ACE GROUP FITNESS CHAPTER 1 UPDATED
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. A voluntary process by which a non-governmental body (ACE) grants a time limited recognition
and use of a credential to individuals who have demonstrated that they have met the criteria of
required knowledge, skills, or competancies for safe and effective practices in a specific job. There is
a renewal process.
a) professional certification
b) knowledge-based certificate
c) curriculum-based certifcate
d) certificate of completion or participation
Answer:
a - professional certification
Question:
2. Issues after an individual attends or participates in a particular learning event; no knowledge
assessed; not a credential (e.g. live workshops).
a) professional certification
b) knowledge-based certificate
c) curriculum-based certifcate
d) certificate of completion or participation
Answer:
d - certificate of completion or participation
Question:
3. Recognizes a relatively narrow scope of specialized knowledge used in performing duties or
tasks...gen-erally on one topic within a broader content area.
a) professional certification
b) knowledge-based certificate
c) curriculum-based certifcate
d) certificate of completion or partici
Answer:
b - knowledge based cer-tificate
Question:
4. Issued after an individual completes a course and passes an assessment instrument. (eg. specialty
cer-tifications with assessments of knowledge)
a) professional certification
b) knowledge-based certificate
c) curriculum-based certificate
d) certificate of completion or participation
Answer:
c - cirriculum-based certifi-cate
, Question:
5. What is the mandatory process by which a govern-mental agency grants a time-limited permission
to an individual to engage in a given occupation?
a) licensure
b) registration
c) certification
Answer:
a - licensure
Question:
6. Health professionals who are credentialed through certifications, registrations, and/or licensure and
pro-vide services are know as what?
Answer:
The Allied Healthcare Con-tinuum
Question:
7. At what point is an individual FIRST responsible for adhering to the ACE Code of Ethics?
a) after registering for the exam
b) after completion of the exam
c) after earning the ACE certification
Answer:
a - after registering for the exam
Question:
8. GFIs are valuable members of the healthcare continuum.
True or false
Answer:
TRUE
Question:
9. What is the voluntary process by which a non-governmental body grants a time-limited recognition
and use of a credential to individual who have demonstrated that they have met the criteria for
re-quired knowledge, skills, or competencies for safe and effective practice in a specific job role?
a) licensure
b) knowledge-based certificate
c) professional certification
Answer:
c - professional certificate
Question:
10. In a society overburdened by regulation, a common complaint is that certification and licensure
standards are erected by professionals in order to restrict others from entering the workforce as
competitors. This is not supposed to be so. Instead, which of the following BEST expresses the
primary purpose of certification and licensure regulations?
A. Protection of the government from liability
B. Protection of the public from harm
C. Standardization of "threshold to enter" require-
ments for the industry
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. A voluntary process by which a non-governmental body (ACE) grants a time limited recognition
and use of a credential to individuals who have demonstrated that they have met the criteria of
required knowledge, skills, or competancies for safe and effective practices in a specific job. There is
a renewal process.
a) professional certification
b) knowledge-based certificate
c) curriculum-based certifcate
d) certificate of completion or participation
Answer:
a - professional certification
Question:
2. Issues after an individual attends or participates in a particular learning event; no knowledge
assessed; not a credential (e.g. live workshops).
a) professional certification
b) knowledge-based certificate
c) curriculum-based certifcate
d) certificate of completion or participation
Answer:
d - certificate of completion or participation
Question:
3. Recognizes a relatively narrow scope of specialized knowledge used in performing duties or
tasks...gen-erally on one topic within a broader content area.
a) professional certification
b) knowledge-based certificate
c) curriculum-based certifcate
d) certificate of completion or partici
Answer:
b - knowledge based cer-tificate
Question:
4. Issued after an individual completes a course and passes an assessment instrument. (eg. specialty
cer-tifications with assessments of knowledge)
a) professional certification
b) knowledge-based certificate
c) curriculum-based certificate
d) certificate of completion or participation
Answer:
c - cirriculum-based certifi-cate
, Question:
5. What is the mandatory process by which a govern-mental agency grants a time-limited permission
to an individual to engage in a given occupation?
a) licensure
b) registration
c) certification
Answer:
a - licensure
Question:
6. Health professionals who are credentialed through certifications, registrations, and/or licensure and
pro-vide services are know as what?
Answer:
The Allied Healthcare Con-tinuum
Question:
7. At what point is an individual FIRST responsible for adhering to the ACE Code of Ethics?
a) after registering for the exam
b) after completion of the exam
c) after earning the ACE certification
Answer:
a - after registering for the exam
Question:
8. GFIs are valuable members of the healthcare continuum.
True or false
Answer:
TRUE
Question:
9. What is the voluntary process by which a non-governmental body grants a time-limited recognition
and use of a credential to individual who have demonstrated that they have met the criteria for
re-quired knowledge, skills, or competencies for safe and effective practice in a specific job role?
a) licensure
b) knowledge-based certificate
c) professional certification
Answer:
c - professional certificate
Question:
10. In a society overburdened by regulation, a common complaint is that certification and licensure
standards are erected by professionals in order to restrict others from entering the workforce as
competitors. This is not supposed to be so. Instead, which of the following BEST expresses the
primary purpose of certification and licensure regulations?
A. Protection of the government from liability
B. Protection of the public from harm
C. Standardization of "threshold to enter" require-
ments for the industry
