OHIO COSMETOLOGY EVALUATION 2026 EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Infection control - ✔✔Protecting against the spread of infectious germs and other
organisms.
✔✔Decontamination - ✔✔Removing pathogens and other substances from tools and
surfaces
✔✔3 levels of decontamination are? - ✔✔Sterilization disinfection
Sanitation
✔✔Sterilization - ✔✔Most effective way of decontamination against microbes.
Completely destroys all living organisms on a surface.
✔✔Disinfection - ✔✔Controls microorganisms on non porous surfaces. Do not uses on
human skin nails or hair.
✔✔Sanitation - ✔✔Significantly reduce the number of pathogens found on a surface.
✔✔EPA - ✔✔Environmental protection agency. Must approve all disinfectants.
✔✔MSDS - ✔✔Material safety data sheet. Directions for proper use, safety precautions,
active ingredients
✔✔OSHA - ✔✔Occupational safety and health administration. Regulated safety and
health standards in the work place.
✔✔Types of disinfectants - ✔✔Quats, phenols, and alcohol bleach and commercial
cleaners
✔✔Quats - ✔✔Quaternary ammonium compounds. Disinfects 10-15 minutes
✔✔Bacteria
(Germs)
(Microbes) - ✔✔Minute one celled vegetable microorganisms found nearly everywhere.
✔✔Types of bacteria - ✔✔Non pathogenic and pathogenic
✔✔Non pathogenic - ✔✔Helpful and harmless
✔✔Pathogenic
Definition - ✔✔Harmful and produce disease (microbes and germs)
, ✔✔Types of pathogenic bacteria - ✔✔Cocci, bacilli, spirilla
✔✔Cocci - ✔✔Round shaped organisms that appear singly or in groups called
staphylococci, streptococci, and diplococci
✔✔Staphylococci - ✔✔Bunches and cluster causes assesses pustules and boils (staph
infections)
✔✔Streptococci - ✔✔Pus forming organisms grow in chains cause strep throat
✔✔Diplococci - ✔✔Grows in pairs and cause pneumonia
✔✔Bacilli - ✔✔Short rods. Produce tetanus (lockjaw) influenza typhoid fever
tuberculosis and diphtheria
✔✔Spirilla - ✔✔Curved or corkscrew. Causes syphilis
✔✔Parasites - ✔✔Organisms that live on other organisms without giving anything in
return
✔✔Scabies - ✔✔Itch mite that burrows under skin
✔✔Pediculosis capitis - ✔✔Infection of the scalp caused by lice
✔✔Immunity - ✔✔The ability of the body to destroy bacteria that have gained entrance
and this to resist infection
✔✔Natural immunity - ✔✔Natural resistance to disease
✔✔Acquired immunity - ✔✔The body develops after it has overcome a disease or
through inoculation
✔✔Disorders of the hair - ✔✔Canities, ringed hair, hypertrichosis, trichoptilosis,
tricorrhexis nodosa, monilethrix, and fragilitas crinium
✔✔Canities - ✔✔Grey hair
✔✔Hypertrichosis - ✔✔Abnormal development of hair on areas no normal
✔✔Trichoptilosis - ✔✔Split ends
✔✔Types of dandruff - ✔✔Pityriasis capitis simplex and pityriasis steatoides
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Infection control - ✔✔Protecting against the spread of infectious germs and other
organisms.
✔✔Decontamination - ✔✔Removing pathogens and other substances from tools and
surfaces
✔✔3 levels of decontamination are? - ✔✔Sterilization disinfection
Sanitation
✔✔Sterilization - ✔✔Most effective way of decontamination against microbes.
Completely destroys all living organisms on a surface.
✔✔Disinfection - ✔✔Controls microorganisms on non porous surfaces. Do not uses on
human skin nails or hair.
✔✔Sanitation - ✔✔Significantly reduce the number of pathogens found on a surface.
✔✔EPA - ✔✔Environmental protection agency. Must approve all disinfectants.
✔✔MSDS - ✔✔Material safety data sheet. Directions for proper use, safety precautions,
active ingredients
✔✔OSHA - ✔✔Occupational safety and health administration. Regulated safety and
health standards in the work place.
✔✔Types of disinfectants - ✔✔Quats, phenols, and alcohol bleach and commercial
cleaners
✔✔Quats - ✔✔Quaternary ammonium compounds. Disinfects 10-15 minutes
✔✔Bacteria
(Germs)
(Microbes) - ✔✔Minute one celled vegetable microorganisms found nearly everywhere.
✔✔Types of bacteria - ✔✔Non pathogenic and pathogenic
✔✔Non pathogenic - ✔✔Helpful and harmless
✔✔Pathogenic
Definition - ✔✔Harmful and produce disease (microbes and germs)
, ✔✔Types of pathogenic bacteria - ✔✔Cocci, bacilli, spirilla
✔✔Cocci - ✔✔Round shaped organisms that appear singly or in groups called
staphylococci, streptococci, and diplococci
✔✔Staphylococci - ✔✔Bunches and cluster causes assesses pustules and boils (staph
infections)
✔✔Streptococci - ✔✔Pus forming organisms grow in chains cause strep throat
✔✔Diplococci - ✔✔Grows in pairs and cause pneumonia
✔✔Bacilli - ✔✔Short rods. Produce tetanus (lockjaw) influenza typhoid fever
tuberculosis and diphtheria
✔✔Spirilla - ✔✔Curved or corkscrew. Causes syphilis
✔✔Parasites - ✔✔Organisms that live on other organisms without giving anything in
return
✔✔Scabies - ✔✔Itch mite that burrows under skin
✔✔Pediculosis capitis - ✔✔Infection of the scalp caused by lice
✔✔Immunity - ✔✔The ability of the body to destroy bacteria that have gained entrance
and this to resist infection
✔✔Natural immunity - ✔✔Natural resistance to disease
✔✔Acquired immunity - ✔✔The body develops after it has overcome a disease or
through inoculation
✔✔Disorders of the hair - ✔✔Canities, ringed hair, hypertrichosis, trichoptilosis,
tricorrhexis nodosa, monilethrix, and fragilitas crinium
✔✔Canities - ✔✔Grey hair
✔✔Hypertrichosis - ✔✔Abnormal development of hair on areas no normal
✔✔Trichoptilosis - ✔✔Split ends
✔✔Types of dandruff - ✔✔Pityriasis capitis simplex and pityriasis steatoides
