RNRF DCF EVALUATION EXAMS TESTS QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS 2025/2026
✔✔The primary goal of the childcare professional is to keep children safe, provide good
nutrition, and a healthy environment and create an environment for learning. - ✔✔True
✔✔These records are checked during an employee screening: - ✔✔Employee history,
Local criminal records, Fingerprints, Statewide and federal criminal records
✔✔The older the child, the less staff is needed - ✔✔True
✔✔Confidentiality is protecting private information by making sure the public does not
have access to it. - ✔✔True
✔✔Withholding food during snack-time is an appropriate form of discipline. - ✔✔False
✔✔Saying "Don't be like Jimmy. He is a bad boy." is a form of discipline that is allowed
by the Florida State Statutes and Florida Administrative Code. - ✔✔False
✔✔Every child care program in Florida is licensed annually. - ✔✔True
✔✔The care, protection, and supervision of a child for a period less than 24 hours a day
on a regular basis called: - ✔✔Childcare
✔✔A licensed corporation owns a childcare facility, but it has hired a director who
oversees day-to-day operations. This is allowed: - ✔✔True
✔✔Information can be obtained regarding rules, regulations, and requirements about
child care in Florida from: - ✔✔Department of Children and Families (DCF)
✔✔With regards to licensing, DCF must: - ✔✔Establish licensing standards; address
issues related to health, sanitation, and physical surrounding; consider fire safety; and
adopt rules for licensing that enforce the standards.
✔✔Spanking or any other form of corporal (physical) punishment is prohibited in a
childcare facility: - ✔✔True
✔✔In a childcare facility, discipline shall not be associated with food, rest, or toileting. -
✔✔True
✔✔The childcare facility is responsible for obtaining a current Student Health
Examination for each child within thirty days of enrollment and maintain a copy while the
child is enrolled. - ✔✔True
, ✔✔Daily attendance of children shall be taken and recorded by the childcare facility
personnel, documenting when each child enters and departs a childcare facility. -
✔✔True
✔✔Records of accidents and incidents shall be documented daily and maintained for
one year. Documentation shall include: - ✔✔The name of affected party, date and time
of occurrence, actions taken and by whom appropriate signatures of staff and parents.
✔✔The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits: - ✔✔Discrimination against
people who have a disability
✔✔A disability can be a: - ✔✔Handicap, Physical impairment, mental impairment,
illness or disease
✔✔The ADA creates early intervention services for infants and toddlers (ages birth to
three years) with special needs and their families. - ✔✔True
✔✔Using stereotypes to form ideas about people is NOT a good decision making
process: - ✔✔True
✔✔For children from birth through 1 year of age, there must be at least One staff for
every _________ children - ✔✔Four
✔✔For children from 1 year of age, but under 2 years of age, there must be at least one
staff for every _________ children - ✔✔Six
✔✔For children from 2 years of age, but under 3 years of age, there must be at least
one staff for every __________ children. - ✔✔Eleven
✔✔For children from 3 years of age, but under 4 years of age, there must be at least
one staff for every ___________ children - ✔✔Fifteen
✔✔For children from 4 years of age, but under 5 years of age, there must be at least
one staff for every __________ children. - ✔✔Twenty
✔✔For children 5 years of age or older, there must be at least one staff for every
___________ children - ✔✔Twenty-five
✔✔In groups of mixed age ranges, where children under 1 are included, one staff
member shall be responsible for no more than 4 children of any group at all times. -
✔✔True
ANSWERS 2025/2026
✔✔The primary goal of the childcare professional is to keep children safe, provide good
nutrition, and a healthy environment and create an environment for learning. - ✔✔True
✔✔These records are checked during an employee screening: - ✔✔Employee history,
Local criminal records, Fingerprints, Statewide and federal criminal records
✔✔The older the child, the less staff is needed - ✔✔True
✔✔Confidentiality is protecting private information by making sure the public does not
have access to it. - ✔✔True
✔✔Withholding food during snack-time is an appropriate form of discipline. - ✔✔False
✔✔Saying "Don't be like Jimmy. He is a bad boy." is a form of discipline that is allowed
by the Florida State Statutes and Florida Administrative Code. - ✔✔False
✔✔Every child care program in Florida is licensed annually. - ✔✔True
✔✔The care, protection, and supervision of a child for a period less than 24 hours a day
on a regular basis called: - ✔✔Childcare
✔✔A licensed corporation owns a childcare facility, but it has hired a director who
oversees day-to-day operations. This is allowed: - ✔✔True
✔✔Information can be obtained regarding rules, regulations, and requirements about
child care in Florida from: - ✔✔Department of Children and Families (DCF)
✔✔With regards to licensing, DCF must: - ✔✔Establish licensing standards; address
issues related to health, sanitation, and physical surrounding; consider fire safety; and
adopt rules for licensing that enforce the standards.
✔✔Spanking or any other form of corporal (physical) punishment is prohibited in a
childcare facility: - ✔✔True
✔✔In a childcare facility, discipline shall not be associated with food, rest, or toileting. -
✔✔True
✔✔The childcare facility is responsible for obtaining a current Student Health
Examination for each child within thirty days of enrollment and maintain a copy while the
child is enrolled. - ✔✔True
, ✔✔Daily attendance of children shall be taken and recorded by the childcare facility
personnel, documenting when each child enters and departs a childcare facility. -
✔✔True
✔✔Records of accidents and incidents shall be documented daily and maintained for
one year. Documentation shall include: - ✔✔The name of affected party, date and time
of occurrence, actions taken and by whom appropriate signatures of staff and parents.
✔✔The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits: - ✔✔Discrimination against
people who have a disability
✔✔A disability can be a: - ✔✔Handicap, Physical impairment, mental impairment,
illness or disease
✔✔The ADA creates early intervention services for infants and toddlers (ages birth to
three years) with special needs and their families. - ✔✔True
✔✔Using stereotypes to form ideas about people is NOT a good decision making
process: - ✔✔True
✔✔For children from birth through 1 year of age, there must be at least One staff for
every _________ children - ✔✔Four
✔✔For children from 1 year of age, but under 2 years of age, there must be at least one
staff for every _________ children - ✔✔Six
✔✔For children from 2 years of age, but under 3 years of age, there must be at least
one staff for every __________ children. - ✔✔Eleven
✔✔For children from 3 years of age, but under 4 years of age, there must be at least
one staff for every ___________ children - ✔✔Fifteen
✔✔For children from 4 years of age, but under 5 years of age, there must be at least
one staff for every __________ children. - ✔✔Twenty
✔✔For children 5 years of age or older, there must be at least one staff for every
___________ children - ✔✔Twenty-five
✔✔In groups of mixed age ranges, where children under 1 are included, one staff
member shall be responsible for no more than 4 children of any group at all times. -
✔✔True
