Saturday, 14 November 2015

Weekly Round-Up: Week2 November

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Friday, 13 November 2015

Gk Update 11/11/2015 to 13/11/2015

Q.1. Mr. Raguram Rajan is the first Indian central bank Governor to be elected for which post at the Bank of International Settlement.
a) Director
b) Vice Chairman
c) Chairman
d) Secretary
e) Treasurer

Q.2. Which cricket stadium was excluded from the list  of test vanues after Cricket fans hurled plastic bottled onto the ground forcing the match referees to stop the match for some time.
a) Eden Gardens
b) Feroz Shah Kotla
c) Barabati Stadium
d) K. D. Singh Babu Stadium
e) VCA Ground

Q.3. When is the World Science Day for Peace and Development, celebrated.
a) 30 October
b) 16 September
c) 5 November
d) 10 November
e) 20 October

Q.4. Ministery of Railway is forming a joint venture with which company soon to construct and run the factory to manufacture modern diesel electric locomotives of 450Limited 6000 HP to Indian railways.
a) Pipavav Railway Corporation Limited
b) Transformers
c) GE Global Sourcing India Pvt Limited
d) Alstom Manufacturing India Limited
e) Voltamp Trans

Q.5. The seventh edition India-Russia Joint Military Exercise ‘Indra-2015’ has begun. Where is it being held.
a) Jalandher, Punjab
b) Jaipur, Rajasthan
c) Sea of Japan
d) Caspian Sea, Russia
e) Bikaner, Rajasthan

Q.6. Supreme Court upheld Kerala Government’s ban on _________. 
a) drug
b) Beef
c) midday Meals
d) Online lotteries
e) Liquor

Q.7. Anheuser-Busch InBev is taking over which brewer and create a company that makes almost a third of the beer consumed worldwide.
a) Molson Coors Brewing Co
b) Heineken
c) Carlsberg
d) Milwaukee Brewers
e) SABMiller

Q.8. Union Government signed Loan Agreement with Asian Development Bank. The loan represents the third tranche, which is also the last tranche of the 800 million US dollars financing. What is the amount of the loan.
a) 273 million
b) 450 million
c) 200 million
d) 313 million
e) 500 million

Q.9. Which Indian company has bought 40% stake take in OakNorth Bank of the U.K.
a) DMI Housing Finance Private Limited
b) PNB Housing Finance Limited
c) Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd.
d) Delhi Cooperative Housing Finance Corporation Limited
e) DHFL

Q.10. Court of which country has ordered Facebook to stop tracking non-members. 
a) Belgium
b) Argentina
c) Germany
d) France
e) United Kingdom

Answers:

Q.1. b) Vice Chairman
Q.2. c) Barabati Stadium
Q.3. d) 10 November
Q.4. c) GE Global Sourcing India Pvt Limited
Q.5. e) Bikaner, Rajasthan
Q.6. d) Online lotteries
Q.7. e) SABMiller
Q.8. a) 273 million
Q.9. c) Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd
Q.10. a) Belgium

Thursday, 12 November 2015

Banking Awareness 12 November 2015

Q.1. Which of the following is the first commercial bank who had launch a mutual fund?
a) State bank of India
b) Canara bank
c) Indian bank
d) Bank of India
e) Indian overseas bank

Q.2. A close-ended fund means
a) The corpus is of fixed size with a definite redemption period
b) Listing on stock exchanges provides easy liquidity
c) The market price is always below the net asset value
d) All
e) None

Q.3. Who decided on the quantity of coins to be minted?
a) The Government of India
b) RBI
c) Either 1 or 2
d) All of the above
e) None of the above

Q.4. Collateral securities can be _____?
a) Tangible
b) Intangible in the shape of personal guarantee of a third party
c) security given to get credit facilities/loan
d) All of the above
e) None of the above

Q.5. The most risky charge from a banker’s point of view is ______?
a) Pledge
b) Hypothecation
c) Mortgage
d) Lien
e) None of the above

Q.6. The term ‘Ways and Means” advances refers to 
a) the advances allowed under DRI Scheme by commercial banks
b) the advances allowed by commercial banks under Twenty Point Economic Programme
c) The temporary advances made to the government by its banners to bridge the interval between expenditure and the flow of receipts of revenues
d) All of the above
e) none of the above

