Questions asked in SBI PO Mains Exam: 26 July 2015

Friends..in this post we are sharing with you the questions asked in SBI PO Mains exam held today (26 July 2015). Questions were from the following sections: Reasoning Ability, General Awareness/ GK/ Computer/ Marketing, Data Analysis and Interpretation and English Language. As per opinion shared by our friends, Exam was comparatively tough. Please share your exam reviews. 

Here are the questions shared by Parvathy Nair, Vivek Suri, Ramakanth Reddy. 

GK and Current Affairs Questions

1) Agartala is capital of which state? - Tripura

2) Narendra Modi recently launched first branch of ICICI bank in which country? - China

3) Who was selected as CEAT Indian cricketer of the year? - Ajinkaya Rahane

4) Maximum pension amount in Atal Pension Yojana? - Rs.5000

5) Krishna Poonia is related with which sport? - Discus Throw

6) Irwin Rose who died recently was famous for? - 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner

7) Who was recently selected as head coach of India A and U-19 cricket teams? - Rahul Dravid

8) Which Indian company was ranked 57th in US brands survey? - TCS

9)  International Day of Peace is observed on? - 21 September

10) FMC is proposed to be merged with? - SEBI

11)  Age Limit under PM Suraksha Bima Yojana? - 18-70

12) Omkareswar Dam Located in? - Madhya Pradesh

13) Age limit under Atal Pension Yojana? - 40 years

14) Which country recently launched the first ATM with face recognition? - China

15) Parent country of automobile company 'Volkswagen'? - Germany

16) Which among the following was 100th Amendment of Constitution of India? - To operationalise the LBA between India and Bangladesh.

17) Full Form of BIOS? -  Basic Input/ Output System

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Marketing Questions

1) Petrol car owner demand diesel car. What kind of demand is this?

English- Descriptive Questions

1. Write a letter to an aged teacher of yours thanking him/her for his/her contribution to your success as a human being.

2. Write a letter to the Manager pointing out the haphazard manner in which files are maintained in the office & proposing some innovative methods of filling.

3. Write a letter to the Editor of a newspaper bringing to his notice the number of cybercrimes taking place in your city & suggest measures to curb this menace.

4. Essay on Pros & Cons of implementation of “One Rank One Pension".

5. Essay on Ethical problems of E - Commerce.

6. Essay on India’s over dependence on the monsoon.

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Computer Knowledge Online Quiz for Bank Exams

Friends..Here are some useful questions from Computer Knowledge Questions for Bank Exams. These questions will be very useful for upcoming SBI PO Mains 2015, IBPS PO 2015, IBPS RRB 2015, OICL Assistant etc. 

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1) The standard protocol of the Internet is ___?

(1)  TCP/IP

(2)  Java

(3)  HTML

(4)  Flash

2) Digital photos and scanned images are typically stored as_____ graphics with extension such as .bmp, .png, .jpg, .tif or .gif.?

(1)  vector

(2)  bitmap

(3)  either vector or bitmap

(4)  neither vector nor bitmap

3) A ____ is a computer attached 'to the Internet that runs a special Web server software and can send Web pages out to other computers over the Internet?

(1)  web client

(2)  web system

(3)  web page

(4)  web server

4) Computers connected to a LAN can ___?

(1)  run faster

(2)  share information and/or share peripheral equipment

(3)  e-mail

(4)  go online

5) e-Marketing is same as ___?

(1)  virtual marketing

(2)  digital marketing

(3)  real time marketing

(4)  All of these

6) The acronym HTML stands for ____?

(1)  High Transfer Machine Language

(2)  High Transmission Markup Language

(3)  Hypertext Markup Language

(4)  Hypermedia Markup Language

7) Which one of the following is a key function of a firewall ?     

(1)  Monitoring

(2)  Deleting

(3)  Copying

(4)  Moving

8) When you install a new program on your computer, it is typically added to the______menu?

