Which of the following risk responses delineates that the project plan will not be changed to deal with the risk?

Exploitation is a positive risk (opportunity) response aimed at ensuring the opportunity definitely occurs, which requires active changes to the project plan.

Transference shifts the financial or operational impact of a risk to a third party through contracts or insurance, which involves altering the project approach.

Acceptance is defined as the risk response where the team decides not to change the project plan to deal with a risk, acknowledging that it may occur without proactive avoidance or mitigation. It can be passive (no action taken) or active (establishing a contingency reserve), but the defining characteristic is that no plan change is made in advance. This distinguishes it from all other response strategies that involve some form of proactive plan modification.

Mitigation reduces the probability or impact of a risk by taking specific preventive actions that change the project plan or approach.