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One of the stakeholders of one of your components came to you complaining that his manager is not receiving specific information on multiple components progress. What is your best course of action?
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 regulatory approval. The purpose is to use parachutes to deliver the merchandise ordered through small helicopters so the recipients receive their orders within three hours of the on line purchase. As the portfolio manager you recognize this component is a major change and will require resources if it is approved. You are now performing change management using a change structure that:
Assume you work in a weak matrix structure in your pharmaceutical company in which most of the program and project managers are coordinators, and most of the staff that supports them are in functional organizations. On some high priority programs, staff may be dedicated to the program full time for a short time period; however, operational work often takes precedence especially in manufacturing. The demand for some of the pharmaceutical products often outpaces the available supply, and shelf life is short. These fluctuations of resources then:
Your portfolio management team is a bit confused about the order of steps to follow when defining a portfolio. They have been having debates and they came to you asking for the correct order of steps
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?
Managing Strategic Change is an integral part of any portfolio in order to remain aligned with the strategic objectives. Your portfolio has undergone a major strategic change and you are currently determining if, when, what, and how of implementing the change in order to re-align the portfolio. What are you currently doing?
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?
After the stakeholder analysis is complete, a best practice is to put stakeholders into a matrix to develop a communications management strategy. A simple but useful approach is to set it up to show:
Assume you have been asked to prepare the portfolio management plan as you are on the staff of your company's Chief Portfolio Officer. In this plan, you will describe the different methods or approaches that your company will use to manage different types of components in the portfolio as specified in 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. A major risk has recently occurred and the risk owner came to you asking advise on how to report it. what would you advise her?
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?
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
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?
In your diversified chicken products company, your portfolio of components in progress consists of approximately 175 programs, projects, and other work. Generally, at each Portfolio Review Board meeting, about 35 new proposals are reviewed to see if they should be part of the portfolio. As the portfolio manager, you have set up categories for these components. They are useful to facilitate portfolio optimization because:
A big strategic change occurred at the organization level and has impacted multiple portfolios in the organization including yours. The sponsor has asked you to analyze the change and update the needed documents. You managed this change and are currently updating the Portfolio Management Plan. Which of the following are part of this update
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:
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 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 Stakeholders Analysis?
Chartering the portfolio is an important step towards the initiation of the endeavor. It authorizes the portfolio managers to use the resources and marks the first step towards the allocation of resources to the components upon their initiation. Which of the below can help you while developing the charter?
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:
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 portfolio linked to multiple business units and you set clear roles and responsibilities from the beginning to avoid delays and to enhance the decision making process. An unanticipated issue occurred last week, which relates to one of your team members missing to check the market fluctuating currency. In which of the following documents should you look to know which member was responsible of this?
Assume before you prepared your portfolio management plan for your company that you did some benchmarking and learned that if you used elicitation techniques it was useful in the portfolio development stage and before there were significant scope changes because of strategy changes to the portfolio. You decided to involve the Portfolio Review Board members, other key stakeholders, and some subject matter experts in this process and then decided to poll input from the group as a majority vote. This meant you were using:
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?
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?
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?
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. Following this, the portfolio structure has changed to cope with the new reporting lines. Where is this change reflected when it comes to portfolio documents?
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 AND size of components the organization can execute?
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 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?
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?
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 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?
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?
As part of the Portfolio Communication, the Portfolio Manager analyzes the raw data assimilated from the portfolio process assets and from the stakeholder analysis. This analysis aims to isolate the data that hold value to the receiving audience. Which tool can the portfolio manager use to help him in performing this analysis?
Portfolio Governance is important in a portfolio to maintain correct alignment, monitor and control performance and status, reshuffle the mix of components as found necessary, etc. Governance management includes which of the following processes?
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:
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 example of a negative portfolio risk is:
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:
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?
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?
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?
Risks perspectives differ within the organization between executive management, operations management, portfolio management and project/program management. When it comes to Operations management, which of the following is a risk concern?
