CPH Exam Practice Questions And
Answers
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. - ANSits stories have urgency, drama and
novelty
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. - ANSinherent in privacy by design at all
stages
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 - ANSDevelop a shared vision
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 - ANSRecessive
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 - ANSnon-point source pollution
,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 - ANSPoisson
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 - ANSPoisson Distribution
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. - ANSbinomial distribution
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 - ANSChi-square distribution
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. - ANSNormal Distribution
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 - ANSPhysician practice styles
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. - ANSshould plan to confirm the
team norms and dynamics are productive
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 - ANSSummative evaluation
, 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 - ANSsummative evaluations
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 - ANSincluding diverse
constituencies in the decision-making groups
A short narrative or statement that describes the general focus and purpose of a program is
called:
1. A mission statement
2. A long-term goal
3. A long-range plan
4. An objective - ANSmission statement
To learn more about the "natural course" of syphilis, from 1932-1972, the US Public Health
Service left infected study participants (comprised of poor black men) untreated. This resulted in
pain, blindness, infertility, and death, as well as transmission of the disease to partners and
children. The Tuskegee Syphilis Study, is a sentinel public health event because of these ethical
violations and resulted in:
1. The Nuremberg Code
2. The Belmont Report
3. Rose-Welch Report
4. The Legal Epidemiology Competency Model - ANSThe Belmont Report
The t-distribution approaches which distribution as its degrees of freedom increases?
1. Exponential distribution
2. Normal distribution
3. Binomial distribution
4. Chi-square distribution - ANSNormal Distribution
Which of the following pairs of values are most likely to conflict during a response to a public
health emergency?
1. Truth-telling versus community welfare
2. Beneficence versus justice
3. Individual autonomy versus community welfare
4. Community welfare versus justice - ANSIndividual autonomy versus community welfare
Historically, which of the following had the greatest impact on average life expectancy?
1. Vaccinations for infectious diseases
Answers
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. - ANSits stories have urgency, drama and
novelty
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. - ANSinherent in privacy by design at all
stages
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 - ANSDevelop a shared vision
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 - ANSRecessive
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 - ANSnon-point source pollution
,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 - ANSPoisson
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 - ANSPoisson Distribution
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. - ANSbinomial distribution
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 - ANSChi-square distribution
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. - ANSNormal Distribution
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 - ANSPhysician practice styles
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. - ANSshould plan to confirm the
team norms and dynamics are productive
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 - ANSSummative evaluation
, 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 - ANSsummative evaluations
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 - ANSincluding diverse
constituencies in the decision-making groups
A short narrative or statement that describes the general focus and purpose of a program is
called:
1. A mission statement
2. A long-term goal
3. A long-range plan
4. An objective - ANSmission statement
To learn more about the "natural course" of syphilis, from 1932-1972, the US Public Health
Service left infected study participants (comprised of poor black men) untreated. This resulted in
pain, blindness, infertility, and death, as well as transmission of the disease to partners and
children. The Tuskegee Syphilis Study, is a sentinel public health event because of these ethical
violations and resulted in:
1. The Nuremberg Code
2. The Belmont Report
3. Rose-Welch Report
4. The Legal Epidemiology Competency Model - ANSThe Belmont Report
The t-distribution approaches which distribution as its degrees of freedom increases?
1. Exponential distribution
2. Normal distribution
3. Binomial distribution
4. Chi-square distribution - ANSNormal Distribution
Which of the following pairs of values are most likely to conflict during a response to a public
health emergency?
1. Truth-telling versus community welfare
2. Beneficence versus justice
3. Individual autonomy versus community welfare
4. Community welfare versus justice - ANSIndividual autonomy versus community welfare
Historically, which of the following had the greatest impact on average life expectancy?
1. Vaccinations for infectious diseases
