CERTIFIED CODING ASSOCIATE (CCA)
EXAM PREPARATION DOMAIN V -
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES. EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. VERIFIED
2025/2026.
A hospital is planning on allowing coding professionals to work at home. The hospital is in the
process of identifying agencies to minimize the security risks associated with this practice.
Which of the following would be best to ensure that data breaches are minimized when the
home computer is unattended?
- User name and password
- Automatic session termination
- Cable locks
- Encryption - ANS Automatic session termination
A coding analyst consistently enters the wrong code for patient gender in the electronic billing
system. What data quality or data integrity measures should be in place to ensure that only
allowable code numbers are entered?
- Access controls
- Audit trails
- Edit checks
- Password controls - ANS Edit Checks
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, Which of the following would be the best technique to ensure that registration clerks
consistently use the correct notation for assigning admission date in an electronic health record
(EHR)?
- Make admission date a required field
- Provide an input mask for entering data in the field
- Make admission date a numeric field
- Provide sufficient space for input of data - ANS Provide an input mask for entering data in
the field
Which of the following is not an element of data quality?
- Accessibility
- Data Backup
- Precision
- Relevancy - ANS Data backup
The protection measures and tools for safeguarding information and information systems is a
definition of:
- Confidentiality
- Data security
- Informational privacy
- Informational access control - ANS data security
Computer software programs that assist in the assignment of codes used with diagnostic and
procedural classifications are called:
- Natural-language processing systems
- monitoring/audit programs
- Encoders
- Concept, description, and relationship tables - ANS encoders
A special webpage that offers secure access to data is called a(n):
2 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
EXAM PREPARATION DOMAIN V -
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES. EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. VERIFIED
2025/2026.
A hospital is planning on allowing coding professionals to work at home. The hospital is in the
process of identifying agencies to minimize the security risks associated with this practice.
Which of the following would be best to ensure that data breaches are minimized when the
home computer is unattended?
- User name and password
- Automatic session termination
- Cable locks
- Encryption - ANS Automatic session termination
A coding analyst consistently enters the wrong code for patient gender in the electronic billing
system. What data quality or data integrity measures should be in place to ensure that only
allowable code numbers are entered?
- Access controls
- Audit trails
- Edit checks
- Password controls - ANS Edit Checks
1 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
, Which of the following would be the best technique to ensure that registration clerks
consistently use the correct notation for assigning admission date in an electronic health record
(EHR)?
- Make admission date a required field
- Provide an input mask for entering data in the field
- Make admission date a numeric field
- Provide sufficient space for input of data - ANS Provide an input mask for entering data in
the field
Which of the following is not an element of data quality?
- Accessibility
- Data Backup
- Precision
- Relevancy - ANS Data backup
The protection measures and tools for safeguarding information and information systems is a
definition of:
- Confidentiality
- Data security
- Informational privacy
- Informational access control - ANS data security
Computer software programs that assist in the assignment of codes used with diagnostic and
procedural classifications are called:
- Natural-language processing systems
- monitoring/audit programs
- Encoders
- Concept, description, and relationship tables - ANS encoders
A special webpage that offers secure access to data is called a(n):
2 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
