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CFA Level I Practice Question €“ 21
While doing analysis on stock's past performance from three sectors Subbu categorized stocks in ways listed below. Which of the following option most likely gives the correct nomenclature of the scaling techniques used?
i) He assigned Rank 1, 2 and 3 for stocks with PE of 0 - 10, PE to 10-20 and PE of 20-30 respectively and there is no stock with PE of greater than 30.
ii) He divided stocks in to four quartiles and assigned rank 1 to 4 with the best performing bucket being assigned Rank 1.
iii) For stocks that belong to IT, Infrastructure and Pharma he assigned numbers 1, 2 and 3 respectively
a) i- Ratio Scale, ii- Nominal Scale and iii- Ordinal Scale
b) i- Ratio Scale, ii- Ordinal Scale and iii- Nominal Scale
c) i- Interval Scale, ii- Ordinal Scale and iii- Nominal Scale
CFA Level I Practice Question €“ 22
Santa made following statements about measure of central tendency
I. Amongst Mean, Median and Mode, Mode is the only measure of central tendency that can be meaningfully used with nominal scale
II. Arithmetic Mean and Median can get biased by extreme values
III. For a standard normal distribution Arithmetic Mean = Mode = Median
IV. For a positively skewed normal distribution Mode will be greater than Mean.
Which of the above statements are LEAST likely to be correct
a) Only IV
b) II, IV
c) I and III
CFA Level I Practice Question €“ 23
Kareena and Anushka were discussing about measures of dispersion and made the following statements
Kareena: 'Range' as measure of dispersion can get influenced by extreme values and hence can be less informative. The Mean Absolute Deviation (MAD) is less useful compared to Variance as it can become zero even when the population deviates from the mean.
Anushka: For calculating sample variance we divide the sum of squares of deviations by 'Sample size -1' instead of sample size because there are only 'Sample size-1' number of independent observations. The Sample variance calculated as ratio of the sum of squares of deviations and 'Sample size -1' can be called as an unbiased estimator of population variance.
With respect the above statements
a) Kareena is partially correct and Anushka is completely correct
b) Kareena is completely correct and Anushka is Partially correct
c) Kareena is completely correct and Anushka is completely correct
guys If I am doing mba this year,is it good to take cfa level1 in june or in dec2014,considering I have zero knowledge in finance( I have given 4 nse cert).Will giving in dec benefit me in summer internship?..wen does summer internship in an mba collg starts?..pls help
I had a small query... How useful is a CFA certification from the corporate banking point of view?? I do know that other profiles like markets, IB, etc would definitely require a CFA certification but what about corporate banking??
CFA Level I Practice Question €“ 24
An analyst selected a set of 100 stocks from a population of 1500 stocks to understand the statistics of Price to Earnings(PE) ratio. After analysis of the sample he found out that 95% of the observation lies between PE of 6.0 and 25.0. with mean exactly lying in between the range. Assuming that the sample is normally distributed the Standard Deviation of the sample is closest to
a) 1.3
b) 4.9
c) 48.5
How do I pay for CFA other than credit card? I can't find anyone who has an available credit limit of 80,000. What are the other options?
ALERT: Second deadline for CFA registrations closes on 13th Feb 8:59 AM IST(12th Feb 23:59 PST). You can still register for exams after 13th, but will have to shell out 370$ extra.
CFA Level 1 Practice Question €“ 25
An analyst calculated the daily returns of a stock using data for 250 days which seemed to be normally distributed. He calculated the statistics of the sample as follows
Mean= 1.3%
Standard Deviation = 2.1%
Skewness = (-0.86)
Kurtosis = +0.38
He made following conclusions regarding the distribution. Which of these is LEAST likely to be correct?
