Epic Skills Assessment Analytical Thinking & Problem Decomposition 2

Question 1

You notice that error rates spike every Monday morning. What type of pattern is this, and what is the most logical hypothesis?

Accepted Answer

A cyclical pattern likely caused by a weekly event such as a batch job, system restart, or increased Monday traffic

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Random noise with no underlying cause

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A permanent degradation in system performance

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A one-time incident that resolved itself

Question 2

Which cognitive bias causes analysts to favor information that confirms their existing hypothesis while discounting contradictory evidence?

Accepted Answer

Confirmation bias

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Availability heuristic

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Anchoring bias

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Dunning-Kruger effect

Question 3

A manager asks you to prioritize a backlog of 20 tasks. Which framework would most efficiently help you distinguish urgent vs. important tasks?

Accepted Answer

Eisenhower Matrix (urgent/important quadrants)

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FIFO ordering by submission date

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Alphabetical ordering by task name

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Random selection to eliminate bias

Question 4

When analyzing a dataset, you find that removing 3 outliers changes the average by 40%. What should you do?

Accepted Answer

Investigate why those outliers exist before deciding whether to exclude them

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Always remove outliers to get a cleaner average

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Never remove any data points from a dataset

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Report both the average with and without outliers without investigating

Question 5

You are asked to evaluate two competing proposals. Proposal X has stronger short-term ROI, Proposal Y has stronger long-term ROI. What additional information would most change your recommendation?

Accepted Answer

The organization's strategic planning horizon and current cash flow constraints

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The personal preference of the proposers

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Which proposal was submitted first

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The word count of each proposal document

Question 6

Which of the following demonstrates deductive reasoning?

Accepted Answer

All EHR systems require user authentication; Epic is an EHR system; therefore Epic requires user authentication

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We've seen 50 EHR systems require authentication, so all EHR systems probably do

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User authentication seems important, so Epic likely has it

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Authentication is a best practice, so Epic should implement it