The risk analysis paradigm assumes there are options for managing every risk.

• A. Not necessarily
• B. True
• C. Often
• D. False

Answer: (B)

In risk management, after identifying risks you move into risk treatment, choosing how to respond to each risk. The process is built on the idea that there are practical options to manage or influence each risk, such as avoiding the activity, reducing the likelihood or impact, transferring the risk (for example via insurance or contracts), or accepting it with residual risk remaining. Even when the best course is to accept a risk, that acceptance is itself a deliberate management option.

So the statement is true because risk management frameworks assume that for every identified risk there is at least one viable treatment or decision to be made—whether implementing controls, shifting responsibility, or deciding to monitor and accept the remaining risk. If an option truly didn’t exist, you’d be outside the typical risk treatment cycle and would not complete the management loop. The other options imply gaps in options or suggest it’s only sometimes true, which contradicts the way risk treatment is defined.