Probationary Officer / Management Trainee - 2008

Q.1. In a certain code CONCISE is written as FTJBBNM. How is FISHERY written in that code?

a) ZSFIGJT

b) ZSFGIHR

c) ZSFGEHR

d) ZSFEHGR

e) None of these

Q.2. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way and so form a group. Which is the one that does not belong to the group?

a) Snake

b) Crocodile

c) Frog

d) Lizard

e) Fish

Q.3. How many meaningful English words can be made from the letters ADER, using each letter only once in each word?

a) None

b) One

c) Two

d) Three

e) More than three

Q.4. How many such pairs of letters are there in the word PRELIMINARY each of which have as many letters between them in the word, as they have in the English alphabet?

a)None

b)One

c)Two

d) Three

e) None of these

Q.5. How many such digits are there in the number 57683421, each of which is as far away from the beginning of the number, when they will be arranged in descending order within the number?

a)None

b)One

c)Two

d) Three

e) None of these

Q.6. If in the word CALIBRE, the previous letter in the English alphabet replaces each consonant and each vowel is replaced by the next letter and then the order of letters is reversed, which letter will be third from the right end?

a) A

b) C

c) B

d) K

e) None of these

Q.7. In a row of children facing north. Bharat is eleventh from the right end and is third to the right of Samir who is fifteenth from the left end. Total how many children are there in the row?

a) 29

b) 28

c) 30

d) 27

e) None of these

Q.8. In a certain code READ is written as #5%6 and PAID is written as $%46. How is RIPE written in that code?

a) # 4$5

b) #6$5

c) $4#5

d) $4#6

e) None of these

Q.9. If it is possible to make only one meaningful word from the first, the fourth, the fifth and the ninth letters of the word VERSATILE using each letter only once second letter of that word is your answer. If more than one such word can be formed your answer is M and if no such word can be formed your answer is N.

a) A

b) S

c) E

d) N

e) M

Q.10. What will come next in the series given below?

1 1 2 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 5

a) 1

b) 5

c) 6

d) 2

e) None of these

In each of the questions below are given four statements followed by four conclusions numbered I, II, III and IV. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts. Read all the conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements disregarding commonly known facts.

Q.11. Statements:

• Some grapes are apples.
• Some apples are papayas.
• All papayas are mangoes.
• No mango is banana.

Conclusions:

• I. No banana is papaya.
• II. Some apples are mangoes.
• III. Some bananas are grapes.
• IV. No banana is grape.

a) Only I and II follow

b) Only either III or IV follows

c) Only I and either III or IV follow

d) I, II and either III or IV follow

e) None of these

Q.12. Statements:

• All flowers are trees.
• Some trees are stars.
• Some stars are clouds.
• No cloud is rock.

Conclusions:

• I. No rock is star.
• II. Some stars are flowers.
• III. Some rocks are flowers.
• IV. Some rocks are stars.

a) None follows

b) Only either I or IV follows

c) Only I follows

d) Only III & IV follow

e) All follow

Q.13. Statements:

• Some pens are stands.
• Some stands are containers.
• All containers are boxes.
• All boxes are drawers.

Conclusions:

• I. Some boxes are stands.
• II. Some drawers are stands.
• III. Some drawers are containers.
• IV. Some boxes are pens.

a) Only I & II follow

b) Only II & III follow

c) Only I, II and III follow

d) All follow

e) None of these

Q.14. Statements:

• All paints are colours.
• Some colours are brands.
• Some brands are certificates.
• All certificates are degrees.

Conclusions:

• I. Some brands are degrees.
• II. Some certificates are colours.
• III. Some colours are paints.
• IV. No paint is degree.

a) None follows

b) Only I follows

c) Only III follows

d) Only either I or II follows

e) None of these

Q.15. Statements:

• Some files are covers.
• All covers are keys.
• All keys are locks.
• Some locks are doors.

