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IMPORTANT STUDY MATERIAL FOR IBPS PO EXAM 2014 BY
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Manual on Financial and Banking Statistics
List of Abbreviations
ADB - Asian Development Bank ADR - American Depository Receipt
AFS - Annual Financial Statement AGM - Annual General Meeting
AIRCSC - All India Rural Credit Survey
Committee
ASSOCHAM - Associated Chambers of
Commerce and Industry of India
ATM - Asynchronous Transfer Mode ATM - Automated Teller Machine
BOI - Bank of India BoP - Balance of Payments
BPSD - Balance of Payments Division,
DESACS, RBI
BSCS - Basel Committee on Banking
Supervision
CAG - Controller and Auditor General of
India
CC - Cash Credit
CDBS - Committee of Direction on
Banking Statistics
CFRA - Combined Finance and Revenue
Accounts
CII - Confederation of Indian Industries CPI - Consumer Price Index
CPI-IW - Consumer Price Index for
Industrial Workers
CSIR - Council of Scientific and Industrial
Research
CRR - Cash Reserve Ratio DD - Demand Draft
DCM - Department of Currency
Management, RBI
DEIO - Department of External Investments
and Operations
ECB - European Central Bank ECS - Electronic Clearing Scheme
EEC - European Economic Community EUR - Euro
EXIM Bank - Export Import Bank of India FCCB - Foreign Currency Convertible Bond
FDI - Foreign Direct Investment FEMA - Foreign Exchange Management Act
FICCI - Federation of Indian Chambers of
Commerce and Industry
FII - Foreign Institutional Investor
GDP - Gross Domestic Product GDR - Global Depository Receipt
GIC - General Insurance Corporation G-Sec - Government Securities
HDFC - Housing Development Finance
Corporation
HICP - Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices
HUDCO - Housing & Urban
Development Corporation
ICICI - Industrial Credit and Investment
Corporation of India
IDBI - Industrial Development Bank of
India
IFCI - Industrial Finance Corporation of India
IIP - Index of Industrial Production IMF - International Monetary Fund
IIBI - Industrial Investment Bank of India INR - Indian Rupee

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IRBI - Industrial Reconstruction Bank of
India
ISIC - International Standard Industrial
Classification
LIC - Life Insurance Corporation of India MoF - Ministry of Finance
NABARD - National Bank for Agriculture
and Rural Development
NASSCOM - National Association of Software
and Services Companies
NBFC -Non Banking Financial Companies NGO - Non-Governmental Organization
NHB - National Housing Bank NIC - National Industrial Classification
NPA - Non-Performing Assets NRE - Non-Resident External
OD - Over Draft PNB - Punjab National bank
PSE - Public Sector Enterprises RBI - Reserve Bank of India
REC - Rural Electrification Corporation SBI - State Bank of India
SEBI - Securities and Exchange Board of
India
SLR - Statutory Liquidity Ratio
UCB - Urban Cooperative Bank UCB - Urban Cooperative Bank
WPI - Wholesale Price Index
List of important international officials:
1. President of the United States : Barack Obama
2. Prime Minister of Australia - Tony Abbott
3. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom - David Cameron
4. Prime Minister of Pakistan - Nawaz Sharif
5. President of Sri Lanka - Mahinda Rajapaksa
6. Prime Minister of Bangladesh - Sheikh Hasina
7. President of Afghanistan - Ashraf Ghani
8. President of Russia - Vladimir Putin
9. Prime Minister of Nepal - Sushil Koirala
10. Prime Ministers of Bhutan - Tshering Tobgay
11.Bhutan King and Queen - Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck and Queeen, Jetsun
Pema.
12. Prime Minister of Thailand - Prayuth Chan-ocha
13. President of France - François Hollande.
14. President of South Africa - Jacob Zuma.
15. President of Israel - Reuven Rivlin
16. Prime Minister of Japan - Shinzō Abe
17. President of the People's Republic of China - Xi Jinping
18. China's First Lady - Peng Liyuan.
19. Chairs of the Federal Reserve - Janet Yellen
20. Secretary-General of the United Nations - Ban Ki-moon.

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21. International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Christine Lagarde.
22. President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) - Takehiko Nakao.
23. World bank president president - Jim Yong
24. UNESCO head - Irina Bokova.
25. US First Lady - Michelle Obama.
List of Council of ministers in Modi Cabinet
The following is the list of council of ministers in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's
Cabinet
Cabinet Ministers
Rajnath Singh: Home Minster
Sushma Swaraj: External Affairs & Overseas Indian Affairs
Arun Jaitley: Finance Corporate Affairs & Defence
M. Venkaiah Naidu: Urban Development Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation &
Parliamentary Affairs
Nitin Jairam Gadkari: Road Transport and Highways Shipping
D.V. Sadananda Gowda: Railway Minster
Uma Bharati: Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
Dr. Najma A. Heptulla: Minority Affairs
Gopinathrao Munde: Rural Development, Panchayati Raj & Drinking Water and
Sanitation
Ramvilas Paswan: Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
Kalraj Mishra: Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
Maneka Gandhi: Women and Child Development
Ananthkumar: Chemicals and Fertilizers

