Portfolio Prioritization Model is included in the Portfolio management plan and guides the ongoing decisions as to which portfolio components should be added, terminated, or changed; which of the following is correct regarding the Prioritization Model purpose and content?

As a portfolio manager you try to use all the information available to you in order to get the best out of the existing information and to better plan and manage the portfolio. The Enterprise Environmental Factors are important and referenced throughout the portfolio life cycle. Which of the following is correct regarding their purpose and focus?

Assume you have been asked to prepare the portfolio management plan as you are on the staff of your company's Chief Portfolio Officer. In this plan, you will describe the different methods or approaches that your company will use to manage different types of components in the portfolio as specified in the:

A junior Portfolio manager has come to you for advice. He is hearing a lot about the definition of portfolio management, however, he is not sure anymore of the exact one. What do you, as an experienced portfolio manager tell him?

As part of the new strategic direction, the executive management has decided to create a portfolio for the development of a new product. You have been assigned as the portfolio manager. What should you do as a first step?

You have been assigned as the manager for a major transformation portfolio in your company. You have a new direction in sight and you need to work with the team to attain the end goal and achieve the expected strategy. You are currently defining the portfolio and with the purpose of

A portfolio manager on one of the major sub-portfolios in your portfolio has tendered his resignation and gave you a 2 months notice. This unexpected change will require you to take immediate action with the governance board. Which of the following processes will be handling this situation?

You have scored the portfolio components and are analyzing the data in order to prioritize the components. Using the following scoring table, which of the options represents the correct Components Priority?

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Assume as the portfolio manager you have conducted a stakeholder analysis, gap analysis, and a readiness analysis as your cereal company is now entering the ice cream market. A team was formed and located off site to determine whether this market was one in which your company could compete, and its recommendation to do so was accepted by the Portfolio Review Board. Now you need to:

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. You started with developing the plan that will be used as guideline for the component plans to manage risks at their level. What are the outputs of this plan?

One of the major resources on your portfolio is needed by two of the components at the same time. This resource has high technical knowledge and is aware of all the business needs. Which of the following tools and techniques can you use in order to solve this issue?

Different types of risks affect the portfolio, and they may be positive or negative. As the portfolio manager, one has to maximize the opportunities and minimize the threats. An example of a negative portfolio risk is:

Your company is currently on the verge of bankruptcy due to the lack of transparency within the organization; this alerted the CEO to take decisive actions and request that new reporting lines be established in order to be fully transparent. The new reporting lines triggered changes in roles & responsibilities for managing communication and communication policies & constraints. Where are these changes reflected when it relates to your portfolio?

As a result of optimization, one of the components was deemed necessary to be terminated. One of the executive managers found about this and called you telling you that you should leave this component as it is of interest to her and she wants to see it finalized and that she will make resources available to it if needed. What should be your best course of action?

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?

Your organization is considered a leader in knowledge management and has a Chief Knowledge Officer reporting to the CEO. It also implemented portfolio management eight years ago. As the organization focuses on continuous improvement and transformational leadership, it had an external consultant review its portfolio artifacts and do some benchmarking. One of the consultant's recommendations was to update the portfolio risk management plan since the company is embracing new and complex technology in much of its work. In updating this plan, it was useful to:

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?

comes to this type of organizations, which of the following statements is true?

As you are the portfolio manager for your state government agency, which is undergoing a series of budget cuts, you are focusing attention on managing risks to the portfolio as the budget is reduced. You realize in this process the time and budget for risk management also will be reduced; these data are in the:

One of your company's junior portfolio managers came to you for advice. He noticed while checking the roadmap that it does not include all the portfolio components. What should be your advice to him?

You are managing a big portfolio and have a lot of stakeholders, whether external or internal. You know that stakeholder engagement is crucial to the success of the portfolio and realize that in order to have proper stakeholders engagement you will need to

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

The members of your Portfolio Review Board and other key stakeholders tend to be risk adverse as the company has survived recent recessions and is profitable. However, in an upcoming meeting with the corporate Board of Directors, they have asked you to show the frequency of meeting certain cost objectives at various percent points. For example assume the portfolio is to meet a $41,000 target in the next month, to be 75% confident this will occur, a forecast of $50,000 is needed. This means you need to show:

Assume your pork producing company finds that there is an over-abundance of pork products and competitors in the marketplace even though it has had to implement Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) processes that are a regulatory requirement. Profits are lower than ever before in the history of the company. Management is changing the company's strategy to also focus on seafood products. You have been asked to complete a gap analysis to:

Each time the Portfolio Governance Group meets the goal is to review the existing components and any that are proposed to ensure the portfolio has the best mix to attain strategic objectives. As the portfolio manager, you find these meetings, if facilitated accordingly, are effective decision-making sessions. However, you tend to have open issues after every meeting. These open issues:

While Optimizing your portfolio, you need to present to the governance board how your components will be ranked and balanced in a quantifiable way. How will you do this?