(1)  all Programs

(2)  select Programs

(3)  start Programs

(4)  desktop Programs

9) A program that generally has more user-friendly interface than a DBMS is called a?

(1)  front end

(2)  repository

(3)  back end

(4)  form

10) Network Components are connected to the same cable in the  ___ topology?

(1)  star

(2)  ring

(3)  bus

(4)  mesh

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July 2015 Current Affairs PDF| eBook: Second Week

Friends..Here is the Free Current Affairs 2015 PDF Download for July Second Week. Here we have collected all the important happenings for the week (12 July 2015 to 18 July 2015) for Banking Section, National, and International, Sports, Awards, Achievements and other categories. Hope you have read the Current Affairs PDF of First Week. In case you missed Read Current Affairs July 2015 First Week PDF. 

1) Who won men’s singles title of Wimbledon 2015? - Novak Djokovic

Note: In the final clash played in London, Serbian Djokovic defeated Roger Federer of Switzerland 7-6, 6-7, 6-4, 6-3. Read Moreà http://goo.gl/vk1FTZ

2) Who won Wimbledon Women's Single title 2015? - Serena Williams

Note: In the final clash played at Centre Court, London, Williams (US) defeated Garbine Muguruza (Spain) in straight sets 6-4, 6-4. Read Moreà http://goo.gl/Yg6zga

3) Which T20 cup was on 15 July 2015 scrapped due to limited public following? - Champions League Twenty20 (CLT20)

4) Name the space probe of NASA which on 14 July 2015 made closest approach to Pluto? - New Horizons

Note: It was launched on 19 January 2006 as part of NASA's New Frontiers program.

5) Name the two Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise suspended by Justice RM Lodha-headed panel for IPL Betting Scandal 2013 on 14 July 2015? - Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Rajasthan Royals (RR)

Note: They were suspended for two years.

6) Name the top-seeded Indo-Swiss pair which on 11 July 2015 won women’s doubles title at Wimbledon 2015? - Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis

Note: They defeated Russian duo of Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina 5-7, 7-6, 7-5.

7) Leander Paes and along with whom on 12 July 2015 won mixed doubles title at Wimbledon 2015? - Martina Hingis

Note: They defeated the fifth seed Austrian-Hungarian team of Alexander Peya and Timea Babos 6-1, 6-1.

8) Who was on 13 July 2014 appointed as the Vice-Chief of the Indian Army? - Lieutenant General Man Mohan Singh Rai

9) Name the modern Indian artist who was on 14 July 2015 conferred with the highest French civilian honour, the Commandeur de la Legion d’ Honneur (the Legion of Honour)? - Sayed Haider Raza

10) Name the indigenously built Torpedo launch and recovery vessel (TLRV), which was on 16 July 2015 decommissioned after its 31 years service to the nation? - INS Astravahini

Note: The vessel had immensely contributed in the trials of indigenous torpedoes developed by Naval Science and Technological Laboratory (NSTL).

11) Who was on 17 July 2015 appointed as Interim Director of Film and Television Institute of India (FTII)? - Prashant Pathrabe

Note: Pathrabe succeeded incumbent Director DJ Narain who superannuated the office on 4 July 2015.

12) Indigenously developed helicopter-launched Nag (HeliNa) missile was on 12 July 2015 test fired at the Chandhan firing range in? - Jaisalmer, Rajasthan

13) Name the Indo-Vietnamese pair which on 12 July 2015 won the 2015 Wimbledon Boys’ Doubles title? - Sumit Nagal-Nam Hoang Ly

Note: With this win, the 17-year- old Sumit Nagal became the sixth Indian to win a Grand Slam junior title.

14) Vyapam scam in which state was in news in July 2015 as Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on 12 July 2015 constituted a special team of 40 officers to probe the multi-crore Vyapam scam? - Madhya Pradesh

15) World Youth Skills Day was observed globally on? - 15 July 2015

Note: The day was observed under the theme Youth skills for work and life in the post-2015 agenda.

