CBIC CIC Practice Exam Questions and
Answers (Latest Update 2025)
Medical intervention factors that affect risk of infection -
Correct Answer ✅indwelling devices, staffing ratio, lengths
of stay, duration of invasive procedures, medications, # of
exams by providers, type of institution, and
knowledge/experience of providers
environmental intervention factors that affect risk of infection
- Correct Answer ✅disinfectant type used, contact with
animals, hand hygiene
anatomical/phys factors that affect risk of infection - Correct
Answer ✅preexisting diseases, trauma, malignancies, age,
gender, and nutritional status
DMAIC - Correct Answer ✅D=define customers, project
boundaries, and processes
M=measure performance
A=analyze data to identify causes of variation, gaps in
performance, and prioritize actions
I=improve the process
C=control the process to prevent reverting
,CBIC CIC Practice Exam Questions and
Answers (Latest Update 2025)
What should an effective surveillance program be able to
provide? - Correct Answer ✅Detection of infections and
injuries, identify trends, identify risk factors associated with
infections and other AEs detect outbreaks and clusters,
assess the overall effectiveness of the infection control and
prevention program and demonstrate changes in proactive
and processes that lead to better outcomes
Define point prevalence - Correct Answer ✅number of
persons ill on the date divided by the population on that date.
Define attack rate - Correct Answer ✅Number of people at
risk in whom a certain illness develops / (divided by) / Total
number of people at risk
Define prevalence - Correct Answer ✅fraction of a
population having a specific disease at a given time
, CBIC CIC Practice Exam Questions and
Answers (Latest Update 2025)
Define incidence - Correct Answer ✅number of new cases
of a disease divided by the number of persons at risk for the
disease.
Type of specimen for C. diff - Correct Answer ✅liquid stool
is required
When to suspect C. diff infection? - Correct Answer ✅when
3 or more unformed/watery stool in 24 hrs occurs
Relative Risk (RR) - Correct Answer ✅Used in cohort
studies to determine how strongly a risk factor is associated
with an outcome.
1 is the null= no significance of the association between
exposure and adverse event
P(X infection or exposed)/P(Y infection or unexposed) = RR
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