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Tennessee Cat 7 Exam Review, 100
Questions and Correct Answers A+ Graded
(2025/2026)
1. What agency is responsible for the enforcement of federal pesticide laws
and regulations?: EPA
2. Which law requires federal registration of pesticides shipped in interstate
commerce?: FIFRA
3. Which law prohibits the use of any registered pesticide in a manner incon-
sistent with label directions?: FEPCA
4. Any commercial applicator who violates any provision of FIFRA may be
assessed a civil penalty of not more than?: 5,000
5. Which agency is responsible for the protection of health, safety and welfare
of pest control employees and the general public from the hazards of pesticide
use in Tennessee?: TDA
6. The TDA certification and enforcement functions are coordinated primarily
through what division of TDA?: Regulatory services division
7. Pesticides that may cause adverse effects on the environment and/ or the
, applicator, unless subject to additional regulatory restrictions are classified
as?: Restricted-use pesticides
8. A certification period last for how many years?: 3 years
9. One may earn up to what percentage in-house points in the recertification
program?: 50%
10. How many recertification points are required for category 7 in a 3 year
period?: 30 Points
11. Which is not a step in an IPM program?: Scheduled pesticide applications
12. Which is not an objective of a general inspection?: Locate pesticide drift
13. A good inspection technique is to first identity areas within a structure that
offer a tropical environment (warmth, moist, dark, and humid).: True
14. Which is not likely to be used as a pest travel route?: Color pattern in a rug
15. Which is NOT an example of pest-proofing?: Using a vacuum to remove pest
16. Habitat is a location?: Where a pest lives naturally and has access to food,
water and harborage
17. Which is NOT an example of pest habitat manipulation?: Use of harpoon
mole traps
18. Which is not an example of a lethal trapping program?: Multiple-catch traps
19. IPM stands for?: Integrated pest management
20. The four main components of IPM listed in this manual are?: Inspection,pest
threshold determination, management procedures and evaluation.
21. Which cannot be made into a liquid formulation?: Extruded block
22. Which is one of the most effective formulations for use against cockroach-
es, ants, and rodents?: Baits
23. Anticoagulant rodenticides kill rodents by?: Preventing blood from clotting
Tennessee Cat 7 Exam Review, 100
Questions and Correct Answers A+ Graded
(2025/2026)
1. What agency is responsible for the enforcement of federal pesticide laws
and regulations?: EPA
2. Which law requires federal registration of pesticides shipped in interstate
commerce?: FIFRA
3. Which law prohibits the use of any registered pesticide in a manner incon-
sistent with label directions?: FEPCA
4. Any commercial applicator who violates any provision of FIFRA may be
assessed a civil penalty of not more than?: 5,000
5. Which agency is responsible for the protection of health, safety and welfare
of pest control employees and the general public from the hazards of pesticide
use in Tennessee?: TDA
6. The TDA certification and enforcement functions are coordinated primarily
through what division of TDA?: Regulatory services division
7. Pesticides that may cause adverse effects on the environment and/ or the
, applicator, unless subject to additional regulatory restrictions are classified
as?: Restricted-use pesticides
8. A certification period last for how many years?: 3 years
9. One may earn up to what percentage in-house points in the recertification
program?: 50%
10. How many recertification points are required for category 7 in a 3 year
period?: 30 Points
11. Which is not a step in an IPM program?: Scheduled pesticide applications
12. Which is not an objective of a general inspection?: Locate pesticide drift
13. A good inspection technique is to first identity areas within a structure that
offer a tropical environment (warmth, moist, dark, and humid).: True
14. Which is not likely to be used as a pest travel route?: Color pattern in a rug
15. Which is NOT an example of pest-proofing?: Using a vacuum to remove pest
16. Habitat is a location?: Where a pest lives naturally and has access to food,
water and harborage
17. Which is NOT an example of pest habitat manipulation?: Use of harpoon
mole traps
18. Which is not an example of a lethal trapping program?: Multiple-catch traps
19. IPM stands for?: Integrated pest management
20. The four main components of IPM listed in this manual are?: Inspection,pest
threshold determination, management procedures and evaluation.
21. Which cannot be made into a liquid formulation?: Extruded block
22. Which is one of the most effective formulations for use against cockroach-
es, ants, and rodents?: Baits
23. Anticoagulant rodenticides kill rodents by?: Preventing blood from clotting
