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SBI GK Questions 2026

The static part of the awareness test in SBI exams is banking and economy knowledge, which is why the PO Mains test is named General Awareness/ Economy/ Banking Knowledge and the Clerk Mains test General/ Financial Awareness. The sample questions in the Bank's booklet ask which institution introduced Know Your Customer norms, which sector drives State incomes, who led Operation Flood and what monetary policy is concerned with, and the real papers follow that line. The topics that recur are the RBI and its functions, monetary policy tools such as the repo rate, CRR and SLR, types of banks and accounts, NPAs, priority sector lending, KYC and anti-money-laundering rules, payment systems like UPI, NEFT and RTGS, banking terms and abbreviations, financial regulators such as SEBI, IRDAI and PFRDA, development institutions such as NABARD and SIDBI, the Union Budget and the Economic Survey, GDP, inflation and national income, and government schemes for financial inclusion, insurance and pensions. A few questions ask plain static GK: headquarters and heads, currencies and capitals, and dates in banking history. 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. Read a topic, then solve its quiz and the SBI previous-year questions on this site to see what you retained.

SBI GK Questions with Answers

Q281.Reports & IndicesMedium

Under which Licensed Service Area was the TRAI drive test in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands conducted?

  1. A.Tamil Nadu LSA
  2. B.West Bengal LSA
  3. C.Kolkata LSA
  4. D.Andhra Pradesh LSA
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Correct answer: B. West Bengal LSA

For telecom licensing the Andaman and Nicobar Islands are grouped with West Bengal, and the drive test across South Andaman district and the coastal route from Port Blair to Havelock was conducted under that service area during August 2026, supervised by the regulator regional office at Kolkata.

Q282.Banking & Financial AwarenessAsked in: UPSC Civil Services · CSE Prelims 2016, GS Paper IEasy

The term 'Core Banking Solutions' is sometimes seen in the news. Which of the following statements best describes/describe this term?

1. It is a networking of a bank's branches which enables customers to operate their accounts from any branch of the bank on its network regardless of where they open their accounts.

2. It is an effort to increase RBI's control over commercial banks through computerization.

3. It is a detailed procedure by which a bank with huge non-performing assets is taken over by another bank.

Select the correct answer using the code given below.

  1. A.1 only
  2. B.2 and 3 only
  3. C.1 and 3 only
  4. D.1, 2 and 3
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Correct answer: A. 1 only

Core Banking Solutions (CBS) links all branches of a bank to one central system, so a customer can bank at any branch, not just the home branch.

Q283.Computer AwarenessMedium

GIST technology and the LEAP Office Indian language software suite were developed by

  1. A.C-DAC, Pune
  2. B.ISRO, Bengaluru
  3. C.NIC, New Delhi
  4. D.DRDO, Hyderabad
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Correct answer: A. C-DAC, Pune

The correct answer is A, C-DAC, Pune, the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, which besides building India's PARAM series of supercomputers created the GIST range of Indian language technology, including the add-on card and software that let ordinary computers display and print Indian scripts, and the LEAP Office suite…

Q284.Computer AwarenessMedium

The Technology Development for Indian Languages programme is run by which Union Ministry?

  1. A.Ministry of Education
  2. B.Ministry of Culture
  3. C.Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
  4. D.Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
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Correct answer: C. Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology

The Technology Development for Indian Languages programme, known as TDIL, develops and distributes fonts, dictionaries, corpora, optical character recognition, speech and machine translation tools for Indian languages, and it maintains a data centre from which these resources are shared.

Q285.Computer AwarenessMedium

In Devanagari text, the virama or halant sign is used to

  1. A.lengthen a vowel sound
  2. B.remove the inherent vowel and allow conjuncts to form
  3. C.mark the end of a sentence
  4. D.change a consonant into a digit
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Correct answer: B. remove the inherent vowel and allow conjuncts to form

Every Devanagari consonant carries an inherent short vowel, and the virama cancels it, giving the bare consonant; when a bare consonant is followed by another consonant the rendering engine joins the two into a conjunct or half form, which is why the virama is the key character in Devanagari text…

Q288.Computer AwarenessMedium

Which of the following is a Unicode Devanagari font supplied with Microsoft Windows and commonly used in Hindi typing tests?

  1. A.Mangal
  2. B.DevLys
  3. C.Chanakya
  4. D.Kruti Dev
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Correct answer: A. Mangal

The correct answer is A, Mangal, the Devanagari Unicode font shipped with Windows and the font that government typing tests pair with the InScript layout; later Windows versions also carry Nirmala UI, Aparajita, Kokila and Utsaah as Unicode Devanagari fonts.

