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1. If a loan has a Probability of Default (PD) of 2.0%, an Exposure at Default (EAD) of $1,000,000, and a Recover
2. What is the Expected Loss (EL)?
3. If market yields rise by 150 basis points (0.015), what is the estimated new price of the bond using both dura
4. A stock trades at S_0 = $100. A European call struck at K = $100 expires in 1 year. If the volatility is 20% a
5. Using a simple 'credit-triangle' approximation, what is the fair annual CDS spread in basis points?
6. An investor holds a $10 million portfolio of two assets. Asset A has a weight of 60% and a daily volatility of
7. If the manager scales the VaR to a 10-day horizon using the square-root-of-time rule, what is the likely bias
8. A call option has a delta of 0.60 and a gamma of 0.05. If the underlying stock price increases by $2, what is
9. If the exposure at default (EAD) is $1 million, what is the unexpected loss (UL) assuming LGD is fixed?
10. A risk manager is evaluating a portfolio's expected loss (EL… — What is the EL for this portfolio?
11. What is the corresponding 10-day 99% VaR assuming daily returns are independent?
12. A $200 million portfolio has a 1-day 99% VaR of $8 million. If the portfolio comprises a position with 30% wei
13. Using a normal approximation to the binomial distribution, what is the z-score if the bank observes 8 exceptio
14. If the market suddenly enters a period of extreme stress, how will the Historical Simulation VaR likely behave
15. If the model is correctly calibrated, what is the probability of observing exactly 5 exceptions using the bino
16. What is the Expected Loss (EL) in dollars?
17. In a transition matrix, the values located on the main diagonal (from top-left to bottom-right) represent:
18. What is the expected loss (EL) for the year?
19. If market yields decrease by 150 basis points, what is the estimated percentage price change of the portfolio
20. If the underlying stock price increases by $2.00, what is the estimated new delta of the option?
21. As the option approaches expiry with the stock price very close to $100, what happens to the option's Delta?
22. If the stock price is $100, the strike is $100, the risk-free rate is 5%, and the volatility is 25%, what is t
23. A fixed-income manager is concerned about a 'steepening' of… — Which risk metric would best capture this expos
24. What is the risk-neutral probability (p) of an up-move in each $6-month step?
25. A 1-day 99% VaR of $250,000 was calculated for a desk. If the desk experiences a daily loss of $300,000, how i
26. A risk manager reports a one-day Value at Risk (VaR) of $5 m… — Which statement correctly interprets this metr
27. For a long European put option, how is the Delta (Δ) generally characterized?
28. How does Expected Shortfall (ES) respond to 'fat tails' (positive excess kurtosis) compared to Value-at-Risk
29. If a portfolio's Expected Shortfall is significantly higher than its Value-at-Risk, what does this suggest abo
30. If a risk manager wants to use Expected Shortfall to encourage 'risk-reducing' behavior among desk traders, wh