AMT MLT Exam Study Guide/Practice
Test #2 correctly answered
Chain of custody. - correct answer ✔✔Beginning with the moment the specimen is collected and
transported to the laboratory, to the analysis itself and the reporting of the results, must be documented
by a process known as
Quality control - correct answer ✔✔A process that monitors the accuracy and reproducibility of results
through the use of control specimens.
Accuracy - correct answer ✔✔Describes how close a test result is to the true value.
Calibration - correct answer ✔✔The comparison of an instrument measurement or reading to a known
physical constant.
Category C - correct answer ✔✔What category of bioterrorism agents has the following characteristics?
These agents have the third-highest priority and include emerging pathogens that could be engineered
for mass dissemination in the future because of availability, ease of production and dissemination?
Category A. - correct answer ✔✔Agents anthrax, botulism, plague, smallpox, tularemia, filoviruses, and
arenaviruses are classified as
Occupational Exposure to Bloodborne Pathogens - correct answer ✔✔What regulation that became law
in 1992, requires that laboratories develop, implement, and comply with a plan that ensures the
protective safety of laboratory staff to potential infectious blood-borne pathogens and manage and
handle medical waste in a safe and effective manner?
Electric equipment. - correct answer ✔✔Class C fire extinguishers are used for
Category B. - correct answer ✔✔Agents brucellosis, epsilon toxin, food contaminants, glanders,
melioidosis, psittacosis, Q fever, and ricin toxin are classified as
,Safety Data Sheets - correct answer ✔✔Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDSs) are now called:
Pictograms - correct answer ✔✔The GHS brings with it a new chemical labeling standard using
____________.
2015 - correct answer ✔✔All chemical manufacturers and distributors must comply with all of the new
provisions in the revised standards by June 1 ______________.
16 - correct answer ✔✔The new Safety Data Sheets (SDSs) will require ______ specific sections, ensuring
consistency in the presentation of the information.
Material safety data sheet (MSDS). - correct answer ✔✔Reference materials about the individual
chemical are provided by all chemical manufacturers and suppliers by means of
Type I - correct answer ✔✔For qualitative chemistry procedures and for most procedures done in
hematology, immunology, microbiology, and other clinical test areas, this type of water is suitable. This
type of water is used for general lab tests that do not require Type I water.
Celsius plus 273 - correct answer ✔✔How do you convert Celsius to Kelvin?
RBC - correct answer ✔✔In the calculation of MCV = HCT x 10/___?
40X objective - correct answer ✔✔The objective that should never have oil used on it is the
Flourescent. - correct answer ✔✔The microscope commonly used in cellular biology that has the ability
to distinguish between living and dead cells and monitor activity within living cells is the
Kohler illumination. - correct answer ✔✔The most common method of illuminating specimens on a
microscope is
, a hematoma. - correct answer ✔✔Failure to apply sufficient pressure to the venipuncture site could
result in
Blood gases, slides/smear, EDTA tubes, other additive minicontainers, and serum containers - correct
answer ✔✔Order of draw for capillary specimens:
contact, airborne, and droplet. - correct answer ✔✔Transmission-based precautions are divided into
three basic categories:
Lipemic specimens - correct answer ✔✔What is milky-white in color and may interfere with chemical
determinations such as triglyceride assay?
cephalic, basilic and median cubital. - correct answer ✔✔The three veins that are typically used for
venipuncture are the
intravenous lines, edema, scarring or burn patients, dialysis patients, and mastectomy patients. - correct
answer ✔✔Five specific situations may result in a difficult venipuncture or may be the sources of
preanalytical error. They are:
Ion-selective electrode (ISE) potentiometry - correct answer ✔✔What uses a glass ion-exchange
membrane for sodium assay and a valinomycin neutral-carrier membrane for potassium assay and has
been incorporated into many automated chemistry analyzers?
Mercury arc and deuterium discharge - correct answer ✔✔Which lamps are most common when
working in the ultraviolet region?
Turbidimetry - correct answer ✔✔The measurement of the decrease in intensity of an incident light
beam as it passes through a solution of particles defines which of the following methods?
Drug testing - correct answer ✔✔Which of the following is one of the most common clinical applications
of GC-MS analysis?
