PfMP Sample Questions Answers

You have set a meeting with your portfolio team members as an answer to the identification and update of the organization near-term budget and plans. One of your team members asked you of the goal of what is being done. Your answer to him should be

A problem related to internal corruption has occurred in your company. The CEO has setup a new management team and had to do budget cuts until the situation is stabilized. Your portfolio is highly affected by this budget cut and you were obliged to cancel a few components. What is your best course of action in this case?

As a portfolio manager, you map the business value areas to each component in your portfolio in order to maintain alignment with the organizational strategy. What is the mechanism that will be used for tracking areas of measurement for assessing how the mix of portfolio components is performing?

As you prepare your communications management plan you realize that stakeholder requirements may change over time, and these changes then will need to be reflected in updates to the plan. As the plan defines the overall communication process not only for gathering information but also in determining recipients of it, it also:

In order to guide the work and correctly manage the portfolio, one of the major documents to be prepared is the Portfolio Management Plan acting as guideline for portfolio management. What are the tools and techniques you could use while developing this plan?

Your company, which has been in the blimp business for over 50 years, prides itself on its robust portfolio management process, which is especially useful now that the demand for blimps of various sizes is much greater than the capacity to produce them. One of the reasons the blimp company has been so successful over the years is it has central management of all of its resources. This approach is important:

A new project manager was given an assignment on one of the components in your portfolio. What will you do as a portfolio manager in order to align the project manager with the strategic direction and integrate him/her with the work in progress?

An urgent review meeting was set due to the discovery of multiple risks which can have drastic effects on the portfolio. As a result of the meeting, it was agreed to increase the portfolio budget and add more resources in order to manage the new risks. Which of the following documents needs to be updated as a result of this decision?

Assume you completed your portfolio performance management plan, and it was approved by the Oversight Committee. This plan, with an overall purpose to maximize portfolio performance, describes resource allocation and resource-related issues among other items. In it a key component is benefits realization. This emphasis on benefits planning provides:

Portfolios include a lot of work and as a portfolio manager you need to keep an eye on the value realization while maintaining the strategic alignment. You are currently aggregating value delivered by the portfolio components. Which of the following methods are helpful to you?

While planning for risk management, multiple investment choice tools are used as part of the quantitative and qualitative analyzes; which of the following tools determines the effect of changing one or more factors?

Stakeholders are an integral part of the portfolio. The portfolio manager will work with the stakeholders to plan, execute and eventually deliver and close the portfolio. While developing the performance management plan, the portfolio manager plans a series of sessions with key stakeholders to define Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). What are these sessions collectively referred to in a portfolio?

You have just finished a major checkpoint in your portfolio and the portfolio has to undergo several changes in order to re-align with the strategies. One component of your portfolio has been cancelled and the resources are going to be reallocated to other components. Which process does these activities?

The portfolio management process ensures the components are aligned to goals. However, it is driven by:

Which of the following is NOT considered as a criteria for prioritization?

As part of the new strategic direction, the executive management has decided to create a portfolio for the development of a new product. You have been assigned as the portfolio manager. What should you do as a first step?

Your portfolio is on a tight deliverables and is considered the major portfolio in your company. Stakeholders are concerned about the purpose of defining a portfolio while already having an inventory of work and are worried that this will cause a lot of time to be wasted. What is your advice to the stakeholders?

When we talk about portfolios, programs and projects, it is inevitable to mention the business value which is the sum of tangible and intangible assets of an organization, also known as the net quantifiable benefit.

When it comes to business value, at which level of the organization is the pursuit of Business Value optimized?

You are the manager of a major portfolio with a variety of stakeholders and stakeholder groups. you know that managing communication is key to success and you stress on maintaining a high communication level. You want to start developing your Communication Management Plan and are planning to use

Your Portfolio Review Board is scheduled to meet in a week. Resources only are available to support one project, and detailed business cases have been prepared for two of them. Your company has a policy of being risk adverse. Based on the following table, which project would you recommend to the Board, and what else would you mention to them?

Your company acquired another company. The sponsor asked you to check the other company's current inventory of work and see what could be added to your current portfolio. You have a meeting coming up to show the sponsor the portfolio dependencies. Which document should you be showing him?

