Glossary term
What is Risk?
In Apex Flow Academy, "Risk" means: An uncertain event that, if it happens, changes your results. A problem that is already happening is an issue. It is taught in Project Management and Agile: Run Projects That Ship and Cybersecurity and Ethical Hacking: Fundamentals. Related terms include Management reserve, Expected monetary value (EMV), Contingency reserve and Earned value.
- 2 courses teach it
- plain-word definition
The facts
What is Risk?
An uncertain event that, if it happens, changes your results. A problem that is already happening is an issue. (From Project Management and Agile: Run Projects That Ship. 1 other course defines it for their own subject, so each definition follows.)
What does Risk mean in Project Management and Agile: Run Projects That Ship?
An uncertain event that, if it happens, changes your results. A problem that is already happening is an issue.
What does Risk mean in Cybersecurity and Ethical Hacking: Fundamentals?
How likely harm is, combined with how bad the harm would be.
Where is Risk taught?
Risk is defined in Project Management and Agile: Run Projects That Ship and Cybersecurity and Ethical Hacking: Fundamentals.
Project Management and Agile: Run Projects That ShipCybersecurity and Ethical Hacking: Fundamentals
Which lessons cover Risk?
These lessons name it in their title or objectives:
- Project Management and Agile: Run Projects That Ship, lesson 4.2: Find and Score Risks: Build the Risk Register
- Project Management and Agile: Run Projects That Ship, lesson 4.3: Respond to Risks and Size Your Contingency
- Cybersecurity and Ethical Hacking: Fundamentals, lesson 1.4: Risk in Plain Words
Which terms are related to Risk?
Next to Risk in the course glossaries: Management reserve, Expected monetary value (EMV), Contingency reserve, Earned value, Three-point estimate, Agile, Float, Scrum, Exploit and Attack surface.
Management reserveExpected monetary value (EMV)Contingency reserveEarned valueThree-point estimateAgileFloatScrumExploitAttack surface
The hard questions, answered straight
Bold questions people really ask. Each answer comes from the course data or a settled Academy fact.
Do I need experience before I learn Risk?
It depends on the course. Each course that teaches it lists its own prerequisites, and all are listed at beginner level:
- Project Management and Agile: Run Projects That Ship: None. You do not need any project management experience.
- Cybersecurity and Ethical Hacking: Fundamentals: No security, networking or programming experience is needed.