Free PRMIA 8010 Practice Test & Real Exam Questions

Which of the following statements are true:
I. Capital adequacy implies the ability of a firm to remain a going concern II. Regulatory capital and economic capital are identical as they target the same objectives III. The role of economic capital is to provide a buffer against expected losses IV. Conservative estimates of economic capital are based upon a confidence level of 100%

Which of the following is true in relation to the application of Extreme Value Theory when applied to operational risk measurement?
I. EVT focuses on extreme losses that are generally not covered by standard distribution assumptions II. EVT considers the distribution of losses in the tails III. The Peaks-over-thresholds (POT) and the generalized Pareto distributions are used to model extreme value distributions IV. EVT is concerned with average losses beyond a given level of confidence

A bank prices retail credit loans based on median default rates. Over the long run, it can expect:

What ensures that firms are not able to selectively default on some obligations without being considered in default on the others?

Which of the following statements is NOT true in relation to the recent financial crisis of 2007-08?

A zero coupon corporate bond maturing in an year has a probability of default of 5% and yields 12%. The recovery rate is zero. What is the risk free rate?

There are three bonds in a diversified bond portfolio, whose default probabilities are independent of each other and equal to 1%, 2% and 3% respectively over a 1 year time horizon. Calculate the probability that none of the three bonds will default.

Identify the correct sequence of events as it unfolded in the credit crisis beginning 2007:
I. Mortgage defaults increased
II. Collapse in prices of unrelated assets as banks tried to create liquidity III. Banks refused to lend or transact with each other IV. Asset prices for CDOs collapsed

For a hypotherical UoM, the number of losses in two non-overlapping datasets is 24 and 32 respectively. The Pareto tail parameters for the two datasets calculated using the maximum likelihood estimation method are 2 and 3. What is an estimate of the tail parameter of the combined dataset?

Which of the beloware a way to classify risk governance structures:

When pricing credit risk for an exposure, which of the following is a better measure than the others:

Which of the following statements are correct:
I. A training set is a set of data used to create a model, while a control set is a set of data is used to prove that the model actually works II. Cleansing, aggregating or ensuring data integrity is a task for the IT department, and is not a risk manager's responsibility III. Lack of information on the quality of underlying securities and assets was a major cause of the collapse in the CDO markets during the credit crisis that started in 2007 IV. The problem of lack of historical data can be addressed reasonably satisfactorily by using analytical approaches