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150+ Financial Institutions and Markets Solved MCQs

These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Economics (CBCS) .

Chapters

Chapter: Money and Commercial Banking
51.

The most important features of money is

A. General acceptability
B. Convertibility into gold
C. Store of value
D. Medium of exchange
Answer» A. General acceptability
52.

Which movement encourage the formation of commercial banks

A. Swadeshi movement
B. Quit India movement
C. Non-cooperation movement
D. Civil disobedience movement
Answer» A. Swadeshi movement
53.

In which year was the Banking Regulation Act passed?

A. 1949
B. 1955
C. 1959
D. 1969
Answer» A. 1949
54.

What is the most widely used tool of monetary policy?

A. Issuing of notes
B. Open market operation
C. Discount rate
D. None of the above
Answer» C. Discount rate
55.

Banking sector comes under which of the following sectors?

A. Manufacturing sectors
B. Industrial sectors
C. Service sectors
D. None of the above
Answer» C. Service sectors
56.

Who is responsible for the supply of coins in India?

A. Reserve bank of India
B. Ministry of finance
C. Ministry of commerce and industry
D. Bankers association of India
Answer» B. Ministry of finance
57.

Difference between total receipt and total expenditure is

A. Capital deficit
B. budget deficit
C. fiscal deficit
D. Revenue deficit
Answer» B. budget deficit
58.

The commercial banks in India are governed by

A. Reserve bank of India Act 1934
B. Indian Companies Act 1956
C. Indian Banking Regulation Act 1949
D. Securities and Exchange Board of Indian Act 1993
Answer» C. Indian Banking Regulation Act 1949
59.

Which of the following limits the power of credit creation by commercial bank

A. Fiscal policy
B. Banking loan
C. Business possession
D. None of the above
Answer» D. None of the above
60.

Deposits which arise from granting of loans are called

A. primary deposits
B. derivative deposits
C. fixed deposits
D. All the above
Answer» B. derivative deposits
61.

Which among the following is considered to be the most liquid asset?

A. Gold
B. Money
C. Land
D. Treasury bonds
Answer» B. Money
62.

The first financial institution set up in India

A. IDBI
B. ICICI
C. IRBI
D. IFCI
Answer» D. IFCI
63.

In order to control credit and investment , the central bank of a country should

A. Sell securities in the open market and hike the cash reserve ratio
B. Buy securities in the open market
C. Buy securities from the open market and hike the cash reserve ratio
D. Sell securities in the open market
Answer» A. Sell securities in the open market and hike the cash reserve ratio
64.

Which one of the following is not an instrument of credit control in the banking system?

A. Open market operation
B. Cash Reserve ratio
C. Tax rate
D. Bonds and debentures
Answer» C. Tax rate
65.

The commercial bank do not perform one function out of the following

A. Mobilization of saving
B. Giving loans and advances
C. Issues currency notes
D. Financing priority sectors
Answer» C. Issues currency notes
66.

Credit creation power of the commercial banks gets limited by which of the following?

A. Banking habits of the people
B. Cash reserve ratio
C. Credit policy of the Central bank
D. All the above
Answer» D. All the above
67.

Number of times a unit of money change hands in the course of a year is called

A. Supply of money
B. Purchasing power of money
C. Velocity of money
D. value of money
Answer» C. Velocity of money
68.

Assets – liability =

A. Profit
B. Working capital
C. Capital
D. Long term liability
Answer» C. Capital
69.

The assets can be convert into cash within a short period like one year or less are known as

A. Current asset
B. Fixed asset
C. Tangible asset
D. Investment
Answer» A. Current asset
70.

Debentures is also name as

A. share
B. Bond
C. Equity
D. Reserve
Answer» B. Bond
71.

A bills of exchange when drawn requires

A. Nothing
B. Discounting
C. Acceptance
D. Investment
Answer» C. Acceptance
72.

The following is not a type of liability

A. Short term
B. Current
C. Fixed
D. Contingent
Answer» A. Short term
73.

Whichof the following is most liquid measure of money supply in India

A. M1
B. M2
C. M3
D. M4
Answer» A. M1
74.

Which of the following money supply is used by RBI?

A. Currency notes
B. Coins
C. Both A &B
D. None of the above
Answer» A. Currency notes
75.

The term ‘bank liquidity’ means

A. Its capacity to create credit
B. Its capacity to provide a high rate of interest
C. Its capacity to convert its assets into cash
D. None of the above
Answer» C. Its capacity to convert its assets into cash
76.

Accounting equation is base of

A. Single entry system
B. Dual concept
C. Double entry system
D. Costing measurement system
Answer» C. Double entry system
77.

