CPH EXAM QUESTIONS UPDATED QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Public Health professionals have to learn to work effectively with the media. Public health is potentially
appealing for the popular press because:
1. its stories have urgency, drama and novelty.
2. it is a source rich in detail, facts and figures.
3. scientists and journalists have a long history of mutual trust.
4. public information officers issue press releases.
Answer:
its stories have urgency, drama and novelty
Question:
2. in the design and implementation of public health data systems, installing security features should be:
1. inherent in privacy by design at all stages.
2. a task separately done by an expert cybersecurity team.
3. limited to firewalls and administrative control.
4. the final step before release of software systems.
Answer:
inherent in privacy by design at all stages
Question:
3. When beginning work with a coalition of community groups to improve health outcomes in the
community, a key first step would be to:
1. Develop a shared vision
2. Develop an evaluation plan
3. Develop a data collection plan
4. Develop a logic model
Answer:
Develop a shared vision
Question:
4. If two copies of a mutant allele are necessary to cause symptoms of a disease to appear in the phenotype,
what type of genetic disease is this?
1. Recessive
2. Sex-linked
3. Autosomal
4. Dominant
Answer:
Recessive
,Question:
5. River water pollution due to stormwater runoff from chemically fertilized farm fields is an example of:
1. Non-point source pollution
2. Point source pollution
3. Accidental and unforeseeable pollution
4. Unpreventable and inconsequential pollution
Answer:
non-point source pollution
Question:
6. Count data, such as the number of events occurring in a specified period of time, are often described by
which probability distribution?
1. Binomial
2. Chi-square
3. Normal
4. Poisson
Answer:
Poisson
Question:
7. is often used to describe count data and can be used to describe rate data by including an offset term for
the denominator of the rate
Answer:
Poisson Distribution
Question:
8. the probability distribution for the number of successes in a sequence of Bernoulli trials, which are a
series of trials where each trial can either succeed or fail, the trials are independent, and the probability of
success is the same for each trial.
Answer:
binomial distribution
Question:
9. is a right-skewed distribution where the area under the curve is equal to one, it starts at 0 on the x-axis
and extends infinitely to the right but never touches the x-axis, and where the curve looks increasingly
normal as the degrees of freedom increase
Answer:
Chi-square distribution
Question:
10. a type of bell-shaped curve that is centered around a mean and approaches the x-axis when it is greater
than 3 standard deviations away from the mean.
Answer:
Normal Distribution
, Question:
11. The Dartmouth Atlas of Healthcare demonstrates that small area variations in Medicare expenditures
across geographic areas are primarily attributable to differences in:
1. Physician practice styles
2. Consumer preferences for high-cost services
3. Age of the population served
4. Health status of the population served
Answer:
Physician practice styles
Question:
12. After identifying and appointing expert members to inter-professional teams for implementing health
initiatives, the administration:
1. has shifted all responsibility to the team.
2. role should only consist of receiving periodic progress reports.
3. should plan to confirm the team norms and dynamics are productive.
4. can announce that the initiative was successfully launched.
Answer:
should plan to confirm the team norms and dynamics are productive
Question:
13. What is an evaluation designed to present conclusions about whether a program should be sustained,
changed, or eliminated?
1. Formative evaluation
2. Implementation evaluation
3. Process evaluation
4. Summative evaluation
Answer:
Summative evaluation
Question:
14. evaluation falls into one of the two broad categories: formative and summative. ____________
evaluations should be completed once your programs are well established and will tell you to what extent
the program is achieving its goals
Answer:
summative evaluations
Question:
15. Which of the following practices enhances equity across populations when making health policy
decisions in a community?
1. Requiring randomized control evidence of effectiveness
2. Allocating resources based on population size
3. Collecting health-related data about the individuals in the community
4. Including diverse constituencies in the decision-making groups
Answer:
including diverse constituencies in the decision-making groups
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Public Health professionals have to learn to work effectively with the media. Public health is potentially
appealing for the popular press because:
1. its stories have urgency, drama and novelty.
2. it is a source rich in detail, facts and figures.
3. scientists and journalists have a long history of mutual trust.
4. public information officers issue press releases.
Answer:
its stories have urgency, drama and novelty
Question:
2. in the design and implementation of public health data systems, installing security features should be:
1. inherent in privacy by design at all stages.
2. a task separately done by an expert cybersecurity team.
3. limited to firewalls and administrative control.
4. the final step before release of software systems.
Answer:
inherent in privacy by design at all stages
Question:
3. When beginning work with a coalition of community groups to improve health outcomes in the
community, a key first step would be to:
1. Develop a shared vision
2. Develop an evaluation plan
3. Develop a data collection plan
4. Develop a logic model
Answer:
Develop a shared vision
Question:
4. If two copies of a mutant allele are necessary to cause symptoms of a disease to appear in the phenotype,
what type of genetic disease is this?
1. Recessive
2. Sex-linked
3. Autosomal
4. Dominant
Answer:
Recessive
,Question:
5. River water pollution due to stormwater runoff from chemically fertilized farm fields is an example of:
1. Non-point source pollution
2. Point source pollution
3. Accidental and unforeseeable pollution
4. Unpreventable and inconsequential pollution
Answer:
non-point source pollution
Question:
6. Count data, such as the number of events occurring in a specified period of time, are often described by
which probability distribution?
1. Binomial
2. Chi-square
3. Normal
4. Poisson
Answer:
Poisson
Question:
7. is often used to describe count data and can be used to describe rate data by including an offset term for
the denominator of the rate
Answer:
Poisson Distribution
Question:
8. the probability distribution for the number of successes in a sequence of Bernoulli trials, which are a
series of trials where each trial can either succeed or fail, the trials are independent, and the probability of
success is the same for each trial.
Answer:
binomial distribution
Question:
9. is a right-skewed distribution where the area under the curve is equal to one, it starts at 0 on the x-axis
and extends infinitely to the right but never touches the x-axis, and where the curve looks increasingly
normal as the degrees of freedom increase
Answer:
Chi-square distribution
Question:
10. a type of bell-shaped curve that is centered around a mean and approaches the x-axis when it is greater
than 3 standard deviations away from the mean.
Answer:
Normal Distribution
, Question:
11. The Dartmouth Atlas of Healthcare demonstrates that small area variations in Medicare expenditures
across geographic areas are primarily attributable to differences in:
1. Physician practice styles
2. Consumer preferences for high-cost services
3. Age of the population served
4. Health status of the population served
Answer:
Physician practice styles
Question:
12. After identifying and appointing expert members to inter-professional teams for implementing health
initiatives, the administration:
1. has shifted all responsibility to the team.
2. role should only consist of receiving periodic progress reports.
3. should plan to confirm the team norms and dynamics are productive.
4. can announce that the initiative was successfully launched.
Answer:
should plan to confirm the team norms and dynamics are productive
Question:
13. What is an evaluation designed to present conclusions about whether a program should be sustained,
changed, or eliminated?
1. Formative evaluation
2. Implementation evaluation
3. Process evaluation
4. Summative evaluation
Answer:
Summative evaluation
Question:
14. evaluation falls into one of the two broad categories: formative and summative. ____________
evaluations should be completed once your programs are well established and will tell you to what extent
the program is achieving its goals
Answer:
summative evaluations
Question:
15. Which of the following practices enhances equity across populations when making health policy
decisions in a community?
1. Requiring randomized control evidence of effectiveness
2. Allocating resources based on population size
3. Collecting health-related data about the individuals in the community
4. Including diverse constituencies in the decision-making groups
Answer:
including diverse constituencies in the decision-making groups
