Welcome to our practice test for Medical Laboratory Certification Exams like ASCP and AMT for MLT, CLS and MLS. Test includes General Laboratory, Hematology, Clinical Chemistry, Urinalysis & Body Fluids, Blood Banking & Immunohematology, Serology & Immunology and Microbiology. You have 60 minutes to answer 100 test questions. Good luck!
#1. Phase contrast microscopy is a technique used to identify which urinary constituent
#2. What type of fire extinguisher would be best to use on computer equipment?
#3. What is the first part of the cell to degrade during apoptosis?
#4. Highly refractile fat droplets found in renal tubular epithelial cells
#5. While performing an antibody screen, a test reaction is suspected to be rouleaux. A saline replacement test is performed and the reaction stayed the same. What is the interpretation?
#6. Test used to detect harmful antibodies related to a rare disorder called paroxysmal cold hemoglobinuria
#7. Which class of fire extinguishers is used for electrical fires?
#8. Which of the following will not react with enzyme treated cells?
#9. Which mineral significantly affects the function and activation of alkaline phosphatase?
#10. Vitamin K dependent serine protease activated by thrombomodulin on the endothelial cell
#11. The following are IgM antibodies except
#12. Which of the following is not a characteristic of Erysipelothrix sp.?
#13. The following are aminoglycosides except
#14. The process of isolating a solid substance from solution by freezing the solution and vaporizing the ice away under vacuum conditions.
#15. Which adverse transfusion reaction is caused by antibodies in the donor to neutrophils or HLA antigens of the recipient, and may be accompanied with transient neutropenia or leukopenia
#16. Procalcitonin is produced by which organ
#17. The following conditions will show a positive reagent strip for urine blood except
#18. This abnormal hemoglobin is caused by the substitution of lysine for glutamic acid in the 6th position
#19. Highly sensitive and specific test used to conform a positive Rheumatoid factor tests in the diagnosis of Rheumatoid arthritis
#20. Term used to describe a group of bacteria that can grow with or without the presence of oxygen
#21. What type of hemoglobin appears in plasma in fragmentation hemolysis?
#22. Which of the following clotting factors act as a transamidase?
#23. What stain is used to differentiate chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) from a leukemoid reaction?
#24. The following causes polyuria except
#25. What is the immunologic method utilized in the flow cytometer?
#26. Instrumentation that measures light absorbance at two different wavelengths
#27. False positive results and false negative results can be obtained by sloppy technique. Which of the following causes a false positive result
#28. Monocyte that migrates from the blood to tissue spaces
#29. Which LDH isoenzyme is mainly found in the spleen and lymph nodes?
#30. Which enzyme shows an elevation in acute pancreatitis?
#31. Which of the following has the least amount of H substance presented on cell surfaces?
#32. The working unit of the kidney is the
#33. Renal failure casts formed from the advanced stage of hyaline, granular or cellular casts
#34. Pathogenic intestinal protozoa that cause ulcers of the intestinal tract
#35. Cardiac muscle injury will cause an elevation of which CK isoenzyme?
#36. Serum from a rabbit or other animal previously immunized with purified human globulin to prepare antibodies directed against human immunoglobulin, some of which may be used in the direct and indirect Coombs tests.
#37. Protein measured by urine reagent strips
#38. What reagent does the Clinitest urine glucose test use to measure urine glucose levels?
#39. To calculate the mean corpuscular volume (MCV), what parameters must be known?
#40. What is considered the renal threshold of glucose?
#41. Which of the following describes an antigen antibody reaction?
#42. What is the principle behind the reagent strip testing for urine bilirubin?
#43. Cephalosporin can cause a positive DAT with hemolysis by which of the following mechanisms?
#44. The partial sterilization of a product, such as milk or wine, to make it safe for consumption and improve its keeping quality.
#45. The visible serological reaction between soluble antigen and its specific antibody is
#46. Equipment, utensils, or substances that may harbor or transmit pathogenic organisms from individuals who may have a communicable disease
#47. Which of the following devices are used to maintain a sterile environment while working with microorganisms?
#48. Upon initial typing, the cells from a person with the Bombay phenotype will appear to be which ABO type
#49. The concept that laboratory personnel should treat all blood and body fluids as capable of transmitting infectious diseases is known as
#50. Which outcome indicates a negative result in a complement fixation test?
#51. Which laboratory technique is most frequently used to diagnose and follow the course of therapy of a patient with secondary syphilis?
#52. If a phase contrast microscope is not used for the microscopic analysis of the urine sediment, which of the following techniques is recommended for routine examination?
#53. Substances whose exact concentrations, purity or quality are known
#54. A patient became hypotensive and went into shock after receiving 50 ml of a unit of RBC. She had chills and a temperature of 40C. Transfusion reaction investigation was initiated but no abnormal results were seen. What additional testing should be performed?
#55. Which of the following is associated with nephrotic syndrome?
#56. Hypotension, nausea, flushing, fever and chills are symptoms of which of the following transfusion reactions
#57. Which of the following is true when trying to differentiate a true intracranial hemorrhage from a traumatic tap?
#58. Method used as a screening test used to detect a substance that suggests there are white blood cells in the urine
#59. Useful microscopic techniques in the detection of fat globules, oval fat bodies, and fatty casts include the following except
#60. The following statements are true of ghost cells except
#61. What is the best marker for pancreatico biliary adenocarcinoma?
#62. The following are clotting factors acting as contact proteins except
#63. Measurements of Concentration in the laboratory can be done in the following ways except
#64. Which of the following immunoglobulins is the most efficient at agglutination
#65. Delayed hypersensitivity may be induced by
#66. Which sugars are fermented by Neiserria gonorrhoeae?
#67. Which of the following is not an epithelial cell that can be found in the urine?
#68. Which of the following methodologies is not used in allergy testing?
#69. These free-living pathogenic amebae causes primary amebic meningoencephalitis and is usually fatal
#70. Breakdown of epithelial cell casts that contain oval fat bodies
#71. Term used to describe the stools of patients infected with cholera
#72. Which immunoglobulin(s) help(s) initiate the classic complement pathway?
#73. A chemical added to prevent blood from clotting
#74. If a person has the Le, se and H genes, what substance(s) are in his body fluids
#75. Why is alkaline phosphatase elevated among teenagers?
#76. Cell-mediated immunity is primarily mediated by
#77. A sophisticated technology by which blood is processed by an apheresis machine that uses centrifugation to remove a selected component of the blood and retain most of the donor platelets
#78. Which of the following statements on Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis is false?
#79. What are Heinz bodies made up of?
#80. The following are methods of sterilization using heat except
#81. Basophilic granules of iron found inside red blood cells
#82. Which of the following changes occur when a urine specimen is left at room temperature for longer than 1-2 hours?
#83. The presence of albumin in urine above the normal level but below the detectable range of conventional urine dipstick methods.
#84. Delayed onset transfusion reaction usually due to anamnestic response to clinically significant antibodies such as Rh, Kell, Kidd and Duffy
#85. Which of the following statements is true of exotoxins?
#86. A mechanism of cell-mediated immune defense whereby an effector cell of the immune system actively lyses a target cell, whose membrane-surface antigens have been bound by specific antibodies.
#87. A technique for determining antibody levels by introducing an antigen labeled with a radioisotope and measuring the subsequent radioactivity of the antibody component.
#88. Recent acute Hepatitis A infection is confirmed by which serologic marker?
#89. Decreased urine production to less than 400 ml per day
#90. Elevated Hgb A2 level is characteristic of what type of thalassemia
#91. Bichromatic analysis is used in automation to
#92. What is the term used to describe the build-up of fluid in a body cavity due to a pathologic process?
#93. What is the average life of a RBC?
#94. Main functional unit of the kidney composed of glomerulus and renal tubules
#95. The following are reasons to check the patient’s synovial fluid except
#96. T lymphocytes are incapable of functioning as
#97. The Kell antigen is
#98. Which of the following serologic tests is commonly performed by an immunofluorescence method?
#99. Causative agent of meningococcal meningitis that is seen mostly in children under 3 years old
#100. The following results may be caused by cold agglutinins except
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