NJ State Board Prometric Written Exam - Part I

Question 1

What is the age you have to be to receive your cosmetology license?

Answer 1

17

Question 2

What kind of shoes should you wear to work in the salon?

Answer 2

Low heel closed toe

Question 3

What is the second towel used for in a shave?

Answer 3

Wiping the razor

Question 4

Where do you apply a color for a retouch?

Answer 4

Up to the line of demarcation

Question 5

What is it called when you twist and pull the hair from the root to remove it?

Answer 5

Threading

Question 6

What should the Cape not touch?

Answer 6

The skin

Question 7

If the hair is dry and brittle, what kind of porosity does it have?

Answer 7

High porosity

Question 8

What does it mean if there are bumps on the face when you’re shaving?

Answer 8

Ingrown hairs

Question 9

What should you do if there is blistered and chapped skin on the face for a client who wants a shave?

Answer 9

Do not shave the face until the skin is healed

Question 10

What test is performed during a relaxing service?

Answer 10

A curl test

Question 11

What service would be performed for hard cuticles?

Answer 11

An oil Manicure

Question 12

What would be done for someone with Onychophagy?

Answer 12

Frequent manicures

Question 13

What should the position be of the practitioner when shampooing?

Answer 13

Shoulders back

Question 14

What would have been affected if the density of the hair if it is destroyed?

Answer 14

The papilla

Question 15

What is the cone shape projection at the base of the hair?

Answer 15

The papilla

Question 16

What are circular movements used for?

Answer 16

Improve blood circulation and relaxation

Question 17

What does spherical bacteria cause?

Answer 17

Pneumonia

Question 17

What is another word for petrissage?

Answer 17

Kneading

Question 18

What can a salon not do?

Answer 18

Rent a booth

Question 19

What is disinfectant?

Answer 19

Virucidal

Question 20

Where is keratin made?

Answer 20

In the stratum granulosum

Question 21

What is the order for cleaning clippers?

Answer 21

Brush off the hair and debris, clean the clippers disinfect and lubricate

Question 22

What do you do with the Cape after using it?

Answer 22

Launder it

Question 23

How do you tweeze?

Answer 23

Quickly and in the direction of the hair growth

Question 24

What would happen if a client is using Accutane and receives a hair removal service?

Answer 24

Their skin can be damaged

Question 25

What type of hair removal would be used on a client with sunburn?

Answer 25

Tweezing

Question 26

What is the FDA recommended SPF?

Answer 26

SPF 15

Question 27

What should you avoid before a chemical service?

Answer 27

Brushing the hair and scalp

Question 28

Sloughing lotion removes what?

Answer 28

dead cells

Question 29

What is the hair on the arms, legs and scalp?

Answer 29

Terminal Hair

Question 30

What is Neutralization during chemical service?

Answer 30

Contracts and rehardens bonds

Question 31

Aniline derivative tint that is mixed with an oxidizing agent?

Answer 31

Hydrogen peroxide

Question 32

Wigs that need to be shortened (front to nape) will use what?

Answer 32

A wig block

Question 33

What is a sudoriferous gland disorder?

Answer 33

Anhidrosis

Question 34

When lightening hair what sections should be used?

Answer 34

1/8

Question 35

When applying virgin color where do you start applying?

Answer 35

Darkest area

Question 36

One celled organisms are what?

Answer 36

Bacteria

Question 37

What stops the action of waving solution?

Answer 37

Neutralizer

Question 38

What finger controls movement in shears?

Answer 38

Thumb

Question 39

Putting a thumb deeper in the circle of the shear creates what?

Answer 39

less control

Question 40

What is the most commonly used base for max volume?

Answer 40

On base

Question 41

What face shape allows for most hairstyles?

Answer 41

Oval

Question 42

If a client has no neck, the stylist should recommend what hair style/cut?

Answer 42

Long + whispy

Question 43

What creates a uniform cut?

Answer 43

90° degrees

Question 44

What is a good example of a conductor?

Answer 44

Human body

Question 45

What nail is the slowest growing?

Answer 45

Thumb

Question 46

What electric current shows resistance?

Answer 46

OHM

Question 47

How do you drape for a facial client?

Answer 47

Chest down

Question 48

What is the pH of acid balanced shampoos?

Answer 48

4.5 - 5.5

Question 49

What is the pH of shampoo to use on lightened hair?

