MLT ASCP STUDY GUIDE 2026 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Detected: Acetone, AND Acetoacetic Acid
Not Detected_ Beta-Hydroxybutyric Acid - ✔✔What Ketones are Detected by the ACE
Test, and Which Ketone Is NOT Detected by the ACE Test?
✔✔What Might Cause A False Positive Result For Ketones? - ✔✔L-Dopa Metabolites
✔✔Fungal, Amebic, and Trichinosis Meningitis's.
All 3 Organisms Consume Up the Glucose in CSF - ✔✔A Low CSF Glucose is
Associated What Conditions?
✔✔Hydroxyurea induces the increased production of HbF. Increased levels of HbF
have shown to help patients experience milder forms of the disease. - ✔✔How Does
Hydroxyurea aid in the treatment of Sickle Cell Disease?
✔✔11% Lower - ✔✔Whole blood glucose levels are ______ plasma glucose levels?
✔✔Granulocytes - ✔✔Which WBC produces the most side scatter on a flow cytometer?
✔✔Apolipoproteins are the major protein component of lipoproteins and are essential
for lipid metabolism. - ✔✔What are Apolipoproteins?
✔✔Interphase & Metaphase - ✔✔Which two phases of cell division are most important
for reading ANA's?
✔✔Anti-I - ✔✔Following an infection with mycoplasma pneumonia, a patient might
exhibit a strong agglutination towards what?
✔✔Candida parapsilosis - ✔✔Yeast on cornmeal agar.
✔✔Pasteurella spp. - ✔✔Gram Negative
Grows best on Chocolate or Blood Agar
Often Caused by domesticated animals.
Smells like E.Coli
Forms a lot of Indole
✔✔(Urine Creatinine/Plasma Creatinine) x (Volume/Minutes) - ✔✔Glomerular Filtration
Equation
✔✔Calcium - ✔✔8-hydroxyquinoline and Ortho-Cresolphthalein complexone (CPC)
reagent is commonly used to in the determination of:
,✔✔Megoblastic Anemia, & Hyposplenism - ✔✔What conditions would you expect to find
Howell-Jolly Bodies?
✔✔Obligate Aerobes - ✔✔Bacteria which requires oxygen in order to grow are called?
✔✔Polymer Barrier - ✔✔What additive is most useful in collecting serum?
✔✔Beta - ✔✔Hemoglobin H Bodies are tetramers of which globin chain?
✔✔Hyperplasia - ✔✔Bone Marrow in Alpha Thalassemia usually demonstrates what?
✔✔Staphylococcus Aureus - ✔✔Out of the staph species, which organism gives a
positive coagulase test?
✔✔Rh, Lewis, Kidd - ✔✔Which antibodies can be enhanced when using enzyme panels
during antibody identification?
✔✔Cysteine-blood agar - ✔✔What media would be best to isolate Francisella
tularensis?
✔✔AB Forward, A Reverse - ✔✔What forward/reverse discrepancy would you see with
a "acquired b" phenomenon?
✔✔Testing for antibodies to the extractable nuclear antigen (ENA) - ✔✔What type of
follow up testing is recommended for speckled ANA patterns?
✔✔5% Sheep blood and MacConkey - ✔✔Which two agar's can be combined and be
sufficient for most routine urine cultures?
✔✔Transferrin - ✔✔Total iron biding capacity measures the serum iron transporting
capacity of?
✔✔e - ✔✔Which of the Rh antigens is found in the highest frequency in the Caucasian
population?
✔✔Amorphous Phosphates, Triple Phosphate, Ammonium Biurate, Calcium Carbonate
- ✔✔Alkaline Crystals:
✔✔Amorphous Urates, Bilirubin, Cholesterol, Calcium Oxalates - ✔✔Acidic Crystals:
✔✔Assess the risk of Down's syndrome - ✔✔Estriol levels in conjunction with hCG,
inhibin A (inhA), alpha-fetoprotein (AFP), can be obtained during pregnancy to?
