NO.61 Along the course of the portfolio, you will be monitoring and controlling the portfolio a.long with the related stakeholders and governance bodies. This is done as part of your role in portfolio oversight. As a portfolio manager, which of the following, in your opinion, is the objective/purpose of the Provide Portfolio Oversight Process?

NO.62 Your CEO was fired because of a decline in the company’s profits by the Board of Directors. They have now hired a new CEO, who plans to re-shape the portfolio and has changed the company’s strategic goals and objectives. The new CEO will continue the existing product line of soap products that the company has manufactured for the past 50 years but now will manufacture new products to focus on the baby boomer generation as they retire but desire to maintain a youthful appearance. It also will offer other products to new high school and college graduates who want to appear older. As the portfolio manager you should:

NO.63 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 OR size of components the organization can execute?

NO.64 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

NO.65 You have been managing multiple portfolios in your company for the past two decades and all deliveries were successful. A new portfolio manager is struggling and came to you for advice on the portfolio process groups.
He knows that portfolio process groups are the base of portfolio management. While you explain to him about them, you told him that portfolio process groups are independent of

NO.66 You have already created portfolio scenarios (what-if analysis) by reviewing components against prioritization criteria and using analysis techniques (e.g., options analysis, risk analysis, SWOT analysis, financial analysis).
You now want to recommend portfolio scenario(s) and related components, based on prioritization analysis/criteria. You are doing this in order to

NO.67 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

NO.68 You are managing a portfolio for your company and are trying to balance the tasks that will be done internally based on the availability and the ones that will be outsourced. Managing supply and demand is a recurring activity in the portfolio life cycle and results in changes in resource utilization and resource efficiency. Which of the following are considered inputs to the Manage Supply and Demand process?

NO.69 Working to monitor the portfolio especially in terms of its value to the organization, you had each component manager prepare monthly variance reports. Of the components ranked in the top 10, six of them realized they would not require some of their initial funding and still would be completed as planned. This means:

NO.70 Your company changed its executives due to the lack of benefits realization and previous corruption issues.
The new management has informed you that as of now, this will not change any process in the portfolio and everything will remain the same. However, only the risk tolerance for the organization will be impacted, what will you do as a portfolio manager?

NO.71 When initiating portfolio components and terminating other, you come up with updates to budget, funding and resources allocations. Where should these updates be recorded?

NO.72 You are currently in the process of defining a portfolio by forming the qualified list of components that will be later evaluated, selected and prioritized. What do you expect as outputs from this process?

NO.73 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?

NO.74 Along your portfolio lifecycle, you have been conducting multiple review meetings to ensure continuation from one phase to another and to ensure the alignment and value delivery, in addition to communicating decisions and valuable information to the related stakeholders. Changes to the approach of portfolio governance may be a result of review meetings. Which of the following options include updates to the governance model?

NO.75 Assume you are the portfolio manager for your HVAC (Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning) company, one of the largest in the world. Preparing for a meeting with the Portfolio Governance Committee, you have been reviewing the success of components that have been completed as well as the progress of current portfolio components. In many cases people who only purchased heating units in the northern part of the country, and people who purchased only air conditioners in the south, now are buying state-of the art products to easily switch as needed. You found the risks of climate change led to the need for these new energy efficient products and did so by:

NO.76 Risks perspectives differ within the organization between executive management, operations management, portfolio management and project/program management. Which of the following are common risk concerns across the organization?

NO.77 Processes in the portfolio management layer interact with each others. For example, Manage Portfolio Information interacts with Provide Portfolio Oversight in order to store decisions made during the portfolio review meetings. Where are these decisions stored?

NO.78 Stakeholders have complained to you that they are receiving redundant information and they prefer that you fix the issue promptly as it is time consuming for them. What is your best course of action?

NO.79 One of your component managers has submitted his resignation and left the company; a new program manager joins the portfolio replacing him. Which document you use to inform the new program manager about his responsibilities in the portfolio?

NO.80 Performance reporting is important in a program and usually, the portfolio manager aggregates performance information from the portfolio components in order to present the related reports. Which of the following measures can be used in performance reporting?

NO.81 You are managing a large portfolio and know that you will need to constantly show the progress and status of the portfolio in meeting. For this you have developed a robust roadmap using BI tools. The portfolio roadmap is an important document used throughout the portfolio life cycle; when it comes to developing the portfolio communication management plan, which of the following options is correct

NO.82 You are mid-way through your portfolio and you are approaching a major milestone where multiple components will be authorized for execution and implementation. For informed decision making, as a portfolio manager, you will be communicating reports that will be viewed and analyzed, and used as critical information for taking a decision for the authorization of components. After passing through the authorization process, multiple reports are generated and others are updated. What type of reports is generated from this process?

NO.83 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