Bank of Baroda Clerical Question Paper

Will you please provide me the Bank of Baroda Clerical exam Question Paper of Socio-economic, Banking and Computer Awareness?

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Will you please provide me the Bank of Baroda Clerical exam Question Paper of Socio-economic, Banking and Computer Awareness i am providing some questions:

1. Which of the following nations is considered the originator of the concept of Micro Finance?

(1) Bangladesh

(2) India

(3) South Africa

(4) Greece

(5)Brazil



2. Which of the following is represented by the letter ‘L' in the abbreviation CAMELS, the rating system used in financial world ?

(1) Loans

(2) Leadership

(3) Liabilities

(4) Liquidity

(5) None of these



3. Repo rate is decided by which of the following organizations?

(1) SEBI

(2) AMFI

(3) All Banks

(4) RBI

(5) IMF



4. Many a times we read a term ‘PPP' in financial dailies/magazines. What is the full form of the same as used in financial world?

(1) Purchasing Power Parity

(2) Per captia Potential Purchases

(3) Public Per captia Power

(4) Present Purchasing Power

(5) Popular Public Preferences



5. The rate of interest on Term Deposits in Banks is stipulated by which of the following?

(1) RBI

(2) Government of India

(3) Indian Banks Association

(4) Banking Codes and Standards Board of India

(5) Individual Banks themselves



6. Which of the following is not a function of a commercial bank?

(1) Providing project finance

(2) Selling Mutual Funds

(3) Deciding policy rates like CRR, Repo Rates/SLR etc.

(4) Settlement of payments on behalf of the customers

(5) Providing services such as locker facilities, remittances etc.



7. Which of the following carries out ‘Open Market Operations'?

(1) Stock Exchanges in India

(2) Indian Banks' Association

(3) Securities and Exchange Board of India

(4) Planning Commission

(5) Reserve Bank of India



8. The famous name Vikram Pandit is associated with which of the following organizations/banks?

(1) Cairn Energy

(2) ICICI Bank

(3) Pepsi Co.

(4) Vodafone

(5) Citigroup



9. Which of the following is the main function of I.M.E.?

(1) Finance investment loans to developing countries

(2) Act as a private sector lending arm of the World Bank

(3) Help to solve balance of payment problems of member countries

(4) Arrange international deposits from banks

(5) None of these



10. Which of the following is not a mode of foreign capital inflow to India?

(1) FDI

(2) FII

(3) NRI Accounts

(4) No Frills Accounts

(5) All these are valid for foreign capital inflow



11. Five Year Plans in India are finally approved by which of the following bodies?

(1) National Development Council

(2) President on the advice of Prime Minister

(3) Union Cabinet

(4) Planning Commission

(5) Finance Minister



12. Which of the following schemes is launched specifically for helping Senior Citizens to avail loan by mortgage of their residential property?

(1) English Mortgage Scheme

(2) Senior Capital Loan Scheme

(3) Reverse Mortgage Loan Scheme

(4) DEMAT Account Scheme

(5) None of these



13. The most appropriate measure of a country's economic growth is___

(1) Net National Product

(2) Net domestic product

(3) Gross domestic product

(4) Per capita real income

(5) Total Foreign Investment in a year



14. In order to streamline the functioning of MFI sector the RBI had appointed a committee. The committee was headed by___

(1) Dr. Y.V.Redddy

(2) Shri M.V.Nair

(3) Shri Y.H.Malegam

(4) Dr. D.Subbarao

(5) Smt. Usha Thorat



15. The census in India is done after a gap of every-

(1) 5 years

(2) 10 Years

(3) 12 Years

(4) 15 Years

(5) None of these



16. Structure of Basel II is based on how many pillars?

(1) Two

(2) Three

(3) Four

(4) Five

(5) Six



17. Which of the following is/are the depositories in India handling dematerialized shares?

(A) National Payment Corporation of India

(B) Central Depository Service (CDSL)

(C) Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE)

(1) Both (A) & (B)

(2) Only (B)

(3) Only (A)

(4) Only(C)

(5) All (A),(B) & (C)



18. What does the term NSDL stand for?

(1) National Securities Development Limited

(2) National Securities Depository Limited

(3) National Safety Development Limited

(4) Natural Safety Development Limited

(5) National Social & Developmental Liabilities



19. Non-Banking Financial Company (NBFC) does not have which of the following functions?

(1) Equipment leasing

(2) Housing finance and investments in financial securities

(3) Hiring & Purchasing Assets.

