GENERAL PEST MANAGEMENT 7A EXAM | COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS | 2026 UPDATE |
GRADED A+
• Define a pest in simple terms -✓✓ An unwanted organism
• Pest populations are part of an ecosystem. What following elements are included
in an ecosystem?
A. Populations and a community
B. A community and biological and physical supports
C. Populations and biological and physical supports
D. Populations, a community, and biological and physical supports -✓✓ D
• In infested apartments, pest infestations are evenly distributed?
A. True
B. False -✓✓ B
• In a simple sequence of methods, which of the following is the first method or
activity a pest control technician should do?
A. Pesticide Application
B. Habitat alteration
C. Inspection
D. Follow up -✓✓ C
• Which of the following are not integrated pest management components, goals or
activities:
A. Monitoring
,B. Pesticide Application
C. Preventative Spraying
D. Recordkeeping
E. Total Pest Elimination -✓✓ C and E
• The pest management style of pest control, more than the other styles,
emphasizes:
A. Safe Pesticide application
B. The reduction of pests to a tolerable number
C. Inspection
D. Client Communication -✓✓ B
• New sprayers are well calibrated until they have been used one season
A. True
B. False -✓✓ B
• Hand held sprayers can be calibrated if the following is known:
A. Pressure used
B. Amount of liquid used
C. Time elapsed per liquid used
D. Area sprayed per amount of liquid used
E. All of these
F. None of these -✓✓ E
• Fogging fills a room volume including cracks, crevices and cabinets.
,A. True
B. False -✓✓ B
• High Pressure must be maintained in hand held sprayers to be effective.
A. True
B. False -✓✓ B
• If a sprayer malfunctions,_______________
A. Repair it immediately
B. Increase pressure by pumping
C. Release pressure and remove it to a repair area
D. Use very soft and thin wire to clear the nozzle after releasing pressure -✓✓ C
• Equipment safety is best maintained by ________.
A. Daily Rinsing
B. Daily hose inspection
C. Scheduled cleaning
D. All of these -✓✓ D
• The responsibility of the environmental protection Agency (EPA) is to ________.
A. Regulate Pesticide use
B. Regulate pesticide applicators
C. Protect public health and the environment
D. enforce Fifra -✓✓ C
, • Pest Control applicators may be certified in either of two classifications.
a. Private and commercial
B. Fumigation and non fumigation
C. Urban and agriculture
D. Certified and non-certified -✓✓ A
• Pesticide registration decisions are based on the demonstration that the use of a
pesticide will not result in "Unreasonable human health or environmental effects".
The law that mandates that is called the ________. -✓✓ FIFRA, The Federal
Insecticide fungicide and rodenticide act
• The state plan that regulates pesticide applicators and their certification is
approved and evaluated by ________.
A. FDA
B. USDA
C. EPA
D. OSHA -✓✓ C
• The cockroach that requires the most control effort is the _______.
A. Asian
B. American
C. German
D. Australian -✓✓ C
• American cockroaches like an environment that is
A. slightly cool, moist
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS | 2026 UPDATE |
GRADED A+
• Define a pest in simple terms -✓✓ An unwanted organism
• Pest populations are part of an ecosystem. What following elements are included
in an ecosystem?
A. Populations and a community
B. A community and biological and physical supports
C. Populations and biological and physical supports
D. Populations, a community, and biological and physical supports -✓✓ D
• In infested apartments, pest infestations are evenly distributed?
A. True
B. False -✓✓ B
• In a simple sequence of methods, which of the following is the first method or
activity a pest control technician should do?
A. Pesticide Application
B. Habitat alteration
C. Inspection
D. Follow up -✓✓ C
• Which of the following are not integrated pest management components, goals or
activities:
A. Monitoring
,B. Pesticide Application
C. Preventative Spraying
D. Recordkeeping
E. Total Pest Elimination -✓✓ C and E
• The pest management style of pest control, more than the other styles,
emphasizes:
A. Safe Pesticide application
B. The reduction of pests to a tolerable number
C. Inspection
D. Client Communication -✓✓ B
• New sprayers are well calibrated until they have been used one season
A. True
B. False -✓✓ B
• Hand held sprayers can be calibrated if the following is known:
A. Pressure used
B. Amount of liquid used
C. Time elapsed per liquid used
D. Area sprayed per amount of liquid used
E. All of these
F. None of these -✓✓ E
• Fogging fills a room volume including cracks, crevices and cabinets.
,A. True
B. False -✓✓ B
• High Pressure must be maintained in hand held sprayers to be effective.
A. True
B. False -✓✓ B
• If a sprayer malfunctions,_______________
A. Repair it immediately
B. Increase pressure by pumping
C. Release pressure and remove it to a repair area
D. Use very soft and thin wire to clear the nozzle after releasing pressure -✓✓ C
• Equipment safety is best maintained by ________.
A. Daily Rinsing
B. Daily hose inspection
C. Scheduled cleaning
D. All of these -✓✓ D
• The responsibility of the environmental protection Agency (EPA) is to ________.
A. Regulate Pesticide use
B. Regulate pesticide applicators
C. Protect public health and the environment
D. enforce Fifra -✓✓ C
, • Pest Control applicators may be certified in either of two classifications.
a. Private and commercial
B. Fumigation and non fumigation
C. Urban and agriculture
D. Certified and non-certified -✓✓ A
• Pesticide registration decisions are based on the demonstration that the use of a
pesticide will not result in "Unreasonable human health or environmental effects".
The law that mandates that is called the ________. -✓✓ FIFRA, The Federal
Insecticide fungicide and rodenticide act
• The state plan that regulates pesticide applicators and their certification is
approved and evaluated by ________.
A. FDA
B. USDA
C. EPA
D. OSHA -✓✓ C
• The cockroach that requires the most control effort is the _______.
A. Asian
B. American
C. German
D. Australian -✓✓ C
• American cockroaches like an environment that is
A. slightly cool, moist
