NORTH CAROLINA PESTICIDE APPLICATOR TEST PAPER
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS 2025/2026 GRADED A+
✔✔certified applicator who works for a licensed pest control company and conducts this
work under the supervision of a license holder - ✔✔Commercial Certified Applicator
✔✔certified applicator who performs SPC on their property or employer's property and
does not charge a fee. - ✔✔Non-Commercial Certified Applicator
✔✔What are the requirements for registered technicians wishing to preform SPC? -
✔✔Register with the SPCAP within 75 days of employment
Complete Registered Technician Training prior to issuance of card
✔✔What are the recertification requirements for Certified Applicators and Licensees? -
✔✔Pass the recertification exams between January 1 and June 30 prior to the
expiration of 5 year certification period.
OR
Earn Continuing Certification Units (CCUs)
✔✔General use pesticide are:
a. pesticides that have a greater potential to cause harm to humans or the environment.
b. pesticides that have a lower potential to cause harm to humans or the environment.
c. Pesticides that have to be bought through a licensed dealer
d. Safe enough for children to apply - ✔✔b. pesticides that have a lower potential to
cause harm to humans or the environment.
✔✔Licensees and Certified SPC Applicators have a ___ year certification period.
a. 2
b. 3
c. 4
d. 5 - ✔✔d. 5
✔✔To preform pest control services for hire, a certified SPC applicator must work for a
___ pest control company.
a. Licensed
b. Non-commercial
c. Certified
d. Registered. - ✔✔a. Licensed
,✔✔Administered by the EPA, it regulates the production, sale, and disposal of all
pesticides - ✔✔Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)
✔✔Requires the EPA to review every registered pesticide on a 15 year cycle.
Established a health-based standard (tolerance) to be used when assessing the risks of
pesticide residuals in food or feed, and it requires the EPA to give special consideration
to pesticide exposure to infants and children. - ✔✔Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA)
of 1996
✔✔Governs the establishment of pesticide tolerances for food and feed products. -
✔✔Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA)
✔✔Length of time required between final pesticide application and harvest - ✔✔Pre-
harvest interval (PHI)
✔✔Federal regulation aimed at protecting employees in agricultural establishments,
such as farms, forests, nurseries, and greenhouses from occupational exposure to
pesticides. - ✔✔Worker Protection Standard (WPS)
✔✔What are the major provisions of WPS that agricultural employers must uphold? -
✔✔Provide pesticide safety training to both workers and handlers
Provide PPE specified on label
Post warnings and give oral notification about pesticide applications
Provide a central area with emergency medical information, pesticide specific
information, and safety information
Provide ample decontamination supplies
Provide prompt transportation to a medical facility
✔✔Created to protect worker and health. Its main aim was to ensure that employers
provide their workers with an environment free from dangers to their safety and health,
such as exposure to toxic chemicals, excessive noise levels, mechanical dangers, heat
or cold stress, or unsanitary conditions.
Contains requirements if you employ 11 or more workers or provide housing to 1 or
more migrant workers
Employers must keep records of all work-related deaths, illnesses, and injuries other
than first aid treatments - ✔✔Occupational Safety and Health Act
✔✔Requires employers to make a list of hazardous chemicals in the workplace, get
SDS for all hazardous materials on list, ensure that all containers of hazardous
materials are properly labeled at all times, train all workers about the hazardous
, materials, and keep a file on the hazardous materials and make it available to workers -
✔✔Hazard Communication Standard (HCS)
✔✔federal law administered by the US Fish and Wildlife Service that makes it illegal to
kill, harm, or collect endangered or threatened wildlife or fish or to remove threatened or
endangered plants from areas under federal jurisdiction. - ✔✔Endangered Species Act
(ESA)
✔✔Are responsible to adhere to federal and state recordkeeping requirements -
✔✔Commercial and Private Applicators
✔✔Owners and operators of pesticide application businesses should consider keeping
documentation on employee training in the use of pesticides. These records include
what information? - ✔✔Name of employees and employer
Name of establishment or company
Employee identification number
Location and date training was completed
Employee's signature and date to verify receival of training
Documentation on training materials and sources
✔✔Established pesticide management programs that are designed to regulate the
registration, handling, storage, and disposal of pesticides and the certification and
licensing of pesticide applicators, consultants, and dealers. - ✔✔North Carolina
Pesticide Law (NCPL) of 1971
✔✔All uses of pesticides in NC, with exception to those regulated by NC SPC, are
regulated under what? - ✔✔NCPL
✔✔Are responsible for carrying out the provisions of the NCPL - ✔✔NC Pesticide Board
(NCPB) and NC Commissioner of Agriculture
✔✔7 member group that are appointed by the Governor that adopts regulations that
give more detail about acceptable pesticide practices and the manner in which pesticide
licenses are obtained and maintained. - ✔✔NC Pesticide Board (NCPB)
✔✔Authorized to administer and enforce the NCPL. - ✔✔NC Commissioner of
Agriculture
✔✔20 member group that assists the NCPB in an advisory capacity on matters
submitted by NCPB - ✔✔Pesticide Advisory Committee (PAC)
✔✔How frequently must all pesticides distributed, sold, or transported in NC must be
registered? - ✔✔Annually
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS 2025/2026 GRADED A+
✔✔certified applicator who works for a licensed pest control company and conducts this
work under the supervision of a license holder - ✔✔Commercial Certified Applicator
✔✔certified applicator who performs SPC on their property or employer's property and
does not charge a fee. - ✔✔Non-Commercial Certified Applicator
✔✔What are the requirements for registered technicians wishing to preform SPC? -
✔✔Register with the SPCAP within 75 days of employment
Complete Registered Technician Training prior to issuance of card
✔✔What are the recertification requirements for Certified Applicators and Licensees? -
✔✔Pass the recertification exams between January 1 and June 30 prior to the
expiration of 5 year certification period.
