NTS Pharmacy Technician Sample Solved Paper 2024
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Pharmacy Technician NTS Exam Paper Pattern & Solved Sample Papers can be downloaded from webstudy.pk. you should read them all because of these very important question that comes every year. They may help you in NTS Pharmacy Technician 23rdand 20th Examination 2024. This is 23rd exam for first year & 20th exam for second year students.
Human anatomy is the science concerned with which one of the following?
Disease
Drugs
Functions
Genetics
Structure
Which one of the following branches of anatomy deals with the study of the fetus?
Embryology
Gross anatomy
Histology
Neuroanatomy
Surface anatomy
In embryology, which one of the following terms refers to the tail end of the embryo?
Caudal
Cephalic
Lateral
Medial
Rostral
Which one of the following is called “collar bone” felt subcutaneously on the thoracic wall?
1st rib
2nd rib
Cervical rib
Clavicle
Sternum
The brachial artery may be felt pulsating deep to which one of the following muscles?
Anconeus
Biceps
Brachioradialis
Deltoid
Triceps
The respiratory center is located in:
Spinal cord
Medulla oblongata
Cerebrum
Cerebellum
Which of the following cell organelle can replicate like DNA and chromosomes during cell mitosis?
Mitochondria
Centriole
Ribosome
Lysosome
Basically cell membranes are composed of:
Phospholipids
Proteins
Carbohydrates
Electrolytes
Both A and B
Oxytocin is secreted from:
Hypothalamus
Anterior pituitary
Posterior pituitary
Thyroid
Pineal
- The storage form of Iron is:
Transferring
Ferritin
Hemosiderin
Albumin
Globulin
- Amylases are found in:
Pancreatic glands
Hepatic glands
Salivary glands
Both A and C
12.“Rennin” is used in:
Papermaking
Winemaking
Cheesemaking
Detergent industry
Wood Processing
- Normal Blood Pressure Range is:
120/80 mm Hg
130/70 mm Hg
120/60 mm Hg
140/90 mm Hg
160/80 mm Hg
- Checking the performance of the instrument is:
First-line quality control
Second-line quality control
Third line quality control
Fourth line quality control
- The purest form of sampling based on probability is:
Random sampling
Non-random sampling
Systematic sampling
Stratified sampling
Convenient sampling
- Man is an intermediate host for which of the following?
Pinworm
Filaria
Guinea worm
Tapeworm
Malaria
- Which of the following drug is used to prevent Malaria?
Mebendazole
Thiabendazole
Piperazine
Chloroquine
- The type of image obtained in the compound microscope is:
Real
Inverted
Virtual
Concave
Convex
- The presence of bacteria in the bloodstream is known as:
Viraemia
Septicemia
Bacteremia
Bactericidal
- Scarlet fever is caused by which of the following?
Salmonella typhi
Streptococcus viridans
Staphylococcus aureus
Streptococcus pyogenes
DESCRIPTIVE PORTION
- Classify synovial joints according to the shape of articulating surfaces and range of movements. Give examples of each variety.
- Enumerate 5 layers of the epidermis.
PHARMACY TECHNICIAN IST YEAR PART I PAPER 2
SUBJECT
Hospital pharmacies carry out a number of unique activities such as a unit dose drug distribution system, repackaging, floor stock, and an IV admixture/TPN service. What is the advantage of a unit dose drug distribution system?
There is no advantage, it is a standard
It helps with management
It is protocol
It saves money and reduces the chance of medication errors
It makes distribution easier
Under the organization of the hospital, which committee is responsible for the prevention of nosocomial infections in the hospital?
Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee
Disease Control Committee
Infection Control Committee
Institutional Review Board
Communicating in the hospital setting often means working with a wide variety of other healthcare providers. Understanding what role they play in the patients’ healthcare is essential to effective communication. What duties does a phlebotomist have?
Assessing the patient’s readiness for surgery
They are involved in the diagnostic testing of infants, children and adults with underlying medical concerns including disease and sleep disorders.
To help people who suffer from chronic respiratory diseases like asthma, bronchitis and emphysema.
Their function is to draw blood from a patient for clinical or medical testing, transfusions, donations, or research.
To practice in the field of health sciences focusing on safe and effective medication use.
Ibn Baytar (d.1248) described some 1400 drugs derived from various plants including some 200 new plants in his book “Kitab al-Jamey fil Adwiya alMufrada”. Which of the following is Ibn Baytar credited with discovering?
various types of foods and drugs and their effects on a person’s health
the preparation of drugs by sublimation and distillation
more than 350 colored renderings of plants and animals
the earliest known herbal treatment for cancer: Hindiba
discourses on melancholy, a treatise on the pulse, and one on materia medica
The pH at which an enzyme has maximum activity is known as:
Optimum pH
Isoelectric pH
Low pH
High pH
Maximum pH
The amino acid which has a pK near 4 and thus is negatively charged at pH 7 is:
Alanine
Glutamic acid
Glutamine
Aspargine
Threonine
What is the most appropriate treatment that could be dispensed over-the-counter for irritation caused by contact dermatitis?
Eurax cream
Canesten HC cream
Hydrocortisone cream
Clarityn tablets
Pevaryl cream
A 24 years old woman comes to the pharmacy with a new prescription for amitriptyline 25 mg tablets, two tablets t.d.s. The label produced for
the medicine dispensed to the patient should include:
take two tablets three times daily
take two tablets four times daily
take two tablets three times daily after meals
take two tablets three times daily before meals
You have in your pharmacy a cream containing 0.5% w/w
hydrocortisone. You have been requested to use this cream as a base and to add in sufficient calamine such that the final concentration of
calamine in the new cream will be 10.0% w/w. What is the concentration of hydrocortisone in the new cream?
0.3% w/w
0.45% w/w
0.5% w/w
0.05% w/w
- Which of the following is NOT an example of Chemical incompatibility?
Precipitation
Colour change
Effervescences
Insolubility
Decomposition
- Which one of the following belongs to the family Liliaceae?
Vanilla
Almond
Senna
Colchicum
Opium
- Which one of the following belongs to the family Solanaceae?
Capsicum
Digitalis
Male Fern
Agar
Ephedra
- An agent which is responsible for artificial abortion is known as:
Abstinence
Acrid
Abortifacient
Abortant
Bruccal
- Which one of the following is defined as a compound which upon hydrolysis give rise to one or more sugars and a non sugar compound?
Fixed oil
Volatile oil
Resin
Glycoside
Carbohydrate
- Which one of the following terms is usually restricted to the agents which have one or more heterocyclic rings containing nitrogen?
Enzymes
Tannin
Vitamins
Alkaloid
Phenols
16.Fibrinolysin is used to treat _______.
Inflammation
Antipyretic
Venous Thrombosis
Spleenomegally
Achly-gastrica
17.Pancreatin is used to treat ________.
Liver Cirrhosis
Pancreatitis
Hepatomegaly
Pulmonary Embolism
Asthma
- What is the biological source of Pale Catechu?
Acacia catechu
Uncaria Gambier
Quercus infectoria
Coriander Sativum
Acacia Arabica
19.What is the biological source of peppermint oil?
Mentha Spicata
Mentha Piperita
Illicium Varum
Cassia Cinnamomum
Menthol
- Which one of the following alkaloids has antihypertensive properties?
Morphine
Emetine
Cocaine
Reserpine
Atropine
DESCRIPTIVE PORTION
- Discus the isotonic solution with example and give its applications.
- What is the prescription? Enumerate its parts and give the detail about the inscription
- What do you mean by crude drug evaluation? Write down the name of the different methods of evaluation and give detail about organoleptic evaluation.
- What are resins? Write down the botanical name, chemical class, family, chemical constituents and medicinal uses of colocynth.
PHARMACY TECHNICIAN SECOND YEAR PART II
PAPER 1
SUBJECT
Which one of the following ways is Hospital Pharmacy Services NOT similar to Community Pharmacy Services?
Maintaining drug treatment records
Ordering and stocking medications and medical supplies
Providing information about the proper use of medications
Enforcing how opened unit doses can be returned to stock
Preparing medications in various dosage forms for dispensing
What are Outpatient Pharmacy Services?
