IICRC CCT Carpet Cleaning Technician
Exam Questions and Answers with Complete
Rationales | Verified | A+ Guide
• A rotary shampoo machine helps deliver -✓✓Foaming Detergent
(large amounts of agitation)
• Adding a pattern after the carpet is made is called -✓✓print dying
• A Filament -✓✓A single strand of fiber is called
• Which is not allowed on 5th gen carpeting -✓✓Catonic
• Filtration Lines -✓✓Around edges and under doorways
• Reducing Agents add color by -✓✓Removing Oxygen
• Oxidizing agents add color by -✓✓Adding oxygen
• Carpet manufacturers have what requirements for chemicals to be used
on 5th gen nylon -✓✓ph >10
• Cellulosic browning is caused when -✓✓detergent dissolved the binder
- over wetting
• chlorine bleach will dissolve -✓✓wool / silk
• common medication that causes color loss is -✓✓benzoperoxide
• Tufted carpets major components -✓✓face yarn, primary / secondary
backing / latex
, • During hot water extraction how is the vacuum efficiently measured -
✓✓recovery / inches per lift / cfm
• Flurochemicals increase what and the primary function is they -
✓✓resist soil /oils /water based
• coffee / tea stains are referred to as -✓✓tannin
• How big is a micron? -✓✓millionth of a meter / 10kth of an inch
• How is fusion bonded carpet created -✓✓fuzed face yarn fuzed into
backing
• How to reduce wicking in carpet -✓✓lower ph / faster drying
• Burnt test: celery -✓✓nylon
• burnt test: burnt meat -✓✓acrylic
• Burning hair -✓✓wool
• aunt paulie -✓✓Polyester
• 4th gen nylon what was added -✓✓floor chemical
• Most soils are? so most cleaning agents are -✓✓alkaline - urine -
detergent - residue - tannin
• 5 methods of cleaning -✓✓absorbent pad, absorbent powder, dry foam,
encapsulation, hot water extraction
• powder cleaning works through -✓✓adsorption
Exam Questions and Answers with Complete
Rationales | Verified | A+ Guide
• A rotary shampoo machine helps deliver -✓✓Foaming Detergent
(large amounts of agitation)
• Adding a pattern after the carpet is made is called -✓✓print dying
• A Filament -✓✓A single strand of fiber is called
• Which is not allowed on 5th gen carpeting -✓✓Catonic
• Filtration Lines -✓✓Around edges and under doorways
• Reducing Agents add color by -✓✓Removing Oxygen
• Oxidizing agents add color by -✓✓Adding oxygen
• Carpet manufacturers have what requirements for chemicals to be used
on 5th gen nylon -✓✓ph >10
• Cellulosic browning is caused when -✓✓detergent dissolved the binder
- over wetting
• chlorine bleach will dissolve -✓✓wool / silk
• common medication that causes color loss is -✓✓benzoperoxide
• Tufted carpets major components -✓✓face yarn, primary / secondary
backing / latex
, • During hot water extraction how is the vacuum efficiently measured -
✓✓recovery / inches per lift / cfm
• Flurochemicals increase what and the primary function is they -
✓✓resist soil /oils /water based
• coffee / tea stains are referred to as -✓✓tannin
• How big is a micron? -✓✓millionth of a meter / 10kth of an inch
• How is fusion bonded carpet created -✓✓fuzed face yarn fuzed into
backing
• How to reduce wicking in carpet -✓✓lower ph / faster drying
• Burnt test: celery -✓✓nylon
• burnt test: burnt meat -✓✓acrylic
• Burning hair -✓✓wool
• aunt paulie -✓✓Polyester
• 4th gen nylon what was added -✓✓floor chemical
• Most soils are? so most cleaning agents are -✓✓alkaline - urine -
detergent - residue - tannin
• 5 methods of cleaning -✓✓absorbent pad, absorbent powder, dry foam,
encapsulation, hot water extraction
• powder cleaning works through -✓✓adsorption
