CFA Level 1 Free Practice Test

1. A 10 Year semi-annual 8% coupon bond is selling at USD967. If the yields increase by 50 basis points the price is expected to fall to USD924 and if the yields decrease by 50 Basis points the price is expected to rise to $1010.

The effective duration is closest to:

2. Which of the following are accurate in an oligopoly with stable equilibrium?

I. Marginal revenue is greater than marginal price.
II. All companies are producing the same level of output.

3. Which of the following statements regarding Internal Rate of Return (IRR) and Net Present Value (NPV) is/are most likely correct?

1: If the NPV and IRR methods give conflicting decisions for mutually exclusive projects, the IRR method should be used to select the project.
2: A project may have positive NPV even if its IRR is less than the cost of capital
3: IRR is the discount rate at which the NPV of the project is zero.
4: A project’s IRR can be positive even if the NPV is negative.

4. Which of the following statements is/are most likely correct?

I: The demand for a country’s currency is a downward-sloping function of its exchange rate.
II: Purchasing power parity refers to the relation between interest rates for two currencies and changes in their exchange rates.
III: Interest rate parity refers to the relation between countries’ inflation rates and exchange rates of their currencies.

5. Haspiess Systems, Inc. and Signicomp Manufacturing enter into a netted interest rate swap, with a notional USD75M. Haspiess will pay a fixed 5%, and Signicomp will pay LIBOR + 75bp. LIBOR is 3.5%.

The first semiannual payment will be closest to: