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.
The headquarters of the Reserve Bank of India is located in which city?
The Reserve Bank of India has had its central office at Bombay, now Mumbai, since 1937, and it has stayed there ever since.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following lists the layers of a coaxial cable correctly, from the centre outwards?
A coaxial cable is built around a single solid or stranded copper wire at the axis, which carries the signal.
Read the full explanation →Which wireless medium cannot pass through walls and is therefore used in television remote controls?
Infrared lies just below visible light in frequency, and like visible light it is stopped by an ordinary wall.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is an unguided transmission medium?
Transmission media fall into two families. A guided or bounded medium confines the signal to a solid conductor or light pipe, and the three guided media are twisted pair, coaxial cable and optical fibre.
Read the full explanation →The word modem is formed from which two words?
A computer works with digital signals, a series of ones and zeros, while an ordinary telephone line was built to carry an analog voice signal.
Read the full explanation →Which connector is used to terminate a twisted pair cable in a computer network?
The RJ-45 is the eight-position modular plug crimped on to the end of an unshielded twisted pair cable of category 5e or 6 and pushed into the network port of a computer, switch or router.
Read the full explanation →A walkie-talkie is an example of which mode of data transmission?
A walkie-talkie allows both parties to speak and both to listen, so communication is two-way, but the set has a single push-to-talk switch and one person must release it before the other can be heard.
Read the full explanation →Which transmission medium is completely immune to electromagnetic interference?
Electromagnetic interference acts on moving charge, so any medium that carries a signal as an electric current can pick up noise from motors, fluorescent lamps, lightning and nearby cables.
Read the full explanation →An optical fibre transmits light along its length on the principle of
The fibre has a core of higher refractive index surrounded by a cladding of lower refractive index. Light that enters the core and meets the boundary at an angle greater than the critical angle is reflected entirely back into the core, with none of it refracted away into the cladding.
Read the full explanation →Five channels each with 100 kHz bandwidth are to be multiplexed together. What is the minimum bandwidth of the link, if there is a need for a guard band of 10 kHz between the channels to prevent interference?
In frequency division multiplexing each channel is given its own slice of the frequency band, and a small unused strip called a guard band is left between two neighbouring channels so that one does not spill into the next.
Read the full explanation →In the case of an optical fibre transmission link, LEDs and LASERs are used as
At the transmitting end of a fibre link the electrical signal must be turned into light, and the two devices that do it are the light-emitting diode and the laser diode.
Read the full explanation →The material used for making optic-fibre cable in general is
An optical fibre carries information as pulses of light, not as an electric current, so its core and cladding must be transparent and not conducting.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is NOT a function of a development finance institution such as NABARD or SIDBI?
A development finance institution is not a deposit-taking bank for the public; it raises resources from bonds and debentures, from the government, from the Reserve Bank and from multilateral agencies, and uses them for long-term lending.
Read the full explanation →The National Bank for Financing Infrastructure and Development (NaBFID) was set up under an Act of which year?
NaBFID was created by the National Bank for Financing Infrastructure and Development Act, 2021 as a development finance institution for long-term infrastructure finance, with its head office in Mumbai, and it is the newest of the country's apex development institutions.
Read the full explanation →The Credit Guarantee Fund Trust for Micro and Small Enterprises (CGTMSE) was set up by the Government of India jointly with
CGTMSE was established in 2000 by the Government of India together with SIDBI to guarantee loans given without collateral or third-party guarantee to micro and small enterprises, so that a lender's fear of security does not keep a small unit out of formal credit.
Read the full explanation →The National Housing Bank was established in which year as the apex institution for housing finance?
The National Housing Bank was established on 9 July 1988 under the National Housing Bank Act, 1987, with its head office in New Delhi, to refinance and regulate housing finance; it was set up as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Reserve Bank, whose shareholding was transferred to the Government…
Read the full explanation →Which institution supervises and inspects the regional rural banks and the cooperative banks on behalf of the Reserve Bank of India?
Besides refinancing them, NABARD carries out the inspection and supervision of the regional rural banks, the state cooperative banks and the district central cooperative banks on behalf of the Reserve Bank, and it also prepares the potential linked credit plans from which district credit plans are drawn.
Read the full explanation →The Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF) is maintained with
The Rural Infrastructure Development Fund was created in 1995 to 1996 and is maintained with NABARD; it is funded by the amounts commercial banks fall short of in their priority sector lending targets, and NABARD lends from it to state governments for rural roads, bridges, irrigation works, warehouses and similar…
Read the full explanation →The Micro Units Development and Refinance Agency (MUDRA) was set up as a subsidiary of
MUDRA was created in 2015 as a subsidiary of SIDBI to refinance the small loans given by banks, microfinance institutions and non-banking finance companies under the Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana, the loans being classified as Shishu up to fifty thousand rupees, Kishore from fifty thousand to five lakh and Tarun…
Read the full explanation →The Export-Import Bank of India began operations in which year?
The EXIM Bank was established on 1 January 1982 under the Export-Import Bank of India Act, 1981, is wholly owned by the Government of India, has its head office in Mumbai, and finances and promotes India's foreign trade, including the lines of credit the government extends to other countries.
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