JCAHPO COA COMPREHENSIVE TEST
PAPER 2026 COMPLETE ANSWERS
ACCURATE
⫸ What responsibility routinely falls to the ophthalmic medical
assistant? Answer: performing certain diagnostic tests
⫸ Which eye care professional is a medical doctor? Answer:
ophthalmologist
⫸ Which eye care professional routinely fills prescriptions for
eyeglasses? Answer: optician
⫸ What does an orthoptist do? Answer: evaluates double vision
⫸ What do you call an ophthalmologist who concentrates on one area of
the eye? Answer: a subspecialist
⫸ Which eye care professional can fit a patient with a prosthetic eye?
Answer: ocularist
⫸ What is the level directly above certified ophthalmic medical
assistant on JCAHPO's certification ladder? Answer: certified
ophthalmic technician
,⫸ What is the primary function of the medial rectus muscle? Answer:
rotates the eye inward toward the nose
⫸ In this figure of the visual pathway, the structures are correctly
identified as which of the following? Answer: (1) optic nerve (2) optic
chiasm (3) visual cortex
⫸ Which part of the eye provides two-thirds of the focusing power of
the eye? Answer: cornea
⫸ Aqueous fluid leaves the eye in what sequence? Answer: anterior
chamber angle, through trabecular meshwork, to canal of Schlemm
⫸ What is the membrane that lines the inner eyelid? Answer: palpebral
conjunctiva
⫸ Which of the following is part of the ocular adnexa? Answer: eyelid
⫸ What is the term for the clear, transparent fluid that fills the anterior
chamber? Answer: aqueous humor
⫸ Which structures are part of the uveal tract? Answer: iris, ciliary
body, choroid
,⫸ What is the process where the lens changes shape to allow an
individual to focus on a near target? Answer: accommodation
⫸ What kind of vision loss is associated with Injury or degeneration of
the macula? Answer: detailed central vision
⫸ What is the term for the white tissue surrounding the cornea and
forming the main structural component of the globe? Answer: sclera
⫸ In this figure of the lacrimal system, the structures are correctly
identified as which grouping? Answer: (1) lacrimal gland (2) lacrimal
sac (3) punctum
⫸ What is the primary function of the iris sphincter and dilator muscles?
Answer: change the pupil size in order to control the amount of light
entering the eye
⫸ What is amblyopia? Answer: poor vision in an eye secondary to
visual deprivation in the first decade of life
⫸ What is diplopia? Answer: double vision
⫸ What does the suffix itis mean? Answer: inflammation
⫸ What is the condition called where the orbital contents swell, pushing
the eyeball forward? Answer: exophthalmos (proptosis)
, ⫸ What part of the eye undergoes surgery for congenital strabismus?
Answer: eye muscles
⫸ Primary open-angle glaucoma results in damage to what part of the
eye? Answer: optic nerve
⫸ What is the term for the inward deviation of an eye that occurs only
when the eye is covered? Answer: esophoria
⫸ What is a tissue or organ called when it is deprived of its normal
blood supply? Answer: ischemic
⫸ What is the term for an abnormal physical change that a physician
observes while examining a patient? Answer: a sign
⫸ What is a cataract? Answer: an opacification of the crystalline lens
⫸ What is a chalazion? Answer: a lump that develops after
inflammation and infection of the meibomian glands
⫸ Diabetes mellitus is what type of disease process? Answer: metabolic
PAPER 2026 COMPLETE ANSWERS
ACCURATE
⫸ What responsibility routinely falls to the ophthalmic medical
assistant? Answer: performing certain diagnostic tests
⫸ Which eye care professional is a medical doctor? Answer:
ophthalmologist
⫸ Which eye care professional routinely fills prescriptions for
eyeglasses? Answer: optician
⫸ What does an orthoptist do? Answer: evaluates double vision
⫸ What do you call an ophthalmologist who concentrates on one area of
the eye? Answer: a subspecialist
⫸ Which eye care professional can fit a patient with a prosthetic eye?
Answer: ocularist
⫸ What is the level directly above certified ophthalmic medical
assistant on JCAHPO's certification ladder? Answer: certified
ophthalmic technician
,⫸ What is the primary function of the medial rectus muscle? Answer:
rotates the eye inward toward the nose
⫸ In this figure of the visual pathway, the structures are correctly
identified as which of the following? Answer: (1) optic nerve (2) optic
chiasm (3) visual cortex
⫸ Which part of the eye provides two-thirds of the focusing power of
the eye? Answer: cornea
⫸ Aqueous fluid leaves the eye in what sequence? Answer: anterior
chamber angle, through trabecular meshwork, to canal of Schlemm
⫸ What is the membrane that lines the inner eyelid? Answer: palpebral
conjunctiva
⫸ Which of the following is part of the ocular adnexa? Answer: eyelid
⫸ What is the term for the clear, transparent fluid that fills the anterior
chamber? Answer: aqueous humor
⫸ Which structures are part of the uveal tract? Answer: iris, ciliary
body, choroid
,⫸ What is the process where the lens changes shape to allow an
individual to focus on a near target? Answer: accommodation
⫸ What kind of vision loss is associated with Injury or degeneration of
the macula? Answer: detailed central vision
⫸ What is the term for the white tissue surrounding the cornea and
forming the main structural component of the globe? Answer: sclera
⫸ In this figure of the lacrimal system, the structures are correctly
identified as which grouping? Answer: (1) lacrimal gland (2) lacrimal
sac (3) punctum
⫸ What is the primary function of the iris sphincter and dilator muscles?
Answer: change the pupil size in order to control the amount of light
entering the eye
⫸ What is amblyopia? Answer: poor vision in an eye secondary to
visual deprivation in the first decade of life
⫸ What is diplopia? Answer: double vision
⫸ What does the suffix itis mean? Answer: inflammation
⫸ What is the condition called where the orbital contents swell, pushing
the eyeball forward? Answer: exophthalmos (proptosis)
, ⫸ What part of the eye undergoes surgery for congenital strabismus?
Answer: eye muscles
⫸ Primary open-angle glaucoma results in damage to what part of the
eye? Answer: optic nerve
⫸ What is the term for the inward deviation of an eye that occurs only
when the eye is covered? Answer: esophoria
⫸ What is a tissue or organ called when it is deprived of its normal
blood supply? Answer: ischemic
⫸ What is the term for an abnormal physical change that a physician
observes while examining a patient? Answer: a sign
⫸ What is a cataract? Answer: an opacification of the crystalline lens
⫸ What is a chalazion? Answer: a lump that develops after
inflammation and infection of the meibomian glands
⫸ Diabetes mellitus is what type of disease process? Answer: metabolic
