CNPR EXAM ACTUAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
CNPR Exam Questions
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1. What does a STAT order mean a drug needed immediately and given only
once
2. What Information does the overdosage Signs, symptoms, and treatment of acute
section of the labeling provide? overdoses
3. Types of Drug-Drug Interactions: duplication, opposition (antagonism) and
alteration
4. Tolerance Vs. Resistance tolerance is the diminished response to a
drug; resistance is the cells ability to resist
the effects of the drug on them.
5. Abbreviated New Drug Application the process by which applicants must sci-
entifically demonstrate to the FDA that their
generic product is bioequivalent to or per-
forms similarly to the innovator drug
6. Hatch-Waxman Act of 1984 (Drug Price Competition and Patent Term
Restoration)
Encouraged creation of both generic and
new medications by streamlining the
process for generic drug approval and by
extending patent licenses.
7. Four basic transport mechanisms passive diffusion, facilitated diffusion, active
transport, and pinocytosis
8. Potency vs Efficacy potency: amount of drug necessary to pro-
duce desired effect
efficacy: ability of drug to achieve desired
effect
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*Efficacy is almost always more important
than potency.*
9. The four phases of clinical trials phases I-IV
10. Key Parts Of A Clinical Paper Abstract, Introduction, methods, results, dis-
cussion/conclusions
11. Reliability vs. Validity reliability (consistency) and validity (accura-
cy)
12. Sampling error Vs. selection Bias sampling error is unbiased and is randomly
chosen from the population.
selection bias is when the sample was specif-
ically chosen based on particular character-
istics
13. Independent Vs. Dependent variable An independent variable is the one that in-
fluences the variation. A dependent variable
is the variable being tested and measured in
a scientific experiment (the result of applying
the independent variable).
14. Drug Utilization review programs involve retrospective monitoring of physi-
cians prescribing patterns. More than 90%
of HMO's require DURs.
15. Opportunity cost Based on the premise that all resources are
scarce, and therefore every time we choose
to use a resource it reduces the possibility of
it being used in another way.
16. what type of DTC advertising is the only Disease-state or unbranded ads (provides
legal form in Europe public information on a disease, not a drug)
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CNPR Exam Questions
ANSWERS | ALREADY GRADED A+ | BRAND NEW!!
Study online at https://quizlet.com/_h18jbj
1. What does a STAT order mean a drug needed immediately and given only
once
2. What Information does the overdosage Signs, symptoms, and treatment of acute
section of the labeling provide? overdoses
3. Types of Drug-Drug Interactions: duplication, opposition (antagonism) and
alteration
4. Tolerance Vs. Resistance tolerance is the diminished response to a
drug; resistance is the cells ability to resist
the effects of the drug on them.
5. Abbreviated New Drug Application the process by which applicants must sci-
entifically demonstrate to the FDA that their
generic product is bioequivalent to or per-
forms similarly to the innovator drug
6. Hatch-Waxman Act of 1984 (Drug Price Competition and Patent Term
Restoration)
Encouraged creation of both generic and
new medications by streamlining the
process for generic drug approval and by
extending patent licenses.
7. Four basic transport mechanisms passive diffusion, facilitated diffusion, active
transport, and pinocytosis
8. Potency vs Efficacy potency: amount of drug necessary to pro-
duce desired effect
efficacy: ability of drug to achieve desired
effect
1/9
, CNPR Exam Questions
Study online at https://quizlet.com/_h18jbj
*Efficacy is almost always more important
than potency.*
9. The four phases of clinical trials phases I-IV
10. Key Parts Of A Clinical Paper Abstract, Introduction, methods, results, dis-
cussion/conclusions
11. Reliability vs. Validity reliability (consistency) and validity (accura-
cy)
12. Sampling error Vs. selection Bias sampling error is unbiased and is randomly
chosen from the population.
selection bias is when the sample was specif-
ically chosen based on particular character-
istics
13. Independent Vs. Dependent variable An independent variable is the one that in-
fluences the variation. A dependent variable
is the variable being tested and measured in
a scientific experiment (the result of applying
the independent variable).
14. Drug Utilization review programs involve retrospective monitoring of physi-
cians prescribing patterns. More than 90%
of HMO's require DURs.
15. Opportunity cost Based on the premise that all resources are
scarce, and therefore every time we choose
to use a resource it reduces the possibility of
it being used in another way.
16. what type of DTC advertising is the only Disease-state or unbranded ads (provides
legal form in Europe public information on a disease, not a drug)
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