CBAP · Question #144
Which of the following processes is used by organizations to set the risk tolerance, identify the potential risks, and prioritize the tolerance for risk?
The correct answer is D. Risk management. Risk management is the overarching organizational process that sets risk tolerance, identifies risks, and prioritizes how risks are handled across the full risk lifecycle.
Question
Which of the following processes is used by organizations to set the risk tolerance, identify the potential risks, and prioritize the tolerance for risk?
Options
- ARisk communication
- BRisk identification
- CRisk analysis
- DRisk management
How the community answered
(44 responses)- A7% (3)
- B18% (8)
- C5% (2)
- D70% (31)
Why each option
Risk management is the overarching organizational process that sets risk tolerance, identifies risks, and prioritizes how risks are handled across the full risk lifecycle.
Risk communication is a subset activity focused on distributing risk information to stakeholders, not the process that sets tolerance or prioritizes risks.
Risk identification is only one component of the broader risk management process and does not include setting tolerance or prioritization.
Risk analysis evaluates and assesses identified risks but does not encompass setting organizational risk tolerance or the full prioritization framework.
Risk management is the comprehensive, ongoing process that encompasses all activities related to risk - including establishing tolerance thresholds, identifying threats, and prioritizing responses. It serves as the governance framework within which all other risk processes (identification, analysis, communication) operate. Because the question describes the full lifecycle of risk governance rather than a single step, risk management is the correct term.
Concept tested: Risk management as overarching risk governance process
Source: https://www.pmi.org/pmbok-guide-standards/foundational/pmbok
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