Test #2 correctly answered
Chain of custody. - correct answer ✔✔Beginning with the moment the specimen is collected and
transported to the laboratory, to the analysis itself and the reporting of the results, must be documented
by a process known as
Quality control - correct answer ✔✔A process that monitors the accuracy and reproducibility of results
through the use of control specimens.
Accuracy - correct answer ✔✔Describes how close a test result is to the true value.
Calibration - correct answer ✔✔The comparison of an instrument measurement or reading to a known
physical constant.
Category C - correct answer ✔✔What category of bioterrorism agents has the following characteristics?
These agents have the third-highest priority and include emerging pathogens that could be engineered
for mass dissemination in the future because of availability, ease of production and dissemination?
Category A. - correct answer ✔✔Agents anthrax, botulism, plague, smallpox, tularemia, filoviruses, and
arenaviruses are classified as
Occupational Exposure to Bloodborne Pathogens - correct answer ✔✔What regulation that became law
in 1992, requires that laboratories develop, implement, and comply with a plan that ensures the
protective safety of laboratory staff to potential infectious blood-borne pathogens and manage and
handle medical waste in a safe and effective manner?
Electric equipment. - correct answer ✔✔Class C fire extinguishers are used for
Category B. - correct answer ✔✔Agents brucellosis, epsilon toxin, food contaminants, glanders,
melioidosis, psittacosis, Q fever, and ricin toxin are classified as
,Safety Data Sheets - correct answer ✔✔Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDSs) are now called:
Pictograms - correct answer ✔✔The GHS brings with it a new chemical labeling standard using
____________.
2015 - correct answer ✔✔All chemical manufacturers and distributors must comply with all of the new
provisions in the revised standards by June 1 ______________.
16 - correct answer ✔✔The new Safety Data Sheets (SDSs) will require ______ specific sections, ensuring
consistency in the presentation of the information.
Material safety data sheet (MSDS). - correct answer ✔✔Reference materials about the individual
chemical are provided by all chemical manufacturers and suppliers by means of
Type I - correct answer ✔✔For qualitative chemistry procedures and for most procedures done in
hematology, immunology, microbiology, and other clinical test areas, this type of water is suitable. This
type of water is used for general lab tests that do not require Type I water.
Celsius plus 273 - correct answer ✔✔How do you convert Celsius to Kelvin?
RBC - correct answer ✔✔In the calculation of MCV = HCT x 10/___?
40X objective - correct answer ✔✔The objective that should never have oil used on it is the
Flourescent. - correct answer ✔✔The microscope commonly used in cellular biology that has the ability
to distinguish between living and dead cells and monitor activity within living cells is the
Kohler illumination. - correct answer ✔✔The most common method of illuminating specimens on a
microscope is
, a hematoma. - correct answer ✔✔Failure to apply sufficient pressure to the venipuncture site could
result in
Blood gases, slides/smear, EDTA tubes, other additive minicontainers, and serum containers - correct
answer ✔✔Order of draw for capillary specimens:
contact, airborne, and droplet. - correct answer ✔✔Transmission-based precautions are divided into
three basic categories:
Lipemic specimens - correct answer ✔✔What is milky-white in color and may interfere with chemical
determinations such as triglyceride assay?
cephalic, basilic and median cubital. - correct answer ✔✔The three veins that are typically used for
venipuncture are the
intravenous lines, edema, scarring or burn patients, dialysis patients, and mastectomy patients. - correct
answer ✔✔Five specific situations may result in a difficult venipuncture or may be the sources of
preanalytical error. They are:
Ion-selective electrode (ISE) potentiometry - correct answer ✔✔What uses a glass ion-exchange
membrane for sodium assay and a valinomycin neutral-carrier membrane for potassium assay and has
been incorporated into many automated chemistry analyzers?
Mercury arc and deuterium discharge - correct answer ✔✔Which lamps are most common when
working in the ultraviolet region?
Turbidimetry - correct answer ✔✔The measurement of the decrease in intensity of an incident light
beam as it passes through a solution of particles defines which of the following methods?
Drug testing - correct answer ✔✔Which of the following is one of the most common clinical applications
of GC-MS analysis?