Based on the following table, assume you have been asked to perform a prioritization analysis based on these data. You realize risk is a major concern to the company, but you have some data available about potential benefits. These data show A and D have the greatest benefits. A and D are followed in terms of benefits by C, then B, then F, and finally E. Assume three of the programs and projects can be added to the portfolio when the Board meets. Your recommendation is to select:

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. When it comes to Portfolio dependencies, which of the following is true regarding the roadmap?

Assume you are the portfolio manager for your training company. It decided to implement portfolio management in a major way to ensure it remained competitive in the changing market and could offer a variety of methods to deliver courses rather than only in a face-to-face setting. The company set up a Portfolio Management Group, and you are responsible for providing information on portfolio status and then providing information to those interested stakeholders about the Board's decisions. You want to make sure the reports meet stakeholder requirements. After performing a detailed communications requirements analysis, you found it interesting that stakeholders wanted information about:

A new project manager was given an assignment on one of the components in your portfolio. What will you do as a portfolio manager in order to align the project manager with the strategic direction and integrate him/her with the work in progress?

You are in the toughest phase of the portfolio life cycle due to the governmental issues in your country. Yesterday night, one of the key team members quit and left the country. You have included this in the portfolio risk register while planning the portfolio because you knew that this could happen and that this key resource has family in Canada and can leave if the situation gets bad. Following this, you activated the response plan, which is to initiate a new component that will cater for reaching the deliverable in another way. However, an immediate approval is needed for initiation of this component or the end-of-month major deliverable will be delayed. To whom you should present the proposal for urgent approval?

The Portfolio Performance Management Plan is an important document that is referenced throughout the portfolio life cycle. Which of the following is correct regarding the Portfolio Performance Management Plan purpose and focus?

Assume before you prepared your portfolio management plan for your company that you did some benchmarking and learned that if you used elicitation techniques it was useful in the portfolio development stage and before there were significant scope changes because of strategy changes to the portfolio. You decided to involve the Portfolio Review Board members, other key stakeholders, and some subject matter experts in this process and then decided to poll input from the group as a majority vote. This meant you were using:

As a portfolio manager, you know that optimizing a portfolio has the focus of maintaining a balanced portfolio. When optimizing a portfolio, what is the state of the portfolio components that will be balanced?

A junior Portfolio manager has come to you for advice. She is asking about her main responsibilities as a portfolio manager in order to see if she is on the right track. What should be your advice to her?

Assume your consulting company tried portfolio management in the past, but it was not embraced. Instead, people received bonuses if they were able to acquire new work regardless if it fit the company's strategic plan. However, the company was sold, and the new executive team asked you to be the portfolio manager. You explained it did not work in the past, but the new team has pointed A. out while a lot of work was won competitively, much of it was for small dollar amounts, and resources are misallocated. The new approach is to focus on business value, which has as its goal to:

B. As chieve the greatest return on investment to the organizationBb. aximize productivity and increase overall customer satisfaction

C. Deliver the maximum value aligned with strategic objectives

D. Focus on those opportunities that have the greatest likelihood of successful completion

You have just finished the development of the Portfolio Communication Management Plan. The portfolio team is looking for portfolio value assessment, status reports, and portfolio forecast with variance to plan. Where should they find this information?

You have been assigned as the manager for a major transformation portfolio in your company. You have a new direction in sight and you need to work with the team to attain the end goal and achieve the expected strategy. You are managing the strategic change and using multiple tools and techniques. What are they?

Specific types of communication technology that are used such as communication media, record retention policies, and security information are examples of:

As part of the periodical strategic management cycle, the portfolio management team is revising the portfolio and re-doing the strategic management part. Currently, they are assuming and evaluating different combinations of components in order to come up with multiple approaches and take a decision on the portfolio structure. What is currently being performed?

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. For this, you are always on the lookout to optimize your portfolio. What can you use to start this process?

Assume you are managing your city's portfolio, and its overall strategic goal is to promote economic development to attract more visitors to the city. It is a difficult challenge as the city is not a major metropolitan area and also is not a preferred winter or summer destination. Nonetheless, you are planning and allocating resources according to the city's strategy. Not to be overlooked as you do so is the need to:

You have been recently assigned to a critical portfolio in your company and wanted to start right away and decided to begin with aligning the strategic management of the portfolio to the organizational strategy and objectives. For this you will use

Your CEO is keen to know the likelihood of the portfolio to realize the expected ROI. You are currently looking for a tool to calculate the probability to achieve portfolio objectives. Which of the following will help you in doing that?

The Scenario Analysis is used twice as a tool and technique, once while developing the charter and another time while managing Supply and Demand (It also exists as part of the quantitative and qualitative analysis as part of the optimize Portfolio process). When it comes to Manage Supply and Demand, which of the following represents a correct description of the Scenario Analysis?

