COA EXAM, COA EXAM (JCAHPO UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

COA EXAM, COA EXAM (JCAHPO UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

Question:
1. What does the abbreviation JCAHPO stand for?
Answer:
Joint Commission on Allied Health Personnel in Ophthalmology

Question:
2. What responsibility routinely falls to the ophthalmic medical assistant?
Answer:
performing certain diagnostic tests

Question:
3. Which eye care professional is a medical doctor?
Answer:
ophthalmologist

Question:
4. Which eye care professional routinely fills prescriptions for eyeglasses?
Answer:
optician

Question:
5. What does an orthoptist do?
Answer:
evaluates double vision

Question:
6. What do you call an ophthalmologist who concentrates on one area of the eye?
Answer:
a subspecialist

Question:
7. Which eye care professional can fit a patient with a prosthetic eye?
Answer:
ocularist

Question:
8. What is the level directly above certified ophthalmic medical assistant on JCAHPO's certification
ladder?
Answer:
certified ophthalmic technician

,Question:
9. What is the primary function of the medial rectus muscle?
Answer:
rotates the eye inward toward the nose

Question:
10. 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

Question:
11. Which part of the eye provides two-thirds of the focusing power of the eye?
Answer:
cornea

Question:
12. Aqueous fluid leaves the eye in what sequence?
Answer:
anterior chamber angle, through trabecular meshwork, to canal of Schlemm

Question:
13. What is the membrane that lines the inner eyelid?
Answer:
palpebral conjunctiva

Question:
14. Which of the following is part of the ocular adnexa?
Answer:
eyelid

Question:
15. What is the term for the clear, transparent fluid that fills the anterior chamber?
Answer:
aqueous humor

Question:
16. Which structures are part of the uveal tract?
Answer:
iris, ciliary body, choroid

Question:
17. What is the process where the lens changes shape to allow an individual to focus on a near target?
Answer:
accommodation

,Question:
18. What kind of vision loss is associated with Injury or degeneration of the macula?
Answer:
detailed central vision

Question:
19. What is the term for the white tissue surrounding the cornea and forming the main structural
component of the globe?
Answer:
sclera

Question:
20. In this figure of the lacrimal system, the structures are correctly identified as which grouping?
Answer:
(1) lacrimal gland (2) lacrimal sac (3) punctum

Question:
21. 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

Question:
22. What is amblyopia?
Answer:
poor vision in an eye secondary to visual deprivation in the first decade of life

Question:
23. What is diplopia?
Answer:
double vision

Question:
24. What does the suffix itis mean?
Answer:
inflammation

Question:
25. What is the condition called where the orbital contents swell, pushing the eyeball forward?
Answer:
exophthalmos (proptosis)

Question:
26. What part of the eye undergoes surgery for congenital strabismus?
Answer:
eye muscles

, Question:
27. Primary open-angle glaucoma results in damage to what part of the eye?
Answer:
optic nerve

Question:
28. What is the term for the inward deviation of an eye that occurs only when the eye is covered?
Answer:
esophoria

Question:
29. What is a tissue or organ called when it is deprived of its normal blood supply?
Answer:
ischemic

Question:
30. What is the term for an abnormal physical change that a physician observes while examining a patient?
Answer:
a sign

Question:
31. What is a cataract?
Answer:
an opacification of the crystalline lens

Question:
32. What is a chalazion?
Answer:
a lump that develops after inflammation and infection of the meibomian glands

Question:
33. Diabetes mellitus is what type of disease process?
Answer:
metabolic

Question:
34. What condition has symptoms that include flashes of light in the corner of the eye, followed by a
sensation of a curtain moving across the vision?
Answer:
retinal detachment

Question:
35. What is another name for dry eye?
Answer:
keratoconjunctivitis sicca