Free GARP FRM-Part-1 Exam Questions

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Question 1

All of the following are reasons that Nick Leeson engaged in aggressive speculative trading in the Barings Bank collapse except:

A : Barings’ lack of risk management oversight.

B : Barings’ risk management models were awed.

C : he was attempting to recover previous trading losses.

D : his authority over settlement operations allowed him to hide trading losses.

Answer: B

Question 2

A newly hired quantitative analyst at a financial institution has been asked by a portfolio manager to calculate the VaR of a portfolio for 10-, 15-, 20-, and 25-day periods. The portfolio manager notices something wrong with the analyst’s calculations. Assuming the annualized volatilities of daily returns for the four periods are equal, and that the daily returns are independently and identically normally distributed with a mean of zero, which of the following VaR estimates for this portfolio is inconsistent with the others?

A : VaR(20-day) = USD 671 million

B : VaR(15-day) = USD 503 million

C : VaR(25-day) = USD 750 million

D : VaR(10-day) = USD 474 million

Answer: B

Question 3

Regarding a xed-rate, level payment, and fully amortized mortgage loan, which of the following statements is false?

A : Each payment consists of an interest component and a principal component.

B : Payments are equal over the life of the loan.

C : Principal repayment falls as interest payments rise over the life of the loan.

D : Interest payments fall as principal payments rise over the life of the loan.

Answer: C

Question 4

Which of the following liquidity de nitions is most likely associated with funding liquidity?

A : The length of time it will take an asset to regain its price after the price has fallen temporarily.

B : The loss that would be sustained by a trader who sells an asset and then immediately buys it back.

C : The number of units of an asset a trader can buy or sell at the current market quote (bid and ask prices).

D : The risk that investors may not be able to roll over short-term debt to nance the purchase of an asset.

Answer: D

Question 5

At-the-point approaches tend to be:

A : neither counter- nor procyclical because they rarely change.

B : procycyclical.

C : countercyclical.

D : neither counter- nor procyclical because they change randomly.

Answer: B

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