Q.7. A Foreign Currency (non-resident) accounts means
a) a foreign currency account maintained at a foreign center by a person resident in India
b) A US $ account maintained in India by a foreigner
c) an account maintained by a non-resident individual of Indian nationality or origin (NRI) with an authorized dealer in India in a designated foreign currency
d) All of the above
e) None of the above

Q.8.What role does Micro, small and Medium Enterprises(MSMEs) play in a country’s economic and industrial development?
(A) They have the capacity to absorb skilled and unskilled labour available in the country.
(B) Such institutions help in distribution of income in a wide spectrum and do not allow it to get concentrated in few hands or in few areas.
(C) They help in eradication of poverty by providing self – employment opportunities.

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

Q.9. RBI changed RTGS time window. The wrong option is .........
a) RTGS business opening would be at 08:00 hours while initial cut off (customer transactions) would be 16:30 hours.
b) The final cut-off (inter-bank transactions) will be at 19:45 hours and IDL reversal between 19:45 - 20:00 hours.
c) An account holder can do only one RTGS transaction per day in a week as per RBI rules.
d) Minimum amount to be remitted through RTGS is Rs.2 lakhs.
e) There is no upper ceiling for RTGS transactions.

Q.10. World Bank's latest estimates on India's per capita income and GDP given. Locate the wrong option.
a) India's per capita income rose 9.7 percent to $1,631 in 2014 from $1,487 in the previous year.
b) India was 169th in terms of per capita income in the world.
c) India's GDP crossed $3 trillion in 2014, compared to $1.86 trillion in 2013.
d) In terms of official dollar-rupee rate, the Indian economy was ninth in terms of GDP size.
e) India remained a low-middle income economy, as per the World Bank's latest estimates on per capita income and GDP.

Answer:

Q.1. a) State bank of India
Q.2. d) All
Q.3. a) The Government of India
Q.4. d) All of the above
Q.5. a) Pledge
Q.6. c) The temporary advances made to the government by its banners to bridge the interval between expenditure and the flow of receipts of revenues.
Q.7. c) an account maintained by a non-resident individual of Indian nationality or origin (NRI) with an authorized dealer in India in a designated foreign currency
Q.8. e) All A, B and C 
Q.9. c) An account holder can do only one RTGS transaction per day in a week as per RBI rules.
Q.10. c) India's GDP crossed $3 trillion in 2014, compared to $1.86 trillion in 2013.

Wednesday, 11 November 2015

Gk Update 07/11/2015 to 10/11/2015

Q.1. Recently which of the following banks has been included in the Second Schedule of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934?
a) Bandhan Bank
b) IDFC Bank
c) IDBI
d) Yes Bank
e) Axis Bank

Q.2. Who is the fastest Indian bowler to reach 150-Test wicket landmark?
a) Mohammed Shami
b) Umesh Yadav
c) Bhuvaneshwar Kumar
d) Ravichandran Ashwin
e) Amit Mishra

Q.3. When is the World Science Day for Peace and Development, celebrated.
a) 30 October
b) 16 September
c) 5 November
d) 10 November
e) 20 October

Q.4. Which ministry proposed the 'UDAY' Yojana which recently got Cabinet Ministry's approval?
a) Ministry of Finance
b) Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
c) Ministry of Foreign Affairs
d) Ministry of AYUSH
e) Ministry of Power

Q.5. The seventh edition India-Russia Joint Military Exercise ‘Indra-2015’ has begun. Where is it being held.
a) Jalandher, Punjab
b) Jaipur, Rajasthan
c) Sea of Japan
d) Caspian Sea, Russia
e) Bikaner, Rajasthan

Q.6. What is the Swachh Bharat cess on services?
a) 0.25%
b) 0.50%
c) 0.75%
d) 1.00%
e) 1.25%

Q.7. Recently senior journalist Ved Bhasin passed away. He was the founding editor of ____________.
a) Haryana Times
b) Maharashtra Times
c) Madhya Pradesh Times
d) Kashmir Times
e) Gujarat Times

Q.8. Mr. Raguram Rajan is the first Indian central bank Governor to be elected for which post at the Bank of International Settlement.
a) Director
b) Vice Chairman
c) Chairman
d) Secretary
e) Treasurer