You are the portfolio manager in a large organization including a diversity of stakeholders. From the start, you knew the importance of correctly managing the stakeholders requirements and concerns and you grouped them in order to

The portfolio management information system (PMIS) is often a collection of spreadsheets rather than automated tools. An effective PMIS enables the portfolio manager to define, analyze, design, produce, and manage systems to support a successful portfolio. Which of the following is a trait of a PMIS?

Managing value is key to success as portfolio are undertaken to ultimately deliver an outcome that is strategically aligned and which delivers value to the organization. While managing value, the portfolio manager invokes the Benefits Realization Analysis activity. Which of the following is part of this activity?

The Portfolio Management Plan is an important document that is referenced throughout the portfolio life cycle. Which of the following is correct regarding the Portfolio Management Plan purpose and focus?

When we talk about portfolios, programs and projects, it is inevitable to mention the business value which is the sum of tangible and intangible assets of an organization, also known as the net quantifiable benefit. When it comes to business value, at which level of the organization is the delivery of Business Value optimized?

Your sponsor has urged you to analyze Portfolio Risk before the end-of-week governance board meeting as the CEO will be present and is interested in Portfolio risk data in particular. Currently, you do not have adequate risk information in order to analyze data and give recommendations. Which tool is the most suitable for you to use in this case?

Assume you are helping the Portfolio Review Board select and implement the portfolio with the best alignment to strategy as you work to create a list for to be considered for prioritization. One possible component on the surface does not seem to be one that is profitable, but you believe that over time changes will occur that will make it cost/beneficial to pursue. This means you are using:

As you work to determine which stakeholders had the highest degree of influence over the portfolio, you wanted to especially know about the members of the Portfolio Governance Board because:

ecause your company's Portfolio Review Board consists of the Directors of its five business units and is chaired by the CEO, the meetings tend to be contentious as there is limited funding available to authorize all the proposed programs and projects. Dissension also is the norm if resources are reallocated from one business unit to another. As a result, the CEO:

It is critical in portfolio management to focus on 'doing the right work'. This means stakeholder expectations and effective management of these expectations are essential. The primary conduit between the component managers and the other portfolio stakeholders is the:

You are managing a complex portfolio with high risk levels due to emerging technological breakthroughs and a short benefit window to market your product. You know that managing risk is key to success and you are coaching your team on the same. While planning for risk management, multiple investment choice tools are used as part of the quantitative and qualitative analyzes. Which of the following tools determine the effect of changing the portfolio?

As part of the strategic alignment, you Identify prioritization criteria (e.g., legislative, dependencies, ROI, stakeholder expectations, strategic fit) using information gathering and analysis techniques in order to

Which of the options is considered part of Enterprise Environmental Factors (EEFs)

A key role for portfolio management is to balance the use of resources following the need against the existing skill-set. One of the component managers told you that an important SME on his program is traveling and there is no replacement for her. This will cause a major delay in the program. What is your first step as a portfolio manager?

Because of the ongoing and iterative nature of portfolio management, the processes in it are continually repeated as new components are added, and others are completed or terminated. Revisions are constant given complexity, risks, and the rate of change. As you work to optimize the portfolio, it is helpful to:

Your team members were having a discussion about the contents of the Portfolio Charter and they came to you for advice because they could not agree on a common answer. What would be your advice to them?

The sponsor came to you asking for a high level timeline to depict the approach that you will take to execute this portfolio. What tools and techniques is useful in your case?

You are currently defining a hierarchical representation of your portfolio and its components and listing the major and milestone components, including dependencies internal and external to the portfolio with business units. For this you know that you will need multiple inputs. Which of the following are considered inputs in your case?

Portfolio balancing can be done in several different dimensions based on organizational preferences. When your software development company, which is CMMI Level 5 certified, began to focus on portfolio management four years ago, you started with a simplified ranking approach and now moved into using an automated, sophisticated weighted scoring software tool throughout the organization. In terms of portfolio balancing, it is appropriate to:

Initiatives in the companies aim to deliver values. For a portfolio, the value is delivered through a mix of components with similar strategic goals and objectives. Multiple components can contribute in the realization of the same organizational value. While managing the portfolio value, how do you depict the relationships between components in achieving value?

Efficiency is highly regarded when managing a portfolio and spans all activities i.e. risk management, communication management, etc. A portfolio is considered efficient if it

Managing risk is key to the success of any initiative. Risk is considered to be inherent in any activity we do in project management and at any level. When it comes to risk tolerance definition, which of the following is the correct one?

