Practise CBMT Board Certification Examination with a short sample and answer explanations. These are independent learning materials, not official exam questions or a pass prediction.
Exam outline and official sources
Certification Board for Music Therapists (CBMT) · 2025 Board Certification Domains, based on the 2024 Music Therapy Practice Analysis Study; effective October 27, 2025. Confirmed against the current CBMT resources and July 2026 Candidate Handbook, version v20252.7.14.26. The workbook label Board Certified Music Therapist (MT-BC) identifies the credential holder; it maps to the CBMT Board Certification Examination for the Music Therapist-Board Certified credential, not a separate examination.
This original 20-question sample covers selected topics across the outline. It does not reproduce official exam questions or cover every tested topic.
- CBMT Resources
- Music Therapy Board Certification: Board Certification Domains—2025
- Board Certification Domains—2025: Application User Guide
- CBMT Candidate Handbook: July 2026
- AMTA and CBMT: Scope of Music Therapy Practice
- CBMT Code of Professional Practice
- AMTA Standards of Clinical Practice
- AMTA Professional Competencies
- AMTA Code of Ethics
- CDC: Recommendations for Disinfection and Sterilization in Healthcare Facilities
- CDC: Environmental Cleaning Procedures
- HHS: Minimum Necessary Requirement
- Vanderbilt University IRIS Center: Measuring Behavior
- Open Music Theory: Transposition
- Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom: Introduction to Triads
- Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom: Inverted Triads
- Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom: Meter
- Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom: Dots and Ties
- Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom: The Major Scale
- Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom: Cadences
- NCCIH: Pilot Studies—Common Uses and Misuses
CBMT Board Certification Examination
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A shared, hard-surface hand drum has been cleaned. Its compatible hospital disinfectant requires the surface to remain wet for three minutes. A staff member wipes it dry after 30 seconds. What should the music therapist do before reuse?
CBMT Board Certification Examination
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1F: Risk-based equipment reprocessing
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