Practise reliable eye testing, spectacle calculations, contact lens safety, and patient triage with 60 focused CPOA concepts, original questions, and recall cards. These are independent learning materials, not official exam questions or a pass prediction.
Read the CPOA Preparation Guide: Clinical Decisions, Optics, and Patient Care study guide and official exam sourcesExam outline and official sources
American Optometric Association (AOA), through its Commission on Paraoptometric Certification (CPC), with examination administration assistance from Professional Testing Corporation (PTC). · CPOA outline based on the 2023 Job Task Analysis, introduced with the February 2025 examination administration and documented in the February 2026 candidate handbook. An exact effective day is not specified. The currently linked April 2026 handbook revision could not be inspected; no newer CPOA outline announcement was established.
This original 20-question sample covers selected topics across the outline. It does not reproduce official exam questions or cover every tested topic.
- How do I become a certified paraoptometric (CPO, CPOA, CPOT or CPOC)?
- Commission on Paraoptometric Certification (CPC) | Professional Testing Corporation
- 2025 Year in Review — Commission on Paraoptometric Certification
- 2026 Paraoptometric Examination & Certification Renewal Candidate Handbook — Revised February 2026
- Distance Visual Acuity; Pinhole Visual Acuity; Near Visual Acuity — Moran CORE
- Strabismus — Moran CORE
- Relative Afferent Pupillary Defect (RAPD) — Moran CORE
- Home Blood Pressure Measurement Instructions — American Heart Association
- Testing for Dry Eye — National Eye Institute
- Definition of OCT — National Cancer Institute
- Get a Dilated Eye Exam — National Eye Institute
- How to Put in Eye Drops — National Eye Institute
- Amsler Grid to Test Your Sight — American Macular Degeneration Foundation
- Glaucoma — National Eye Institute
- Manual Lensometry — Moran CORE
- Influence of prismatic effect due to decentration of optical center in ophthalmic lens
- Contact Lenses 101, Part 2: Contact Lens Designs — CooperVision
- Preventing Eye Infections When Wearing Contacts — CDC
- Contact Lens Risks — FDA
- Minimum Necessary Requirement — HHS
- Bloodborne Pathogens and Needlestick Prevention — OSHA
- Retinal Detachment — National Eye Institute
- How Tears Work — National Eye Institute
- Diabetic Retinopathy — National Eye Institute
- 2026%20Paraoptometric%20Handbook%20Rev%204.9.2026.pdf
- Types-of-Lenses-Converting-Bifocal-Rxs-to-Task-Specific-Rxs.pdf
- Analysis of clinical approximation in applying Prentice's rule to decentration of spherocylinder lenses - PubMed
- Amblyopia (Lazy Eye) | National Eye Institute
- Stereopsis and Tests for Stereopsis - EyeWiki
- 730029Guide.pdf
- Subjective Refraction | 8.2 | Westmead Eye Manual
- Visual-Assessment-Testing-Procedures.pdf
- Prentices-Rule.pdf
- mln900943-health-care-code-sets-icd-10.pdf
Certified Paraoptometric Assistant Examination (CPOA)
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An adult reads 20/80 through habitual spectacles with the right eye, improving to 20/30 through a pinhole. Which interpretation is best supported?
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