✔✔Androgen production - ✔✔The production of neutral 17-ketosteroids is a measure of
, ✔✔A mixture of capillary and venous blood - ✔✔The specimen obtained from a capillary
bed is comprised of what kind of blood?
✔✔Protein - ✔✔Sulfosalicylic acid (SSA) is used to confirm the results of what test on a
urine chemical reagent strip?
✔✔Increased pCO2, because the lungs ability to remove carbon dioxide is reduced -
✔✔Respiratory acidosis is associated with:
✔✔Usually Increased - ✔✔What is associated with Red Cell Distribution Width (RDW)
of a patient with alpha-thalassemia?
✔✔Antibody will react equally with labeled and unlabeled antigen - ✔✔What is the
principle of competitive radioimmunoassays procedure?
✔✔Opsonins - ✔✔Phagocytosis by reticuloendothelial cells is greatly enhanced by:
✔✔A normal pH - ✔✔When the body compensates for metabolic or respiratory
disorders, the main goal is to achieve:
✔✔Acetoacetic acid - ✔✔The ketone component that is measured by nitroprusside
reaction is:
✔✔Fibrinogen - ✔✔What is most responsible for increasing ESR?
✔✔Light Scatter - ✔✔Nephelometry involves the measurement of what?
✔✔Bilirubin Crystals - ✔✔
✔✔5-15% - ✔✔What percentage of dietary iron is normally absorbed daily?
✔✔Select an aliquot from the last tube collected - ✔✔In order to avoid falsely elevated
spinal fluid cell counts you should:
✔✔Vitamin K Dependent Factors (2,7,9,10) - ✔✔Warfarin inhibits which specific type of
factos?
✔✔Factors II, VII, IX, X - ✔✔Which factors are Vitamin K Dependent?
✔✔Mean + / - 2 SD - ✔✔95% Confidence Interval can be stated as:
✔✔Gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase (GGT) - ✔✔What enzyme is MOST sensitive in
detecting long term liver damage associated with alcohol ingestion?
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Detected: Acetone, AND Acetoacetic Acid
Not Detected_ Beta-Hydroxybutyric Acid - ✔✔What Ketones are Detected by the ACE
Test, and Which Ketone Is NOT Detected by the ACE Test?
✔✔What Might Cause A False Positive Result For Ketones? - ✔✔L-Dopa Metabolites
✔✔Fungal, Amebic, and Trichinosis Meningitis's.
All 3 Organisms Consume Up the Glucose in CSF - ✔✔A Low CSF Glucose is
Associated What Conditions?
✔✔Hydroxyurea induces the increased production of HbF. Increased levels of HbF
have shown to help patients experience milder forms of the disease. - ✔✔How Does
Hydroxyurea aid in the treatment of Sickle Cell Disease?
✔✔11% Lower - ✔✔Whole blood glucose levels are ______ plasma glucose levels?
✔✔Granulocytes - ✔✔Which WBC produces the most side scatter on a flow cytometer?
✔✔Apolipoproteins are the major protein component of lipoproteins and are essential
for lipid metabolism. - ✔✔What are Apolipoproteins?
✔✔Interphase & Metaphase - ✔✔Which two phases of cell division are most important
for reading ANA's?
✔✔Anti-I - ✔✔Following an infection with mycoplasma pneumonia, a patient might
exhibit a strong agglutination towards what?
✔✔Candida parapsilosis - ✔✔Yeast on cornmeal agar.
✔✔Pasteurella spp. - ✔✔Gram Negative
Grows best on Chocolate or Blood Agar
Often Caused by domesticated animals.
Smells like E.Coli
Forms a lot of Indole
✔✔(Urine Creatinine/Plasma Creatinine) x (Volume/Minutes) - ✔✔Glomerular Filtration
Equation
✔✔Calcium - ✔✔8-hydroxyquinoline and Ortho-Cresolphthalein complexone (CPC)
reagent is commonly used to in the determination of:
,✔✔Megoblastic Anemia, & Hyposplenism - ✔✔What conditions would you expect to find
Howell-Jolly Bodies?
