Since many of the risks you will be dealing with fall under the threat category that is where you will spend most of your time creating responses to manage them. It’s tempting to slap the response entitled mitigate on everything. Mitigate is a buzz word, jargon, and a one-size-fits-all response. It isn’t the only response though, and as you review these responses, watch out for the key words; they can help you answer correctly on the exam. As tempting as it may be to select mitigate on every response question or even contingency which another familiar risk term is there is more to the story than that. In Figure 8.9, you’ll see the threat responses and the key phrases that define them: