Banking Awareness Quiz (Monetary Policy)




1. Bank rate policy, open market operations, variable reserve requirements and statutory liquidity requirements as measures of credit control are classified as
(a) Quantative methods
(b) Qualitative methods
(c) Weighted average methods
(d) none
(e) both (a) and (b)

2. Which of the following fall under the qualitative method of credit control adopted by RBI?
(a) Selective credit control
(b) Moral suasion  
(c) Credit authorization scheme
(d) all
(e) none


3. In periods of boom, which leads to economic instability RBI resorts to
(a) Sale first class securities in its precession in the market, to reduce the supply of money as a measure of open market operations
(b) buying of approved securities in the market as a measure of open market operation
(c) like in the bank rate as is measure of open market operations
(d) none
(e) all

4. Which among the following does the RBI not decide?
(a) CAR
(b) CRR
(c) Base Rate
(d) Bank Rate 
(e) None of these

5. Which among the following is an instrument of monetary policy used by the RBI?
(a) Base Rate
(b) PLR
(c) CRR
(d) BPLR
(e) None of these

6. What does liquidity mean?
(a) It means how cash is converted into gold
(b) It means how cheaply and quickly an asset is converted into cash
(c) It means how cash is converted into SDR (Special Drawing Rights)
(d) It means how uncertain the money market conditions are
(e) None of these

7. What does the term Open Market Operations refer to?
(a) Selling of equities in the open market
(b) Selling of commodities in the open market
(c) Buying and selling of government securities in the open market
(d) Buying and selling of products in the wholesale market
(e) None of these

8. RBI has introduced “Marginal Standing Facility” with the objective of
(a) Controlling Inflation 
(b) Containing instability in long term inter-bank rates 
(c) Containing instability in the overnight inter-bank rates 
(d) All of the above
(e) None of these

9. ______is the percentage of total deposits of a bank which it has to keep with itself in the form of liquid assets. 
(a) Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR)    
(b) Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) 
(c) Statutory Reserve Ratio             
(d) Cash Ratio
(e) None of these

10. Often, we read in newspapers that the RBI has changed the Repo rate and the Reverse Repo rate by a few basis points. What is a basis point?
(a) Ten % of one hundredth point    
(b) One hundredth of 1%
(c) One tenth of 1%                       
(d) Ten % of 100
(e) None of these

11. RBI isn’t expected to perform the role of
(a) Acting as a clearing house
(b) Working as a banker to the government
(c) Managing forex
(d) Accepting deposits from general public
(e) None of these

12. When RBI sells government securities, its result is that
(a) The liquidity in the banking system increases
(b) The liquidity in the banking system remains unchanged
(c) The liquidity in the banking system gets diminished
(d) None of the above
(e) None of these

13. Which of the following is not an instrument in the hands of the RBI to check inflation in our country?
(a) Open Market Operations (OMO)
(b) Special Drawing Rights
(c) Bank Rate (BR)
(d) Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR)
(e) None of these

14. LAF is an indirect instrument of monetary policy, which is used by \RBI to regulate the liquidity in banking system. ‘LAF’ stands for:
(a) Liquidity Adjustment Facility
(b) Liquidity Account Facility
(c) Liquidity Allotment Facility
(d) Long Adjustment Facility
(e) None of these

15. Bank rate is defined as the
(a) Rate of interest charged by commercial banks from borrowers 
(b) Rate of interest at which RBI lends money to banks against government securities
(c) Rate of interest allowed by commercial banks on their deposits 
(d) Rate at which RBI purchases or rediscounts bills of exchange of commercial banks
(e) None of these


Answer:
1. a
2. d
3. a
4. c
5. c
6. b
7. c
8. c
9. a
10. b
11. d
12. c
13. b
14. a
15. d

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