Preface -- Pretest -- Pharmacy technician certification examination test-taking skills -- Medications -- Federal requirements -- Patient safety and quality assurance -- Order entry and processing -- Compounded sterile products -- Practice examinations -- Appendix A: certification examination information -- Appendix B: drug nomenclature: stems used by the U.S. adopted names council -- Appendix C: top 200 prescribed medications (based on filled prescriptions) -- Appendix D: common over-the-counter products -- Appendix E: institute for safe medication practices list of error-prone abbreviations, symbols, and dose designations -- Appendix F: medical root words, suffixes, and prefixes -- Appendix G: pharmaceutical abbreviations -- Appendix H: medical abbreviations -- Answers and rationales.