AHIMA CHDA Certification Sample Questions

The AHIMA Certified Health Data Analyst Certification Sample Question Set on this page is designed to familiarize you with the actual AHIMA CHDA exam format and question types. These sample questions help you understand how questions are structured and what to expect on test day. While they provide a useful starting point, they represent only a limited preview of the real exam experience.

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AHIMA CHDA Sample Questions:

01. A health data analyst is evaluating the patient flow between a primary care physician’s office and a specialized outpatient surgery center. This analysis primarily focuses on which component of the healthcare delivery system?
a) Continuum of care
b) Tertiary care coordination
c) Post-acute longitudinal tracking
d) Acute care stabilization

02. A hospital's legal team issues a Legal Hold on certain electronic records. How does this impact the data's lifecycle?
a) The data must be moved to an offline backup tape.
b) Normal data retention and destruction policies are suspended for those records; they cannot be deleted until the hold is lifted.
c) The data must be immediately deleted to protect the hospital.
d) The data must be made public on the hospital's website.

03. An analyst calculates a Z-score of +3.0 for a specific hospital's readmission rate. What does this Z-score tell the analyst about that hospital's performance?
a) The hospital's rate is three standard deviations above the mean, indicating it is an extreme outlier.
b) The hospital is exactly at the national average.
c) There is a 3% chance the data is wrong.
d) The hospital's rate is 3% higher than the previous year.

04. During which phase of the revenue cycle are clinical services translated into billable codes, ensuring that all services provided are captured for reimbursement?
a) Patient Financial Counseling
b) Claims Adjudication
c) Charge Capture
d) Remittance Advice

05. The "Security Rule" under HIPAA requires analysts and IT administrators to implement specific safeguards to protect Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI). Which of the following is considered an "Administrative Safeguard"?
a) Automatic log-offs on shared terminals
b) Biometric scanners for data center access
c) Encryption of data at rest
d) Workforce training and management

06. What is the primary purpose of a "Data Dictionary" in the context of an annual quality report?
a) To explain the hospital’s mission statement.
b) To provide definitions for all terms and metrics used so that the audience interprets the data consistently.
c) To list the phone numbers of all data analysts.
d) To provide a list of common medical abbreviations for patients.

07. Which internationally recognized framework provides a "Wheel" of 11 data management functional areas, often used as the basis for healthcare data governance programs?
a) Agile
b) Lean Six Sigma
c) DAMA-DMBOK
d) HIPAA

08. While reviewing three years of Emergency Department (ED) data, an analyst notices that patient volume consistently peaks every year during the months of December and January. This type of pattern is known as:
a) Random Variation
b) Seasonality
c) Cyclical Variation (Multi-year)
d) Secular Trend

09. In a data warehouse, an analyst decides to "Denormalize" several tables into a single flat table to improve the performance of a high-traffic dashboard. What is a primary trade-off of this transformation?
a) Decreased query speed for the end-user.
b) Improved referential integrity.
c) Higher level of data granularity.
d) Increased data redundancy and storage requirements.

10. A data analyst is performing a "Gap Analysis" between the current state of the organization’s data reporting and the desired future state requested by the Chief Medical Officer (CMO). What is the primary output of this activity?
a) A description of the data elements, tools, or processes currently missing that are required to meet the business need.
b) A list of all active users in the EHR system.
c) The final SQL code used to generate the CMO’s dashboard.
d) A budget request for additional server hardware.

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