PTCB Quiz Prep

PTCB Practice Questions with Answers

118 practice questions across 8 topics, every one with the correct answer, an explanation, and a link to the primary source it was checked against. Nothing is timed and nothing is hidden: these are the sets to work through when you want to study a topic rather than test yourself on it.

When you want the timed version instead, every free PTCB practice test draws from the same cited question bank and randomizes on each attempt.

Sig Codes

23 questions with answers

Translate the frequency, timing and route abbreviations that appear on almost every prescription you will process.

High-Alert Medications

10 questions with answers

The drug classes that cause the most harm when they go wrong, and the double-check systems built around them.

LASA Drugs

16 questions with answers

Confused drug-name pairs, tall man lettering, and the shelf and screen strategies that keep them apart.

Drug Interactions

10 questions with answers

Drug-drug, drug-food and drug-disease interactions, and the counseling points that go with them.

Error Reporting

17 questions with answers

What gets reported, to whom, and where the technician's authority stops and the pharmacist's begins.

Storage & Expiration

17 questions with answers

USP temperature ranges, cold chain handling, and the difference between an expiration date and a beyond-use date.

Billing & Insurance

13 questions with answers

Third-party claims, DAW codes, rejection handling and the fields that make an adjudication go through.

Controlled Substances

12 questions with answers

Refill and transfer rules by schedule, plus the DEA forms and the recordkeeping each one covers.

How to use these sets

Read the question, decide your answer before you look, then read the explanation whether you got it right or not. The explanation is where the transferable part lives: the exam rarely repeats a question verbatim, but it reuses the reasoning constantly.

Work a topic here until the explanations stop telling you anything new, then take the matching timed test to check that the recall holds up under time pressure. Pair them with the 2026 PTCB study guide for the underlying material.