16) Union Minister of Civil Aviation P Ashok Gajapathi Raju on 13 July 2015 formally launched the GAGAN system. Expand GAGAN? - GPS AIDED GEO AUGMENTED NAVIGATION

17) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 13 July 2015 returned to India after his six-nation tour of? - Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan.

18) Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on 16 July 2015 permitted ____ with Core Banking Solution (CBS) to issue ATM cards/ATM-cum-debit cards in tie with a sponsor banks? - Cooperative Banks

19) Reserve Bank of India on 17 July 2015 signed a Special Currency Swap Agreement with the Central Bank of which country? - Sri Lanka

20) Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on 15 July 2015 constituted a committee to work out a five-year (medium-term) action plan for financial inclusion. The 14-member panel will be headed by? - Deepak Mohanty, RBI executive Director

21) Name the Uruguayan soccer legend who died on 16 July 2015, famous for his goal in stunning 2-1 victory over Brazil in the final game of the 1950 FIFA World Cup? - Alcides Edgardo Ghiggia

22) Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on 16 July 2015 approved the creation of an intra state transmission system in ____ states of the country? - seven

Note: The seven states include Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan.

23) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 15 July 2015 launched the Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana in New Dehi. The programme aims to impart? - Skill training to 24 lakh youth during 2015-16

24) National Mission for Skill Development (NMSD) was on 15 July 2015 launched by? - Union Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE)

25) Union Ministry of Urban Development on 14 July 2015 launched the HRIDAY Scheme from Amritsar. HRIDAY stands for? - National Heritage Development and Augmentation Yojana

26) Name the Iconic Tamil music composer who died on 14 July 2015? - MS Viswanathan

27) Name Vivek Agnihotri's film which won the Best Original Screenplay award in the Foreign Language Category at the Madrid International Film Festival, Spain recently? - ‘Buddha in a Traffic Jam’

28) 55th National Inter State Senior Athletics Championships was held between 10 July and 13 July 2015 in? – Chennai

29) Report of the ____ committee on Net Neutrality was on 16 July 2015 released by the Department of Telecommunications? - A K Bhargava

30) Union Cabinet on 16 July 2015 gave its approval to set up an expert group to classify the Caste names returned in the Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC), 2011. The expert group will be chaired by? - Arvind Panagariya, Vice-Chairperson of NITI Aayog

31) Name the Indian American woman who was on 16 July 2015 honoured as Champions of Change by the White House of United States (US)? - Sunita Viswanath

32) Who was on 14 July 2015 appointed as the Chairman of Narmada Valley Development Authority (NVDA)? - Rakesh Sahni

33) India’s first railway-line built under PPP model was recently inaugurated in which state? – Gujarat

34) Name the Indian-origin scientist, who was recently elected to Royal Society of London? - Professor Kamal Bawa

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Current Affairs July 2015 PDF Capsule- First Week

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1) Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on 10 July 2015 successfully launched five British satellites into space using? - PSLV-C28

Note: This was the heaviest commercial luggage carried by a PSLV rocket to date. It was also the biggest commercial launch of ANTRIX/ISRO.

2) Seventh BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) summit was held from 8 to 9 July 2015 in which city? - Ufa, Russia

3) Which country on 5 July 2015 won the FIFA Women’s World Cup? - United States of America (USA)

Note: They defeated Japan. This was third world cup title for the USA and first since 1999.

4) Which country on 4 July 2015 won its first Copa America Cup football tournament? - Chile

Note: In the final played at the Estadio Nacional (national stadium) in Santiago, Chile defeated Argentina 4-1 through penalties shootout.

5) Who won World Food Prize 2015? - Fazle Hasan Abed

6) Name the man responsible for conceiving the idea of short messaging service (SMS) technology, who died on 30 June 2015? - Matti Makkonen

7) World Population Day was observed on 11 July 2015 with the theme? - Vulnerable Populations in Emergencies

8) Which player on 10 July 2015 became only the second cricketer in the history of One Day International (ODI) cricket to claim a hat-trick on ODI debut? - Kagiso Rabada

Note: South African player claimed a hat-trick against Bangladesh.

