PHARMACY TECHNICIAN CERTIFICATION EXAM
[2026] UPDATED ACTUAL Exam | Question and
Answer | A+ VERIFIED ANSWERS
• Pharmacy Technician -✓✓ A person who helps liscensed pharmacists provide meds
and other health care products to paitents
• Pharmacist -✓✓ A perspn who is educated & loscened to dispense drugs and to
provide drug info to patients and other health care providers
• U.S. D.E.A. -✓✓ United States Drug Enforcement Administration -enforces federal
laws & regulations governing controlled substances
• Schedule I Drugs -✓✓ Abuse potential- high abuse potential ( no medical use
accepted)
No prescriptions allowed
Examples- heroin/LSD/mary jane/PCP/amphetamines
• Schedule II Drugs -✓✓ Abuse potential- high/accepted medical use
Prescription required (no refills unless prescription written to renew)
Examples- Cocaine/codeine/amphetamine salts (adderall)/opium/morphine
• Schedule III Drugs -✓✓ Abuse potential- moderate (medical usage)
Refills 5 times in a six month period
Examples- compounded drugs with small amounts of narcotics (other drugs with high
potential for abuse like tylenol or empirin with codeine tablets) and certain barbituratesk.
• Schedule IV Drugs -✓✓ Potential abuse- low (medical usage)
Prescription required (5 refills in 6 month period)
Example- barbital/diazepam (Valium)
• Schedule V Drugs -✓✓ Potential abuse- low abuse (medical usage)
Prescription- none but must 18 y.o. To buy
• Acu- -✓✓ Abrupt, sudden (acute)
• Adeno- -✓✓ Gland (adenoid)
• Adipo- -✓✓ Fat (adipose)
• Aero- -✓✓ Air (aerosol)
, • Alb- -✓✓ White (albumin)
• Ambulo- -✓✓ Walk (ambulatory)
• Andro- -✓✓ Male (androgen)
• Angio- -✓✓ Vessel (angiogram)
• Arthr- -✓✓ Joint (arthritis)
• Bucc/a- -✓✓ Inside of cheek (buccal)
• Carcin/o- -✓✓ Crab,cancer (carcinogen)
• Cardi- -✓✓ Heart (cardiology)
• Cereb- -✓✓ Brain (cerebrum)
• Chemo- -✓✓ Chemistry/chemical (chemotherapy)
• Chol- -✓✓ Bile (cholangiogram)
• Cyst- -✓✓ Urinary bladder (cystoscopy)
• Cyt- -✓✓ Cell (cytology)
• Dactyl- -✓✓ Finger (syndactylism)
• Dermat- -✓✓ Skin (dermatologist)
• Encephal- -✓✓ Brain (electroencephalogram
• Erythro- -✓✓ Red (erythrocytes)
• Gastr- -✓✓ Stomach (gastric acid)
• Gluco- -✓✓ Sugar (glucose)
• Hemo- -✓✓ Blood (hematoma)
• Hepat- -✓✓ Liver (hepatoma)
• Hydro- -✓✓ Water (hydrocephalus)
[2026] UPDATED ACTUAL Exam | Question and
Answer | A+ VERIFIED ANSWERS
• Pharmacy Technician -✓✓ A person who helps liscensed pharmacists provide meds
and other health care products to paitents
• Pharmacist -✓✓ A perspn who is educated & loscened to dispense drugs and to
provide drug info to patients and other health care providers
• U.S. D.E.A. -✓✓ United States Drug Enforcement Administration -enforces federal
laws & regulations governing controlled substances
• Schedule I Drugs -✓✓ Abuse potential- high abuse potential ( no medical use
accepted)
No prescriptions allowed
Examples- heroin/LSD/mary jane/PCP/amphetamines
• Schedule II Drugs -✓✓ Abuse potential- high/accepted medical use
Prescription required (no refills unless prescription written to renew)
Examples- Cocaine/codeine/amphetamine salts (adderall)/opium/morphine
• Schedule III Drugs -✓✓ Abuse potential- moderate (medical usage)
Refills 5 times in a six month period
Examples- compounded drugs with small amounts of narcotics (other drugs with high
potential for abuse like tylenol or empirin with codeine tablets) and certain barbituratesk.
• Schedule IV Drugs -✓✓ Potential abuse- low (medical usage)
Prescription required (5 refills in 6 month period)
Example- barbital/diazepam (Valium)
• Schedule V Drugs -✓✓ Potential abuse- low abuse (medical usage)
Prescription- none but must 18 y.o. To buy
• Acu- -✓✓ Abrupt, sudden (acute)
• Adeno- -✓✓ Gland (adenoid)
• Adipo- -✓✓ Fat (adipose)
• Aero- -✓✓ Air (aerosol)
, • Alb- -✓✓ White (albumin)
• Ambulo- -✓✓ Walk (ambulatory)
• Andro- -✓✓ Male (androgen)
• Angio- -✓✓ Vessel (angiogram)
• Arthr- -✓✓ Joint (arthritis)
• Bucc/a- -✓✓ Inside of cheek (buccal)
• Carcin/o- -✓✓ Crab,cancer (carcinogen)
• Cardi- -✓✓ Heart (cardiology)
• Cereb- -✓✓ Brain (cerebrum)
• Chemo- -✓✓ Chemistry/chemical (chemotherapy)
• Chol- -✓✓ Bile (cholangiogram)
• Cyst- -✓✓ Urinary bladder (cystoscopy)
• Cyt- -✓✓ Cell (cytology)
• Dactyl- -✓✓ Finger (syndactylism)
• Dermat- -✓✓ Skin (dermatologist)
• Encephal- -✓✓ Brain (electroencephalogram
• Erythro- -✓✓ Red (erythrocytes)
• Gastr- -✓✓ Stomach (gastric acid)
• Gluco- -✓✓ Sugar (glucose)
• Hemo- -✓✓ Blood (hematoma)
• Hepat- -✓✓ Liver (hepatoma)
• Hydro- -✓✓ Water (hydrocephalus)