NASM CPR-ASTI Prep Exam 2025/2026 – The Must-Have
Study Guide for High Scores!
1. What is the best action to relieve severe chocking in a responsive infant? - Begin with 5 back slaps
and 5 chest thrusts
2. What is the rate for performing chest compressions for a victim of any age? - 100 compressions
per minute
3. Which of the following best describes how you and a second rescuer can give CPR to an infant
victim using 2-thumbs encircling hands technique? - You switch to cycle of 15 compressions and 2
breaths with one rescuer giving chest compressions and the other giving breaths.
4. A choking victim becomes unresponsive while you are doing abdominal thrusts for severe choking.
You ease the victim to the floor and send someone to activate emergency response system. What
should you do next? - Begin CPR. When you open the airway, look for and remove the object (if seen)
before giving rescue breaths.
5. Why is it important to give early defibrillation to an adult? - The probability of successful
defibrillation diminishes rapidly over time.
6. After you open the airway and pinch the nose of an unresponsive adult or child, which of the
following describes the best way to give mouth-to-mouth breaths? - Seal your mouth over the
victim's mouth and give 2 breaths, watching the chest rise
7. What might happen if you touch the victim while the AED is delivering a shock? - The AED could
shock you while it shocking the victim.
8. Why should you minimize interruptions when giving chest compressions to any victim of cardiac
arrest? - If you minimize interruptions in chest compressions, you will increase the victim's chances
of survival.
9. Describe the steps common to the operation of all AEDs in the correct order? - Power on the AED,
Attach the pads, Clear the victim and allow the AED to analyze the rhythm, Clear the victim and
deliver shock, if advised
Study Guide for High Scores!
1. What is the best action to relieve severe chocking in a responsive infant? - Begin with 5 back slaps
and 5 chest thrusts
2. What is the rate for performing chest compressions for a victim of any age? - 100 compressions
per minute
3. Which of the following best describes how you and a second rescuer can give CPR to an infant
victim using 2-thumbs encircling hands technique? - You switch to cycle of 15 compressions and 2
breaths with one rescuer giving chest compressions and the other giving breaths.
4. A choking victim becomes unresponsive while you are doing abdominal thrusts for severe choking.
You ease the victim to the floor and send someone to activate emergency response system. What
should you do next? - Begin CPR. When you open the airway, look for and remove the object (if seen)
before giving rescue breaths.
5. Why is it important to give early defibrillation to an adult? - The probability of successful
defibrillation diminishes rapidly over time.
6. After you open the airway and pinch the nose of an unresponsive adult or child, which of the
following describes the best way to give mouth-to-mouth breaths? - Seal your mouth over the
victim's mouth and give 2 breaths, watching the chest rise
7. What might happen if you touch the victim while the AED is delivering a shock? - The AED could
shock you while it shocking the victim.
8. Why should you minimize interruptions when giving chest compressions to any victim of cardiac
arrest? - If you minimize interruptions in chest compressions, you will increase the victim's chances
of survival.
9. Describe the steps common to the operation of all AEDs in the correct order? - Power on the AED,
Attach the pads, Clear the victim and allow the AED to analyze the rhythm, Clear the victim and
deliver shock, if advised
