CBC Risk Management & Mitigation 4

Question 1

What is the purpose of a 'risk register' in a broadcast captioning operation?

Accepted Answer

A documented inventory of identified risks, their likelihood, impact, and assigned mitigations

Answer

A risk register is a structured tool for tracking known risks, their probability and severity, and the controls in place to manage them.

Question 2

During risk assessment, 'impact' in a risk matrix refers to:

Accepted Answer

The severity of consequences if the risk event occurs

Answer

Impact measures how bad the outcome would be if a risk materialized, while likelihood measures how often it might occur.

Question 3

A captioner accepts work from a client in a country with strict data-privacy laws. The FIRST risk to address is:

Accepted Answer

Compliance with local data protection regulations governing transmitted caption data

Answer

Cross-border data transmission may be regulated by laws like GDPR; violating them creates significant legal and financial risk.

Question 4

What distinguishes 'risk avoidance' from 'risk mitigation' in captioning operations?

Accepted Answer

Avoidance means refusing the activity that creates the risk; mitigation means reducing the risk while still engaging in the activity

Answer

Avoidance eliminates the risk source entirely (e.g., declining a technically infeasible contract), while mitigation controls it within an accepted engagement.

Question 5

A streaming platform's CDN experiences a DDoS attack during a live-captioned event. Who bears the primary operational risk for caption delivery failure?

Accepted Answer

The broadcaster/platform, because the infrastructure failure is outside the captioner's control

Answer

Third-party infrastructure failures generally fall under the broadcaster's operational risk domain, though contracts should clearly assign liability.

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