2025 CPS Technician Certification Quiz 2

__________ and __________ are designed to work together to provide protection for vehicle occupants.

Children under ___________ years of age should ride in the back seat.

• 10

• 11

• 13

• 14

You can install a rear-facing car seat in front of an active frontal air bag when:

• You can move the vehicle seat all the way back.

• Never

• The caregiver requests that specific location.

• All of the above

A caregiver has a convertible car seat with labels indicating lower anchor attachment system use to the harnessed child weight of 35 lbs. (15.88 kg) in the rear-facing mode. The child weighs 40 lbs. (18.14 kg) and the rear-facing weight limit for the car seat is 50 lbs. (22.68). A CPST should educate the caregiver to install the car seat rear-facing using:

• Lower anchor attachment system

• Seat belt

Why is it important to tether a forward-facing car seat?

• Tethering a forward-facing car seat keeps the car seat from moving at all.

• Tethering a forward-facing car seat can reduce the distance that the child’s head moves forward in a frontal crash.

• Tethering may make the car seat installation more stable and improve the outcome in any type of crash.

• Both B and C

If a tether anchor location is not marked in a vehicle, how can the tether anchor be identified?

• It cannot be identified.

• Read the vehicle owner’s manual.

• Read the car seat instruction manual.

• Look for vehicle hardware that looks like a tether anchor.

True or False: Using the lower anchors and seat belt for the same installation is allowed only when approved by both the car seat and vehicle manufacturers.

• True

• False

Which car seat can be used rear-facing and forward-facing?

• Infant

• Convertible

• All-in-One

• Combination

• Both B & C

A car seat can be installed in a rear center seating position using lower anchors when:

• The car seat instruction manual indicates you can borrow the lower anchors from the outboard seating positions for the rear center seating position.

• The rear center seating position has LATCH.

• Both the vehicle and car seat manufacturers allow borrowing of lower anchors in the rear center seating position.

• B or C

True or False: The best way to help a caregiver decide between a seat belt or LATCH installation for their car seat is for the CPST to tell the caregiver which installation they think is easiest.

• True

• False