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QUESTION 34
Which one of the following four variables of the Black-Scholes model is typically NOT known at a point in
time?

QUESTION 35
Which one of the following four statements about planning for the operational risk framework is
INCORRECT?

QUESTION 36
The skewness of ABC company’s stock returns equal -1.5. What is the correct interpretation of this?

QUESTION 37
Bank Milo has $4 million in cash and $5 million in loans coming due tomorrow with an expected default rate
of 1%. The proceeds will be deposited overnight. The bank owes $ 9 million on a securities purchase that
settles in two days and pays off $8 million in commercial paper in three days that is not expected to renew. On
what days does the bank face negative cumulative liquidity?

QUESTION 38
Which one of the four following statements about technology systems for managing operational risk event
data is incorrect?

QUESTION 39
Bank Sigma takes a long position in the oil futures market that requires a 2% margin, i.e., the bank has to
deposit 2% of the value of the contract with the broker. The futures contracts were priced at $50 per barrel
(bbl) at inception, and rose by $5 to $55. The VaR on the position is estimated to be $10. What is the return on
this transaction on a risk adjusted basis?

QUESTION 40
What is the order in which creditors and shareholders get repaid in the event of a bank liquidation?

QUESTION 41
Which one of the following four statements correctly describes an American call option?

QUESTION 42
Gamma Bank provides a $100,000 loan to Big Bath retail stores at 5% interest rate (paid annually). The loan is
collateralized with $55,000. The loan also has an annual expected default rate of 2%, and loss given default at
50%. In this case, what will the bank’s expected loss be?

QUESTION 43
Alpha Bank determined that Delta Industrial Machinery Corporation has 2% change of default on a one-year
no-payment of USD $1 million, including interest and principal repayment. The bank charges 3% interest rate
spread to firms in the machinery industry, and the risk-free interest rate is 6%. Alpha Bank receives both
interest and principal payments once at the end the year. Delta can only default at the end of the year. If Delta
defaults, the bank expects to lose 50% of its promised payment. Hence, the loss rate in this case will be

QUESTION 44
James Johnson bought a 3-year plain vanilla bond that has yield of 4.7% and 4% coupon paid annually, for
$87,139. Macauley’s duration of the bond is 2.94 years. Rate volatility is 20% of the yield. The bond’s
annualized volatility is therefore:

QUESTION 45
Asset and liability management is typically concerned with all of the following activities:
I. Maintaining the desired liquidity structure of the bank.
II. Managing the factors affecting the structure and composition of a bank’s balance sheet.
III. Effectively transferring the interest rate risk in the banking book to the investment bank at a fair transfer
price.
IV. Focusing on the circumstances impacting the stability of income the bank generates over time.

QUESTION 46
Which one of the following areas does not typically report into a central operational risk function?

QUESTION 47
Mega Bank holds a $250 million mortgage loan portfolio, which reprices every 5 years at LIBOR + 10%. The
bank also has $150 million in deposits that reprices every month at LIBOR + 3%. What is the amount of Mega
Bank’s rate sensitive assets?

QUESTION 48
An options trader for a large institutional investor takes a long equity option position. Which of the following
risks need to be considered when taking this position?
I. All the risks of underlying equities
II. Perceived volatility changes
III. Future dividends yields
IV. Risk-free interest rates