SPI Clinical Safety and Quality Assurance Practice Questions
Domain 5 of 5 in the SPI content outline · 10% of the exam, about 11 of 110 questions
110 questions across all five domains in 2 hours, with a score for Safety and QA so you know where you stand.
Free Safety and QA drillRange accuracy (vertical distance calibration) checks whether:
Provide Clinical Safety & Quality Assurance on the SPI exam
Provide Clinical Safety & Quality Assurance is 10% of the SPI exam, about 11 of 110 questions. It covers infection control for transducers and patients, how a department checks and documents equipment performance with phantoms, and the statistics used to judge how well a test performs.
- Share of the exam
- 10% in the official content outline, about 11 of 110 questions
- Our drill
- 10 questions from 40 Safety and QA questions, untimed, an explanation after every answer; one free attempt, unlimited with a pass
What Provide Clinical Safety & Quality Assurance questions test
- Infection control: hand hygiene, standard precautions, the Spaulding classification, cleaning before disinfection, high-level disinfection of endocavity transducers and sterile covers for procedures
- Equipment integrity: inspecting transducers and cables, removing damaged equipment from service and electrical safety testing by biomedical engineering
- QA testing: tissue-mimicking phantoms and the AIUM test object, dead zone, axial and lateral resolution, range and registration accuracy, sensitivity, contrast targets and slice thickness, Doppler string and flow phantoms, and hydrophones
- Documentation: logging QA checks and tracking performance over time
- Statistics: sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive value and accuracy, calculated from a 2 × 2 table against a gold standard
Sit the full exam under the real clock
110 questions across all five domains in 2 hours, with a score for Safety and QA so you know where you stand.
Free Safety and QA drillHow to study it
- Build a 2 × 2 table every time a statistics question appears; every formula reads straight off it.
- For each phantom test, remember which rods or targets it uses and what result means a problem.
- Take the safety and QA drill until you score 90% or better; these are learnable points.
Common questions
How many quality assurance questions are on the SPI?
Provide Clinical Safety & Quality Assurance is 10% of the exam, about 11 of 110 questions.
Are statistics on the SPI exam?
Yes. The outline lists applying statistical parameter concepts such as sensitivity and specificity in this domain.
110 questions across all five domains in 2 hours, with a score for Safety and QA so you know where you stand.
Free Safety and QA drillThe other SPI domains
Sources
- Inteleos: Sonography Principles and Instrumentation (SPI) exam page (format, scoring, fee, retakes, pass rates)
- Inteleos: SPI Content Outline, version 24.1
- Inteleos: exam fee schedule
- Inteleos: passing standard
- Inteleos: re-applicant resources (60-day wait)
- Inteleos: schedule an exam (Pearson, 90-day window)
- Inteleos: SPI and specialty exam prerequisites
- Inteleos: practice tests
Original practice questions for exam preparation, written to the ARDMS SPI Content Outline (version 24.1). They are not questions from the SPI exam or from Inteleos. Independent practice, not affiliated with or endorsed by ARDMS, APCA, Inteleos or Pearson.