Certified Paraoptometric Assistant and Technician Study Guide Questions and Answers Updated 2026/2027 Version | Verified Answers

Certified Paraoptometric Assistant and Technician Study Guide Questions and Answers Updated 2026/2027 Version | Verified Answers 1. What is the name of the government act created to ensure patient privacy? - ANSWER Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) 2. What is the process of promoting, selling, and distributing a product of service called? - ANSWER Marketing 3. How many extraocular muscles are attached to the sclera? - ANSWER Six 4. What is the measurement of the finest detail the eye may detect? - ANSWER Visual acuity 5. What is a system that provides quantitative information about finances? - ANSWER Accounting 6. A brojen blood vessel between the sclera & conjunctiva is called a... - ANSWER Subconjunctival hemorrhage 7. Glaucoma causes damage to the eye. - ANSWER True 8. What is the process called when a product is delivered to a customer completely finished? - ANSWER Delivery 9. What may ocular drugs not be used for? - ANSWER Paralyze the patient 10. What is the fluid pressure maintained in the eye by the aqueous humor called? - ANSWER Intraocular pressure 11. What happens when someone is diagnosed with keratoconus? - ANSWER The cornea thins and bulges forward 12. What is the storing, copying, and archiving of computer data used to restore data after the original has been lost? - ANSWER Software back up 13. Rods are the photoreceptors that provide color vision. - ANSWER False 14. What is PHI? - ANSWER Protected Health Information (PHI) 15. What is the name of the light sensitive part of the eye? - ANSWER Retina 16. What is a laser based, non contact, technique that is capable of obtaining high resolution retina images? - ANSWER Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) 17. What carries impulses from the retina to the brain? - ANSWER Optic nerve 18. What supplies most of the tears to the eye? - ANSWER Lacrimal gland 19. Interpupillary Distance is measure in centimeters. - ANSWER False 20. What does a pachymeter measure/ - ANSWER Thickness of the cornea 21. What is the name given to the junction of the sclera and the cornea? - ANSWER Limbus 22. Replacement of the crystalline lens with an intraocular lens creates a condition called pseudophakia. - ANSWER True 23. What provides the major refractive power of the eye? - ANSWER Cornea 24. What does O.S. mean? - ANSWER Oculus sinister (left eye) 25. What is the primary function of the inferior rectus muscle? - ANSWER Turn the eye downward 26. What is the name given to the area of the retina responsible for seeing detail? - ANSWER Macula 27. The innervation of the cornea is mainly sensory branches of which nerve? - ANSWER Cranial nerve V (Trigeminal) 28. What is the examination of the inside of the eye called? - ANSWER Ophthalmoscopy 29. What is not a major category of amblyopia? - ANSWER Traumatic amblyopia 30. Which of the rectus muscles is innervated by cranial nerve VI? - ANSWER Lateral 31. When reconciling bank statements, the canceled checks should be arranged by... - ANSWER Numerical order 32. Extorsion is described as rotating the top of the eyeball _____ and the bottom _____. - ANSWER Out, in 33. What is not part of the case history? - ANSWER Social Security Number 34. Diabetic patients may have vision loss due to diabetic retinopathy (T/F) - ANSWER True 35. The part of the retina responsible for sharp, clear vision is the macula (T/F) - ANSWER True