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 Diary of a Young Girl, a wartime record published after the writer's death, was written by
The Diary of a Young Girl is the diary kept by Anne Frank while her family was in hiding in Amsterdam during the Second World War.
Read the full explanation →The Accidental Prime Minister, an account of the working of the Prime Minister's Office, was written by
Sanjaya Baru served as media adviser to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and wrote The Accidental Prime Minister as an insider's account of those years.
Read the full explanation →Playing It My Way is the autobiography of which sportsperson?
Playing It My Way is the autobiography of Sachin Tendulkar and was published shortly after he retired from international cricket.
Read the full explanation →The book India Wins Freedom was written by
India Wins Freedom is Azad's account of the last decade of the freedom struggle, of the Cabinet Mission and of the events that led to partition.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following books is a biography and not an autobiography?
The book was written by Robert Kanigel about the mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, so the writer and the subject are two different people, which makes it a biography.
Read the full explanation →Wings of Fire, the autobiography of A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, was co-authored by
Wings of Fire was written by A. P. J. Abdul Kalam with Arun Tiwari, a scientist who had worked under Kalam in the missile programme.
Read the full explanation →The autobiography titled The Story of My Experiments with Truth was written by
The Story of My Experiments with Truth is the autobiography of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, written originally in Gujarati and later translated into English.
Read the full explanation →Which memory is non-volatile and can be erased and rewritten electrically, byte by byte, without removing the chip from the circuit?
Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory is erased by applying a voltage, one byte at a time, while the chip stays soldered in place, which is why it is used for settings that must survive a power cut and yet be changed occasionally, such as the configuration data of a…
Read the full explanation →The storage capacity of a standard 3.5-inch floppy disk is
The 3.5-inch high-density floppy disk, the square plastic diskette with a metal shutter, was formatted to 1.44 MB, and that figure is still asked in computer awareness papers because it anchors the small end of the capacity ladder.
Read the full explanation →A solid state drive stores data using
An SSD is built from flash memory, itself a block-erasable form of EEPROM, which traps charge in floating-gate cells.
Read the full explanation →Which technique allows a computer to run programs larger than its physical RAM by using part of the hard disk as memory?
The operating system reserves an area of the hard disk, called the swap space or the page file, and moves pages a program is not actively using out to it.
Read the full explanation →Cache memory is placed between which two units of a computer?
Cache is a small block of static RAM that keeps the instructions and data most recently used by the processor.
Read the full explanation →What is the storage capacity of a standard single-sided, single-layer DVD?
A Digital Versatile Disc uses a shorter wavelength laser and finer pits than a compact disc, so one side with one recording layer holds about 4.7 GB; a double-layer disc of the same size holds roughly 8.5 GB.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is an example of volatile memory?
Random Access Memory holds a bit only while it is powered, whether the cell is a flip-flop in static RAM or a leaking capacitor in dynamic RAM.
Read the full explanation →One terabyte is equal to how many gigabytes?
Every step in the ladder of storage units multiplies by 1,024, because 1,024 is 2 raised to the power 10 and memory is addressed in binary.
Read the full explanation →The contents of an EPROM chip are erased by exposing it to
An Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory chip carries a small quartz window over the silicon; ultraviolet light shone through that window releases the trapped charge from every cell at once and returns the chip to its blank state, after which it can be programmed again.
Read the full explanation →Which type of memory has to be refreshed thousands of times per second to retain its contents?
Dynamic RAM stores each bit as a charge on a very small capacitor, and that charge leaks away in a few milliseconds, so the memory controller has to read and rewrite every cell continuously.
Read the full explanation →How many bits make one nibble?
A nibble is half a byte, that is four binary digits, and it matters because one nibble is written as exactly one hexadecimal digit, from 0 to F. That is why memory addresses in hexadecimal are read four bits at a time.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is the fastest memory in a computer system?
A register is built into the CPU itself and holds the word the arithmetic and logic unit is operating on at that instant, so it is read and written in a single clock cycle.
Read the full explanation →When the Reserve Bank raises the repo rate to control inflation, the likely immediate effect is that
A higher repo rate raises the cost at which banks borrow from the Reserve Bank, so they raise their own lending rates.
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