You have a system with 2 identified risks. You determine the probability of one risk occurring is higher than the

Question

Options

• AControlled mitigation effort
• BRisk impact comparison
• CRelative likelihood of event
• DComparative threat analysis

• A
  10% (2)
• B
  5% (1)
• C
  71% (15)
• D
  14% (3)

Explanation

Determining that one risk has a higher probability than another is precisely the definition of assessing relative likelihood - you're not measuring absolute certainty, just ranking which event is more probable to occur. Option C captures this comparison of occurrence probability directly.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A (Controlled mitigation effort) refers to actions taken to reduce or manage a risk, not to evaluating how probable it is - mitigation comes after you've assessed likelihood.
• B (Risk impact comparison) confuses probability with consequence - impact measures how severe a risk would be if it occurred, not how often or likely it is to occur.
• D (Comparative threat analysis) is a broader process of evaluating different threats across multiple dimensions; it doesn't specifically describe the act of comparing one risk's probability to another's.

Memory tip: Split "probability" and "impact" into two mental buckets - Likelihood = how often/probable, Impact = how bad. When a question mentions probability being higher or lower between risks, you're always in the Relative Likelihood bucket, not the impact or mitigation buckets.

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