Certified Veterinary Assistant Level 1
2024/2025 Exam Questions and
Corresponding Answers with Surety of
100% Pass Mark
Antiseptic - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A chemical agent applied to living tissue to prevent
growth and reproduction of microorganisms
Colic - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔1. Acute abdominal pain.
2.A syndrome caused by severe paroxysmal pain due to disease of an abdominal
organ.
Corona - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A virus that causes vomiting and diarrhea in dogs similar
to parvo but not as deadly. In felines, corona viruses are very common and
cause a mild diarrhea but one strain, Feline Infectious Peritonitis, is fatal in later
stages.
Disinfectant - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A chemical agent applied to inanimate surfaces to
kill pathogenic (disease causing) microorganisms.
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,Distemper - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A viral infection affecting several species that is
characterized in dogs by discharges from eyes and nose, vomiting, diarrhea,
coughing and seizures.
Fomite - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔an object that can be contaminated which aids in the
spread of the microorganisms. Inanimate fomites within the clinic can be shoes,
bowls, leashes, litter pans, surfaces of cages, brooms and mops.
Heartworm - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The common name for Dirofilaria immitis
Immunity - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔the capacity to distinguish foreign material from itself,
and to neutralize, eliminate or metabolize that which is foreign by the
physiological mechanisms of the immune response.
Functional or protective immunity - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔non susceptibility to the
invasive or pathogenic effects of microorganisms or helminth parasites or to the
toxic effect of antigenic substances.
humoral and cell-mediated immunity - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔responsiveness to antigen
that leads to more rapid binding or elimination of antigen than in the
nonimmune state
passive immunity - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔protection that is transferred from one animal
(or person) that has specific antibodies to an antigen that the recipient may not
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,have and the antibodies are transferred as preformed antibodies. This transfer
can take place through the placenta, the mother's colostrum (first milk), a blood
or plasma transfusion, or an injection of gamma globulin.
active immunity - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔the development of antibody protection in
response to vaccination or natural infection
Parvo or Parvovirus - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A viral infection which may affect cattle,
dogs, cats and swine. Most commonly seen in
dogs where the clinical symptoms are vomiting and diarrhea, often with blood,
high fever
and dehydration.
Feline Panleukopenia - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔feline parvovirus, usually fatal. Symptoms
are vomitting and diarrhea.
Rabies - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A highly fatal viral infection of the nervous system which
affects all warm-blooded animal species. Rabies is one of the most important
zoonoses because of the inevitably fatal outcome for the infected human.
Scabies - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔An intensely pruritic dermatitis caused by the acarid
mite. Most mites are species specific but can be incomplete causing a mild
transient infection in humans.
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, Vaccination - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔the introduction of a vaccine, modified live culture
or reactive parts of the virus or bacteria, into the body to produce an immunity
to the specific disease.
Veterinarian - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔a person trained and authorized to practice
veterinary medicine and surgery; a doctor of veterinary medicine (DVM).
Acid detergents - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔remove dried urine particles on equipment and
cages
Alkaline detergents - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔remove oils left on surfaces from food, fecal
material, or animal skin and hair.
iodine - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔sanitizes equipment, utensils, and skin.
quaternary ammonium compounds (quats) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔kill enveloped
viruses (feline rhinotracheitis)
phenols - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔kill enveloped viruses
products containing chlorine - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔kills enteroviruses (parvovirus,
coronavirus)
List seven areas of the typical veterinary clinic or practice that must be kept
clean and orderly - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Front desk, waiting area, exam rooms,
treatment area, parking lot, backyard, isolation, kennels
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2024/2025 Exam Questions and
Corresponding Answers with Surety of
100% Pass Mark
Antiseptic - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A chemical agent applied to living tissue to prevent
growth and reproduction of microorganisms
Colic - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔1. Acute abdominal pain.
2.A syndrome caused by severe paroxysmal pain due to disease of an abdominal
organ.
Corona - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A virus that causes vomiting and diarrhea in dogs similar
to parvo but not as deadly. In felines, corona viruses are very common and
cause a mild diarrhea but one strain, Feline Infectious Peritonitis, is fatal in later
stages.
Disinfectant - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A chemical agent applied to inanimate surfaces to
kill pathogenic (disease causing) microorganisms.
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,Distemper - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A viral infection affecting several species that is
characterized in dogs by discharges from eyes and nose, vomiting, diarrhea,
coughing and seizures.
Fomite - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔an object that can be contaminated which aids in the
spread of the microorganisms. Inanimate fomites within the clinic can be shoes,
bowls, leashes, litter pans, surfaces of cages, brooms and mops.
Heartworm - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The common name for Dirofilaria immitis
Immunity - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔the capacity to distinguish foreign material from itself,
and to neutralize, eliminate or metabolize that which is foreign by the
physiological mechanisms of the immune response.
Functional or protective immunity - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔non susceptibility to the
invasive or pathogenic effects of microorganisms or helminth parasites or to the
toxic effect of antigenic substances.
humoral and cell-mediated immunity - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔responsiveness to antigen
that leads to more rapid binding or elimination of antigen than in the
nonimmune state
passive immunity - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔protection that is transferred from one animal
(or person) that has specific antibodies to an antigen that the recipient may not
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,have and the antibodies are transferred as preformed antibodies. This transfer
can take place through the placenta, the mother's colostrum (first milk), a blood
or plasma transfusion, or an injection of gamma globulin.
active immunity - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔the development of antibody protection in
response to vaccination or natural infection
Parvo or Parvovirus - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A viral infection which may affect cattle,
dogs, cats and swine. Most commonly seen in
dogs where the clinical symptoms are vomiting and diarrhea, often with blood,
high fever
and dehydration.
Feline Panleukopenia - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔feline parvovirus, usually fatal. Symptoms
are vomitting and diarrhea.
Rabies - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A highly fatal viral infection of the nervous system which
affects all warm-blooded animal species. Rabies is one of the most important
zoonoses because of the inevitably fatal outcome for the infected human.
Scabies - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔An intensely pruritic dermatitis caused by the acarid
mite. Most mites are species specific but can be incomplete causing a mild
transient infection in humans.
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, Vaccination - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔the introduction of a vaccine, modified live culture
or reactive parts of the virus or bacteria, into the body to produce an immunity
to the specific disease.
Veterinarian - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔a person trained and authorized to practice
veterinary medicine and surgery; a doctor of veterinary medicine (DVM).
Acid detergents - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔remove dried urine particles on equipment and
cages
Alkaline detergents - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔remove oils left on surfaces from food, fecal
material, or animal skin and hair.
iodine - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔sanitizes equipment, utensils, and skin.
quaternary ammonium compounds (quats) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔kill enveloped
viruses (feline rhinotracheitis)
phenols - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔kill enveloped viruses
products containing chlorine - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔kills enteroviruses (parvovirus,
coronavirus)
List seven areas of the typical veterinary clinic or practice that must be kept
clean and orderly - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Front desk, waiting area, exam rooms,
treatment area, parking lot, backyard, isolation, kennels
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