NAIL TECHNICIAN EXAM
Comprehensive Study Guide & Practice Questions
Questions • Answers • Nail Disorder Reference
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,NAIL TECHNICIAN EXAM Study Guide
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
Q1. Which one of the following is the most important thing practitioners and clients must do to avoid
the transfer of disease from person to person?
Answer: Wash the hands
Q2. Disinfecting foot spas after each client — what is the first thing to do?
Answer: Clean with liquid soap and brush
Q3. For dry skin and brittle nails, it is best to give...
Answer: Cuticle cream
Q4. Paraffin wax treatment should not be performed on which clients?
Answer: Pregnant clients
Q5. The foot bath used during a pedicure — practitioners should NOT add...
Answer: Disinfectant
Q6. Which one of the following is the correct method of disinfecting implements (tools)?
Answer: Immerse in bactericides, virucides, fungicides
Q7. What should the practitioner do to a file that has blood during a manicure?
Answer: Double bag and discard it
Q8. When shortening an acrylic tip, what would you use?
Answer: Metal file
Q9. What causes grooves on the nail plate when using an electric file?
Answer: Holding the bit at the wrong angle
Q10. Nail hardener/strengthener is made up of...
Answer: Tiny fibers
Q11. A set of guidelines published by OSHA that required employers and employees to assume that all
human blood and body fluids are infectious for blood-borne pathogens is called...
Answer: Universal precautions
Q12. What should the practitioner do first with a client before a service?
Answer: Complete a client record
Q13. What is the first thing the practitioner doing a pedicure must look for?
Answer: Open sore/wound
Q14. What type of massage does the practitioner use as a joint movement?
Answer: Circulation movement
Q15. What causes permanent disorder or injury of the nail plate?
Answer: Matrix damage
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Q16. When applying acrylic nails, primer is used for...
Answer: Bonding between the nail plate and acrylic
Q17. Antiseptics are classified as...
Answer: Sanitation
Q18. Acetone is a...
Answer: Solvent
Q19. The massage pressure is caused/requested by...
Answer: The strength of practitioners/clients
Q20. Name the largest organ of the body.
Answer: Skin, which belongs to the integumentary system
Q21. What causes the discoloration that sometimes develops between the nail plate and the nail
enhancement?
Answer: Bacteria
Q22. Which type of acrylic nails replicates the French manicure look?
Answer: Two colors method (pink and white)
Q23. Filing deep into the nail corners can cause...
Answer: Ingrown nails
Q24. What is the correct method of filing natural nails?
Answer: From corner to center
Q25. What can the practitioner use for protection during an acrylic nail service?
Answer: Dust mask
Q26. What is the best service to treat dry, split cuticles?
Answer: Hot oil manicure
Q27. What is the proper shape to file toenails?
Answer: Straight across, slightly rounded at corners
Q28. Which one of the following protects nail polish from chipping?
Answer: Top coat
Q29. What is the ingredient that speeds up the hardening process?
Answer: Catalyst
Q30. What do practitioners use to remove foot callus?
Answer: Foot file / foot paddle
Q31. What can be used by the practitioner to repair a crack on natural nails?
Answer: Nail wrap
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Comprehensive Study Guide & Practice Questions
Questions • Answers • Nail Disorder Reference
All rights reserved • For educational use only
,NAIL TECHNICIAN EXAM Study Guide
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
Q1. Which one of the following is the most important thing practitioners and clients must do to avoid
the transfer of disease from person to person?
Answer: Wash the hands
Q2. Disinfecting foot spas after each client — what is the first thing to do?
Answer: Clean with liquid soap and brush
Q3. For dry skin and brittle nails, it is best to give...
Answer: Cuticle cream
Q4. Paraffin wax treatment should not be performed on which clients?
Answer: Pregnant clients
Q5. The foot bath used during a pedicure — practitioners should NOT add...
Answer: Disinfectant
Q6. Which one of the following is the correct method of disinfecting implements (tools)?
Answer: Immerse in bactericides, virucides, fungicides
Q7. What should the practitioner do to a file that has blood during a manicure?
Answer: Double bag and discard it
Q8. When shortening an acrylic tip, what would you use?
Answer: Metal file
Q9. What causes grooves on the nail plate when using an electric file?
Answer: Holding the bit at the wrong angle
Q10. Nail hardener/strengthener is made up of...
Answer: Tiny fibers
Q11. A set of guidelines published by OSHA that required employers and employees to assume that all
human blood and body fluids are infectious for blood-borne pathogens is called...
Answer: Universal precautions
Q12. What should the practitioner do first with a client before a service?
Answer: Complete a client record
Q13. What is the first thing the practitioner doing a pedicure must look for?
Answer: Open sore/wound
Q14. What type of massage does the practitioner use as a joint movement?
Answer: Circulation movement
Q15. What causes permanent disorder or injury of the nail plate?
Answer: Matrix damage
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Q16. When applying acrylic nails, primer is used for...
Answer: Bonding between the nail plate and acrylic
Q17. Antiseptics are classified as...
Answer: Sanitation
Q18. Acetone is a...
Answer: Solvent
Q19. The massage pressure is caused/requested by...
Answer: The strength of practitioners/clients
Q20. Name the largest organ of the body.
Answer: Skin, which belongs to the integumentary system
Q21. What causes the discoloration that sometimes develops between the nail plate and the nail
enhancement?
Answer: Bacteria
Q22. Which type of acrylic nails replicates the French manicure look?
Answer: Two colors method (pink and white)
Q23. Filing deep into the nail corners can cause...
Answer: Ingrown nails
Q24. What is the correct method of filing natural nails?
Answer: From corner to center
Q25. What can the practitioner use for protection during an acrylic nail service?
Answer: Dust mask
Q26. What is the best service to treat dry, split cuticles?
Answer: Hot oil manicure
Q27. What is the proper shape to file toenails?
Answer: Straight across, slightly rounded at corners
Q28. Which one of the following protects nail polish from chipping?
Answer: Top coat
Q29. What is the ingredient that speeds up the hardening process?
Answer: Catalyst
Q30. What do practitioners use to remove foot callus?
Answer: Foot file / foot paddle
Q31. What can be used by the practitioner to repair a crack on natural nails?
Answer: Nail wrap
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