Breath Alcohol Technician Exam
Overview Questions and Correct
Answers Latest Update
Omnibus Transportation Employee Testing Act of 1991 - Correct Answer-
✔✔requires alcohol testing of "safety sensitive" transportation workers
49 CFR Part 40 - Correct Answer-✔✔Department of Transportation's Alcohol
Testing Procedure Rules; Federal Regulation
EBT - Correct Answer-✔✔Evidential Breath Tester
FAA - Correct Answer-✔✔Federal Aviation Administration
FMCSA - Correct Answer-✔✔Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
FRA - Correct Answer-✔✔Federal Railroad Administration
FTA - Correct Answer-✔✔Federal Transit Administration
PHMSA - Correct Answer-✔✔Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety
Administration
Situations that require alcohol testing - Correct Answer-✔✔-Random
-Reasonable suspicion
, -Post-Accident
-Return to Duty
-Follow up
SAP - Correct Answer-✔✔Substance Abuse Professional
Follow up testing - Correct Answer-✔✔unannounced and at least six tests must be
conducted in the first year after return to duty, follow up testing may be extended
for up to 60 months
What is a positive test? - Correct Answer-✔✔anything higher than 0.020
The range of breath alcohol that does not require SAP to be notified but is a
positive test. - Correct Answer-✔✔0.020 to 0.039
What happens if an employee tests between 0.020 to 0.039? - Correct Answer-
✔✔They must be removed from safety sensitive duties for 8 hours or until a
breath test result is below 0.020.
Alcohol use - Correct Answer-✔✔the drinking or swallowing of any beverage,
liquid mixture or preparation, containing alcohol
Cancelled Test - Correct Answer-✔✔an alcohol test that has a problem identified
that cannot be or has not been corrected, or which this part otherwise requires to
be cancelled. A cancelled test is neither positive or negative.
Overview Questions and Correct
Answers Latest Update
Omnibus Transportation Employee Testing Act of 1991 - Correct Answer-
✔✔requires alcohol testing of "safety sensitive" transportation workers
49 CFR Part 40 - Correct Answer-✔✔Department of Transportation's Alcohol
Testing Procedure Rules; Federal Regulation
EBT - Correct Answer-✔✔Evidential Breath Tester
FAA - Correct Answer-✔✔Federal Aviation Administration
FMCSA - Correct Answer-✔✔Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
FRA - Correct Answer-✔✔Federal Railroad Administration
FTA - Correct Answer-✔✔Federal Transit Administration
PHMSA - Correct Answer-✔✔Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety
Administration
Situations that require alcohol testing - Correct Answer-✔✔-Random
-Reasonable suspicion
, -Post-Accident
-Return to Duty
-Follow up
SAP - Correct Answer-✔✔Substance Abuse Professional
Follow up testing - Correct Answer-✔✔unannounced and at least six tests must be
conducted in the first year after return to duty, follow up testing may be extended
for up to 60 months
What is a positive test? - Correct Answer-✔✔anything higher than 0.020
The range of breath alcohol that does not require SAP to be notified but is a
positive test. - Correct Answer-✔✔0.020 to 0.039
What happens if an employee tests between 0.020 to 0.039? - Correct Answer-
✔✔They must be removed from safety sensitive duties for 8 hours or until a
breath test result is below 0.020.
Alcohol use - Correct Answer-✔✔the drinking or swallowing of any beverage,
liquid mixture or preparation, containing alcohol
Cancelled Test - Correct Answer-✔✔an alcohol test that has a problem identified
that cannot be or has not been corrected, or which this part otherwise requires to
be cancelled. A cancelled test is neither positive or negative.
