Free GARP FRM-Part-2 Exam Questions

A risk analyst is implementing an enterprise risk management system at a bank. During the process, the analyst takes an inventory of risks faced by the bank and categorizes these risks as market, credit, or operational risks. Which of the following observations of the bank’s data should be considered unexpected if compared to similar industry data?

A portfolio manager at a US-based hedge fund has been searching for potentialreturn opportunities in the environment of declining global interest rates experiencedafter the global financial crisis (GFC) of 2007-2009. The manager identifies theexistence of a positive cross-currency basis between two currencies and notes thatthis positive basis has persisted since the GFC. What is the most appropriateexplanation for this persistence?

A fund manager owns a portfolio of options on TUV, a non-dividend paying stock. The portfolio is made up of 5,000 deep in-the-money call options on TUV and 20,000 deep out-of-the-money call options on TUV. The portfolio also contains 10,000 forward contracts on TUV. Currently, TUV is trading at USD 52. Assuming 252 trading days in a year, the volatility of TUV is 12% per year, and that each of the option and forward contracts is on one share of TUV, which of the following amounts would be closest to the 1-day 99% VaR of the portfolio?

A derivative trading firm sells a European-style call option on stock JKJ with a time to expiration of 9 months, a strike price of EUR 45, an underlying asset price of EUR 67, and implied annual volatility of 27%. The annual risk-free interest rate is 2.5%. What is the trading firm’s counterparty credit exposure from this transaction?

What is the impact on the bond price-yield curve if, all other factors held constant, the maturity of a zero-coupon bond increases? The pricing curve becomes: