Epic Skills Assessment Verbal Reasoning Questions and Answers 3

Question 1

PROLIFERATE most nearly means ____.

Accepted Answer

Grow or spread rapidly

Answer

Proliferate means to increase rapidly in number or spread widely.

Question 2

METICULOUS most nearly means ____.

Accepted Answer

Showing great attention to detail

Answer

Meticulous means showing great attention to detail; very careful and precise.

Question 3

Sentence completion: 'The new EHR implementation required _____ planning to avoid disrupting patient care during the transition.'

Accepted Answer

meticulous

Answer

'Meticulous' (careful and detailed) planning is required to safely implement an EHR without disrupting care. The other options imply carelessness, insignificance, or randomness.

Question 4

Argument evaluation: 'All system outages last less than 1 hour. Last Tuesday's outage lasted 47 minutes. Therefore, last Tuesday's outage was a system outage.' Is this argument valid?

Accepted Answer

No — the argument confuses necessary and sufficient conditions

Answer

The argument reverses the logic: '< 1 hour' is a necessary condition for being a system outage (by the premise), but not sufficient. Other types of outages (planned maintenance, etc.) could also last < 1 hour.

Question 5

Which sentence uses parallel structure correctly?

Accepted Answer

The analyst must configure, test, and document the system.

Answer

Parallel structure requires all items in a series to have the same grammatical form. 'Configure, test, and document' are all base infinitive verbs.

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Epic Skills Assessment Verbal Reasoning Questions and Answers 3