The risk practitioner's most important responsibility in managing risk acceptance that exceeds risk tolerance is to verify authorization by senior management. Risk acceptance is a risk response strategy that involves acknowledging and agreeing to bear the risk and its potential consequences. Risk tolerance is the acceptable or allowable level of variation or deviation from the expected or desired outcomes or objectives. When the risk acceptance exceeds the risk tolerance, it means that the organization is taking on more risk than it can handle or afford. Therefore, the risk practitioner should verify that the risk acceptance is authorized by senior management, who have the authority and accountability for making risk management decisions and ensuring that they are aligned with the organizational strategy and objectives. The other options are not as important as verifying authorization by senior management, as they are related to the adjustments, conditions, or documentation of the risk acceptance, not the approval or validation of the risk acceptance. References = Risk and Information Systems Control Study Manual, Chapter 3: IT Risk Response, Section 3.2: IT Risk Response Options, page 133.

Section: Volume D

C, and D are incorrect.
An enterprise's risk management capability maturity level is 1 when:
There is an understanding that risk is important and needs to be managed, but it is viewed as a
technical issue and the business primarily considers the downside of IT risk.
Any risk identification criteria vary widely across the enterprise.
Risk appetite and tolerance are applied only during episodic risk assessments.
Enterprise risk policies and standards are incomplete and/or reflect only external requirements and
lack defensible rationale and enforcement mechanisms.
Risk management skills exist on an ad hoc basis, but are not actively developed.
Ad hoc inventories of controls that are unrelated to risk are dispersed across desktop applications.