1000+ IBPS Common Written Exam (PO/MT) Main 2016 Solved Paper Multiple Choice Question Answer [Solved]

1. What is the main objective of the government to create the Union Budget?
A. It should meet the requirements of the society.
B. It should be under some fiscal constraints.
C. It should be growth oriented.
D. It should meet the requirements of a developed country.
Answer : C

2. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way and so form a group. Which one of the following does not belong to the group?
A. G - HP
B. C - Apple
C. F - Samsung
D. H - TOSHIBA
Answer : C

3. For the buying and selling of precious metals such as Gold and Silver, the market established is termed as ________ .
A. Capital Market
B. Money Market
C. Bullion Market
D. wholesale cash market
Answer : C

4. To make India a cashless economy by pushing cashless transaction, which committee is constituted by the government?
A. Adhyarjuna Committee
B. Amitabh Kant Committee
C. A Ghosh Committee
D. Abid Hussain Committee
Answer : B

5. 6(7/11) × 5(4/9) � 9(1/4) = ?
A. 21
B. 13
C. 9
D. 4
Answer : D

6. Which among the following is a cloud computing platform and infrastructure created by Microsoft?
A. Simple Storage Service
B. Atmos
C. Openstack Swift
D. Azure
Answer : D

7. According to author Dishantgautam, a novel is difficult to write when compared to a play is like going for an election where one has to appeal to a thousand people at a time whereas in a book one appeals to one only person.
A. simpler, running in
B. faster, voting through
C. easier, running for
D. fool proof, voting on
Answer : C

8. What is/are the primary reasons behind the current economic slowdown?
(A) Slow rate of capital expansion
(B) Tardy investment in infrastructure as well as plant and machinery
(C) A rapid increase in the cases of corruption, and decreased FDI
A. Only (A)
B. Both (A) and (B)
C. Either (A) or (C)
D. Both (B) and (C)
Answer : B

9. Who among the following person has seminar at 3 P.M?
A. C
B. G
C. I
D. F
Answer : A

10. The companys sales were low at the beginning of the year. Its sales have picked up in the past few months.
(A) Though the companys sales were low
(B) Despite low sales at
(C) However the companys sales have picked
A. Only (A)
B. Only (A) and (B)
C. All (A), (B) and (C)
D. Only (B) and (C)
Answer : A

11. 5x + 2y = 31
3x + 7y = 36
A. x > y
B. x < y
C. x >= y
D. x <= y
Answer : A

12. NONDESCRIPT
A. Conducive
B. Discern
C. Tantamount
D. Defined
Answer : B

13. Statements: All trees are plants. All houses are trees. Some pots are plants. All tools are plants.
Conclusions:
I. Some plants are not houses
II. Some tools being trees is a possibility
III. All pots are tools is a possibility.
IV. All houses are tools is a possibility.
A. Only III and IV follow
B. Only II, III, and IV follow
C. Only I and IV follow.
D. All follow.
Answer : B

14. The rate of inflation increases when the purchasing power of money___________ .
A. Decreases
B. Increases
C. Stable
D. Decrease just half
Answer : A

15. Which e-commerce website has partnered with National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to enable cashless payments at all national and city toll plazas?
A. Paytm
B. Mobikwik
C. Freecharge
D. Oxigen
Answer : A

16. The Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found was written by _____________.
A. Vikram Seth
B. Suketu Mehta
C. Upamanyu Chatterjee
D. Arundhati Roy
Answer : B

17. If D and F interchange their places then who among the following is on the immediate left of G?
A. B
B. D
C. H
D. F
Answer : D

18. Which of the following Statements is true with respect to the given information?
A. G lives immediately above the one who owns Apple
B. E lives immediately above C
C. Only three people live between F and the one who owns TOSHIBA.
D. D owns Samsung.
Answer : A

19. According to the 2016 Jane's Defence Budgets Report, India's position among the global defence spender is _____________.
A. Fourth
B. Third
C. Ninth
D. Fifth
Answer : A

20. Statement : P � S, S $ R, R × Q
Conclusion :
I. Q $ S
II. R @ P
III. R % P
A. Only I is true
B. Ony II is true
C. Both I and II are true
D. Either II or III is true
Answer : B