Answer 49

4.5 - 5.5

Question 50

If a client has chapped, chaffed, irritated and red skin, do you provide a shave service?

Answer 50

NO service

Question 51

What is the second towel in shaving used for?

Answer 51

Wiping the razor

Question 52

What procedure in pedicure services are not allowed?

Answer 52

Fish

Question 53

If you heat up an iron what is that called?

Answer 53

Closed circuit, open circuit

Question 54

What shampoo is good for a client with Malaysia or Malessezia?

Answer 54

Anti-dandruff shampoo

Question 55

cell membrane/plants?

Answer 55

Protoplasm

Question 56

What is Eumelanin?

Answer 56

dark brown/black pigment

Question 57

What is Pheomelanin?

Answer 57

Yellow/red pigment

Question 58

How to properly mix nail polish?

Answer 58

Roll in palms

Question 59

What is an Immiscible liquid?

Answer 59

Can't be mixed

Question 60

What is a Miscible liquid?

Answer 60

Mixable

Question 61

What do you do first in a manicure service?

Answer 61

Wash hands, analyze nails

Question 62

Two liquids that mix and remain a stable solution?

Answer 62

Miscible

Question 63

Two liquids that mix that make an unstable mixture?

Answer 63

Immiscible

Question 64

Cold waves have a pH of?

Answer 64

9 - 9.6

Question 65

Natural immunity is?

Answer 65

Inherited

Question 66

What is EPA?

Answer 66

Environmental Protection Agency

Question 67

Substance capable of dissolving another substance?

Answer 67

Solvent

Question 68

Wet hair stretches how much?

Answer 68

50% of its length

Question 69

Fingerwaves should be brushed out when?

Answer 69

Dry

Question 70

What is the pH of most shampoo?

Answer 70

4.5 - 7

Question 71

pH level of most acid waves found in salons?

Answer 71

7.8 - 8.2

Question 72

What is another term for a predisposition test?

Answer 72

Patch

Question 73

Hair condition where hair becomes twisted, matted, and crested?

Answer 73

Pilica polonica

Question 74

Type of tissue that controls and coordinates body function is?

Answer 74

Nerve tissue

Question 75

Nail wrap is made up of loose wave mesh?

Answer 75

Fiberglass

Question 76

Type of sanitizer?

Answer 76

Soap

Question 77

What is the second level of decontamination?

Answer 77

Disinfection

Question 78

What are cells?

Answer 78

The smallest unit that can live on its own and that makes up all living organisms and the tissues of the body.

Question 79

What is threading?

Answer 79

Treading -Twisting, lifting, and pulling hair out by the root with thread

Question 80

Where do you send a tinea pedis client to?

Answer 80

Foot doctor

Question 81

How to file a natural nail?

Answer 81

Corner to center

Question 82

Which nail is filed corner to center?

Answer 82

Natural nail

Question 83

How many hours are needed for your cosmetology permit?

Answer 83

50%/600 hours

Question 84

What is onychophagy?

Answer 84

bitten nail

Question 85

What current is responsible for softening sebum and iontophoresis?

Answer 85

Galvanic

Question 86

What current is responsible for desincrustation?

Answer 86

Galvanic current

Question 87

What is the simplest form of matter in an element?

Answer 87

An Atom

Question 88

How do you avoid causing damage to the client's clothes?

Answer 88

drape over the back of the chair

Question 89

what blade (of the shear) is the one that moves?

Answer 89

thumb

Question 90

A solution in which all of the elements can blend together is called?

Answer 90

miscible solution

Question 91

A solution that needs a binder to put immiscible elements together results in a ___?

Answer 91

emulsion

Question 92

What is used to out hair from the nape?

Answer 92

electrical clippers

Question 93

What is the last step in the shaving service?

Answer 93

remove drape, book next appointment, massage nape, ask the client how the service was

Question 94

Why is a nail primer used in a nail enhancement service?

Answer 94

To help adhere the nail resin

Question 95

For what nail disorder is recommended frequent nail services?

Answer 95

Onychophagy

Question 96

What sections are recommended for lightening service?

Answer 96

1/8-inch section

Question 97

What is used to clean under the free edge?

Answer 97

metal pusher/orange wood stick with cotton

Question 98

What is the metal pusher used for?

Answer 98

To loosen the cuticle