General Awareness Questions (SBI PO) Part-2

General Awareness Sample Questions 2010

1. Which of the following books has been written by Bill Gates?

(A) Microsoft Secrets

(B) The Road Ahead

(C) The Elephant Paradigm

(D) e-commerce

(E) None of these

Answer: (B)

2. Which of the following is the name of the social network service run by the Google on the internet?

(A) Online Space

(B) Orkut

(C) Net-Space

(D) Wikipedia

(E) None of these

Answer: (B)

3. Which of the following states is a relatively new addition?

(A) Goa

(B) Delhi

(C) Uttarakhand

(D) Himachal Pradesh

(E) Bihar

Answer: (C)

4. DOT stands for___________

(A) Disc Operating Therapy

(B) Department of Telephones

(C) Directorate of Technology

(D) Damage on Time

(E) None of these

Answer: (E)

5. Which of the following States/ parts of India is completely land locked having no contact with sea?

(A) Karnataka

(B) Orissa

(C) Maharashtra

(D) North-East

(E) None of these

Answer: (D)

6. TRAI regulates the functioning of which of the following services?

(A) Telecom

(B) Trade

(C) Port

(D) Transport

(E) None of these

Answer: (A)

7. At present for the ATMs in India, the most commonly used net-work communication mode is__________

(A) Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT)

(B) General Packet Radio Ser-vice (GPRS)

(C) Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA)

(D) Dial-in Connection

(E) None of these

Answer: (A)

8. Which of the following is not a foreign bank operating in India?

(A) DBS Bank Ltd.

(B) Sonali Bank

(C) J. P. Morgan Chase Bank

(D) Shinhan Bank

(E) All are Foreign Banks

Answer: (E)

9. Who is the author of the book ‘Future Shock’?

(A) Alvin Toffler

(B) Tom Peters

(C) Napoleon Hill

(D) Kenneth Blanchard

(E) None of these

Answer: (A)

10. Apex fares are________

(A) more than the normal fare

(B) less than the normal fare

(C) offered only to corporate clients

(D) applicable to late night flights only

(E) applicable to international flights only

Answer: (B)

11. Who amongst the following is the Director of the film ‘Water’ which was in news?

(A) Vidhu Vinod Chopra

(B) Mrinal Sen

(C) Gulzar

(D) Mahesh Bhatt

(E) None of these

Answer: (E)

12. The 10th plan period is upto_______

(A) 2007

(B) 2008

(C) 2009

(D) 2010

(E) None of these

Answer: (A)

13. OPEC is a group of countries which are_______

(A) exporting oil

(B) Producing cotton

(C) rich and developed

(D) developing and poor

(E) nuclear powers

Answer: (A)

14. Intel Company mainly produces______

(A) Hard disks

(B) VCDs

(C) Monitors

(D) Software

(E) None of these

Answer: (E)

15. Who amongst the following is the M.D./Chairman of one of the major Steel Companies?

(A) Shri L. N. Mittal

(B) Shri K. K. Birla

(C) Shri Vijaypat Singhania

(D) Shri Mukesh Ambani

(E) Shri Anil Agarwal

Answer: (A)