✔✔Obligate Aerobes - ✔✔Bacteria which requires oxygen in order to grow are called?
✔✔Polymer Barrier - ✔✔What additive is most useful in collecting serum?
✔✔Beta - ✔✔Hemoglobin H Bodies are tetramers of which globin chain?
✔✔Hyperplasia - ✔✔Bone Marrow in Alpha Thalassemia usually demonstrates what?
✔✔Staphylococcus Aureus - ✔✔Out of the staph species, which organism gives a
positive coagulase test?
✔✔Rh, Lewis, Kidd - ✔✔Which antibodies can be enhanced when using enzyme panels
during antibody identification?
✔✔Cysteine-blood agar - ✔✔What media would be best to isolate Francisella
tularensis?
✔✔AB Forward, A Reverse - ✔✔What forward/reverse discrepancy would you see with
a "acquired b" phenomenon?
✔✔Testing for antibodies to the extractable nuclear antigen (ENA) - ✔✔What type of
follow up testing is recommended for speckled ANA patterns?
✔✔5% Sheep blood and MacConkey - ✔✔Which two agar's can be combined and be
sufficient for most routine urine cultures?
✔✔Transferrin - ✔✔Total iron biding capacity measures the serum iron transporting
capacity of?
✔✔e - ✔✔Which of the Rh antigens is found in the highest frequency in the Caucasian
population?
✔✔Amorphous Phosphates, Triple Phosphate, Ammonium Biurate, Calcium Carbonate
- ✔✔Alkaline Crystals:
✔✔Amorphous Urates, Bilirubin, Cholesterol, Calcium Oxalates - ✔✔Acidic Crystals:
✔✔Assess the risk of Down's syndrome - ✔✔Estriol levels in conjunction with hCG,
inhibin A (inhA), alpha-fetoprotein (AFP), can be obtained during pregnancy to?
✔✔Androgen production - ✔✔The production of neutral 17-ketosteroids is a measure of
, ✔✔A mixture of capillary and venous blood - ✔✔The specimen obtained from a capillary
bed is comprised of what kind of blood?
✔✔Protein - ✔✔Sulfosalicylic acid (SSA) is used to confirm the results of what test on a
urine chemical reagent strip?
✔✔Increased pCO2, because the lungs ability to remove carbon dioxide is reduced -
✔✔Respiratory acidosis is associated with:
✔✔Usually Increased - ✔✔What is associated with Red Cell Distribution Width (RDW)
of a patient with alpha-thalassemia?
✔✔Antibody will react equally with labeled and unlabeled antigen - ✔✔What is the
principle of competitive radioimmunoassays procedure?
✔✔Opsonins - ✔✔Phagocytosis by reticuloendothelial cells is greatly enhanced by:
✔✔A normal pH - ✔✔When the body compensates for metabolic or respiratory
disorders, the main goal is to achieve:
✔✔Acetoacetic acid - ✔✔The ketone component that is measured by nitroprusside
reaction is:
✔✔Fibrinogen - ✔✔What is most responsible for increasing ESR?
✔✔Light Scatter - ✔✔Nephelometry involves the measurement of what?
✔✔Bilirubin Crystals - ✔✔
✔✔5-15% - ✔✔What percentage of dietary iron is normally absorbed daily?
✔✔Select an aliquot from the last tube collected - ✔✔In order to avoid falsely elevated
spinal fluid cell counts you should:
✔✔Vitamin K Dependent Factors (2,7,9,10) - ✔✔Warfarin inhibits which specific type of
factos?
✔✔Factors II, VII, IX, X - ✔✔Which factors are Vitamin K Dependent?
✔✔Mean + / - 2 SD - ✔✔95% Confidence Interval can be stated as:
✔✔Gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase (GGT) - ✔✔What enzyme is MOST sensitive in
detecting long term liver damage associated with alcohol ingestion?
