CPH EXAM QUESTIONS UPDATED AND CORRECT
ANSWERS UPDATED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Question:
1. Public Health professionals have to learn to work ef-fectively 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 mu-
tual 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 de-sign 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 success-es 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 differ-ences 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 ini-tiatives, 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 dynam-
ics 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 conclu-sions 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 es-tablished 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
deci-sions in a community?
1. Requiring randomized control evidence of effective-
ness
2. Allocating resources based on population size
3. Collecting health-related data about the individuals
in the community
ANSWERS UPDATED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Question:
1. Public Health professionals have to learn to work ef-fectively 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 mu-
tual 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 de-sign 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 success-es 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 differ-ences 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 ini-tiatives, 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 dynam-
ics 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 conclu-sions 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 es-tablished 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
deci-sions in a community?
1. Requiring randomized control evidence of effective-
ness
2. Allocating resources based on population size
3. Collecting health-related data about the individuals
in the community
