CFPT EXAM PRACTICE 2025 QUESTIONS

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CFPT EXAM PRACTICE 2025 QUESTIONS

AND ANSWERS .

• The capacity of news media to select some aspects of a story that

promote a particular problem definition, interpretation, moral evaluation,

and/or treatment recommendation is known in the media as:

• agenda setting
• cultivation
• framing
• priming - correct answer - c) framing

• Which of the following is a daily newspaper published in the UK?

a) The Independent

b) Time Out

c) The Daily Herald

d) The Observer - correct answer - a) The Independent

• Which of these mandated that media broadcasters present a diversity of

perspectives on contentious or controversial issues in order to prevent domination by a single viewpoint, was repealed by Congress in 1987?

a) Communications Decency Act

b) Equal Time Rule

c) Media Bias Rule

d) Fairness Doctrine - correct answer - Fairness Doctrine

• Weber Shandwick, Fleishmen-Hillard, Hill anad Knowlton and Ketchum

Inc. are among the largest US-based: 1 / 4

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a) Newspaper Chains

• media conglomerates
• public relations agencies
• media research firms - correct answer - c) public relations agencies

• Operates independently of the State dept and reports directly to

congress:

• educational and cultural affairs bureau
• public affair bureau
• international information programs bureau
• the broadcasting board of governors - correct answer - d) the

broadcasting board of gov

• The U.S. Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 (or the

Smith-Mundt Act) prohibits the US gov from: - correct answer -

disseminating information intended for foreign audiences within the US borders

• US citizens are unlikely to be able to listen to or rea\d US public

diplomacy outreach materials because of which act of Congress? - correct answer - Smith-Mundt

• Which of the following is an official organ of the US govt public

diplomacy efforts?

• national endowment for democracy
• international visitors program 2 / 4

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• business for diplomatic action - correct answer - international

visitors program

• 1960s and 1970s writers such as Tom Wolfe, Gay Tales, and Joan

Didion often wrote from the POV of their sources, one of the techniques

that defined a form of reporting known as:

• civic jounrlism
• investigative reporting
• muckraaking
• new jounralism - correct answer - new journalism

• term commonly used to reflect the contribution that the attractiveness

of a nation's culture and values can make to its international standing?

• national branding

b) CNN effect

• psychological operations
• soft power - correct answer - d) soft power

• type of speech used when advocating a solution to a societal problem

or arguing for action on leg matter? - correct answer - persuasive

• Relationships between the US and Lapatria are at an all time low. In

order to best engage with the local press, the embassy should:

• avoid face to face contact with the press until diplomatic relations

stabilize

• invite influential journalists to the embassy for one-on-one

interviews to explain the US position 3 / 4

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• hold a press conference to explain the US position on the tensions
• set up a Web page explaining the US position on the matter -

correct answer - b) invite influential journalists to the embassy for one-on-one interviews to explain the US position

• What is the most effective way to counter criticisms from the

Lapatrian press about the lack of donor aid from the US govt?

• lobby for the expansion of US Agency for International Development

(USAID) support for development in Lapatria

• publish booklets and disseminate press releases that stress the

importance of private as well as public US philanthropic activities in Lapatria

• c)host a press conference denouncing US crticisms as unjust
• d) contact the State dept home office regarding the expansion of

donor aid to Lapatria - correct answer - b) publish booklets and disseminate press releases that stress the importance of private as well as public US philanthropic activities in Lapatria

• Which is an international broadcasting service funded by the US govt

and directed to audiences in the middle east?

• al Jazeera

b) Al-Arabiya

c) Radio Farda

d) Radio Dijla - correct answer - Radio Farda

• As part of US public dipolomacy outreach efforts, the US State Dept

Bureau of Educational and CUltural Affairs brings non-US citizens to the US for graudate study in which of the following programs?

a) Herbert Hoover Fellows Program

b) Hubert H. HUmpreys Fellows Program

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