A portfolio includes a lot of independent components with the same strategic aim. As a portfolio manager you will need to preare a qualified list of components to be used to reach the strategic goals and objectives. What input can you use in order to define the mix of portfolio components?

A company hired you as a new portfolio manager, and the CEO asked you to propose a method to manage the organizational portfolio. What should you do first?

In a portfolio you have a continuous interaction between the portfolio and its components. The approach is top down when it comes to offering guidelines and approaches and becomes bottom up when the components report status and progress to the portfolio. What is the relation between the portfolio and portfolio components when it comes to defining the performance measures and targets (metrics)?

Your health insurance company has set up its portfolio into five different categories: research and development, IT, Medicare, government health insurance, and non-government health insurance. Funding is allocated yearly to each of these six categories. As the portfolio manager at the enterprise level, you:

A portfolio manager is having a status meeting with the various program managers within the portfolio. One of the program managers mentions a new risk that may impact a deliverable. While it has a low probability, the risk would nearly double the program's costs and affect the overall portfolio if it occurred.
The best course of action for the portfolio manager to take is to: