PfMP Exam Dumps - Portfolio Management Professional (PfMP)

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 can you use to help you in this context?

You are currently creating 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 are doing this in order to

Risks are very important to manage in portfolio management and organizations can choose to embrace risks with the potential of high rewards. As a portfolio manager, planning and managing risks is important. Risks are categorized in order to ease the process. Which of the following are considered as risk categories that a portfolio manager can use?

Assume you are a member of your company's Portfolio Review Board. Your Board meets quarterly to determine which new components to undertake and selects them even if it means the portfolio then will require rebalancing. As you consider the proposed business case for a component and assess the suggestions of the other Board members, a key factor is:

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?

Risks perspectives differ within the organization between executive management, operations management, portfolio management and project/program management. Which of the following are common risk concerns across the organization?

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

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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?

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?

As part of the portfolio communication management, multiple documents are prepared in order to effectively manage communications. The Stakeholder matrix is one of the prepared documents, what does it include?

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. You are currently assessing risk against multiple criteria and classifying them as part of developing the risk management plan. Which of the below reflects what you are doing?

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, change to reflect the new stakeholders and their expectations?

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:

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?

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 have just finalized managing the strategic change and you are expected to present the following documents:

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?

Risk is inherent in all activities and managing risk is critical to a successful portfolio. Risks perspectives differ within the organization between executive management, operations management, portfolio management and project/program management. When it comes to Portfolio management, which of the following is a risk concern?

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

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

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?

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

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

Your sponsor is under a lot of pressure from the management because the portfolio has been hit by multiple risks already and the situation is going towards its termination. Your sponsor asked you to prepare him an analysis to show the probable ROI and the confidence level in it. Which approach is the best one in this case?

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?

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:

As you grow older, you gain more experience and things that once seemed hard to assimilate, can become very easy. One junior member of your portfolio management team is confused on the relationship between the Optimize, Authorize and Provide Oversight processes. What could your advice to him be?

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?

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?

As you work to determine which of four possible components to optimize the portfolio, assume you are using the internal rate of return as the key crite rion to make your recommendation. Only one new component can be added based on financial constraints. Each of the four potential components has benefits that support the strategic plan. Based on the following data, you recommend:

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?

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?

For governments worldwide, you normally have a lot of people reluctant to change and to using new technology tools especially for communication. You are managing a governmental portfolio and planning for a transformational endeavor. You are currently depicting the various communication media and methods to be used, where is this information normally used?

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?

In a portfolio, data is an abundant asset, and managing the information aiming for a better decision making is critical. For this you use a variety of Quantitative and Qualitative analysis methods. Considering that you are currently working to quantitatively measure component values, however a few components have intangible benefits and can not be measured using quantitative analysis. How do you plan to proceed?

A portfolio manager needs to continuously balance the need and requirements with the available resources 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 charter, and in order to complete the portfolio structure, the capability and capacity analysis is used to

Specific types of communication technology that are used such as communication media, record retention policies, and security information are examples of:

As you focus on managing the value pf the portfolio, you find that portfolio variance/alert reports are helpful. Assume you have been using a 'traffic light' format as it is easy to prepare, but an objective is to:

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, change to reflect the portfolio new vision?

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?

The portfolio strategic plan should contain a prioritization model or approach that guides the ongoing decisions as to which portfolio components should be added, terminated, or changed, as well as prioritizes and balances the component mix over time. A simple prioritization model may be provided which contains

Working to ensure the portfolio management process is one that is followed and is embraced has been a major challenge. As the portfolio manager, assume you set up meetings with the Portfolio Governance Group bi-weekly since there is constant change in your telecom company. You also want the portfolio process to be transparent. To do so, a useful tool to communicate status is:

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 are developing a robust performance management plan. What can you use to help you start developing this plan?

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 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 realize that in order to have proper stakeholders engagement you will need to

The audit department has found out that two of the departments have conflicting standards and have asked you to analyze and compare them in order to be able to take a decision which could impact the portfolio alignment. Which analysis will you use to compare conflicting standards in different departments

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 and occurrence. The purpose in establishing these criteria is to:

While the Governance Board has a variety of significant roles in portfolio management, especially in terms of the recommendations it makes, c they involve:

Based on the data in the following table, your organization should pursue which component:

One of your team members came to you asking about the risk "Watch List"; he heard this term in a meeting on risk analysis and did not know what it meant. What will your advice to your team member be?

One of the major resources on your portfolio is needed by two of the components at the same time. This resource has high technical knowledge and is aware of all the business needs. Which of the following tools and techniques can you use in order to solve this issue?

The governance role in oversight is abundant during planning in order to agree on multiple roles and responsibilities including those of a portfolio manager. The agreements are recorded in the meeting minutes and included as updates to

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 considered outputs to the Develop Charter process?

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 various options, including resource capability and capacity mix. In which process are you currently working?

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 part of project, program and portfolio management and has a different exposure in each and every one. You are currently developing the guidelines and approaches for managing risks and are looking for methods to help you. What are you looking for?

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 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. For this you start by developing the strategic plan. What output do you expect from this process?

It is rare for organizational leaders to have an in-depth knowledge of all the work under way in the portfolio, but it is needed for portfolio decision making. If you were asked to prepare such an inventory, it would:

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?

While defining the portfolio, a portfolio manager does a preliminary comparison of all inventoried portfolio components against the portfolio component definition. For this, the descriptors of each portfolio component are used in order to compare it to other components. Which of the following is not a component key descriptors?

Assume you are the portfolio manager for a telecommunications company. Your company was about to launch a new and easy to use smart phone with more features than any existing phones on the market at a lower price. However, although the phone was due to market in five days, the Federal Communications Commission issued today a regulation that would make your new phone not available for use in airplanes. Thus additional work must be done, and your executives are wondering whether a new phone should be developed for this new feature. You are ensuring that if a new phone is developed, or if the almost completed product is not to be marketed, there is still alignment to the organization's strategy. As you complete an analysis of alternatives, you also should ensure results of the analysis are reflected in the:

In managing strategic change, the portfolio manager performs stakeholder analysis in order to consider the changing requirements. Which of the following options is referenced in this case to provide guidance on the communication required to ensure successful change?

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?

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 the recent Portfolio Governance Committee meeting as the company moves into new markets. You are therefore:

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

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 part of project, program and portfolio management and has a different exposure in each and every one. Multiple risks have already been spotted in your portfolio and you are now identifying, assessing and developing risk response plans for them, in addition to monitoring and controlling them. What are you looking for? You were finding this hard at first however you asked the help from a senior portfolio manager and he redirected you to use

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:

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?

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?

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?

During one of the management meetings, an opportunity was identified. This opportunity has a huge impact on the portfolio. What is your first action as a portfolio manager?

Assume you are working to ensure your organization has a balanced portfolio. You have decided to use a bubble diagram and have set it up to show the components in terms of: ease of execution [difficult or easy] and component importance [high or low]. In such an approach, bubbles are used to: