MARYLAND POOL OPERATOR EVALUATION TEST
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔What should you use when handling chemicals? - ✔✔Personal Protective
Equipment - Gloves, Goggles, Apron
✔✔What happens if the alkalinity level is too low? - ✔✔pH is difficult to maintain, the
water will cause damage to the pool walls
✔✔ADD CHEMICALS TO WATER; DO NOT ADD WATER TO CHEMICALS - ✔✔...
✔✔How do you lower the Calcium Hardness Level? - ✔✔Drain water out and add fresh
water. Dilute the water.
✔✔What should you have if the water is deeper than 5 ft? - ✔✔Put up a safety line
✔✔If the chlorinator is working and you have chlorine in the vat, what is a possible
reason for the chlorine reading being 0? - ✔✔The test could be bleached (chlorine level
is too high)
✔✔What kind of filter media filters the smallest particles? - ✔✔Diatomaceous Earth
(DE)
✔✔To be a pool operator you must - ✔✔complete pool operators training course
✔✔The strongest suction in the pool is - ✔✔the main drain
✔✔Electrical system at pool must have - ✔✔GFI's
✔✔The skimmer - ✔✔weir prevents floating material from re-entering the pool.
✔✔Filtration is the - ✔✔physical process of water moving through the system.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔What should you use when handling chemicals? - ✔✔Personal Protective
Equipment - Gloves, Goggles, Apron
✔✔What happens if the alkalinity level is too low? - ✔✔pH is difficult to maintain, the
water will cause damage to the pool walls
✔✔ADD CHEMICALS TO WATER; DO NOT ADD WATER TO CHEMICALS - ✔✔...
✔✔How do you lower the Calcium Hardness Level? - ✔✔Drain water out and add fresh
water. Dilute the water.
✔✔What should you have if the water is deeper than 5 ft? - ✔✔Put up a safety line
✔✔If the chlorinator is working and you have chlorine in the vat, what is a possible
reason for the chlorine reading being 0? - ✔✔The test could be bleached (chlorine level
is too high)
✔✔What kind of filter media filters the smallest particles? - ✔✔Diatomaceous Earth
(DE)
✔✔To be a pool operator you must - ✔✔complete pool operators training course
✔✔The strongest suction in the pool is - ✔✔the main drain
✔✔Electrical system at pool must have - ✔✔GFI's
✔✔The skimmer - ✔✔weir prevents floating material from re-entering the pool.
✔✔Filtration is the - ✔✔physical process of water moving through the system.