You have been managing a complex portfolio for the banking industry and it is sought to be the shifting to the top-notch digital banking era for one of the major international banks. You know you will have changes along the lifecycle and you plan to manage them correctly in order to maintain alignment and correct execution. If you need to reflect changes based on cost, requirements, and schedule. To which of the following section in the portfolio management plan will you refer?
As a portfolio manager and in the aim of defining the preliminary list of components to be included in your portfolio, which will serve as a starting point for developing a portfolio. You start by identifying existing and potential portfolio components by reviewing documentation such as business plans/proposals in order to
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?
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?
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 company, and you want to serve as the sponsor for this component and present it to your Portfolio Review Board. You will need resources from other parts of the company to commercialize it. As you prepare your proposal you are following the key descriptors set up by the portfolio staff and will include:
Risk Management is integrated in all the other processes and process groups and is an integral recurrent activity throughout the portfolio life cycle. Which of the following is considered the most effective method for analyzing the effect of risks on portfolio strategic objectives, and determining whether they have high or low effect
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:
Portfolio managers tend to use the efficient frontier analysis as a modeling approach that gives decision makers the analytical tool to optimize portfolios given resource constraints such as risk. In which of the Portfolio management processes the efficient frontier is mostly used
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 as:
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?
The interest, influence, and communication needs of business operational stakeholders who are looking to ensure alignment between portfolio components, while minimizing negative impact and maximizing positive benefits of all portfolio-managed changes to their business operations, relate to which type of stakeholders?
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 the traditional features desired by your existing customers. The Portfolio Review Board meets weekly to assess performance and to consider new components. Lack of technical resources is a recurring issue. To make the case for acquiring new resources, you decided to assess capability and capacity. This approach is:
While defining the portfolio, the portfolio manager uses a set of evaluation criteria in order to generate a list of portfolio components for optimization and balancing. Which of the following is not an evaluation criteria?
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, update to reflect the change to the timeline?
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. What do you use for defining the portfolio based on the listing of work?
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 you using in the case?
Your company has had a portfolio management process in place for five years at the enterprise level, in its business units, and even in its complex programs. This year the company's Center for Excellence received an award for its work in this area from PMI®. As the Portfolio Manager, you have predefined metrics in place, which are critical because:
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
The company's management is not happy with the bared risk for the expected Portfolio value return and has reached a subject matter expert to try to re-align the risk level with the management expectations. The expert stated that it is preferable to diversify the portfolio components in order to get more results. In that case, you
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?
A junior Portfolio manager has come to you for advice. He is hearing a lot about the focus of portfolio management practices, however, he is not sure anymore of the exact answer. What do you, as an experienced portfolio manager tell him?
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 continuously report risks and issues to stakeholders. One of the key stakeholders is furious as he cannot find an issue that has occurred a week ago in the risk register. What should you do in this case?
Assume you are the portfolio manager for the Federal Railroad Administration. Funding is provided annually according to the Government's budget process. Any monies that are not spent at the end of a fiscal year are lost, and there are some restrictions in place concerning whether funds can be transferred to different programs, projects, or operations work in the agency. Therefore, to maximize the use of funding you require:
The Strategic Plan is an important document that is referenced throughout the portfolio life cycle. Which of the following is correct regarding the Strategic Plan purpose and focus?
One of the major steps for a portfolio manager is to know which components qualify to be included in the mix of components that will achieve the strategic objectives sought by the portfolio. As a program manager, you will use a variety of methods to help you achieve this purpose. Which of the following are valid tools and techniques?
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?
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 handle this strategic change. Which of the following can serve as input here?
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
Consider you have the following efficient frontier graph with multiple portfolios on it. Which portfolio do you choose?
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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
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 specializes in apartments. The company continues to grow and wants to maximize value and profits for its investors. As you set up processes and procedures for portfolio management, you know from past experience that buy in from executives is insufficient. As you prepare a communications strategy, you focus on: