[May-2022 Newly Released] 2016-FRR Exam Questions For You To Pass [Q31-Q53]

NEW QUESTION 31
Which of the following statements represents a methodological difference between variance-covariance and
full revaluation methods?

NEW QUESTION 32
According to Basel II what constitutes Tier 1 capital?

NEW QUESTION 33
Which of the following statements presents an advantage of using risk and control self-assessments (RCSA) in
the operational risk framework?
I. RCSA provides very accurate scoring of risks and controls due to its subjective nature.
II. RCSA program provides insight into risks that exist in a firm, but that may or may not have occurred
before.
III. RCSA program can produce biased but transparent operational risk reporting.
IV. RCSA program allows each department to take ownership of its own risks and controls.

NEW QUESTION 34
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?

NEW QUESTION 35
Short-selling is typically associated with the following risks:
I. Potential for extreme losses
II. Risk associated with the availability of shares to borrow
III. Market behavior risk
IV. Liquidity risk

NEW QUESTION 36
Gamma Bank has $300 million in loans and $200 million in deposits. If the modified duration of the loans is
estimated to be 2, and the modified duration of the deposits is estimated to be 1, then the change in Gamma
Bank’s equity value per 1% change in yield will be:

NEW QUESTION 37
Which one of the following four alternatives lists the three most widely traded currencies on the global foreign
exchange market, as of April 2007, in the decreasing order of market share? EUR is the abbreviation of the
European euro, JPY is for the Japanese yen, and USD is for the United States dollar, respectively.

NEW QUESTION 38
An asset manager for a large mutual fund is considering forward exchange positions traded in a clearinghouse
system and needs to mitigate the risks created as a result of this operation. Which of the following risks will be
created as a result of the forward exchange transaction?

NEW QUESTION 39
Mega Bank has $100 million in deposits on which it pays 3% interest, and $20 million in equity on which it
pays no interest. The loan portfolio of $120 million earns an average rate of 10%. If the rates remain the same,
what is the net interest income of Mega Bank?

NEW QUESTION 40
To estimate the price of gold forwards, an investment analyst focuses on the cost of holding physical gold
(bullion) and the cost of shorting the same. Given that physical gold spot price is $1,000, the annual risk-free
rate is 5%, and the gold lease rate equals 2% annually, the analyst’s best estimate of the gold forward price to
equal

NEW QUESTION 41
According to Basel II what constitutes Tier 2 capital?

NEW QUESTION 42
Bank Alpha is making a decision about lending 10-year loans in a sector that is fairly illiquid and is looking at
various options to fund the loans. Which of the following options to fund the loans exhibits the most
exogenous liquidity risk?

NEW QUESTION 43
All of the following factors generally explain the equity bid-offer spread in a market EXCEPT:

NEW QUESTION 44
Interest rate swaps are:

NEW QUESTION 45
Which one of the four following statements about the Risk Adjusted Return on Capital (RAROC) is correct?
RAROC is the ratio of:

NEW QUESTION 46
ThetaBank has extended substantial financing to two mortgage companies, which these mortgage lenders use
to finance their own lending. Individually, each of the mortgage companies have an exposure at default (EAD)
of $20 million, with a loss given default (LGD) of 100%, and a probability of default of 10%. ThetaBank’s risk
department predicts the joint probability of default at 5%. If the default risk of these mortgage companies were
modeled as independent risks, the actual probability would be underestimated by:

NEW QUESTION 47
A credit analyst wants to determine if her bank is taking too much credit risk. Which one of the following four
strategies will typically provide the most convenient approach to quantify the credit risk exposure for the
bank?

NEW QUESTION 48
What does correlation between two variables measure?

NEW QUESTION 49
Which statements correctly describe the features of using subscription databases for operational loss data
analysis?
Subscription databases
I. Provide central data repositories and benchmarking services to their members.
II. Can provide insight into whether the losses in a firm reflect the usual losses in their industry.
III. Assist with mapping the events to the appropriate business lines, risk categories and causes.
IV. Reflect only events that are interesting to the press and are reported in the press.

NEW QUESTION 50
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. What interest rate should Alpha Bank charge
on the no-payment loan to Delta Industrial Machinery Corporation?

NEW QUESTION 51
Which of the following bank events could stress the bank’s liquidity position?
I. Maturing of bank debt
II. Repurchase agreements
III. Futures margins
IV. Staff turnover

NEW QUESTION 52
A financial analyst is trying to distinguish credit risk from market risk. A $100 loan collateralized with $200 in
stock has limited ___, but an uncollateralized obligation issued by a large bank to pay an amount linked to the
long-term performance of the Nikkei 225 Index that measures the performance of the leading Japanese stocks
on the Tokyo Stock Exchange likely has more ___ than ___.

NEW QUESTION 53
Which of the following statements regarding CDO-squared is correct?
I. CDO-squared use other CDOs and CMOs as collateral.
II. Risk assessment of CDO-squared is almost impossible due to their complexity.
III. CDO-squared have lower credit risk than CMOs but higher than CDOs.