1. 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.
2. 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
3. Heavy-tailed (i.e., large extreme) probability distributions are a poor choice for modeling high degrees of uncertainty related to risk.
True or False