Assume you are the portfolio manager for your pork producing company, the market leader in your country. Over time, the industry has recovered from trichinosis as a risk. Your company has added new components to its portfolio, and many have been to demonstrate to the public that its products are safe. It implemented the Agriculture Department's and Food and Drug Administration's Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) regulations and is enhancing its image as 'the other white meat'. However, now the entire industry is faced with a new epidemic known as porcine epidemic virus, which is affecting pigs in 22 different states, and profits have decreased significantly. New components now must be added to the portfolio. This situation shows:

Multiple communication methods are used by the portfolio manager in order to proactively convey messages and engage the stakeholders at the right time and in the right manner. Which tool is used to visually convey multiple messages at the same time?

As part of developing the Communication Management Plan, a portfolio manager executes the Communication Requirements Analysis, in addition to Stakeholders Analysis. Which of the following options in your opinion is a result of the Communication Requirements Analysis?

The portfolio undergoes a lot of changes through the portfolio life cycle, and the state of the portfolio changes on the go. Some components are terminated, other are added and initiated. When it comes to the authorize portfolio process, which of the following represents the state of the portfolio

Following a major organizational restructuring, new portfolios are currently being initiated. You have been assigned the position of portfolio manager on one of the major portfolios and are currently in strategic management. You are currently performing cost-benefit analysis. What is part of this analysis?

Performance reporting is important in a program and usually, the portfolio manager aggregates performance information from the portfolio components in order to present the related reports. Which of the following measures can be used in performance reporting?

Assume your consulting company tried portfolio management in the past, but it was not embraced. Instead, people received bonuses if they were able to acquire new work regardless if it fit the company's strategic plan. However, the company was sold, and the new executive team asked you to be the portfolio manager. You explained it did not work in the past, but the new team has pointed A. out while a lot of work was won competitively, much of it was for small dollar amounts, and resources are misallocated. The new approach is to focus on business value, which has as its goal to:

B. As chieve the greatest return on investment to the organizationBb. aximize productivity and increase overall customer satisfaction

C. Deliver the maximum value aligned with strategic objectives

D. Focus on those opportunities that have the greatest likelihood of successful completion

Assuming a portfolio manager position means one has more stakeholders than in program, project, or operational roles. The goal is to identify all interested stakeholders but often overlooked are:

Risk management is an integral part of project, program and portfolio management and is invoked throughout the project, program and portfolio life cycle. Which of the following highlights the difference between portfolio risk and program or project risks?

Working to prepare the communications plan, a best practice to follow is to use the roadmap. By doing so, it:

You are managing a portfolio in a functional organization and resources are shared between operations and projects. You are continuously performing capability and capacity analysis in order to optimize the portfolio. Which of the following capability and capacity analysis is used to limit the number OR size of components the organization can execute?

As a result of optimization, one of the components was deemed necessary to be terminated. One of the executive managers found about this and called you telling you that you should leave this component as it is of interest to her and she wants to see it finalized and that she will make resources available to it if needed. What should be your best course of action?

You have been asked to be the manager for a governmental portfolio, and your starting point should be tendering a strategic plan to the board for validation and approval for continuation. Which documents/artifacts do you have debuting the portfolio that you can use to develop the strategic plan?

You have just finalized aggregating value from the ongoing components to present a consolidated report to the governance board, in addition to recommending changes to portfolio and information to enable a better decision making. You are now looking for a place to document updates including new measures, reports and processes for effective ongoing management of the portfolio value. In which of the following documents are these measures included?

The existing portfolio manager was replaced by a new portfolio manager and the analysis has shown that the distance between the pessimistic and best case scenario of the new portfolio manager is larger than the old one, which kind of manager is the new one?

In a portfolio, data is an abundant asset, and managing the information aiming for a a better decision making is critical. For this you use a variety of Quantitative and Qualitative analysis methods. These methods are performed in 4 of the portfolio management processes and serve a slightly different purpose in each and every one of them. Considering that you are currently working to ensure resource capacity is optimally allocated against resource requirements or demand based on known organizational priorities and potential value, how can you make use of the quantitative and qualitative analysis?

