This document provides a 15 question food service proficiency exam covering topics related to food safety, food handling, food storage, and basic culinary concepts. The questions test knowledge of reducing sodium in diets, classifying aromatic vegetables, identifying components of classic sauces, identifying potentially hazardous foods, unsafe thawing methods, standard testing of recipes, defining the temperature danger zone, performing yield conversions, defining culinary measurement equivalents, identifying compounds formed during prolonged cooking, describing the FATTOM acronym for bacterial growth conditions, assessing groups at highest risk for foodborne illness, identifying poor food safety practices, and defining the process of heating milk to kill microorganisms.
This document provides a 15 question food service proficiency exam covering topics related to food safety, food handling, food storage, and basic culinary concepts. The questions test knowledge of reducing sodium in diets, classifying aromatic vegetables, identifying components of classic sauces, identifying potentially hazardous foods, unsafe thawing methods, standard testing of recipes, defining the temperature danger zone, performing yield conversions, defining culinary measurement equivalents, identifying compounds formed during prolonged cooking, describing the FATTOM acronym for bacterial growth conditions, assessing groups at highest risk for foodborne illness, identifying poor food safety practices, and defining the process of heating milk to kill microorganisms.
This document provides a 15 question food service proficiency exam covering topics related to food safety, food handling, food storage, and basic culinary concepts. The questions test knowledge of reducing sodium in diets, classifying aromatic vegetables, identifying components of classic sauces, identifying potentially hazardous foods, unsafe thawing methods, standard testing of recipes, defining the temperature danger zone, performing yield conversions, defining culinary measurement equivalents, identifying compounds formed during prolonged cooking, describing the FATTOM acronym for bacterial growth conditions, assessing groups at highest risk for foodborne illness, identifying poor food safety practices, and defining the process of heating milk to kill microorganisms.
This document provides a 15 question food service proficiency exam covering topics related to food safety, food handling, food storage, and basic culinary concepts. The questions test knowledge of reducing sodium in diets, classifying aromatic vegetables, identifying components of classic sauces, identifying potentially hazardous foods, unsafe thawing methods, standard testing of recipes, defining the temperature danger zone, performing yield conversions, defining culinary measurement equivalents, identifying compounds formed during prolonged cooking, describing the FATTOM acronym for bacterial growth conditions, assessing groups at highest risk for foodborne illness, identifying poor food safety practices, and defining the process of heating milk to kill microorganisms.
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Dietary and Nutrition Services Section
Food Service Proficiency Exam 2022
Choose the correct answer.
1. Reducing sodium in your diet can be done by:
A. Toasting spices B. Eating and sharing C. Replacing salt with D. Reducing the salt in before using them food with others condiments and your favorite dish eating regular by half and meals replacing it with a complementary array of herbs or spices
2. Onions, garlic, shallots, and celery can be classified as:
A. Aromatic B. Herbs C. Spices D. Both A and B vegetables 3. Spice component of the classic Bechamel sauce: A. Nutmeg B. Onion C. Tarragon D. Cardamom 4. Food that will most likely cause food-borne illness: A. Fried rice B. Roast chicken C. Whole wheat flour D. Powdered milk 5. Food item that is a potentially hazardous food: A. Raw carrots B. Dry ice C. Bread D. Chicken liver 6. Unsafe method for thawing frozen food: A. Submerge under B. Thaw in the C. Thaw at room D. Thaw in the running potable microwave and temperature refrigerator water at 70 cook immediately overnight degrees Fahrenheit afterward or lower 7. Recipes that are tested including preparation time, wt. of ingredients, production notes, yield, portions serving directions, etc. to ensure consistency. Answer: 8. What is the “temperature danger zone”? Answer: 9. Compute the conversion factor. Recipe yield: 25 Required yield: 60 Answer: 10. Fill in the blanks. 1 cup = ________ tablespoons 1 lb = ________ ounces 1 tablespoon = ______ teaspoons 1 teaspoon = ______ grams 1 kilogram = _______ lbs 1 gallon = _______ quarts 1 quart = _______ pints 11. Potentially harmful compound formed during prolonged heating of cooking oil. A. Bisphenol B. Mercury C. Acrolein D. Carcinogen 12. FATTOM is an acronym used to describe the necessary conditions for bacterial growth. What does it stand for? Answer: 13. Which of the following groups has the lowest risk for food-borne illness: A. Young adults B. The elderly C. Infants D. Individuals with AIDS 14. Which of the following is NOT a good food safety practice: A. Keeping ground B. When in doubt, C. Keeping hot foods D. Using the same beef refrigerated throw it out hot; cold foods knife to cut raw for no more than cold meat and 1-2 days before vegetables cooking 15. The process of heating milk to kill pathogenic microorganisms is called: A. Sterilization B. Pasteurization C. Irradiation D. None of the above