EPIC BRIDGES CORE EXAM SET 2026/2027 QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Rule Editor - ✔✔Specify alert conditions best for the organization. Also allows
creating emails to send to someone or a group.
✔✔Options for starting interfaces after planned downtime: - ✔✔1. Manual start
2. Autostart all at once
3. Autostart all with priority rules to determine the order they are started.
✔✔For Interface to autostart: - ✔✔Interface Specification must have "Autostart on
System Startup" selected.
✔✔Autostart Blocking Conditions (Background Monitor) - ✔✔Specify additional criteria
to delay startup for some Interfaces. Path: Interface Admin>Background Monitor
Defintion>Autostart
✔✔Haiku, and what can be seen within? - ✔✔Epic mobile app for monitoring interfaces.
1. Interface ID and name
2. Daemon status
3. Last message time
4. Queue depth
✔✔Message Viewer Tree - ✔✔Displays each segment of a message in its own branch.
✔✔Message Viewer (lower half) - ✔✔Tabbed view. Shows these:
1. Message text
2. Logged errors
3. Message details
4. Session history
✔✔Message Editor - ✔✔Looks like Message Viewer but allows editing a message for
resubmission. Interface Utilities>Edit Message
✔✔When is the Create New Message option available? - ✔✔Only for HL7 v.2 interfaces
✔✔Resubmit feature - ✔✔Marks errors on the existing message as resolved, and
creates a new message with the same contents as the existing one. Creates a new
entry in the data and control queues.
✔✔Resubmitting outgoing messages: - ✔✔Goes directly to the Comm Daemon. No
additional validation occurs. Errors do not appear on the resubmitted message.
, ✔✔Message Search - ✔✔Specify Interface ID, string, and time period to search for a
message. Can take action on results.
✔✔Why to use Message Search? - ✔✔- error on a message for a patient
- problem with given procedure
- basically to troubleshoot
✔✔Detailed Message Report - ✔✔
✔✔Best Message Search Criteria - ✔✔- limit time window
- use unique identifiers (MRN, CSN, Order ID)
- include multiple search values
✔✔Why would a Daemon stop suddenly? - ✔✔- Major problem with the system
- One unique message the Interface cannot handle
✔✔Skipping Messages - ✔✔- Removes message from Control Queue and is no longer
considered a message to be processed. Also skips any fatal or critical errors.
✔✔True/False: There is no action that a user can take to remove a message from the
Data Queue - ✔✔True
✔✔When can a message be skipped? - ✔✔If the "Waiting" column has a "yes" value
✔✔Message Search "waiting" column - ✔✔Indicates whether the message still exists on
the Control or Holding Queue
✔✔Reasons why message is still in Control Queue (Outgoing) - ✔✔- Comm Daemon
turned off
- Communication issues with the engine or external system
- High volume of messages to send
✔✔Reasons why message is still in Control Queue (Incoming) - ✔✔- Filer Daemon is
turned off
- Message is in the holding queue because of a locked record
- High volume of messages to file
✔✔Retriggering a message - ✔✔- Original event is copied and processed by event
daemon
- A new message is generated
- Only outgoing messages can be re-triggered
AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Rule Editor - ✔✔Specify alert conditions best for the organization. Also allows
creating emails to send to someone or a group.
✔✔Options for starting interfaces after planned downtime: - ✔✔1. Manual start
2. Autostart all at once
3. Autostart all with priority rules to determine the order they are started.
✔✔For Interface to autostart: - ✔✔Interface Specification must have "Autostart on
System Startup" selected.
✔✔Autostart Blocking Conditions (Background Monitor) - ✔✔Specify additional criteria
to delay startup for some Interfaces. Path: Interface Admin>Background Monitor
Defintion>Autostart
✔✔Haiku, and what can be seen within? - ✔✔Epic mobile app for monitoring interfaces.
1. Interface ID and name
2. Daemon status
3. Last message time
4. Queue depth
✔✔Message Viewer Tree - ✔✔Displays each segment of a message in its own branch.
✔✔Message Viewer (lower half) - ✔✔Tabbed view. Shows these:
1. Message text
2. Logged errors
3. Message details
4. Session history
✔✔Message Editor - ✔✔Looks like Message Viewer but allows editing a message for
resubmission. Interface Utilities>Edit Message
✔✔When is the Create New Message option available? - ✔✔Only for HL7 v.2 interfaces
✔✔Resubmit feature - ✔✔Marks errors on the existing message as resolved, and
creates a new message with the same contents as the existing one. Creates a new
entry in the data and control queues.
✔✔Resubmitting outgoing messages: - ✔✔Goes directly to the Comm Daemon. No
additional validation occurs. Errors do not appear on the resubmitted message.
, ✔✔Message Search - ✔✔Specify Interface ID, string, and time period to search for a
message. Can take action on results.
✔✔Why to use Message Search? - ✔✔- error on a message for a patient
- problem with given procedure
- basically to troubleshoot
✔✔Detailed Message Report - ✔✔
✔✔Best Message Search Criteria - ✔✔- limit time window
- use unique identifiers (MRN, CSN, Order ID)
- include multiple search values
✔✔Why would a Daemon stop suddenly? - ✔✔- Major problem with the system
- One unique message the Interface cannot handle
✔✔Skipping Messages - ✔✔- Removes message from Control Queue and is no longer
considered a message to be processed. Also skips any fatal or critical errors.
✔✔True/False: There is no action that a user can take to remove a message from the
Data Queue - ✔✔True
✔✔When can a message be skipped? - ✔✔If the "Waiting" column has a "yes" value
✔✔Message Search "waiting" column - ✔✔Indicates whether the message still exists on
the Control or Holding Queue
✔✔Reasons why message is still in Control Queue (Outgoing) - ✔✔- Comm Daemon
turned off
- Communication issues with the engine or external system
- High volume of messages to send
✔✔Reasons why message is still in Control Queue (Incoming) - ✔✔- Filer Daemon is
turned off
- Message is in the holding queue because of a locked record
- High volume of messages to file
✔✔Retriggering a message - ✔✔- Original event is copied and processed by event
daemon
- A new message is generated
- Only outgoing messages can be re-triggered