Many hospitals offer these services such as nutrition support, pharmacokinetics, critical care, and other specialties.
Most hospitals have a drug information service that is primarily responsible for making recommendations on a drug formulary.
Many large hospitals need to serve the medication needs of patients discharged from the hospital, as well as for those patients who are seen in the emergency room or other
ambulatory clinics adjoining the hospital.
Many hospitals provide expert consultations in such areas as pediatric pharmacology, nutritional support, and pharmacokinetics
________ is used in the hospital pharmacy to increase accuracy and
improve efficiency and quality of pharmacy services.
Automation
Technology
Marketing
Robotic procedure
Medication
The optimal pH for the enzyme rennin is:
2.0
4.0
5.0
6.0
8.0
The purity of an isolated protein can be tested by employing various
methods:
Solubility curve
Ultra-Centrifugation
Molecular weight
Immuno Reactivity
All of the above
Which of the following is required for crystallization and storage of the hormone insulin?
Mn++
Mg++
Ca++
Zn++
The first enzyme isolated, purified, and crystallized from Jack bean (Canavalia) by summer in 1926 was:
Urease
Insulin
Ribonuclease
Zymase
Enzyme
Drug substances most frequently are administered orally by the means
of solid dosage forms such as _______ and _______.
Tablets … capsules
Forms … periodic
Drugs … tablets
Capsules … forms
Periodic … pills
Appropriate preparations that could be dispensed over-the-counter to
treat motion sickness includes all of the following EXCEPT:
Stugeron
Avomine
Kwells
Motilium
Phenergan
- How many tablets of prednisolone 5 mg should be dispensed to a patient
who has been prescribed prednisolone 25 mg for 5 days?
5
125
25
50
45
- Hospital pharmacies carry out a number of unique activities such as a unit dose drug distribution system, repackaging, floor stock, and an IV admixture/TPN service. What is the advantage of a unit dose drug distribution system?
There is no advantage, it is a standard
It helps with management
It is protocol
It saves money and reduces the chance of medication errors
It makes distribution easier
12.Under the organization of the hospital, which committee is responsible for the prevention of nosocomial infections in the hospital?
Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee
Disease Control Committee
Infection Control Committee
Institutional Review Board
- Communicating in the hospital setting often means working with a wide variety of other healthcare providers. Understanding what role they play in the patients’ healthcare is essential to effective communication. What duties does a phlebotomist have?
Assessing the patient’s readiness for surgery
They are involved in the diagnostic testing of infants, children, and adults with underlying medical concerns including disease and sleep disorders.
To help people who suffer from chronic respiratory diseases like asthma, bronchitis, and emphysema.
Their function is to draw blood from a patient for clinical or medical testing, transfusions, donations, or research.
To practice in the field of health sciences focusing on safe and
effective medication use.
- Ibn Baytar (d.1248) described some 1400 drugs derived from various
plants including some 200 new plants in his book “Kitab al-Jamey fil
Adwiya alMufrada”. Which of the following is Ibn Baytar credited with discovering?
various types of foods and drugs and their effects on a person’s health
the preparation of drugs by sublimation and distillation
more than 350 colored renderings of plants and animals
the earliest known herbal treatment for cancer: Hindiba
discourses on melancholy, a treatise on the pulse, and one on materia medica
- The pH at which an enzyme has maximum activity is known as:
Optimum pH
Isoelectric pH
Low pH
High pH
Maximum pH
- The amino acid which has a pK near 4 and thus is negatively charged at pH 7 is:
Alanine
Glutamic acid
Glutamine
Aspargine
Threonine
- What is the most appropriate treatment that could be dispensed over-the-counter for irritation caused by contact dermatitis?
Eurax cream
Canesten HC cream
Hydrocortisone cream
Clarityn tablets
Pevaryl cream
- A 24 years old woman comes to the pharmacy with a new prescription for amitriptyline 25 mg tablets, two tablets t.d.s. The label produced for the medicine dispensed to the patient should include:
take two tablets three times daily
take two tablets four times daily
take two tablets three times daily after meals
take two tablets three times daily before meals
take one tablet three times daily
- You have in your pharmacy a cream containing 0.5% w/w
hydrocortisone. You have been requested to use this cream as a base and to add in sufficient calamine such that the final concentration of
calamine in the new cream will be 10.0% w/w. What is the concentration of hydrocortisone in the new cream?
