Financial Awareness MCQ's for the Gramin Bank Exam 2012

objective Type sample Paper of Financial Awareness

1) RBI's open market operation transactions are carried out with a view to regulate 
a) Liquidity in the economy
b) Prices of essential commodities
c) Inflation
d) Borrowing power of the banks
e) All of the above


Ans e


2) When more than one bank is allowing credit facilities to one party in coordination with eachother under a formal arrangement,the arrangement  is generally known as
a) Participation
b) Consortium
c) Syndication
d) Multiple banking
e) None of these


Ans b


3) open market operations, one of the measure taken by RBI inorder to control credit expansion in the economy means
a) Sale or purchase of govt. securities
b) Issuance of different type of bonds
c) Auction of gold 
d) To make available direct finance to borrowers
e) None of these


Ans a


4) The bank rate meabs
a) Rate of interest charged by commerical bank from borrowers 
b) Rate of interest at which commercial banks discounted vills of their borrowers.
c) Rate of interest allowed by commercial banks on their deposits.
d) Rate at which RBI purchases or rediscounts bills of exchange of commercial banks.
e) None of these


Ans d


5) What is an Indian depository means?
a) A deposit account with a public sector bank
b) A depository account with any of depositories in India
c) An instrument in the form of depository receipt created by an Indian depository against underlying equity shares of the issuing company
d) An instrument in the form of deposit receipt issued by Indian depositories.
e) None of these


Ans c


6) An instrument that derives its value from a specified underlying( Currency, gold,stocks etc) is known as---
a) Derivative
b) Securitisation Receipts
c) Hedge Fund
d) Factoring
e) Vanture capital funding


Ans c


7) In the capital market, the term arbitrage is used with reference to--
a) purchase of securities to cover the sale 
b) sole of securities to reduce the loss on purchase
c) simultaneous purchase and sale of securities to make profit from price.
d) variation in different market
e) Any of the above


Ans c


8) Currency swap is an instrument to manage
a) Currency Risk
b) Interest Rate Risk
c) Currency and interest rate risk
d) Cash flows in diffrent currencies
e) All of the above  


Ans d


9) Sub Prime refers to 
a) lending done by banks at rates below PLR
b) Funds raised by the banks at sublibor rates
c) Group of Banks which are not rated as prime banks as per bankers's Almanac.
d) Lending done by Finanacing institutions including banks to customers are not meeting with normally required credit appraisal standards.
e) All of the above 


Ans d


10) Euro bond is an instument 
a) issued in the European market
b) issued in Euro Currency
c) Issued in a country other than the country of the curency of the bond.
d) All of the above
e) None of these


Ans c


11) The IMF and the World bank were conceived as institutions to 
a) Strengthen international economic co-operation and to help create a more stable and proerous global economy.
b) IMF promoters international mometory cooperation
c) The world bank promotes long term economics development and poverty reduction.
d) All of these
e) None of these


Ans d


12) In the term BRIC, R stands for
a) Romania
b) Restriction
c) Russia
d) Regulation
e) None of these


Ans c


13) Which of the first Indian company to be listed in NASDAQ?
a) Reliance
b) TCS
c) HCL
d) Infosys
e) None of these


Ans d


14) Who is the Brand Endorsing personality of bank of baroda?
a) Juhi Chawla
b) Kiran Bedi
c) Amitabh Bachan
d) Kapil Dev
e) None of these   


Ans e


15) The branding line of Bank of Baroda
a) International Bank of India
b) India's International bank
c) India's Multinational Bank
d) World's local Bank
e) None of these


Ans b

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