Q289.Computer AwarenessMedium

Kruti Dev is an example of

  1. A.a Unicode Devanagari font
  2. B.a non-Unicode or legacy Devanagari font
  3. C.an Indian keyboard layout
  4. D.a transliteration scheme
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Correct answer: B. a non-Unicode or legacy Devanagari font

Kruti Dev places Devanagari glyphs on the code positions of English letters, so the computer stores ordinary ASCII characters while the reader sees Hindi; open the file on a machine without that font and the text appears as meaningless Roman letters and symbols, and it cannot be searched or indexed.

Q290.Computer AwarenessEasy

InScript, in the context of Indian language computing, is

  1. A.a Devanagari font
  2. B.a keyboard layout for Indian scripts
  3. C.a character encoding standard
  4. D.a word processing software
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Correct answer: B. a keyboard layout for Indian scripts

InScript, short for Indian Script, is the standard layout notified by the Government of India and built into Windows, Linux, macOS and Android; it places vowels and matras under the left hand and consonants under the right in the dictionary order of the script, so the same layout works for…

Q291.Computer AwarenessEasy

ISCII stands for

  1. A.Indian Script Code for Information Interchange
  2. B.Indian Standard Code for Internet Information
  3. C.International Script Code for Indian Interchange
  4. D.Indic Symbol Code for Information Indexing
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Correct answer: A. Indian Script Code for Information Interchange

ISCII was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards as IS 13194 in 1991; it is an 8-bit code whose lower 128 positions are the same as ASCII and whose upper 128 positions carry an Indian script, a single table serving ten scripts because they share the phonetic order inherited…

Q292.Computer AwarenessHard

In the Unicode standard, the Devanagari block occupies the range

  1. A.U+0400 to U+047F
  2. B.U+0600 to U+067F
  3. C.U+0900 to U+097F
  4. D.U+0B00 to U+0B7F
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Correct answer: C. U+0900 to U+097F

This block of 128 code points holds the Devanagari consonants and independent vowels, the dependent vowel signs or matras, the virama, the nukta, the danda and double danda, and the Devanagari digits; characters added later sit in a separate Devanagari Extended block.

Q293.Computer AwarenessEasy

The Unicode standard is maintained by which of the following?

  1. A.Unicode Consortium
  2. B.Bureau of Indian Standards
  3. C.Internet Engineering Task Force
  4. D.World Wide Web Consortium
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Correct answer: A. Unicode Consortium

The correct answer is A, the Unicode Consortium, a non-profit body of software companies, governments and individual experts that publishes the Unicode Standard, assigns code points to characters and releases a new version with new scripts and symbols from time to time.

Q294.Computer AwarenessHard

Which pair of products is correctly described as open-source ERP software?

  1. A.Odoo and ERPNext
  2. B.Photoshop and CorelDRAW
  3. C.Chrome and Firefox
  4. D.Android and iOS
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Correct answer: A. Odoo and ERPNext

Both are enterprise resource planning packages distributed as open-source software, so the source code can be studied and modified, and both are deployed by small and medium firms that cannot meet the cost of a large proprietary suite; ERPNext is the Indian entry in the category.

Q295.Computer AwarenessMedium

Which of the following best defines data mining?

  1. A.Taking a backup of all company files
  2. B.Discovering patterns and relationships in large volumes of data
  3. C.Deleting duplicate rows from a table
  4. D.Encrypting records before sending them
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Correct answer: B. Discovering patterns and relationships in large volumes of data

Data mining applies statistical and machine learning techniques to large stores of data to find knowledge that was not asked for in advance: customer segments, associations between products bought together, trends over time and unusual cases that may be fraud.

Q296.Computer AwarenessMedium

Salesforce is best known as a product in which category?

  1. A.Cloud CRM
  2. B.Database engine
  3. C.Spreadsheet program
  4. D.Network switch firmware
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Correct answer: A. Cloud CRM

Salesforce is the best-known customer relationship management product delivered as a cloud service, used over a browser on subscription, with Zoho from India and Microsoft Dynamics 365 among the other names in the category.

Q298.Computer AwarenessHard

A contra voucher in Tally is used to record which transaction?

  1. A.Sale of goods on credit
  2. B.Payment of salary to staff
  3. C.Cash deposited into the bank
  4. D.Purchase of raw material
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Correct answer: C. Cash deposited into the bank

A contra voucher records movements that do not change the total funds of the business but only shift them between cash and bank or between two bank accounts, which is why both sides of the entry are the firm's own accounts.

Q300.Computer AwarenessMedium

A decision support system is designed mainly for which kind of problem?

  1. A.Fully structured, repetitive clerical work
  2. B.Semi-structured problems needing what-if analysis
  3. C.Printing payslips every month
  4. D.Installing hardware drivers
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Correct answer: B. Semi-structured problems needing what-if analysis

A decision support system is interactive and model-based: it holds data, models and a user interface so that a manager can change assumptions, run alternatives and compare outcomes on problems that are neither wholly routine nor wholly open-ended, such as pricing a product, choosing a warehouse site or planning a…