Assume you are working to prepare the low-level schedule and timelines for portfolio components. You want to make sure, as the portfolio manager, for your country's initiatives to promote an awareness of the importance of climate change, that each component then can be monitored and tracked to assess performance. To do so, you should:

In managing strategic change, the portfolio manager performs stakeholder analysis in order to consider the changing requirements. One of the key stakeholders expressed concerns about the lack of recognition of the value contribution of his department. The portfolio manager is not convinced with the level of value contribution. Which of the following is considered the best approach to take?

The Portfolio Charter is an important document that is referenced throughout the portfolio life cycle. Which of the following is correct regarding the Portfolio Charter purpose and focus?

Managing risk is key to the success of any initiative. Risk is considered to be inherent in any activity we do in project management and at any level. As part of managing risks, the portfolio manager applies multiple analyzes and uses tools to help dealing with risks. What does the portfolio manager use to visualize risks impact on portfolio strategic objectives such as profitability?

Managing risk is key to the success of any initiative. Risk is considered to be inherent in any activity we do in project management and at any level. Risk is incorporated in all process groups as well. As a portfolio manager, how do you map the risk management elements to process groups?

You are managing a portfolio for your company and are trying to balance the tasks that will be done internally based on the availability and the ones that will be outsourced. Managing supply and demand is a recurring activity in the portfolio life cycle and results in changes in resource utilization and resource efficiency. Which of the following techniques uses historical data to determine if resource requirements have been consistently underestimated?

You are managing a portfolio linked to multiple business units and you set clear accountabilities from the beginning to avoid delays and to enhance the decision making process. Roles and Responsibilities are recorded in multiple portfolio documents. Where are the portfolio component managers roles and responsibilities stored?

Working to prepare the portfolio performance management plan, assume you have been involving others in the process to help secure their later support of the plan. You also reviewed historical information and other artifacts. Not to be overlooked is a/an:

A portfolio manager needs to continuously balance the need and requirements with the available resources and needs to maintain a balanced portfolio and portfolio resources in order to optimize delivery. Capability and Capacity analysis is performed in 4 of the portfolio management processes and it serves a slightly different purpose in each and every one of them. When it relates to developing the performance management plan, what is the purpose of using this analysis?

Enterprise environmental factors (EEFs) may constrain portfolio management options and may have a positive or negative influence on the outcome. Which of the following is not considered part of the EEFs?

Communication is one of the largest activities that the portfolio manager does along the portfolio lifecycle. As an experienced portfolio manager, you know that communication and information needs vary between portfolios, programs and projects. How do you define the difference in those three levels of Project Management?

You have set a series of meetings with your portfolio team members as an answer to the identification and update of the organization near-term budget and plans. As a result you have defined and developed the portfolio strategic goals, near-term budgets, and plans, and you now want to start managing ongoing portfolio activities. What is the focus of what you are doing?

Your CEO is keen to know the likelihood of the portfolio to realize the expected ROI. You are currently looking for a tool to calculate the probability to achieve portfolio objectives. Which of the following will help you in doing that?

You have scored the portfolio components and are analyzing the data in order to prioritize the components. Using the following scoring table, which of the options represents the correct Components Priority?

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Stakeholders expectations and requirements change throughout the portfolio life cycle. New stakeholders can be added or removed and requirements need to be continuously solicited in order to keep the portfolio aligned with stakeholders expectations. What is the process for soliciting requirements called?

Consider you have the following efficient frontier graph with multiple portfolios on it. Which portfolio do you choose?

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In identifying risks to then manage and control, as the portfolio manager you are consulting organizational process assets such as:

Establishing a portfolio management process starts with the development of the organizational portfolio management implementation plan. Which of the following helps while developing this plan?

You are managing a complex portfolio with high risk levels due to emerging technological breakthroughs and a short benefit window to market your product. You know that managing risk is key to success and you are coaching your team on the same. You have just finalized the development of the risk management plan. What do you normally expect to find in a Portfolio Risk Management Plan?

Assume you work in new product development, and you believe you have identified a component that will be a breakthrough for the company. However, you performed a capacity analysis with the help of your EPMO to assess resource availability especially in certain skill sets. You learned that key computer scientists required by this component were in short supply, yet you still believe this component should be in the portfolio. To convince the Portfolio Review Board to consider it, you decide to use:

A portfolio manager needs to continuously balance the need and requirements with the available resources and needs to maintain a balanced portfolio and portfolio resources in order to optimize delivery. Capability and Capacity analysis is performed in 4 of the portfolio management processes and it serves a slightly different purpose in each and every one of them. When it relates to managing the supply and demand , what is the purpose of using this analysis?

