ExCPT 2024 Pharmacy Technician Exam Test Bank (Verified Answers) | Latest 2024/2025

ExCPT 2024 Pharmacy Technician Exam Test Bank (Verified Answers) | Latest 2024/2025All of the following are anti-diabetic agents except: A. Byetta B. Lyrica C. Januvia D. Actos 2. 1*: Which of the following medications is used to treat anxiety? Escitalopram Pamelor Lorazepam Furosemide 3. 3. Which of the following could be used as a base for an ointment compound? Cocoa butter Distilled water Eucerin cream Petrolatum 4. 5. A patient comes into the hospital on Crestor. The hospital does not maintain this drug on formulary. Which of the following is the most likely therapeutic substitution for this patient while in the hospital? Rosuvastatin Gemfebrizil B. Lyrica (Pregabalin is used to treat nerve pain and epilipsy) Lorazepam (Lorazepam is a benzodiazepine that is a drug class used to treat anxiety. ~Escitalopram (choice A) and pamelor (choice B) are used to treat depression. ~Furosemide (choice D) is a diuretic used for CHF and blood pressure.) Petrolatum (An ointment is prepared by first selecting the proper base for compounding. ~Petrolatum is a base used to compound ointments. ~Cocoa butter (choice A) is a base used to compound suppositories. ~Distilled water (choice B) is used for suspension reconstitution. ~Eucerin cream (choice C) can be used as a base for creams.) Simvastatin (Therapeutic substitution occurs when a medication is substituted for another in the same drug class. ~Crestor is an HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor (statin) so it can be interchanged with another statin, such as simvastatin. ~Rosuvastatin (choice A) is the generic of Crestor. ~Gemfibrozil (choice B) is not in the same drug class as antihyperlipidemics and ~amlodipine (choice C) is used for blood pressure.) 2 / 81 ExCPT 2024 Pharmacy Technician Exam Test Bank (Verified Answers) Amlodipine Simvastatin 5. 6: A medication ending in -prazole would most likely be used to treat 6. 8. A drug that is genotoxic causes: Cancer Birth defects Reproductive toxicity Damage to the genetic information of a cell 7. Your retail pharmacy sells products at: 25% markup over wholesale + a set dispensing fee of $2.85. The total retail cost at pickup for 90 tablets of a particular drug is $119.85. What is your pharmacy's wholesale cost per tablet? A. $1.04 B. $1.34 C. $30.85 D. $27.36 8. Tagamet is the brand name of which drug? GERD Damage to the genetic information of a cell (A substance that is genotoxic would damage the DNA or RNA of a cell. ~Choice A is incorrect because cancer causing is known as carcinogenicity. ~Choice B is incorrect because teratogenicity is a disturbance of the embryo or developing fetus (birth defects). ~Reproductive toxicity (choice C) is toxic to the reproductive process.)