HCCP EXAM 2024 TAP Series: Food
Safety Training Exam
1. A food handler has finished trimming raw chicken on a cutting
board and needs the board to prep vegetables. What must be
done to the cutting board? - Correct Ans: ✔✔It must be washed,
rinsed, and sanitized
2. What is the most important factor in choosing a good reputable
food supplier? - Correct Ans: ✔✔It has been inspected and
complies with local, state, and federal laws
3. Frozen vegetables are rejected during receiving for having large
ice crystals on the food and packaging. What is the problem the
caused this? - Correct Ans: ✔✔Time temperature abuse
4. In top to bottom order, how should a fresh pork roast, fresh
salmon, a container of lettuce, and fresh turkey breasts be stored
in a cooler? - Correct Ans: ✔✔Lettuce, fresh salmon, fresh pork
roast, fresh turkey breasts
5. A food handler pulled a hotel pan of egg salad from the cooler and
used it to prepare four egg salad sandwiches, What is the problem
with this situation? - Correct Ans: ✔✔Time temperature abuse
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, 6. When must a consumer advisory be posted? - Correct Ans:
✔✔When serving raw or under cooked food
7. What is the purpose Active Managerial Control? - Correct Ans:
✔✔Identify and control possible hazards throughout the flow of
food
8. A chef sanitized a thermometer probe and then checked the
temperature of beef stew being held in a hot holding unit. The
temperature was 120F, which did not meet the operation's critical
limit of 135F. The chef recorded the temperature of the stew in
the log and reheated the stew to 165F for 15 seconds. Which was
the corrective action? - Correct Ans: ✔✔Reheating the stew
9. An operation received a violation in the outside area of the
facility. The manager reviewed the area and saw that the
dumpster was placed on gravel. The lids were closed, and the
drain plug was in place to prevent the dumpster from draining.
What is the problem. - Correct Ans: ✔✔The surface underneath
the dumpster should have been paved with concrete or asphalt
10. Floor mounted equipment and food items must be ___ off
the floor. - Correct Ans: ✔✔6"
11. Foodborne intoxication is caused by eating foods that
contain: - Correct Ans: ✔✔Poisons
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Safety Training Exam
1. A food handler has finished trimming raw chicken on a cutting
board and needs the board to prep vegetables. What must be
done to the cutting board? - Correct Ans: ✔✔It must be washed,
rinsed, and sanitized
2. What is the most important factor in choosing a good reputable
food supplier? - Correct Ans: ✔✔It has been inspected and
complies with local, state, and federal laws
3. Frozen vegetables are rejected during receiving for having large
ice crystals on the food and packaging. What is the problem the
caused this? - Correct Ans: ✔✔Time temperature abuse
4. In top to bottom order, how should a fresh pork roast, fresh
salmon, a container of lettuce, and fresh turkey breasts be stored
in a cooler? - Correct Ans: ✔✔Lettuce, fresh salmon, fresh pork
roast, fresh turkey breasts
5. A food handler pulled a hotel pan of egg salad from the cooler and
used it to prepare four egg salad sandwiches, What is the problem
with this situation? - Correct Ans: ✔✔Time temperature abuse
1
, 6. When must a consumer advisory be posted? - Correct Ans:
✔✔When serving raw or under cooked food
7. What is the purpose Active Managerial Control? - Correct Ans:
✔✔Identify and control possible hazards throughout the flow of
food
8. A chef sanitized a thermometer probe and then checked the
temperature of beef stew being held in a hot holding unit. The
temperature was 120F, which did not meet the operation's critical
limit of 135F. The chef recorded the temperature of the stew in
the log and reheated the stew to 165F for 15 seconds. Which was
the corrective action? - Correct Ans: ✔✔Reheating the stew
9. An operation received a violation in the outside area of the
facility. The manager reviewed the area and saw that the
dumpster was placed on gravel. The lids were closed, and the
drain plug was in place to prevent the dumpster from draining.
What is the problem. - Correct Ans: ✔✔The surface underneath
the dumpster should have been paved with concrete or asphalt
10. Floor mounted equipment and food items must be ___ off
the floor. - Correct Ans: ✔✔6"
11. Foodborne intoxication is caused by eating foods that
contain: - Correct Ans: ✔✔Poisons
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