You are currently in the process of defining a portfolio by forming the qualified list of components that will be later evaluated, selected and prioritized. What do you expect as outputs from this process?

The Portfolio Management Office (PMO) provides support to the portfolio manager throughout the portfolio life cycle. Which of the below is not something that the PMO supports the portfolio manager with?

Aligning the portfolio with the strategic objectives starts by developing the Portfolio Strategic Plan. You are currently developing this plan and are looking for a document that provides you long-term direction. What are you looking for in this case?

Stakeholders have complained to you that they are receiving redundant information and they prefer that you fix the issue promptly as it is time consuming for them. What is your best course of action?

The Portfolio Performance Management Plan is an important document that is referenced throughout the portfolio life cycle. Which of the following is correct regarding the Portfolio Performance Management Plan purpose and focus?

One of your goals as a portfolio manager is to ensure that your stakeholders receive the information they need for decision making. To help manage the portfolio information that is provided, you decide to gather information by holding portfolio component review meetings. Your purpose in holding these meetings is to:

Each year, you update the portfolio roadmap so people within the organization can see component status, interdependencies, constraints, and business value, among other things. This year, however, two major programs in the portfolio were cancelled as they were government contracts, and the government lacked funds to complete them. Your management then had to reduce staffing. These two programs had dependencies with other components in the portfolio. This means that:

While your organization maintains a decision register after each meeting of the Portfolio Review Board, this register only notes decisions that are made when a component is added to the portfolio or if the Board terminates a component. If the component is terminated, the reason for the termination is not listed. Also if a proposed component is not approved, the reason is not listed. It is evident this register is lacking in its usefulness, which means it requires updating as it is:

You are the portfolio manager for a large and complex portfolio with a low risk appetite. You are currently planning for risk management, multiple investment choice tools are used as part of the quantitative and qualitative analyzes. Which of the following tools focuses on pricing and sales forecast?

Communication requirements are analyzed and documented in the portfolio communication management plan to be used by other processes as needed. Which of the processes use this information in order to provide accurate information in a timely manner?

Portfolio Reports are widely used as inputs and outputs to multiple processes throughout the Portfolio Life Cycle. Which of the following is NOT part of portfolio reports?

Assume you are the portfolio manager for a company that specializes in software, including portfolio management software. It has many components under way to enhance the existing product line but also to move the company into Cloud computing. You regularly prepare reports on the portfolio status but lately have had a large number of stakeholders request ad hoc reports. You decided to survey your stakeholders to learn about their information needs. You next decided to hold some one-on-one interviews with several interested and influential stakeholders in terms of communications requirements. From these interviews you are concerned that some stakeholder groups may be missing so you decided to:

Due to market technological changes, your company got impacted and was urged to revise its portfolios. You are currently revising your portfolio to determine the required changes in the component mix. Which of the following options shows a clear path from the "as-is" to the "to-be" vision?

Review the following graphic. Assume now your portfolio is only 12% likely to meet is target of $41,000. Your Portfolio Review Board is dissatisfied in your management of the value of the overall portfolio. You explain the current mix of components is too risk adverse, and additional investment is required. The Board Chair then wants the needed investment to have a 75% likelihood, and you state it is:

While managing a program for the banking sector spanning multiple transformational areas. A new portfolio manager comes to you seeking advice on the usefulness of ROI. You tell her that ROI is the best method to measure returns of

As you prepare a list of possible components for your railroad to consider since most of its programs and projects are large and complex, your management team has suggested in your analysis of which components to pursue that you conduct statistical simulations of budgets, schedules, and resource allocations. You therefore decide to use:

Your organization has a defined portfolio management process that it has followed for three years. As the portfolio manager, you keep your various plans up to date, and because of numerous regulatory changes involving the telecom industry, it is time to review and update the risk management plan. You have several key stakeholders working with you as you realize the importance of this plan in maintaining a competitive advantage. One way you and your team are assessing the various risks that may impact the structure of the portfolio is to use:

Your organization, a leading restaurant focusing on pancakes, is seeking to expand its portfolio. It is interested in ensuring new components support: return on investment, customer satisfaction, reputation enhancement, and branding. These four areas represent:

You are managing a complex portfolio with high risk levels due to emerging technological breakthroughs and a short benefit window to market your product. You know that managing risk is key to success and you are coaching your team on the same. You are currently in the process of developing the risk management plan. Which of the following activities will you be performing?