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Ravi Shankar Prasad: Communications and Information Technology & Law and Justice
Ashok Gajapathi Raju: Civil Aviation
Anant Geete: Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
Harsimrat Kaur Badal: Food Processing Industries
Narendra Singh Tomar: Mines & Steel Labour and Employment
Jual Oram: Tribal Affairs
Radha Mohan Singh: Agriculture
Thaawar Chand Gehlot: Social Justice and Empowerment
Smriti Zubin Irani: Human Resource Development
Dr. Harsh Vardhan: Health and Family Welfare
Ministers of State
General V.K. Singh: Development of North Eastern Region (Independent Charge) &
External Affairs Overseas Indian Affairs
Inderjit Singh Rao: Planning (Independent Charge), Statistics and Programme
Implementation (Independent Charge) & Defence
Santosh Kumar Gangwar: Textiles (Independent Charge), Parliamentary Affairs Water
Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
Shripad Yesso Naik: Culture (Independent Charge) & Tourism (Independent Charge)
Dharmendra Pradhan: Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge)
Sarbananda Sonowal: Skill Development, Entrepreneurship, Youth Affairs and Sports
(Independent Charge)
Prakash Javadekar: Information and Broadcasting (Independent Charge), Environment,
Forest and Climate Change (Independent Charge) & Parliamentary Affairs

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Piyush Goyal: Power (Independent Charge), Coal (Independent Charge) & New and
Renewable Energy (Independent Charge)
Dr. Jitendra Singh: Science and Technology (Independent Charge), Earth Sciences
(Independent Charge), Prime Minister Office Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
Department of Atomic Energy Department of Space
Nirmala Sitharaman: Commerce and Industry (Independent Charge), Finance Corporate
Affairs
G.M. Siddeshwara: Civil Aviation
Manoj Sinha: Railways
Upendra Kushwaha: Rural Development, Panchayati Raj & Drinking Water and
Sanitation
Radhakrishnan P: Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
Kiren Rijiju: Home Affairs
Krishan Pal: Road Transport and Highways Shipping
Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan: Agriculture & Food Processing Industries
Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava: Tribal Affairs
Raosaheb Dadarao Danve: Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
Vishnu Deo Sai: Mines, Steel & Labour and Employment
Sudarshan Bhagat: Social Justice and Empowerment
Nihalchand: Chemicals and Fertilizers

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International Currencies and Currency Codes
COUNTRY OR ECONOMIC
REGION
UNIT
NAME
SYMBOL CURRENCY NAME Capital
African Financial
Community
CFA
Franc
XAF Central African
Franc
Argentina Peso ARS Argentine Peso Buenos Aires
Australia Dollar AUD Australian Dollar Canberra
Bahamas Dollar BSD Bahamian Dollar Nassau
Brazil Real BRL Brazilian Real Brasília
Bulgaria Lev BGN Bulgarian Lev Sofia
Canada Dollar CAD Canadian Dollar Ottawa
Chile Peso CLP Chilean Peso Santiago
China Yuan CNY Chinese Yuan Beijing
Columbia Peso COP Colombian Peso Bogotá
Croatia Kuna HRK Croatian Kuna Zagreb
Cyprus Pound CYP Cyprus Pound Nicosia
Czech Republic Koruna CZK Czech Koruna Prague
Denmark Krone DKK Danish Krone Copenhagen
Digital Litecoin LTC Litecoin
Digital Bitcoin BTC Bitcoin
Eastern Caribbean States East
Caribbea
n Dollar
XCD East Caribbean
Dollar
Estonia Kroon EEK Estonian Kroon Tallinn
European Monetary Union Euro EUR Euro
Fiji Dollar FJD Fiji Dollar Suva
French Polynesia CFP Franc XPF French Pacific
Franc
Papeete
Ghana Cedi GHS Ghanaian Cedi Accra
Guatemala Quetzal GTQ Guatemalan
Quetzal
Guatemala
City
Honduras Lempira HLN Honduran Lempira Tegucigalpa
Hong Kong Dollar HKD Hong Kong Dollar
Hungary Forint HUD Hungarian Forint Budapest
Iceland Krona ISK Icelandic Krona Reykjavik
India Rupee INR Indian Rupee Delhi
Indonesia Rupiah IDR Indonesian Rupiah Jakarta

