PMI-RMP Practice Test

Answer choices

1. A. Perform sensitivity analysis to determine which uncertain variables most influence the result.
2. B. Empower stakeholders to independently identify and surface threats and opportunities.
3. C. Use the quantitative technique that matches the decision, such as Monte Carlo simulation, a decision tree, critical-path analysis, or expected monetary value.
4. D. Analyze the risk and performance data against the established metrics before drawing quantitative conclusions.

Wrong-answer review

• B. Empower stakeholders to independently identify and surface threats and opportunities.: This may improve buy-in or information quality, but it does not directly close the decision gap described in the stem. It therefore does not address sensitivity analysis as directly in this situation. The opening fact pattern “While planning risk work for the university research-facility construction under an agile approach, several…” is what makes that sequence decisive.
• C. Use the quantitative technique that matches the decision, such as Monte Carlo simulation, a decision tree, critical-path analysis, or expected monetary value.: The method is technically valid, but using it here would add analytical depth without first solving the more immediate risk judgment. It therefore does not address sensitivity analysis as directly in this situation. The facts introduced in “While planning risk work for the university research-facility construction under an agile approach, several…” do not establish the prerequisites for the competing choices.
• D. Analyze the risk and performance data against the established metrics before drawing quantitative conclusions.: This is a legitimate quantitative technique, but it answers a different analytical question or requires inputs the scenario has not yet established. It therefore does not address sensitivity analysis as directly in this situation. Applied to the fact pattern “While planning risk work for the university research-facility construction under an agile approach, several…”, that distinction controls the answer.

Answer choices

1. A. Document the expected consequences and impact associated with the trigger.
2. B. Record the risk origin and assign clear ownership for ongoing management.
3. C. Reassess, confirm, and document the applicable compliance threshold using the updated risk data.
4. D. Invite stakeholders to challenge the existing threshold and reassess it using current context and data.

Answer choices

1. A. Assess project risk complexity with a structured technique that exposes interactions and common causes.
2. B. Allow each workstream to identify additional risks independently and combine the lists after response planning.
3. C. Compare compliance and strategy only for the risks with the highest probability-and-impact scores.
4. D. Select response strategies for the current top risks before spending time analyzing interdependencies.

Answer choices

1. A. Engage stakeholders to strengthen a culture of risk awareness before relying on open risk identification and escalation.
2. B. Select the organizational assets, enterprise environmental factors, and project methodology information relevant to the risk assessment.
3. C. Facilitate a discussion with the affected stakeholders to confirm a shared interpretation of the proposed risk thresholds.
4. D. Use an appropriate environmental analysis such as PESTLE or SWOT to examine the factors that can create threats and opportunities.

Answer choices

1. A. Monitor the response for the new secondary risk and track how that dependency evolves.
2. B. Assess how the residual and secondary risks affect the relevant project objectives.
3. C. Aggregate and summarize the risk information and update the relevant project documents, such as the register, lessons learned, plan, and change log.
4. D. Update the residual or secondary risk information and communicate the changed impact to the appropriate stakeholders.

Answer choices

1. A. Analyze the results of the risk-identification exercise before treating every observation as a distinct risk.
2. B. Analyze the relevant documents and data in their business context to determine what threats or opportunities they indicate.
3. C. Use meetings, interviews, focus groups, and subject-matter expertise to elicit threats and opportunities from multiple perspectives.
4. D. Create a structured opportunity for stakeholders to challenge and validate the assumption against current evidence.

Answer choices

1. A. Close the original risk and create a new risk only if the remaining exposure later materializes.
2. B. Classify the remaining exposure as a secondary risk because it exists after response implementation.
3. C. Invoke the contingency plan immediately without reassessing the exposure that remains.
4. D. Evaluate the residual risk and decide whether additional action is needed before closure.

Answer choices

1. A. Determine which documents are relevant to the risk process and focus the preliminary review on those sources.
2. B. Review the relevant benchmarks, lessons learned, historical data, and their sources before the identification session.
3. C. Conduct stakeholder analysis so risk planning reflects the parties who can affect or be affected by project uncertainty.
4. D. Assign clear responsibility for the preliminary document analysis to an appropriate project or risk role.

Answer choices

1. A. Continue monitoring the response and document the residual risk rather than closing the risk prematurely.
2. B. Monitor how the project's changing risk exposure affects overall enterprise risk exposure.
3. C. Analyze the current data against the baseline to determine actual completion status and related risk exposure.
4. D. Perform variance analysis on the relevant performance data to understand the deviation.

Answer choices

1. A. A responsibility matrix showing which manager owns each remaining response action.
2. B. A new identification workshop so the response results can be compared with newly discovered risks.
3. C. Use a before-and-after metric or visual to show response effectiveness and communicate the change in exposure.
4. D. A revised response strategy for every risk whose owner cannot demonstrate a zero residual exposure.