I) Assuming normal distribution 95% of the times the daily return would range between 1.06% and 1.85%
II) The normal curve has long tail on the right side of the mean
III) The distribution is Platykurtic
a) I and II
b) II and III
c) All three
CFA Level 1 Practice Question €“ 26
An analyst estimates that the stock he is bullish on has a probability of reporting positive return in a given month of 70%. Over the next 12 months the probability of the stock reporting positive return for more than 3 months but less than 7 months (both 3rd and 7th month excluded)is closest to
a) 99.8%
b) 27.6%
c) 11.6%
CFA Level 1 Practice Question – 27
A survey was conducted amongst analyst about expected earnings estimates of Infosys for the next quarter and below are the results
20% Probability – Rs. 47
25% Probability – Rs. 51
25% Probability – Rs. 54
15% Probability- Rs.56
15% Probability – Rs. 57.
The standard deviation of the expected earnings for Infosys for the next quarter is closest to
a) Rs. 12.04
b) Rs. 3.47
c) Rs. 3.04
CFA Level 1 Practice Question €“ 28
A trader entered a limit order to sell Infosys shares at a price of Rs.3,675. Simultaneously he entered a limit order to buy shares of Dr. Reddy's Labs at 2,700. The execution of both these orders can happen independently. The probability of Infosys order and Dr.Reddy's order getting executed during the day is 0.40 and 0.55 respectively. The trader is worried that if the buy order is executed without the sale order getting executed he may have to arrange for outside funding towards the buy order. The probability that trader has to arrange for outside funding is closest to
a) 33%
b) 27%
c) 18%
CFA Level 1 Practice Question €“ 29
Ragav and Bhargavi were discussing about portfolio statistics and made the following statements
Ragav: Portfolio's expected return can be estimated by averaging the returns of individual stocks in the portfolio. All else remaining the same lower the correlation between the stocks lower will be the portfolio standard deviation
Bhargavi: Correlation of a stock can range from Zero to 1.0. While the unit of covariance of daily return of stocks can be said as 'Percentage Square', the correlation between the two stocks does not have any unit.
a) Raghav is completely correct and Bhargavi is partially correct
b) Raghav is partially correct and Bhargavi is completely correct
c) Raghav is partially correct and Bhargavi is partially correct
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CFA Level 1 Practice Question €“ 30
Ram invests Rs.100,000 in a portfolio which has expected return of 15% p.a and standard deviation of 17%. He wants the portfolio value to be a minimum of Rs.120,000 at the end of year 2. Assuming that the portfolio returns follow normal distribution what is probability that Ram's portfolio will perform worse than the safety first ratio
a) 0.31
b) 0.36
c) 0.69
Z table value: N(0.5084)=0.69; N(0.36)=0.64; €‹
CFA Level 1 Practice Question €“ 31
Which of the below is LEAST accurate definition of desirable character of a statistical estimator
a) Un-Biasedness: The distribution is not skewed i.e not biased to either left side or right side of the mean
b) Efficiency: No other estimator of a given parameter has sampling distribution with smaller variance
c) Consistency: The probability of estimates moving closer to the population parameter increases with sample size
CFA Level 1 Practice Question €“ 32
Banoc Inc bought a machine worth $ 250 mn. They funded 50% of this purchase from their internal sources (cash) and the remaining by a bank borrowing. After this purchase the net effect on the balance sheet would be
a) Increase in Assets by $ 125 mn and Liabilities by $ 125 mn
b) Increase in Assets by $ 250 mn and Liabilities by $ 250 mn
c) Increase in Assets by $ 250 mn and Liabilities by $ 125 mn
will the June 2014 CFA level 1 exam be held on a fixed date or can we choose a slot out of multiple dates ? @Nirmal_Analyst , @dipesh_faganiya or others, please answer this.
CFA Level 1 Practice Question €“ 33
Which of the below items in a balance sheet will most likely get affected after a company sells a machine which it is carrying at $37,500 for a price of $ 40,500
a) Fixed Asset, Cash
b) Fixed Asset, Cash and Reserves & Surplus
c) Cash and Reserves & Surplus