RS/REHS Practice Questions 2026/2027 |
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• What does photodecomposition in a plastic bottle do in a landfill or waste dump? -
✓✓Reduce the amount of waste
• In a newborn hospital wing humidifiers will? -✓✓Need to be cleaned frequently due to
bacterial growth on the components
• What is LEAST effected when contaminated air is found in a hospital? -✓✓Air filtered
in the morgue.
• What is the maximum time for industry to generate hazardous waste without a permit?
-✓✓90 = large quantity
180 = small quantity
• What is the best way to prevent groundwater contamination in wells? -✓✓Grouting the
annular space
• Where are you least likely to find asbestos? -✓✓Ceramic floor tile? (other answers
included insulated pipe coverings and wall plaster and asbestos can be found in floor
tiling products so if there is an option of NONE OF THE ABOVE...maybe choose that
one).
• What industry does the BISSC deal with? -✓✓Baking (stands for Baking Industry
Sanitation Standards Committee).
• Which amendment deals with illegal search and seizure of private property? -✓✓4th
(IV)
• Groundwater Rule? -✓✓Protection against microbial organisms, reducing the risk of
fecal contamination of the water for those who use the groundwater supply as a drinking
source.
• Source water? -✓✓Untreated water from streams, lakes, aquifers which is ultimately
used as the drinking supply for the general public.
• When filling out a search warrant application what is not necessary to include? -
✓✓Neighbor's testimony (is information which is not coming from an approved
authority...could be hearsay).
, • What are the most common contaminants found in an automobile crank shaft? (Crank
case) -✓✓Gasoline and phenols
• When testing for radon in schools where is the best place to test? -✓✓Lowest rooms
in the building
• The sand filter is used to remove? -✓✓Bacteria and suspended solids from water.
• The formula Q=AIR is used to determine? -✓✓Rate of runoff in a watershed
• What is the importance of Darcy's Law? -✓✓It is a derived constitutive equation that
describes the flow of a fluid through a porous medium. the law was formulated by Henry
Darcy based on the results of his experiment on the flow of water through beds of sand.
It also forms the scientific basis of fluid permeability used in the earth sciences.
• Q=KIA -✓✓Groundwater flow, flow through an underground formation.
• Which is LEAST likely to cause foodborne illness in schools? -✓✓Whole vegetables
grown at school and cooked in a school cafeteria.
• A possible cause of methemoglobinemia is? -✓✓High concentrations of Nitrates in
drinking water
• A water treatment plant should have what (according to Salvato)? -✓✓A well
equipped lab, certified operator, and qualified chemist. (is certified chemist the same as
qualified chemist and if the question asks what is NOT needed at a water treatment
plant would the answer be "Licensed Plant Manager since certified operator is required
to be there).
• Upon receiving a permit for a temporary food facility the facility should first? -✓✓Post
the permit in a conspicuous place
• Which form of Hepatitis is spread by the fecal oral route? -✓✓Hepatitis A
• What is the most common type of food borne illness? -✓✓Salmonella
• A temporary food service caterer may not accept food from which of the following? -
✓✓Food prepared from home.
• What is most likely happening if a family living in a local housing project starts to feel
the following symptoms: headache, dizziness, weakness, pain in the fingernail bed,
nausea, and red blotchy skin? -✓✓Carbon Monoxide (CO) poisoning.
Latest Study Questions | Verified Exam
Solutions | A+
• What does photodecomposition in a plastic bottle do in a landfill or waste dump? -
✓✓Reduce the amount of waste
• In a newborn hospital wing humidifiers will? -✓✓Need to be cleaned frequently due to
bacterial growth on the components
• What is LEAST effected when contaminated air is found in a hospital? -✓✓Air filtered
in the morgue.
• What is the maximum time for industry to generate hazardous waste without a permit?
-✓✓90 = large quantity
180 = small quantity
• What is the best way to prevent groundwater contamination in wells? -✓✓Grouting the
annular space
• Where are you least likely to find asbestos? -✓✓Ceramic floor tile? (other answers
included insulated pipe coverings and wall plaster and asbestos can be found in floor
tiling products so if there is an option of NONE OF THE ABOVE...maybe choose that
one).
• What industry does the BISSC deal with? -✓✓Baking (stands for Baking Industry
Sanitation Standards Committee).
• Which amendment deals with illegal search and seizure of private property? -✓✓4th
(IV)
• Groundwater Rule? -✓✓Protection against microbial organisms, reducing the risk of
fecal contamination of the water for those who use the groundwater supply as a drinking
source.
• Source water? -✓✓Untreated water from streams, lakes, aquifers which is ultimately
used as the drinking supply for the general public.
• When filling out a search warrant application what is not necessary to include? -
✓✓Neighbor's testimony (is information which is not coming from an approved
authority...could be hearsay).
, • What are the most common contaminants found in an automobile crank shaft? (Crank
case) -✓✓Gasoline and phenols
• When testing for radon in schools where is the best place to test? -✓✓Lowest rooms
in the building
• The sand filter is used to remove? -✓✓Bacteria and suspended solids from water.
• The formula Q=AIR is used to determine? -✓✓Rate of runoff in a watershed
• What is the importance of Darcy's Law? -✓✓It is a derived constitutive equation that
describes the flow of a fluid through a porous medium. the law was formulated by Henry
Darcy based on the results of his experiment on the flow of water through beds of sand.
It also forms the scientific basis of fluid permeability used in the earth sciences.
• Q=KIA -✓✓Groundwater flow, flow through an underground formation.
• Which is LEAST likely to cause foodborne illness in schools? -✓✓Whole vegetables
grown at school and cooked in a school cafeteria.
• A possible cause of methemoglobinemia is? -✓✓High concentrations of Nitrates in
drinking water
• A water treatment plant should have what (according to Salvato)? -✓✓A well
equipped lab, certified operator, and qualified chemist. (is certified chemist the same as
qualified chemist and if the question asks what is NOT needed at a water treatment
plant would the answer be "Licensed Plant Manager since certified operator is required
to be there).
• Upon receiving a permit for a temporary food facility the facility should first? -✓✓Post
the permit in a conspicuous place
• Which form of Hepatitis is spread by the fecal oral route? -✓✓Hepatitis A
• What is the most common type of food borne illness? -✓✓Salmonella
• A temporary food service caterer may not accept food from which of the following? -
✓✓Food prepared from home.
• What is most likely happening if a family living in a local housing project starts to feel
the following symptoms: headache, dizziness, weakness, pain in the fingernail bed,
nausea, and red blotchy skin? -✓✓Carbon Monoxide (CO) poisoning.
