Static GK in IBPS exams means banking awareness first. The awareness tests of PO, Clerk and RRB Mains name banking, economy, financial and digital awareness, and the questions that return every year are about the RBI and its functions, the monetary policy tools (repo, SDF, MSF, CRR, SLR), types of banks and accounts, NPAs, Basel norms, priority sector lending, payment systems such as UPI, NEFT, RTGS and IMPS, deposit insurance, financial inclusion schemes, and the regulators SEBI, IRDAI and PFRDA and institutions such as NABARD and SIDBI. Headquarters and taglines of banks, capitals and currencies, national parks, dams and important days appear too, though with a smaller share than in SSC. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes for banking exams, written as short facts and tables so that a topic can be revised in one sitting, with the terms and abbreviations that IBPS papers use. Read a topic, then solve its previous-year questions and quiz on this site to check what you retained, and come back to the notes for the facts you missed.
Which of the following is an example of application software?
A word processor is written to do a job the user wants done, namely to create, edit, format and print a document, so it belongs to application software.
Read the full explanation →An operating system that guarantees a response within a strictly fixed time limit, as needed in missile control and medical equipment, is called
A real time system is judged not only by whether it gives the right answer but by whether it gives that answer inside a fixed deadline.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following translates a high level language program line by line and stops at the first error?
An interpreter reads one statement of the high level program, translates it into machine code and executes it immediately before moving to the next statement.
Read the full explanation →The process of restarting a computer that is already switched on is known as
A warm boot, also called a soft boot, is the restarting of a computer that is already running, usually through the restart option of the operating system or a reset key combination.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following file systems is used by the Linux operating system?
The extended file system family, of which ext4 is the widely used member, was written for Linux and is the default arrangement for storing and naming files on a Linux disk.
Read the full explanation →The situation in which two processes each hold a resource the other needs and neither can proceed is called
Deadlock is the state in which every process in a set is waiting for a resource that another process in the same set is holding, so none of them can ever move forward without the operating system stepping in.
Read the full explanation →UNIX operating system was developed in 1969 at which organisation?
UNIX was developed in 1969 at Bell Laboratories by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie, and it became the model for almost every multi user operating system that followed.
Read the full explanation →Which scheduling algorithm allots a fixed time slice to every process in rotation and is therefore used in time sharing systems?
In Round Robin scheduling every ready process is given the processor for a fixed period called the time quantum, and when that period expires the process is moved to the back of the queue and the next one is served.
Read the full explanation →Which type of software is permanently stored on a chip and is required before any other program can run?
Firmware is software written permanently into a read only memory chip at the time of manufacture.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is the core part of an operating system that always remains in main memory?
The kernel is the central part of the operating system and is the portion that is loaded at boot time and stays resident in main memory for as long as the computer is running.
Read the full explanation →Joothan, a landmark autobiographical work of Dalit writing in Hindi, was written by
Joothan is the autobiography of Omprakash Valmiki and is regarded as a landmark of Dalit writing in Hindi. It records the humiliations of caste that the writer faced in school and at work, and the title itself refers to the leftover food that his community was expected to accept.
Read the full explanation →The biography Steve Jobs, written with the cooperation of its subject, was authored by
Walter Isaacson wrote the authorised biography of Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple, after a long series of interviews with him.
Read the full explanation →Unbreakable is the autobiography of which Indian sportsperson?
Unbreakable is the autobiography of the boxer Mary Kom from Manipur, and it describes her early life in a farming family, her training, her world championship titles and her return to the ring after becoming a mother.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following books was not written by Jawaharlal Nehru?
India Divided was written by Rajendra Prasad, who later became the first President of India, and it examines the demand for partition and the arguments made on either side.
Read the full explanation →The Diary of a Young Girl, a wartime record published after the writer's death, was written by
The Diary of a Young Girl is the diary kept by Anne Frank while her family was in hiding in Amsterdam during the Second World War.
Read the full explanation →The Accidental Prime Minister, an account of the working of the Prime Minister's Office, was written by
Sanjaya Baru served as media adviser to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and wrote The Accidental Prime Minister as an insider's account of those years.
Read the full explanation →Playing It My Way is the autobiography of which sportsperson?
Playing It My Way is the autobiography of Sachin Tendulkar and was published shortly after he retired from international cricket.
Read the full explanation →The book India Wins Freedom was written by
India Wins Freedom is Azad's account of the last decade of the freedom struggle, of the Cabinet Mission and of the events that led to partition.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following books is a biography and not an autobiography?
The book was written by Robert Kanigel about the mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, so the writer and the subject are two different people, which makes it a biography.
Read the full explanation →Wings of Fire, the autobiography of A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, was co-authored by
Wings of Fire was written by A. P. J. Abdul Kalam with Arun Tiwari, a scientist who had worked under Kalam in the missile programme.
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