Conclusions:

• I. Some doors are keys.
• II. Some doors are covers.
• III. All keys are covers.
• IV. Some doors are files.

a) None follows

b) Only I follows

c) Only II follows

d) Only II & III follow

Q.77. 6.66×66.6×66 =?

a) 27274.696

b) 29274.696

c) 31274.696

d) 33274.696

e) None of these

Q.81.?% of 225 + 22% of 555 = 203.1

a) 23

b) 44

c) 36

d) 58

e) None of these

Q.82. {(35)² (38)²}/ ? = 5

a) 503

b) 543.6

c) 567.8

d) 592

e) None of these

Q.84. 1000¹² ÷ 1030 =?

a) 1000²

b) 10

c) 100²

d) 100

e) None of these

Q.85. 64% of 562.8 = 25% of?

a) 678.909

b) 1134.564

c) 360.192

d) 1440.768

e) None of these

What should come in place of question mark (?) in the following number series?

Q.86. 8 36 152 620 2496 10004?

a) 8190

b) 8187

c) 40040

d) 8163

e) None of these

Q.87. 80 120 180 270 405 607.5?

a) 850.50

b) 911.25

c) 1518.75

d) 759.375

e) None of these

Q.88. 548 567 624 719 852 1023?

a) 1175

b) 1194

c) 1213

d) 1232

e) None of these

Q.89. 16 104 572 2574 9009 22522.5?

a) 33783.75

b) 56306.25

c) 28153.125

d) 16891.875

e) None of these

Q.90. 500 251 127.5 66.75 37.375 23.6875?

a) 17.84375

b) 17.83475

c) 17.87435

d) 17.85374

e) None of these

Q.93. 7896543÷6589 =?

a) 1200

b) 1000

c) 1550

d) 1825

e) 775

Q.94. 74.2% of 7685.4 +?% of 5546.8 = 6750

a) 37

b) 8

c) 12

d) 19

e) 25

Q.95. 77.435 × 13.556 × 38.676 =?

a) 46000

b) 40600

c) 49500

d) 44200

e) 48600

Study the table carefully to answer the questions that follow—

Number of People selection six Different Products and the Percentage of Men, Women and Children Selecting those Products

Product of People	Total Number	Percentage of People
		Men	Women	Children
A	46280	35	25	40
B	45540	25	35	40
C	32240	25	55	20
D	60430	20	50	30
E	36230	10	20	70
F	53990	40	40	20

Q.96. What is the total number of children selecting Product E?

a) 27172

b) 25361

c) 23413

d) 21781

e) None of these

Q.97. What is the average number of women selecting all the Product together?

a) 20859

b) 18765

c) 19076

d) 17383

e) None of these

Q.98. What is the respective ratio of total number of women selecting Product A to those selecting Product D?

a) 1 : 3

b) 42 : 51

c) 2314 : 6043

d) 413 : 678

e) None of these

Q.99. Number of children selecting Product C forms what percent of those selecting Product B? (rounded off to two digits after decimal)

a) 35.40

b) 287.10

c) 59.71

d) 185.40

e) None of these

Q.100. Total number of men selecting Product F forms approximately what percent of the total number of people selecting all the Products together?

a) 19

b) 14

c) 3

d) 23

e) 8

Q.126. Who amongst the following is the author of the book "To A Hunger Free World"?

a) AmartyaSen

b) C. Rangrajan

c) Manmohan Singh

d) Sonia Gandhi

e) M.S. Swaminathan

Q.127. Which of the following is/are true about the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan (SSA)?

(A) The programme was not very successful. Hence Govt. is planning to wind it up.

(B) It was decided to construct about 5 lakh new classrooms in 2006-07 to make the programme successful as the response for the same was very good in rural areas.

(C) World Bank has decided to provide an aid of about US $ 600million to make the programme successful in the next five years.

a) Only A b) Only B c) Only C d) Only B & C e) None of these

Q.128. The Govt. of India has launched an Integrated Disease Surveillance Project (IDSP) to monitor certain diseases. Which of the following is NOT covered under the project?

a) Malaria

b) Polio

c) Plague

d) Tuberculosis

e) Cancer

Q.129. "Swayamsidha" is a scheme launched by the Govt. of India to help–

a) School children only

b) Health workers only

c) Women only

d) Senior Citizen without any regular income

e) None of these

Q.130. Which of the following amendments in the constitution of India are related with the institution of "Panchayat Raj"?

