WGU D116 ADVANCED
PHARMACOLOGY FINAL EXAM 2026
STUDY GUIDE TEST PAPER
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+
◉ What does a low level of thyroid-stimulating hormone indicate?
Answer: Hyperthroidism
◉ What would be the best option to treat a newly diagnosed patient with
a low TSH level with? Answer: Propanolol (Inderal)
◉ Spironoaldactone (Aldactone) has what mechanism of action (MOA)?
Answer: Aldosterone antagonist
◉ Heparin exerts its therapeutic action by what? Answer: Upregulating
the activity of one of the body's natural anticoagulant molecules,
antithrombin III
◉ What physiologic action happens when the offending drug is
administered during an anaphylactic reaction. Answer: Mast cells
liberate large doses of histamine.
◉ What are two systemic psoriasis medications? Answer: Photo-therapy
and topical corticosteroids
, ◉ What is the first choice of drug therapy for the majority of patients
with uncomplicated stage I hypertension? Answer: Thiazide diuretics
◉ What is the effect of cardiac glycosides? Answer: Digitalis glycosides
have a negative chronotropic effect on the cardiac muscle cells.
◉ Amenorrhea is the most common side effect of which birth control
medication? Answer: Medroxyprogesterone (Depo-Provera)
◉ What is an anti-hypertensive agent which competes with epinephrine
for available beta-receptor sites? Answer: Atenolol (Tenormin)
◉ What type of action does nitrates have on the body? Answer:
Reduction in systemic venous tone.
◉ What is the recommended level of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol
(LDL) for patients with known coronary artery disease? Answer:
100mg/dl or less.
◉ What is the MOA of group IV anti-dysrhythmia drugs? Answer:
Depressing phase 4 depolarization and lengthening phases 1 and 2
repolarization.
◉ Which drug therapy should be used to lower the serum concentration
of thyroid hormones and re-establish eumetabolic state in a patient with
Graves' disease? Answer: Anti-thyroid drugs.
PHARMACOLOGY FINAL EXAM 2026
STUDY GUIDE TEST PAPER
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+
◉ What does a low level of thyroid-stimulating hormone indicate?
Answer: Hyperthroidism
◉ What would be the best option to treat a newly diagnosed patient with
a low TSH level with? Answer: Propanolol (Inderal)
◉ Spironoaldactone (Aldactone) has what mechanism of action (MOA)?
Answer: Aldosterone antagonist
◉ Heparin exerts its therapeutic action by what? Answer: Upregulating
the activity of one of the body's natural anticoagulant molecules,
antithrombin III
◉ What physiologic action happens when the offending drug is
administered during an anaphylactic reaction. Answer: Mast cells
liberate large doses of histamine.
◉ What are two systemic psoriasis medications? Answer: Photo-therapy
and topical corticosteroids
, ◉ What is the first choice of drug therapy for the majority of patients
with uncomplicated stage I hypertension? Answer: Thiazide diuretics
◉ What is the effect of cardiac glycosides? Answer: Digitalis glycosides
have a negative chronotropic effect on the cardiac muscle cells.
◉ Amenorrhea is the most common side effect of which birth control
medication? Answer: Medroxyprogesterone (Depo-Provera)
◉ What is an anti-hypertensive agent which competes with epinephrine
for available beta-receptor sites? Answer: Atenolol (Tenormin)
◉ What type of action does nitrates have on the body? Answer:
Reduction in systemic venous tone.
◉ What is the recommended level of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol
(LDL) for patients with known coronary artery disease? Answer:
100mg/dl or less.
◉ What is the MOA of group IV anti-dysrhythmia drugs? Answer:
Depressing phase 4 depolarization and lengthening phases 1 and 2
repolarization.
◉ Which drug therapy should be used to lower the serum concentration
of thyroid hormones and re-establish eumetabolic state in a patient with
Graves' disease? Answer: Anti-thyroid drugs.
