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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

Q323.Computer AwarenessMedium

Which of the following is NOT one of the five essential characteristics of cloud computing described by the National Institute of Standards and Technology?

  1. A.On-demand self-service
  2. B.Resource pooling
  3. C.Rapid elasticity
  4. D.Permanent offline operation
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Correct answer: D. Permanent offline operation

The cloud is reached over a network, so working permanently offline is the opposite of what the model offers; the dependence on connectivity is in fact listed among the limitations of cloud computing.

Q324.Computer AwarenessMedium

In the name of the Amazon cloud service S3, the letter S stands three times for:

  1. A.Secure Socket Service
  2. B.Simple Storage Service
  3. C.Server Side Storage
  4. D.Shared System Software
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Correct answer: B. Simple Storage Service

Amazon S3 was launched in 2006 and was among the first large public cloud offerings. It stores data as objects inside containers called buckets rather than as files in folders, and it is used by websites and applications across the world to hold images, backups and logs.

Q326.Computer AwarenessMedium

A cloud in which an organisation keeps its sensitive data on its own private infrastructure while using a public cloud for ordinary workloads is called a:

  1. A.Public cloud
  2. B.Private cloud
  3. C.Hybrid cloud
  4. D.Community cloud
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Correct answer: C. Hybrid cloud

A hybrid cloud joins a private deployment with a public one so that confidential records stay inside the organisation while ordinary or seasonal workloads run on rented public resources, and data can move between the two.

Q327.Computer AwarenessHard

MeghRaj, in the context of Indian e-governance, refers to:

  1. A.The GI Cloud initiative of the Government of India
  2. B.A satellite launched for weather forecasting
  3. C.A mobile payment application of the banks
  4. D.An antivirus programme for government offices
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Correct answer: A. The GI Cloud initiative of the Government of India

MeghRaj is the brand name of the Government of India Cloud, under which the National Informatics Centre runs the National Cloud so that ministries and state departments can host applications and data without buying separate servers for every project.

Q328.Computer AwarenessMedium

DigiLocker, the cloud based document wallet of the Government of India, was launched in which year?

  1. A.2009
  2. B.2012
  3. C.2015
  4. D.2019
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Correct answer: C. 2015

DigiLocker was launched in 2015 as part of the Digital India programme of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, and it gives every citizen a cloud account linked to Aadhaar in which boards, universities and transport departments place verified certificates that are accepted on a par with the original…

Q330.Computer AwarenessEasy

In cloud computing, what is the full form of SaaS?

  1. A.Storage as a Server
  2. B.Software as a Service
  3. C.System and Application Software
  4. D.Secure Access and Storage
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Correct answer: B. Software as a Service

In this model the provider runs finished software on its own servers and the user simply opens it in a browser, as with Gmail, Google Docs, Microsoft 365 or Salesforce, paying by subscription instead of buying a licence and installing it.

Q332.Indian EconomyHard

Decimal coinage, under which the rupee was divided into one hundred paise, was introduced in India in which year?

  1. A.1947
  2. B.1950
  3. C.1957
  4. D.1964
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Correct answer: C. 1957

Decimal coinage came into force on 1 April 1957 under the Indian Coinage Amendment Act, and the rupee, which had earlier been divided into sixteen annas, each of four pice or twelve pies, was divided into one hundred paise; the new coin was called the naya paisa until 1964, when…

Q333.Indian EconomyEasy

Whose signature appears on Indian banknotes of denominations above one rupee?

  1. A.The Finance Secretary
  2. B.The Governor of the Reserve Bank of India
  3. C.The Union Finance Minister
  4. D.The President of India
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Correct answer: B. The Governor of the Reserve Bank of India

Every banknote above one rupee is issued by the Reserve Bank under Section 22 of its Act and carries the promise to pay the bearer, signed by the Governor, which is why these notes are called promissory notes of the Bank.

Q334.Indian EconomyMedium

The Reserve Bank withdrew the two thousand rupee note from circulation in May 2023. Which statement about that note is correct?

  1. A.It ceased to be legal tender at once
  2. B.It continues to be legal tender
  3. C.It was never legal tender
  4. D.It was replaced by a five thousand rupee note
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Correct answer: B. It continues to be legal tender

On 19 May 2023 the Reserve Bank announced the withdrawal of the two thousand rupee note from circulation under its Clean Note Policy and asked banks to stop issuing it, while making it clear that the note was not being demonetised and would remain legal tender; holders were given a…

Q335.Indian EconomyEasy

On which date were the five hundred and one thousand rupee notes declared to cease being legal tender in India?

  1. A.8 November 2016
  2. B.19 May 2023
  3. C.1 April 2017
  4. D.16 January 1978
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Correct answer: A. 8 November 2016

The notes of five hundred and one thousand rupees in the Mahatma Gandhi series ceased to be legal tender from the midnight of 8 November 2016, the stated purposes being action against unaccounted money, counterfeit currency and the financing of terrorism; a new five hundred rupee note and a two…

Q336.Indian EconomyMedium

The demonetisation of high denomination notes in January 1978 took place when who was the Prime Minister of India?

  1. A.Indira Gandhi
  2. B.Morarji Desai
  3. C.Charan Singh
  4. D.Lal Bahadur Shastri
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Correct answer: B. Morarji Desai

The High Denomination Bank Notes (Demonetisation) Act was passed in January 1978, when the Janata Party government led by Morarji Desai was in office, and it withdrew the notes of one thousand, five thousand and ten thousand rupees that had been reintroduced in 1954.

Q337.Indian EconomyEasy

The Indian rupee symbol, adopted in 2010, was designed by whom?

  1. A.D. Udaya Kumar
  2. B.Nandan Nilekani
  3. C.Pingali Venkayya
  4. D.Raghuram Rajan
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Correct answer: A. D. Udaya Kumar

The rupee symbol was adopted by the Union Cabinet on 15 July 2010 after a public competition, and the winning design by D. Udaya Kumar, then a research scholar at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, joins the Devanagari letter ra with the Roman capital R and carries two parallel…

Q338.Indian EconomyHard

The banknote presses at Mysuru and Salboni are run by Bharatiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran Private Limited, a subsidiary of which institution?

  1. A.Reserve Bank of India
  2. B.State Bank of India
  3. C.Ministry of Finance
  4. D.Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India
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Correct answer: A. Reserve Bank of India

Bharatiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran Private Limited was set up in 1995 as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Reserve Bank and runs the two banknote presses at Mysuru in Karnataka and Salboni in West Bengal.

Q340.Indian EconomyHard

Since which year has the note issue of the Reserve Bank of India been governed by the Minimum Reserve System?

  1. A.1935
  2. B.1949
  3. C.1956
  4. D.1969
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Correct answer: C. 1956

An amendment of the Reserve Bank of India Act in 1956 replaced the proportional reserve system with the Minimum Reserve System, under which the Bank must hold assets worth two hundred crore rupees against the note issue, of which gold must be not less than one hundred fifteen crore rupees…