MLT ASCP COMPREHENSIVE EXAM 2026 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Gray-top sodium fluoride tube. - ✔✔Chemistry
Slows glycolysis
Inhibits urease
✔✔EDTA in chemistry - ✔✔Increases sodium and potassium decrease calcium
✔✔Chemistry results increase by hemolysis - ✔✔KLAMP
k
Ld
ALD
Mg
PO4
✔✔Decrease in chemistry glucose - ✔✔10 mg/dL per hour
✔✔Fasting glucose reference ranges for serum - ✔✔70to 99 mg/dL
✔✔Insulin - ✔✔Produced by the pancreas decreases serum glucose and stimulates
glucose uptake by cells
✔✔Glucagon - ✔✔Produced by the pancreas that increase glucose and stimulates the
breakdown of glycogen to glucose
✔✔Glycogenolysis - ✔✔breakdown of glycogen to glucose
✔✔Glycogen - ✔✔Storage form of glucose
✔✔ACTH - ✔✔anterior pituitary
Increase glucose
Insulin antagonist
✔✔GH - ✔✔anterior pituitary
Increase glucose
Insulin antagonist
✔✔acromegaly - ✔✔enlargement of the extremities
Hyperglycemia and excess GH
✔✔Cortisol - ✔✔Higher in the morning lower in the evening
Stress hormone produced by the adrenal cortex increases glucose stimulates glucose
from non-carbohydrate sources
,✔✔Gluconeogenesis - ✔✔formation of glucose from noncarbohydrate sources
✔✔epiniephrine (adrenaline) - ✔✔Adrenal medulla
Glycogenolysis
✔✔T3 and T4 - ✔✔thyroid hormones
Stimulate glycogenolysis
✔✔Increase serum glucose - ✔✔Gag Chet
Glucagon
ACTH
GH
Cortisol
HPL
Epinephrine
T 34
✔✔Diabetic acidosis - ✔✔Decreased sodium and chloride with increased potassium
and key tones
✔✔Hexokinase - ✔✔glucose + ATP --> glucose-6-phosphate + ADP
G6p + napd—> NADPH
✔✔Lactose tolerance - ✔✔Ingest lactose and measure blood glucose
Evaluates deficiency of lactase in small bowel
✔✔Lipoproteins - ✔✔Combine with proteins in the liver to form Lipo proteins
✔✔apolopoproteins - ✔✔Protein without lipid
A in HDL
B atherogenic
✔✔Beers law - ✔✔Absorb ace and calculate concentration
✔✔Monochromator - ✔✔Filter and diffraction grading or prism
✔✔Photomultiplier - ✔✔Tube detector
✔✔Fluorometry principle - ✔✔Energy omission that occurs when certain compounds
absorb electromagnetic radiation become excited and return to energy level is slightly
lower than their original energy levels
, ✔✔Turbidimetry - ✔✔Measures the amount of light blocked by particulate matter as
light passes through the cuvette by color meter or spectrophotometer
✔✔Nephelometry - ✔✔Measures light that is scattered by small particles at right angles
to the beam incident to the cuvette
Amount of scatter is related to the number and size of the particles
✔✔Osmometry - ✔✔Measure of total number of dissolved particles in a solution
✔✔Potentiometry - ✔✔PH meters ion selective electrolytes
Measurement of potential or voltage
✔✔Amperometry - ✔✔Measurement of the current flowing through an electrochemical
cell when a constant electric potential is applied to the electrodes
✔✔Coulometry - ✔✔a technique in which the quantity of analyte is determined by
measuring the number of coulombs needed for complete electrolysis
✔✔Forward scatter - ✔✔Cell size
✔✔Side scatter - ✔✔Interior cell structure
✔✔Histogram of red cells - ✔✔Relative number of cells versus MCV
Microcytic is a left shift
Macrocytic is right shift
✔✔White blood cell histogram - ✔✔Three part differential relative number of cells
versus the size
First lymphocytes then monocytes then granulocytes
✔✔Clot detection method - ✔✔Photo optical
Electromechanical
✔✔Exposure control plan - ✔✔OSHA
✔✔Class A fire extinguisher - ✔✔Wood and paper
✔✔Class B fire extinguisher - ✔✔Flammable liquids
✔✔Class C fire extinguisher - ✔✔electrical fires
✔✔Class D fire extinguisher - ✔✔Reactive metals
