General Awareness Questions for SBI PO Mains 2017

Dear Readers,

This is the high time to pace up your preparations for Upcoming SBI PO Exams. Subjects like Aptitude, Reasoning, and English are important for the preparation of your exams but the subject the really comes in your way as a big challenge is General Awareness. As you know General Awareness is the very important section in the SBI PO Mains exam. So we are here to provide you very handy Quiz on General Awareness that will cover Current Affairs, Static Awareness, and Banking Awareness topics. Attempt the quiz with your best effort and try to score as much as you can.

Q1. Which among the following two banks have launched co-branded credit cards for the customers recently?

(a) PNB and South Indian Bank
(b) SBI and Karnataka Bank
(c) ICICI and Indian Overseas Bank
(d) Axis Bank and Bank of Baroda
(e) Indian Bank and Bandhan Bank

Q2. Who has appointed as the new chairman of Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC)?

(a) Vanaja N. Sarna
(b) Swati Gupta
(c) Tanushree Pareek
(d) Upendra Tripathy
(e) T S Anantharaman

Q3. Which among the following countries has committed an 'Official Development Assistance' (ODA) of 371.345 billion yen (about Rs 21,590 crore) under 2016-2017 for various infrastructure projects, including the dedicated freight corridor in India?
(a) Malaysia
(b) Thailand
(c) South Korea
(d) Japan
(e) China

Q4. Kanha tiger reserve in Madhya Pradesh has become the first tiger reserve in India to officially introduce a mascot of its own. The Mascot has been named as.................?
(a) Bhoorsingh the Barasingha
(b) Shersingh the Sheraham
(c) Baghathakut the Bhaghwar
(d) Singham the Singhatam
(e) None of the given options is true

Q5. Under OLTAS, only a Single Copy Challan is used with a tear off portion for the Tax Payer. What does OLTAS stand for-
(a) On-line Tax Accounting Service
(b) On-line Tax Amounting System
(c) On-line Timing Accounting System
(d) On-line Tax Association Service
(e) On-line Tax Accounting System

Q6. What is the minimum period of maturity prescribed for Commercial Paper (CP)?
(a) 17 Months
(b) 14 Days
(c) 01 Year
(d) 07 days
(e) 05 years

Q7. Which banks are insured by the Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC)?
(a) Foreign Banks functioning in India
(b) Local Area Banks
(c) Regional Rural Banks
(d) All of the above
(e) None of the given options is true

Q8. Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak has given the ceremonial reception at Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi. Najib Tun Razak is present Prime Minister of-
(a) Bhutan
(b) Nepal
(c) Malaysia
(d) Singapore
(e) Russia

Q9. Name the private sector bank, which has tied up with Wells Fargo (the third largest American bank by assets) to offer real-time remittances from the Indian diaspora to their relatives back home?
(a) HDFC Bank
(b) Axis Bank
(c) ICICI Bank
(d) South Indian Bank
(e) Karnataka Bank

Q10. The Indian Army has entered into an MoU with the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) to objective of the agreement is to identify and enhance the critical technological areas that can be enhanced in the armed forces. Who is the present Chief of Army Staff?
(a) General Birender Singh Dhanoa
(b) General Sunil Lanba
(c) General Bikram Singh
(d) General Dalbir Singh
(e) General Bipin Rawat

Q11. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is a regional development bank established on 19 December 1966. Its headquarter is located at?
(a) Kathmandu, Nepal
(b) Washington D.C, USA
(c) Jakarta, Indonesia
(d) Manila, Philippines
(e) Beijing, China

Q12. Kaziranga National Park is located in which of the following State?
(a) Assam
(b) Odisha
(c) Arunachal Pradesh
(d) Karnataka
(e) Sikkim

Q13. Bank of Maharashtra (BOM) is a major public sector bank in India. Where is the headquarter of BOM?
(a) Bengaluru
(b) Kolkata
(c) Chennai
(d) Pune
(e) New Delhi

Q14. Which organisation holding the highest/maximum share in NABARD as on 31st March 2016?
(a) Finance Ministry
(b) Government of India
(c) Reserve Bank of India
(d) Securities and Exchange Board of India
(e) None of the above

Q15. Who is the present Chairman of SEBI?
(a) Ajay Tyagi
(b) Kshatrapati Shivaji
(c) Yaduvendra Mathur
(d) Shaktikanta Das
(e) Urjit Patel

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