PMI Portfolio Management Professional Exam Practice Test

Your organization has a defined portfolio management process that it has followed for three years. As the portfolio manager, you keep your various plans up to date, and because of numerous regulatory changes involving the telecom industry, it is time to review and update the risk management plan. You have several key stakeholders working with you as you realize the importance of this plan in maintaining a competitive advantage. One way you and your team are assessing the various risks that may impact the structure of the portfolio is to use:

Even though you do not work in an industry that is heavily regulated by your government, such as in new product development, health, or safety, recently your government issued a mandate that senior management of all corporations must certify the accuracy of reported financial statements to prevent any accounting fraud. These controls are to be implemented in the next fiscal year. This obviously is not in your portfolio strategic or management plans but is an example of a(n):

After three months, you have a list of all the program, project, and ongoing work being done in your 500-person Division of your State Government Agency. With this list, the next step is to:

You are working diligently to ensure people throughout the organization realize the importance of portfolio management. To do so, you are preparing a communications strategy. When you distribute it, you will be able to show you can satisfy information requirements in order to:

You prepared a portfolio risk management plan when you replaced the previous portfolio manager three years ago. However, recent structural and execution risks have affected the portfolio adversely, resulting in lost opportunities and a decrease in overall return on investment. You are updating the risk management plan as now stakeholders can see its value. In doing so, you can use some portfolio process assets such as:

Your organization tried implementing portfolio management in the past, but even though it purchased a sophisticated automated software system for scoring and prioritization, it was not successful. After a year of complaints about the system, the executive team disbanded it. Now, resources are scarce, and some executives who were involved in the earlier attempt have left the company. The new CEO asked for a list of ongoing programs, projects, and operational work, and you could not provide one even though you direct the Project Management Office. He wants this inventory so it then can be used as the starting point to implement portfolio management. You and several others stated it did not work previously and do not believe it will work in the company. The CEO then hired a person to be the portfolio manager from outside who reports directly to him. The portfolio manager is emphasizing the importance of resources working on initiatives aligned with organizational strategy as part of the:

Your IT company has been successful as it is able to deliver projects on time without the need for rework and within the allocated budget. Your customers have been astonished with the results and are using your company for additional work, plus they have been recommending your company to others. Your company is experiencing tremendous growth and wants to ensure it can take on the new work with existing resources, both people and systems, or whether it will need to use outsourcing. Given its outstanding reputation, your executives wish to avoid the need to outsource. You have been asked to perform a capacity analysis. A best practice is to: