DCF ACTUAL 2026 EXAMS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
GRADED A+
✔✔Menal health of a healthy child are - ✔✔a child who is interested in new experiences
and is usally confident and adaptable.
✔✔Is a child with short-term emotional illness or disability a child with special needs. -
✔✔No
✔✔Can you give examples of short-term illness or disability? - ✔✔Ear infections vs.
hearing loss; cold vs. asthma; sprained ankle vs. foot deformity; distress over fight vs.
depression
✔✔What can you do to know what is normal for a particular child? - ✔✔Ask the parents
for signs of well-being and their child normal displays.
✔✔Daily checks are a good way of: - ✔✔preventing, identifing and controlling illness in
a child care environment.
✔✔Signs to observe in a daily health check in Behavior is: - ✔✔general mood (quiet,
irritable, drousy, restless), unusual behavior, activity level, breathing difficulities, severe
coughing, sneezing, hoarseness.
✔✔Signs to observe in a daily health chec in Face and Body: - ✔✔Skin color (flused,
pale, dry, clammy, hot), unusual spots, raches, swelling or bruises, sores, discharge
from nose, ears, eyes, red look to eyes, irritated sensitive to light.
✔✔Signs to observe in a daily health check in general: - ✔✔bowel movements (change
in color, oder, frequency), pain (screaming, crying, head-rolling), skin marks (rashes,
bruises, cuts)
✔✔Appetite - ✔✔desire to eat
✔✔Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrom (AIDS) - ✔✔A virus infection that renders the
body incapable of fighting off the most common diseases and is usually fatal. This is
considered to be the end stage of a HIV diagnosis.
✔✔Clean - ✔✔To remove dirt, debris and germs by scrubbing and washing with soap
(or detergent) and water. The process does not necessary kill germs, but lowers the risk
of spreading infection.
✔✔Communiable Disease - ✔✔Disease that can be spread from one person to another.
, ✔✔Dehydration - ✔✔Excessive water loss from the body or from an organ or bodily
part.
✔✔Disease - ✔✔an illness
✔✔Disinfectant - ✔✔To kill germs on surfaces or objects by using chemicals to lower
the risk of spreading infection
✔✔DTP - ✔✔A vaccine for three diseases: diphtheria, tetanus (lockjaw) and pertussis
(whooping cough)
✔✔Evacuation Plan - ✔✔Procedures for getting children and staff out of the building;
applied during the fire drills and any other emergency situation.
✔✔Health - ✔✔The total well being of the physical body (including the emotions, the
mind and the spirit) and the absence of disease or other abnormal condition.
✔✔Health Assessment - ✔✔An estimate of the state of health of a child based upon
observation of his or her health history and measurements of phyiscal growth.
✔✔Health History - ✔✔A record of major health (and illness) events in a child's life
including immunization information.
✔✔Hepatitis B - ✔✔Serious viral disease of the liver involving gradual loss of appetite,
abdomial discomfot, nausea and vomiting, joint pain and rash. Often jaundice (yellowish
tint of eyes and skin) appears later.
✔✔Hib - ✔✔A bateria that is the leading cause of baterial meningitis as well as
pneumonia, joint or bone infections and throat inflammations. This occurs most often in
children during the first five years of life.
✔✔HIV Positive - ✔✔Indication through a blood test that one has been infected by the
HIV virus, a virus that causes AIDS.
✔✔Hunger - ✔✔A phyiscal need for food.
✔✔Immunization - ✔✔Administration of a vaccine to make the body build up a defense
against a disease.
✔✔Impermeable surface - ✔✔A surface that is resistant to water, chemicals and other
fluids. These surfaces are required in areas such as changing stations, playpens, cots
and sleeping mats.
✔✔Isolation Area - ✔✔A designated area or a child who becomes ill at the facility.
GRADED A+
✔✔Menal health of a healthy child are - ✔✔a child who is interested in new experiences
and is usally confident and adaptable.
✔✔Is a child with short-term emotional illness or disability a child with special needs. -
✔✔No
✔✔Can you give examples of short-term illness or disability? - ✔✔Ear infections vs.
hearing loss; cold vs. asthma; sprained ankle vs. foot deformity; distress over fight vs.
depression
✔✔What can you do to know what is normal for a particular child? - ✔✔Ask the parents
for signs of well-being and their child normal displays.
✔✔Daily checks are a good way of: - ✔✔preventing, identifing and controlling illness in
a child care environment.
✔✔Signs to observe in a daily health check in Behavior is: - ✔✔general mood (quiet,
irritable, drousy, restless), unusual behavior, activity level, breathing difficulities, severe
coughing, sneezing, hoarseness.
✔✔Signs to observe in a daily health chec in Face and Body: - ✔✔Skin color (flused,
pale, dry, clammy, hot), unusual spots, raches, swelling or bruises, sores, discharge
from nose, ears, eyes, red look to eyes, irritated sensitive to light.
✔✔Signs to observe in a daily health check in general: - ✔✔bowel movements (change
in color, oder, frequency), pain (screaming, crying, head-rolling), skin marks (rashes,
bruises, cuts)
✔✔Appetite - ✔✔desire to eat
✔✔Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrom (AIDS) - ✔✔A virus infection that renders the
body incapable of fighting off the most common diseases and is usually fatal. This is
considered to be the end stage of a HIV diagnosis.
✔✔Clean - ✔✔To remove dirt, debris and germs by scrubbing and washing with soap
(or detergent) and water. The process does not necessary kill germs, but lowers the risk
of spreading infection.
✔✔Communiable Disease - ✔✔Disease that can be spread from one person to another.
, ✔✔Dehydration - ✔✔Excessive water loss from the body or from an organ or bodily
part.
✔✔Disease - ✔✔an illness
✔✔Disinfectant - ✔✔To kill germs on surfaces or objects by using chemicals to lower
the risk of spreading infection
✔✔DTP - ✔✔A vaccine for three diseases: diphtheria, tetanus (lockjaw) and pertussis
(whooping cough)
✔✔Evacuation Plan - ✔✔Procedures for getting children and staff out of the building;
applied during the fire drills and any other emergency situation.
✔✔Health - ✔✔The total well being of the physical body (including the emotions, the
mind and the spirit) and the absence of disease or other abnormal condition.
✔✔Health Assessment - ✔✔An estimate of the state of health of a child based upon
observation of his or her health history and measurements of phyiscal growth.
✔✔Health History - ✔✔A record of major health (and illness) events in a child's life
including immunization information.
✔✔Hepatitis B - ✔✔Serious viral disease of the liver involving gradual loss of appetite,
abdomial discomfot, nausea and vomiting, joint pain and rash. Often jaundice (yellowish
tint of eyes and skin) appears later.
✔✔Hib - ✔✔A bateria that is the leading cause of baterial meningitis as well as
pneumonia, joint or bone infections and throat inflammations. This occurs most often in
children during the first five years of life.
✔✔HIV Positive - ✔✔Indication through a blood test that one has been infected by the
HIV virus, a virus that causes AIDS.
✔✔Hunger - ✔✔A phyiscal need for food.
✔✔Immunization - ✔✔Administration of a vaccine to make the body build up a defense
against a disease.
✔✔Impermeable surface - ✔✔A surface that is resistant to water, chemicals and other
fluids. These surfaces are required in areas such as changing stations, playpens, cots
and sleeping mats.
✔✔Isolation Area - ✔✔A designated area or a child who becomes ill at the facility.
