PTU Final UPDATED Exam Questions
and CORRECT Answers
How much NaCl is in 1L of 0.9% NaCl solution?
a. 9 g
b. 90 g
c. 900 g
d. 9000 g - Precise Answer ✔✔9 g
1L = 1000mL
1000mL • .9% = 9 g
Why is stock rotated on pharmacy shelves?
a. To use damaged items first
b. To use damaged items last
c. To use short dated items first
d. To use short dated items last - Precise Answer ✔✔To use short dated items first
Mrs. Stevens is an inpatient in your hospital. Her prescriber just ordered hydroxyzine 10 mg
every six hours. How many hydroxyzine 10 mg tablets will you put in Mrs. Stevens med cart
drawer for 24 hour fill?
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4 - Precise Answer ✔✔4
What do the two last digits of an NDC number identify?
a. dosage form
b. manufacturer
c. medication name
d. package size - Precise Answer ✔✔package size
labeler-medicine-size
What is the container for proper needle disposal called?
a. needle container
b. sharps container
c. trash container
d. waste container - Precise Answer ✔✔sharps container
,According to federal law, how long must the pharmacy keep controlled substance inventory
records?
a. 1 year
b. 2 years
c. 3 years
d. 4 years - Precise Answer ✔✔2 years
Which PPE item is usually donned(removed) first, if donning from DIRTIEST to CLEANEST
order?
a. eye shield
b. face mask
c. non-latex gloves
d. shoe covers - Precise Answer ✔✔shoe covers
Your pharmacy paid $3.59 for a 100-count stock bottle of propranolol 10 mg tablets. Your
pharmacy sold 100 tablets of this medication for $0.15 per tablet. What is the net profit?
a. $2.39
b. $3.74
c. $11.41
d. $18.59 - Precise Answer ✔✔$11.41
100 • .15 = $15
$15 - $3.59 = $11.41
Mr. Khan drops off the following prescription:
Oxycodone 10 mg tablets #30
Sig: 1 tab po q8h prn pain
If the patient received a dose in the emergency room at 9:00 P.M., when is the earliest time he
could take the next dose?
a. 11 pm
b. 2 am
c. 5 am
d. 9 am - Precise Answer ✔✔5 am
How much clotrimazole is contained in 60 grams of clotrimazole 1% cream?
a. 0.6 g
b. 6 g
c. 16 g
d. 60 g - Precise Answer ✔✔0.6 g
,60 • 1% = 0.6
You receive the following prescription:
Cephalexin 250mg/5mL susp
Sig: 1 tsp po QID x 14 days
Which stock bottle size of cephalexin suspension should be dispensed to complete the therapy?
a. 100 mL
b. 150 mL
c. 250 mL
d. 300 mL - Precise Answer ✔✔300mL
tsp • 5 = mL
4 tsp daily for 14D
4 tsp • 5 = 20 mL/day
20mL • 14 days = 280
250 < 280 < 300
Which insurance program is managed by the federal government for people 65 years and older?
a. AARP
b. Medicaid
c. Medicare
d. TRICARE - Precise Answer ✔✔Medicare
is for people 65 and up as well as disabled people
Ms. Donner takes Mevacor 20 mg, 1 tablet daily. Which med is considered pharmaceutically
equivalent to Ms. Donner's Mevacor prescription?
a. Lipitor 40 mg tabs
b. Pravachol 20 mg tabs
c. Lovastatin 20 mg tabs
d. Simvastatin 40 mg tabs - Precise Answer ✔✔Lovastatin 20 mg tabs
Mevacor is the brand name of Lovastatin
Mrs. Atkinson is prescribed carisoprodol. DEA classifies her medication under which controlled
substance schedule?
a. 2
b. 3
c. 4
d. 5 - Precise Answer ✔✔schedule 4
, carisoprodol(Soma) is a muscle relaxer
Which piece of information is considered PHI?
a. Patients employer
b. Prescribers name
c. Patients DOB
d. Pharmacy's NPI number - Precise Answer ✔✔Patients DOB
PHI- protected health information
What does VAERS collect data on?
a. Vaccine side effects
b. Venlafaxine Rxs
c. Vincristine errors
d. Vitamin impurities - Precise Answer ✔✔Vaccine side effects
people can report their vaccine side effects on this website so they can collect more data on
how vaccines can effect you
The ISO of the air inside of the PEC must be at least which class?
a. 5
b. 7
c. 8
d. 10 - Precise Answer ✔✔5
PEC- primary engineering controls(hoods)
Which USP chapter governs non-sterile compounding processes?
a. 698
b. 795
c. 797
d. 823 - Precise Answer ✔✔795
795 ~ non sterile compounding
797 ~ sterile compounding
What is a computerized patient chart called?
a. CPC
b. EMR
c. EPC
d. PMR - Precise Answer ✔✔EMR
and CORRECT Answers
How much NaCl is in 1L of 0.9% NaCl solution?
a. 9 g
b. 90 g
c. 900 g
d. 9000 g - Precise Answer ✔✔9 g
1L = 1000mL
1000mL • .9% = 9 g
Why is stock rotated on pharmacy shelves?
a. To use damaged items first
b. To use damaged items last
c. To use short dated items first
d. To use short dated items last - Precise Answer ✔✔To use short dated items first
Mrs. Stevens is an inpatient in your hospital. Her prescriber just ordered hydroxyzine 10 mg
every six hours. How many hydroxyzine 10 mg tablets will you put in Mrs. Stevens med cart
drawer for 24 hour fill?
