PK0-005 Project Management Concepts Practice Question
A project manager learns that a key supplier will deliver a critical component three weeks late because of a raw material shortage at the supplier's factory. The project manager immediately notifies the sponsor, contacts two alternate vendors for quotes, and begins revising the schedule to reflect a possible slip. Which risk response strategy is the project manager applying?
⚠ Common exam trap
Many candidates confuse any proactive risk work with avoidance, when avoidance would remove the risky scope entirely rather than reduce its impact.
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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Mitigate
Mitigation lowers the probability or impact of an identified threat. Contacting alternate vendors and revising the schedule to absorb a possible delay directly reduces the impact of the supplier's late delivery, while notifying the sponsor maintains transparency. The risk remains active, so the response cannot be avoidance, transfer, or acceptance.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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Avoid
Why it's wrong here
Avoidance eliminates the threat entirely by changing the project plan, such as removing the component or canceling that scope. Here the component is still required and the threat of delay remains, so the manager is not removing the risk source but actively reducing its impact through alternatives.
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Accept
Why it's wrong here
Acceptance means acknowledging the risk and taking no proactive action unless it occurs, possibly with a contingency reserve. Because the manager is contacting alternate vendors and revising the schedule, proactive steps are clearly underway, so passive acceptance is not the strategy in play.
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Mitigate
Why this is correct
Mitigation reduces the probability or impact of a threat. By notifying the sponsor, sourcing alternate vendors, and reworking the schedule to absorb a potential slip, the manager is lowering the impact of the supplier delay while the risk is still live, which is the defining behavior of mitigation.
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Transfer
Why it's wrong here
Transfer shifts the financial consequence of a threat to a third party, usually through insurance, warranties, or fixed-price contracts. The manager here is not shifting liability to another party but instead actively working to reduce the delay's effect, so transfer does not describe the actions taken.
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