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4 questions in Risk Assessment Methods.

  1. Risk Assessment Methods intermediate

    A risk register holds 34 risks scored on a 5x5 likelihood-by-impact grid. The top six are funded this year and the other 28 are "monitored". Six of the monitored risks describe different systems failing when the corporate identity provider is unavailable. Review the register. What would you change?

    3 min answer risk-registercommon-causecorrelationquantification
  2. Risk Assessment Methods intermediate

    How would you decide which of twenty identified risks to actually address?

    2 min answer riskprioritisationappetiteacceptance
  3. Risk Assessment Methods advanced

    Which risk assessment approach fits a technical architecture review, and where do the common methods go wrong?

    1 min answer risk-assessmentthreat-modellingscoringcalibration
  4. Risk Assessment Methods advanced

    Your main transactional database runs a version that goes out of vendor support in four months. Upgrading needs an estimated eight engineer-weeks and a maintenance window the business does not want to give. The CTO asks you to recommend whether to accept the risk for another twelve months. Talk me through how you would decide.

    2 min answer riskend-of-lifedecision-makingquantification