Risk Assessment MCQs : This section focuses on the "Risk Assessment" in Hazardous Waste Management. These Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) should be practiced to improve the Hazardous Waste Management skills required for various interviews (campus interview, walk-in interview, company interview), placement, entrance exam and other competitive examinations.
Question 1
A risk assessment is the combined effort of?
A. identifying and analyzing potential (future) events
B. making judgments on the tolerability of the risk on the basis of a risk analysis
C. Both A and B
D. None of the above
Question 2
Risk assessment is an inherent part of a broader risk management strategy to help reduce any potential risk-related consequences.
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
C. Can be true or false
D. Can not say
Question 3
______________ may be affected by psychological, ideological, religious or otherwise subjective factors, which impact rationality of the process.
A. Systems risk assessment
B. Individual risk assessment
C. Simple risk assessment
D. All of the above
Question 4
Systems risk assessment may be defined as?
A. linear
B. nonlinear
C. Both A and B
D. None of the above
Question 5
_________ follows normal or near-normal probability distributions
A. Normal risk
B. Simple risk
C. Wild risk
D. Mild risk
Question 6
What are the steps involved in evaluation of toxicity?
A. chemical analysis
B. hazard identification and dose-response evaluation
C. pathway analysis
D. evaluation of long term impact
Question 7
What is the main objective of exposure assessment?
A. To estimate chemical concentrations
B. To study site history
C. Chemical assessment
D. To estimate exposure of chemicals by the population at risk
Question 8
Which of the following is not a component of risk characterisation?
A. Study of toxicity values
B. Study of pathways and receptors
C. Chemical analysis
D. Study of exposure duration, frequency, and magnitude
Question 9
Which of the following is not characteristics of hazardous waste?
A. Toxicity
B. Leakage
C. Corrosivity
D. Ignitibility
Question 10
Wild risk follows fat-tailed distributions, e.g., Pareto or power-law distributions
A. Yes
B. No
C. Can be yes or no
D. Can not say