ALAT CERTIFICATION LATEST EXAM 2026
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Beyond food, water, shelter, and healthcare requirements, to comply with the Animal
Welfare Act, - ✔✔
✔✔what must be provided to dogs in a laboratory animal research facility?
✔✔Opportunities for - ✔✔
✔✔exercise - ✔✔
✔✔What does the acronym SOP stand for? ✔✔Standard Operating Procedure - ✔✔
✔✔What are the 3 Rs? ✔✔Replacement, refinement, reduction - ✔✔
✔✔How often must an IACUC perform inspections of the facility? ✔✔Every 6 months -
✔✔
✔✔Who has the authority to sign the PHS Assurance? ✔✔The Institutional Official - ✔✔
✔✔Who reviews all animal use protocols at the institution before studies using animals
can begin? - ✔✔
,✔✔✔✔International Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) - ✔✔
✔✔What regulation applies to animal and non-animal research and safety studies
funded or reviewed - ✔✔
✔✔by the FDA and the EPA? ✔✔Good Laboratory Practices (GLPs) - ✔✔
✔✔Records of USDA inspections are available to the public under a provision of which
federal law? - ✔✔
✔✔✔✔Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) - ✔✔
✔✔What document contains information regarding potential disasters, evacuation, and
emergency - ✔✔
✔✔contacts? ✔✔Disaster plan - ✔✔
✔✔What is the best way to measure the effectiveness of an institution-wide emergency
system? - ✔✔
✔✔✔✔Periodic disaster drills - ✔✔
✔✔What involves the development of methods for uniquely recognizing humans based
upon physical - ✔✔
✔✔features? ✔✔Biometrics - ✔✔
✔✔If you are present in the facility when a major disaster or accident occurs, what
should be your first - ✔✔
✔✔priority? ✔✔Protecting human life - ✔✔
✔✔What does an eye wash station use to clean the eye? ✔✔Clean water under low
pressure - ✔✔
✔✔What type of hazard causes musculoskeletal injuries ✔✔Ergonomic - ✔✔
✔✔What provides information on the toxicity of chemicals? ✔✔Material Safety Data
Sheets (MSDS) - ✔✔
, ✔✔Whose standards specifically address the storage and handling of radioactive
materials in the - ✔✔
✔✔facility? ✔✔Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) - ✔✔
✔✔Adult sheep may consume up to how many gallon(s) of water a day? ✔✔1 gallon -
✔✔
✔✔The average life span of a goat is how many years? ✔✔8-12 years, and sometimes
as old as 15+ - ✔✔
✔✔The color of rabbit urine is determined by what? ✔✔The amount of minerals in the
urine - ✔✔
✔✔Every six months , a female cat will have several periods of estruses, which may last
3-6 days, - ✔✔
✔✔reproductively she is said to be what?: ✔✔Seasonally polyestrus - ✔✔
✔✔A female cat is called what? ✔✔Queen - ✔✔
✔✔A male cat is called what? ✔✔Tom - ✔✔
✔✔A male goat is called what? ✔✔Buck - ✔✔
✔✔A female goat is called what? ✔✔Doe - ✔✔
✔✔A female sheep is called what? ✔✔Ewe - ✔✔
✔✔A male sheep is called what? ✔✔Ram - ✔✔
✔✔A female dog is called what? ✔✔Bitch - ✔✔
✔✔A male dog is called what? ✔✔Dog - ✔✔
✔✔What is the scientific name for a goat? ✔✔Capra hircus - ✔✔
✔✔What is the scientific name for sheep? ✔✔Ovis aries - ✔✔
✔✔What is the scientific name for common house mouse? ✔✔Mus musculus - ✔✔
✔✔What is the scientific name of an African Clawed Frog? ✔✔Xenopus laevis - ✔✔
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Beyond food, water, shelter, and healthcare requirements, to comply with the Animal
Welfare Act, - ✔✔
✔✔what must be provided to dogs in a laboratory animal research facility?
✔✔Opportunities for - ✔✔
✔✔exercise - ✔✔
✔✔What does the acronym SOP stand for? ✔✔Standard Operating Procedure - ✔✔
✔✔What are the 3 Rs? ✔✔Replacement, refinement, reduction - ✔✔
✔✔How often must an IACUC perform inspections of the facility? ✔✔Every 6 months -
✔✔
✔✔Who has the authority to sign the PHS Assurance? ✔✔The Institutional Official - ✔✔
✔✔Who reviews all animal use protocols at the institution before studies using animals
can begin? - ✔✔
,✔✔✔✔International Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) - ✔✔
✔✔What regulation applies to animal and non-animal research and safety studies
funded or reviewed - ✔✔
✔✔by the FDA and the EPA? ✔✔Good Laboratory Practices (GLPs) - ✔✔
✔✔Records of USDA inspections are available to the public under a provision of which
federal law? - ✔✔
✔✔✔✔Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) - ✔✔
✔✔What document contains information regarding potential disasters, evacuation, and
emergency - ✔✔
✔✔contacts? ✔✔Disaster plan - ✔✔
✔✔What is the best way to measure the effectiveness of an institution-wide emergency
system? - ✔✔
✔✔✔✔Periodic disaster drills - ✔✔
✔✔What involves the development of methods for uniquely recognizing humans based
upon physical - ✔✔
✔✔features? ✔✔Biometrics - ✔✔
✔✔If you are present in the facility when a major disaster or accident occurs, what
should be your first - ✔✔
✔✔priority? ✔✔Protecting human life - ✔✔
✔✔What does an eye wash station use to clean the eye? ✔✔Clean water under low
pressure - ✔✔
✔✔What type of hazard causes musculoskeletal injuries ✔✔Ergonomic - ✔✔
✔✔What provides information on the toxicity of chemicals? ✔✔Material Safety Data
Sheets (MSDS) - ✔✔
, ✔✔Whose standards specifically address the storage and handling of radioactive
materials in the - ✔✔
✔✔facility? ✔✔Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) - ✔✔
✔✔Adult sheep may consume up to how many gallon(s) of water a day? ✔✔1 gallon -
✔✔
✔✔The average life span of a goat is how many years? ✔✔8-12 years, and sometimes
as old as 15+ - ✔✔
✔✔The color of rabbit urine is determined by what? ✔✔The amount of minerals in the
urine - ✔✔
✔✔Every six months , a female cat will have several periods of estruses, which may last
3-6 days, - ✔✔
✔✔reproductively she is said to be what?: ✔✔Seasonally polyestrus - ✔✔
✔✔A female cat is called what? ✔✔Queen - ✔✔
✔✔A male cat is called what? ✔✔Tom - ✔✔
✔✔A male goat is called what? ✔✔Buck - ✔✔
✔✔A female goat is called what? ✔✔Doe - ✔✔
✔✔A female sheep is called what? ✔✔Ewe - ✔✔
✔✔A male sheep is called what? ✔✔Ram - ✔✔
✔✔A female dog is called what? ✔✔Bitch - ✔✔
✔✔A male dog is called what? ✔✔Dog - ✔✔
✔✔What is the scientific name for a goat? ✔✔Capra hircus - ✔✔
✔✔What is the scientific name for sheep? ✔✔Ovis aries - ✔✔
✔✔What is the scientific name for common house mouse? ✔✔Mus musculus - ✔✔
✔✔What is the scientific name of an African Clawed Frog? ✔✔Xenopus laevis - ✔✔
