Free NHA practice tests

3 National Healthcareer Association certifications, 712 original practice questions, each set weighted by the item counts NHA’s own test plan prints for that examination. Full-length timed tests and untimed sets by content area. No account.

Certified Phlebotomy Technician

CPT practice test

Five domains with a published item count each, from exposure control to chain of custody. Built on the 2024 job analysis — not the 2016 plan NHA still serves.

120 questions 120 min 5 areas 200 questions

Certified Clinical Medical Assistant

CCMA practice test

Twelve areas with a published item count each, weighted by NHA’s 2022 job analysis — not the 2016 summary NHA’s own site still links.

150 questions 180 min 12 areas 301 questions

Certified EKG Technician

EKG practice test

Three domains with a published item count each. Only twenty-four of the hundred scored items are analysis and interpretation — forty-four are acquisition.

100 questions 120 min 3 areas 211 questions

NHA awards eight certifications. This site has practice for 4

The cards above are the three with a full test and a set per content area. The pharmacy technician certification is the fourth and it is easy to miss, because NHA awards it on the ExCPT and that page sits with this site’s other pharmacy material. The rest are named here so that a page about “NHA practice tests” is not quietly implying it covers all of them.

  • Certified Clinical Medical Assistant (CCMA) Full-length test and a set per content area.
  • Certified Pharmacy Technician (CPhT) Awarded on the ExCPT. Practice weighted to NHA’s plan for the domains covered, with the two it misses named on the page.
  • Certified Phlebotomy Technician (CPT) Full-length test and a set per content area.
  • Certified EKG Technician (CET) Full-length test and a set per content area.
  • Certified Medical Administrative Assistant (CMAA) Not here. It is the administrative counterpart to the CCMA — scheduling, records, billing and front-office practice rather than clinical work.
  • Certified Patient Care Technician/Assistant (CPCT/A) Not here. It sits alongside the phlebotomy and EKG certifications, and shares material with both.
  • Certified Electronic Health Records Specialist (CEHRS) Not here.
  • Certified Billing and Coding Specialist (CBCS) Not here.

Every NHA plan gives you a number. They are not the same kind of number

NHA publishes a detailed test plan for each of these examinations, and each one states how many scored items every domain carries. That is unusual and it is useful: it means a practice test can be dealt in the real proportions rather than spread evenly across headings. It also means the plans can be compared, and comparing them is where the surprises are.

The medical assistant plan divides more than half its paper into six subdomains and gives each of them its own count, so the certification with the widest surface is also the one that tells you most precisely where to spend your time. The phlebotomy plan prints a percentage alongside every count. The EKG technician plan prints counts and no percentage anywhere — and on a hundred-item paper those happen to coincide, which is exactly the sort of coincidence that leads a site to print a per-cent sign after a number that never had one.

And the weightings themselves are worth reading before you plan your revision. On the EKG technician paper, analysis and interpretation — reading the strip — is the smallest of three domains; acquisition is nearly twice its size. On the medical assistant paper, patient intake and vitals is a heading that did not exist under the previous plan and now carries the second-largest count on it.

Check which plan you are revising from

Two of the three plans behind these pages have a predecessor that is still downloadable today. For the phlebotomy certification the superseded plan is still served from NHA’s own content domain, and its weights differ materially from the ones in force — special collections carried seven scored items and now carries twelve. For the medical assistant certification the one-page summary that NHA’s current site links is still built on the older analysis; its own filename says so.

The EKG technician plan is a different case and it is worth stating precisely rather than lumping it in. Its predecessor dates from 2011 and NHA does not appear to serve it any more — the copy linked from that page is a federal Job Corps notice that reproduces it. The comparison is sourced, but do not read it as NHA still publishing the old EKG plan — it is not.

The practical point is the same in all three cases: check the date on whatever document your revision is built on, and check it against the plan NHA publishes now. Every page here prints the documents it was written from and the day each was opened, so you can do that check against this site too.

Frequently asked

Which NHA certifications does this site have practice tests for?
Four of the eight NHA awards: Certified Phlebotomy Technician, Certified Clinical Medical Assistant, Certified EKG Technician, and the pharmacy technician certification, which NHA awards on the ExCPT. Each is built on that examination's own published test plan and weighted by the item counts the plan prints. The four without practice here are the medical administrative assistant, patient care technician/assistant, electronic health records specialist and billing and coding specialist certifications — they are listed on this page so you can see at a glance whether you are in the right place.
What is an NHA test plan and why does it matter?
It is the document NHA publishes describing what its examination covers and how much of the paper each domain is worth. For these three certifications it gives an exact number of scored items per domain rather than a percentage, which means the practice tests here can deal you the real proportions instead of an even spread — so the areas the exam weights heaviest are the ones you see most.
Are NHA’s own practice tests free?
No. NHA sells study guides and practice tests for its certifications through its own store, which is why the shelf of free material for these exams is worth something. Nothing on this site is NHA’s, nothing here is taken from NHA’s items, and no NHA practice product was opened while these banks were written.
Do NHA exams require documented hands-on procedures?
It depends on the certification, and the difference catches people out. The phlebotomy and EKG technician certifications both require evidence of procedures performed on live individuals under either eligibility route. The clinical medical assistant certification requires no logged procedures at all — a training programme completed within the last five years, or supervised work experience, and that is it. Each exam page here states its own position.
Are these the real NHA questions?
No, and nobody publishing them would be doing so lawfully. NHA’s item banks are secure and its item wording is copyrighted. Every question here is original: the facts come from the published test plans, the wording from nobody.

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.

Allied Exam Bank is independent practice material and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or authorized by Credentia, the National Council of State Boards of Nursing, or any state nurse aide registry. NNAAP® is a registered trademark of the National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Inc. Programme and examination names are used only to describe what this material prepares you for. Every question here is original and none is taken from any actual examination. This site is not a nurse aide training programme and does not prepare you for the skills evaluation.