030-444 Practice Exam Questions with Answers ACSM Certified Clinical Exercise Physiologist Certification

Electrical

Chemical

Mechanical

Emotional

Valuable, because it looks good to the owners.

To create many opportunities for educating the staff.

To let the staff handle their own education but also to encourage it.

Not very valuable, because member retention and sales are the key to any program.

To increase exposure for the facility and sell its services.

To become involved in local politics.

To improve staff morale.

To make the staff work harder.

Is based on historical features of program administration.

Adapts to trends in program services.

Is limited in scope and practice.

Is the same for the entire client population served.

Only if they wish to become floor supervisors or program managers.

Yes, because of the natural progression of advancement into management.

Yes, because as instructors, they manage client programs and manage the floor

with the clients.

No, because they will be trained in management if they become managers.

Hyperkalemia.

Acute pericarditis.

Acute MI.

Hypokalemia.

They create problems with staff egos.

They reduce memberships.

They create successful programs and reduce problems.

They create more work for the staff and reduce feedback.

Height/weight charts.

Total body weight.

WHR.

Total body water.

Performing four to six repetitions per set.

Using high resistance.

Incorporating high repetitions.

Performing isometric exercises only.

They tend to consume less overall energy than men.

They tend to consume less dairy products.

They tend to consume less protein from meat sources.

All of the above.

Proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation.

Ballistic stretching.

The plough and hurdler's stretches.

Static stretches held for 10 to 30 seconds per repetition.

Clients after atherectomy.

Clients with angina.

Clients with osteoporosis.

Clients with arthritis.

Obesity and physical inactivity.

Excessive carbohydrate intake.

Elevated LDL-C concentration.

Lack of muscular strength.

20 minutes continuously.

30 minutes continuously.

Multiple sessions of more than 10 minutes in duration throughout the day.

Two sessions of 20 minutes throughout the day.

Clients with functionally limiting chronicdisease.

Clients with comorbid disease states.

Asymptomatic clients with a functional capacity of 10 MET.

Clients at 1 week after CABG surgery.

Be stored away for safekeeping.

Be revised as the program's policies and/or procedures are modified.

Be viewed as a document in progress.

Contain program information ranging from the organizational structure to the

facility's maintenance schedule.

The exercise leader should be fit enough to exercise with any of his or her participants.

Most people are not bored by exercise and can easily find time to participate in an exercise program.

The exercise leader should adjust the exercise intensity based on individual differences in fitness.

Periodic fitness assessment may provide evidence of improvement in fitness for some participants.

Sweat as much as possible.

Exercise at 85% of HRR.

Perform resistance exercise three to five times per week.

Expend 300 to 500 calories per exercise session.

Muscle blood flow is increased as a result of warm-up.

Peripheral vasodilation occurs as a result of warm-up.

Peripheral vasoconstriction occurs as a result of warm-up.

Between 5 and 10 minutes should be allotted for a warm-up period.

15 minutes, six times per week, at 90% of HRR.

30 minutes, three times per week, at 85% of HRR.

60 minutes, three times per week, at 85% of HRR.

30 minutes of weight training, three times per week, at 60% of HRR.

The possible need to splint painful joints forprotection.

Periods of acute inflammation result in decreased pain and joint stiffness.

The possibility of gait abnormalities as compensation for pain or stiffness.

The need to avoid exercise of warm, swollenjoints.

Avoiding muscle strengthening exercises that involve low resistance.

Avoiding activities that involve the Valsalva maneuver.

Monitoring a client who is taking diuretics for arrhythmias.

Avoiding exercise if resting systolic BP is greater than 200 mm Hg or diastolic BP is greater than 115 mm Hg.

Fruits, beans, and oats.

Meat and dairy foods.

Wheat bran and whole wheat products.

All of the above.

80.

70.

90.

75.

Continuous cycling activity at 70% of Vo2 max for 30 minutes.

Use of dyspnea scales, RPE scales, and pursed-lip breathing instruction.

Intermittent bouts of activity on a variety of modalities (exercise followed by short rest).

Encouraging the client to achieve an intensity either at or above the anaerobic threshold.

Risk stratification can be modeled after the criteria published by the AACVPR.

Risk stratification can be useful for participant entry criteria, exercise testing guidelines, ECG monitoring, and supervision guidelines.

Risk stratification can be tied to insurance reimbursement.

Risk stratification often is used to determine the intensity of prescribed exercise.

The client exhibits mild cardiac symptoms of angina, occurring intermittently during exercise and sometimes at home while reading.

The client has a functional capacity of greater than 8 MET with hemodynamic responses appropriate to this level of exercise.

The client is noncompliant with smoking cessation and weight loss intervention programs.

The client is unable to palpate HR, deliver RPEs, or maintain steady workload intensity during activity.

?2-Agonists.

?-Blockers.

Diuretics.

Aspirin.

Perhaps the most important feature of the mission statement is its clarity or understandability.

The mission statement should elucidate the program's goals.

There should be a different mission statement for each program or, perhaps, even a different mission statement for each component of a program.

A program's mission statement generally is fixed.

Super sets.

Split routines.

Plyometrics.

Periodization.

An individual's level of fitness.

The risk of cardiovascular or orthopedic injury.

Any previous history participating in organized sports.

Individual preference and exercise objectives.

Is not necessary if the client completes the medical history questionnaire.

Is a communication tool with little exercise value?.

Provides information about the physician's attitude regarding your club.

Provides a medical opinion about a client's risk with exercise.

8.9 pounds.

12.0 pounds.

26.0 pounds.

34.3 pounds.

Scooped-out depression of the ST segment produced by digitalis.

Elevation of the PR interval produced by digitalis.

Shortening of the QT interval produced by digitalis.

Prolongation of the QRS complex produced by digitalis.

75 bpm

125 bpm

200 bpm

300 bpm

1.52 L . min-1

773.0 mL . min-1

0.840 L· min-1

0.774 L· min-1

ST-segment elevation.

ST -segment depression.

Q waves.

U waves.

181.72 mL . kg-1 . min-1

18.17 mL. kg-1 . min-1

29.76 mL . kg-1 . min-1

27.96 mL . kg-1 . min-1

Subendocardial ischemia.

Transmural ischemia.

Acute inferior MI.

Posterior MI

(From Goldberger AL: Clinical Electrocardiography: A Simplified Approach, 6th ed. St.

Louis, Mosby, 1999,p91.)

Premature ventricular contractions.

Ventricular tachycardia.

Ventricular trigeminy.

Ventricular bigeminy.

(From Goldberger AL: Clinical Electrocardiography: A Simplified Approach, 6th ed. 51.

Louis, Mosby, 1999, p 167.)

They help in evaluation of a program.

They offer music not found on tapes or CDs.

They help to provide facts in any legal issues.

They help the front desk to monitor paid and unpaid clients.

The law.

The client rights statement.

Policies and procedures.

A check and balance for management and clients.

Negligence is breaking a tort law and can ruin an instructor's career.

State taxes often are related to profit, which is governed by tort laws.

Tort laws are related to worker's compensation regulations.

They relate to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)