hard · FRM Part 1

A bank is backtesting a 99% one-day VaR model over 250 days.

Using a normal approximation to the binomial distribution, what is the z-score if the bank observes 8 exceptions?

  1. 3.493
  2. 5.500
  3. 4.000
  4. 2.214

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