21. BSoDs can be caused by poorly written device drivers or malfunctioning hardware, such as faulty memory, power supply issues, overheating of components,or hardware running beyond its specification limits. Which color screen is displayed when encountered a BSOD Error?
A. Red
B. Grey
C. Black
D. Blue
Answer : D

22. Next day, millions of pilgrims are expected to take dip the Ganga at the holy place.
I. The state government should put a restriction on the number of people that can come to take dip each day.
II. During the next whole day, the state government should deploy personnel to maintain law and order.
A. If only course of action I follows
B. If only course of action II follows
C. If either course of action I or II follows.
D. If neither course of action I nor II follows.
Answer : B

23. Find the ratio between the no of students participated in Cricket & Football in 2001 to the total no of students participated in Cricket and Tennis in 2004 ?
A. 20 : 17
B. 65 : 63
C. 60 : 43
D. 55 : 52
Answer : B

24. Which state government has enacted a stringent law called Protection of Internal Security Act to deal with the challenges of terrorism, insurgency, communalism and caste violence?
A. Gujarat
B. Uttar Pradesh
C. Bihar
D. Maharashtra
Answer : D

25. 4x + 2y =8.5, 2x + 4y = 9.5
A. x > y
B. x < y
C. x >= y
D. x <= y
Answer : B

26. The total no of players who participated in all the 3 sports together in the year 2014 was What % of the total no of players who participated in Tennis over all the years together (approx) ?
A. 50%
B. 45%
C. 47%
D. 53%
Answer : A

27. Find the number of female students in ME dept ?
A. 850
B. 650
C. 150
D. 750
Answer : D

28. Statements: All seats are covers. No cover is bun. Some buns are roofs. Some sites are covers.
Conclusions:
I. All sites being buns is a possibility
II. All sites being roof is a possibility
III. Some sites are not buns.
IV. No seat is bun
A. Only II, III and either I or IV follow.
B. Only III follows
C. All follows.
D. Only II, III and IV follow
Answer : D

29. A box contains 5 green, 4 yellow and 3 white marbles. Three marbles are drawn at random. What is the probability that they are not of the same colour ?
A. 40/44
B. 44/41
C. 41/44
D. 40/39
Answer : C

30. Aggregation of risks is somewhat quite new to banks in India. While some banks have started thinking in that line by trying to put integrated limits framework and integrated risk policies as well as using CBS solutions for technological integration, the effort required is beyond such requirement. Risk aggregation would mean aggregating the individual risk measures to decide most appropriate assets class that would contain the risk to the desired level dictated by the risk appetite .Capital allocation (about how much) would be based on such strategies………..
A. Most banks are yet to conceptualize the same in their processes
B. Most banks have already integrated it in their functioning; it is working over the years satisfactorily.
C. Which would in long run prove to be the growth impeding
D. Of risk aggregation which is really a new concept to Indian banks
Answer : D

31. Let us understand the definition of metaphysics, a purely speculative science, which occupies a completely isolated position and is entirely independent of the teachings of experience. It deals with mere conceptionsnot, like mathematics, with conceptions applied to intuitionand in it, reason is the pupil of itself alone. It is the oldest of the sciences. (_________________)
A. And it would struggle to survive without the architecture of mathematical support that it draws its strength from
B. Yet it continued to baffle mankind because of its abstractions
C. But it has never had and never will have the good fortune to attain to the sure scientific method
D. And it would still survive, even if all the rest were swallowed up in the abyss of an all-destroying barbarism
Answer : C

32. Which among the following is a term representing unit of data storage in computer memory?
A. Pixel
B. Decimal
C. Octet
D. Point
Answer : C

33. Please select the most appropriate option
A. I have been ill for fortnight and the Management and the school sports committee as well prefer to elect me the Captain of school team. Initially I thought that it is only in a fun but I was wrong.
B. I had been ill for the fortnight and the Management and the school sports committee preferred to elect me the Captain of school team. Initially I thought that it was only in a fun but I was wrong.
C. I have been ill for a fortnight and the Management as well as the school sports committee prefers to elect me Captain of school team. Initially I thought that it was only in fun but I was wrong.
D. I was ill for fortnight thus the Management as well as the school sports committee preferred to elect me the Captain of school team. Initially I thought that it was only in a fun but I was wrong.
Answer : C

