MN SALON MANAGER LICENSE 2026
PRACTICE QUESTION SET TWO
◉ Nursing home. Answer: means a facility that is licensed under
Minnesota Statutes, chapter 144A, and does not include any
attached or adjacent facilities that are not licensed as a nursing
home under Minnesota Statutes, chapter 144A.
◉ Operator. Answer: means a standard license for a practitioner and
not a manager license
◉ Physical location. Answer: means the contiguous space
representing each salon that can be accessed by customers without
exiting the salon
◉ Porous material. Answer: means a material that absorbs liquid or
allows liquid to penetrate
◉ Sharps. Answer: means any object,sterile or contaminated, that
may purposefully or accidentally cut or penetrate the skin or
mucosa including presterilized single-use lancets, dermal blades,
and razor blades.
,◉ Sharps container. Answer: means a closed, puncture-resistant,
leak-proof container, labeled with the international biohazard
symbol, that is used for handling, storage, transportation, and
disposal of sharps.
◉ Simple braiding devices. Answer: include clips, combs, curlers,
curling irons, hairpins, rollers, scissors, needles, and thread.
◉ Special event. Answer: means an event held for any purpose other
than the
provision of licensed services, where a participant in the event may
receive the limited cosmetology
services described in part 2105.0410, subpart 2, at a location not in
a licensed salon.
◉ Sterilization. Answer: means the destruction of all microbial life
and spores through the use of heat, steam, or chemical sterilants
◉ Suite-style salon. Answer: means a business under part
2105.0397 specializing in leasing or renting individual rooms or
suites to licensees, where the salon license may be carried by the
business or where each suite has its own salon license.
◉ Unregulated service. Answer: means those services not defined as
the practice of cosmetology under Minnesota Statutes, section
, 155A.23, subdivision 3, and that are exempt from regulation by the
board. Unregulated services are ear piercing; body art; body
painting; henna tattoos and permanent tattoos; eyebrow
embroidery; eyebrow microblading; permanent hair removal;
permanent makeup; tanning by UV radiation and spray tanning
units; injectables;services for theatrical, television, film, fashion,
photography, or media productions or media appearances; mortuary
services; massage; body wraps and lymphatic drainage when
performed by a massage therapist; the practice of medicine as
defined in Minnesota Statutes, section 147.081, subdivision 3; hair
braiding; and threading as defined in Minnesota Statutes, section
155A.23, subdivision 13
◉ Work area. Answer: means a space where regulated services are
provided. A separate work area is created when the service area is
partitioned from other salon spaces or work areas by walls at least
six feet high and doorways of less than five feet in width.
◉ scope of practice for cosmetology. Answer: A. shampooing,
conditioning, cutting, clipping, coloring, dressing, processing,
shaping,
straightening, bleaching, tinting, styling, blow-drying, or waving a
person's hair, eyebrows, or
eyelashes;
B. styling, cutting, and coloring wigs when on a person's head;
C. cleansing, massaging, and stimulating the scalp;
PRACTICE QUESTION SET TWO
◉ Nursing home. Answer: means a facility that is licensed under
Minnesota Statutes, chapter 144A, and does not include any
attached or adjacent facilities that are not licensed as a nursing
home under Minnesota Statutes, chapter 144A.
◉ Operator. Answer: means a standard license for a practitioner and
not a manager license
◉ Physical location. Answer: means the contiguous space
representing each salon that can be accessed by customers without
exiting the salon
◉ Porous material. Answer: means a material that absorbs liquid or
allows liquid to penetrate
◉ Sharps. Answer: means any object,sterile or contaminated, that
may purposefully or accidentally cut or penetrate the skin or
mucosa including presterilized single-use lancets, dermal blades,
and razor blades.
,◉ Sharps container. Answer: means a closed, puncture-resistant,
leak-proof container, labeled with the international biohazard
symbol, that is used for handling, storage, transportation, and
disposal of sharps.
◉ Simple braiding devices. Answer: include clips, combs, curlers,
curling irons, hairpins, rollers, scissors, needles, and thread.
◉ Special event. Answer: means an event held for any purpose other
than the
provision of licensed services, where a participant in the event may
receive the limited cosmetology
services described in part 2105.0410, subpart 2, at a location not in
a licensed salon.
◉ Sterilization. Answer: means the destruction of all microbial life
and spores through the use of heat, steam, or chemical sterilants
◉ Suite-style salon. Answer: means a business under part
2105.0397 specializing in leasing or renting individual rooms or
suites to licensees, where the salon license may be carried by the
business or where each suite has its own salon license.
◉ Unregulated service. Answer: means those services not defined as
the practice of cosmetology under Minnesota Statutes, section
, 155A.23, subdivision 3, and that are exempt from regulation by the
board. Unregulated services are ear piercing; body art; body
painting; henna tattoos and permanent tattoos; eyebrow
embroidery; eyebrow microblading; permanent hair removal;
permanent makeup; tanning by UV radiation and spray tanning
units; injectables;services for theatrical, television, film, fashion,
photography, or media productions or media appearances; mortuary
services; massage; body wraps and lymphatic drainage when
performed by a massage therapist; the practice of medicine as
defined in Minnesota Statutes, section 147.081, subdivision 3; hair
braiding; and threading as defined in Minnesota Statutes, section
155A.23, subdivision 13
◉ Work area. Answer: means a space where regulated services are
provided. A separate work area is created when the service area is
partitioned from other salon spaces or work areas by walls at least
six feet high and doorways of less than five feet in width.
◉ scope of practice for cosmetology. Answer: A. shampooing,
conditioning, cutting, clipping, coloring, dressing, processing,
shaping,
straightening, bleaching, tinting, styling, blow-drying, or waving a
person's hair, eyebrows, or
eyelashes;
B. styling, cutting, and coloring wigs when on a person's head;
C. cleansing, massaging, and stimulating the scalp;