9) Which city will be hosting the 8th BRICS summit in 2016? - New Delhi, India

10) India’s 1st Earthquake Warning System was on 10 July 2015 successfully installed in which state? – Uttarakhand

11) Which state will host the fifth Youth Delphic Games in February 2016? - Goa

Note: The motto of the 2016 Games is Celebrating Arts and Cultures.

12) Who won British Grand Prix 2015 recently? - Lewis Hamilton

13) Name the founding Chairman of Kerala State Electronics Development Corporation Limited (Keltron) who died on 1 July 2015? - K P P Nambiar

14) Name the initiative to provide doorstep services and expedite Home Loan Application (HLA) process launched on 3 July 2015 by State Bank of India (SBI)? - Project Tatkal

15) Anisa Rasouli was on 30 June 2015 nominated as the first ever female Supreme Court judge of which country? – Afghanistan

16) Who recently became the first British-Asian appointee to England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) Management Board? - Lord Kamlesh Patel

17) India and which other country on 10 July 2015 were accepted as the full members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), a six-member regional grouping? – Pakistan

18) Bandhan Bank Ltd on 9 July 2015 appointed whom as its Chairman? - Ashok Kumar Lahiri, former Chief Economic Adviser

19) India and which country on 9 July 2015 signed Inter Governmental Agreement (IGA) to implement the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA)? - United States (US)

20) Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) in first week of July 2015 extended the ‘disturbed area’ status of which state? – Nagaland

21) Who was on 8 July 2015 appointed as Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of National Housing Bank (NHB)? - Sriram Kalyanaraman

Note: He became the first person form the Private Sector to head a Public Sector Financial Institution.

22) World Boxing Organization (WBO) on 7 July 2015 stripped whom of the Welterweight title which he won by defeating Manny Pacquiao in May 2015? - Floyd Mayweather Jr

23) India on 5 July 2015 won the South Asian Basketball (SABA) Championship title defeating which country? - Sri Lanka

24) Which country recently became the first country to eliminate mother-to-child (vertical) transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and syphilis in the World? – Cuba

25) Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit 2015 was recently held at? - Ufa, Russia

26) Bashar Navaaz who passed away on 9 July 2015 was a famous writer in which language? – Urdu

27) Who recently became first Indian to win a Gold Medal at World University Games held in Gwangju? - Inderjit Singh (shot-put)

28) What was announced as the theme of 2015 Science Express? - Climate Change

29) ____ on 7 July 2015 released the State of Safety Nets 2015 report? - World Bank

30) Which bank launched Watch Banking application for Apple Watch in the first week of July 2015? – HDFC

31) Which bank on 4 July 2015 launched country’s first MUDRA (Micro Units Development and Refinance Agency) card under the Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana (PMMY) in Mangalore, Karnataka? - Corporation Bank

32) Mahindra Defence on 3 July 2015 tied-up with which European aerospace giant to form a Joint Venture to manufacture defence choppers? - Airbus Helicopters

33) Name the Russian cosmonaut who recently entered Guinness World Records for spending most number of days in the space? - Gennady Padalka

Note: He achieved the feat by spending 804 days on the International Space Station (ISS) and surpassed record of cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev.

34) Which country on 30 June 2015 became the first developed nation to default on International Monetary Fund (IMF) debt? – Greece

35) Who was recently selected for G D Birla Award for Scientific Research for 2014? - Sanjeev Galande

36) University Grants Commission (UGC) on 2 July 2015 accorded special Heritage Status on ___ Colleges across the country? – 19

37) Who was nominated by China to be the first president of the Beijing-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)? - Liqun, Former Finance Minster of China

38) Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan (RAA) scheme was on 9 July 2015 launched in New Delhi recently by? - Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam

39) Union Government in June 2015 increased the national floor-level minimum wage (NFLMW) to ___ rupees per day? – 160

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