Your goal as a portfolio manager is to develop a strong communications management plan to keep interested stakeholders informed about your progress in portfolio management. Although you have reached out to numerous stakeholders, you know other portfolio processes also can help in this process such as:

You are managing a complex portfolio with high risk levels due to emerging technological breakthroughs and a short benefit window to market your product. You know that managing risk is key to success and you are coaching your team on the same. When it comes to Managing portfolio risks, a risk owner, along with the portfolio manager, should select the strategy or mix of strategies most likely to be effective. Which of the following is not a risk strategy?

You are the manager for a governmental portfolio aiming to restructure the roads in your country. Having a tight schedule, a large number of stakeholders including the public, in addition to a strict budgeting framework, you know that you will be managing the performance closely and that the governance board and the stakeholders would want to check on the progress and performance frequently. For this you have developed a robust performance management plan. What is the expected result from developing this plan?

As a portfolio manager you will use a variety of artifacts and documents that will help you better manage the portfolio and better communicate progress and status with stakeholders. The roadmap is considered the most used document in the portfolio and eases your work being able to present the status on a single graphical representation. Early on during the portfolio lifecycle, you prepare the roadmap. An output of this process is

Your health insurance company has set up its portfolio into five different categories: research and development, IT, Medicare, government health insurance, and non-government health insurance. Funding is allocated yearly to each of these six categories. As the portfolio manager at the enterprise level, you:

Assume you are the portfolio manager for a legacy software company. For many years, your company was one of the top five leaders in software development, but as newer and more efficient software was invented, it began to lose market share. Your company then found its services were needed as legacy systems were converted, especially since Cloud computing now is so popular. But it has lost revenues increasingly over the years. To gain market share and provide greater portfolio value, the executive team decided it should:

You are managing a portfolio in a functional organization and resources are shared between operations and projects. You are continuously performing capability and capacity analysis in order to optimize the portfolio. Which of the following capability and capacity analysis is used to just limit the number of components the organization can execute?

In your architectural organization, each program or project requires some specialized subject matter experts at certain time frames. Because of the interdependencies between components, often these SMEs are needed at the same time. Assume since this is a critical issue in the company, it invested in resource planning and allocating software, and dashboards can be prepared. The goal is to use these dashboard reports to:

Portfolio management processes are performed in an environment broader than a portfolio; therefore, an organization-level implementation team supported by executive management, a governing body, and portfolio managers join forces to implement organization-level portfolio management processes. After Defining roles and responsibilities for portfolio management process implementation, what should be the FIRST next step?

The members of your Portfolio Review Board and other key stakeholders tend to be risk adverse as the company has survived recent recessions and is profitable. However, in an upcoming meeting with the corporate Board of Directors, they have asked you to show the frequency of meeting certain cost objectives at various percent points. For example assume the portfolio is to meet a $41,000 target in the next month, to be 75% confident this will occur, a forecast of $50,000 is needed. This means you need to show:

In a portfolio, data is an abundant asset, and managing the information aiming for a a better decision making is critical. For this you use a variety of Quantitative and Qualitative analysis methods. These methods are performed in 4 of the portfolio management processes and serve a slightly different purpose in each and every one of them. Considering that you are currently performing risk assessment and handling risk responses, how can you make use of the quantitative and qualitative analysis?

You are managing a complex portfolio with high risk levels due to emerging technological breakthroughs and a short benefit window to market your product. You know that managing risk is key to success and you are coaching your team on the same. One of your team members came to you asking about the order of the steps used to perform risk management activities. What should be your answer to him?

The PMO in your company is newly established and one of its first results was allowing the portfolios to use a new communication method to disseminate the information faster. With relation to your portfolio, where should this new communication be stored?

