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PMI PfMP - Portfolio Management Professional (PfMP)

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Total 495 questions

As a portfolio manager, you map the business value areas to each component in your portfolio in order to maintain alignment with the organizational strategy. What is the mechanism that will be used for tracking areas of measurement for assessing how the mix of portfolio components is performing?

A.

Benefits Realization

B.

Performance Metrics

C.

Manage Portfolio Value

D.

Portfolio Roadmap

During the portfolio lifecycle, you will be using the roadmap a lot and you be using it to report progress to different stakeholders. When it comes to portfolio roadmap, which of the following options is true?

A.

Roadmap are rarely updated, in contrast to the portfolio charter which gets frequently updated

B.

Roadmap includes internal and external dependencies to other organizational areas

C.

Roadmap is defined after the planning of all components is finished

D.

Roadmaps incorporate all components and shows a graphical representation of the portfolio progress over time

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 best course of action you should take as a portfolio manager

A.

Escalate the issue to the Portfolio steering committee

B.

Immediately terminate the component

C.

Request that the component governance board checks this component and takes a decision on whether to continue or terminate it

D.

Notify the sponsor of the component about the issue

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?

A.

Capability and Capacity Analysis

B.

Communication Methods

C.

Elicitation Techniques

D.

Communication Requirements Analysis

After the second shutdown of the Government, your Agency Administrator realized that some essential programs had to continue even during the shutdown, some existing work along with some programs and projects in the pipeline perhaps were not needed, and resources may require reallocation. This example shows the:

A.

Need to reconsider portfolio selection criteria

B.

Need to revise the portfolio mix

C.

Importance of regular reviews by the Portfolio Review Committee

D.

Need to reevaluate the entire portfolio management cycle

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. When it comes to the optimizing portfolio, what is the purpose of using this analysis?

A.

Performing Status and trend analysis, Rebalancing methods, Investment choice tools, exposure charts

B.

Performing resource leveling, project sequencing techniques and dependency analysis

C.

Performing Quantitative analysis and Sensitivity analysis

D.

Performing Cost-benefit analysis, quantitative analysis, scenario analysis, probability analysis, SWOT analysis, Market/competitor analysis and business value analysis

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 interviewing senior executive stakeholders and analyzing requirements and expectations for strategic change in order to re-align the portfolio. Which of the following tools and techniques are you currently using?

A.

Stakeholder Analysis

B.

Readiness Assessment

C.

Gap Analysis

D.

Change Analysis

Assume you completed your portfolio performance management plan, and it was approved by the Oversight Committee. This plan, with an overall purpose to maximize portfolio performance, describes resource allocation and resource-related issues among other items. In it a key component is benefits realization. This emphasis on benefits planning provides:

A.

Examples for templates for benefits realization planning

B.

Methods to evaluate the expected net benefits

C.

An approach focusing on continuous improvement in overall performance

D.

Methods to assist in benefit identification

Assume you are putting together for the Portfolio Review Board several options for consideration of potential components and current components. You are using an approach with different probabilities to determine outcomes and EMV. Which of the following would you recommend realizing Components A and B are new, while C and D are in progress:

A.

Component A

B.

Component B

C.

Component C

D.

Component D

Updates to schedules i.e. resource, funding, benefits, are results of Developing the Portfolio Performance Management Plan process. Where should these updates be recorded?

A.

Portfolio Management Plan updates

B.

Enterprise Environmental Factors Update

Portfolio Process Assets updates

C.

Portfolio update