(A) 106th (B) 100th (C) 73rd (D) 74th

a) Only A

b) Only B

c) Both C & D

d) Both A & B

e) None of these

Q.131. In the financial newspapers we read about Industrial Growth. What are the activities involved in Industrial Sector for the purpose of economic planning?

(A) Mining (B) Manufacturing (C) Construction

a) Only A

b) Only B

c) Only C

d) All A, B & C

e) None of these

Q.132. Many times we read in newspapers that the Rupee is appreciating. When we consider the rupee- dollar exchange rate in the light of Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) we thing that the exchange rate of the two currencies should be–

a) equal to the ratio of price levels in the two countries.

b) Not be equal to the ratio of price levels in the two countries.

c) Decided on the basis of the value of the third major currency i.e. Euro or Yen.

d) Necessarily be different for both the currencies as the economies of both of them are driven on two different sets of variables and it has no relation with PPP.

e) None of these

Q.133. ‘Davis Cup’ is associated with–

a) Hockey

b) Cricket

c) Boxing

d) Football

e) Lawn Tennis

Q.134. DCM Trophy is associated with-

a) Hockey

b) Cricket

c) Football

d) Polo

e) Badminton

Q.135. Which of the following terms is NOT used in the game of Lawn Tennis?

a) Volley

b) Smash

c) Gambit

d) Back hand drive

e) Service

Q.136. The first five year plan in India was launched in the year–

a) 1947

b) 1948

c) 1949

d) 1950

e) 1951

Q.137. Which of the following is grown mainly on mountain slopes?

a) Paddy

b) Tea

c) Groundnut

d) Potato

e) None of these

Q.138. Black soil is NOT very suitable for the growth of–

a) Cotton

b) Wheat

c) Ground nut

d) Potato

e) Linseed

Q.139. Which of the following is the normal period of "Kharif Crop"?

a) May to October

b) July to December

c) March to June

d) January to March

e) None of these

Q.140. A person eligible to become the President of India should not be less than–

a) 60 years of age

b) 55 years of age

c) 50 years of age

d) 40 years of age

e) 35 years of age

Q.141. Which of the following is NOT one of the 10 fundamental duties of an Indian Citizen?

a) Safeguard public property.

b) Preserve the rich heritage of the nation's composite culture.

c) Protect the natural environment and have compassion for living creatures.

d) Ensure that each child of school going age gets basic education

e) Cherish the noble ideals of the freedom struggle.

Q.142. Who amongst the following has written the book "The city of joy"?

a) Dominique Lapierre

b) Gunter Grass

c) Ingram Smith

d) V. Harrison

e) None of these

Q.143. Naiyer Masud who was in news recently is a famous–

a) Politician

b) Social worker

c) Author

d) Cine artist

e) Journalist

Q.144. India recently decided to go ahead with its prescheduled Joint Military Exercise with which of the following countries despite its difference over boundary line?

a) Bhutan

b) China

c) Nepal

d) Pakistan

e) Bangladesh

Q.145. R. K. Karanjia who died recently was the editor of—

a) Indian Express

b) Biltz

c) Mumbai Mirror

d) National Herald

e) None of these

Q.201. Programs from the same developer, sold bundled together, that provide better integration and share common features, toolbars, and menus are known as---------

a) software suites

b) integrated software packages

c) software processing packages

d) personal information managers

e) None of these

Q.202. A data warehouse is which of the following?

a) Can be updated by end users

b) Contains numerous naming conventions and formats

c) Organized around important subject areas

d) Contains only current data

e) None of these

Q.203. ----------------servers store and manages files for network users.

a) Authentication

b) Main

c) Web

d) File

e) None of these

Q.204. All of the following are examples of real security and privacy risks except-------------

a) hackers

b) spam

c) viruses

d) identity theft

e) None of these

Q.205. ---------------terminals (formerly known as cash registers) are often connected to complex inventory and sales computer systems.

a) Data

b) Sales

c) Query

d) Point-of-sale (POS)

e) None of these

Q.206. The OSI model is divided into--------------processes called layers.

a) Five

b) Six

c) Seven

d) eight

e) None of these

Q.207. System software is the set of programs that enables your computer's hardware devices and------- software to work together.

a) Management

b) Processing

c) Utility

d) Application

e) None of these

Q.208. -----------------are specially designed computer chips that reside other devices, such as your car or your electronic thermostat.

a) Servers

b) Embedded computers

c) Robotic computers

d) Mainframes

e) None of these

Q.209. The following are all mobile computing devices, except--------------

a) Notebook computers

b) Cellular, telephones

c) Digital scanners

d) Personal digital assistants

e) None of these

Q.210. In a ring topology, the computer in possession of the------------------can transmit data.

a) Packet

b) Data

c) Access method

d) Token

e) None of these

Q.211. This part of the operating system manages the essential peripherals, such as the keyboard, screen, disk drives, and parallel and serial ports--------------

a) Basic input/output system

b) Secondary input/output system

c) Peripheral input/output system

d) marginal input /output system

e) None of these

Q.212. ---------------viruses are transmitted by a floppy disk left in the floppy disk drive.

a) Trojan horse

b) Boot-sector

c) Script

d) Logic bomb

e) None of these

Q.213. ------------------controls the way in which the computer system functions and provides a means by which users can interact with the computer.

a) The platform

b) Application software

c) Operating system

d) The motherboard

e) None of these

Q.214. Servers are computers that provide resources to other computers connected to a-------

a) Mainframe

b) Network

c) Supercomputer

d) Client

e) None of these

Q.215. A goal of data mining includes which of the following?

a) To explain some observed event or condition

b) To confirm that data exists

c) To analyze data for expected relationships

d) To create a new data warehouse

e) None of these

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain words have been printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.

Rocketing food prices have sparked riots in numerous countries recently. Millions are reeling from the price rise and governments are scrambling to halt a fast-moving crisis before it spins out of control. From Mexico to Pakistan, Senegal and Mauritania, protests have turned violent. In many poor countries, the protests have been fuelled by pent-up anger against authoritarian or corrupt officials, some of whom have earned fortunes from oil and minerals while locals are struggling to buy food. Protesters burned hundreds of food-ration stores accusing the owners of selling government-subsidized food on the lucrative black market. "This is a serious security issue," says Joachim von Braun, Director General of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), in Washington. He has been bombarded by calls from officials around the world, all asking one question: How long will the crisis last?

The forecast is grim. Government might quell the protests, but bringing down food prices could take at least a decade, food analysts say. One reason: billions of people are buying ever-greater quantities of food-especially in booming China and India, where many have stopped growing their own food and now have the cash to buy a lot more of it. Increasing meat consumption, for example, has helped drive up demand for grain, and with it the price. There are other problems too. The spike in oil prices, (an unbelievable $ 109 per barrel), has pushed up fertilizer prices, as well as the cost of trucking food from farms to local markets and shipping it abroad. In China, where food prices have soared 23% in a year, officials have frozen the price of fertilizer and boosted farm subsidies, in an effort to lower pork and wheat prices and avert possible protests. But the problems do not end there. Harvests have been seriously disrupted by freak weather, including pro- longed droughts in Australia and Southern Africa, floods in West Africa, deep frost in China and record-breaking warmth in Northern Europe. The push to produce bio fuels as an alternative to hydrocarbons in further straining food supplies, especially in the U.S., where generous subsidies for ethanol have lured thousands of farmers away from growing crops for food and increasing the area used for bio fuel cultivation. As always in a crisis, there are winners. The creeping fear that the world might actually run short of food has led speculators to pour billions into commodities further accelerating price rises.

For the world's poorest people, the price spikes are disastrous. Aid officials say that millions who previously eked out enough to feed their families can no longer afford the food in their local stores, and are seeking help from relief organizations. "We are seeing a new face of hunger," says the Executive Director of the U.N.'s World Food Program, "People who were not in the urgent category are now moving into that category." Despite the widespread demonstrations, the food crisis has been largely ignored by North American and European officials–who pay for much of the world's food aid “because no one is starving in rich countries.” Several African countries have begun planting high-protein, pest-resistant rice crops, and aid organization are beginning to recruit locals for new job programs to help people pay their food bills. In the poorest parts of Asia and Africa, officials hope that sky-high food prices might lift out of poverty small farmers who have barely scraped by on low crop prices–a hope that would get a big boost if the rich world agreed to cut agricultural subsidies in the current round of trade talks.

