SBI GK Questions 2026

Canara Bank, founded at Mangaluru in 1906 by Ammembal Subba Rao Pai, uses Together We Can, and the line is easy to fix in memory because the last word repeats the bank's own name.

Bank of Baroda, founded in 1908 by Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III of Baroda, calls itself India's International Bank because it has long carried the widest network of overseas branches among Indian public sector banks.

Punjab National Bank, founded at Lahore in 1894 and the first Indian bank started wholly with Indian capital, uses the line The Name You Can Bank Upon, which plays on the word bank as both a noun and a verb.

In black-box testing the tester treats the program as a sealed box, supplies inputs drawn from the specification and compares the outputs with what the specification promises; equivalence partitioning and boundary value analysis are its standard techniques, and no knowledge of the source code is needed.

A code walk-through is an informal review technique: a few team members read a module line by line, mentally execute it on sample data and note the defects they find, without the checklists, metrics and formal records of an inspection.

Boehm described the spiral model, in which the project moves outward through repeated loops and each loop performs four activities: determining objectives, risk analysis and resolution, development and testing, and planning the next loop.

If one module must know the internal data or logic of another to work, the two are tightly coupled, and a change in one forces a change in the other.

This is the first phase of the SDLC: the team meets the users, records what the system must do and what constraints apply, and sets it all down in the Software Requirements Specification, which then becomes the agreed basis for everything that follows and the yardstick for acceptance testing.

The Waterfall model is called the linear sequential model because the project flows in one direction through requirement analysis, design, coding, testing, deployment and maintenance, with each phase completed and signed off before the next begins and no overlap between them.

Binary search compares the key with the middle element and throws away half the array at every step, so the number of comparisons grows with the logarithm of the array size; an array of a million sorted items needs about twenty comparisons.

Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi was a ninth-century Persian mathematician and astronomer whose treatise on calculation with Hindu-Arabic numerals reached Europe in Latin translation; his Latinised name produced the word algorithm, and another of his works gave the word algebra.

The oval is the terminal symbol, and a well-formed flowchart has exactly one Start terminal and at least one Stop terminal; a chart that can never reach a Stop describes an infinite loop and so breaks the finiteness property of an algorithm.

The diamond or rhombus is the decision symbol: it holds a condition and has one entry with two exits, marked Yes and No, so the flow branches according to the test.

The scheme, launched in 2019, is open to an unorganised worker between eighteen and forty years of age with a monthly income up to fifteen thousand rupees, and gives an assured monthly pension of three thousand rupees after sixty on a matching contribution, the worker and the government each paying…

It inserted several Directive Principles, among them Article 43A on the participation of workers in the management of industrial undertakings, Article 39A on equal justice and free legal aid, and Article 48A on the protection of the environment.

The code sets up a Worker Re-skilling Fund to which the employer contributes fifteen days' wages for every retrenched worker, and the amount is to be credited to that worker's account within forty-five days of retrenchment so that it can be used while finding new work.

The code extends to all industrial establishments the requirement, earlier limited to public utility services, that no person shall go on strike and no employer declare a lock-out without fourteen days' notice, and the strike must begin within sixty days of that notice.

The code doubles the thresholds of the Factories Act, 1948, the argument being that small units were burdened with compliance meant for larger ones, while the criticism is that many workers now fall outside the factory provisions.

The Maternity Benefit Act, 1961 originally provided twelve weeks; the amendment of 2017 raised it to twenty-six weeks for the first two children, and the Code on Social Security carries that provision forward along with a creche facility in larger establishments.

Entry 22 covers trade unions and industrial and labour disputes, Entry 23 social security and social insurance including employment and unemployment, and Entry 24 the welfare of labour including conditions of work and provident funds, so both Parliament and the state legislatures can legislate, and each state notifies its own…