AHERA Certification Exam Actual
Questions and Answers 2026
What is the Greek meaning of the word asbestos? -
correct answer ✅indestructible, inextinguishable
What time frame in US history was most of the asbestos installed in
buildings? -
correct answer ✅the 1950s
Is asbestos a man-made fiber? -
correct answer ✅no, it's a natural occurring material
Name the country that produces the most chrysotile asbestos in
the world? -
correct answer ✅Russia
Name the country that produces the most amosite asbestos in the
world? -
correct answer ✅South Africa
What colors are associates with which type of asbestos?
White:
Brown:
,AHERA Certification Exam Actual
Questions and Answers 2026
Blue: -
correct answer ✅White= chrysotile
Brown= amosite
Blue= Crocidolite
What are the minimum criteria to be considered an asbestos fiber?
-
correct answer ✅a particulate form of asbestos 5 microns or
greater in length with a three-to-one aspect ratio, a particle of this
size is invisible to the naked eye.
What group of asbestos fiber is:
a) wavy?
b) straight -
correct answer ✅a) chrysotile
b) amosite, tremolite, actinolite, anthophyllite, crocidolite,
What is the definition of friable? -
correct answer ✅the ability to be crumbled, crushed, or pulverized
with nothing but hand pressure
, AHERA Certification Exam Actual
Questions and Answers 2026
How can asbestos floor tile become friable? Cement asbestos
board? -
correct answer ✅with the use of any machinery or power tools
When were asbestos related diseases first documented? -
correct answer ✅As early as Ancient Egypt or Roman times, but
first documented in 1899
What are three types of scarring that asbestos can cause? -
correct answer ✅1. Pleural Plaques
2. Pleural Thickening
3. Skin Growths (Asbestos Warts)
What are the three types of cancers that asbestos can cause? -
correct answer ✅1. Lung cancer
2. Mesothelioma
3. Gastrointestinal
Which cancer is the most aggressive and almost always fatal? -
correct answer ✅Mesothelioma
Questions and Answers 2026
What is the Greek meaning of the word asbestos? -
correct answer ✅indestructible, inextinguishable
What time frame in US history was most of the asbestos installed in
buildings? -
correct answer ✅the 1950s
Is asbestos a man-made fiber? -
correct answer ✅no, it's a natural occurring material
Name the country that produces the most chrysotile asbestos in
the world? -
correct answer ✅Russia
Name the country that produces the most amosite asbestos in the
world? -
correct answer ✅South Africa
What colors are associates with which type of asbestos?
White:
Brown:
,AHERA Certification Exam Actual
Questions and Answers 2026
Blue: -
correct answer ✅White= chrysotile
Brown= amosite
Blue= Crocidolite
What are the minimum criteria to be considered an asbestos fiber?
-
correct answer ✅a particulate form of asbestos 5 microns or
greater in length with a three-to-one aspect ratio, a particle of this
size is invisible to the naked eye.
What group of asbestos fiber is:
a) wavy?
b) straight -
correct answer ✅a) chrysotile
b) amosite, tremolite, actinolite, anthophyllite, crocidolite,
What is the definition of friable? -
correct answer ✅the ability to be crumbled, crushed, or pulverized
with nothing but hand pressure
, AHERA Certification Exam Actual
Questions and Answers 2026
How can asbestos floor tile become friable? Cement asbestos
board? -
correct answer ✅with the use of any machinery or power tools
When were asbestos related diseases first documented? -
correct answer ✅As early as Ancient Egypt or Roman times, but
first documented in 1899
What are three types of scarring that asbestos can cause? -
correct answer ✅1. Pleural Plaques
2. Pleural Thickening
3. Skin Growths (Asbestos Warts)
What are the three types of cancers that asbestos can cause? -
correct answer ✅1. Lung cancer
2. Mesothelioma
3. Gastrointestinal
Which cancer is the most aggressive and almost always fatal? -
correct answer ✅Mesothelioma
