1. Who among-st the following is not a member of SAARC?
(A) India
(B) Pakistan
(C) Nepal
(D) Sri Lanka
2. Who is Dr. M. S. Ahluwalia?
(A) Executive Director RBI
(B) RBI Dy. Governor
(C) Deputy Chairman Planning Commission
(D) India's permanent representative in UN (E) None of these
3. Who among the following is a famous politician?
(A) Prabhu Chawla
(B) Rahul Gandhi
(C) Chetan Bhagat
(D) Barkha Dutt
(E) Deepika Padukone
4. All banks in India get major policy decisions/
directives/guidelines related to their day 'to day operations from
(A) Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India
(B) Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)
(C) Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
(D) All India Bank Employees Union
(E) Foreign Exchange Dealers Association of India
5. Who among the following is a famous personality
associated with the world of Banking?
(A) Dr Amartya Sen
(B) Sri Rajiv Shukla
(C) Sri Javed Akhtar
(D) Sri Kamal.Nath
(E) Dr Subir Gokarn
6. Nobel Prizes are given in which of the following fields?
(A) Sports
(B) Social Service
(C) Anthropology
(D) Physics
(E) All of the above
7. Which of the following is not a State or Union Territory
of India?
(A) Chandigarh
(B) Punjab
(C) Manipur
(D) Alwar
(E) Jharkhand
8. Who makes the formal announcement of General Elections in
a state in India?
(A) Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs
(B) Ministry of Law
(C) Ministry of Home Affairs
(D) Census Commission' of India
(E) Election Commission of India
9. Which of the following is a major wheat producing state
in India?
(A) Kerala
(B) Punjab
(C) Jammu and Kashmir
(D) Paschim Banga
(E) Arunachal Pradesh
10. Who among the following is a famous badminton player?
(A) Jeev Milkha Singh
(B) Saina Nehwal
(C) Anjali Bhagwat
(D) Sania Mirza
(E) Yusuf Pathan
11. Famous 'Rock Garden' is located in which one of the
following cities in India?
(A) Ambala
(B) Jaipur
(C) Bengaluru
(D) Chandigarh
(E) Shimla
12. Who among the following is the President of epal at
present?
(A) Ram Baran Yadav
(B) Jhala Nath Khanal
(C) Baburam Bhattarai
(D) Surya Bahadur Thapa
(E) None of the above
13. Who among the following presents the General Budget in
the Parliament?
(A) Prime Minister of India
(B) Vice President of India
(C) Governor, Reserve Bank of India
(D) Finance Minister of India
(E) Finance Secretary
14. A nuclear power plant is situated in which of the
following places?
(A) Lucknow
(B) Jodhpur
(C) Kota
(D) Shimla
(E) Srinagar
15. Which scheme launched by the Government of India allows
lakhs of poor people to open a bank account?
(A) Swabhiman
(B) Swavlamban
(C) Saral
(D) Sahaj
(E) Bharat Nirman
16. The Union Cabinet on 12 April 2012 approved the extension
of funding support for
implementing
which of the following schemes under the
New Pension
System (NPS) from three years to five years for all subscribers?
(A) Trade related Entrepreneurship Assistance and
Development (TREAD) Scheme
(B) Gold Credit Pass Book Scheme
(C) Swayamsidha (IWEP)
(D) Swavalamban Scheme
17. Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on 12 April
2012 also approved an ad- valorem regime for calculating royalty for which of
the following?
(A) Coal & Iron ore
(B) Coal & Lignite
(C) Lignite & Copper
(D) Lignite & Zinc
18. Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on 3 April 2012 released
'Quarterly Statistics on Deposits and Credit of Scheduled Commercial Banks,
September 2011. Which of the
following facts are not true with respect to the mentioned statement?
1. The data included in the release were based on Basic
Statistical Return (BSR)-10 received from all scheduled commercial banks (excluding
RRBs)
2. The number of banked centres of Scheduled Commercial
banks stood at 35,435. 27,913 of these centres were single office centres and
68 centres had 100 or more bank
offices
3. State Bank of India and its Associates accounted for 21.8
per cent of the aggregate deposits
4. the credit-deposit (C-D) ratio of All Scheduled
Commercial Banks (SCBs) at all India level as on 30 September 2011 stood at
74.4 per cent
(A) Only 1
(B) 2 & 3
(C) Only 4
(D) 3 & 4
19. Reserve Bank of India on 3 April 2012 tightened the
reporting requirements of the banks to monitor gold import. Consider the
statements given below and which of
the following is true?
1. As per the
directions issued, banks will have to submit a monthly statement informing the
central bank about the quantity of gold imported as well as the mode of payment adopted
2. The directive was issued amidst concerns of huge outflow
of foreign exchange on import of gold which is believed to be putting pressure
on the India's current account deficit (CAD).
(A) Only 1
(B) Only 2
(C) Both 1 & 2
(D) None of the above
20. Which body on 31 March 2012 issued broad guidelines on
Algorithmic Trading. Based on recommendations of technical advisory committee
(TAC) and secondary market
advisory committee (SMAC)?
(A) IRDA
(B) RBI
(C) ASSOCHAM
(D) SEBI
ANSWERS
1. E 2. C 3. B
4. C 5.E
6. D 7.D 8.E
9.B 10.B
11.D 12.A 13.E
14.C 15.A
16.D 17.B 18. A
19. C 20.D