(4) Demand Deposits

(5) None of these



20. Insurance business in India is regulated by___

(1) Life Insurance Corporation of India

(2) SEBI

(3) Reserve Bank of India

(4) Insurance Regulatory & Development Authority (IRDA)

(5) AMFI



21. Basel III in banks is being planned to be implemented from which of the following years?

(1) 2012

(2) 2013

(3) 2014

(4) 2015

(5) 2019



22. Money Laundering refers to which of the following?

(1) Conversion of assets into cash

(2) Conversion of Money which is illegally obtained

(3) Conversion of cash into gold

(4) Conversion of gold into cash

(5) Conversion of shares into cash



23. As per the repots in various newspapers, RBI has asked banks to make a plan to provide banking service to all villages having a population of 2000. This directive issued by the RBI will fall in which of the following categories?

(1) Plan for Financial Inclusion

(2) Efforts to meet the targets of Priority Lending

(3) Extension of Relief Packages to the Farmers

(4) Extensions of Internal and Branchless Banking

(5) None of these



24. The price at which the Govt. Purchases food grain for maintaining the public distribution system is known as-

(1) Ceiling prices

(2) Procurement price

(3) Minimum Price

(4) Issue Price

(5) Distribution price



25. Which of these books is written by Kiran Desai?

(1) A Village By the Sea

(2) Darkness at Noon

(3) Lolita

(4) My Son's Father

(5) The Inheritance of Loss



Computer Awareness

26. The ___controls communications for the entire computer system.

(1) Arithmetic-logic unit

(2) Semiconductor

(3) Motherboard

(4) Coprocessor

(5) None of these



27. A ___is approximately 1 million bytes.

(1) Megabyte

(2) Kilobyte

(3) Gigabyte

(4) Terabyte

(5) None of these



28. Which of the following is formally defined as a criminal action perpetrated primarily through the use of a computer?

(1) Phishing

(2) Hacking

(3) Cybercrime

(4) Social networking

(5) None of these



29. Hardware used to translate words, sound images and actions that People understands into a form that the system unit can process is known as-

(1) Device drivers

(2) Device readers

(3) Input devices

(4) Output devices

(5) None of these



30. Being- means being familiar enough with computers in such a manner that you understand their capabilities and limitations.

(1) Computer literate

(2) Computer competent

(3) Computer savvy

(4) Technology literate

(5) None of these



31. The System component that controls and manipulates data in order to produce information is called the -

(1) Keyboard

(2) Microprocessor

(3) Monitor

(4) Mouse

(5) None of these



32. The container that houses most of the electronic components that make up a computer system is known as the -

(1) Arithmetic -logic unit

(2) Central processing unit

(3) RFID

(4) System catalog

(5) None of these



33. How a network is arranged and how it shares information and resources is called a network___

(1) Topology

(2) Strategy

(3) Protocol

(4) Architecture

(5) None of these



34. These chips are specifically designed to handle the processing requirements related to displaying and manipulating 3-D images.

