Free GARP FRM-Part-1 Exam Questions

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Question 1

The CRO of a bank is evaluating the bank’s practices for the management of risk data. The CRO notes that in characterizing various dimensions of the bank’s data, the Basel Committee has suggested several principles to promote strong and effective risk data aggregation capabilities. Which statement correctly describes a recommendation that the bank should follow in accordance with the Basel Committee’s principles for effective risk data aggregation and risk reporting?

A : The completeness principle recommends that a financial institution capture data on its entire scope of material risk exposures.

B : The integrity principle recommends that data aggregation be completely automated without any manual intervention.

C : The adaptability principle recommends that a bank frequently update its risk reporting systems to incorporate changes in best practices.

D : The governance principle recommends that the risk data be reconciled with management’s rough approximations of risk exposure prior to aggregating the data.

Answer: A

Question 2

A risk analyst at an asset management company is assessing the past performance of an internally managed equity fund. The analyst obtains the following information on the market and the fund over the last year:• Treynor performance index for the fund: 8.00%• Return of the market portfolio: 5.60%• Beta of the fund: 0.65• Risk-free rate of interest: 1.75%Based on the information above, what is the Jensen’s alpha for the equity fund over the same period?

A : 2.70%

B : 4.15%

C : 2.40%

D : 3.69%

Answer: A

Question 3

Robert Patterson, an options trader, believes that the return on options trading is higher on Mondays than on other days. In order to test his theory, he formulates a null hypothesis.Which of the following would be an appropriate null hypothesis? Returns on Mondays are:

A : less than returns on other days.

B : not less than returns on other days.

C : not greater than returns on other days.

D : greater than returns on other days.

Answer: C

Question 4

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 5

A risk manager at a bank is explaining foreign exchange rate parity concepts to a group of newly hired analysts. The manager describes the assumptions, formulas, and implications of the covered interest rate parity and uncovered interest rate parity theorems. Which of the following statements is correct regarding these theorems?

A : Covered interest rate parity holds, among other reasons, because the amount of currency that will be obtained from investing in either the domestic or the foreign currency is certain.

B : Forward rates are found using the covered interest rate parity theorem by multiplying the spot rate by the ratio of 1 plus the risk-free interest rate in the base currency to 1 plus the risk-free interest rate in the quote currency raised to the time to maturity.

C : Forward points, when expressed as a percentage of the spot rate, can be used to determine the interest rate and inflation differential in uncovered interest rate parity.

D : Uncovered interest rate parity is a no-arbitrage theorem that incorporates each country’s inflation rate into the covered interest rate parity formula to predict future exchange rates.

Answer: A

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