PMI-RMP · Question #102
You are the project manager of the NHQ project for your company. You are working with your project team to complete a risk audit. A recent issue that your project team responded to, and management…
The correct answer is C. Avoidance. Risk avoidance means changing the project plan to eliminate the threat or protect project objectives from its impact. By expanding the schedule, the team changed the plan so the installation risk could no longer cause harm to downstream activities - the threat's impact was…
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You are the project manager of the NHQ project for your company. You are working with your project team to complete a risk audit. A recent issue that your project team responded to, and management approved, was to increase the project schedule because there was risk surrounding the installation time of a new material. Your logic was that with the expanded schedule there would be time to complete the installation without affecting downstream project activities. What type of risk response is being audited in this scenario?
Options
- AParkinson's Law
- BMitigation
- CAvoidance
- DLag Time
How the community answered
(55 responses)- A4% (2)
- B13% (7)
- C75% (41)
- D9% (5)
Explanation
Risk avoidance means changing the project plan to eliminate the threat or protect project objectives from its impact. By expanding the schedule, the team changed the plan so the installation risk could no longer cause harm to downstream activities - the threat's impact was eliminated by restructuring the timeline. This is not mitigation (which reduces probability/impact but does not eliminate the threat) and not lag time or Parkinson's Law, which are scheduling concepts unrelated to a proactive risk response decision.
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