Mobile App Design Risk Assessment & Management 4

Question 1

A mobile app's push notification feature depends on a single cloud provider's messaging service. The design team should flag this as:

Accepted Answer

A single point of failure risk

Answer

Relying on a single service for a critical feature creates a single point of failure, where one outage disrupts the entire notification system.

Question 2

A startup mobile app team chooses to launch without a formal risk assessment to meet an aggressive deadline. This decision exemplifies:

Accepted Answer

Risk acceptance (knowingly accepting risk)

Answer

Knowingly proceeding without mitigating identified or likely risks in order to meet a deadline is a form of risk acceptance.

Question 3

During user research, an app team discovers that 40% of target users have low digital literacy. Ignoring this finding creates which risk?

Accepted Answer

Usability and adoption risk

Answer

Designing an app that doesn't account for users' digital literacy level creates usability risk, leading to poor adoption and high abandonment rates.

Question 4

What is 'residual risk' in the context of mobile app risk management?

Accepted Answer

The risk that remains after all mitigation measures have been applied

Answer

Residual risk is the level of risk that still exists after the team has implemented all planned risk mitigation strategies.

Question 5

An app team uses feature flags to roll out a new payment flow to 5% of users first. Which risk management technique does this represent?

Accepted Answer

Controlled risk exposure / phased rollout

Answer

A phased rollout using feature flags limits the blast radius of potential failures by exposing only a small percentage of users to new, unproven code.

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Mobile App Design Risk Assessment & Management 4