General Awareness

1. Retail investors means which of the following types of stock market investors?
1) Mutual funds
2) Corporate bodies
3) Promoters of companies
4) Individuals
5) FIIs

2. Which of the following is not an agricultural commodity?


1) Cardamom 

2) Cumin
3) Garlic 

4) Turmeric
5) Sulphur

       3.BRICS countries have decided to “collaborate and promote” access to comprehensive and cost-effective prevention, treatment and management of the non-communicable diseases (NCD) in recent 2nd BRICS Health Ministers Meeting which was held in ___?
(1) New Delhi                                (2) Moscow
(3) Beijing                                      (4) Johannesburg
(5) None of these
4. Monetary Policy as an arm of the economic policy is administered by _____
a) Government of India 

 b) RBI 
c) SBI 
 d) Govt of the respective states
e) None 

5. Which of the following is not a primary function of a Bank?
a) Granting loans
b) Collecting cheques/ drafts of Customers
c) Arranging VISA for students for abroad education
d) Issuing bank drafts
e) Selling Gold/Silver Coins.

6. Reserves which can act as a liquidity buffer for Commercial Banks during crisis times are ___
a) CAR b) CRR
c) CAR & CRR 
d) CRR & SLR 

e) SLR

       7.S Raman, former chairman-cum-managing director of Canara Bank joined the organization as its third whole time member. He is inducted on which organization?
(1) Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
(2) Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)
(3) Forward Markets Commission (FMC)
(4) Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority
(5) None of these

8. What is India's rank in this year's Global Peace Index (GPI) that measured peace in 162 countries?
1) 141 

2) 110 
3) 132 
4) 134 
5) 152

9.By increasing repo rate, the economy may observe the following effects ______
a) Rate of interest on loans and advances will be costlier. 
b) Industrial output would be affected to an extent.
c) Banks will increase rate of interest on deposits. 
d) Industry houses may borrow money from foreign countries. 
e) All of these.

10. Increased interest rates, as is existing in the economy at present  will_______
a) Lead to reduction in borrowings 
b) Lead to lower GDP growth.
c) Mean higher cost of raw materials. 
d) Mean lower cost of raw materials. 
e) Mean higher wage bill.

Answers:
1.4     2.5   3.1   4.2    5.3 

6.4     7.2   8.1   9.1   10.3

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