CPH Exam Practice Questions
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. - correct answer ✔✔its 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. - correct answer ✔✔inherent 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 - correct answer ✔✔Develop 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 - correct answer ✔✔Recessive
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 - correct answer ✔✔non-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 - correct answer ✔✔Poisson
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 - correct answer ✔✔Poisson 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. - correct answer ✔✔binomial 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 - correct answer ✔✔Chi-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. - correct answer ✔✔Normal 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 - correct answer ✔✔Physician 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. - correct answer ✔✔should 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 - correct answer ✔✔Summative 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 - correct answer ✔✔summative 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 - correct answer ✔✔including diverse
constituencies in the decision-making groups
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. - correct answer ✔✔its 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. - correct answer ✔✔inherent 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 - correct answer ✔✔Develop 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 - correct answer ✔✔Recessive
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 - correct answer ✔✔non-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 - correct answer ✔✔Poisson
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 - correct answer ✔✔Poisson 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. - correct answer ✔✔binomial 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 - correct answer ✔✔Chi-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. - correct answer ✔✔Normal 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 - correct answer ✔✔Physician 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. - correct answer ✔✔should 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 - correct answer ✔✔Summative 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 - correct answer ✔✔summative 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 - correct answer ✔✔including diverse
constituencies in the decision-making groups
