CRISC Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control – Question332

A teaming agreement is an example of what type of risk response?

A.
Acceptance
B. Mitigation
C. Transfer
D. Share

Correct Answer: D

Explanation:

Explanation:
Teaming agreements are often coming under sharing risk response, as they involves joint ventures to realize an opportunity that an organization would not be able to seize otherwise.
Sharing response is where two or more entities share a positive risk. Teaming agreements are good example of sharing the reward that comes from the risk of the opportunity.
Incorrect Answers:
A: Acceptance is a risk response that is appropriate for positive or negative risk events. It does not pursue the risk, but documents the event and allows the risk to happen. Often acceptance is used for low probability and low impact risk events.
B: Risk mitigation attempts to reduce the probability of a risk event and its impacts to an acceptable level. Risk mitigation can utilize various forms of control carefully integrated together.
C: Transference is a negative risk response where the project manager hires a third party to own the risk event.