ServSafe Manager Hygiene and Health Practice Test
Content area 2 of the ServSafe Manager exam · 12 of the 80 scored questions (15%)
90 questions across all seven content areas in 2 hours, with a score for every area so you know where you stand.
Free hygiene and health drill- 54 original hygiene and health questions, every option explained
- Written to the FDA Food Code and ServSafe’s 2021 blueprint
Why must food handlers still wash their hands even though they wear gloves for ready-to-eat food?
Hygiene and Health on the ServSafe Manager exam
Hygiene and health is 12 of the 80 scored questions. Food handlers are a leading way pathogens such as norovirus and hepatitis A reach food, so this area tests the practices that keep them out: handwashing, glove use, no bare-hand contact with ready-to-eat food, and keeping sick employees away from food.
- Share of the exam
- 12 of the 80 scored questions (15%), from ServSafe’s 2021 blueprint
- Our drill
- 10 questions from 54 hygiene and health questions, untimed, an explanation after every answer; one free attempt, unlimited with a pass
What hygiene and health questions test
- Handwashing: when to wash, the steps, at least 20 seconds in total, and water of at least 100°F at the sink
- Hand care, single-use gloves and when to change them, and why bare hands may not touch ready-to-eat food
- Work attire, hair restraints, jewelry (a plain band only), fingernails, eating, drinking and smoking at work
- Reportable symptoms (vomiting, diarrhea, jaundice, sore throat with fever, infected wounds) and the Big 6 pathogens
- Restricting versus excluding employees, the rules for highly susceptible populations, and when an employee may return
- Cleaning up vomit and diarrhea with a written procedure
Sit the full exam under the real clock
90 questions across all seven content areas in 2 hours, with a score for every area so you know where you stand.
Free hygiene and health drillHow to study it
- Make a table of the symptom-and-diagnosis rules: what is reported, when the employee is restricted, when excluded, and who must be told.
- Learn the Big 6 by name: norovirus, hepatitis A, Shigella, Shiga toxin-producing E. coli, Salmonella Typhi and nontyphoidal Salmonella.
- Know the handwashing triggers well; many questions describe a task change, such as moving from raw chicken to salad.
Common questions
How many hygiene and health questions are on the exam?
Hygiene and health is 15% of the blueprint: 12 of the 80 scored questions.
When may an employee excluded for vomiting return?
Without a Big 6 diagnosis, after being free of symptoms for at least 24 hours or with medical documentation that the cause is not infectious. A diagnosis of a Big 6 pathogen has its own reinstatement rules.
90 questions across all seven content areas in 2 hours, with a score for every area so you know where you stand.
Free hygiene and health drillMore ServSafe Manager practice
- Management of Food Safety Practices
- Safe Receipt, Storage, Transportation and Disposal of Food
- Safe Preparation and Cooking of Food
- Safe Service and Display of Food
- Cleanliness and Sanitation
- Facilities and Equipment
- ServSafe Temperature Chart and Practice Questions
- Food Protection Manager Practice Test
- ServSafe Manager practice exam (90 questions)
Sources
- ServSafe: ServSafe Manager (ANAB-CFP accreditation, test options)
- ServSafe: Exam Development FAQs (80 operational + 10 pilot items, blueprint from the 2021 Job Task Analysis)
- ServSafe Knowledge Center: passing scores (Food Protection Manager 70%)
- ServSafe Knowledge Center: number of questions on ServSafe exams
- ServSafe: Online Proctor Exam Instructions (2-hour time limit, retest policy, equipment)
- ServSafe Knowledge Center: Food Protection Manager retest policy
- ServSafe Knowledge Center: how long ServSafe certificates are valid
- ServSafe: ServSafe Manager Exam (Online Proctor), $99.00
- FDA Food Code (2026 edition and summary of changes; 2022 edition)
Original practice questions for exam preparation, written to the FDA Food Code and ServSafe’s published exam blueprint; they are not the official exam questions. Independent practice, not affiliated with or endorsed by the National Restaurant Association, ServSafe, NRFSP, StateFoodSafety, 360training or ANAB. ServSafe is a registered trademark of the National Restaurant Association.