34. 14 8 6 6 7 ?
A. 6.5
B. 7.5
C. 8.5
D. 9.5
Answer : C

35. The ratio of the monthly salaries of A and B is in the ratio 5 : 16 and that of B and C is in the ratio 17 : 18. Find the monthly income of C if the total of their monthly salary is ? 1,87,450.
A. ? 66,240
B. ? 72,100
C. ? 62,200
D. ? 65,800
Answer : A

36. Statement: It is desirable to put the child in school at the age of 5 or so.
Assumptions:
I. At that age the child reaches appropriate level of development and is ready to learn.
II. The schools do not admit children after six years of age.
A. If only assumption I is implicit
B. If only assumption II is implicit
C. If either I or II is implicit
D. If neither I nor II is implicit
Answer : A

37. Please select the most appropriate option
A. If you try to understand the concept in the class you will not only remember it but also will not be able to put to use while solving even the difficult exercises.
B. If you tried to understand the concept of the whole class, you will not only remember it, but also can put to use while solving even the difficult exercises.
C. If you tried to understand the concept in the class, you would not only remember it but also can put it to use while solving even the difficult exercises.
D. If you tried to understand the concept in the class, you would not only remember it but also could put it to use while solving even the difficult exercises.
Answer : B

38. How many females are there in the family?
A. One
B. two
C. three
D. four
Answer : @

39. Who among the following has been named as the 2016 ITF World Champions by the International Tennis Federation?
A. Rafael Nadal
B. Andy Murray
C. Roger Federer
D. Novak Dokovic
Answer : B

40. What is Cash Reserve Ratio?
A. Deposits of banks in government securities
B. Rate at which banks borrow funds from the RBI
C. Deposits (as cash) which banks have to keep/maintain with the RBI
D. Rate at which RBI borrows money from the banks
Answer : C

41. There is a network that can connect networks ranging from small location or area to a bigger range including public packet network and large corporate networks. That network's enterprise allows users to share access to applications, services and other centrally located resources. Its ability for a huge geographical access has transformed networking. Which among the following is that network?
A. SAN
B. CAN
C. LAN
D. WAN
Answer : D

42. In which year in India, was the demonetisation announced for the first time?
A. 1978
B. 1999
C. 1946
D. 1962
Answer : C

43. In Computer programming API is set of subroutine definitions, protocols, and tools for building software and applications. Which among the following is an application programming interface for the programming language Java, which defines how a client may access a database?
A. J2EE
B. JDK
C. JAVA SE
D. JDBC
Answer : D

44. Statement : X × W, W @ Z , Z % Y
Conclusion:
I.Y $ W II.Z $ W III.X � Y
A. Only I is true
B. Ony II is true
C. Both I and II are true
D. Both I and III are true
Answer : C

45. An inspector is 228 meter behind the thief. The inspector runs 42 meters and the thief runs 30 meters in a minute. In what time will the inspector catch the thief?
A. 19 minutes
B. 20 minutes
C. 18 minutes
D. 21 minutes
Answer : A

46. I. 56×2 + 37x + 6 = 0
II. 66y2 13y 4 = 0
A. if x >= y
B. if x > y
C. if x < y
D. if x <= y
Answer : C

47. From the given options, choose the option that does not fit into the theme of the passage.
A. India recently ratified the Paris Agreement, assuring it a seat at the 55/55 table
B. ratification by at least 55 countries and accounting for at least 55% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions was required for the agreement to come into force
C. where countries will negotiate the mechanisms and provisions under the agreement.
D. There are certain targets India wants to achieve and to achieve that there is a need to allocate mitigating burden among states and also prioritize adaptation efforts.
Answer : D

48. Though private ferry systems have made going to holy places easy, today many pilgrims died in a stampede while boarding a private ferry.
I. The state government should cancel the licenses of all such private ferry operators.
II. The state government should deploy some people to guide the pilgrims on their journey to the holy place.
A. If only course of action I follows
B. If only course of action II follows
C. If either course of action I or II follows.
D. If neither course of action I nor II follows.
Answer : B

49. Which cloud is a cloud computing environment that uses a mix of on-premises, private cloud and third-party, public cloud services with orchestration between the two platforms and it is particularly valuable for dynamic or highly changeable workloads?
A. Dynamic Cloud
B. Advance Cloud
C. Hybrid Cloud
D. Sharing Cloud
Answer : C

50. What was the average no of players who participated in Football over all the years together ?
A. 11417
B. 11490
C. 12476
D. 10976
Answer : A