Free GARP FRM-Part-1 Exam Questions

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Question 1

A Swiss chemical company is considering issuing bonds to finance its planned expansion. A risk analyst involved in the capital raising program at the company is studying the external agency rating process to gain a better understanding of the implications of agency ratings for the firm’s financing plans. Which of the following statements is correct?

A : Rating agencies produce point-in-time ratings, as these are designed to provide the best current estimate of future default probabilities.

B : Rating agencies provide outlooks to indicate the potential for a change in rating in the short-term, and use watchlists to indicate medium-term changes.

C : Empirically, changes in bond and stock prices tend to be greater in cases of ratings downgrades than ratings upgrades.

D : Agency ratings tend to produce identical default rates for companies in the same industry but located in different countries.

Answer: C

Question 2

Regarding the relationship between a rm's risk appetite and its business strategy, which of the following statements is true?

A : Business planning activities that exceed risk appetite should be maintained.

B : Consideration must be given to the downside risks of only risky business strategies.

C : Business strategy planning meetings require input from the risk management team.

D : A rm’s risk appetite re ects its ability to minimize risk.

Answer: C

Question 3

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 : The VaR estimates will be reliable because the IID bootstrap fully captures interdependencies in the observed asset return data.

B : The VaR estimates will be reliable because they are based on random values generated from an assumed distribution that is not affected by external events or time.

C : The VaR estimates will not be reliable because they are derived from the most current observations of the period that is characterized by higher volatility.

D : The VaR estimates will not be reliable because the IID bootstrap allows the possibility of future losses that are larger than those that have been realized in the past.

Answer: C

Question 4

A risk manager at Firm SPC is testing a portfolio for heteroskedasticity using the White test. The portfolio is modeled as follows: The residuals are computed as follows: Which of the following correctly depicts the second step in the White test for the portfolio?

A :

B :

C :

D :

Answer: D

Question 5

It is April 15, and a trader is entered into a short position in two soybean meal futures contracts. The contracts expire on August 15, and call for the delivery of 100 tons of soybean meal each. Further, because this is a futures position, it requires the posting of a $3,000 initial margin and a $1,500 maintenance margin per contract. For simplicity, however, assume that the account is marked to market on a monthly basis. Assume the following represent the contract delivery prices (in dollars per ton) that prevail on each settlement date:April 15 (initiation) 173.00May 15 179.75June 15 189.00July 15 182.50August 15 (delivery) 174.25What is the equity value of the margin account on the May 15 settlement date, including any additional equity that is required to meet a margin call?

A : $$7,350.

B : $4,650.

C : $2,300.

D : $1,350.

Answer: B

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