Q.9. How many medals were won by India in the World Youth Chess Championship 2015?
a) 10
b) 15
c) 8
d) 11
e) 20

Q.10. Who won gold medal in the 10m air pistol women's event at the 13th Asian Shooting Championships?
a) Gundegma Otreyad
b) Eva Shockey
c) Hina Sidhu
d) Kirsten Joy Weiss
e) Jessie Duff

Answers:

Q.1. a) Bandhan Bank
Q.2. d) Ravichandran Ashwin
Q.3. d) 10 November
Q.4. e) Ministry of Power 
Q.5. e) Bikaner, Rajasthan
Q.6. b) 0.50%
Q.7. d) Kashmir Times
Q.8. b) Vice Chairman
Q.9. d) 11
Q.10. c) Hina Sidhu

Tuesday, 10 November 2015

Computer Knowledge Update 10/11/2015

Q.1. Line spacing between paragraphs can be done by
a) Font dialog box
b) Style dialog box
c) Paragraph dialog box
d) Page layout
e) Review

Q.2. Search engines that search other search engines are called ________.
a) gigasearch engine
b) metasearch engine
c) megasearch engine
d) betasearch engine
e) supersearch engine

Q.3. Which symbol is used in Excel to denote exponential numbers? 
a) *
b) ^
c) &
d) $
e) None of these

Q.4. Which type of software is used for creating slide shows?
a) Utility software
b) Application software
c) Presentation software
d) Word processing software
e) Web designing software

Q.5. A result of a computer virus can NOT lead to ________.
a) Disk Crash
b) Mother Board Crash
c) Corruption of program
d) Deletion of files
e) None of these

Q.6. CBS stands for
(a) Core Banking solution  
(b) Centralised based system
(c) Computer based system  
(d) all of the above  
(e) none of the above

Q.7. A ____ allows you to write on screen with a digital pen and convert that writing into characters that the PC can process.
a) monitor RS
b) tablet PC
c) database manager
d) media center
e) None of these

Q.8. The capacity of your hard drive is measured in ________.
a) 52X
b) MHz
c) Mbps
d) Gigabytes
e) Megapixel

Q.9. Device that connect to the network without the use of cables is called———. 
a) Distributed
b) Wireless
c) Centralized
d) Open source
e) None of these

Q.10. When the margins on both sides are straight and equal, then there is ....... in document.
a) full justification
b) full alignment
c) left justification
d) right justification
e) None of these

Answers:

Q.1. c) Paragraph dialog box
Q.2. b) metasearch engine
Q.3. b) ^ 
Q.4. c) Presentation software
Q.5. b) Mother Board Crash 
Q.6. (a) Core Banking solution 
Q.7. b) tablet PC
Q.8. d) Gigabytes
Q.9. b) Wireless 
Q.10. a) full justification

Sunday, 8 November 2015

GK Weekly Update 01/11/2015 to 07/11/2015 Set1

Q.1. With which country Nepal signed an agreement for supply of petroleum products?
a) Pakistan
b) China
c) Bangladesh
d) Japan
e) Afghanistan

Q.2. Which company opened India’s largest data center in Mumbai?
a) ITT Communications
b) ABC Communications
c) NTT Communications
d) JKP Communications
e) LNT Communications

Q.3. Who has become the first scientist of country who announced to return his Padma Bhushan award?
a) Nitin Gaur
b) P.M. Bhargava
c) Vishwanath Tripathi
d) R.P. Sinha
e) Tanvir Kumar

Q.4. What is the rank of India in the list of world’s most valued 'nation brand' released by Brand Finance?
a) First
b) Fifth
c) Seventh
d) Fourth
e) Eighth

Q.5. Recently who took over as the Air Officer-in-charge Maintenance (AOM) of Indian Air Force? 
a) Harsh Kumar
b) Virender Mohan Khanna
c) Subir Gokhale
d) S.R. Singh
e) Naman Gupta

Q.6. Who won the KPIT-MSLTA Challenger Tennis Tournament title?
a) Evgeny Donskoy
b) Yuki Bhambri
c) Tomas Berdych
d) Kei Nishikori
e) Marin Cilic

Q.7. What is the venue of the first International Film Festival for the Persons with Disabilities-2015?
a) New York
b) Beijing
c) Lima
d) Cairo
e) Delhi