(1) Graphics coprocessors

(2) Arithmetic - logic unit processors

(3) Control unit processors

(4) CISC chips

(5) None of these



35. Which type of software is used to make a slide show ?

(1) Spreadsheets software

(2) World processing software

(3) Presentation software

(4) System software

(5) None of these



36. RAM is referred to as- storage.

(1) Direct

(2) Volatile

(3) Secondary

(4) Sequential

(5) None of these



37. The - tells the rest of the computer how to carry out a program's instruction.

(1) ALU

(2) Control unit

(3) System unit

(4) Motherboard

(5) None of these



38. The combination of operating system and processor in a computer is referred to as computers'___

(1) Firmware

(2) Specification

(3) Minimum requirements

(4) Platinum

(5) None of these



39. The position of a disk that contains no stored data, but may contain latent data is called-

(1) RAM slack

(2) A cluster

(3) Swap space

(4) Unallocated space

(5) None of these

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I want to give Bank of Baroda Clerical Exam so please provide me Previous Years Question Papers for preparation of Exam?

[Kiran Chandar]

Here I am providing you Previous Years Question Papers of Bank of Baroda Clerical Exam for your preparation.

Question Papers of Bank of Baroda Clerical Exam:

1. ‘Captain' is related to a ‘Team' in the same way as ‘Director' is related to
(1) Supervisor
(2) Employee
(3) Organisation
(4) Union
(5) Customer

2. Find the odd one out of the following options
(1) Aunt
(2) Child
(3) Father
(4) Niece
(5) Relation

3. Pointing to a photograph of Mahesh, Ram said. "The father of his sister is the husband of my wife's mother". How is Ram related to Mahesh?
(1) Brother
(2) Brother-in-law
(3) Father-in-law
(4) Data not sufficient
(5) None of these

4. If ‘fork' is called ‘plate', ‘plate' is called 'knife', ‘knife' is called ‘jug', ‘jug' is called ‘glass', ‘glass' is called ‘cup' and ‘cup' is called ‘fork', by what do we cut fruit?
(1) spoon
(2) jug
(3) glass
(4) saucer
(5) none of these

5. If ‘a' is substituted by 26,'B' by 25 and so on up to ‘Z' which is substituted by 1, what will be the sum of the numbers substituted for the word ‘XRAY'?
(1) 33
(2) 40
(3) 37
(4) 73
(5) None of these

6. In a certain code COIMBATORE is written as DPJNCBUPSF. How is INDORE written in that code?
(1) JOENQF
(2) JMCPQD
(3) JOEPSF
(4) HMCNQD
(5) None of these

7. Geeta is elder to Seeta but not to Deepa. Gayatri is younger than Deepa. No one is elder to Fatima. Who is youngest of them all?
(1) Seeta
(2) Geeta
(3) Gayatri
(4) Data not sufficient
(5) None of these

8. Raman is sitting to the immediate left of Harry but not next to Kamal. Mahesh is sitting to the right of Kamal. If the four friends are sitting in a circle who is sitting to the immediate right of Harry?
(1) Mahesh
(2) Kamal
(3) Raman
(4) Harry
(5) Cannot be determined

9. How many three letter meaningful English words can be formed from the word NOTE beginning with ‘T' and without repeating any letter?
(1) Three
(2) One
(3) Two
(4) None
(5) None of these


Directions (11-15): Answer question 11 to 15 based on the following sequence:
A $ B # 9 G 3D K « M ? C Q 2 X 7 P 5 U 8 I 4 Y ə J

11. How many elements in the above arrangement are both immediately preceded and immediately followed by a number?
(1) One
(2) Two
(3) Three
(4) Five
(5) None of these

12. Which of the following will be the fifteenth element from the left end if all the numbers are arranged in descending order from left to right, keeping the position of the other elements in arrangement un-changed?
(1) 5
(2) 4
(3) 7
(4) 8
(5) None of these

13. How many letters in the above arrangement are immediately followed by a symbol?
(1) Two
(2) Five
(3) Four
(4) Three
(5) None of these

14. Which of the following will be eighth to the left of the twelfth from the left end of the arrangement?
(1) #
(2) 7
(3) U
(4) 9
(5) None of these

15. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way based on their position in the above arrangement and so form a group. Which is the one that does not belong to that group?
(1) G$M
(2) K9Q
(3) ?D7
(4) 2MU
(5) PCI

