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PMI PfMP - Portfolio Management Professional (PfMP)

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Total 495 questions

When initiating portfolio components and terminating other, you come up with updates to budget, funding and resources allocations. Where should these updates be recorded?

A.

Portfolio Process Assets updates

B.

Portfolio Management Plan updates

C.

Portfolio Reports

D.

Portfolio Updates

Due to a strategic change, multiple components on your portfolio have been terminated, leaving you with limited remaining funds coming from the terminated components. What should be your best course of action?

A.

Since the funds are limited, you can leave them with you and use them as equity protection for low probability and high impact risks

B.

Return the funds to the organization

C.

Since the remaining budget is limited, the portfolio manager can directly assign it to ongoing components that need a little push

D.

Re-activate one of the terminated components because you have additional budget

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:

A.

Regular reports on funds for authorized components

B.

Projections on a quarterly basis as to the funds components require

C.

Mechanisms for internal audits to ensure funds are allocated effectively

D.

Accurate estimates of the funds needed when the component is proposed for consideration

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. Risk Categories, criteria and probability and impact are updated as a result of Developing the Risk Management Plan. These updates are recorded in which of the following?

A.

Portfolio Management Plan updates

B.

Portfolio Process Assets updates

C.

Organizational Process Assets updates

D.

Portfolio Reports

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. You are currently using it in the development of your charter. What is its purpose in this case?

A.

Performed to understand the human, financial, and asset capacity and capability of the organization in order to select, fund, and execute portfolio components

B.

It enables the organization to achieve maximum portfolio benefits given current resource constraints

C.

To study the capability of resources, match them against the portfolio’s objectives and goals, and translate the capability into what capacity is possible to meet the portfolio demands

D.

To understand how much work is able to be performed based on the resources available (capacity), as well as the ability of the organization to source and execute the selected 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?

A.

Portfolio Roadmap, Portfolio, Portfolio Reports, Portfolio Management Plan, Portfolio Component Reports

B.

Enterprise Environmental Factors, Portfolio, Portfolio Reports, Portfolio Management Plan, Portfolio Component Reports

C.

Portfolio Process Assets, Portfolio, Portfolio Reports, Portfolio Management Plan, Portfolio Component Reports

D.

Enterprise Environmental Factors, Portfolio, Portfolio Reports, Portfolio Management Plan, Portfolio Strategic Plan

Your company has multiple portfolios on the way and a variety of different clients and industries. Risk levels are high due to recent governmental regulations and the company has recently been penalized due to a non-compliance to one of the standards. You know that you need to closely managing this. As a result, you will be come out with

A.

Portfolio Management Plan updates, Portfolio updates, Portfolio Reports, Enterprise Environmental Factors updates

B.

Portfolio Management Plan updates, Organizational Process Assets updates, Portfolio Process Assets updates, Portfolio updates

C.

Portfolio Management Plan updates, Organizational Process Assets updates, Portfolio Reports, Enterprise Environmental Factors updates

D.

Portfolio Management Plan updates, Organizational Process Assets updates, Portfolio Process Assets updates, Portfolio Reports

Following a major organizational restructuring, new portfolios are currently being initiated. You have been assigned the position of portfolio manager on one of the major portfolios and are currently in strategic management. You are currently meeting with stakeholders to document the internal and external financial dependencies and shared resources between different portfolio components. Which of the following techniques are you performing

A.

Elicitation technique

B.

Interdependency analysis

C.

Capability & Capacity analysis

D.

Readiness Assessment

The governance board has an integral part in the realization of the portfolio strategic value. In your opinion as a portfolio manager, Governance board decisions are based on

A.

Information given by the portfolio manager

B.

Portfolio Strategic Alignment

C.

Portfolio Process Assets

D.

Portfolio reports

As the Director of the Portfolio Management Office at your worldwide furniture store, you prepare a series of reports on the status of the portfolio. One report that you use is a bubble diagram. In using it in terms of resource supply and demand, you should structure it to show:

A.

Required resources and available resources

B.

Resource availability and life cycle phase

C.

Resource competency and component probability of success

D.

Resource importance and probability of success