PMI-RMP · Question #129
Joyce is the project manager for her company. Joyce and her project team are working through the quantitative analysis for certain risk events within her project. According to the enterprise…
The correct answer is A. It determines which risk events have the most potential impact on the project. Sensitivity analysis in quantitative risk analysis identifies which individual risk events carry the greatest potential impact on overall project objectives, often visualized as a tornado diagram.
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Joyce is the project manager for her company. Joyce and her project team are working through the quantitative analysis for certain risk events within her project. According to the enterprise environmental factors the project manager is to perform sensitivity analysis on any risk with an impact greater than $5,000 in the project. What is the sensitivity analysis?
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- AIt determines which risk events have the most potential impact on the project.
- BIt uses round of anonymous surveys to predict which events are most likely to happen.
- CIt uses rounds of anonymous surveys to predict probability and impact.
- DIt determines possible combinations of risk events to predict overall project success, failure, or probability of
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Sensitivity analysis in quantitative risk analysis identifies which individual risk events carry the greatest potential impact on overall project objectives, often visualized as a tornado diagram.
Sensitivity analysis examines each risk variable in isolation to determine which risks have the most potential impact on the project, typically displayed as a tornado diagram that ranks individual risks by the magnitude of their effect on the project cost, schedule, or other objectives.
Using rounds of anonymous surveys to predict which events are most likely to happen describes the Delphi technique, a qualitative expert-elicitation method, not sensitivity analysis which uses mathematical parameter variation.
Using rounds of anonymous surveys to assess probability and impact also describes the Delphi technique rather than sensitivity analysis, which isolates individual variables in a quantitative model rather than collecting expert opinion through surveys.
Determining possible combinations of risk events to predict overall project success or failure describes Monte Carlo simulation, which models the simultaneous effect of multiple risks, not the single-variable isolation approach of sensitivity analysis.
Concept tested: Sensitivity analysis definition and tornado diagram in quantitative risk analysis
Source: https://www.pmi.org/pmbok-guide-standards/foundational/pmbok
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