Pharmacy technician (PTCE, ExCPT)

Top 200 drugs quiz

Ten questions drawn at random from the list, each with four options. Your answer is marked at once; a new set of ten is one click away.

1. What is the FDA established pharmacologic class of celecoxib?
2. Lamisil is the brand name of which generic drug?
3. What is the FDA established pharmacologic class of diphenhydramine?
4. What is the FDA established pharmacologic class of risperidone?
5. Which brand name goes with phenytoin?
6. Lotensin is the brand name of which generic drug?
7. Zovirax is the brand name of which generic drug?
8. Cymbalta is the brand name of which generic drug?
9. Which brand name goes with warfarin?
10. Which brand name goes with memantine?

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This drug quiz tests the three links a pharmacy technician exam asks about most: the brand name of a generic, the generic name behind a brand, and the class a generic belongs to. Each set draws ten questions at random from our list of 200 commonly dispensed drugs, so no two sets are alike, and the wrong options come from the same list, which makes them plausible rather than absurd. Brand names are those listed for each generic in RxNorm, the drug vocabulary of the US National Library of Medicine, and classes are the FDA Established Pharmacologic Classes printed on DailyMed labels; both sources are public domain. The quiz is a recall drill: the PTCE and the ExCPT also ask about uses, side effects and cautions, which the five exam-style questions under it cover for the drugs and drug therapy domain of the ExCPT. A good benchmark is three sets in a row at nine or ten right before you consider a deck learned.

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Apixaban is dispensed under which brand name?

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How each set is built

Counts from our list, built with RxNorm and DailyMed classes.
Question typeDrawn fromWhat it trains
Brand of a generic179 drugs with a brand listedReading a prescription written by brand
Generic of a brand179 drugs with a brand listedFinding the product on the shelf
Class of a generic183 drugs with an FDA class, 108 classes in allUses, cautions and look-alike names

Drugs without a brand listed, or without an FDA class in their labels, are left out of the question types that need one. That is why the counts differ.

Reading the options

The wrong options are real drugs from the same list. For class questions they are often from neighboring classes: a beta blocker against a calcium channel blocker, a statin against another lipid drug. Before choosing, recall the class from the name stem if it has one, then check the use. When two options look alike, as with hydroxyzine and hydralazine, slow down: those pairs are exactly what the safety domain of both exams tests.

From recall to exam questions

The ExCPT test plan asks about drugs in context: their class, their use, common side effects, and the advice the pharmacist gives. Once the quiz is easy, move to the exam-style questions under it, then to full practice on the ExCPT or the PTCE. To learn the names first, use the flash cards; to use name endings as a shortcut, the suffix page.

The quiz is a memory drill for exam practice, not a guide to using any medicine.

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Are the drug quiz questions like those on the real exam?

They are simpler. The real exams ask for names and classes, but also wrap them in scenarios: a look-alike name on a prescription, a drug that needs an auxiliary label, a class with a known interaction. This quiz builds the recall that those questions rely on; the exam-style questions under it practice the scenarios.

Why does the quiz show a class I have never heard of?

The classes are the official FDA names, which are more technical than the ones in textbooks. Proton pump inhibitor is the same in both, but a textbook calls the statins statins while the FDA class reads HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor. Learn both forms: exam writers use either one.

How can I keep track of the drugs I miss?

Write down each drug you miss and look for a pattern: a deck, a class or a name ending. Then go back to the flash cards for that deck before the next set. The quiz keeps no record, by design, so that nothing you do leaves your browser; a paper list does the job well.

Keep practicing

Top 200 drugs

Flash cards for 200 commonly dispensed drugs: generic, brand, FDA class and use, in decks by body system.

Drug suffixes

Name stems such as -olol, -pril and -sartan, the class each one signals, and the look-alike names that break the rule.

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