10 free, exam-style Board Certified Sterile Compounding Pharmacist (BCSCP) practice questions with answers and explanations. No signup required. Work through them below, then take the full free BCSCP practice test to study every exam domain.
The BCSCP exam has 150 questions and runs 3 hours 45 minutes.
These 10 free BCSCP questions are organized by exam domain, so you can see how each part of the Board Certified Sterile Compounding Pharmacist blueprint is tested. Reveal the answer and explanation under each question.
A technician compounds a non-hazardous IV admixture using only sterile starting components inside an ISO Class 5 PEC located in a segregated compounding area (SCA). Under USP <797>, what is the MAXIMUM beyond-use date (BUD) that may be assigned if the preparation is stored under refrigeration?
Correct answer: A - 24 hours
An evaluator is performing a gloved fingertip and thumb sampling on a compounder immediately after the garbing competency. To obtain a valid result, the compounder's gloved hands should be sampled:
Correct answer: C - Before sterile 70% isopropyl alcohol is applied to the gloves
A pharmacy is designing a cleanroom suite to prepare sterile antineoplastic (hazardous) CSPs. Which combination of engineering controls is appropriate for this work?
Correct answer: D - A Class II biological safety cabinet (or CACI) in a negative-pressure C-SEC
Under the revised USP <797>, which statement about the order of garbing and hand hygiene when entering the cleanroom suite is correct?
Correct answer: B - The specific order is set by the facility's SOP, but sterile gloves are always last
A compounder passes a heat-labile drug solution through a sterilizing-grade 0.22-micron membrane filter. Regarding the endotoxin (pyrogen) content of the filtered solution, this process:
Correct answer: C - Removes viable bacteria but does not reliably remove endotoxin
During compounding, a pharmacist records the specific lot numbers and expiration dates of each ingredient used, the personnel involved, the date of preparation, and the actual yield obtained for a particular batch. This information belongs in the:
Correct answer: A - Compounding Record
A pharmacist must prepare 250 mL of a 0.45% (w/v) sodium chloride solution but only has 23.4% (w/v) sodium chloride concentrate and sterile water for injection available. What volume of the 23.4% concentrate is required? (Use C1 x V1 = C2 x V2.)
Correct answer: D - 4.8 mL
A patient receiving a peripheral infusion of a vesicant chemotherapy agent develops swelling, blanching, and burning pain at the IV insertion site, and the infusion slows. The nurse pauses the pump. This presentation is MOST consistent with:
Correct answer: C - Extravasation of the vesicant into surrounding tissue
A pharmacy technician skips disinfecting a vial stopper with sterile 70% IPA before puncture. Investigation shows the technician understood the requirement but routinely skipped it to save time because the omission was rarely noticed. Under a Just Culture framework, this is BEST classified as:
Correct answer: D - At-risk behavior, calling for coaching and removing the incentive to skip
A facility prepares large batches of sterile preparations in advance, without patient-specific prescriptions, and distributes them to hospitals as office stock. To operate this way, the facility must:
Correct answer: B - Register as a 503B outsourcing facility and comply with cGMP
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