Free GARP FRM-Part-2 Exam Questions

An investment bank has a one-way credit support annex (CSA) on a bilateral transaction with a hedge fund counterparty. Under the terms of the CSA, the mark-to-market value of the transaction forms the basis of the hedge fund’s collateral requirements, which are provided below:Value (CNY)Mark-to-market value of net exposure 25,000,000Mark-to-market value of collateral posted 10,800,000Threshold amount 14,000,000Minimum transfer amount 2,500,000Rounding amount 10,000Assuming the net exposure increases to CNY 27,000,000 and the mark-to-market value of collateral posted has not changed, how much additional collateral will the hedge fund have to post?

An analyst at a fixed-income investment company is evaluating different ways thecompany uses to estimate the VaR of its corporate bond portfolios. The portfoliosconsist of a large number of bonds with a wide range of maturities. The analystexamines the possibility of using a mapping approach to simplify the estimationprocess. Which of the following statements would the analyst be correct to makeregarding the approaches to mapping fixed-income portfolios?

The Merton model is different from Moody’s-KMV Expected Default Frequency approach in two key areas. Which of the following statements refers to one of those differences?

An operational risk analyst at a large bank is preparing a year-end report of thebank’s operational loss events. The analyst uses the Basel operational risktaxonomy to classify different events into Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3. As part ofthis process, the analyst considers the following four events that occurred during the year:• A sales representative in the lending department forged a senior manager’ssignature to approve an application for a large commercial loan that defaulted.• The bank failed to deliver sufficient collateral to support a swap position,which was later terminated at a loss.• Several managers in the bank’s wealth management group were found tohave misused confidential customer information by sharing this informationwith other employees and a third-party vendor representative.• Some personal customer information was stolen in a cyber-attack in whichan external hacker broke into a database stored in the cloud.In classifying the four events and considering the Basel taxonomy in general, whichof the following actions would be most appropriate for the analyst to take?

The structural model of credit risk is most likely a(n):