The project team reviews identified risks and the risk response strategy. For one of the risks, the team realizes that the implementation of the risk response would generate another risk. This new…

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Options

• ASecondary
• BPrimary
• CResidual
• DTertiary

• A
  78% (47)
• B
  7% (4)
• C
  3% (2)
• D
  12% (7)

Explanation

Secondary risk (A) is correct because it specifically refers to a new risk that arises as a direct result of implementing a risk response - you solve one problem and inadvertently create another.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• B. Primary - a primary risk is the original, identified risk itself, not one spawned by its mitigation.
• C. Residual - a residual risk is the leftover risk that remains after a response is applied (the portion you couldn't fully eliminate), not a brand-new risk.
• D. Tertiary - this term doesn't exist in standard PMI/PMBOK risk management vocabulary; it's a trap for test-takers who assume there's a logical progression.

Memory tip: Think of it like side effects from medication - you take a drug (the response) to treat a condition (the primary risk), but the drug causes a side effect (the secondary risk). Residual is what's left of the original illness after treatment.

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