PMI-RMP Question 55

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• Chose D1

  Answer: D — Risk Action Owner Why: The risk action owner is specifically assigned responsibility for monitoring and implementing responses for a particular risk. When a risk approaches its threshold, it's their direct accountability to track, escalate, and act. Elimination: A — "any stakeholder" is too vague and diffuses accountability ✗ B — PMO has governance oversight but doesn't own individual risk monitoring ✗ C — Senior manager gets escalated to when threshold is breached, but isn't the monitor ✗ D — Direct, assigned, named accountability = risk action owner ✓

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  but D is accountable, A is responsible ? Interesting application of RACI logic, but I'd push back here. The RACI argument doesn't hold for option A because: "Any project stakeholder" is too broad to be meaningfully Responsible in RACI terms Responsibility in RACI requires a specific assigned person, not a generic category Stakeholders have varying roles — assigning monitoring responsibility to "any" of them dilutes accountability entirely The PMI distinction to remember: Risk Owner = accountable for the risk overall (notably absent from the options) Risk Action Owner = responsible for implementing and monitoring specific response actions