CA BRANCH 3 PRACTICE EXAMS 2026/2027 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Drywood Termites - ✔✔Look for piece of wood to enter (cracks, knot holes or joists
between pieces of wood), once entered, the wood is sealed with a plug of brown
cement-like material.
✔✔Drywood Termites - ✔✔No distinct worker case.
✔✔Protozoans - ✔✔Converts the cellulose to starch and the starch to sugar, which
termites use for energy.
✔✔First star nymphs fed in two ways - ✔✔1. Older termites pass predigested food to
nymphs by mouth (STOMIDEAL)
2. The nymphs lick up liquid droplets which are exuded from an older termites anal
orifice. (PROCTODEAL)
✔✔Subterranean termites - ✔✔Prefer to feed on softer wood which has been attacked
by fungi.
Prefer to feed in the softer layers of sapwood (spring wood) and will leave harder growth
rings (summer wood) behind.
✔✔Drywood Termites - ✔✔Prefer sapwood, but will feed on both spring and summer
wood.
Not uncommon for wood members to be completely hollowed out and all that's left is a
"painted shell".
✔✔Manual or power sprayer - ✔✔General application or broadcast
✔✔Space treatments - ✔✔Foggers, misters, aerosol generators or aerosol cans may be
used.
✔✔Reducing Drift - ✔✔Reduce hose pressure and adjust nozzles for COARSER spray
pattern.
Hold spray nozzle CLOSER to application target.
Avoid applying pesticides on days when wind speed EXCEEDS 10 MPH.
✔✔Dilutions - ✔✔The proper amounts you should use when mixing pesticides
, ✔✔Rate of application - ✔✔How much of the product should be applied over a certain
sized area.
✔✔Won't reinfest - ✔✔Flat Headed Borers
New House Borer (can't survive in seasoned wood)
Bark Beetles (can't survive in seasoned wood)
✔✔List 5 false Powderpost beetles - ✔✔Black polycaon
Lead borer cable
Bamboo borer
Deathwatch beetle
Furniture beetle
✔✔The address of each property inspected or upon which work is completed shall be
reported and filed with The Board how many days after the commencement of
inspection - ✔✔No later than 10 business days
✔✔Original report - ✔✔Can be complete or limited
Valid for 120 days
✔✔Limited inspection - ✔✔Must identify the portions inspected, the name of the person
who requested the limited report and recommend further inspection of the entire
structure.
✔✔notice of work completed and not completed - ✔✔Filed with the board within 10
WORKING DAYS
✔✔Reinspection report - ✔✔An owner of agent may request and they have 4 months
from the date of inspection to make request.
✔✔Licensee must perform Reinspection - ✔✔10 days of the request
✔✔ Acute - ✔✔Immediate results ( within minutes or hours )
✔✔Chronic - ✔✔Multiple exposure over time .
✔✔Dermal - ✔✔Skin , Highest hazard , MOST COMMON
AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Drywood Termites - ✔✔Look for piece of wood to enter (cracks, knot holes or joists
between pieces of wood), once entered, the wood is sealed with a plug of brown
cement-like material.
✔✔Drywood Termites - ✔✔No distinct worker case.
✔✔Protozoans - ✔✔Converts the cellulose to starch and the starch to sugar, which
termites use for energy.
✔✔First star nymphs fed in two ways - ✔✔1. Older termites pass predigested food to
nymphs by mouth (STOMIDEAL)
2. The nymphs lick up liquid droplets which are exuded from an older termites anal
orifice. (PROCTODEAL)
✔✔Subterranean termites - ✔✔Prefer to feed on softer wood which has been attacked
by fungi.
Prefer to feed in the softer layers of sapwood (spring wood) and will leave harder growth
rings (summer wood) behind.
✔✔Drywood Termites - ✔✔Prefer sapwood, but will feed on both spring and summer
wood.
Not uncommon for wood members to be completely hollowed out and all that's left is a
"painted shell".
✔✔Manual or power sprayer - ✔✔General application or broadcast
✔✔Space treatments - ✔✔Foggers, misters, aerosol generators or aerosol cans may be
used.
✔✔Reducing Drift - ✔✔Reduce hose pressure and adjust nozzles for COARSER spray
pattern.
Hold spray nozzle CLOSER to application target.
Avoid applying pesticides on days when wind speed EXCEEDS 10 MPH.
✔✔Dilutions - ✔✔The proper amounts you should use when mixing pesticides
, ✔✔Rate of application - ✔✔How much of the product should be applied over a certain
sized area.
✔✔Won't reinfest - ✔✔Flat Headed Borers
New House Borer (can't survive in seasoned wood)
Bark Beetles (can't survive in seasoned wood)
✔✔List 5 false Powderpost beetles - ✔✔Black polycaon
Lead borer cable
Bamboo borer
Deathwatch beetle
Furniture beetle
✔✔The address of each property inspected or upon which work is completed shall be
reported and filed with The Board how many days after the commencement of
inspection - ✔✔No later than 10 business days
✔✔Original report - ✔✔Can be complete or limited
Valid for 120 days
✔✔Limited inspection - ✔✔Must identify the portions inspected, the name of the person
who requested the limited report and recommend further inspection of the entire
structure.
✔✔notice of work completed and not completed - ✔✔Filed with the board within 10
WORKING DAYS
✔✔Reinspection report - ✔✔An owner of agent may request and they have 4 months
from the date of inspection to make request.
✔✔Licensee must perform Reinspection - ✔✔10 days of the request
✔✔ Acute - ✔✔Immediate results ( within minutes or hours )
✔✔Chronic - ✔✔Multiple exposure over time .
✔✔Dermal - ✔✔Skin , Highest hazard , MOST COMMON
