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:

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:

As the portfolio manager you have worked to consider the complexities involved of the interdependencies in your programs, projects, and ongoing work. As your portfolio process has been implemented for three years, a key challenge is that senior executives tend to change priorities often even though programs and projects are being implemented. Often these programs and projects are cross-functional, and the result is your process is not coordinated. You recognize there is a need to change, and you met with the Chair of the Portfolio Review Board and have her support for a transparent approach for portfolio standards and prioritization. You should: