WASHINGTON PESTICIDE CORE EXAM SET QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS 2025/2026 ALL RATED A+
✔✔Pest control that involves the use of numerous tactics is called - ✔✔Integrated Pest
Management (IPM)
✔✔The goal of a pest management program is to eradicate the pest. (True or False) -
✔✔False
✔✔Purpose of federal and state pesticide laws - ✔✔Protect public health and welfare
and prevent adverse effects on the environment
✔✔The EPA has the authority to stop the sale or use of any pesticide. (True or False) -
✔✔True
✔✔EPA - ✔✔Environmental Protection Agency; develops and enforces the regulations
of environmental law in an effort to protect human health and the environment
✔✔FIFRA - ✔✔Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act of 1972, requires
pesticide registration, modified by the Food Quality Protection Act
✔✔Special Local Needs Registration (section 24c) - ✔✔Allow a state under some
conditions to register additional uses for a federally registered pesticide.
Applicator must have a copy of SLN in possession.
✔✔Emergency Exemption from Registration (section 18) - ✔✔Used when an
emergency pest situation arises for which no acceptable pesticide is registered or
available in the state. Allows the sale and use of a product for a non registered purpose
in a specific area for a specific time period.
✔✔Minimum-Risk Pesticides (section 25b) - ✔✔Pesticide is exempt from registration.
Minimal risk to humans and environment. Do not require EPA label approval, or have
regulations.
✔✔Recertification Requirements - ✔✔Private Applicator: 20 credits every 5 years ; can't
exceed 10 a year
Limited Private Applicator: 8 credits every 5 years
Rancher Private Applicator: 12 credits every 5 years
All Other: 40 credits every 5 years ; can't exceed 15 a year
✔✔How long must pesticide dealers keep records on sales (except for home and
garden) - ✔✔7 years
✔✔Maximum civil penalty - ✔✔$7,500 fine for each offense and lose license
, ✔✔Who administers the pesticide licensing program in WA? - ✔✔WSDA
✔✔A solution - ✔✔Made by dissolving a substance in a liquid. A MIXTURE, that cannot
be separated. Will not settle
✔✔A Suspension - ✔✔A liquid mixture formed by dispersing fine solid particles in a
liquid. MUST BE AGITATED to maintain. Will settle
✔✔A Emulsion - ✔✔Mixture made by suspending droplets of one liquid in another.
Active ingredient + oil based solvent + water. Some agitation may be necessary. Have a
"milky" appearance
✔✔Wet table Powders - ✔✔Dry, finely ground, do not dissolve in water. Active
ingredient + inert clay + emulsifier. Then mixed with water and applied as suspensions.
Require constant agitation.
✔✔Flowables - ✔✔Finely ground solid particles combines with active ingredients AND
SUSPENDED IN A LIQUID CARRIER
✔✔Invert Emulsions - ✔✔Contain water-soluble pesticides disbursed in oil carriers.
Reduce drift and runoff
✔✔Dust formulations - ✔✔Contain low percentage of active ingredient (0.5- 10%) + a
finely ground inert substance. Always used dry
✔✔Granules and Pellets - ✔✔dry, ready-to-use materials usually containing 2% to 15%
active ingredient. Used to deliver systemic pesticides
✔✔Baits Formulations - ✔✔Active ingredient mixed with an edible substance or some
other attractant >5%
✔✔Pastes, Gels, and other injectable baits - ✔✔Used in pest control for ants and
cockroaches. Usually "injected" inside small cracks and crevices of buildings where
insects tend to hide or travel.
✔✔Aerosols - ✔✔Active ingredient in solution (petroleum) and packages in a
pressurized container
✔✔Pesticide-fertilizer combinations - ✔✔Usually granule and pellet formulations
✔✔Fumigants - ✔✔Active as gasses, sometimes as liquids that become gasses when
under pressure.
AND ANSWERS 2025/2026 ALL RATED A+
✔✔Pest control that involves the use of numerous tactics is called - ✔✔Integrated Pest
Management (IPM)
✔✔The goal of a pest management program is to eradicate the pest. (True or False) -
✔✔False
✔✔Purpose of federal and state pesticide laws - ✔✔Protect public health and welfare
and prevent adverse effects on the environment
✔✔The EPA has the authority to stop the sale or use of any pesticide. (True or False) -
✔✔True
✔✔EPA - ✔✔Environmental Protection Agency; develops and enforces the regulations
of environmental law in an effort to protect human health and the environment
✔✔FIFRA - ✔✔Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act of 1972, requires
pesticide registration, modified by the Food Quality Protection Act
✔✔Special Local Needs Registration (section 24c) - ✔✔Allow a state under some
conditions to register additional uses for a federally registered pesticide.
Applicator must have a copy of SLN in possession.
✔✔Emergency Exemption from Registration (section 18) - ✔✔Used when an
emergency pest situation arises for which no acceptable pesticide is registered or
available in the state. Allows the sale and use of a product for a non registered purpose
in a specific area for a specific time period.
✔✔Minimum-Risk Pesticides (section 25b) - ✔✔Pesticide is exempt from registration.
Minimal risk to humans and environment. Do not require EPA label approval, or have
regulations.
✔✔Recertification Requirements - ✔✔Private Applicator: 20 credits every 5 years ; can't
exceed 10 a year
Limited Private Applicator: 8 credits every 5 years
Rancher Private Applicator: 12 credits every 5 years
All Other: 40 credits every 5 years ; can't exceed 15 a year
✔✔How long must pesticide dealers keep records on sales (except for home and
garden) - ✔✔7 years
✔✔Maximum civil penalty - ✔✔$7,500 fine for each offense and lose license
, ✔✔Who administers the pesticide licensing program in WA? - ✔✔WSDA
✔✔A solution - ✔✔Made by dissolving a substance in a liquid. A MIXTURE, that cannot
be separated. Will not settle
✔✔A Suspension - ✔✔A liquid mixture formed by dispersing fine solid particles in a
liquid. MUST BE AGITATED to maintain. Will settle
✔✔A Emulsion - ✔✔Mixture made by suspending droplets of one liquid in another.
Active ingredient + oil based solvent + water. Some agitation may be necessary. Have a
"milky" appearance
✔✔Wet table Powders - ✔✔Dry, finely ground, do not dissolve in water. Active
ingredient + inert clay + emulsifier. Then mixed with water and applied as suspensions.
Require constant agitation.
✔✔Flowables - ✔✔Finely ground solid particles combines with active ingredients AND
SUSPENDED IN A LIQUID CARRIER
✔✔Invert Emulsions - ✔✔Contain water-soluble pesticides disbursed in oil carriers.
Reduce drift and runoff
✔✔Dust formulations - ✔✔Contain low percentage of active ingredient (0.5- 10%) + a
finely ground inert substance. Always used dry
✔✔Granules and Pellets - ✔✔dry, ready-to-use materials usually containing 2% to 15%
active ingredient. Used to deliver systemic pesticides
✔✔Baits Formulations - ✔✔Active ingredient mixed with an edible substance or some
other attractant >5%
✔✔Pastes, Gels, and other injectable baits - ✔✔Used in pest control for ants and
cockroaches. Usually "injected" inside small cracks and crevices of buildings where
insects tend to hide or travel.
✔✔Aerosols - ✔✔Active ingredient in solution (petroleum) and packages in a
pressurized container
✔✔Pesticide-fertilizer combinations - ✔✔Usually granule and pellet formulations
✔✔Fumigants - ✔✔Active as gasses, sometimes as liquids that become gasses when
under pressure.
