SBI GK Questions 2026

NABARD was set up on 12 July 1982 on the recommendation of the Committee to Review the Arrangements for Institutional Credit for Agriculture and Rural Development, chaired by B. Sivaraman.

It was registered in 1894 and opened at Lahore as the first bank floated entirely with Indian capital and run by Indian management, with Lala Lajpat Rai among those associated with its founding.

On 15 April 1980 the Government nationalised six more private banks, this time using a deposit cut-off of ₹200 crore.

The All India Rural Credit Survey Committee under A. D. Gorwala reported that rural credit needed a bank with branches across the country and in state partnership.

Formally the Royal Commission on Indian Currency and Finance, it reported in 1926 that the control of currency and of credit should not be split between the Government and the Imperial Bank but placed in one central bank.

The rupee was tied to the pound sterling from colonial times and stayed pegged to it after independence. In 1975 the link was cut and the rupee was tied instead to a basket of currencies of India's major trading partners, with the Reserve Bank fixing the daily rate.

The Reserve Bank opened in 1935 as a shareholders' bank with privately held share capital.

It was founded in 1865 and is remembered as the oldest joint stock bank in India, a joint stock bank being one owned by shareholders rather than by a partnership of agency houses.

On 19 July 1969 the Government of India issued an ordinance taking over the fourteen largest Indian scheduled commercial banks, those whose deposits stood at ₹50 crore or more.

Spooling stands for simultaneous peripheral operations on line. The operating system writes the data meant for a slow device into a queue on the disk and lets the processor go on with other work, while the device picks jobs out of that queue at its own pace.

A word processor is written to do a job the user wants done, namely to create, edit, format and print a document, so it belongs to application software.

A real time system is judged not only by whether it gives the right answer but by whether it gives that answer inside a fixed deadline.

An interpreter reads one statement of the high level program, translates it into machine code and executes it immediately before moving to the next statement.

A warm boot, also called a soft boot, is the restarting of a computer that is already running, usually through the restart option of the operating system or a reset key combination.

The extended file system family, of which ext4 is the widely used member, was written for Linux and is the default arrangement for storing and naming files on a Linux disk.

Deadlock is the state in which every process in a set is waiting for a resource that another process in the same set is holding, so none of them can ever move forward without the operating system stepping in.

UNIX was developed in 1969 at Bell Laboratories by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie, and it became the model for almost every multi user operating system that followed.

In Round Robin scheduling every ready process is given the processor for a fixed period called the time quantum, and when that period expires the process is moved to the back of the queue and the next one is served.

Firmware is software written permanently into a read only memory chip at the time of manufacture.

The kernel is the central part of the operating system and is the portion that is loaded at boot time and stays resident in main memory for as long as the computer is running.