MLS ASCP PRACTICE EXAM Questions
and Answers GRADED A+ Latest Updates
2025
how long between whole blood donations? ✔✔8 weeks
Bacteria isolated from a wound TSI A/A, oxidase (+), The most likely
organism is
✔✔Aeromonas
Plate cocci in chains. Patient with endocarditis, alpha hemolysis, bile
esculin (+), NaCl (no growth). The most likely organism is: ✔✔Strep.
Galloliticus (bovis) (group D)
Patient with pharyngitis complicates to glomerulonephritis ✔✔Strep.
Pyogenes
Preferred rapid test for Legionella pneumophilia Ag ✔✔Ag in urine
Bacteria LAP(-), Bile esculin (+), NaCl (growth), PYR(-)
✔✔Leuconostoc
Organism isolated in Hecktoen: TSI K/A, H2S (+), PAD (-), Lysine
decarboxylase (-), Urea (+), citrate (+). What should the technologist do?
,✔✔Report as normal flora
Child with walking pneumonia due to Mycoplasma and is prescribed
penicillin. 2 weeks later, still sick. What happened? ✔✔The
microorganism doesn't have cellular wall
Latex agglutination for S. aureus ✔✔Protein A and coagulase
Child with cat scratch, BGN, catalase (-), oxidase (-), motile. The most
likely organism is
✔✔Bartonella henselae
Difference between P. aeruginosa and P. putida? ✔✔Growth on 42C
Bacteria grows pink on McConkey, Indol(-), citrate (+), Lysine
decarboxylase (-), ONPG (+)
✔✔Enterobacter cloacae
Parasite that doesn't present schizont and trophozoite ✔✔P.
falciparum
What are ballistoconidia’s? ✔✔Something about budding between
mother and daughter
, Urine with pH 4.5 ✔✔diet high in proteins
Urine at 10C measured in a refractometer SG 1.024, 1000 mg of glucose.
What should the technologist do? ✔✔Correction of the refractometer
due to glucose
Patient that physically appears to be pregnant but the HCG is negative.
U/A decreased SG and proteins: trace, why the test result in negative?
✔✔Trace proteins?
Strip RBC (+), microscope (-), this is due to what? ✔✔Dilute alkaline
urine
CSF for culture, MLS only manages to perform Gram stain in his shift,
what should the technologist do? ✔✔Incubate at 35C
Urinalysis result for a child had tubular renal cells 25-30, granular casts
✔✔tubular necrosis
Fecal fat methods ✔✔extraction and process
what is composed of DNA? ✔✔howell jolly bodies
what falsely increases ESR ✔✔vibration, tilting of tube, higher temps,
>1 hr test time, improper mixing of blood, improper dilution
and Answers GRADED A+ Latest Updates
2025
how long between whole blood donations? ✔✔8 weeks
Bacteria isolated from a wound TSI A/A, oxidase (+), The most likely
organism is
✔✔Aeromonas
Plate cocci in chains. Patient with endocarditis, alpha hemolysis, bile
esculin (+), NaCl (no growth). The most likely organism is: ✔✔Strep.
Galloliticus (bovis) (group D)
Patient with pharyngitis complicates to glomerulonephritis ✔✔Strep.
Pyogenes
Preferred rapid test for Legionella pneumophilia Ag ✔✔Ag in urine
Bacteria LAP(-), Bile esculin (+), NaCl (growth), PYR(-)
✔✔Leuconostoc
Organism isolated in Hecktoen: TSI K/A, H2S (+), PAD (-), Lysine
decarboxylase (-), Urea (+), citrate (+). What should the technologist do?
,✔✔Report as normal flora
Child with walking pneumonia due to Mycoplasma and is prescribed
penicillin. 2 weeks later, still sick. What happened? ✔✔The
microorganism doesn't have cellular wall
Latex agglutination for S. aureus ✔✔Protein A and coagulase
Child with cat scratch, BGN, catalase (-), oxidase (-), motile. The most
likely organism is
✔✔Bartonella henselae
Difference between P. aeruginosa and P. putida? ✔✔Growth on 42C
Bacteria grows pink on McConkey, Indol(-), citrate (+), Lysine
decarboxylase (-), ONPG (+)
✔✔Enterobacter cloacae
Parasite that doesn't present schizont and trophozoite ✔✔P.
falciparum
What are ballistoconidia’s? ✔✔Something about budding between
mother and daughter
, Urine with pH 4.5 ✔✔diet high in proteins
Urine at 10C measured in a refractometer SG 1.024, 1000 mg of glucose.
What should the technologist do? ✔✔Correction of the refractometer
due to glucose
Patient that physically appears to be pregnant but the HCG is negative.
U/A decreased SG and proteins: trace, why the test result in negative?
✔✔Trace proteins?
Strip RBC (+), microscope (-), this is due to what? ✔✔Dilute alkaline
urine
CSF for culture, MLS only manages to perform Gram stain in his shift,
what should the technologist do? ✔✔Incubate at 35C
Urinalysis result for a child had tubular renal cells 25-30, granular casts
✔✔tubular necrosis
Fecal fat methods ✔✔extraction and process
what is composed of DNA? ✔✔howell jolly bodies
what falsely increases ESR ✔✔vibration, tilting of tube, higher temps,
>1 hr test time, improper mixing of blood, improper dilution
