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1. How many elements are there in cycle d) Gloves, goggles, mask, gown,
of infection? shoe cover
a) 02 e) Goggles, gloves, gown, shoe
b) 05 cover, mask
c) 06 6. Hand washing process takes at least
d) 08 a) 05 second
e) 12 b) 15 second
2. Which one of the human materials or c) 25 second
tissue is not considered highly d) 30 second
infectious? e) 60 second
a) Amniotic fluid 7. Which one of the following is not
b) Blood considered a portal of entry for
c) Semen bacteria?
d) Sweat a) Eyes
e) Vaginal secretion b) Intact skin
3. Respirator protect us from c) Mouth
a) Airborne infections d) Nose
b) Aerosol transmitted infections e) Wound
c) Blood borne infections 8. When using alcohol based hand rub you
d) Droplet transmitted infections should
e) Both a and b a) Apply the hand rub and wave
4. Personal protective equipment should hands until dry
be donned in the following order: b) Apply the hand rub and rub
a) Gown, goggles, gloves, mask, palms and back of both hands
shoe cover together for 10 seconds,
b) Goggles, gloves, gown, shoe c) Apply hand rub when you see
cover, mask infection control staff on the
c) Mask, gown, goggles, gloves, unit
shoe cover d) Apply the hand rub and then
d) Gown, shoe cover, mask, wash hands with water
goggles, gloves e) Apply a sufficient quantity of
e) Shoe cover, mask, gown, hand rub and rub hands for at
goggles, gloves least 15 seconds, being sure to
5. Recommended sequence of removal of cover all areas: front, back,
PPE is: between fingers, nail beds and
a) Gloves, goggles, gown, shoe thumbs
cover, mask 9. During doffing which contaminated
b) Mask, shoe cover, gown, element of PPE should be removed first
goggles, gloves a) Gown
c) Gown, gloves, goggles, mask, b) Goggles
shoe cover c) Gloves
d) Hair cover

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e) Respirator e) All of the above

10. When our hands are visibly 14. The condition required for autoclaving
contaminated we should wash our a) 1210C temperature and 15 lbs.
hands with pressure for 20 minutes
a) Alcohol based hand rub b) 1210C temperature and 15 lbs.
b) Alcohol and water pressure for 40 minutes
c) Alcohol, water and soap c) 1210C temperature and 20 lbs.
d) Distilled water only pressure for 40 minutes
e) Water and soap d) 1600C temperature and 15 lbs.
11. What is the order for the chain of pressure for 60 minutes
infection? e) 1210C temperature and 150 lbs.
a) Portal of entry, susceptible pressure for 20 minutes
host, mode of transmission, 15. Which term is applied to chemicals used
portal of exit, pathogen, to kill bacteria on inanimate objects?
reservoir a) Antibiotics
b) Portal of entry, mode of b) Antiseptics
transmission, susceptible host, c) Chemotherapeutic agent
pathogen, portal of exit, d) Disinfectant
reservoir e) Sterilizing agent
c) Pathogen, reservoir, portal of 16. Which term is applied to chemicals used
exit, mode of transmission, to kill bacteria on animate surfaces?
portal of entry, susceptible host a) Antibiotics
d) Reservoir, portal of exit, b) Antiseptics
pathogen, mode of c) Chemotherapeutic agent
transmission, portal of entry, d) Disinfectant
susceptible host e) Sterilizing agent
e) Susceptible host, pathogen, 17. Complete killing or removal of all type
portal of exit, portal of entry, of microorganisms i.e. bacteria, viruses,
mode of transmission, reservoir fungi and mycobacteria
12. The proportion of the biomedical waste a) Disinfection
of the total hospital waste generated b) Decontamination
during health care activities is c) Sterilization
a) 10-15 % d) Washing
b) 10-25% e) Antisepsis
c) 10-40% 18. Which of the following gas is used for
d) 10-75% sterilization
e) 75-90% a) Glutaraldehyde
13. Example of pathological waste is b) Liquid nitrogen
a) Body fluids or blood c) Ethylene oxide
b) Expired drugs d) All of these
c) Kitchen waste e) A or c
d) Laboratory chemicals

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19. For the disposal of hospital waste, the
burial pits should be
a) 1-2 meter wide and 2-5 meter
deep
b) 1-10 meter wide and 2-5 meter
deep
c) 1-10 meter wide and 5-10
meter deep
d) 10-20 meter wide and 20-50
meter deep
e) 1-10 meter wide and 5-10
inches deep
20. Safety from exposure to in infectious
agents
a) Biosecurity
b) Biosafety
c) Personal hygiene
d) Prophylactic immunization
e) Standard precautions
21. Low risk microorganism are
manipulated in
a) BSL1
b) BSL2
c) BSL3
d) BSL4
e) All of these
22. Laboratory workers handling dangerous
or exotic agents with high risk of life
threatening disease for which no
treatment is available, practice
a) Standard microbiological
practices
b) Biosafety level 1 practices
c) Biosafety level 2 practices
d) Biosafety level 3 practices
e) Biosafety level 4 practices
23. In basic teaching microbiological
laboratories we deal with agents of
a) Biosafety level 1
b) Biosafety level 2
c) Biosafety level 3
d) Biosafety level 4
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e) Biosafety level 1 and 4
24. N-95 masks exclude
a) All microbes and particles
larger than two micrometers
b) 95% 0f microbes and particles
larger than 0.3 micrometers
c) 95% 0f microbes and particles
larger than 0.5 micrometers
d) 80% 0f microbes and particles
larger than 0.2 micrometers
e) 50% 0f microbes and particles
larger than two micrometers
25. Biosafety cabinet should be
decontaminated
a) Annually
b) Monthly
c) Regularly
d) Three times a day
e) Weekly
26. Post exposure prophylaxis for HCV is
composed of
a) Antiviral agents
b) Antibiotics
c) Immunoglobulins
d) Immunoglobulins and antiviral
agents
e) Neither Immunoglobulins nor
antiviral agents are
recommended
27. Which one of the following is not a
source for establishing of active
immunity?
a) Administration of toxoid into
the body
b) Administration of life
attenuated vaccine into the
body
c) Administration of
immunoglobulin into the body
d) Administration of antibiotics
into the body
e) Both c and d
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28. Which of the following is best to

sterilize heat labile solution?
a) Autoclave
b) Dry heat
c) Membrane filtration
d) Pasteurization
e) None of the above
29. Which are the most important surface
active disinfectants?
a) Amphoteric compounds
b) Anionic compounds
c) Aromatic compounds
d) Cationic compounds
e) Non-ionic compounds
30. The most commonly used disinfectant is
a) Alcohol
b) Dettol
c) Detergents
d) Glutaralaldehyde
e) Sodium hypochlorite
31. Which of the following articles can be
sterilized in an autoclave?
a) Culture media
b) Dressing material
c) Gloves
d) Glassware
e) All of these

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