Free CCMA practice test

A full-length CCMA practice test weighted the way NHA’s current test plan publishes it — twelve areas, an item count for each, 150 scored questions. An explanation for every one, and nothing to sign up for.

CCMA full-length practice

150 scored questions. 180 minutes.

That is the full clock the real paper gives you, spent on the 150 questions that count. On the day, 30 unscored pretest items share the same 180 minutes, so the real pace is about 1 minutes an item — this run is deliberately a little kinder than that. The questions are dealt in the proportions the content outline publishes rather than evenly. The clock starts when you press the button and submits the test when it runs out, and you will not be told whether an answer was right until the end — that is the point of a full run.

1 min an item on the day No calculator Weighted to the published outline No account, nothing saved off your device

Practise one area at a time

The full test tells you where you stand. These tell you what to do about it: untimed sets with the explanation right after each answer, which is the one thing a timed run cannot give you.

The figure beside each area is the number of scored items NHA’s test plan gives it, out of 150. These are NHA’s own counts, not this site’s estimate — spend your revision in that proportion.

Foundational knowledge 15/150 Health care systems, medical terminology, basic pharmacology, nutrition and psychology 15 of the 150 scored itemsAnatomy and physiology 8/150 Body structures and organ systems, pathophysiology, and microbiology 8 of the 150 scored itemsPatient intake and vitals 14/150 Taking the history, measuring and recording vital signs, and preparing the patient for the provider 14 of the 150 scored itemsGeneral patient care 28/150 Assisting with examinations and procedures, medication administration, and patient preparation 28 of the 150 scored itemsInfection control and safety 15/150 Asepsis, standard and transmission-based precautions, PPE, sterilisation and biohazard handling 15 of the 150 scored itemsPoint of care testing 9/150 CLIA-waived testing, quality control, specimen handling and result reporting 9 of the 150 scored itemsPhlebotomy 12/150 Venipuncture and capillary collection, order of draw, complications and specimen integrity 12 of the 150 scored itemsEKG and cardiovascular 6/150 Performing the twelve-lead, recognising artefact, and knowing what is and is not yours to interpret 6 of the 150 scored itemsCare coordination and education 12/150 Referrals, care transitions, patient education and follow-up 12 of the 150 scored itemsAdministrative assisting 12/150 Scheduling, records, insurance and billing fundamentals 12 of the 150 scored itemsCommunication and service 12/150 Therapeutic communication, barriers, professionalism and conflict 12 of the 150 scored itemsLaw and ethics 7/150 Scope of practice, consent, confidentiality, HIPAA and documentation 7 of the 150 scored items

Or turn the same questions into flashcards

The stem with the options taken away, so you produce the answer instead of recognising it. What you miss joins your review list.

CCMA flashcards

A hundred and eighty questions, a hundred and fifty that count

The test plan states the paper exactly: 150 scored items and 30 pretest items, in three hours. The pretest items are unmarked and indistinguishable, which is the practical reason not to spend the last twenty minutes agonising over one question — you cannot tell whether it counts.

More than half the paper is one domain. Clinical Patient Care carries 84 of the 150 scored items, and NHA publishes counts for its six subdomains, which is why this site treats them as twelve areas rather than seven. Two of the six moved enough to change how you should revise: Patient Intake and Vitals is a new heading worth fourteen items, and Phlebotomy went from seven or eight to twelve.

Frequently asked

What changed between the old CCMA plan and the current one?
The plan in force comes from a job analysis completed in 2022; the previous one came from a 2016 analysis. Both are still downloadable from NHA’s own site, and the one-page summary NHA links is still the 2016 version — its filename says so. Two moves matter most. Patient Intake and Vitals is a new heading worth fourteen scored items, where the old plan folded it inside a single forty-six-item General Patient Care block. And Administrative Assisting fell from nineteen or twenty items to twelve, the biggest drop on the plan. Phlebotomy went the other way, from seven or eight to twelve.
Is "CCMA 3.0" a new test plan?
No. NHA publishes a CCMA Preparation Suite Edition 3.0 — a study guide and a set of practice tests — and the version number belongs to that product, not to the blueprint. The examination is still built on the 2022 job analysis. It is worth knowing because "3.0" reads like a new syllabus, and revising as though the plan had changed again would be revising against nothing.
Do I need documented procedures to sit the CCMA?
No, and this is where it differs from the phlebotomy certification in the same family. Either you hold a high school diploma or GED and completed a medical assistant training programme within the last five years, or you hold the diploma and have one year of supervised work experience within the last three years, or two years within the last five. There is no logged count of venipunctures to produce.
Are these the real questions?
No, and nobody publishing the real ones would be doing so lawfully. Every question here is original, written against the published content outline so that practising it covers what the examination covers rather than reproducing it.
Do I need an account?
No. There is no sign-up and nothing to buy. Your scores are kept in your own browser and never sent anywhere.

The other half of certification

Passing the examination is the whole credential here — unlike the phlebotomy certification in this family, neither CCMA eligibility route asks for a logged count of procedures performed on live patients. What both routes do require is either a training programme completed within the last five years or supervised work experience, and nothing on this site substitutes for either.

301 original questions are in the bank behind this test, across the 12 content areas above.

Sources

Every figure on this page comes from one of the documents below, with the day it was read. Requirements change — open the source if you need today's wording.

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