state board / Milady’s Professional
Barbering Sample State Board Exam 1 –
Study Guide
The word barber is derived from the Latin word Barba, meaning: - ---
✔✔✔ANSWER----Beard
Barber-surgeons participated in the practice of: - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----
Bloodletting, tooth pulling, and surgery
In 1983, A.B. Moyer established Americas first barber: - ---✔✔✔ANSWER--
--School
,State barber boards are primarily interested in maintaining high standards of: - --
-✔✔✔ANSWER----Competency
One key function of state barber boards is to protect the health, safety, and
welfare of the: - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----Public
Personality, personal hygiene, and attitude are all aspects of an individual's: - ---
✔✔✔ANSWER----Professional Image
Proper behavior and business dealings with employers, clients, and coworkers are
called: - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----Professional Ethics
Pathogenic bacteria produces - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----Disease
Pus-forming organisms that grow in cluster and cause abscessed, pustules,
pimples, and boils are: - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----Staphylococci Bacteria
Ringworm is caused by a/an: - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----Plant parasite
Pediculosis is caused by: - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----the body or head louse
The virus that causes AIDS is: - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----HIV
, The most likely manner in which HIV may be transmitted in the barbershop is by: -
---✔✔✔ANSWER----Blood to blood contact with an infected person
The removal of pathogens from tools and surfaces is known as: - ---
✔✔✔ANSWER----Decontamination
The process of thoroughly cleaning a tool to surface to its optimum level of
decontamination in the barbershop is known as: - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----
Disinfection
State barber boards and health departments require only: - ---
✔✔✔ANSWER----Disinfection and sanitation procedures
a disinfectant that contains the properties of a bactericide, fungicide,
pseudomonacide, virucide, and tuberculocide is considered to be a/an: - ---
✔✔✔ANSWER----Hospital-level disinfectant
Antiseptics may be used on: - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----The skin
For effective sanitization, the minimum strength of a quotes solution used to
sanitize implements is: - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----1:1000