IICRC AMRT 2026 TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Mold remediation - ✔✔Conducting the business of removal, cleaning, sanitizing, or
surface disinfection of mold, mold containment, and waste handling of mold and
materials used to remove mold from surfaces by a business enterprise, including but not
limited to, sole proprietorships
✔✔Mycelium - ✔✔Mass of hyphae that is the reproductive part of the mold.
✔✔Non-viable - ✔✔Fugal organism incapable of germination
✔✔Post-remediation evaluation - ✔✔Visual inspection performed by the remediation
contractor to determine completion of the work plan.
✔✔Post-remediation verification - ✔✔Inspection performed by the Indoor Environmental
Professional (IEP) to determine the successful completion of the work plan.
✔✔Recommended - ✔✔Pertaining to procedure or practice that is advised or suggested
to be performed.
✔✔Remediator - ✔✔Refers to the remediation contractor or remediation worker.
✔✔Settled spores: - ✔✔Spores that have landed on a surface and Term used to signify
the process is acceptable or permissible but not a component of the industry standard.
actively growing
✔✔Shall - ✔✔Pertaining to a procedure or practice that is mandatory due to regulation
or natural law
✔✔Should - ✔✔Term pertaining to procedure or practice that is the "standard of care" to
be followed.
✔✔Spore - ✔✔Seed like structure of the mold
✔✔Standard of care - ✔✔Practices that are common to the reasonably prudent
members of the trade who are recognized in the industry as qualified and competent.
✔✔Work plan - ✔✔Instructions prepared by the mold remediation contractor to be used
on a mold remediation project.
✔✔Viable - ✔✔Fungal organism capable of germination.
, ✔✔Shall - ✔✔Pertaining to a procedure or practice that is mandatory due to regulation
or natural law.
✔✔Should - ✔✔Term pertaining to procedure or practice that is the "standard of care" to
be followed
✔✔Recommended - ✔✔Pertaining to procedure or practice that is advised or suggested
to be performed.
✔✔May - ✔✔Term used to signify the process is acceptable or permissible but not a
component of the industry standard.
✔✔Can - ✔✔Term used to signify an ability or possibility to apply a procedure but is not
a component of the industry standard.
✔✔Standard of care - ✔✔Practices that are common to the reasonably prudent
members of the trade who are recognized in the industry as qualified and competent.
✔✔Best practice - ✔✔Method or technique that has consistently shown results superior
to those achieved with other means, and that is used as a benchmark.
✔✔State of the art - ✔✔Highest level of general development, as of a device,
technique, or scientific field achieved at a particular time.
✔✔The amount of moisture available on a surface that mold can use to support growth
is known as the? - ✔✔Water Activity
✔✔How do molds replicate? - ✔✔Sporulation
✔✔What molds produce respirable particles? - ✔✔Aspergillus/Penicillium
✔✔Define respirable? - ✔✔Can be deeply inhaled into the lungs, smaller than 5
microns
✔✔What are 4 common viruses found in sewage? - ✔✔Rotavirus
Hepatitis
Adenovirus
G.I.Virus
✔✔Name the 3 primary sewage biohazards - ✔✔Viruses
Bacteria
Parasites
✔✔Name the 3 secondary sewage biohazards - ✔✔Endotoxins
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Mold remediation - ✔✔Conducting the business of removal, cleaning, sanitizing, or
surface disinfection of mold, mold containment, and waste handling of mold and
materials used to remove mold from surfaces by a business enterprise, including but not
limited to, sole proprietorships
✔✔Mycelium - ✔✔Mass of hyphae that is the reproductive part of the mold.
✔✔Non-viable - ✔✔Fugal organism incapable of germination
✔✔Post-remediation evaluation - ✔✔Visual inspection performed by the remediation
contractor to determine completion of the work plan.
✔✔Post-remediation verification - ✔✔Inspection performed by the Indoor Environmental
Professional (IEP) to determine the successful completion of the work plan.
✔✔Recommended - ✔✔Pertaining to procedure or practice that is advised or suggested
to be performed.
✔✔Remediator - ✔✔Refers to the remediation contractor or remediation worker.
✔✔Settled spores: - ✔✔Spores that have landed on a surface and Term used to signify
the process is acceptable or permissible but not a component of the industry standard.
actively growing
✔✔Shall - ✔✔Pertaining to a procedure or practice that is mandatory due to regulation
or natural law
✔✔Should - ✔✔Term pertaining to procedure or practice that is the "standard of care" to
be followed.
✔✔Spore - ✔✔Seed like structure of the mold
✔✔Standard of care - ✔✔Practices that are common to the reasonably prudent
members of the trade who are recognized in the industry as qualified and competent.
✔✔Work plan - ✔✔Instructions prepared by the mold remediation contractor to be used
on a mold remediation project.
✔✔Viable - ✔✔Fungal organism capable of germination.
, ✔✔Shall - ✔✔Pertaining to a procedure or practice that is mandatory due to regulation
or natural law.
✔✔Should - ✔✔Term pertaining to procedure or practice that is the "standard of care" to
be followed
✔✔Recommended - ✔✔Pertaining to procedure or practice that is advised or suggested
to be performed.
✔✔May - ✔✔Term used to signify the process is acceptable or permissible but not a
component of the industry standard.
✔✔Can - ✔✔Term used to signify an ability or possibility to apply a procedure but is not
a component of the industry standard.
✔✔Standard of care - ✔✔Practices that are common to the reasonably prudent
members of the trade who are recognized in the industry as qualified and competent.
✔✔Best practice - ✔✔Method or technique that has consistently shown results superior
to those achieved with other means, and that is used as a benchmark.
✔✔State of the art - ✔✔Highest level of general development, as of a device,
technique, or scientific field achieved at a particular time.
✔✔The amount of moisture available on a surface that mold can use to support growth
is known as the? - ✔✔Water Activity
✔✔How do molds replicate? - ✔✔Sporulation
✔✔What molds produce respirable particles? - ✔✔Aspergillus/Penicillium
✔✔Define respirable? - ✔✔Can be deeply inhaled into the lungs, smaller than 5
microns
✔✔What are 4 common viruses found in sewage? - ✔✔Rotavirus
Hepatitis
Adenovirus
G.I.Virus
✔✔Name the 3 primary sewage biohazards - ✔✔Viruses
Bacteria
Parasites
✔✔Name the 3 secondary sewage biohazards - ✔✔Endotoxins
