PMI-RMP · Question #57
Your project is an agricultural-based project that deals with plant irrigation systems. You have discovered a byproduct in your project that your organization could use to make a profit. If your organ
The correct answer is D. Exploiting. When a project team deliberately ensures that a positive risk opportunity is realized - such as capitalizing on a profitable byproduct - the correct risk response strategy is Exploit. This strategy eliminates uncertainty by making the opportunity definitely happen.
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Your project is an agricultural-based project that deals with plant irrigation systems. You have discovered a byproduct in your project that your organization could use to make a profit. If your organization seizes this opportunity it would be an example of what risk response?
Options
- AEnhancing
- BOpportunistic
- CPositive
- DExploiting
How the community answered
(49 responses)- A6% (3)
- B4% (2)
- C10% (5)
- D80% (39)
Why each option
When a project team deliberately ensures that a positive risk opportunity is realized - such as capitalizing on a profitable byproduct - the correct risk response strategy is Exploit. This strategy eliminates uncertainty by making the opportunity definitely happen.
Enhancing increases the probability or impact of an opportunity but does not ensure it occurs with certainty; seizing an existing byproduct is more definitive than merely enhancing.
Opportunistic is not a defined PMBOK risk response strategy; it is not a recognized term in standard risk management frameworks.
Positive is not a risk response strategy; it describes the nature of the risk (opportunity) rather than the action taken to address it.
Exploit is the positive risk response used when the project team wants to ensure an opportunity definitely occurs, leaving no chance it will be missed. Seizing the agricultural byproduct to generate profit is a deliberate action to capture the opportunity with certainty, which matches the definition of exploiting - taking active steps so the positive event is guaranteed to happen rather than just more likely.
Concept tested: Exploit strategy for positive risk opportunities
Source: https://www.pmi.org/pmbok-guide-standards/foundational/pmbok
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