PFMP Exam Questions

Manage supply and demand comes down to balancing the requirements with what is available. Resource requirements are a major input to the manage supply and demand process. Which of...

Strategies are changing, the portfolio mix is changing, the portfolio is progressing and you are doing a great job optimizing the mix of components. What tools and techniques are y...

What can you tell about the following portfolio status, having CPI weight = 80% and SPI weight = 20% Larger image

As part of the periodical strategic management cycle, the portfolio management team is revising the portfolio and re-doing the strategic management part. Currently, they are assumi...

Portfolio Prioritization Model is included in the Portfolio management plan and guides the ongoing decisions as to which portfolio components should be added, terminated, or change...

You are managing a big portfolio and have a lot of stakeholders, whether external or internal. You know that stakeholder engagement is crucial to the success of the portfolio and r...

Chartering a portfolio is a major step in getting the needed authorizations to execute the portfolio. Your are currently developing the charter and considering the following inputs

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...

As part of the annual planning, PMO has started to group initiatives managed under each portfolio in the organization. The collected list will be used in developing the new Portfol...

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 co...

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 g...

You work in a fairly small company where the PMO helps in providing oversight to support the portfolio management. In such organization, where are the PMO structure, responsibiliti...

You are currently using a Comparative Advantage Analysis and conducting a what-if analysis to consider how the portfolio component and its intended benefits could be achieved by va...

Your CEO is keen to know the expected value of multiple components that interest him and wants you to give him a comparison of the expected value across components. You are current...

A portfolio manager on one of the major sub-portfolios in your portfolio has tendered his resignation and gave you a 2 months notice. This unexpected change will require you to tak...

You are managing a large portfolio and are approaching to a major checkpoint. As a portfolio manager, you are now collecting information and reports from various components for agg...

A number of components proposals are on the table as a result of the strategic planning cycle. While defining the portfolio, you wanted to use a method to help you compare portfoli...

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 infor...

While managing portfolio communications, the portfolio manager needs to account for the communication needs of the component teams in order for them to stay in the loop of the big...

A new portfolio is initiated with you as the portfolio manager, you started by developing the portfolio strategic plan and are currently reviewing the Organizational Process Assets...

You are currently defining a hierarchical representation of your portfolio and its components and listing the major and milestone components, including dependencies internal and ex...

When it comes to managing the portfolio value, one of the junior portfolio managers came to you asking about the relation between cost-benefit analysis and the efficient frontier a...

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...

A big strategic change occurred at the organization level and has impacted multiple portfolios in the organization including yours. The CEO has asked you to prepare a presentation...

A new regulatory mandate has been imposed by the government which highly affected your portfolio. Multiple regulatory components are requested to be added to the portfolio in order...

One of your component managers has submitted his resignation and left the company; a new program manager joins the portfolio replacing him. Which document you use to inform the new...

A junior Portfolio manager has come to you for advice. She is asking about her main responsibilities as a portfolio manager in order to see if she is on the right track. What shoul...

Risks perspectives differ within the organization between executive management, operations management, portfolio management and project/program management. When it comes to Operati...

The portfolio manager defines the portfolio based on a listing of already existing work in the organization and selects the right components in order to be able to prioritize them....

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 b...

You are approaching a major checkpoint and right before the review meeting, one of the key stakeholders asked you to add a small component which is of high interest to her and requ...

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...

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...

You are the portfolio management for a big corporate with existence in 3 continents. While planning the performance management and in particular the dashboards and reporting tools,...

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...

As a portfolio manager, you know that optimizing a portfolio has the focus of maintaining a balanced portfolio. When optimizing a portfolio, what is the state of the portfolio comp...

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 dev...

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 g...

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 b...

In a portfolio you have a continuous interaction between the portfolio and its components. The approach is top down when it comes to offering guidelines and approaches and becomes...

Your company got recently acquired by another company and the strategic directions which your portfolio is based on have been changed. Which document do you, as a portfolio manager...

You have just recommended the Portfolio Strategic Plan and Portfolio to the governance board for approval. The portfolio board members informed you that they did not find what they...

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 i...

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 requirem...

Due to multiple issues, there were changes in the reporting process in your portfolio; the meetings with their frequencies have been changed and this will also affect the reporting...

A number of components proposals are on the table as a result of the strategic planning cycle. While defining the portfolio, you wanted to make a preliminary screening of the propo...

During one of the review meetings, the governance board asked to know the progress with relation to benefits of one of the major programs in your portfolio; in this case you will a...

When you are a portfolio manager, you need to do and re-do multiple processes in order to maintain the portfolio alignment to the changing strategies. Which of the following are co...

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, i...

As part of the portfolio management plan, you have the "Manage Strategic Change" and the "Change Control and Management". This is causing issues to one of your team's junior portfo...