Descriptive visualization of facilities and assets exposed to risk; geostatistical models predict which areas are most likely to be affected describes which Risk Management Step?

• A. Risk Management Step: Mitigation
• B. Risk Management Step: Monitoring
• C. Risk Management Step: Recovery
• D. Risk Management Step: Planning

Answer: (D)

This is about planning. Descriptive visualization of where facilities and assets are exposed, along with geostatistical models that forecast which areas are most likely to be affected, provides the information you need to set priorities, allocate resources, and design preventive actions before an event occurs. It helps you map risk, understand potential impacts, and shape decisions on where to focus mitigation efforts and readiness activities. Mitigation would come after planning to reduce risk, monitoring involves ongoing tracking of indicators, and recovery deals with actions after a disruption. So the visualization and predictive work described are planning activities that guide pre-event decisions.