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Gray-top sodium fluoride tube. - ✔✔Chemistry
Slows glycolysis
Inhibits urease
✔✔EDTA in chemistry - ✔✔Increases sodium and potassium decrease calcium
✔✔Chemistry results increase by hemolysis - ✔✔KLAMP
k
Ld
ALD
Mg
PO4
✔✔Decrease in chemistry glucose - ✔✔10 mg/dL per hour
✔✔Fasting glucose reference ranges for serum - ✔✔70to 99 mg/dL
✔✔Insulin - ✔✔Produced by the pancreas decreases serum glucose and stimulates
glucose uptake by cells
✔✔Glucagon - ✔✔Produced by the pancreas that increase glucose and stimulates the
breakdown of glycogen to glucose
✔✔Glycogenolysis - ✔✔breakdown of glycogen to glucose
✔✔Glycogen - ✔✔Storage form of glucose
✔✔ACTH - ✔✔anterior pituitary
Increase glucose
Insulin antagonist
✔✔GH - ✔✔anterior pituitary
Increase glucose
Insulin antagonist
✔✔acromegaly - ✔✔enlargement of the extremities
Hyperglycemia and excess GH
✔✔Cortisol - ✔✔Higher in the morning lower in the evening
Stress hormone produced by the adrenal cortex increases glucose stimulates glucose
from non-carbohydrate sources
,✔✔Gluconeogenesis - ✔✔formation of glucose from noncarbohydrate sources
✔✔epiniephrine (adrenaline) - ✔✔Adrenal medulla
Glycogenolysis
✔✔T3 and T4 - ✔✔thyroid hormones
Stimulate glycogenolysis
✔✔Increase serum glucose - ✔✔Gag Chet
Glucagon
ACTH
GH
Cortisol
HPL
Epinephrine
T 34
✔✔Diabetic acidosis - ✔✔Decreased sodium and chloride with increased potassium
and key tones
✔✔Hexokinase - ✔✔glucose + ATP --> glucose-6-phosphate + ADP
G6p + napd—> NADPH
✔✔Lactose tolerance - ✔✔Ingest lactose and measure blood glucose
Evaluates deficiency of lactase in small bowel
✔✔Lipoproteins - ✔✔Combine with proteins in the liver to form Lipo proteins
✔✔apolopoproteins - ✔✔Protein without lipid
A in HDL
B atherogenic
✔✔Beers law - ✔✔Absorb ace and calculate concentration
✔✔Monochromator - ✔✔Filter and diffraction grading or prism
✔✔Photomultiplier - ✔✔Tube detector
✔✔Fluorometry principle - ✔✔Energy omission that occurs when certain compounds
absorb electromagnetic radiation become excited and return to energy level is slightly
lower than their original energy levels
, ✔✔Turbidimetry - ✔✔Measures the amount of light blocked by particulate matter as
light passes through the cuvette by color meter or spectrophotometer
✔✔Nephelometry - ✔✔Measures light that is scattered by small particles at right angles
to the beam incident to the cuvette
Amount of scatter is related to the number and size of the particles
✔✔Osmometry - ✔✔Measure of total number of dissolved particles in a solution
✔✔Potentiometry - ✔✔PH meters ion selective electrolytes
Measurement of potential or voltage
✔✔Amperometry - ✔✔Measurement of the current flowing through an electrochemical
cell when a constant electric potential is applied to the electrodes
✔✔Coulometry - ✔✔a technique in which the quantity of analyte is determined by
measuring the number of coulombs needed for complete electrolysis
✔✔Forward scatter - ✔✔Cell size
✔✔Side scatter - ✔✔Interior cell structure
✔✔Histogram of red cells - ✔✔Relative number of cells versus MCV
Microcytic is a left shift
Macrocytic is right shift
✔✔White blood cell histogram - ✔✔Three part differential relative number of cells
versus the size
First lymphocytes then monocytes then granulocytes
✔✔Clot detection method - ✔✔Photo optical
Electromechanical
✔✔Exposure control plan - ✔✔OSHA
✔✔Class A fire extinguisher - ✔✔Wood and paper
✔✔Class B fire extinguisher - ✔✔Flammable liquids
✔✔Class C fire extinguisher - ✔✔electrical fires
✔✔Class D fire extinguisher - ✔✔Reactive metals
