Important Suggestions for SBI PO Exam Marketing Awareness Syllabus

State Bank of India released the advertisement of recruitment for PO Examination. The exam will be conducted most probably on June 2014.

This is the most crucial time for the preparation of SBI PO exam. One of the most important section for the written exam is marketing awareness. In this section 50 marks will be on general awareness, computer knowledge and marketing awareness and the question will be MCQ type.

Here we will discuss about the marketing awareness syllabus and question pattern. The following segments are very important for marketing knowledge study.

1) Marketing nature, scope : goods, place, service, events, organization, experience, information, ideas etc.

2) Marketing environment : Micro environment, Macro Environment, Factor of Environment

3) Marketing mix : Product, Price, Place, Promotion

4) Product

5) Consumer

Practice Set - 3 :: SBI PO Computer Questions

Computer Knowledge Questions and Answers

1. ‘C’ in CPU denotes ……………….
(1) Central
(2) Common
(3) Convenient
(4) Computer
(5) Circuitry


2. A joystick is primarily used to / for ………………
(1) Control sound on the screen
(2) Computer gaming
(3) Enter text
(4) Draw pictures
(5) Print text


3. Which does not a storage device?
(1) A CD
(2) A DVD
(3) A floppy disk
(4) A printer
(5) A Hard disk


4. Which of the following uses a handheld operating system?
(1) A supercomputer
(2) A personal computer
(3) A laptop
(4) A mainframe
(5) A PDA


5. To display the contents of a folder in Windows Explorer you should ……….
(1) Click on it
(2) Collapse it
(3) Name it
(4) Give it a password
(5) Rename it

Practice Set – 2 :: Marketing Aptitude for SBI Bank Exams

1. Invisible export means export of ……………………………
(1) Services
(2) Prohibited goods
(3) Restricted goods
(4) Goods as per OGL list
(5) Other than those given as options


2. The European Union has adopted which of the following as a common currency?
(1) Dollar
(2) Diner
(3) Yen
(4) Euro
(5) Peso


3. Banks in India are required to maintain a portion of their demand and time liabilities with the Reserve Bank of India. This portion is called ……………
(1) Statutory Liquidity Ratio
(2) Cash Reserve Ratio
(3) Bank Deposit
(4) Reserve Repo
(5) Government Securities


4. Pre-shipment finance is provided by the banks only to …………………
(1) Credit card holders
(2) Students aspiring for further studies
(3) Brokers in equity market
(4) Village Artisans
(5) Exporters


5. Banking ombudsman is appointed by ………………….
(1) Government of India
(2) State government
(3) RBI
(4) ECGC
(5) Exim Bank

Practice Set – 1 :: SBI PO Exam Preparation

Data Interpretation and Analysis

Direction (1 – 4) : Answer the questions on the basic of the graph given below.
The graph below outlines the cumulative approvals and disbursals of housing loans by XYZ bank for the period 2000-2004.

Approval and disbursals of housing loans for the year 2000 is Rs 0.5 crore and Rs 0.45 crore respectively.

1. Considering housing loan approvals as a percentage of cumulative approval, the maximum growth has been recorded in the year:
(1) 2001
(2) 2002
(3) 2003
(4) 2004
(5) 2000


2. During which one of the following years is the maximum approval to disbursal ratio?
(1) 2000
(2) 2001
(3) 2002
(4) 2003
(5) 2004


3. What was the value of loans (in Rs crore) that got approval during the period 2000-2004?
(1) 8.05
(2) 7.5
(3) 10.55
(4) 9.5
(5) 6.3


4. Assume that all loans approved in 2002 got disbursed in the same year. Approximately, what percentage of the loan disbursed in 2002 was from loans approved in the previous years?
(1) 12%
(2) 16%
(3) 20%
(4) 8%
(5) 14%