Associate Banks of State Bank of India PO Examination
Held on 29-11-2014
General Awareness, Marketing and Computer Knowledge
1. Pathways that support communication among the various electronic components on the system board are called-
(A) Network Lines
(B) Processors
(C) Logic Paths
(D) Bus Lines
(E) Gateway
2. The abbreviation ‘CD’ stands for-
(A) Commercial Demand
(B) Certificate of Deposit
(C) Cash Deposit
(D) Commercial Deposit
(E) Commercial Deposit
3. India recently won re-election to UN Human Rights council for 2015-2017 along with which three other countries of Asia-Pacific Group ?
(A) Bangladesh, Qatar and Indonesia
(B) Kuwait, Cambodia and Philippines
(C) Bangladesh, Bahrain and Thailand
(D) Bangladesh, Thailand and Kuwait
(E) Other than those given as options
4. What is the present RBI’s Bank Rate ?
(A) 6.50%
(B) 9%
(C) Other than those given as options
(D) 7%
(E) 8%
5. Which of the following terms is not covered under General insurance ?
(A) Marine Insurance
(B) Fine Insurance
(C) Motor Insurance
(D) Health Insurance
(E) Life Insurance
6. Investors buy and sell shares in publicly leaded companies in-
(A) Money Market
(B) Forex Market
(C) Stock Market
(D) Spot Market
(E) Bond Market
7. Tata Group’s Land Rover Jaguar’ will be having its first car manufacturing plant out of Britain, in-
(A) Mauritius
(B) other than those given as options
(C) Japan
(D) China
(E) India
8. Who is the present CEO of the Microsoft Corporation, an international American Organization ?
(A) Mr. Satya Nadela
(B) other than those given as options
(C) Mr. Vishal Sikka
(D) Ms. Indira Nooyi
(E) Mr. Bill Gates
9. Which of the following Bank is ‘not’ a Public Sector Bank ?
(A) IDBI Bank
(B) State Bank of India
(C) Punjab and Sind Bank
(D) HDFC Bank
(E) Bharatiya Mahila Bank
10. Individuals invest in insurance policy for-
(A) Risk Protection only
(B) Easy liquidity
(C) Low Returns
(D) Tax Benefit and Risk Protection
(E) High Return
11. Which stage in product the cycle focuses on expanding marketing and creating product awareness ?
(A) Introducing Stage
(B) Declining Stage
(C) Maturity Stage
(D) Expansion Stage
(E) Growth Stage
12. The committee constituted in India to study the pattern of exclusion in India which for the first time gave a working distribution of the term ‘Financial Inclusion’ was headed by-
(A) Dr. Manmohan Singh
(B) Dr. C. Rangarajan
(C) Dr. y. V. Reddy
(D) Shri M. Narasimha
(E) Dr. Bimal Jalan
13. Who among the following is the Director General of Sports Authority of India (SAI) ?
(A) Sandeep Patil
(B) other than those given as options
(C) Jiji Thompson
(D) Lalit Modi
(E) N. Srinivasan
14. Which of the following is correct sequence of smallest to largest unit of storage size ?
(A) Petabyte, Kilobyte, Megabyte, Gigabyte, Terabyte
(B) Kilobyte, Megabyte, Terabyte, Petabyte, Gigabyte
(C) Megabyte, Terabyte, Gigabyte, Kilobyte, Petabyte
(D) Kilobyte, Megabyte, Petabyte, Terabyte, Gigabyte
(E) Kilobyte, Megabyte, Gigabyte, Terabyte, Petabyte
15. Ketan Methta’s Hindi movie ‘Rang Rasia’ is based on the life of one of India’s most celebrated ?
(A) Raja Ravi Varma
(B) Choreographer Saroj Khan
(C) Movie Star Sanjay Dutt
(D) Painter Maqbool Fida hussain
(E) Dancer Uday Shankar
16. When consumers may share a strong need that cannot be satisfied by an existing product, it is known as-
(A) Non-Existing Demand
(B) Latent Demand
(C) Irregular Demand
(D) Declining Demand
(E) Negative Demand
17. As per RBI guidelines the maximum amount of penalty that Public Sector Banks can levy for non maintenance of minimum balance in inoperative accounts of customers is-
(A) Rs 500 per year
(B) Rs 100 per half year
(C) Not to levy any penalty
(D) Rs 100 per quarter
(E) Rs 20 per month
18. In computer terminology ‘CAD’ stands for-
(A) Computer Applied Design
(B) Computer Algorithm and Design
(C) Computer Application Design
(D) Computer Aided Design
(E) Other than those given as options
19. As per the guidelines issued by the Reserve Bank of India Banks classify as Non-Performing Asset (NPA) only if the interest due and during any quarter is not serviced fully within-
(A) 90days from the end of the quarter
(B) 60 days from the end of the quarter
(C) 60 days from the beginning of the quarter
(D) 30 days from the end of the quarter
(E) 30 days from the beginning of the quarter
20. MS-DOS is a ………… operating system.
(A) User Friendly Graphical
(B) Graphical User Interface
(C) Real Time GUI
(D) Point and Check
(E) Command Line Interface
21. Those entities whose failure can threaten the survival of other institutions which in turn can possibly lead to a financial crisis are known as-
(A) Systematically Meaningful Financial Institutions
(B) Systemically Financial Important Institutions
(C) Systemically volatile Financial Institutions
(D) Systematically Capricious Financial Institutions
(E) Systematically Toxic Financial Institutions
22. ………. is a tax saving mutual fund.
