NAPSRx® Final Exam Practice / NAPSRx®
Test Prep | More than 250 Questions with
Verified Answers| (2023/ 2024 Update)
1. Which statement accurately differentiates resistance from tolerance
✓ Answer: tolerance refers to a person's diminished response to a
drug after repeated use, while resistance applies to
microorganisms' or "cancel" cells' abilities to withstand drug
effects
2. Between 3% and 7% of hospital admissions in the United States are estimated to be for
treatment of adverse drug reactoins
✓ Answer: true
3. Which statement is true about the universal scale for quantiffying the severity of an
adverse drug reaction
✓ Answer: there is no scale
4. Why is noncomplience a serios public healthy concern
✓ Answer: it increases the cost of medical care
5. Which of the following is NOT eligible for patent protection under U.S. regulations
✓ Answer: companies can be granted patents for all these things
,6. Drugs' trade names are often unrelated to their intended use
✓ Answer: true
7. Like foods and household products, generic drugs are usually lower quality than the
brand name drugs for which they are marketed as equivalents.
✓ Answer: false
8. Legally, bioequivalence of different versions of a drug can vary by up to ________.
✓ Answer: 20%
9. Which of the following statements about biologics is incorrect
✓ Answer: they do not cause immune response
10. "large molecules" products are developed and manuffactured by a chemical process
✓ Answer: false
11. What are drugs that attract or bind to cell receptors in order to mimic or enhance
activities by endogenous chemical messengers
✓ Answer: agonists
,12. Which term denotes how an API works in the body?
✓ Answer: mechanism of action
13. What cements the active and inert components together to maintain cohesive portions?
✓ Answer: binders
14. What does the medical abbreviation "BID" denote
✓ Answer: twice a day
15. What is the medical abbreviation for "as needed"
✓ Answer: PRN
16. What components might cause patients' different reactions to brand name and generic
drugs
✓ Answer: differences in inactive ingredients
17. All cells have a nucleus
✓ Answer: false
18. Which of the following does not affect drig response
, ✓ Answer: the patients' genetic makeup, age, body size, and use of
other drugs and dietary supplements, the patient's other conditions
or diseases, whether or not the patient takes the drug properly
19. Drug reactions are predictable becasue they do not occur after a person has been
previously exposed to the drug one or more times without any allergic reactions
✓ Answer: false
20. What is the typical relationship between a drug's site of administration and site of action
✓ Answer: they are usually somewhat removed from each other
21. What is CMAX
✓ Answer: Peak plasma concentration on a measuring curve
22. Which of the following is not a main concept in clinical pharmacology
✓ Answer: pharmacoprocesses
23. Which of the following is not a route of drug administration
✓ Answer: transfugal
24. How are intradermal drugs delivered?
✓ Answer: by injection under the skin
Test Prep | More than 250 Questions with
Verified Answers| (2023/ 2024 Update)
1. Which statement accurately differentiates resistance from tolerance
✓ Answer: tolerance refers to a person's diminished response to a
drug after repeated use, while resistance applies to
microorganisms' or "cancel" cells' abilities to withstand drug
effects
2. Between 3% and 7% of hospital admissions in the United States are estimated to be for
treatment of adverse drug reactoins
✓ Answer: true
3. Which statement is true about the universal scale for quantiffying the severity of an
adverse drug reaction
✓ Answer: there is no scale
4. Why is noncomplience a serios public healthy concern
✓ Answer: it increases the cost of medical care
5. Which of the following is NOT eligible for patent protection under U.S. regulations
✓ Answer: companies can be granted patents for all these things
,6. Drugs' trade names are often unrelated to their intended use
✓ Answer: true
7. Like foods and household products, generic drugs are usually lower quality than the
brand name drugs for which they are marketed as equivalents.
✓ Answer: false
8. Legally, bioequivalence of different versions of a drug can vary by up to ________.
✓ Answer: 20%
9. Which of the following statements about biologics is incorrect
✓ Answer: they do not cause immune response
10. "large molecules" products are developed and manuffactured by a chemical process
✓ Answer: false
11. What are drugs that attract or bind to cell receptors in order to mimic or enhance
activities by endogenous chemical messengers
✓ Answer: agonists
,12. Which term denotes how an API works in the body?
✓ Answer: mechanism of action
13. What cements the active and inert components together to maintain cohesive portions?
✓ Answer: binders
14. What does the medical abbreviation "BID" denote
✓ Answer: twice a day
15. What is the medical abbreviation for "as needed"
✓ Answer: PRN
16. What components might cause patients' different reactions to brand name and generic
drugs
✓ Answer: differences in inactive ingredients
17. All cells have a nucleus
✓ Answer: false
18. Which of the following does not affect drig response
, ✓ Answer: the patients' genetic makeup, age, body size, and use of
other drugs and dietary supplements, the patient's other conditions
or diseases, whether or not the patient takes the drug properly
19. Drug reactions are predictable becasue they do not occur after a person has been
previously exposed to the drug one or more times without any allergic reactions
✓ Answer: false
20. What is the typical relationship between a drug's site of administration and site of action
✓ Answer: they are usually somewhat removed from each other
21. What is CMAX
✓ Answer: Peak plasma concentration on a measuring curve
22. Which of the following is not a main concept in clinical pharmacology
✓ Answer: pharmacoprocesses
23. Which of the following is not a route of drug administration
✓ Answer: transfugal
24. How are intradermal drugs delivered?
✓ Answer: by injection under the skin
