PMI-RMP · Question #161
Marsha is the project manager of the NHQ Project. There's a risk that her project team has identified, which could cause the project to be late by more than a month. Marsha does not want this risk…
The correct answer is C. Mitigation. Mitigation is a negative risk response strategy where the project team takes actions to reduce the probability or impact of a threat to an acceptable threshold. In this scenario, Marsha is proactively adding extra project activities to prevent the risk event from occurring…
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Marsha is the project manager of the NHQ Project. There's a risk that her project team has identified, which could cause the project to be late by more than a month. Marsha does not want this risk event to happen so she devises extra project activities to ensure that the risk event will not happen. The extra steps, however, will cost the project an additional $10,000. What type of risk response is this approach?
Options
- AEnhancing
- BExploiting
- CMitigation
- DTransference
How the community answered
(47 responses)- A17% (8)
- B4% (2)
- C72% (34)
- D6% (3)
Explanation
Mitigation is a negative risk response strategy where the project team takes actions to reduce the probability or impact of a threat to an acceptable threshold. In this scenario, Marsha is proactively adding extra project activities to prevent the risk event from occurring - specifically to reduce the likelihood of a schedule delay. The additional $10,000 cost is the trade-off accepted to lower the risk. This is the classic definition of mitigation. Enhancing (A) applies to positive risks (opportunities), not threats. Exploiting (B) also applies to positive risks, aiming to ensure the opportunity definitely occurs. Transference (D) shifts the risk impact to a third party (e.g., through insurance or outsourcing), which is not what Marsha is doing.
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