PMI PfMP Portfolio Management Professional Exam Practice Test

ecause your company's Portfolio Review Board consists of the Directors of its five business units and is chaired by the CEO, the meetings tend to be contentious as there is limited funding available to authorize all the proposed programs and projects. Dissension also is the norm if resources are reallocated from one business unit to another. As a result, the CEO:

Working to prepare the communications plan, a best practice to follow is to use the roadmap. By doing so, it:

As soon as you complete the portfolio risk management plan, and you have been working on it now with a team, you realize you need to update some organizational process assets such as:

Since you work for a global aerospace and defense organization, it decided to pilot the implementation of portfolio management in its cargo aviation business unit. You were asked to lead this initiative and realized before you could proceed, you should find out information about all the existing projects, programs, and operational activities. This task took three months to complete, but with this list, you now can use it to set up categories for the work that is under way and to also define criteria to use to propose new components. As a result you should:

As the portfolio manager you have worked to consider the complexities involved of the interdependencies in your programs, projects, and ongoing work. As your portfolio process has been implemented for three years, a key challenge is that senior executives tend to change priorities often even though programs and projects are being implemented. Often these programs and projects are cross-functional, and the result is your process is not coordinated. You recognize there is a need to change, and you met with the Chair of the Portfolio Review Board and have her support for a transparent approach for portfolio standards and prioritization. You should:

Many people in your country are no longer eating food from cans because of the risk of botulism and eColi O1H747. Your low acid canned foods company is seeing its revenues decrease as a result, and it is updating its overall strategy for the company to diversify into other markets as well as to add an aggressive marketing campaign to ensure the public that its low acid canned foods are generally recognized as safe by the Food and Drug Administration. This means in terms of portfolio management:

Having worked in portfolio management for several years, assume you were hired as the portfolio manager for a Real Estate Investment Trust, one of the largest in your country that specializes in apartments. The company continues to grow and wants to maximize value and profits for its investors. As you set up processes and procedures for portfolio management, you know from past experience that buy in from executives is insufficient. As you prepare a communications strategy, you focus on: