Aubf Question Banks
Aubf Question Banks
14. Scientist has a test with consistent results while using 21. Which of the following is INCORRECT regarding steam
the same methods/ sample/environment/etc. This is an sterilization?
example of: A. Dry heat
A. Sensitivity B. 15 psi
B. Replicability C. Wet heat
C. Specificity D. 121 degrees Celsius
D. Reproducibility
22. What organ produces vasopressin?
15. What is used to neutralize alkaline spill? A. Posterior pituitary gland
A. Methanol B. Anterior pituitary gland
B. Ethanol C. Hypothalamus
C. NaOH D. Adrenal cortex
D. KOH
23. Which of the following is the best marker for risk in
16. Which
strategy is performed when POCT-QA issues arises? diabetic nephropathy?
[Link] from using POCT devices A. Glucose
[Link] only the doctor to perform POCT B. Creatinine
[Link]-laboratory personnel are not allowed to C. Microalbuminuria
perform POCT D. BUN
D. Train non-laboratory personnel
24. Which lipoprotein migrates farthest from the anode
17. What hormone is secreted when there is an increased during electrophoresis?
level of glucose? A. Chylomicron
A. Catecholamines B. VLDL
B. Insulin C. LDL
C. Glucagon D. HDL
D. Glucose
25. What is the purpose of caffeine in the Jendrassik-Grof
18. Considered as a liver function tests. Except? Method?
A. AST A. Wetting agent
B. ALT B. Accelerator
C. Amylase C. Mordant
D. Alkaline phosphatase D. -------
19. Convert 4 dL to L 26. One or two values exceeding the qc parameters not
A. 4 included in counting:
B. 0.04 A. Trend
C. 0.4 B. Shift
D. 40 C. Outlier
D. Drift
20. What formula is this Na+ + K+ –(Cl−+HCO3−)
A. Anion Gap 27. Duration of the disease
B. Osmolal Gap A. Mild and Severe
C. CO2 B. Benign and Malignant
D. O2 C. Acute and Chronic
D. Contagious and non-contagious
15. Actinomyces are: 23. Color of gram negative after decolorization step
A. Gram negative bacilli, facultative anaerobe A. Purple
B. Gram positive bacilli, facultative anaerobe B. Red
C. Gram negative cocci C. Colorless
D. Gram positive cocci D. Pink
16. Babes-Ernst granules are the metachromatic granules 24. Protein coat of a virus?
produced by? A. Capsid
A. M. tuberculosis B. Capsomere
B. Y. pestis C. Virion
C. C. diphtheriae
D. E. aerogenes 25. Sample use for cultivating B. cereus in food poisoning?
A. Blood
17. McFarland standard is equivalent to: B. Stool
A. 1.5 x 10^8 CFU/ml C. Food
B. 0.5 x 10^9 CFU/ml D. Saliva
C. 0.5 x 10^8 CFU/ml
D. 1.5 x 10^9 CFU/ml 26. Color of spirochetes in Warthin-Starry stain
A. Colorless
18. What is the characteristic odor of Proteus? B. Yellow
A. Grape-like/Corn tortilla-like odor C. Black
B. Bleach like odor D. Purple
C. Fruity odor resembling apples or strawberries
D. Burnt chocolate odor 27. Malarian gametocyte
A. P. malariae
19. What is the most sensitive test for Chlamydia? B. P. falciparum
A. Cell culture C. P. ovale
B. NAAT D. P. vivax
C. EIA
D. Microscopy
28. Identify:
20. Happens during microorganism resistance EXCEPT:
A. P. malariae
A. Penetration of membrane protein
B. P. falciparum
B. Reduced antimicrobial therapy
C. Ag-Ab Complex
29. Ingested by female anopheles during blood meal?
D. By passing the membrane protein
A. Sporozoites***
B. Gametocytes
21. Best in monitoring Malaria: NAAT
C. Oocyst
15. Other term for mucin clot test? 22. Characteristics of cholesterol crystals
A. Strings test A. Plates with notched ends
B. Ropes test B. Pillow shape
C. Rivaltas test C. Hexagonal plates
D. Barbiero test D. Needle shape
16. Urine for chemistry shaken well for what analysis? 23. Tablet test for Bilirubin?
A. RBC and WBC A. Acetest
B. pH and SG B. Clinitest
C. Ketone and Glucose C. Ictotest
D. Bilirubin and Urobilinogen D. Bilitest
17. Black tarry stool is indicative of 24. Hexagonal plate crystals that are characterized by
A. Excessive fats greasy appearance
B. Lower GIT bleeding A. Leucine
C. Upper GIT bleeding B. Cysteine
D. Excessive carbohydrates C. Uric acid
D. Tyrosine
18. What urine sample is used to quantitate sediments?
A. MSCC 25. Mousy odor urine
B. First morning A. Alkaptonuria
C. Timed B. Phenylketonuria
D. 12-hour urine C. Homogentisic acid
D. MSUD
19. The integrity of urine specimen is important
because: 26. Affected when urine is unpreserved, except?
A. Accurate assessments A. SG
B. Monitor disease progress B. Bilirubin
C. Monitor treatment effectivity C. Protein
D. Glucose
20. How much diluent is needed to make a 1/2 dilution if
the solute is 1.5 (g?) 27. Instruction given for the collection of 24-hour urine
A. 0.5 specimen
B. 1.5 A. Patient empties bladder into toilet at the
C. 1.2 start time, then collect all the following
D. 0.05 urine until end time
B. Patient empties bladder into the container at
21. Not a shape of transitional epithelial cells. the start time until the end time
A. Caudate C. Patient empties bladder into toilet at start
B. Convoluted time and end time
C. Spherical D. ------------
D. Polyhedral
28. Use of catheterized urine specimen
A. Microscopy
B. Culture
C. ------
D. comments on RBC morphology can’t be determined 23. Identify the abnormal RBC shown in the picture below.
A. Teardrop cell
16. Insufficient centrifuge how it affects hematocrit? B. Burr cell
A. False increase C. Drepanocyte
B. False decrease D. Acanthocyte
C. Increase
D. Decrease 24. What is the average liter of blood in humans:
A. 10L
17. The mononuclear cells seen in WBC Histogram include: B. 6L
A. Platelet
B. RBC 25. Peripheral blood cells involved in hemostasis
C. Blast A. Lymphocytes
D. Leukocytes B. Thrombocytes
C. Erythrocytes
18. Which of the following is the MAJOR post-analytical D. Monocytes
error?
A. Patient’s critical result 26. Pelger-Huet anomaly
B. Sample transport A. Hypersegmentation
C. Sample quality B. Hyposegmentation
D. Patient’s specific diagnosis C. Bilobed segmentation
19. In Protime effect if tube is NOT filled: 27. Meaning of R in Control flags
A. No effect A. Red
B. Normal B. Region
C. Shortened C. Reactive
D. Prolonged D. Repeat
20. What is the morphology of the echinocyte? 28. RU flag in automation is found in the following, except
A. Small, round, rbc A. Cold agglutination
B. Scooped out part of an rbc B. RBC fragmentation
C. Short, scallop or spike like C. Rouleaux
D. Fragmented RBCs D. Autoagglutination
21. Part of flow cytometry EXCEPT: 29. Bite cells is associated with what disease?
A. Digital A. G6PD deficiency
B. Optical B. PK deficiency
C. Fluidics C. Rh null
D. Electronics D. McLeod
22. A hemoglobin molecule is composed of: 30. PT and TT is Normal; APTT is Prolonged
A. One heme molecule and four globin chains A. IX
B. Ferrous iron, protoporphyrin IX, and a globin B. XIII
chain C. VII
C. Protoporphyrin IX and four globin chains D. Tissue factor
D. Four heme molecules and four globin chains
31. WBC Count computation
3. sDA can be neutralized by? 10. ABO discrepancies between forward or reverse blood
A. Milk typing with weak reacting or missing antibodies.
B. Hydatid cyst fluid A. Patient with antibody to the weak Antigen
C. Plasma B. Patient is very young or very old
D. Urine C. Patient with subgroup of Group
D. Patient with acquired B phenomenon
4. The ability of a single cytokine to alter the expression
of several genes is called 11. Lectin Dolichos biflorus expresses what antigen?
A. Autocrine stimulation A. A1
B. Endocrine B. P
C. Pleiotropy C. B
D. Redundancy D. K
5. Which minor blood group system can cause HDN? 12. The following are correct for storage and transport of
A. Vel blood components EXCEPT:
B. Gerbich A. Blood must not be hemolyzed
C. Gregory B. Blood must be stored at -20C
D. Holley C. Blood must in a hygienic environment
D. Blood must be protected from breakdown products of
6. Delayed Hemolytic Transfusion reaction EXCEPT: glycerol
A. Hemolytic
B. PTP 13. An IF test with antibodies to detect CD3 will detect
C. TA-GVHD which cell?
D. Hemosiderosis A. Circulating T cells
B. T helper lymphocytes only
7. Rh group: C. T. Suppressor lymphocytes only
A. Glycosylated proteins D. NK cells
B. Non-glycosylated proteins
14. How is the patient who is RH negative in a RBC written. 21. Which cluster of differentiation marker appears during
A. (+/-) the first stage of T cell development and remains
B. (-) present as an identifying marker for T cells?
C. (+) A. CD1
D. (-/-) B. CD2
C. CD3
15. Red cell immune antibody D. CD4 or CD8
A. IgG
B. IgA 22. Answer: IgM alloantibody
C. IgM
16. Physical preservation of tissue EXCEPT: 24. What does n mean in the Mean formula?
A. Heat A. Sum of all data points
B. Vapor B. Number of data points
C. Microwave C. Sum of all data sets
D. Freeze drying D. Number of all data sets
17. All of the following can be for frozen section, except: 25. GWA to passed the board exam is at least:
A. Ovary A. 60%
B. Tongue*** B. 75%
C. Fats C. 70%
D. 80%
18. First step before purchasing a new machine/equipment
A. Identify the cost of the test 26. Which stains glycogen and mucopolysaccharides?
B. Do machine evaluation A. PAS
C. Conduct a needs assessment survey*** B. Giemsa
C. Gram
19. Validity of drug test result:
A. 6 months 27. Which of the following best describes an e-signature?
B. 1 year A. Equivalent to physical sign
C. 3 months