HRCI PHR Exam - Topic 3 Question 11 Discussion

Actual exam question for HRCI's PHR exam

Question #: 11
Topic #: 3

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An organization is considering services it can successfully provide to its customers. One of the services, however, is deemed to be difficult to offer with a high degree of certainty of success. The organization has decided not to offer the service because of the risk in offering the service, and failing. What risk response is used in this scenario?

ATransference

BSharing

CAvoidance

DMitigation

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Suggested Answer: C

This is an example of the avoidance risk response. Avoidance are preventive actions, workarounds, and decisions to avoid a negative risk event.

Answer option A is incorrect. Transference is a risk response that transfers the risk to a third party - usually for a fee.

Answer option D is incorrect. Mitigation is a risk response to reduce the probability and/or impact of a negative risk event.

Answer option B is incorrect. Sharing is a risk response that shares a positive risk event with another party.

by Nana at May 08, 2022, 11:25 AM

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Brittney

4 months ago

Yeah, they’re just playing it safe by not offering that service.

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Felix

4 months ago

I thought mitigation was the answer, but avoidance makes sense too.

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Linsey

4 months ago

Wait, are they really avoiding it? Seems risky to just skip it.

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Pearlie

4 months ago

Totally agree, avoidance is the way to go here!

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Kenda

5 months ago

This is definitely avoidance.

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Lino

5 months ago

I was confused about mitigation and avoidance, but I think avoidance is correct since they chose not to take the risk at all.

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Billye

5 months ago

I'm not entirely sure, but I remember something about transference being when you shift the risk to another party.

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Narcisa

5 months ago

I think this is about risk avoidance since the organization decided not to offer the service at all.

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Vallie

5 months ago

This sounds similar to a practice question we did on risk responses, and I feel like avoidance fits best here.

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Rusty

5 months ago

Dictionary attack is the obvious choice here. Weak passwords + no complexity = prime target for brute force dictionary attacks to crack the system.

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Whitley

5 months ago

Okay, let me think this through. A group incentive plan is designed to motivate the whole team or department, not just individual employees. So I'm going to go with C, the gainsharing plan, as the best answer here.

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Keena

5 months ago

I'm pretty sure it's Ctrl+P, that's the standard shortcut for accessing previous commands in most command-line interfaces.

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