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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

Q782.Computer AwarenessHard

A digital signature under the Information Technology Act is created using:

  1. A.a symmetric key and a cipher block
  2. B.an asymmetric crypto system and a hash function
  3. C.a biometric scan alone
  4. D.a one time password
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Correct answer: B. an asymmetric crypto system and a hash function

Section 3 provides that an electronic record is authenticated by affixing a digital signature created by use of an asymmetric crypto system and a hash function; the hash function reduces the record to a message digest and the signer's private key encrypts it, while anyone can verify it with the…

Q783.Computer AwarenessMedium

Which of the following documents cannot be executed in electronic form under the Information Technology Act, 2000?

  1. A.A cheque
  2. B.An electronic mail contract for the sale of goods
  3. C.A will
  4. D.A purchase order sent online
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Correct answer: C. A will

The First Schedule to the Act excludes certain documents from electronic form: a negotiable instrument other than a cheque, a power of attorney, a trust deed, a will or other testamentary disposition, and any contract for the sale or conveyance of immovable property.

Q784.Computer AwarenessHard

The Information Technology Act, 2000 is based on which international instrument?

  1. A.The Budapest Convention on Cybercrime
  2. B.The UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Commerce
  3. C.The General Data Protection Regulation
  4. D.The Berne Convention
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Correct answer: B. The UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Commerce

The model law was adopted by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law in 1996 and recommended to member states by the General Assembly, and India's Act follows its scheme for giving legal recognition to electronic records and signatures.

Q785.Computer AwarenessHard

CERT-In, the national nodal agency for computer security incidents, functions under which section of the Information Technology Act?

  1. A.Section 43A
  2. B.Section 69A
  3. C.Section 70B
  4. D.Section 79
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Correct answer: C. Section 70B

Section 70B, inserted in 2008, appoints the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team as the national nodal agency for collecting, analysing and circulating information on cyber incidents and for issuing advisories; it works under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and was set up in 2004.

Q787.Computer AwarenessMedium

Section 66A of the Information Technology Act was struck down by the Supreme Court in which case?

  1. A.Shreya Singhal v. Union of India
  2. B.K. S. Puttaswamy v. Union of India
  3. C.Kesavananda Bharati v. State of Kerala
  4. D.Vishaka v. State of Rajasthan
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Correct answer: A. Shreya Singhal v. Union of India

In 2015 the Supreme Court struck down section 66A, which punished the sending of offensive messages, holding it vague and overbroad and therefore a violation of the freedom of speech and expression under Article 19(1)(a).

Q789.Indian EconomyEasy

The no-frills account introduced by the Reserve Bank for financial inclusion is now known by which name?

  1. A.Basic Savings Bank Deposit Account
  2. B.Recurring Deposit Account
  3. C.Current Account
  4. D.Fixed Deposit Account
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Correct answer: A. Basic Savings Bank Deposit Account

The Reserve Bank asked banks in 2005 to offer a no-frills account with nil or very low minimum balance so that poor households would not be kept out by charges, and in 2012 the product was renamed the Basic Savings Bank Deposit Account, with a free debit card and a…

Q791.Indian EconomyHard

The Aadhaar Enabled Payment System allows a customer to transact using which combination?

  1. A.Aadhaar number and fingerprint
  2. B.Debit card and PIN
  3. C.Cheque and passbook
  4. D.Virtual payment address and UPI PIN
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Correct answer: A. Aadhaar number and fingerprint

The Aadhaar Enabled Payment System lets a customer withdraw or deposit cash, check a balance or transfer money at a micro ATM held by a business correspondent, identifying himself with the bank name, the Aadhaar number and a biometric such as a fingerprint, so neither a card nor a cheque…

Q793.Indian EconomyMedium

The Atal Pension Yojana is open to subscribers of which age group?

  1. A.18 to 40 years
  2. B.18 to 50 years
  3. C.21 to 55 years
  4. D.25 to 60 years
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Correct answer: A. 18 to 40 years

The Atal Pension Yojana, launched in 2015 and administered by the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority, admits subscribers between eighteen and forty years of age so that every subscriber contributes for at least twenty years before the pension begins at sixty.

Q794.Indian EconomyMedium

The Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana provides life insurance cover of what amount, and to which age group?

  1. A.One lakh rupees, ages 18 to 50
  2. B.Two lakh rupees, ages 18 to 50
  3. C.Two lakh rupees, ages 18 to 70
  4. D.Five lakh rupees, ages 21 to 60
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Correct answer: B. Two lakh rupees, ages 18 to 50

The Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana is a one-year renewable life insurance cover of two lakh rupees on death from any cause, open to holders of a savings bank account between eighteen and fifty years of age, with the premium debited from the account.

Q795.Indian EconomyEasy

The JAM trinity, central to direct benefit transfer in India, stands for which combination?

  1. A.Jan Dhan, Aadhaar and Mobile
  2. B.Jan Dhan, Atal Pension and MUDRA
  3. C.Jan Suraksha, Aadhaar and Micro insurance
  4. D.Jan Dhan, Ayushman and MGNREGA
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Correct answer: A. Jan Dhan, Aadhaar and Mobile

The expression describes the three pieces that together make a cash transfer possible: a bank account opened under the Jan Dhan Yojana to receive the money, the Aadhaar number to identify the beneficiary and remove duplicate names, and the mobile phone through which the beneficiary is informed and can transact.

Q797.Indian EconomyMedium

Under the Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana, the Shishu category covers loans up to what amount?

  1. A.Twenty-five thousand rupees
  2. B.Fifty thousand rupees
  3. C.One lakh rupees
  4. D.Five lakh rupees
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Correct answer: B. Fifty thousand rupees

MUDRA loans to non-farm micro enterprises are graded in three named categories: Shishu for loans up to fifty thousand rupees, Kishore for loans above fifty thousand and up to five lakh, and Tarun for loans above five lakh and up to ten lakh, with a higher slab added later for…

Q798.Indian EconomyMedium

Which of the following activities is a payments bank in India not permitted to undertake?

  1. A.Accepting small deposits from customers
  2. B.Giving loans and issuing credit cards
  3. C.Issuing debit cards to customers
  4. D.Selling insurance products as an agent
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Correct answer: B. Giving loans and issuing credit cards

Payments banks were licensed on the recommendation of the Nachiket Mor Committee to widen access to deposits and payments, and the Reserve Bank's guidelines expressly bar them from lending and from issuing credit cards; their funds must go into government securities and deposits with other banks.

Q799.Indian EconomyEasy

The Unified Payments Interface is developed and operated by which organisation?

  1. A.Reserve Bank of India
  2. B.State Bank of India
  3. C.National Payments Corporation of India
  4. D.Securities and Exchange Board of India
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Correct answer: C. National Payments Corporation of India

NPCI, set up in 2008 as the umbrella organisation for retail payments in the country, built and runs the Unified Payments Interface, along with RuPay, IMPS, the Aadhaar Enabled Payment System, the National Automated Clearing House and FASTag.

Q800.Indian EconomyEasy

The Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana was launched in which year?

  1. A.2012
  2. B.2014
  3. C.2015
  4. D.2016
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Correct answer: B. 2014

The Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana was launched on 28 August 2014 as the national mission for financial inclusion, offering a zero-balance Basic Savings Bank Deposit Account, a RuPay debit card with accident insurance cover and an overdraft facility for accounts operated satisfactorily.