NIC KNOWLEDGE EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
(VERIFIED AND WELL DETAILED ANSWER) LATEST
UPDATE 2025/2026
What does "NCIEC" stand for? -answer/ National Consortium of
Interpreter Education Centers
What does "EIPA" stand for? -answer/ Educational Interpreter
Performance Assessment
A situation in which two languages (or two varieties of the same
language) are used under different conditions within a community, often
by the same speakers. Often one is viewed as "high" or "prestige", and
the other is "low" or "low prestige" (slang/wrong/etc) -answer/ Diglossia
The smallest units of language that distinguishes one word from another.
In ASL this is comprised of 5 parameters: handshape, movement,
location, palm orientation, and non-manual markers. -answer/ Phoneme
What does "OVR" stand for? -answer/ Office of Vocational
Rehabilitation
What does "DOE" stand for? -answer/ Department of Education
,What does "PSE" stand for? -answer/ Pidgin Signed English
Another term for the contact language arising from English and ASL -
answer/ Pidgin Signed English (PSE)
What does "VR" stand for? (Not virtual reality:) -answer/ Vocational
Rehabilitation
Lexical items that are borrowed from other countries are called? -
answer/ Loan words
Refers to individuals who have no language skills in any language. -
answer/ Minimal Language Competency (MLC)
The rhythm of a language including stress, inflection, intonation,
pausing and phrasing that help listeners determine meaning and predict
what the speaker will say next. -answer/ Prosidy
Identify the difference in parameter between the signs "INSTITUTE"
and "ALCOHOL" -answer/ Handshape
The part of speech that describes an action, occurrence, or indicates a
state of being. -answer/ Verb
,The part of speech that expresses emotion and is capable of standing
alone. -answer/ Interjection
What does "SC-L" stand for? -answer/ Special Certificate-Legal
What does "HVO" stand for? -answer/ Highly Visual Orientation
A morpheme, the most basic unit of meaning, that can only appear as
part of a larger word. -answer/ Bound morpheme
Model of philosophy motivated by the attitude that deaf people are
handicapped, limited, and incapable of understanding or participating in
the world. This model is characterized by paternalistic care-taking
behavior on the part of the interpreter. -answer/ The Helper Model or
Philosophy
Model of philosophy: A rigid, robot-like approach where interpreters
assume no responsibility for the interaction or communication dynamics
taking place between clients -answer/ The Machine Model (The Conduit
Model) or Philosphy
What does "NBDA" stand for? -answer/ National Black Deaf
Association
, The language in which the original message is conveyed -answer/
Source language
What does "VRS" stand for? -answer/ Video Relay Service
What does "VRI" stand for? -answer/ Video Remote Interpreting
Name the 8 parts of speech -answer/ Noun, pronoun, verb, adjective,
adverb, conjunction, preposition, interjection
What does "CDI" stand for? -answer/ Certified Deaf Interpreter
What does "LRE" stand for? -answer/ Least Restrictive Environment
Model or philosophy based on the belief that effective interpretation
requires cultural and linguistic mediation in order to accomplish speaker
goals and maintain dynamic equivalence. -answer/ The Bilingual-
Bicultural Model or Philosophy
Interpreting is what type of profession according to Dean and Pollard? -
answer/ A practice profession.
(VERIFIED AND WELL DETAILED ANSWER) LATEST
UPDATE 2025/2026
What does "NCIEC" stand for? -answer/ National Consortium of
Interpreter Education Centers
What does "EIPA" stand for? -answer/ Educational Interpreter
Performance Assessment
A situation in which two languages (or two varieties of the same
language) are used under different conditions within a community, often
by the same speakers. Often one is viewed as "high" or "prestige", and
the other is "low" or "low prestige" (slang/wrong/etc) -answer/ Diglossia
The smallest units of language that distinguishes one word from another.
In ASL this is comprised of 5 parameters: handshape, movement,
location, palm orientation, and non-manual markers. -answer/ Phoneme
What does "OVR" stand for? -answer/ Office of Vocational
Rehabilitation
What does "DOE" stand for? -answer/ Department of Education
,What does "PSE" stand for? -answer/ Pidgin Signed English
Another term for the contact language arising from English and ASL -
answer/ Pidgin Signed English (PSE)
What does "VR" stand for? (Not virtual reality:) -answer/ Vocational
Rehabilitation
Lexical items that are borrowed from other countries are called? -
answer/ Loan words
Refers to individuals who have no language skills in any language. -
answer/ Minimal Language Competency (MLC)
The rhythm of a language including stress, inflection, intonation,
pausing and phrasing that help listeners determine meaning and predict
what the speaker will say next. -answer/ Prosidy
Identify the difference in parameter between the signs "INSTITUTE"
and "ALCOHOL" -answer/ Handshape
The part of speech that describes an action, occurrence, or indicates a
state of being. -answer/ Verb
,The part of speech that expresses emotion and is capable of standing
alone. -answer/ Interjection
What does "SC-L" stand for? -answer/ Special Certificate-Legal
What does "HVO" stand for? -answer/ Highly Visual Orientation
A morpheme, the most basic unit of meaning, that can only appear as
part of a larger word. -answer/ Bound morpheme
Model of philosophy motivated by the attitude that deaf people are
handicapped, limited, and incapable of understanding or participating in
the world. This model is characterized by paternalistic care-taking
behavior on the part of the interpreter. -answer/ The Helper Model or
Philosophy
Model of philosophy: A rigid, robot-like approach where interpreters
assume no responsibility for the interaction or communication dynamics
taking place between clients -answer/ The Machine Model (The Conduit
Model) or Philosphy
What does "NBDA" stand for? -answer/ National Black Deaf
Association
, The language in which the original message is conveyed -answer/
Source language
What does "VRS" stand for? -answer/ Video Relay Service
What does "VRI" stand for? -answer/ Video Remote Interpreting
Name the 8 parts of speech -answer/ Noun, pronoun, verb, adjective,
adverb, conjunction, preposition, interjection
What does "CDI" stand for? -answer/ Certified Deaf Interpreter
What does "LRE" stand for? -answer/ Least Restrictive Environment
Model or philosophy based on the belief that effective interpretation
requires cultural and linguistic mediation in order to accomplish speaker
goals and maintain dynamic equivalence. -answer/ The Bilingual-
Bicultural Model or Philosophy
Interpreting is what type of profession according to Dean and Pollard? -
answer/ A practice profession.