Anything used as money must be

A. Fixed in value
B. Fixed in supply
C. Legal tender
D. Readily acceptable
Answer» D. Readily acceptable
78.

Which of the following can change money supply

A. National Assembly
B. Supreme Court
C. Government
D. State Bank
Answer» D. State Bank
79.

Which of the following increase money supply in the country?

A. Purchase of bonds by State Bank
B. Sale of bonds by State Bank
C. Increase in discount rate
D. Decrease in taxes
Answer» A. Purchase of bonds by State Bank
Chapter: Non-Banking Financial Institutions
80.

‘One man one vote’ principle in Co-operative Society was recommended by

A. Gorwala Committee
B. Mac Lagan Committee
C. Minto Morley Committee
D. Montaque Chelmsford Committee
Answer» B. Mac Lagan Committee
81.

Which of the following organizational structure is followed by cooperatives in India?.

A. Unitary structure
B. Federal structure
C. Centralized structure
D. Decentralized structure
Answer» B. Federal structure
82.

The structure of cooperative banking system in India is federal and pyramid type of

A. four-tier
B. three-tier
C. two-tier
D. five-tier
Answer» B. three-tier
83.

The Urban Credit Cooperative are also commonly known as

A. Urban Cooperative Banks
B. Cooperative Banks
C. National Banks
D. Non of the above
Answer» A. Urban Cooperative Banks
84.

The first District Cooperative Banks was established at ____________ in 1910.

A. Mumbai in Maharastra
B. Ahmedabad in Gujarat
C. Chennai in Tamil Nadu
D. Ajmer in Rajasthan
Answer» D. Ajmer in Rajasthan
85.

Co-operative movement originated first in

A. Germany
B. England
C. France
D. Spain
Answer» B. England
86.

Interest rate of Deposit of cooperative credit societies are fixed by

A. Registrar
B. Government
C. RBI
D. General Body
Answer» A. Registrar
87.

The land mortgage banks grant _______________ to the farmers against the conveyance of land as security.

A. short term loans
B. medium term loans
C. long term loans
D. short& medium term loans
Answer» C. long term loans
88.

The National Co-operative Development Corporation (NCDC) was established in

A. march 1960
B. march 1961
C. March 1962
D. March 1963
Answer» D. March 1963
89.

Co-operative banks

A. cannot create credit
B. are of ‘unit banking type’
C. cannotmobilizem\ deposit
D. both (a) and (b
Answer» B. are of ‘unit banking type’
90.

The first Development banks in India was

A. IDBI
B. ICICI
C. LIC
D. IFCI
Answer» D. IFCI
91.

Development banks provide

A. short-term credit only
B. both short-term and medium-term credits
C. both medium-term and long-term credits
D. long-term credit only
Answer» C. both medium-term and long-term credits
92.

What is the apex organisation of Industrial Finance in India?

A. Industrial Finance Corporation of India
B. Industrial Credit and Investment corporation of India
C. Industrial Development Bank of India
D. Life Insurance Corporation of India
Answer» C. Industrial Development Bank of India
93.

Which of the following is not an affiliate of the Reserve Bank of India?

A. Deposit Insurance Corporation
B. Agriculture Refinance Corporation
C. Industrial Development Bank of India
D. Unit Trust of India
Answer» D. Unit Trust of India
94.

The National Housing Bank was set up in India as wholly-owned subsidiary of which one of the following?

A. ICICI Bank
B. State Bank of India
C. Reserve Bank of India
D. Life Insurance Corporation of India
Answer» C. Reserve Bank of India
95.

Which of the following organizations in India is mainly working to meet the credit needs of all types of agricultural and rural development?

A. FCI
B. NABARD
C. IDBI
D. UTI
Answer» B. NABARD
96.

The Industrial Development Banks of India (IDBI) was set up in

A. June 1960
B. July 1964
C. March 1963
D. July 1961
Answer» B. July 1964
97.

The Industrial Reconstruction Corporation of India (IRCI) was set up in

A. 1971
B. 1961
C. 1981
D. 1951
Answer» A. 1971
98.

The Industrial Reconstruction Corporation of India (IRCI) was converted into a statutory corporation called the Industrial Reconstruction Bank of India (IRBI) in

A. March 1982
B. March 1983
C. March 1984
D. March 1985
Answer» D. March 1985
99.

The National Small Industries Corporation (NSIC) was set up by Government of India in

A. 1954
B. 1955
C. 1956
D. 1957
Answer» B. 1955
100.

Changing the role and growth of Financial institutions, in recent years, Select Financial Institutions viz.,IDBI, ICICI Ltd., EXIM Bank, SIDBI and NABARD have been brought under the supervisory purview of the

A. Reserve Bank of India (RBI
B. Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI
C. Ministry of Finance
D. All of the above
Answer» A. Reserve Bank of India (RBI

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