Dena Bank PO (PGDBF) Exam 2017: General Awareness with special reference to banking industry Quiz 2

 There will be 50 questions of General Awareness in Dena Bank PO (PGDBF) exam. Candidates can easily score well in General Awareness section as the section is less time taking than other sections.

1.  1. Which of the following, private sector banks has launched new services - India’s first Aadhaar based iris eye scan customer verification and fingerprint operated ATM in the state Telangana?

 a)      Axis Bank

 b)      ICICI Bank

 c)       HDFC Bank

 d)      SBI

 e)      DCB Bank

 Ans: option (e)

2. Name the only public sector bank that got ‘high (H)’(85 and above score out of 100) rating in two successive   surveys of 2015 and 2017, according to the Code Compliance Rating of banks done by the Banking Codes and Standards Board of India (BCSBI) 2017.

a)      SBI

b)      Bank of Baroda

c)       Punjab National Bank

d)      Dena Bank

e)      IDBI Bank

Ans: option (e)

3. Which of the following organisation has recently announced the launch of the BaNCS app development kit that will enable banks to fast design and build their own apps and deploy it across devices and desktops seamlessly?

a)      Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)

b)      RBI

c)       Banking Codes and Standards Board of India (BCSBI)

d)      IBA (Indian Bank Association)

e)      IBM

Ans: option (a)

4. Who among the following is the new chief of National Stock Exchange (NSE)?

a)      Ashok Chawla

b)      Chitra Ramakrishna

c)       Usha Thorat

d)      Vikram Limaye

e)      None of  these

Ans: option (d)

5. Which of the following recently includes by the RBI in the Banking Ombudsman Scheme 2006, as widened the scope of the scheme?

a)      To lodge a complaint against the bank for its non-adherence to RBI instructions with regard to Mobile Banking/ Electronic Banking services in India.

b)      To lodge a complaint against the bank for its non-adherence to RBI instructions regarding Foreign Exchage Managemnt

c)       To lodge a complaint against the bank for its non-adherence to RBI instructions for Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC)

d)      To lodge a complaint against the bank for its non-adherence to RBI instructions regarding Prompt Corrective Action

e)      None of these

Ans: option (a)

6. Which of the following countries recently ratified the automatic exchange of financial account information with India and 40 other jurisdictions to facilitate immediate sharing of details of suspected black money?

a)      Switzerland

b)      Sweden

c)       USA

d)      UK

e)      None of these

Ans: option (a)

7. Which of the following is NOT correct?

a)      RTGS – Real time gross settlement

b)      NEFT – National electronic funds transfer

c)       CTS – Cheque transaction system

d)      IMPS – Immediate payment service

e)      NACH – National automated clearing house

Ans: option (c)

8. International Yoga Day was recently observed on-

a)      20^th June

b)      21^st June

c)       23^rd June

d)      25^th June

e)      None of these

Ans: option (b)

9. India and Asian Development Bank (ADB) recently signed a $275 million loan agreement for upgrading urban services in state

a)      Madhya Pradesh

b)      Uttar Pradesh

c)       Jharkhand

d)      Orissa

e)      None of these

Ans: option (e)

10. Name the  city which has topped the newly released list of 30 cities for development as smart cities under Smart City Mission –

a)      Vishakhapatnam

b)      Thiruvananthapuram

c)       Mangalore

d)      Pune

e)      None of these

Ans: option (b)

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