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This set of Statistical Methods Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Statistical Methods Set 3

Q1 | Which of the following companies belonging to the Tata Group has not been acquired from abroad?
  • corus
  • hispano carrocera
  • ? jaguar land rover
  • trent
Q2 | Software made by which company will be used in scanning and processing of Census 2011 data?
  • netapp, inc
  • juniper networks
  • ? top image systems
  • atos origin
Q3 | Which of the following was founded in 1956 by the Government of India with funding from the Ford Foundation?
  • national institute of public finance and policy
  • national institute of bank management
  • ? national institute of financial management
  • national council of applied economic research
Q4 | What was the theme of the annual world economic Forum (WEF) meeting organized in Davos, Switzerland recently?
  • shaping the post-crisis world.
  • improve the state of the world: rethink, redesign, rebuild
  • ? shared norms for a new reality
  • the power of collaborative innovation
Q5 | Which of the following has a 51:49 joint venture with Japanese automobile company Nissan for manufacturing light commercial vehicles in India?
  • tata motors
  • ashok leyland
  • ? mahindra & mahindra
  • bajaj auto
Q6 | Which of the following is not a pharmaceutical company?
  • novartis
  • eli lilly
  • ? diageo
  • sanofi aventis
Q7 | Which of the following has decided to dins satya Elementary schools fro underprivileged children in rural India?
  • apple
  • google
  • ? microsoft
  • oracle
Q8 | Which of the following is the densest city in Asia as per the Asian Green City Index unveiled recently?
  • mumbai
  • chennai
  • delhi
  • kolkata
Q9 | Which of the following started production at India’s largest naphtha cracker project recently?
  • ongc
  • essar oil
  • ? indian oil
  • reliance industries ltd
Q10 | China emerged as the world’s second largest economy in 2010 overtaking_________
  • france
  • britain
  • ? germany
  • japan
Q11 | Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) completed has many years of operation recently?
  • 3 years
  • 4 years
  • ? 5 years
  • 6 years
Q12 | Which of the following has made the largest inbound foreign direct investment in India till date?
  • bp plc
  • vodafone
  • ? dailchi sankyo
  • vedanta resources
Q13 | Which core sector industry has the highest weight in the index of Industrial Production (IIP)?
  • crude oil
  • petroleum refinery products
  • ? coal
  • electricity
Q14 | ASBA (application Supported by Blocked Amounts) is a term used in which of the following sectors?
  • aviation
  • real estate
  • ? insurance
  • capital markets
Q15 | Which among the following body promoted securities Trading Corporation of India Limited (STCI) jointly with the Public sector Banks?
  • sebi
  • reserve bank of india
  • idbi ltd.
  • icici ltd
Q16 | The state bank of India (Amendment) Bill-2010, which was passed in the parliament in the latter half of 2010, apart from other things, reduces the statutory minimum shareholding of the Central Government in the bank from ­________ to ______ %, which among the following set of figures fills the blank correctly?
  • 59, 52
  • 55, 51
  • 59, 55
  • 62, 51
Q17 | What do we call an agreement whereby an issuing Bank at the request of the Importer (Buyer) undertakes to take payment to the exporter (Beneficiary) against stipulated documents?
  • bill of exchange
  • letter of exchange
  • letter of credit
  • bill of entry
Q18 | Mutual funds are regulated in India by which among the following?
  • rbi
  • sebi
  • stock exchanges
  • rbi and sebi both
Q19 | Which of the following country was the host of First Asian Yoga Championship held recently?
  • thailand
  • cambodia
  • vietnam
  • laos
Q20 | Which among the following body authorizes the credit limit to the National Co-operative Marketing Federation?
  • rbi
  • department of agriculture
  • nabard
  • department of finance
Q21 | Which among the following duties is applied by a government to control the exports of a commodity, so that the commodity can be used by the local markets than in foreign countries?
  • custom duty
  • excise duty
  • anti dumping duty
  • dumping duty
Q22 | Which among the above is/are most suitable reason/reasons for the given statement?
  • only 1
  • only 1 & 3
  • only 1 & 2
  • all 1, 2 & 3
Q23 | Which among the following body finalizes the market-borrowing programmers of State Governments in India?
  • state governments
  • rbi
  • union ministry of finance
  • planning commission
Q24 | Which among the following is the only correct statement?
  • money market meets long term financing needs
  • recession in industrial sector in india is normally due to fall in exports
  • ways and means advances is given by rbi are nowhere related to state’s revenue
  • exchange rate is fixed by rbi
Q25 | Which among the following is the top dividend paying company of India, as per a study done by economic Times?
  • ongc
  • tcs
  • itc
  • ioc