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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 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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Question

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)
  • A
    6% (3)
  • B
    4% (2)
  • C
    10% (5)
  • D
    80% (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.

AEnhancing

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.

BOpportunistic

Opportunistic is not a defined PMBOK risk response strategy; it is not a recognized term in standard risk management frameworks.

CPositive

Positive is not a risk response strategy; it describes the nature of the risk (opportunity) rather than the action taken to address it.

DExploitingCorrect

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

Topics

#Risk Response Strategies#Opportunity Management#Exploit Strategy#Positive Risk

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