TEST PAPER 2026 QUESTIONS SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+
◉ What does a Commercial Bank do?
Answer: takes deposits
lends money (loans)
provides cash management services (ATMs, currency)
operates branches
provides investment and trust and estate services
◉ Types of Bank Clients
Answer: Retail
Private Banking
Middle Market
Institutional
◉ Retail
Answer: individuals and families
◉ private banking
,Answer: wealthy individuals and families
◉ middle market
Answer: small businesses
◉ institutional market
Answer: large businesses
◉ Loan officers
Answer: serve as the primary contact between businesses and banks
◉ What are loan officers responsible for?
Answer: finding companies that need loans
structuring and negotiating loans
(all involve loans)
◉ For loan officers to succeed they need:
Answer: to develop revenue for the bank (loans and other services)
and maintain good client relationships, while making sure that the
bank is not taking excessive risks.
◉ What is a credit officer?
, Answer: perform detailed credit analysis on new loan opportunities
and existing loans in bank's portfolio
◉ Credit officers and loan officers work together on new loans
Answer: True
◉ Main purpose of credit officer
Answer: to ensure that the bank doesn't take on too much risk in its
lending business (risky new loans, old loans w bad credit quality)
◉ What is risk management?
Answer: is a growing function within banks that encompasses many
groups of professionals trying to manage types of risks credit risk in
loans, credit risk in credit card operations, interest rate risk,
currency risk, legal and regulatory risk.
◉ What is operations?
Answer: set of groups that keep the bank's systems running and
ensure money gets to the right places
◉ Functions within operations include
Answer: managing bak's databases, maintaining customer records,
processing transaction.