity Ratio
(b) Cash Reserve Ratio
(c) Bank Deposit
(d) Reserve Repo
(e) Government Securities
Ans: (b)

Q 56. Banking Ombudsman is appointed by _____________.

(a) Government of India
(b) State Governments
(c) RBI
(d) E C G C
(e) Exim Bank
Ans: (c)

Q 57. To combat the menace of money laundering, which of the following financial institutions has introduced the ‘Know Your Customer’ Scheme?

(a) IDBI
(b) RBI
(c) NABARD
(d) SIDBI
(e) None of these
Ans: (b)

Q 58. Banking Ombudsman is appointed by

(a) Union Ministry of Finance
(b) Competition Commission of India
(c) Reserve Bank of India
(d) Indian Banks Association
(e) Securities and Exchange Board of India
Ans: (c)

Q 59. What was the reason behind the decision of the Reserve Bank of India to withdraw currency notes issued before 2005?

(a) To replace them with plastic notes
(b) to check counterfeit notes
(c) To replace mutilated and spoilt notes
(d) To check illicit notes of Pakistan
(e) None of these
Ans: (b)

Q 60. On domestic term deposits, banks in our country generally offer additional rate of interest on term deposits from —

(a) Minors
(b) Married women
(c) Govt. employees
(d) Rural residents
(e) Senior citizens
Ans: (e)

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