PHARMACY TECHNICIAN CERTIFICATION EXAM
[2026] UPDATED ACTUAL Exam | Question and
Answer | DETAILED SOLUTIONS
• Federal Food and Drug Act -✓✓ FFDA
- Series of consumer protection laws
- led to creation of the FDA
- banned foreign and interstate traffic in adulterated or mislabeled food and drug
products
- Products had to be inspected and offenders where prosecuted
- Active Ingredients had to be placed on labels of packaging
- drugs can not fall below purity levels set by United states pharmacopoeia or
national formulary
• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act -✓✓ HIPAA
- reduces health care fraud and abuse
- mandatory industry wide standards for health care information and electronic
billing processes
- requires the protections and confidential handling of protected health information
• Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act -✓✓ OBRA
- Allowed workers and families to keep their group coverage in cases of voluntary
or involuntary job loss
- in case of reduced hours worked
- job transitions
- give workers who lost their health benefits right to choose to continue plans
under certain circumstances
,- required under businesses with 20+ employees
- applies to both government and private sector
- set period of time, maybe influenced by circumstances
• OBRA 90 -✓✓ - placed regulations on how to interact with patients
- record keeping mandates, prospective drug reviews
- counseling obligations
- must review medicaid participants enire drug profile before prescribing
medications
• Medicaid -✓✓ - Social Health care program for families and individuals with low
income + resources
- government insurance for people of all ages who can not afford sufficient health
care
- varies from state to state --> joint funded between state and federal
- must be US citizens or legal permanent residents
• Medicare -✓✓ - National Social Insurance Program
- administered by US government
- provides insurance for Americans aged +65
- members must have worked and payed for the system
- provides insurance for younger people with disabilities
• Disability -✓✓ - Form of insurance that ensures the beneficiaries income against
the risk that disability creates a barrier for a worker to complete the core functions
of their work
,- encompasses paid sick leave, short term disability benefits, and long term
disability benefits
• U.S. Social Security Act -✓✓ - Social Welfare Legislation Act
- provides federal assistance to those who can not wotk
-
• Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act -✓✓ - enacted to curb the growing
problem of underground manufacture of illegal drugs
- regulates over the counter products that can be used to make illicit drugs
- include daily sales limits and 30 day purchase limits
- places products out of easy reach
- sale logbooks
- customer ID verification
- training of employees and sellers
• Sale of Ephedrin -✓✓ - sale is limited to behind the counter
- must present photo ID
- stores require to keep personal information on buyers for at least 2 years
- sales allowed in drive through lanes
• U.S. Merck + co -✓✓ - An American pharmaceutical company
- one of the largest in the world
- publishes Merck Manuals --> a series of reference books for medical
professionals
- Merck Index -->list of chemical compounds --> lost
, • Poison prevention Packaging Act -✓✓ PPPA
- requires use of child resistant packaging for prescription drugs, OTC, household
chemicals, and hazerdous materials
- some drugs are exempt from child proof packaging --> OTC drugs with the
proper labeling not for children and in big enough packages
• Kefauver - Harris Act -✓✓ - requires drug manufacturers to provide proof of
their effectivness and safety before approval
- requires drug advertisements to disclose side effects
- stopped cheap generic drugs from being marketed as more expensive drugs and
taking credit as breakthrough medications
• Controlled Substances Act -✓✓ CSA
- federal US drug Policy
- manufacture, importation, possession, use and distribution of certain substances is
regulated
- created 5 classifications of schedules
- all controlled substances need to be inventoried Biannually
• Schedule I Drugs -✓✓ - High Potential for abuse
- no potential medical use or treatment in US
- lack of accepted safety for use of drug under medical supervision
- No prescriptions may be written for drugs
- Crimes involving drugs can be quite serious
- "Street" Drugs
- Heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine, etc.
[2026] UPDATED ACTUAL Exam | Question and
Answer | DETAILED SOLUTIONS
• Federal Food and Drug Act -✓✓ FFDA
- Series of consumer protection laws
- led to creation of the FDA
- banned foreign and interstate traffic in adulterated or mislabeled food and drug
products
- Products had to be inspected and offenders where prosecuted
- Active Ingredients had to be placed on labels of packaging
- drugs can not fall below purity levels set by United states pharmacopoeia or
national formulary
• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act -✓✓ HIPAA
- reduces health care fraud and abuse
- mandatory industry wide standards for health care information and electronic
billing processes
- requires the protections and confidential handling of protected health information
• Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act -✓✓ OBRA
- Allowed workers and families to keep their group coverage in cases of voluntary
or involuntary job loss
- in case of reduced hours worked
- job transitions
- give workers who lost their health benefits right to choose to continue plans
under certain circumstances
,- required under businesses with 20+ employees
- applies to both government and private sector
- set period of time, maybe influenced by circumstances
• OBRA 90 -✓✓ - placed regulations on how to interact with patients
- record keeping mandates, prospective drug reviews
- counseling obligations
- must review medicaid participants enire drug profile before prescribing
medications
• Medicaid -✓✓ - Social Health care program for families and individuals with low
income + resources
- government insurance for people of all ages who can not afford sufficient health
care
- varies from state to state --> joint funded between state and federal
- must be US citizens or legal permanent residents
• Medicare -✓✓ - National Social Insurance Program
- administered by US government
- provides insurance for Americans aged +65
- members must have worked and payed for the system
- provides insurance for younger people with disabilities
• Disability -✓✓ - Form of insurance that ensures the beneficiaries income against
the risk that disability creates a barrier for a worker to complete the core functions
of their work
,- encompasses paid sick leave, short term disability benefits, and long term
disability benefits
• U.S. Social Security Act -✓✓ - Social Welfare Legislation Act
- provides federal assistance to those who can not wotk
-
• Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act -✓✓ - enacted to curb the growing
problem of underground manufacture of illegal drugs
- regulates over the counter products that can be used to make illicit drugs
- include daily sales limits and 30 day purchase limits
- places products out of easy reach
- sale logbooks
- customer ID verification
- training of employees and sellers
• Sale of Ephedrin -✓✓ - sale is limited to behind the counter
- must present photo ID
- stores require to keep personal information on buyers for at least 2 years
- sales allowed in drive through lanes
• U.S. Merck + co -✓✓ - An American pharmaceutical company
- one of the largest in the world
- publishes Merck Manuals --> a series of reference books for medical
professionals
- Merck Index -->list of chemical compounds --> lost
, • Poison prevention Packaging Act -✓✓ PPPA
- requires use of child resistant packaging for prescription drugs, OTC, household
chemicals, and hazerdous materials
- some drugs are exempt from child proof packaging --> OTC drugs with the
proper labeling not for children and in big enough packages
• Kefauver - Harris Act -✓✓ - requires drug manufacturers to provide proof of
their effectivness and safety before approval
- requires drug advertisements to disclose side effects
- stopped cheap generic drugs from being marketed as more expensive drugs and
taking credit as breakthrough medications
• Controlled Substances Act -✓✓ CSA
- federal US drug Policy
- manufacture, importation, possession, use and distribution of certain substances is
regulated
- created 5 classifications of schedules
- all controlled substances need to be inventoried Biannually
• Schedule I Drugs -✓✓ - High Potential for abuse
- no potential medical use or treatment in US
- lack of accepted safety for use of drug under medical supervision
- No prescriptions may be written for drugs
- Crimes involving drugs can be quite serious
- "Street" Drugs
- Heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine, etc.
