Hearing Aid Dispenser Mock Exam #3
UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and
CORRECT Answers
If your patient has a fenestrated canal you would have to do which of the following when taking
ear impressions:
a. Use large or multiple otoblocks
b. use normal type of otoblock
c. use normal type of otoblock, but with the X-type of string
d. none of the above - CORRECT ANSWER - a. Use large or multiple otoblocks
If your patient is using a device on their hearing aid to exclude room conversation but is able to
hear on the telephone the hearing aid would have an:
a. MPO switch
b. MBO switch
c. MTO switch
d. MSO switch - CORRECT ANSWER - c. MTO switch
The use of ototoxic drugs would be most likely cause:
a. bilateral sensorineural hearing loss
b. Meniere's disease
c. otosclerosis
d. cerebral vascular accident - CORRECT ANSWER - a. bilateral sensorineural hearing
loss
A man comes into your office and says that his hearing instrument is not working. During your
inspection you find that it is not converting the electrical impulses into sound waves. Which part
is not working:
a. microphone
,b. receiver
c. amplifier
d. potentiometer - CORRECT ANSWER - b. receiver
In doing speech testing, if I start 15 to 20 dB over the PTA which test would I most likely be
doing:
a. UCL
b. MCL
c. SDT
d. SRT - CORRECT ANSWER - d. SRT
One test that is useful in determining the possibility of an acoustic neuroma is:
a. PB Max
b. SRT
c. PI-PB rollover
d. SAT - CORRECT ANSWER - c. PI-PB rollover
One cause of the receiver to quit working is:
a. the battery is only at 1.4v
b. the battery is of the zinc air type
c. external otitis
d. perforation of the tympanic membrane - CORRECT ANSWER - c. external otitis
If you have a patient with a pure tone air score of 45 dB with a pure tone bone score of 60 dB at
500 Hz what could have caused it:
a. audiometer out of calibration
b. improper placement of bone oscillator
c. ambient noise
, d. all of the above - CORRECT ANSWER - d. all of the above
audiometer out of calibration, improper placement of bone oscillator, ambient noise
Input compression would help which of the following hearing problems:
a. recruitment
b. conductive component
c. normal hearing
d. conductive component in one ear and normal in the other - CORRECT ANSWER - a.
recruitment
Tinnitus cannot be caused by which of the following:
a. smoking
b. stress
c. heavy dosages of aspirin
d. atresia - CORRECT ANSWER - d. atresia
If your patient has Meniere's syndrome, she would have which symptom:
a. coughing
b. vertigo
c. itching
d. all of the above - CORRECT ANSWER - b. vertigo
What test would you use to get the patients ear cavity volume and acoustic reflex:
a. impedance
b. real ear
c. impression
d. Short Increment Sensitivity Index (SISI) - CORRECT ANSWER - a. impedance
UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and
CORRECT Answers
If your patient has a fenestrated canal you would have to do which of the following when taking
ear impressions:
a. Use large or multiple otoblocks
b. use normal type of otoblock
c. use normal type of otoblock, but with the X-type of string
d. none of the above - CORRECT ANSWER - a. Use large or multiple otoblocks
If your patient is using a device on their hearing aid to exclude room conversation but is able to
hear on the telephone the hearing aid would have an:
a. MPO switch
b. MBO switch
c. MTO switch
d. MSO switch - CORRECT ANSWER - c. MTO switch
The use of ototoxic drugs would be most likely cause:
a. bilateral sensorineural hearing loss
b. Meniere's disease
c. otosclerosis
d. cerebral vascular accident - CORRECT ANSWER - a. bilateral sensorineural hearing
loss
A man comes into your office and says that his hearing instrument is not working. During your
inspection you find that it is not converting the electrical impulses into sound waves. Which part
is not working:
a. microphone
,b. receiver
c. amplifier
d. potentiometer - CORRECT ANSWER - b. receiver
In doing speech testing, if I start 15 to 20 dB over the PTA which test would I most likely be
doing:
a. UCL
b. MCL
c. SDT
d. SRT - CORRECT ANSWER - d. SRT
One test that is useful in determining the possibility of an acoustic neuroma is:
a. PB Max
b. SRT
c. PI-PB rollover
d. SAT - CORRECT ANSWER - c. PI-PB rollover
One cause of the receiver to quit working is:
a. the battery is only at 1.4v
b. the battery is of the zinc air type
c. external otitis
d. perforation of the tympanic membrane - CORRECT ANSWER - c. external otitis
If you have a patient with a pure tone air score of 45 dB with a pure tone bone score of 60 dB at
500 Hz what could have caused it:
a. audiometer out of calibration
b. improper placement of bone oscillator
c. ambient noise
, d. all of the above - CORRECT ANSWER - d. all of the above
audiometer out of calibration, improper placement of bone oscillator, ambient noise
Input compression would help which of the following hearing problems:
a. recruitment
b. conductive component
c. normal hearing
d. conductive component in one ear and normal in the other - CORRECT ANSWER - a.
recruitment
Tinnitus cannot be caused by which of the following:
a. smoking
b. stress
c. heavy dosages of aspirin
d. atresia - CORRECT ANSWER - d. atresia
If your patient has Meniere's syndrome, she would have which symptom:
a. coughing
b. vertigo
c. itching
d. all of the above - CORRECT ANSWER - b. vertigo
What test would you use to get the patients ear cavity volume and acoustic reflex:
a. impedance
b. real ear
c. impression
d. Short Increment Sensitivity Index (SISI) - CORRECT ANSWER - a. impedance
