PMI-RMP Stakeholder Engagement 3 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Two stakeholders disagree about a risk's priority. What is the risk manager's best first step?
- Facilitate discussion to align understanding (Correct answer)
- Escalate immediately to the sponsor
- Pick the higher-ranking stakeholder's view
- Drop the risk from the register
Correct answer: Facilitate discussion to align understanding
Facilitating dialogue often resolves differing risk perceptions before escalation.
Question 2: What best describes a stakeholder's 'risk threshold'?
- The level of risk exposure they will accept (Correct answer)
- Their budget authority
- Their reporting frequency
- Their organizational title
Correct answer: The level of risk exposure they will accept
A risk threshold is the measure of acceptable variation around an objective.
Question 3: An influential stakeholder becomes resistant after a risk response increases project cost. What should the risk manager do?
- Engage them to explain trade-offs and rebuild support (Correct answer)
- Cancel the risk response
- Bypass the stakeholder
- Wait for them to comply
Correct answer: Engage them to explain trade-offs and rebuild support
Active engagement and transparency on trade-offs help restore stakeholder support.
Question 4: Which input best informs the assessment of stakeholder risk attitudes?
- Interviews and the stakeholder register (Correct answer)
- The cost baseline
- The schedule network diagram
- The procurement documents
Correct answer: Interviews and the stakeholder register
Interviews and the stakeholder register reveal individual risk attitudes.
Question 5: How does effective stakeholder engagement reduce secondary risks?
- Early buy-in reduces resistance that creates new risks (Correct answer)
- It eliminates the need for contingency
- It removes all uncertainty
- It guarantees zero issues
Correct answer: Early buy-in reduces resistance that creates new risks
Engaged stakeholders are less likely to introduce resistance-driven risks.
Question 6: A risk owner is assigned but lacks authority to act. This is primarily a failure of:
- Stakeholder engagement and role clarity (Correct answer)
- Schedule estimation
- Cost accounting
- Quality control
Correct answer: Stakeholder engagement and role clarity
Risk owners must have the authority and engagement to execute responses.
Question 7: When tailoring risk communication, the risk manager should consider stakeholder:
- Culture, location, and language preferences (Correct answer)
- Only their job title
- Only the project budget
- Only the schedule
Correct answer: Culture, location, and language preferences
Effective communication accounts for cultural, linguistic, and locational factors.
PMI-RMP Stakeholder Engagement 3
Two stakeholders disagree about a risk's priority.
What is the risk manager's best first step?