Free GARP FRM-Part-1 Exam Questions

Bonds rated B have a 25% chance of default in five years. Bonds rated CCC have a 40% chance of default in five years. A portfolio consists of 30% B and 70% CCC-rated bonds. If a randomly selected bond defaults in a five-year period, what is the probability that it was a Brated bond?

A risk analyst at a growing bank is concerned about a loan exposure to a large manufacturing company which is losing significant market share in its industry. The analyst considers the use of different credit risk transfer mechanisms, including CDS, to manage this exposure. Which of the following statements correctly describes an appropriate benefit of using CDS in this situation?

The board of directors of a growing asset management company is conducting a review of the firm’s approach to risk management. The board concludes that the firm should establish an ERM framework. Which of the following represents a key benefit that the firm will likely attain after establishing an ERM framework?

A risk analyst uses the bootstrap method to assess the market risk of a global equity portfolio that experienced significant volatility in the recent past. The analyst applies independent and identically distributed (IID) bootstrapping to the extracted standardized residuals of the fitted model, and these bootstrapped standardized residuals are then used to generate time paths of future asset returns. In the final step, the simulated data is used to estimate the VaR of the global equity portfolio over a 1-month horizon. Which of the following will the analyst find to be correct when applying the IID bootstrap method?

A put option on DCY stock matures six months from today and sells for $0.49. A call option on DCY stock with the same strike price sells for $4.52. Both the put and the call are European options. DCY stock is priced at $55 and the risk-free rate of interest is 4 percent.The strike price of the put and call options is closest to: