How does a crisis differ from an emergency? a. Unlike an emergency, a crisis is

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How does a crisis differ from an emergency?

a. Unlike an emergency, a crisis is not necessarily unexpected, and the organization is not necessarily disrupted while this change grows closer in time.

b. Unlike an emergency, a crisis represents a disruption that is too large to be answered by any single organization.

c. Unlike an emergency, a crisis is a political declaration that always requires the involvement of the government.

d. Unlike an emergency, a crisis is unexpected and always signals a threat to human life and property.

10. A system is said to be _______ if its reliability is reliable, that is, unchanging despite fluctuating conditions.

a. probabilistic

b. proactive

c. redundant

d. robust

11. Heavy-tailed (i.e., large extreme) probability distributions are a poor choice for modeling high degrees of uncertainty related to risk.

True or False?

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Ans.9) Option (A) - Unlike an emergency, a crisis is not necessarily unexpected, and the organisation is not necessarily disrupted while this change grows closer in time

Ans.10) Option (D) - Robust

A system is said to be robust if its reliability is reliable, that is, unchanging despite fluctuating conditions.

Ans.11) True

Rectangular probability distributions are commonly used for modelling events with high degree of uncertainty to risk.Therefore, heavy-tailed probability distributions are a poor choice to model them.

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