Free GARP FRM-Part-2 Exam Questions

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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?

A bank employee has been manipulating suspense (transitory) accounts for a prolonged time, and this event was determined to be a significant operational incident. Which of the following time intervals in terms of the operational incident date is most likely to be the longest?

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?

Which of the following reasons is least likely a consideration for regulators when imposing fines on financial institutions against financial breaches and violations?