Question 1

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 below helps in optimizing the supply and demand?

Options :

A : Minimize both the unused capacity and the unmet demands

B : Maximize both the unused capacity and the unmet demands

C : Maximize the unused capacity and minimize the unmet demands

D : Minimize the unused capacity and maximize the unmet demands

Answer: B

Question 2

Assume you are working to ensure your organization has a balanced portfolio. You have decided to use a

bubble diagram and have set it up to show the components in terms of: ease of execution [difficult or easy] and

component importance [high or low]. In such an approach, bubbles are used to:

Options :

A :

Visualize components

B : Frame the balancing problem

C : Provide scores as outputs

D : Focus on existing components

Answer: A

Question 3

Working to best optimize resource supply and demand in your telecom company, authorized components are

prioritized to help in resource allocation. This means as you work to do so, you need to review the portfolio

because:

Options :

A :

It provides guidance in terms of recommendations if there are changes in strategy and resource

availability

B : Resource requirements are balanced according to the resource pool

C : Components are not authorized unless resources are available to support them

D : Sponsors assess resource requirements and their availability before proposing a component to be in the portfolio

Answer: B

Question 4

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. Consider that your

company is risk-averse, on which side of the efficient frontier curve should the undertaken portfolios lie?

Options :

A : Below the curve

B : Along the lower bounds of the curve

C : Above the curve

D : Along the upper bounds of the curve

Answer: B

Question 5

When it comes to change, one of your junior portfolio managers came to you requesting your help to deal with

the overwhelming strategic changes. He wants your assistance in solving the issue of continuous changes in

the organization's objectives. What should be your advice to him?

Options :

A :

Change is a normal thing when it comes to portfolios, and he should act upon each strategic change in a

quick manner in order to re-align his portfolio

B :

Not all strategic changes impacting his portfolio need to be taken care of; he should prioritize the change

and only accept the ones with high priorities

C :

Help him to align his portfolio and manage it correctly in order to decrease the number and scale of

changes

D :

Inform him that this is abnormal and that he should re-do the planning for his portfolio; even if it takes

time and resources, but it will help him a lot for the rest of the portfolio life cycle

Answer: A

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