0.3% w/w
0.45% w/w
0.5% w/w
0.05% w/w
0.045% w/w
- Which of the following is NOT an example of Chemical incompatibility?
Precipitation
Colour change
Effervescences
Insolubility
Decomposition
DESCRIPTIVE PORTION
- What are the different methods of family planning? Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of Diaphragm?
- What are the five rights for correct drug administration?
- What is the first falling-rate period in the drying process?
PHARMACY TECHNICIAN SECOND YEAR PART II PAPER 2
SUBJECT
The ability of the drug to bind with its receptor is known as:
Intrinsic Activity
Extrinsic Activity
Availability
Affinity
Sensitivity
What do you call if there is a rapid decrease in responsiveness after the administration of drugs?
Tachyphylaxis
Dependence
Addiction
Hypersensitivity
Hyperactivity
The female is more susceptible to autonomic drugs because of estrogen______.
Increase metabolism of the autonomic drug
Increase absorption of the autonomic drug
Increase the elimination of the autonomic drug
Inhibit choline esterase
Stimulate choline esterase
Which one of the following is used for the diagnosis of myasthenia gravis?
Methacholine
Bethanecol
Pilocarpine
Physostigmine
Edrophonium
Which one of the following antiepileptic drugs belongs to the hydantoin group?
Carbamazepine
Phenytoin
Diazepam
Valproic Acid
Ethosuximide
Which one of the following is converted into Phenobarbital?
Primidone
Ethotoin
Trimethdione
Nitrazepam
NaBr
Which one of the following is intravenous anesthetic:
Diethyl ether
Halothane
Ketamine
Enflurane
Chloroform
Which one of the following is NOT the advantage of chloroform:
Non-Inflammable
Non-Explosive
Non Irritant
Cheap
Wide Margin of Safety
Which one of the following used in cyanide poisoning:
Calcium Channel Blocker
Beta-Blocker
Nitrates
ACE Inhibitor
Alpha Blocker
10.Which one of the following anti-asthmatic act by preventing mast cell
degranulation?
Atropine
Albuterol
Ephedrine
Cromolyn Sodium
Verapamil
- Pharmacy ethics is a branch of _____ ethics.
Legal
Social
Medical
Social and legal
Legal and political
- The Poison Act, 1919 extends to the _______ of Pakistan.
Federally administered areas
Whole
Capital
Provinces
- According to the Dangerous Drug Act, 1930 “dangerous drugs” includes________.
Coca leaf, hemp and opium, and all manufactured drugs
Coca leaf, hemp, and opium
Coca leaf and hemp
Hemp and opium
Coca leaf and all manufactured drugs
- According to the Dangerous Drug Act, 1930 “ to export from Pakistan” means:
To take out of Pakistan
To take out of Pakistan by land
To take out of Pakistan by land and sea
To take out of Pakistan and by air cross
To take out of Pakistan by land, sea or air cross
- Definitions of various terms used in the Punjab Drug Rules 1988 are given in section ________ of the same Act.
3
2
4
5
6
16.CPU is:
Software
Hardware
Software and Hardware
Malware
Spyware
- What does the “Delete” command do?
Deletes the characters
Does not delete the input from key
Checks the spellings
Corrects the grammar
Aligns the paragraph
18.Ctrl + B key in MS-Word:
converts selected text into the next larger size of the same font
adds a line break to the document
makes the selected text bold
applies Italic formatting of the selected text
makes the selected text colored
- What is referred to by the term ‘Hypertext’?
That links a PC to the server
The text which is used between a PC and ISP
The text which can be read with special software
The text which is secret
Text that links to other information
20.MS Excel sheet consists of _________.
Text boxes
Rows & Columns
Pictures & Drawings
Rows & Text
Tables & pictures
DESCRIPTIVE PORTION
- What do you call the unusual response of any drug elicited by an individual?