16. In a certain code language' In ba pe' means ‘he has won','le ki ba' means ‘she has lost' and ‘in se pe' means ‘he always won'. Which word in that language means ‘he'?
(1) in
(2) pe
(3) se
(4) Data not sufficient
(5) None of these

17. X is Y's brother. S is T's mother and X's aunt. How is T related to X?
(1) Sister
(2) Cousin
(3) Aunt
(4) Cannot be determined
(5) None of these

18. If the letters of the word OBSERVANT are interchanged, such that the first becomes ninth, second becomes eighth, and so on, and the position of the fifth letter remains unchanged then what will be the new arrangement of letters?
(1) TNAVERSBO
(2) TNVARESBO
(3) NTAVERSBO
(4) VANTRESBO
(5) None of these

19. If 1 is coded as Ś, 5 is coded as %, 6 is coded as «, 3 is coded as +, 7 is coded as # and 4 is coded as ? What will be the correct form of the number 435671?
(1) ? + % « # Ś
(2) ? + % Ś # «
(3) ? + « % # Ś
(4) Ś # « % + ?
(5) None of these

20. Which of the following have the same relationship as BREADBARE?
(1) SWORN: NSOWR
(2) FUNDS: FSDUN
(3) GLAZE : EGZAL
(4) LOWER: RLEWO
(5) None of these


Directions (21-25): Read the following information and attempt the given questions:

Six executive Aman, Bindu, Deepa, Jitu, Kamal and Priyanka have to advertise four products i.e. soap, watches, computers and chocolates on 3 different channels, i.e. Go, Come and Fun either alone or in pairs. An executive can visit only one channel and advertise only one product. No more than two executives can advertise on a channel.

(i) Bindu and Jitu both visit the same channel but advertise different products.

(ii) Aman who visits ‘Go' advertises neither soap nor computers.

(iii) Kamal does not advertise chocolates.

(iv) No girl advertises soap.

(v) The two executives who advertise chocolates visit Spice

21. Who advertises watches?
(1) Deepa
(2) Kamal
(3) Aman
(4) Priyanka
(5) None of these

22. Which of the following Channel-product pairs in definitely incorrect?
(1) Go-watch
(2) Come-computer
(3) Go-soap
(4) Come-soap
(5) Come-watch

23. Which channel does Kamal visit?
(1) Go
(2) Fun
(3) Come
(4) Cannot be determined
(5) None of these

24. If Bipasha advertises computers which of the following must be true?
(1) Jitu advertises soap
(2) Jitu advertises watches
(3) Kamal advertises computers (4) Kamal works for Fun
(5) None of these

25. What will Jitu advertise?
(1) Chocolates
(2) Watches
(3) Computers or watches
(4) Cannot be determined
(5) None of these

26. Swaroop and Simple want to attend a seminar together between 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday. Simple cannot leave till after her lunch break which begins at 1.30 p.m. Swaroop is free after her meeting which ends at noon. For how many hours can the two of them attend the seminar?
(1) 3 ½ hours
(2) 2 ½ hours
(3) 4 ½ hours
(4) Cannot be determined
(5) None of these

27. How many pairs of letters are there in the word ANSWER each of which has as many letters between them in the word as there are in the English language?
(1) One
(2) Two
(3) Four
(4) Three
(5) None of these

28. Find the odd one out
(1) 2
(2) 7
(3) 11
(4) 13
(5) 9

29. If all the letters in the word MERCIFUL are rearranged in alphabetical order and substituted by the alphabet preceding them in the English alphabet what will be the new arrangement of letters?
(1) BDHEKLQT
(2) BDEHKLQT
(3) BDEHLKQT
(4) BDEJMLQT
(5) None of these

30. Out of 38 families in a housing society 5 subscribe to Hindi news-papers alone, 12 subscribe to both Hindi and Marathi newspapers. Find the number of Maranthi news-paper subscribers.
(1) 9
(2) 21
(3) 17
(4) Cannot be determined
(5) None of these