100 Important Questions for Banking Awareness

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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
© Inflation
(D) Borrowing power of the banks
(E) All the above

Ans (E)


2. Open market operations , one of the measures taken by RBI in order to control credit expansion in the economy me
Ans ____
(A) Sale or purchase of Govt. securities
(B) Issuance of different types of bonds
© Auction of gold
(D) To make available direct finance to borrowers
(E) None of these

Ans (A)


3. The bank rate me
Ans ___
(A) Rate of interest charged by commercial banks from borrowers
(B) Rate of interest at which commercial banks discounted bills of their borrowers
© 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)


4. What is an Indian Depository Receipt?
(A) A deposit account with a Public Sector Bank
(B) A deposit account with any of depositories in India
© 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 an Indian depositories
(E) None of these

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5. Fiscal deficit is ____
(A) total income less Govt. borrowing
(B) total payments less total receipts
© total payments less capital receipts
(D) total expenditure less total receipts excluding borrowing
(E) None of these

Ans (D)


6. In the capital market , the term arbitrage is used with reference to ____
(A) purchase of securities to cover the sale
(B) sale of securities to reduce the loss on purchase
© simultaneous purchase and sale of securities to make profits from price
(D) variation in different markets
(E) Any of the above

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7. The stance of RBI monetary policy is _____
(A) inflation control with adequate liquidity for growth
(B) improving credit quality of the Banks
© strengthening credit delivery mechanism
(D) supporting investment demand in the economy
(E) Any of the above

Ans (E)


8. Currency Swap is an instrument to manage ___
(A) currency risk
(B) interest rate risk
© currency and interest rate risk
(D) cash flows in different currency
(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 sub - Libor Rates
© Group of banks which are not rate as prime banks as per Banker's Almanac
(D) lending done by financing institutions including banks to customers not not meeting with
normally required credit appraisal standards
(E) All of the above

Ans (D)


10. Euro Bond is an instrument _____
(A) issued in the European market
(B) issued in Euro currency
© issued in a country other than the country of the currency of the Bond
(D) All of the above
(E) None of these

Ans ©