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COA PRACTICE TEST EXAM COMPLETE 600
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
SOLUTIONS JUST RELEASED THIS YEAR
COA TEST EXAM A
QUESTION: A patient has just had cataract surgery and calls the office stating that the eye drops
given to use after surgery burn his eye. Which of the following advice would be the best to give
the patient:
a. Stop using that drop immediately
b. Continue with the drop, and you will check with the physician on this and get back with the
patient as soon as possible
c. Increase the frequency of the drop
d. Stop that drop and replace it with one of the other drops the patient was given to use- use
this drop twice as often as he had been told to - ANSWER✔✔.b. Continue with the drop, and
you will check with the physician on this and get back with the patient as soon as possible
QUESTION: Which of the following would be considered to be sterile:
a. Physician and assistants gloves
b. Patients hair bonnet
c. masks
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d. All of the above are sterile - ANSWER✔✔.a. Physician and assistants gloves
QUESTION: The following picture is best described by which of the choices below:
(left and right miers has a small gap between them)
a. Tonometer and miers are at the optimal spot for measuring IOP
b. Tonometer is too high
c. Pressure dial is too high
d. Tonometer is too low
e. Tonometer is too far to the right - ANSWER✔✔.d. Tonometer is too low
QUESTION: Indentation tonometry would be performed with which instrument:
a. Non contact tonometer
b. Pneumotonometer
c. Schiotz
d. Goldmann tonometer - ANSWER✔✔.c. Schiotz
QUESTION: When checking IOP by Goldmann tonometer, on which of the following would it be
best to start the pressure dial:
a. 20 mm Hg
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b. 0 mm Hg
c. 10 mm Hg
d. 30 mm Hg - ANSWER✔✔.c. 10 mm Hg
QUESTION: The bulb on the projector is found by taking the lens out of the front of the
projector:
a. True
b. False - ANSWER✔✔.b. False
QUESTION: The indirect ophthalmoscope contains lenses and mirrors which when used with a
condensing lens provide the ophthalmologist with which of the following:
a. Monocular view of the retina
b. Stereo view of the cornea
c. Close up simultaneous view of the macula of both eyes
d. 3 dimensional inverted view of the retina - ANSWER✔✔.d. 3 dimensional inverted view of the
retina
QUESTION: Which of the following should you always have on hand for the retinoscope:
a. Extra batteries
b. Extra bulbs
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c. Extra handles
d. A and C
e. A and B
f. A, B, and C - ANSWER✔✔.e. A and B
QUESTION: Automated visual field machines should be taken apart by the technician once a
year to have the dust blown out of them:
a. True
b. False - ANSWER✔✔.b. False
QUESTION: Instruments that will be used in surgery should be:
a. Cleaned of blood and air dried before use on the next patient
b. Rinsed off with water and blown dry with compressed air before use on the next patient
c. Cleaned of blood and fluids then dried and sterilized before use on the next patient
d. Sterilized, then wiped with a cotton ball soaked in alcohol, then placed in an enzyme solution
to break down any blood or other fluids on them - ANSWER✔✔.c. Cleaned of blood and fluids
then dried and sterilized before use on the next patient
QUESTION: The pituitary gland is part of which system:
a. Respiratory
COA PRACTICE TEST EXAM COMPLETE 600
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
SOLUTIONS JUST RELEASED THIS YEAR
COA TEST EXAM A
QUESTION: A patient has just had cataract surgery and calls the office stating that the eye drops
given to use after surgery burn his eye. Which of the following advice would be the best to give
the patient:
a. Stop using that drop immediately
b. Continue with the drop, and you will check with the physician on this and get back with the
patient as soon as possible
c. Increase the frequency of the drop
d. Stop that drop and replace it with one of the other drops the patient was given to use- use
this drop twice as often as he had been told to - ANSWER✔✔.b. Continue with the drop, and
you will check with the physician on this and get back with the patient as soon as possible
QUESTION: Which of the following would be considered to be sterile:
a. Physician and assistants gloves
b. Patients hair bonnet
c. masks
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d. All of the above are sterile - ANSWER✔✔.a. Physician and assistants gloves
QUESTION: The following picture is best described by which of the choices below:
(left and right miers has a small gap between them)
a. Tonometer and miers are at the optimal spot for measuring IOP
b. Tonometer is too high
c. Pressure dial is too high
d. Tonometer is too low
e. Tonometer is too far to the right - ANSWER✔✔.d. Tonometer is too low
QUESTION: Indentation tonometry would be performed with which instrument:
a. Non contact tonometer
b. Pneumotonometer
c. Schiotz
d. Goldmann tonometer - ANSWER✔✔.c. Schiotz
QUESTION: When checking IOP by Goldmann tonometer, on which of the following would it be
best to start the pressure dial:
a. 20 mm Hg
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b. 0 mm Hg
c. 10 mm Hg
d. 30 mm Hg - ANSWER✔✔.c. 10 mm Hg
QUESTION: The bulb on the projector is found by taking the lens out of the front of the
projector:
a. True
b. False - ANSWER✔✔.b. False
QUESTION: The indirect ophthalmoscope contains lenses and mirrors which when used with a
condensing lens provide the ophthalmologist with which of the following:
a. Monocular view of the retina
b. Stereo view of the cornea
c. Close up simultaneous view of the macula of both eyes
d. 3 dimensional inverted view of the retina - ANSWER✔✔.d. 3 dimensional inverted view of the
retina
QUESTION: Which of the following should you always have on hand for the retinoscope:
a. Extra batteries
b. Extra bulbs
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c. Extra handles
d. A and C
e. A and B
f. A, B, and C - ANSWER✔✔.e. A and B
QUESTION: Automated visual field machines should be taken apart by the technician once a
year to have the dust blown out of them:
a. True
b. False - ANSWER✔✔.b. False
QUESTION: Instruments that will be used in surgery should be:
a. Cleaned of blood and air dried before use on the next patient
b. Rinsed off with water and blown dry with compressed air before use on the next patient
c. Cleaned of blood and fluids then dried and sterilized before use on the next patient
d. Sterilized, then wiped with a cotton ball soaked in alcohol, then placed in an enzyme solution
to break down any blood or other fluids on them - ANSWER✔✔.c. Cleaned of blood and fluids
then dried and sterilized before use on the next patient
QUESTION: The pituitary gland is part of which system:
a. Respiratory