OR
Earn Continuing Certification Units (CCUs)
✔✔General use pesticide are:
a. pesticides that have a greater potential to cause harm to humans or the environment.
b. pesticides that have a lower potential to cause harm to humans or the environment.
c. Pesticides that have to be bought through a licensed dealer
d. Safe enough for children to apply - ✔✔b. pesticides that have a lower potential to
cause harm to humans or the environment.
✔✔Licensees and Certified SPC Applicators have a ___ year certification period.
a. 2
b. 3
c. 4
d. 5 - ✔✔d. 5
✔✔To preform pest control services for hire, a certified SPC applicator must work for a
___ pest control company.
a. Licensed
b. Non-commercial
c. Certified
d. Registered. - ✔✔a. Licensed
,✔✔Administered by the EPA, it regulates the production, sale, and disposal of all
pesticides - ✔✔Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)
✔✔Requires the EPA to review every registered pesticide on a 15 year cycle.
Established a health-based standard (tolerance) to be used when assessing the risks of
pesticide residuals in food or feed, and it requires the EPA to give special consideration
to pesticide exposure to infants and children. - ✔✔Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA)
of 1996
✔✔Governs the establishment of pesticide tolerances for food and feed products. -
✔✔Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA)
✔✔Length of time required between final pesticide application and harvest - ✔✔Pre-
harvest interval (PHI)
✔✔Federal regulation aimed at protecting employees in agricultural establishments,
such as farms, forests, nurseries, and greenhouses from occupational exposure to
pesticides. - ✔✔Worker Protection Standard (WPS)
✔✔What are the major provisions of WPS that agricultural employers must uphold? -
✔✔Provide pesticide safety training to both workers and handlers
Provide PPE specified on label
Post warnings and give oral notification about pesticide applications
Provide a central area with emergency medical information, pesticide specific
information, and safety information
Provide ample decontamination supplies
Provide prompt transportation to a medical facility
✔✔Created to protect worker and health. Its main aim was to ensure that employers
provide their workers with an environment free from dangers to their safety and health,
such as exposure to toxic chemicals, excessive noise levels, mechanical dangers, heat
or cold stress, or unsanitary conditions.
Contains requirements if you employ 11 or more workers or provide housing to 1 or
more migrant workers
Employers must keep records of all work-related deaths, illnesses, and injuries other
than first aid treatments - ✔✔Occupational Safety and Health Act
✔✔Requires employers to make a list of hazardous chemicals in the workplace, get
SDS for all hazardous materials on list, ensure that all containers of hazardous
materials are properly labeled at all times, train all workers about the hazardous
, materials, and keep a file on the hazardous materials and make it available to workers -
✔✔Hazard Communication Standard (HCS)
✔✔federal law administered by the US Fish and Wildlife Service that makes it illegal to
kill, harm, or collect endangered or threatened wildlife or fish or to remove threatened or
endangered plants from areas under federal jurisdiction. - ✔✔Endangered Species Act
(ESA)
✔✔Are responsible to adhere to federal and state recordkeeping requirements -
✔✔Commercial and Private Applicators
✔✔Owners and operators of pesticide application businesses should consider keeping
documentation on employee training in the use of pesticides. These records include
what information? - ✔✔Name of employees and employer
Name of establishment or company
Employee identification number
Location and date training was completed
Employee's signature and date to verify receival of training
Documentation on training materials and sources
✔✔Established pesticide management programs that are designed to regulate the
registration, handling, storage, and disposal of pesticides and the certification and
licensing of pesticide applicators, consultants, and dealers. - ✔✔North Carolina
Pesticide Law (NCPL) of 1971
✔✔All uses of pesticides in NC, with exception to those regulated by NC SPC, are
regulated under what? - ✔✔NCPL
✔✔Are responsible for carrying out the provisions of the NCPL - ✔✔NC Pesticide Board
(NCPB) and NC Commissioner of Agriculture
✔✔7 member group that are appointed by the Governor that adopts regulations that
give more detail about acceptable pesticide practices and the manner in which pesticide
licenses are obtained and maintained. - ✔✔NC Pesticide Board (NCPB)
✔✔Authorized to administer and enforce the NCPL. - ✔✔NC Commissioner of
Agriculture
✔✔20 member group that assists the NCPB in an advisory capacity on matters
submitted by NCPB - ✔✔Pesticide Advisory Committee (PAC)
✔✔How frequently must all pesticides distributed, sold, or transported in NC must be
registered? - ✔✔Annually
