Microbiology Final Jersey College NEWEST 2026-
2027 ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE 200
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) ALREADY
GRADED A+ BRAND NEW!!
(7) chlorine belongs to which chemical group from the periodic table? - CORRECT ANSWER:
Halogens
(7) Decontamination - CORRECT ANSWER: Reduction or removal of unwanted chemical or
biological agents
(7) How long should you boil items in water to kill most vegetative bacteria and viruses? -
CORRECT ANSWER: 10 - 15 minutes
(7) Is sterilization a method for food preservation? - CORRECT ANSWER: No
(7) what are antimicrobial agents that are specifically designed to be used on living tissues? -
CORRECT ANSWER: Antiseptics
(7) what are the 2 different types of pasteurization controlled by the US Department of
Agriculture? - CORRECT ANSWER: HIST and UHT
(7) what classification are agents that kill microbes? - CORRECT ANSWER: Microbicidal
(7) what is decontamination? - CORRECT ANSWER: Reduction or removal of chemical or
biological agents so that they no longer present a hazard.
,(7) What is sanitation? - CORRECT ANSWER: Process that lowers microbial counts to safe
public health levels.Ex. cleaning glassware and tableware in restaurants .
(7) What is the destruction of vegetative organisms by chemical or physical methods? -
CORRECT ANSWER: Disinfectantion
(7) What is the lowest temperature at which all microorganisms in a particular liquid will be
killed within 10 minutes called? - CORRECT ANSWER: Thermal death point
(7) What is the simplest form of dry heat sterilization for metals? - CORRECT ANSWER: Direct
flaming
(7) What is the technique that combines freezing and drying to preserve microbes and other
cells? - CORRECT ANSWER: Lyophilization
(7) What is the term used to describe an agent that causes microbial growth to come to a
standstill? - CORRECT ANSWER: Microbiostatic
(7) Which of the following is not a form of ionizing radiation?
UV light, Gamma rays, Electron beams, X-rays. - CORRECT ANSWER: UV light
(7) Which organisms has the highest resistance to most physical control methods? - CORRECT
ANSWER: Bacterial endospores, Protozoan cysts
(7) Which procedure is the term "zone of inhibition" used? - CORRECT ANSWER: Disk
diffusion test
(10) - CORRECT ANSWER:
, (10) Schedule 1 narcotics - CORRECT ANSWER: opoids, heroin, LSD, marijuana, mescaline,
peyote:
No therapeutic effecs, high probability for abuse
(10) Schedule 2 narcotics - CORRECT ANSWER: high probability for abuse, but has therapeutic
effects: raw opium, morphine, methadone, amphetimines, and barbituates
(10) Schedule 3 narcotics - CORRECT ANSWER: Therapeutic drugs accepted for treatment in
the United States; combinations of barbituate, and therapeutic agents with reduced
concentrations of morphine, codeine, or opium.
(11) how many generations of developed agents do cephalosporins have? - CORRECT
ANSWER: 5
(11) what antimicrobial is effective against mycobacteria? - CORRECT ANSWER: Rifampin
(11) what are microbicidals? - CORRECT ANSWER: drugs that kills pathogenic bacteria
(11) what are some common characteristics used in the selection of an antimicrobial drug? -
CORRECT ANSWER: selective toxicity, ease of delivery to the site of infection, and not causing
an allergic reaction.
(11) what are some general metabolic or structural targets for antimicrobial drugs? - CORRECT
ANSWER: Protein synthesis inhibition, interference with nucleic acid synthesis, interference
with cell wall synthesis
(11) what are some mechanisms of resistance used by microbes? - CORRECT ANSWER:
Development of defensive enzymes, increase drug elimination, or change in membrane
permeability.
2027 ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE 200
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) ALREADY
GRADED A+ BRAND NEW!!
(7) chlorine belongs to which chemical group from the periodic table? - CORRECT ANSWER:
Halogens
(7) Decontamination - CORRECT ANSWER: Reduction or removal of unwanted chemical or
biological agents
(7) How long should you boil items in water to kill most vegetative bacteria and viruses? -
CORRECT ANSWER: 10 - 15 minutes
(7) Is sterilization a method for food preservation? - CORRECT ANSWER: No
(7) what are antimicrobial agents that are specifically designed to be used on living tissues? -
CORRECT ANSWER: Antiseptics
(7) what are the 2 different types of pasteurization controlled by the US Department of
Agriculture? - CORRECT ANSWER: HIST and UHT
(7) what classification are agents that kill microbes? - CORRECT ANSWER: Microbicidal
(7) what is decontamination? - CORRECT ANSWER: Reduction or removal of chemical or
biological agents so that they no longer present a hazard.
,(7) What is sanitation? - CORRECT ANSWER: Process that lowers microbial counts to safe
public health levels.Ex. cleaning glassware and tableware in restaurants .
(7) What is the destruction of vegetative organisms by chemical or physical methods? -
CORRECT ANSWER: Disinfectantion
(7) What is the lowest temperature at which all microorganisms in a particular liquid will be
killed within 10 minutes called? - CORRECT ANSWER: Thermal death point
(7) What is the simplest form of dry heat sterilization for metals? - CORRECT ANSWER: Direct
flaming
(7) What is the technique that combines freezing and drying to preserve microbes and other
cells? - CORRECT ANSWER: Lyophilization
(7) What is the term used to describe an agent that causes microbial growth to come to a
standstill? - CORRECT ANSWER: Microbiostatic
(7) Which of the following is not a form of ionizing radiation?
UV light, Gamma rays, Electron beams, X-rays. - CORRECT ANSWER: UV light
(7) Which organisms has the highest resistance to most physical control methods? - CORRECT
ANSWER: Bacterial endospores, Protozoan cysts
(7) Which procedure is the term "zone of inhibition" used? - CORRECT ANSWER: Disk
diffusion test
(10) - CORRECT ANSWER:
, (10) Schedule 1 narcotics - CORRECT ANSWER: opoids, heroin, LSD, marijuana, mescaline,
peyote:
No therapeutic effecs, high probability for abuse
(10) Schedule 2 narcotics - CORRECT ANSWER: high probability for abuse, but has therapeutic
effects: raw opium, morphine, methadone, amphetimines, and barbituates
(10) Schedule 3 narcotics - CORRECT ANSWER: Therapeutic drugs accepted for treatment in
the United States; combinations of barbituate, and therapeutic agents with reduced
concentrations of morphine, codeine, or opium.
(11) how many generations of developed agents do cephalosporins have? - CORRECT
ANSWER: 5
(11) what antimicrobial is effective against mycobacteria? - CORRECT ANSWER: Rifampin
(11) what are microbicidals? - CORRECT ANSWER: drugs that kills pathogenic bacteria
(11) what are some common characteristics used in the selection of an antimicrobial drug? -
CORRECT ANSWER: selective toxicity, ease of delivery to the site of infection, and not causing
an allergic reaction.
(11) what are some general metabolic or structural targets for antimicrobial drugs? - CORRECT
ANSWER: Protein synthesis inhibition, interference with nucleic acid synthesis, interference
with cell wall synthesis
(11) what are some mechanisms of resistance used by microbes? - CORRECT ANSWER:
Development of defensive enzymes, increase drug elimination, or change in membrane
permeability.
