Verbal Reasoning Questions and Answers Flashcards
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PROLIFERATE most nearly means ____.
Answer: Grow or spread rapidly
Proliferate means to increase rapidly in number or spread widely.
METICULOUS most nearly means ____.
Answer: Showing great attention to detail
Meticulous means showing great attention to detail; very careful and precise.
Sentence completion: 'The new EHR implementation required _____ planning to avoid disrupting patient care during the transition.'
Answer: meticulous
'Meticulous' (careful and detailed) planning is required to safely implement an EHR without disrupting care. The other options imply carelessness, insignificance, or randomness.
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?
Answer: No — the argument confuses necessary and sufficient conditions
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.
Which sentence uses parallel structure correctly?
Answer: The analyst must configure, test, and document the system.
Parallel structure requires all items in a series to have the same grammatical form. 'Configure, test, and document' are all base infinitive verbs.
Reading comprehension: 'While Epic's Clarity database supports complex SQL reporting, its Chronicles operational database uses a proprietary data model optimized for transaction speed rather than query flexibility.' What is the key trade-off described?
Answer: Chronicles sacrifices query flexibility for transaction speed; Clarity is optimized for reporting
The passage states Chronicles is optimized for speed (transactions) at the cost of query flexibility; Clarity is built for reporting (flexibility).