Q.251. What have experts predicted about the current food crisis?

(A) They believe it will pose a severe security risk which they fear governments will not be able to handle.

(B) China and India will reduce their food exports drastically to feed their own population.

(C) It is unlikely that food prices will be reduced in the near future.

a) Only A

b) Both A and B

c) Only B

d) All A, B & C

e) None of these

Q.252. Which of the following cannot be considered as a cause of rising foodgrain prices?

a) Increasedmeat consumption

b)Manipulation of commoditiesmarkets

c) Recommendations of International Food Policy Research Institutes

d) Drastic shifts in existing weather patterns

e) Exorbitant oil prices

Q.253. What does the phrase “new face of hunger” imply in the context of the passage?

(A) In some countries a large section of the middle class cannot afford food.

(B) Aid organization themselves cannot afford local food prices in some countries and require increased aid.

(C) The number of people below the poverty line has drastically grown.

a)None

b) Only A

c) Only B

d) Both B & C

e) None of these

Q.254. Why has the area being utilized for biofuel cultivation increased?

a) Low hydrocarbon levels have forced farmers to grow biofuels.

b) Prices of ethanol have soared resulting in higher profits for farmers.

c) Governments have provided a high subsidy for biofuels like ethanol

d) Rise in prices of fertilizers required for the cultivation of traditional crops.

e) None of these

Q.255. Why have U.S. officials not paid attention to the food crisis?

a) Relief organization have been handling the crisis well

b) Crops grown for food are highly subsidized in America

c) The U.S. has a huge surplus stock of food.

d) The percentage of those affected by the crisis in America is low.

e) None of these

Q.256. Whatmeasures have relief organization taken to help people in poorer countries to cope with the food crisis?

a) Creating awareness among rich and developed nations about the severity of the food short age.

b) Hiring local labour to help implement new programs.

c) Providing knowledge to local farmers on the latest farming technology such as pest resistant crops.

d) Threatening to wind up their operations in affected countries if Western countries don't increase aid.

e)Campaigning to reduce fuel prices.

Q.257. How can small farmers benefit from high food prices?

(A) If their governments increase the subsidies offered on their agricultural produce.

(B) If rich countries participate in trade talks to set fixed export duties.

(C) If all government agree to subsidize oil prices.

a)None

b) Only A

c) Both A and B

d) Only C

e) All A, B and C

Q.258. Which of the following is not an impact of high food prices?

(A) Riots and destruction of property in many parts of the world.

(B) IFPRI has been boycotted by several governments.

(C) Officials have become rich by capitalizing on high prices.

a) Only A

b) Only B

c) Both B and C

d) Only C

e) None of these

Q.259. Which of the following is a measure that governments have taken to deal with the food crisis?

a) Placed the blame for the crisis on the International Food Policy Research Institute.

b) Uniformly decided to cut export duties.

c) Reduced subsidies on biofuels.

d) Set a fixed price on fertilizers.

e) Funded research on the causes of extreme climatic conditions.

Q.260. What is the author's main objective in writing the passage?

a)Criticizing subsidy policy of rich countries

b) Urging governments to control pollution and reduce its impact on the climate.

c) Berating citizens for using violent means of protest.

d) Cautioning governments against speculators.

e) Drawing our attention to the global and severe nature of the food crisis.

Choose the word which is most similar inmeaning to the word printed in bold as used in the passage.

Q.261. SPARKED

a) Flickered

b) Flashed

c) Enlivened

d) Provoked

e)Energized

Q.262. PUSH

a) Entice

b) Promote

c)Drive

d) Assault

e) Encourage

Q.263. REELING

a) Suffering

b)Wavering

c) Shivering

d) Falling

e) Shocked

Choose the word which ismost opposite inmeaning of the word printed in bold as used in the passage.

Q.264. QUELL

a) Instigate

b) Focus

c) Rebel

d) Allay

e)Oppose

Q.265. GRIM

a) Flexible

b) Pleasant

c) Amiable

d) Gentle

e) Friendly

Courtesy : Bank Exam Guide