(A) ELSS
(B) Balanced Fund
(C) Debt Funds
(D) Oil Fund
(E) Gold Funds
23. ………. is central to any definition of marketing.
(A) Advertising
(B) Making Profit
(C) Transactions
(D) Customer Relationship
(E) Demand Management
24. The term CRM used in business strategy development means-
(A) Channel Root Market
(B) Customer Retention Manager
(C) Credit Relationship Manager
(D) Customer Relationship Management
(E) Customer’s Relative Meet
25. The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) is a-
(A) Statutory Body
(B) Constitutional Body
(C) Non Governmental Organization
(D) Advisory Body
(E) Consultative Body
26. Effective from February, 7 2015, statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR) is-
(A) 21.5%
(B) 22%
(C) 22.5%
(D) 23.0%
(E) 23.5%
27. Which of the following is a process of dividing the potential market into sub-markets with common needs ?
(A) Arrangements
(B) Positioning
(C) Seeing
(D) Target Marketing
(E) Market Segmentation
28. …………. is a social device for eliminating or reducing the loss of society from certain risk.
(A) Contract
(B) Premium
(C) Discount
(D) Bond
(E) Insurance
29. Which of the following financial markets facilitates issue of new securities ?
(A) Secondary Market
(B) Spot Market
(C) Derivative Market
(D) Forex Market
(E) Primary Market
30. You will find baseline, head line and sub head line in-
(A) Radio ad
(B) Online ad
(C) Verbal ad
(D) Print ad
(E) other than those given as options
31. In a work sheet in MS Excel what is the shortcut key to hide entire row ?
(A) Ctrl + 2
(B) Ctrl + 9
(C) Ctrl + N
(D) Ctrl + e
(E) Ctrl + R
32. The third generation computers were made with-
(A) Bio Chips
(B) Transistors
(C) Integrated Circuits
(D) Vacuum Tubes
(E) Discrete Components
33. Which of the following is a symbol or a design or a combination that identifies the marker of a product or service ?
(A) Company Name
(B) Brand
(C) Sponsorship
(D) Advertisement
(E) Product Features
34. To undo the last work, we have to use which of the following windows shortcut key ?
(A) Ctrl + P
(B) Ctrl + U
(C) Ctrl + A
(D) Ctrl + Z
(E) Ctrl + W
35. A ……….. is approximately a million
(A) Gigabyte
(B) Kilobyte
(C) Megabyte
(D) Terabyte
(E) None of these
36. ‘DOS’ floppy disk does not have
(A) a boot record
(B) a file allocation table
(C) a Root directory
(D) A Virtual memory
(E) All of these
37. Who is the Grand Old Man of India ?
(A) Rajendra Prasad
(B) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(C) Dada Bhai Naoroji
(D) Lala Lajpat Rai
(E) Mahatma Gandhi
38. Tehri Dam is located in-
(A) Odisha
(B) Punjab
(C) Uttarakhand
(D) Jammu & Kashmir
(E) Himachal Pradesh
39. Shortcut key to go to last line the document-
(A) Ctrl + last
(B) Ctrl + L
(C) Ctrl + end
(D) Altr + End
(E) Altr + L
40. Which of the following is not a computer language ?
(A) BASIC
(B) COBOL
(C) LOTUS
(D) FORTRAN
(E) None of these
41. Innovation in marketing is same as-
(A) Motivation
(B) Inspiration
(C) Aspiration
(D) Creativity
(E) Team Work
42. The main target group for SIP Schemes are-
(A) All HNIs
(B) All NRIs
(C) All Salaried persons
(D) All agriculturists
(E) All students
43. Which Cup/Trophy is associate with the game of Hockey ?
(A) Dhyanchand Trophy
(B) Davis Cup
(C) Merdeka Cup
(D) Wimbledon Trophy
(E) Santhos Trophy
44. Niche marketing can be done for-
(A) Readymade garments
(B) Ballpoint pens
(C) Diamond jewellery
(D) Golf clubs
(E) None of these
45. The key to competitive advantage is ………… differentiation.
(A) position
(B) product
(C) conformance
(D) customer Consulting
(E) None of these
46. Which among the following is not a function for marketing channel ?
(A) Buying
(B) Selling
(C) Producing
(D) Promoting
(E) None of these
47. Market segmentation is useful for-
(A) targeting existing clients
(B) identifying prospects
(C) preferencial marketing
(D) internal marketing
(E) All of these
48. The term Banking is defined in which act ?
(A) Banking Regulation Act 1949
(B) Banking Regulation Act 1951
(C) Banking Regulation Act 1956
(D) Banking Regulation Act 1959
(E) None of these
49. Name the fourth layer of OSI model-
(A) application layer
(B) data link layer
(C) transport layer
(D) session layer
(E) None of these
50. Marketing is influenced by-
(A) public taste
(B) buyer behaviour
(C) product demand
(D) brand image
(E) All of these
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