NIC WRITTEN STUDY MATERIAL QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
100% CORRECT | UPDATED 2025
What does ADA stand for and what year was it passed? - ANSWER Americans
with Disabilities Act in 1990
CI - ANSWER Certificate of Interpretation
CT - ANSWER Certificate of Transliteration
OTC - ANSWER Oral Transliteration Certificate
SC: L - ANSWER Specialist Certificate: Legal
CLIP-R - ANSWER Conditional Legal Interpreting Permit-Relay
MCSC - ANSWER Master Comprehensive Skills Certificate
CSC - ANSWER Comprehensive Skills Certificate
OIC - ANSWER Oral Interpreting Certificate
RSC - ANSWER Reverse Skills Certificate
,NAD: Level III - ANSWER National Association of the Deaf - Generalist
NAD: Level IV - ANSWER National Association of the Deaf - Advanced
NAD: Level V - ANSWER National Association of the Deaf - Master
IC - ANSWER Interpretation Certificate
TC - ANSWER Transliteration Certificate
ACCI - ANSWER American Consortium of Certified Interpreters
SC:PA - ANSWER Specialist Certificate: Performance Arts
CLIP - ANSWER Conditional Legal Interpreting Permit
EIPA - ANSWER Educational Interpreter Performance Assessment
CEU - ANSWER Continuing Education Units
CMP - ANSWER Certification Maintenance Program
ACET - ANSWER Associate Continuing Education Tracking
,Associate Continuing Education Tracking - ANSWER Participation in ACET
allows RID to track your completion of CEUs for you.
PDC - ANSWER Professional Development Committee
Who can become an CMP approved sponsor? - ANSWER The PDC is
responsible for approving applications for organizations, agencies, and individuals
to become approved sponsors.
What is the approved sponsors role? - ANSWER To provide appropriate
educational opportunities to interpreters. Those opportunities are pre-approved
to provide CEUs
When did CMP begin operation? - ANSWER July 1, 1994
What are the requirements for obtaining CEUs? - ANSWER All members who
are certified interpreters are required to complete 8.0 CEUs (80 contact hours)
within four years.
8.0 CEUs (80 contact hours) include what? - ANSWER 6.0 CEUs must be
professional studies content. 2.0 CEUs can be general studies
PINRA - ANSWER Participant-Initiated Non-RID Activities
, What are examples of Participant-Initiated Non-RID Activities - ANSWER
Examples: audited college course, organizational conventions, community
education, etc.
CIT - ANSWER Conference of Interpreter Trainers
Conference of Interpreter Trainers - ANSWER Professional organization of
interpreter educators
Mano a Mano - ANSWER National Organization of interpreters who work in
Spanish-Influenced settings
NAOBI - ANSWER National Alliance of Black Interpreters, INc.
AIIC - ANSWER The International Association of Conference Interpreters (the
only worldwide association for conference interpreters)
WASLI - ANSWER World Association of Sign Language Interpreters
CART - ANSWER Communication Access Realtime Translation
AADB - ANSWER American Association of the Deaf-Blind
COAT - ANSWER Coalition of Organizations for Accessible Technology
AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
100% CORRECT | UPDATED 2025
What does ADA stand for and what year was it passed? - ANSWER Americans
with Disabilities Act in 1990
CI - ANSWER Certificate of Interpretation
CT - ANSWER Certificate of Transliteration
OTC - ANSWER Oral Transliteration Certificate
SC: L - ANSWER Specialist Certificate: Legal
CLIP-R - ANSWER Conditional Legal Interpreting Permit-Relay
MCSC - ANSWER Master Comprehensive Skills Certificate
CSC - ANSWER Comprehensive Skills Certificate
OIC - ANSWER Oral Interpreting Certificate
RSC - ANSWER Reverse Skills Certificate
,NAD: Level III - ANSWER National Association of the Deaf - Generalist
NAD: Level IV - ANSWER National Association of the Deaf - Advanced
NAD: Level V - ANSWER National Association of the Deaf - Master
IC - ANSWER Interpretation Certificate
TC - ANSWER Transliteration Certificate
ACCI - ANSWER American Consortium of Certified Interpreters
SC:PA - ANSWER Specialist Certificate: Performance Arts
CLIP - ANSWER Conditional Legal Interpreting Permit
EIPA - ANSWER Educational Interpreter Performance Assessment
CEU - ANSWER Continuing Education Units
CMP - ANSWER Certification Maintenance Program
ACET - ANSWER Associate Continuing Education Tracking
,Associate Continuing Education Tracking - ANSWER Participation in ACET
allows RID to track your completion of CEUs for you.
PDC - ANSWER Professional Development Committee
Who can become an CMP approved sponsor? - ANSWER The PDC is
responsible for approving applications for organizations, agencies, and individuals
to become approved sponsors.
What is the approved sponsors role? - ANSWER To provide appropriate
educational opportunities to interpreters. Those opportunities are pre-approved
to provide CEUs
When did CMP begin operation? - ANSWER July 1, 1994
What are the requirements for obtaining CEUs? - ANSWER All members who
are certified interpreters are required to complete 8.0 CEUs (80 contact hours)
within four years.
8.0 CEUs (80 contact hours) include what? - ANSWER 6.0 CEUs must be
professional studies content. 2.0 CEUs can be general studies
PINRA - ANSWER Participant-Initiated Non-RID Activities
, What are examples of Participant-Initiated Non-RID Activities - ANSWER
Examples: audited college course, organizational conventions, community
education, etc.
CIT - ANSWER Conference of Interpreter Trainers
Conference of Interpreter Trainers - ANSWER Professional organization of
interpreter educators
Mano a Mano - ANSWER National Organization of interpreters who work in
Spanish-Influenced settings
NAOBI - ANSWER National Alliance of Black Interpreters, INc.
AIIC - ANSWER The International Association of Conference Interpreters (the
only worldwide association for conference interpreters)
WASLI - ANSWER World Association of Sign Language Interpreters
CART - ANSWER Communication Access Realtime Translation
AADB - ANSWER American Association of the Deaf-Blind
COAT - ANSWER Coalition of Organizations for Accessible Technology