One of your component managers came to you to tell you about a risk affecting his component that will badly impact the component and might affect the portfolio. After assessment, the risk turned out to be of low probability with high impact. What do you do as a portfolio manager?

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. A major risk has recently occurred and the risk owner came to you asking advise on how to report it. what would you advise her?

Assume you work in a weak matrix structure in your pharmaceutical company in which most of the program and project managers are coordinators, and most of the staff that supports them are in functional organizations. On some high priority programs, staff may be dedicated to the program full time for a short time period; however, operational work often takes precedence especially in manufacturing. The demand for some of the pharmaceutical products often outpaces the available supply, and shelf life is short. These fluctuations of resources then:

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

You are the manager of a major portfolio with a variety of stakeholders and stakeholder groups. you know that managing communication is key to success and you stress on maintaining a high communication level. You have just finalized the development of the Portfolio Communication Management Plan. Which of the following is correct regarding its purpose and focus?

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 Stakeholders Analysis?

Your company works closely with the government on the implementation of water pumps for rural areas. You are constantly dealing with new and updated regulations, and periodically adapting the portfolio to the changes. When it comes to regulatory components, how do you include the components in the portfolio?

You are managing a large construction portfolio. Recently, and due to budget cuts, you have been having resources issues on multiple initiatives and has been struggling with maintaining a healthy resource allocations. You are currently analyzing the capability and capacity for scarce machinery resources shared across three major programs in the portfolio. What are you currently applying?

The portfolio strategic plan should contain a prioritization model or approach that guides the ongoing decisions as to which portfolio components should be added, terminated, or changed, as well as prioritizes and balances the component mix over time. A simple prioritization model may be provided which contains

Ideally, the organization practices a policy of open communications on risks and encourages people to point any out at all levels, even if the risk does not affect one's own work and especially if it affects the portfolio. Different people, though, have different perspectives of the various portfolio risks based on their position in the organization. Assume a risk has been identified concerning the organization's operating model. This risk was identified by:

Risk management is an integral part of project, program and portfolio management and is invoked throughout the project, program and portfolio life cycle. Which of the following highlights the difference between portfolio risk and program or project risks?

You are currently defining a hierarchical representation of your portfolio and its components and listing the major and milestone components, including dependencies internal and external to the portfolio with business units. For this you know that you will need multiple inputs. Which of the following are considered inputs in your case?

The Portfolio Management Plan is an important document that is referenced throughout the portfolio life cycle. Which of the following is correct regarding the Portfolio Management Plan purpose and focus?

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

Assume you are working in a division in your country's Department of Interior. The Department is set up in Bureaus, and your work falls within Natural Resources. Your division is the Water Resource Division. You are responsible as the portfolio manager for the work in this Division. As you work on the portfolio for the upcoming year, you point out to the members of the Portfolio Review Committee that:

A junior Portfolio manager has come to you for advice. He is hearing a lot about the focus of portfolio management practices, however, he is not sure anymore of the exact answer. What do you, as an experienced portfolio manager tell him?

While managing portfolio value, you met with stakeholders and discussed how to address the strengths and weaknesses in order to ensure benefits are comprehensively and holistically taken into consideration. Which of the following tools and techniques are you performing?

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?

Risk management is an integral part of project, program and portfolio management and is invoked throughout the project, program and portfolio life cycle. When it comes to managing portfolio risks, which of the following activities is used

When it comes to managing the portfolio value, one of the junior portfolio managers came to you asking about the relation between cost-benefit analysis and the efficient frontier analysis. What should your answer to her be?

Roadmaps may be prepared to show different elements, and at the beginning they may not provide details of the various components. As a high-level plan at the portfolio level, the roadmap:

When managed correctly, the balanced scorecards can change the way an organization does business. Balanced scorecards keep focus on results. As a portfolio manager, you use the balanced scorecards while developing the Portfolio Management Plan in order to

Due to multiple occurrences of risk realization, the CEO has asked you to re-assess the portfolio risks once again. Up to what level in the organization do you go when you need to assess risks?

You are working to optimize your portfolio and determine a priority list of components to pursue. In your product development company, of the triple constraints, quality and scope dominate. This does not imply that schedule and budget are not important, but since the company requires regulatory approval for its products, quality dominates the company. Quality goals that are too low may lead to end-user dissatisfaction; however, goals that are too high may be too costly to the company. Therefore it is important to consider:

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. The Portfolio Risk Management Plan is an important document that is referenced throughout the portfolio life cycle. Which of the following is correct regarding its purpose and focus?

Risks perspectives differ within the organization between executive management, operations management, portfolio management and project/program management. When it comes to Operations management, which of the following is a risk concern?