Q.8. Recently Bimal Prasad passed away. He was India's former Ambassador to __________.
a) Pakistan
b) Bangladesh
c) Nepal
d) Malaysia
e) China

Q.9. The Reserve Bank has imposed Rs 1 crore penalty on _________________ for violation of Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti Money Laundering (AML) norms.
a) PNB
b) SBI
c) Dhanlaxmi Bank
d) HDFC
e) ICICI Bank

Q.10. With which state government taxi aggregators Ola and Uber have signed agreements for skill development and creation of entrepreneurial opportunities in the state?
a) Gujarat
b) Uttar Pradesh
c) Madhya Pradesh
d) Rajasthan
e) Punjab

Answer:

Q.1. b) China
Q.2. c) NTT Communications
Q.3. b) P.M. Bhargava
Q.4. c) Seventh 
Q.5. b) Virender Mohan Khanna 
Q.6. b) Yuki Bhambri
Q.7. e) Delhi
Q.8. c) Nepal
Q.9. c) Dhanlaxmi Bank
Q.10. d) Rajasthan

Saturday, 7 November 2015

Gk Update 04/11/2015 to 06/11/2015

Q.1. A pan-IIT and IISc initiative was launched by PM Narendra Nodi on 5th November 2015. What is it?
a) MILESTONE India
b) SOLUTION India
c) IMPRINT India
d) PROGRESS India
e) RESEARCH India

Q.2. Jitu Rai belong to which sport.
a) Shooting
b) Boxing
c) Cricket
d) Kabaddi
e) Wrestling

Q.3. What is the rank of Saina Nehwal in women’s singles rankings released by the Badminton World Federation?
a) 1st
b) 2nd
c) 3rd
d) 4th
e) 5th

Q.4. Union Cabinet has approved the UDAY scheme. What is the full form of UDAY?
a) Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojna
b) Ujwal Distribution  Assurance Yojna
c) Understanding Delightful Attractive Youthful
d) Under DISCOM Assurance Yojna
e) Upright Disciplined Ambitious Young

Q.5. Which Indian cricket player has become the fastest indian to reach 150.
a) Axar Patel
b) Ravindra Jadeja
c) Ravichandran Ashwin
d) Amit Mishra
e) Bhuvneshwar Kumar

Q.6. Which country's top legislature has ratified the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) agreement?
a) India
b) China
c) Japan
d) Pakistan
e) Indonesia

Q.7. Who has agreed to be the coach of Afghanistan Cricket Team.
a) Inzmam-ul-Haq
b) Mark Butcher
c) Shoib Akhtar
d) Heath Streak
e) Shiob Malik

Q.8. Who among the following has been appointed as the new Chief Justice of India.
a) Justice T.S. Thakur
b) Justice S.L. Sinha
c) Justice P.V. Rao
d) Justice Surendra Sinha
e) Justice Rahil Khan

Q.9. Maharashtra government has recently launched a scheme for the pregnant and lactating tribal women in the state. What is the name of the scheme?
a) SITRA
b) Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India Ltd. (TRIFED)
c) APJ Abdul Kalam Amrut Yojna
d) Jawahar Gram Samridhi Yojana (JGSY)
e) Kishori Shakti Yojana (KSY)

Q.10. ________ cyclone hit Yemen.
a) Chapala
b) Phailin
c) Megh
d) Komen
e) Katrina

Answer :

Q.1. c) IMPRINT India
Q.2. a) Shooting
Q.3. b) 2nd
Q.4. a) Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojna
Q.5. c) Ravichandran Ashwin
Q.6. b) China
Q.7. a) Inzmam-ul-Haq
Q.8. a) Justice T.S. Thakur
Q.9. c) APJ Abdul Kalam Amrut Yojna
Q.10. a) Chapala

Wednesday, 4 November 2015

Gk Update 01/11/2015 to 03/11/2015

Q.1. Which of the following has regained the top slot among Indian energy companies in the 2015 Platts Top 250 Global Energy Company Rankings?
a) Reliance Industries
b) ONGC
c) IOC
d) GAIL
e) BHEL

Q.2. With which country Nepal signed an agreement for supply of petroleum products?
a) Pakistan
b) China
c) Bangladesh
d) Japan
e) Afghanistan

