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AMCA EKG Practice Test Exam 2026 Actual Complete
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The use of a non-invasive and painless ultrasound to
examine the heart, its chambers and valves is known as? -
Answer-Echocardiography
Wave forms displayed on a screen is called? - Answer-
Electrocardiogram
The breast bone is referred to as? - Answer-The sternum
The pericardio sac that surrounds the heart wall is? -
Answer-A tough fibrous outer layer called the visceral
pericardium and inner thin transparent lining called the
fibrous pericardium.
What are the three layers of the heart wall? - Answer-
Epicardium (outer), Myocardium (middle), and
Endocardium (inner).
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The atrioventricular valve between the left atrium and left
ventricle is? - Answer-The mitral valve
The wall that separates the two superior chambers of the
heart is called? - Answer-Interatrial septum
The heart valves that separates the atria from the
ventricles are called? - Answer-Atrioventricular valves
The skeleton of the heart? - Answer-separates the atria
from the ventricles
The heart receives most of its own blood supply via the -
Answer-coronary arteries
Regulation of the heart rate, speed of electrical
conduction, and strength of contraction are influenced by
the brain via the? - Answer-Central nervous system
The cardiac accelerator center is? - Answer-Part of the
sympathetic nervous system
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The most muscular chamber of the heart that forces blood
through the aortic valve is the? - Answer-left ventricle
(power house)
During depolarization, what happens? - Answer-Impulses
are generated and transmitted when positively charged
ions move inside cells causing the interior to become
positively charged.
Blood return to the heart from the lungs via 4 blood
vessels are named? - Answer-Pulmonary veins
Blood travels to the lungs where carbon dioxide is
unloaded and oxygen is loaded. The blood vessels that
carry the blood from the heart the lungs are? - Answer-
Pulmonary arteries
During which phase of the cardiac cycle do the coronary
arteries fill? - Answer-Early systole (contracting)
How much of the blood coming into the ventricles flows
passively through the atria? - Answer-70% or 80%
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With the ECG paper - Answer-Five small squares, which
make up a larger box, represent 0.20 seconds in duration.
On ECG paper, horizontal measurements are used to
determine the? - Answer-heart rate
What is placed on the patients skin to detect the hearts
electrical activity? - Answer-Electrodes (censors)
Duration of each small square running horizontally? -
Answer-.04 seconds
The initiation of the impulse in the SA node and its
movement through the atria produces a? - Answer-P-wave
Describe the T-wave - Answer-has a peak which is closer
to the end then the beginning
What is used as a reference point to identify the changing
electrical amplitude? - Answer-The isoelectric line (base
line)
AMCA EKG Practice Test Exam 2026 Actual Complete
Real Verified Exam Questions And Verified Answers /
Solved 100% Correct!! Already Graded A+ || Newest
Exam!!!
The use of a non-invasive and painless ultrasound to
examine the heart, its chambers and valves is known as? -
Answer-Echocardiography
Wave forms displayed on a screen is called? - Answer-
Electrocardiogram
The breast bone is referred to as? - Answer-The sternum
The pericardio sac that surrounds the heart wall is? -
Answer-A tough fibrous outer layer called the visceral
pericardium and inner thin transparent lining called the
fibrous pericardium.
What are the three layers of the heart wall? - Answer-
Epicardium (outer), Myocardium (middle), and
Endocardium (inner).
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The atrioventricular valve between the left atrium and left
ventricle is? - Answer-The mitral valve
The wall that separates the two superior chambers of the
heart is called? - Answer-Interatrial septum
The heart valves that separates the atria from the
ventricles are called? - Answer-Atrioventricular valves
The skeleton of the heart? - Answer-separates the atria
from the ventricles
The heart receives most of its own blood supply via the -
Answer-coronary arteries
Regulation of the heart rate, speed of electrical
conduction, and strength of contraction are influenced by
the brain via the? - Answer-Central nervous system
The cardiac accelerator center is? - Answer-Part of the
sympathetic nervous system
,3|Page
The most muscular chamber of the heart that forces blood
through the aortic valve is the? - Answer-left ventricle
(power house)
During depolarization, what happens? - Answer-Impulses
are generated and transmitted when positively charged
ions move inside cells causing the interior to become
positively charged.
Blood return to the heart from the lungs via 4 blood
vessels are named? - Answer-Pulmonary veins
Blood travels to the lungs where carbon dioxide is
unloaded and oxygen is loaded. The blood vessels that
carry the blood from the heart the lungs are? - Answer-
Pulmonary arteries
During which phase of the cardiac cycle do the coronary
arteries fill? - Answer-Early systole (contracting)
How much of the blood coming into the ventricles flows
passively through the atria? - Answer-70% or 80%
, 4|Page
With the ECG paper - Answer-Five small squares, which
make up a larger box, represent 0.20 seconds in duration.
On ECG paper, horizontal measurements are used to
determine the? - Answer-heart rate
What is placed on the patients skin to detect the hearts
electrical activity? - Answer-Electrodes (censors)
Duration of each small square running horizontally? -
Answer-.04 seconds
The initiation of the impulse in the SA node and its
movement through the atria produces a? - Answer-P-wave
Describe the T-wave - Answer-has a peak which is closer
to the end then the beginning
What is used as a reference point to identify the changing
electrical amplitude? - Answer-The isoelectric line (base
line)
