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PMI-RMP® practice questions: Risk Response
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1/5 · Risk Response · easy
During project execution, an event occurs that was never identified in the risk register. The project team quickly develops and applies an unplanned response to address the immediate impact. What is this type of response called?
AResidual risk response
BContingency plan
CWorkaround
DFallback plan
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C is correct. PMI distinguishes planned responses (avoid, mitigate, transfer, accept, escalate for threats; exploit, enhance, share, accept, escalate for opportunities) from workarounds, which are improvised, unplanned responses to risks that emerge without prior identification or planning.
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2/5 · Risk Response
Market research indicates that if the project delivers a new feature two months early, the organization can almost certainly capture a lucrative early-adopter customer segment. The sponsor authorizes extra budget and assigns dedicated senior developers specifically to guarantee that the early delivery date is met. Which opportunity response strategy does this represent?
AShare
BEscalate
CEnhance
DExploit
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3/5 · Risk Response · hard
During a scheduled risk audit, the risk manager finds that a mitigation response implemented three months earlier has NOT reduced the probability of the associated threat as originally planned, and the threat's probability rating in the risk register remains unchanged. What should the risk manager do NEXT?
ARemove the risk from the risk register since the budget allocated to its response has already been spent
BReassess the risk together with the risk owner and, in consultation with the team, plan an alternative or supplemental response
CIncrease the project's overall contingency reserve without changing the specific response for this risk
DImmediately escalate the risk to the sponsor as an emerging crisis requiring executive intervention
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4/5 · Risk Response · easy
The project team identifies a positive risk (opportunity): if a permitting agency approves the project's application early, the team could start site work a full month ahead of schedule. The team decides to assign its two most experienced permitting specialists and pre-submit all supporting documentation weeks in advance specifically to make sure this early approval happens. Which opportunity response strategy is being applied?
AAccept
BShare
CExploit
DEnhance
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C is correct. Exploiting an opportunity is the strategy used when the organization takes deliberate action to guarantee the positive risk occurs, such as assigning top talent to secure an early approval. Enhancement only improves the odds or size of the opportunity without guaranteeing it, share allocates ownership to a third party, and acceptance is passive or reactive. Recognizing exploit as the 'certainty-seeking' opportunity strategy is a frequently tested distinction on the PMI-RMP exam.
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5/5 · Risk Response
To respond to the threat of a sole-source component supplier missing a critical delivery date, the project team contracts and pre-qualifies a second, lower-cost overseas supplier as a backup source. Shortly afterward, the risk practitioner learns that this backup supplier operates out of a port with a history of labor strikes, introducing a new schedule exposure that did not exist before the response was implemented. How should this newly introduced exposure be classified and recorded?
AAs a fallback risk that only needs monitoring if the primary contingency plan fails
BAs a residual risk left over from the original supplier delivery threat
CAs a duplicate of the original risk that can be merged with it in the risk register
DAs a secondary risk, arising directly as a result of implementing the chosen risk response
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D is correct. A secondary risk is a new risk that arises specifically because a risk response was implemented — in this case, contracting a backup supplier introduced a new port-strike exposure that did not exist before. It must be analyzed and responded to separately from the original threat and from any residual risk of that original threat. Confusing secondary risk with residual risk, or assuming new risks can simply be merged into the original entry, are common errors this item is designed to surface.
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