Your company's water treatment center serves three cities. Tests are conducted each day to see if the water is safe to drink. On Thursday, E coli were found in the water, but the water authority did not notify the citizens in the three cities. Instead, the citizens learned on Friday, the water was now safe to drink. The citizens are in an uproar, and your company is to blame. It is obvious one of the problems is the aging infrastructure and limited resources. To best optimize the portfolio, your CEO asked you to:

Along the course of the portfolio, you will be monitoring and controlling the portfolio a.long with the related stakeholders and governance bodies. This is done as part of your role in portfolio oversight. As a portfolio manager, which of the following, in your opinion, is the objective/purpose of the Provide Portfolio Oversight Process?

Portfolio Prioritization Model is included in the Portfolio management plan and Portfolio Strategic Plan. How does it serve the Portfolio as part of the Portfolio Strategic Plan?

Assume you are working in a division in your country's Department of Interior. The Department is set up in Bureaus, and your work falls within Natural Resources. Your division is the Water Resource Division. You are responsible as the portfolio manager for the work in this Division. As you work on the portfolio for the upcoming year, you point out to the members of the Portfolio Review Committee that:

Throughout the course of the portfolio lifecycle, components are initiated, terminated and updated. In order to be initiated, portfolio components receive go/no-go decisions during governance meetings. During which process the go/no-go decisions are taken?

The Portfolio Management Office plays an integral role in Portfolio Management and offers support to the portfolio manager throughout the portfolio life cycle. What is the role of the PMO with respect to the portfolio performance metrics?

Your company has multiple portfolios on the way and a variety of different clients and industries. Risk levels are high due to recent governmental regulations and the company has recently been penalized due to a non-compliance to one of the standards. You know that you need to closely managing this. As a result, you will be come out with

Assume you are the portfolio manager for a leading drug store in your country that offers numerous products. In the past four years, nearly every store has had to enlarge its pharmacy unit and hire additional staff members with the aging population. Observing this change, two years ago, stores set up clinics to provide customers with immediate care. As you see the growth in the stores in the health arena, you are looking at trends and realize:

As you are the portfolio manager for your state government agency, which is undergoing a series of budget cuts, you are focusing attention on managing risks to the portfolio as the budget is reduced. You realize in this process the time and budget for risk management also will be reduced; these data are in the:

One of your components within the portfolio has been struggling and has undertaken a lot of issues. A recent measurement has shown that its CPI is 0.4 and SPI is 0.3. What is the best course of action you should take as a portfolio manager

One of the ten underlying principles of portfolio management involves a strategic focus. Assume you are going to have a short meeting with your CEO tomorrow, and you want to succinctly describe it. You will tell the CEO it is important since it:

As a portfolio manager you visit and re-do the Optimize Portfolio process continuously. Which of the following, in your opinion, is the objective/purpose of the Optimize Portfolio Process?

Working to best optimize resource supply and demand in your telecom company, authorized components are prioritized to help in resource allocation. This means as you work to do so, you need to review the portfolio because:

You are in the toughest phase of the portfolio life cycle due to the governmental issues in your country. Yesterday night, one of the key team members quit and left the country. You have included this in the portfolio risk register while planning the portfolio because you knew that this could happen and that this key resource has family in Canada and can leave if the situation gets bad. Following this, you activated the response plan, which is to initiate a new component that will cater for reaching the deliverable in another way. However, an immediate approval is needed for initiation of this component or the end-of-month major deliverable will be delayed. To whom you should present the proposal for urgent approval?

You are managing a complex portfolio with high risk levels due to emerging technological breakthroughs and a short benefit window to market your product. You know that managing risk is key to success and you are coaching your team on the same. You are currently in the process of identifying and analyzing risk, in addition to developing risk responses and monitoring and controlling risk. Which documents can help you achieve this?

While performing the manage supply and demand process, one of your sub-portfolio managers came to you asking advice on how to analyze intangible assets such as resources knowledge or skills based on the metrics defined. What should be your advice to him?

Assume you are managing a high visibility project in your company that once it is completed will transform it into new markets and be the leader in the soft phone field. You are keeping the project a secret from external stakeholders, and you and your team have signed Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs). However, the executives and those on the Portfolio Review Board want status information on this project every two weeks. You provide it:

Along your portfolio lifecycle, you have been conducting multiple review meetings to ensure continuation from one phase to another and to ensure the alignment and value delivery, in addition to communicating decisions and valuable information to the related stakeholders. When it comes to decisions and actions taken by the governance board as a result of these meetings, they are communicated through

comes to this type of organizations, which of the following statements is true?