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4 - Precise Answer ✔✔4
What do the two last digits of an NDC number identify?
a. dosage form
b. manufacturer
c. medication name
d. package size - Precise Answer ✔✔package size
labeler-medicine-size
What is the container for proper needle disposal called?
a. needle container
b. sharps container
c. trash container
d. waste container - Precise Answer ✔✔sharps container
,According to federal law, how long must the pharmacy keep controlled substance inventory
records?
a. 1 year
b. 2 years
c. 3 years
d. 4 years - Precise Answer ✔✔2 years
Which PPE item is usually donned(removed) first, if donning from DIRTIEST to CLEANEST
order?
a. eye shield
b. face mask
c. non-latex gloves
d. shoe covers - Precise Answer ✔✔shoe covers
Your pharmacy paid $3.59 for a 100-count stock bottle of propranolol 10 mg tablets. Your
pharmacy sold 100 tablets of this medication for $0.15 per tablet. What is the net profit?
a. $2.39
b. $3.74
c. $11.41
d. $18.59 - Precise Answer ✔✔$11.41
100 • .15 = $15
$15 - $3.59 = $11.41
Mr. Khan drops off the following prescription:
Oxycodone 10 mg tablets #30
Sig: 1 tab po q8h prn pain
If the patient received a dose in the emergency room at 9:00 P.M., when is the earliest time he
could take the next dose?
a. 11 pm
b. 2 am
c. 5 am
d. 9 am - Precise Answer ✔✔5 am
How much clotrimazole is contained in 60 grams of clotrimazole 1% cream?
a. 0.6 g
b. 6 g
c. 16 g
d. 60 g - Precise Answer ✔✔0.6 g
,60 • 1% = 0.6
You receive the following prescription:
Cephalexin 250mg/5mL susp
Sig: 1 tsp po QID x 14 days
Which stock bottle size of cephalexin suspension should be dispensed to complete the therapy?
a. 100 mL
b. 150 mL
c. 250 mL
d. 300 mL - Precise Answer ✔✔300mL
tsp • 5 = mL
4 tsp daily for 14D
4 tsp • 5 = 20 mL/day
20mL • 14 days = 280
250 < 280 < 300
Which insurance program is managed by the federal government for people 65 years and older?
a. AARP
b. Medicaid
c. Medicare
d. TRICARE - Precise Answer ✔✔Medicare
is for people 65 and up as well as disabled people
Ms. Donner takes Mevacor 20 mg, 1 tablet daily. Which med is considered pharmaceutically
equivalent to Ms. Donner's Mevacor prescription?
a. Lipitor 40 mg tabs
b. Pravachol 20 mg tabs
c. Lovastatin 20 mg tabs
d. Simvastatin 40 mg tabs - Precise Answer ✔✔Lovastatin 20 mg tabs
Mevacor is the brand name of Lovastatin
Mrs. Atkinson is prescribed carisoprodol. DEA classifies her medication under which controlled
substance schedule?
a. 2
b. 3
c. 4
d. 5 - Precise Answer ✔✔schedule 4
, carisoprodol(Soma) is a muscle relaxer
Which piece of information is considered PHI?
a. Patients employer
b. Prescribers name
c. Patients DOB
d. Pharmacy's NPI number - Precise Answer ✔✔Patients DOB
PHI- protected health information
What does VAERS collect data on?
a. Vaccine side effects
b. Venlafaxine Rxs
c. Vincristine errors
d. Vitamin impurities - Precise Answer ✔✔Vaccine side effects
people can report their vaccine side effects on this website so they can collect more data on
how vaccines can effect you
The ISO of the air inside of the PEC must be at least which class?
a. 5
b. 7
c. 8
d. 10 - Precise Answer ✔✔5
PEC- primary engineering controls(hoods)
Which USP chapter governs non-sterile compounding processes?
a. 698
b. 795
c. 797
d. 823 - Precise Answer ✔✔795
795 ~ non sterile compounding
797 ~ sterile compounding
What is a computerized patient chart called?
a. CPC
b. EMR
c. EPC
d. PMR - Precise Answer ✔✔EMR
