PRINCE2F PRINCE2 Practices Practice Question
Which risk response is specifically for opportunities?
⚠ Common exam trap
Test-takers frequently confuse 'Enhance' with 'Reduce' or 'Avoid' because they associate all risk responses with mitigating negative impacts, forgetting that PRINCE2 treats opportunities with distinct responses like Enhance and Exploit.
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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Enhance
Enhance, because PRINCE2 defines Enhance as the specific risk response for increasing the probability and/or impact of an opportunity. Unlike threats, opportunities require proactive responses to maximize potential benefits, and Enhance is the direct counterpart to Reduce for threats.
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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Transfer
Why it's wrong here
Transfer shifts financial exposure to a third party, such as insurance, which suits threats rather than opportunities. It is tempting because transfer is a recognised PRINCE2 response, yet the opportunity-specific responses are exploit, enhance, share and reject, so transfer fails this scenario.
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Avoid
Why it's wrong here
Avoid is a threat response that eliminates the activity or exposure; opportunities require responses such as exploit, enhance, share or reject. Avoid is tempting because it appears in the standard response list, but applying it to an opportunity would forgo the potential benefit rather than realise it.
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Enhance
Why this is correct
Enhance suits opportunities because it raises the probability or impact of a positive risk, unlike threat-focused responses such as avoid, reduce, transfer or accept. PRINCE2 pairs exploit, share and enhance with opportunities, satisfying the stem's requirement for a response designed specifically to maximise upside rather than mitigate loss.
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Reduce
Why it's wrong here
Reducing targets probability or impact, which applies to threats; for opportunities the equivalent response is 'exploit' or 'enhance', not reduce. It is tempting because reduction is a core PRINCE2 response, but it is defined for negative risk, whereas opportunity responses seek to realise or maximise the upside.
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