2025 CPS Technician Certification Quiz 1

What is the role of the CPS Technician?

• Install car seats for caregivers.

• Educate caregivers and provide resources on the safe transportation of children in motor vehicles.

• Support the caregiver in a choice that goes against car seat manufacturer’s instructions.

True or False: Child passengers are more likely to be restrained when riding with a driver that is buckled up.

• True

• False

What learning model do CPS Technicians use when educating caregivers?

• Educate, Include, Engage

• Learn, Practice, Educate

• Listen, Engage, Try

• Teach, Listen, Learn

What are the effective communication techniques that will help to engage caregivers?

• Keep It Simple, Keep It Short, Keep It Positive and Keep It Real

• Keep It Light, Keep It Fun, Keep It Happy and Keep It Quick

• Keep It Honest, Keep It Clear, Keep It Kind and Keep It Detailed

What is Best Practice?

• An approach that focuses on fear or negativity and often comes across as a judgement on the caregiver

• Factors influencing caregiver behavior

• The gold standard of protection

• An approach that educates caregivers without providing an opportunity for hands-on participation

The ____________ has the final choice about how to transport children in their care.

• Car Seat Manufacturer

• Caregiver

• CPS Technician

• Event Organizer

True or False: The goal for each interaction with a caregiver is for them to leave better educated and feeling confident in their new knowledge and skills.

• True

• False

Every crash includes three stages. List the three stages.

Which is NOT a way that car seats, booster seats and seat belts help prevent or reduce injury?

• Keep occupants in the vehicle.

• Prevent impact in a rollover.

• Protect the brain and spinal cord by keeping the head and upper body away from interior surfaces of the vehicle.

• Help occupants ride down crash forces.

All seat belts used for car seat installation MUST be locked so the __________ remains at a fixed length.

• Lap belt

• Shoulder belt

• Lap and shoulder belts

• Either the lap or the shoulder belt