IT Certification Exam Questions & Answers

Q28. 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?

Q29. 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 analysis. What should your answer to her be?

Q30. 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?

Q31. 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. You have executive support and commitment to implement it in your business unit. A key first step is to:

Q32. Optimizing the portfolio is a major recurring process that the portfolio manager performs throughout the portfolio life cycle in order to balance the mix of portfolio components. During this process, the portfolio manager uses a number of graphical analytical methods to help him ease the process. Which of the following is not a graphical analytical method used in this process?

Q33. While defining the portfolio mix, the portfolio manager performs a categorization of the portfolio components based on multiple categorization criteria. Which of the following is considered as a portfolio component category?

Q34. Portfolios have a lot of components in them and are executed along an extended lifecycle. For this, as a portfolio manager, you continuously monitor and control the progress and status. What input can you use to help you with this?

Q35. You have been assigned as the manager for a major transformation portfolio in your company. You are acquiring the position due to the failure of the previous manager and the strategic importance of the portfolio.
You start by consulting the portfolio strategic plan. What do you expect finding in that plan?

Q36. 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 managing the strategic change and using multiple tools and techniques. What are they?

Q37. Optimizing the portfolio is a major recurring process that the portfolio manager performs throughout the portfolio life cycle in order to balance the mix of portfolio components. During this process, the portfolio manager uses a number of graphical analytical methods to help him ease the process. Which of the following is not a graphical analytical method used in this process?

Q38. While Optimizing your portfolio, you need to present to the governance board how your components will be ranked and balanced in a quantifiable way. How will you do this?

Q39. 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?

Q40. You are managing a portfolio for a major car dealer in the region and due to diversity of locations, funding terms and your client’s corporate structure, you have a big number of components to be included in the portfolio. With such a huge number, you need to prioritize the components in order to prepare the mix of components to execute. Where can you find the prioritization model?

Q41. In a portfolio, data is an abundant asset, and managing the information aiming for a better decision making is critical. Information is considered to be the link between the portfolio activities and entities. You are currently collecting, analyzing, storing, and delivering portfolio information to stakeholders in accordance with their requirements. What can help you in doing this?

Q42. Working as a portfolio manager in the Water Resources Department of the U.S. Geological Survey, you are following a scorecard approach to report progress to your executives on the components in your portfolio. You submit the scorecards monthly, and based on their results, your executives decide if a Portfolio Review Board meeting should be held. Your emphasis in these reports is to:

Q43. Your company is currently on the verge of bankruptcy due to the lack of transparency within the organization; this alerted the CEO to take decisive actions and request that new reporting lines be established in order to be fully transparent. The new reporting lines triggered changes in roles & responsibilities for managing communication and communication policies & constraints. Where are these changes reflected when it relates to your portfolio?

Q44. While managing portfolio value, you met with stakeholders and discussed how to address the strengths and weaknesses in order to ensure benefits are comprehensively and holistically taken into consideration. Which of the following tools and techniques are you performing?

Q45. 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?

Q46. 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 in the process of monitoring the portfolio to ensure alignment with organizational strategy and objectives and make governance decisions. What do you expect as an outcome to this?

Q47. 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?

Q48. 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 managing the strategic change and using multiple tools and techniques. What are they?

Q49. 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?

Q50. Moving from project management to program management and now being appointed as the first portfolio manager in your cyber warfare company, you know you always wondered what happened to the various reports you had to prepare, and the metrics you had to collect. You are working now to determine critical metrics for portfolio management and decided to involve as many people as possible through questionnaires and surveys. You also held some focus groups. The purpose is to:

Q51. 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 bottom up when the components report status and progress to the portfolio. What is the relation between the portfolio and portfolio components when it comes to defining the performance measures and targets (metrics)?