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Israel New
Shekel
ILS Israeli New Shekel Jerusalem
Jamaica Dollar JMD Jamaican Dollar Kingston
Japan Yen JPY Japanese Yen Tokyo
Latvia Lats LVL Latvian Lats Riga
Lithuania Litas LTL Lithuanian Litas Vilnius
Malaysia Ringgit MYR Malaysian Ringgit Kuala Lumpur
Mexico Peso MXN Mexican Peso Mexico City
Morocco Dirham MAD Moroccan Dirham Rabat
Myanmar Kyat MMK Myanmar Kyat Naypyidaw
Netherlands Antilles Florin ANG Netherlands
Antilles Florin
Willemstad
New Zealand Dollar NZD New Zealand
Dollar
Wellington
Norway Krone NOK Norwegian Krone Oslo
Pakistan Rupee PKR Pakistan Rupee Islamabad
Panama Balboa PAB Panamanian
balboa
Panama City
Peru New Sol PEN Peruvian New Sol Lima
Philippines Peso PHP Philippine Peso Manila
Poland Zloty PLN Polish Zloty Warsaw
Qatar Riyal QAR Qatari Riyal Doha
Romania Leu RON Romanian Leu Bucharest
Russia Rouble RUB Russian Rouble Moscow
Saudi Arabia Riyal SAR Saudi Riyal Riyadh
Serbia Dinar RSD Serbian Dinar Belgrade
Singapore Dollar SGD Singapore Dollar
South Africa Rand ZAR South African Rand Pretoria
South Korea Won KRW South Korean Won Seoul
Sri Lanka Rupee LRK Sri Lankan Rupee Sri
Jayawardenep
ura Kotte
Sweden Krona SEK Swedish Krona Stockholm
Switzerland Franc CHF Swiss Franc Bern
Taiwan Dollar TWD New Taiwan Dollar Taipei
Thailand Baht THB Thailand Baht Bangkok
Trinidad & Tobago Dollar TTD Trinidad & Tobago
Dollar
Port of Spain
Tunisia Dinar TND Tunisian Dinar Tunis

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Turkey Lira TRY Turkish Lira Ankara
United Arab Emirates Dirham AED U.A.E. Dirham Abu Dhabi
United Kingdom Pound GBP British Pound London
United States of America Dollar USD American Dollar Washington,
D.C.
Vietnam Dong VND Vietnamese Dong Hanoi
Venezuela Bolivar
Fuerte
VEF Venezuela Bolivar
Fuerte
Caracas
Computer Awareness
1. The earlier computers, which were massive in size, were based on vacuum tubes.
2. Early computing machines, like the ENIAC, were actually meant to assist the armed forces.
3. The printers in pre-1950s were punch cards.
4. An improvement on the ENIAC, which pioneered 'stored program', was made possible with the help
of the mathematician John von Neumann.
5. Before the 1950s, computers were mostly owned by universities and research labs.
6. The B-programming language was developed by Ken Thompson.
7. Famous people, associated with the ENIAC, EDVAC, UNIVAC computers are Eckert & Mauchly.
8. The 1st commercially produced and sold computer (1951) was UNIVAC.
9. IBM was provided software for PCs by Microsoft.
10. Time-sharing, teletyping, were associated with mainframe computers.
11. The transformation from heavy computers to PCs was made possible using microprocessors.
12. The first microprocessor was developed in 1971 by Intel.
13. The term 'micro' (extremely small) denotes 10-6m.
14. The Harvard student, who chose to write computer programs and dropped studies was Bill Gates.
15. A pentium 4 (P-4) employs roughly 40 million transistors.
16. Mark-1, Apple-1, and collossus were initial desktop computers.

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17. Binary digits are briefed as bit.
18. A collection of bits is called byte.
19. C++, is a computer language.
20. The process of eliminating programming faults is called debugging.
21. Starting up on operating system is called booting.
22. A program used to browse the web is called browser.
23. An error in software designing which can even cause a computer to crash is called bug.
24. Click and double-click are achieved using the mouse.
25. Java, C, ForTran, Pascal and BASIC are computer programming languages.
26. The device which sends computer data using a phone line is called MODEM.
27. 'Worm' and 'virus' are actually programs.
28. A 'file' is a unit of information.
29. A megabyte has 106(million) bytes.
30. A small, single-site network is called LAN.
31. A processor that collects several data and sends them over a single line is called bridge.
32. 'Nano' stands for one billionth part.
33. The number of bit patterns using an n-bit code is 2n.
34. The part of a computer that works with the data/programs is called CPU.
35. To convert a binary number to a decimal, we have to express it in power of 2.
36. www stands for world wide web.
37. Mathematics employed in computers is called Boolean algebra.
38. A collection of 8 bits is called byte.
39. The first home computer (1977), which was sold in millions of units was Apple II.
40. 'PARAM' is a supercomputer.
41. A website containing periodic posts is called blog.

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42. While cutting and pasting, the cutitem is temporarily stored in the clipboard.
43. http stands for hyper text transfer protocol.
44. The unwanted or non-requested emails are called "spam".
45. A computer framed to give various network services is called server.

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