TCS iON NPT - Banking and
Financial Services Test Syllabus
Level: Foundational
Exam Pattern
Test of knowledge
No. of Questions Marks per MCQ Total Marks Duration (Mins)
45 1 45 60
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Part A Syllabus - Test of knowledge
Sr. No. Module Descriptor Topic
1 Practices and Indian Financial Introduction to Banking;
Principles of System and the Relationship between Banker
Banking functions of and Customer; Employment
banks. Types of of Bank Funds; Negotiable
customers and Instruments; Banking Laws
their
relationship
with the bank.
Negotiable
instruments
commonly used
in the banking
sector
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2 Banking Banking Account Opening Process and
Environment and operations that how the transactions are
Operations revolves around made in the bank. Facilitation
activities like and Execution of Transactions;
opening and Documentation related to
closing bank Transactions; Verification of
account of KYC; Disbursing Loans
customers,
depositing and
lending money
to customers,
selling products
and services to
customers,
verification of
borrowers,
making
collections,
transferring
money to
customers'
accounts,
issuing debit
and credit cards
and more
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3 Financial Theoretical Characteristics of Accounting
Accounting framework of and its principles; Accounting
accounting and Process; Business Income;
accounting Preparation of financial
processes - statements for Nonprofit
From recording organisations; Accounting for
of a business Hire Purchase and Installment
transaction to System, Consignment, and
preparation of Joint Venture; Ascertainment
trial balance of Profit by Debtors Method
including and Stock and Debtors
adjustments. Method; Accounting for
Preparation of Dissolution of Partnership
financial Firm Dissolution of the
statements, Partnership Firm Including
accounting for Insolvency of partners, sale to
partnership a limited company and
firms and Piecemeal Distribution
accounting for
Hire Purchase
and Installment
System
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4 Financial Markets Nature of Financial Markets - An
and Services financial Overview; Money Market,
Capital Market, Development
markets, their
Financial Institutions, Mutual
types and Funds, Primary Market,
functions. This Secondary Market or Stock
module also Market, Markets For
Derivatives
talks about call
money
markets,
discount
market,
treasury bills,
REPO, capital
markets,
mutual Funds,
primary and
secondary
markets and
derivatives
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5 Insurance This module is Principles of Insurance,
an overview of Insurance Law and Practice;
risk coverage or Life and Health insurance or
protection property and casualty
against various insurance and fire and marine
hazards of life, insurance
financial
contracts that
bind two
people to
certain
responsibilities
which is known
as policy and
policy holder
and insurer
relationship
6 Information E-commerce Introduction to Electronic
Technology in and World Commerce; E-Commerce and
World Wide Web; E-banking,
Banking and Wide Web,
MS Office: Packages for
Insurance thereby Institutional Automation,
introducing Cyber Law and Cyber Security;
concepts on E- E-Banking Business Models
Banking. This
module also
talks about the
cyber laws and
cyber security
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7 Marketing in Concepts of Introduction to Goods and
Banking and bank and Services Marketing; Concept
of Bank and Insurance
Insurance insurance
Marketing; Behaviour of
marketing. This Consumers; Product Mix,
module also Pricing and Promotion,
talks about the Channels of Marketing and
Marketing Research; Recent
3P's and also
trends and challenges in
explains the Marketing
relationship
between
process, people
and distribution
8 Economics Micro and Demand and
macro Consumer behaviour;
Production and Cost;
economics.
Perfect and Imperfect
While the micro competition; National
economics is Income Accounting,
about demand Macro economic
problems, and role of
and consumer
Government and its
behaviour, economic functions.
production cost Structure of Macro
and also about economy: Circular flow
of income and
competition,
product, Aggregate
the macro demand, Aggregate
economics is supply, Investment function
about
economic
functions of the
Government
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including
budgets and
national
income
9 Auditing and Auditing What is Audit; Audit of
Corporate principles, companies; Special areas of
Audit; Internal Check,
Governance procedures and
Vouching and Verification;
techniques in Corporate Governance; CSR
accordance
with current
legal
requirements
and
professional
standards and
gives an
overview of the
principles of
Corporate
Governance
and Corporate
Social
Responsibility
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