ALAT Certification Study Questions and Answers

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ALAT Certification Study Questions and Answers 1.Other than the ALAT Training Manual, name the publication that you must read and study to prepare for the ALAT certification exam.✔✔ The Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals 2.List the three levels of AALAS Technician Certification.✔✔ Assistant Labora- tory Animal Technician (ALAT), Laboratory Animal Technician (LAT), Laboratory Animal Technologist (LATg) 3.What organization was formed in 1950 by Dr. Nathan Brewer and other veterinarians?✔✔ Animal Care Panel (ACP) 4.In 1967, the Animal Care Panel (ACP) changed it's name to what?✔✔ American Association for Laboratory Animal Sciences (AALAS) 5.What does the acronym RALAT mean?✔✔ Registered Assistant Laboratory Animal Technician 1 / 3

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6.What does the acronym RLAT mean?✔✔ Registered Laboratory Animal Techni- cian 7.What does the acronym RLATg mean?✔✔ Registered Laboratory Animal Tech- nologist 8.What does the Principle Investigator do?✔✔ Plans and coordinates all phases of the research work and prepares the protocol 9.What is an Animal Use Protocol?✔✔ A document written by the Principal Inves- tigator and approved by the IACUC, that describes and justifies the use of animals for a project 10.What does the acroynm IACUC mean?✔✔ International Animal Care and Use Committee 11.What is the PHS Policy?✔✔ Federal mandate that covers all live vertebrates used or intended for use in research, research training, experimentation, biological testing, or for related purposes. 2 / 3

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12.According to the Guide and PHS Policy, what document must institutions comply with when animals are euthanized?✔✔ AVMA Guidelines for Euthanasia 13.Using 100 mice in a research study instead of 150 could be an example of which of the 3 R's?✔✔ Reduction 14.What type of device identifies individuals using distinct characteristics such as fingerprints or eye structures?✔✔ Biometric Scanner 15.What document should be posted throughout the facility, and is consult- ed and used when there is an emergency?✔✔ Contact list

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