All measurements in a Portfolio are done in correspondence to Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), and defining those KPIs is essential and should be done by highly capable personnel. Which of the following is true regarding who prepares KPIs and which party approves them?

A portfolio manager needs to continuously balance the need and requirements with the available resources and needs to maintain a balanced portfolio and portfolio resources in order to optimize delivery. Capability and Capacity analysis is performed abundantly throughout the portfolio lifecycle and spans multiple processes. While performing the capability and capacity analysis during the manage supply and demand process, which of the following you use to maximize the use of resources

Assume you are the portfolio manager for your training company. It decided to implement portfolio management in a major way to ensure it remained competitive in the changing market and could offer a variety of methods to deliver courses rather than only in a face-to-face setting. The company set up a Portfolio Management Group, and you are responsible for providing information on portfolio status and then providing information to those interested stakeholders about the Board's decisions. You want to make sure the reports meet stakeholder requirements. After performing a detailed communications requirements analysis, you found it interesting that stakeholders wanted information about:

Portfolios include a lot of work and as a portfolio manager you need to keep an eye on the value realization while maintaining the strategic alignment. You are currently aggregating value delivered by the portfolio components. What outputs do you expect to get out of this?

With the introduction of new legislation in your company, anyone now is entitled to medical services regardless of whether or not they are employed or have any pre-existing health conditions. Your insurance company's executives have been tracking this legislation as it means significant changes for your company; many employers who obtained insurance through your company may go elsewhere for lower costs. Recognizing this legislation may lead to a loss of revenue, your company decided to merge with another insurance firm to obtain greater market share. This merger, though, means some existing projects may not be needed, and the workforce will be reduced by 20 percent, Such a significant change will impact how components are categorized in your portfolio leading to:

Risk management is an integral part of project, program and portfolio management and is invoked throughout the project, program and portfolio life cycle. When it comes to managing portfolio risks, which of the following activities is used

Assume your company recently diversified, and in addition to producing its recognized brand of ice cream products, it now also is producing cereal and nutritional products. Assume you have been using the Efficient Frontier to manage portfolio value. With diversification to these new products:

You have been assigned as the manager for a major transformation portfolio in your company. You have a new direction in sight and you need to work with the team to attain the end goal and achieve the expected strategy. You are currently in the middle of developing the strategic plan and require the following inputs

You have already created portfolio scenarios (what-if analysis) by reviewing components against prioritization criteria and using analysis techniques (e.g., options analysis, risk analysis, SWOT analysis, financial analysis). You now want to recommend portfolio scenario(s) and related components, based on prioritization analysis/criteria. You are doing this in order to

A portfolio manager needs to continuously balance the need and requirements with the available resources and needs to maintain a balanced portfolio and portfolio resources in order to optimize delivery. Capability and Capacity analysis is performed in 4 of the portfolio management processes and it serves a slightly different purpose in each and every one of them. When it relates to optimizing portfolio, what is the purpose of using this analysis?

Your team members were having a discussion about the purpose behind the development of the Portfolio Charter and they came to you for advice because they could not agree on a common answer. What would be your advice to them?

Assume you are the portfolio manager for your HVAC (Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning) company, one of the largest in the world. Preparing for a meeting with the Portfolio Governance Committee, you have been reviewing the success of components that have been completed as well as the progress of current portfolio components. In many cases people who only purchased heating units in the northern part of the country, and people who purchased only air conditioners in the south, now are buying state-of the art products to easily switch as needed. You found the risks of climate change led to the need for these new energy efficient products and did so by:

Based on the following table, assume you have been asked to perform a prioritization analysis based on these data. You realize risk is a major concern to the company, but you have some data available about potential benefits. These data show A and D have the greatest benefits. A and D are followed in terms of benefits by C, then B, then F, and finally E. Assume three of the programs and projects can be added to the portfolio when the Board meets. Your recommendation is to select:

Assume you are the corporate portfolio manager for your global organization. There is one portfolio at the corporate level, but other portfolios supporting business units and core areas of the company. One of these portfolios involves manufacturing, and its number one program in terms of priorities is to implement an enterprise resource planning system. Since it is the number one ranked program in this portfolio, it is of interest at the corporate level, and you and your team provide reports on its progress monthly. You can see that: