OPHTHALMIC MEDICAL ASSISTING
EXAMPREP QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
COMPLETE PREPARATION SHEET
●● What responsibility routinely falls to the OMA?
Answer: Performing certain diagnostic tests
●● Which eye care professional is a medical doctor?
Answer: Ophthalmologist
●● Which eye care professional routinely fills prescriptions for
eyeglasses?
Answer: Optician
●● What does an orthoptist do?
Answer: Evaluates double vision
●● What do you call an ophthalmologist who concentrates on one area
of the eye?
Answer: A subspecialist
●● Which eye care professional can fit a patient with a prosthetic eye?
,Answer: Ocularist
●● What is the level directly above certified ophthalmic medical
assistant on JCAPO's certification ladder?
Answer: Certified ophthalmic technician
●● What is the primary function of the medial rectus muscle?
Answer: Rotates the eye inward toward the nose
●● Which part of the eye provides two-thirds of the focusing power of
the eye?
Answer: Cornea
●● Aqueous fluid leaves the eye in what sequence?
Answer: Anterior chamber angle, through trabecular meshwork, to canal
of Schlemm
●● What is the membrane that lines the inner eyelid?
Answer: Palpebral conjunctiva
●● Which of the following is part of the ocular adnexa?
Answer: Eyelid
,●● What is the term for the clear, transparent fluid that fills the anterior
chamber?
Answer: Aqueous humor
●● Which structures are part of the uveal tract?
Answer: Iris, ciliary body, choroid
●● What is the process where the lens changes shape to allow an
individual to focus on a near target?
Answer: Accommodation
●● What kind of vision loss is associated with injury or degeneration of
the macula?
Answer: Detailed central vision
●● What is the term for the white tissue surrounding the cornea and
forming the main structural component of the globe?
Answer: Sclera
●● What is the primary function of the iris sphincter and dilator
muscles?
Answer: Change the pupil size in order to control the amount of light
entering the eye
, ●● What is amblyopia?
Answer: Poor vision in an eye secondary to visual deprivation in the first
decade of life
●● What is diplopia?
Answer: Double vision
●● What does the suffix -itis mean?
Answer: Inflammation
●● What is the condition called where the orbital contents swell,
pushing the eyeball forward?
Answer: Exophthalmos (proptosis)
●● What part of the eye undergoes surgery for congenital strabismus?
Answer: Eye muscles
●● Primary open-angle glaucoma results in damage to what part of the
eye?
Answer: Optic nerve
●● What is the term for the inward deviation of an eye that occurs only
when the eye is covered?
EXAMPREP QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
COMPLETE PREPARATION SHEET
●● What responsibility routinely falls to the OMA?
Answer: Performing certain diagnostic tests
●● Which eye care professional is a medical doctor?
Answer: Ophthalmologist
●● Which eye care professional routinely fills prescriptions for
eyeglasses?
Answer: Optician
●● What does an orthoptist do?
Answer: Evaluates double vision
●● What do you call an ophthalmologist who concentrates on one area
of the eye?
Answer: A subspecialist
●● Which eye care professional can fit a patient with a prosthetic eye?
,Answer: Ocularist
●● What is the level directly above certified ophthalmic medical
assistant on JCAPO's certification ladder?
Answer: Certified ophthalmic technician
●● What is the primary function of the medial rectus muscle?
Answer: Rotates the eye inward toward the nose
●● Which part of the eye provides two-thirds of the focusing power of
the eye?
Answer: Cornea
●● Aqueous fluid leaves the eye in what sequence?
Answer: Anterior chamber angle, through trabecular meshwork, to canal
of Schlemm
●● What is the membrane that lines the inner eyelid?
Answer: Palpebral conjunctiva
●● Which of the following is part of the ocular adnexa?
Answer: Eyelid
,●● What is the term for the clear, transparent fluid that fills the anterior
chamber?
Answer: Aqueous humor
●● Which structures are part of the uveal tract?
Answer: Iris, ciliary body, choroid
●● What is the process where the lens changes shape to allow an
individual to focus on a near target?
Answer: Accommodation
●● What kind of vision loss is associated with injury or degeneration of
the macula?
Answer: Detailed central vision
●● What is the term for the white tissue surrounding the cornea and
forming the main structural component of the globe?
Answer: Sclera
●● What is the primary function of the iris sphincter and dilator
muscles?
Answer: Change the pupil size in order to control the amount of light
entering the eye
, ●● What is amblyopia?
Answer: Poor vision in an eye secondary to visual deprivation in the first
decade of life
●● What is diplopia?
Answer: Double vision
●● What does the suffix -itis mean?
Answer: Inflammation
●● What is the condition called where the orbital contents swell,
pushing the eyeball forward?
Answer: Exophthalmos (proptosis)
●● What part of the eye undergoes surgery for congenital strabismus?
Answer: Eye muscles
●● Primary open-angle glaucoma results in damage to what part of the
eye?
Answer: Optic nerve
●● What is the term for the inward deviation of an eye that occurs only
when the eye is covered?