Q.3. Who has been appointed as CEO and MD of Jabong?
a) Raghav Mishra
b) Naseeruddin Ahmed
c) Sanjeev Mohanty
d) John Michael
e) Anston James

Q.4. Hansa Manral Sharma belonged to which game?
a) Tennis
b) Weightlifting
c) Bedminton
d) Chess
e) Shooting

Q.5. Recently Supersonic cruise missile BrahMos was test-fired from which stealth destroyer? 
a) INS Vikrant
b) INS Astradharini
c) INS Vikramaditya
d) INS Kolkata
e) INS Kochi

Q.6. Who won the Mexican F1 Grand Prix? 
a) Juan Manuel Fangio
b) Michael Schumacher
c) Sebastian Vettel
d) Nico Rosberg
e) Lewis Hamilton

Q.7. Recently ______ has appointed Marziyeh Afkhamits as its first female ambassador to Malaysia since 1979. 
a) Iraq
b) Pakistan
c) Bangladesh
d) Iran
e) Afghanistan

Q.8. Who has been appointed as the Chairman of the newly constituted drafting committee to frame the New Education Policy (NEP)? 
a) T.S.R. Subramanian
b) Urjit Patel
c) S.P. Narsimhan
d) P.V. Sakhuja
e) Ramesh Chandra Yadav

Q.9. Which of the following launched a new pilot scheme ‘Vikalp’? 
a) Indian Army
b) Indian Railways
c) Indian Navy
d) India Post
e) Indian Airways

Q.10. Which of the following pairs won Singapore BNP Paribas WTA women's doubles title? 
a) Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis
b) Garbine Muguruza and Carla Suarez Navarro
c) Sania Mirza and Carla Suarez Navarro
d) Carla Suarez Navarro and Martina Hingis
e) Martina Hingis and Serena Williams

Answers:

Q.1. a) Reliance Industries
Q.2. b) China
Q.3. c) Sanjeev Mohanty
Q.4. b) Weightlifting
Q.5. e) INS Kochi 
Q.6. d) Nico Rosberg 
Q.7. d) Iran 
Q.8. a) T.S.R. Subramanian 
Q.9. b) Indian Railways 
Q.10. a) Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis 

Tuesday, 3 November 2015

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Computer Knowledge Update 03/11/2015


Q.1. Which of the following is an absolute cell reference?
a) A1
b) $A$1
c) ! A!!
d) #a#1
e) #a1#

Q.2. A bookmark is an item or location in document that you identify a name for future reference. Which of the following task is accomplished by using bookmarks?
a) To mark the ending of a page of document
b) To quickly jump to a specific location in the document
c) To add hyperlinks in a web page
d) To add address in a web page
e) To mark the top of a page of document

Q.3. How many ways you can save a document?
a) 3
b) 4
c) 2
d) 1
e) 5

Q.4. Microsoft Office includes Excel, PowerPoint, and what other program?
a) Notepad
b) WordPad
c) Word
d) Pages
e) Paint

Q.5. The _____ of a system includes the programs or instructions.
a) Hardware
b) Icon
c) Information
d) Software
e) Peripheral 

Q.6. Which error detection method uses one's complement arithmetic?
a) Simply parity check 
b) Checksum 
c) Two-dimensional parity check  
d) CRC 
e) None of these 

Q.7. All of the following are included in removable media except ......
a) CD-ROMs
b) Diskette
c) DVDs
d) Hard Disk Drive
e) None

Q.8. The ......... primarily take(s) care of the behind-the series details and manage(s) the hardware.
a) operating system
b) application software
c) peripheral devices
d) hard disk
e) None of these

Q.9. What is the default left margin in Word 2003 document?
a) 1" 
b) 25" 
c) 5" 
d) 2" 
e) None of these 

Q.10. An applet ________
a) is an interpreted program that runs on the client 
b) tracks the number of visitors to a Website 
c) is a compiled program that usually runs on the client 
d) collects data from visitors to a Website 
e) None of these

Answer:

Q.1. b) $A$1
Q.2. b) To quickly jump to a specific location in the document
Q.3. a) 3
Q.4. c) Word
Q.5. d) Software
Q.6. b) Checksum 
Q.7. d) Hard Disk Drive
Q.8. a) operating system
Q.9. a) 1" 
Q.10. c) is a compiled program that usually runs on the client