PFMP Exam Questions

The Monitor Portfolio Value process, while ongoing, has proved to be successful as you work to implement portfolio management. Within six months, you were able to show the usefulne...

only, which has diversified its product line significantly in the last two years to keep up with its leading competitor located in a different state. Your executive management team...

Assume you are a functional manager in your medical device company in research and development. Your scientists have determined a new product that will be a breakthrough for the co...

Assume you work for a technology company that is publically owned, and the value of its stock is tracked daily by the CFO and is reported to the portfolio manager. Quarterly meetin...

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,...

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...

For years, your aerospace company has been a leader in the development of sophisticated avionic hardware systems around the world. The executives want to continue with this well- r...

You are the CIO of a real estate investment trust (REIT) that invests in apartments and condominiums in more than 50% of the states in your country. Your organization has as its go...

Assume at this point as the portfolio manager in your mattress company, you are activating portfolio components, updating portfolio reports, and documenting the decisions made at t...

As the portfolio manager, you must engage stakeholders and build and maintain outstanding relationships with them as much as possible. After identifying and classifying them, you w...

starting with the business unit you lead, which is responsible for new products, and then will set the stage to implement it throughout the bank, including at the enterprise level....

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 comp...

Assume as the portfolio manager you have conducted a stakeholder analysis, gap analysis, and a readiness analysis as your cereal company is now entering the ice cream market. A tea...

Working to monitor the portfolio especially in terms of its value to the organization, you had each component manager prepare monthly variance reports. Of the components ranked in...

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 th...

In your telecom company, a number of criteria must be considered as you develop your approach to prioritize components in the portfolio. Your management insists that to be competit...

Different types of risks affect the portfolio, and they may be positive or negative. As the portfolio manager, one has to maximize the opportunities and minimize the threats. An ex...

In your architectural organization, each program or project requires some specialized subject matter experts at certain time frames. Because of the interdependencies between compon...

Having worked in portfolio management for several years, assume you were hired as the portfolio manager for a Real Estate Investment Trust, one of the largest in your country that...

Many people in your country are no longer eating food from cans because of the risk of botulism and eColi O1H747. Your low acid canned foods company is seeing its revenues decrease...

Different stakeholders will have different portfolio reporting requirements. Sponsors for example will have a great interest in:

As the portfolio manager in the third largest automotive manufacturer in your country, you have a large number of components especially new vehicles each year but also support for...

Although it has taken significant time, you and your team inventoried all the work under way in your new product development company. This list of components should be:

Assume you have determined the prioritization criteria your Portfolio Review Board will use, and you have reviewed the criteria with your key stakeholders to attain their buy off a...

Capability and capacity analysis are useful tools in portfolio performance management. In using this type of analysis a best practice is to:

Assume your company is a leading producer of AA and AAA batteries. However, it is a competitive market, and customers desire batteries with a longer life and a smaller size so they...

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 pharm...

Assume you are co-owner of a small consulting firm. Previously, you worked as a managing partner in one of the larger consulting firms in your country that had a defined portfolio...

Your IT company has been successful as it is able to deliver projects on time without the need for rework and within the allocated budget. Your customers have been astonished with...

Your organization tried implementing portfolio management in the past, but even though it purchased a sophisticated automated software system for scoring and prioritization, it was...

Before any information in your web-based technology company is communicated externally, it must be submitted to the company's Public Relations Department to ensure sensitive inform...

Assume you are preparing the first portfolio risk management plan for your outsourcing company, which typically handles call centers around the world. While the company has impleme...

Information and direction about the organization's vision, mission, prioritization, and resources should be obtained before the portfolio's strategic plan is developed by reviewing...

Roadmaps may be prepared to show different elements, and at the beginning they may not provide details of the various components. As a high-level plan at the portfolio level, the r...

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...

As the portfolio manager you have worked to consider the complexities involved of the interdependencies in your programs, projects, and ongoing work. As your portfolio process has...

Assume your telecom company is time constrained and needs to be first to market with new smart phones with features that are different from those of the competition and also have t...

Since you work for a global aerospace and defense organization, it decided to pilot the implementation of portfolio management in its cargo aviation business unit. You were asked t...

You prepared a portfolio risk management plan when you replaced the previous portfolio manager three years ago. However, recent structural and execution risks have affected the por...

You are working diligently to ensure people throughout the organization realize the importance of portfolio management. To do so, you are preparing a communications strategy. When...

After three months, you have a list of all the program, project, and ongoing work being done in your 500-person Division of your State Government Agency. With this list, the next s...

Even though you do not work in an industry that is heavily regulated by your government, such as in new product development, health, or safety, recently your government issued a ma...

As soon as you complete the portfolio risk management plan, and you have been working on it now with a team, you realize you need to update some organizational process assets such...

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...

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...

Assume after the acquisition of the natural gas transmission company by your company, a natural gas distribution company, was approved by the various regulatory agencies. You now a...

Working previously in the financial industry and studying finance and risk in graduate school, you are familiar with Markowitz's Efficient Frontier theory. Now assume you are the p...

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...

Assume your pork producing company finds that there is an over-abundance of pork products and competitors in the marketplace even though it has had to implement Hazard Analysis and...

Your online ordering company wants to add a component to its portfolio that its sponsor believes will outdistance the competition, but it has risks and also will be subject to regu...