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Certified Credit Research Analyst Level 2 Questions and Answers

Question 1

Butterfly strategy is a combination of

Options:

A.

Ladder and Barbell on the same market sides

B.

Barbell and Bullet on the opposite market sides

C.

Barbell and Bullet on the same market sides

D.

Ladder and barbell on the opposite market sides

Question 2

Following is information related banks:

Auckland Ltd is a public sector bank operating with about 120 branches across India. The bank has been in business since 1971 and has about 40% branches in rural areas and about 75% of all branches are in

Western India. On the basis of the size, Auckland Ltd will be ranked at number 31 amongst 40 banks in India.

Although top management has appointment period of 5 years, generally they retire on ach sieving age of 60 years with an average tenure of only 2 years at the top job.

Profit and Loss Account

Balance Sheet

The rating wise break-up of assets for FY11 is as follows:

Computer risk weighted assets for Auckland Ltd for FY11:

Options:

A.

10,10,000 Million

B.

13,24,500 Million

C.

11,64,500 Million

D.

11,60,000 Million

Question 3

Project 1: Company X has a sugar mill at Philadelphia and is replicating same at Toronto.

Project 2: Company Y has a sugar mill at Philadelphia and is increasing capacity from 100000 MT to 140000 MT per annum.

What type of projects are Project 1 and Project 2?

Options:

A.

Project 1: Diversification; Project 2: Forward Integration

B.

Project 1: Expansion; Project 2: Forward Integration

C.

Project 1: Diversification; Project 2: Expansion

D.

Project 1: Expansion; Project 2: Expansion

Question 4

Basket Default swaps could be

Options:

A.

reference sectors could be from the same economy

B.

reference sectors could be the entire global space

C.

reference securities are from the same sector

Question 5

In a weakening economy, which of the following is least accurate?

Options:

A.

Interest costs go up and create refunding risk for those who have bonds maturing which need to be rolled over.

B.

Interest costs go up and create rate risk for have bonds maturing which need to be rolled over.

C.

None of the other options.

D.

Interest costs go up and create funding risk for those who have borowing plans lined up.

Question 6

The following information pertains to bonds:

Further following information is available about a particular bond ‘Bond F’

There is a 10.25% risky bond with a maturity of 2.25% year(s) its current price is INR105.31, which corresponds to YTM of 9.22%. The following are the benchmark YTMs.

From the time January 2013 to April 2013, what can you predict about the market conditions, assuming the GSec has not changed?

Options:

A.

There has been credit spread compression, which means the spreads have declines, which can be lead indicator of oncoming economy stress.

B.

There has been widening of credit spread, which means the spreads have increased, which can be lead indicator of oncoming economy stress.C. There has been widening of credit spread, which means the spreads have increased, which can be lead indicator of oncoming economy stress.

C.

There has been credit spread compression, which means the spreads have declines, which can be lead indicator of oncoming economy boom.

Question 7

Proportion of fee based income is examined as the same is an _____ efficient source of bank’s profitability.

Options:

A.

Interest based

B.

CapitalC. Current

C.

Fee Based

Question 8

The longer the term to maturity of bond:

Options:

A.

term to maturity and price of a bond are not related

B.

The lesser is the risk associated with price of a bond

C.

The higher is the return from the bond

D.

The more risk in the price of a bond

Question 9

Scott is a credit analyst with one of the credit rating agencies in India. He was looking in Oil and Gas Industry companies and has presented brief financials for following 4 entities:

Which of the following statements is incorrect?

Options:

A.

B Ltd has higher EBITDA margins as compared to C Ltd.

B.

D Ltd has higher EBITDA margins as competed to B Ltd.

C.

C Ltd has worst total debt to EBITDA ratio.

D.

B Ltd has worst interest coverage ratio.

Question 10

Mark Construction Company (MCC) has bagged a contract for construction of a large dam and hydro power project on river Shivna in Madhya Pradesh (MP). The project is also of relevance from the irrigation perspective due to its location and as per the agreement MCC will have to undertake construction of web of canals, approach road to dam, power house and other ancillary units. MCC is promoted by Mr. Thomas Mark, who is a MP from the ruling party which recently formed government in MP. Historically, MCC has been engaged into construction of rural roads, small bridges and railway platforms on contract basis for the Government. MCC will have a separate special purpose vehicle (SPV) floated for this venture.

The hydro power project comes under the public private partnership scheme of the Government of MP, where in the private partner builds owns operates and transfers (BOOT) the hydro power plant. The detailed terms of the hydro power project agreement are as follows:

1. The construction of the dam, canals and hydro power plant shall be undertaken by the contractor. The

Government of MP will have to acquire land which will submerge on construction of dam and shall rehabilitate the owners of land.

2. MCC shall have right to operate the hydro power project from date of commencement of commercial operations (DCCO) for a period of 20 years and shall transfer the project to Government thereafter. Further,

SPV shall be tax exempt for a period of five years from DCCO i.e. FY17-FY21.

3. The power project is of 600 megawatts (MW) shall comprise 4 units of 150 MW each. The estimated cost of project is about INR3, 500 Million to be spent over a period of 4 year(s) the project is estimated to be commercially operational by April 1, 2016 with two units operational om same day and one unit each will be operational on April 1, 2017 and April 1, 2018.

4. Means of finance:

Means of Finance INR Million

Government Aid (To be classified as Equity) 500Equity 900 Debt 2100

5. Amount if expenditure estimated in various years is as follows:

Debt shall bear a fixed rate of interest of 10% and all interest till DCCO shall be added to the principal. The expected principal along with capitalized interest is expected to be INR2, 400 Million (i.e.INR2100 Million debtplus INR300 Million capitalized interest). The repayment of the same shall be in 12 equated annual installments starting from FY17.

Brief projections for the period of FY17 to FY21 are given below:

Developments as on March 31, 2015

The project manager for the SPV made following comments at a press conferee on March 31, 2015:

As you all are aware, we were running bang on schedule till we last met on December 21, 2014. From today we are just left with one more year to complete the project in time. However, the flash floods which struck our dam site on this March 15, 2015 have created havoc in the region. I shall not point out the loss of lives in the region as you all are well aware of those. Our project has also been badly hit due to the same and we have been assessing the damage over the last one week. After analyzing damage, we have made changes in project schedule. Now we will be making only one unit of 150 MW operational on April 1, 2016 and 1 unit each will be added in each of subsequent year(s).

Development as on September 30, 2015

Post the flash floods, lot of environmentalists started raising issues of changes in environment due to construction of large number of dams. A few Public Interest Litigations (PILs) have been filed in various courts.

Honorable High Court of MP on September 27, 2015, banned construction of any dams in the region and banned permissions for new dams till next hearing scheduled on November 30, 2015. MCC in its press release has indicated that they will apply to the higher court on the matter.

As a credit rating analyst on September 30, 2015, on receipt of the high court order, what rating action you will take:

Options:

A.

Put ratings on rating watch.

B.

Change rating outlook for long term to negative.

C.

No action, wait for order if higher courts or hearing on November 30, 2015.

D.

Immediately downgrade ratings of SPV.

Question 11

Which of the following is NOT a conceptual definition of credit risk on which credit models are based?

Options:

A.

Default Mode Paradigm

B.

Value-at-Risk paradigm

C.

Mark-to-Market Paradigm

Question 12

Which of the following is not one of the C in the 5 C Model?

Options:

A.

Capacity

B.

Capital

C.

Covenants

D.

Conditions

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