Free NHA CCMA Practice Test: 25 Questions and Instant Results

By the Castleport Test Prep Editorial Team · Last verified: August 8, 2026

Built against the NHA CCMA Detailed Test Plan and the NHA Candidate Handbook, revision dated June 1, 2026. Both read directly on the date above.

This free NHA CCMA practice test is 25 original questions written to the current CCMA 3.0 test plan, scored the second you finish, with an instant domain-level breakdown and a written rationale on every item. No account. No email. No results-page trap.

Clinical Patient Care is 84 of the 150 scored questions on the NHA CCMA exam—56%—but this short diagnostic reports the seven top-level domains, not all six Clinical Patient Care subdomains. It can tell you Clinical is a problem. It cannot tell you which sixth of Clinical is costing you points. That limitation matters, and we are putting it above the fold instead of burying it.

Start the free Castleport CCMA diagnostic — 25 original questions · instant domain scores · full rationales · no email

25 original questions. Instant score with a domain breakdown. Your result appears immediately—no email required.

NHA's current public CCMA pages do not list a free practice test. Your percentage on any free practice test—including ours—cannot be converted into a predicted NHA score because the real exam uses scaled scoring rather than a raw percentage cutoff.

Best for you if…

• You want a fast read on which CCMA domain to study first.
• You failed an attempt and are rebuilding from an Above / Near / Below score report.
• A broad practice test gave you one percentage and no explanation.
• You want a baseline without handing over an email address.

This is the wrong page if…

• You're taking the CMA (AAMA), RMA (AMT), or NCMA (NCCT). Different issuers, different blueprints. → Compare the credentials
• You need registration, fees, eligibility, accommodations, retake timing, or credential rules. Those official facts live on the → CCMA exam hub, sourced to NHA.
• You want official NHA practice tests. Those are paid products.
• You're looking for real, recalled, or leaked exam questions. We don't have them. A publisher marketing live or recalled items is offering prohibited content, not legitimate prep.

Comparing paid options before you buy? → See eight CCMA exam prep courses compared by price, access, and guarantee terms.

Independence disclosure: Castleport Test Prep is an independent publisher of exam preparation materials. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, approved by, or connected to the National Healthcareer Association (NHA), any testing vendor, licensing board, or certification body. Exam and credential names are used descriptively for identification only. Castleport does not claim ownership of third-party names or marks.

What's actually in this free NHA CCMA practice test?

The diagnostic contains 25 original multiple-choice questions written to the current published NHA test plan. You receive an overall score, a top-level domain breakdown, and written rationales as soon as you finish.

What you get:

• 25 original questions written from scratch, not licensed, scraped, or recycled
• A score by top-level CCMA domain, not just one percentage
• A rationale on every item, including why each distractor is wrong
• No email wall—your result appears the second you finish

What it isn't, said plainly:

• Not official NHA material
• Not real, recalled, reconstructed, or leaked exam content
• Not a score prediction—the real exam is scaled, not a raw-percentage test
• Not a readiness verdict, and not a pass guarantee. We don't offer one
• Not a six-subdomain Clinical Patient Care diagnostic

What this can tell you: which sampled top-level CCMA domains need work. What it cannot tell you: your NHA scaled score, exactly which Clinical subdomain is weakest, which questions you'll see, or whether you'll pass.

NHA states that buying its preparation materials is not required and does not guarantee a passing score. The Candidate Handbook also warns that a high practice-test score does not guarantee a passing certification-exam result. That applies to NHA's practice products and it applies to ours.

We're putting that limitation at the top instead of burying it, because it's the honest frame for everything below. A short practice set finds broad gaps. It doesn't predict outcomes. That's a real job and it's worth doing well.

Take the 25-question diagnostic — Find the first domain to work on tonight.

Is this free NHA CCMA practice test matched to CCMA 3.0?

Yes. As of August 8, 2026, CCMA 3.0 remains the current publicly posted NHA version. It became available January 10, 2024, and the current Detailed Test Plan remains the plan based on NHA's 2022 job analysis.

The official plan specifies 150 scored items, 30 unscored pretest items, and a three-hour limit. The Candidate Handbook reports scores on a 200–500 scale, with 390 as the passing standard. NHA's CCMA standard-setting summary says the current cut score was established in 2023 with a modified Angoff process and transformed to 390 on the 500-point scale.

The seven CCMA domains by scored-item count

Item counts are official. Percentages are Castleport calculations from those counts.

Sources: NHA CCMA Detailed Test Plan · NHA Candidate Handbook · NHA CCMA standard-setting summary · NHA CCMA 3.0 announcement · Verified August 8, 2026

How much of the CCMA exam is Clinical Patient Care?

Clinical Patient Care accounts for 84 of the 150 scored items on the NHA CCMA exam—56% of the scored test plan. It is divided into six subdomains ranging from 28 scored items down to 6. The exam also presents 30 unscored pretest items, and NHA does not publish how those are distributed.

Here are the official counts, and then something most pages do not publish: what each Clinical subdomain is worth measured against the other domains on the exam.

Item counts are from the NHA CCMA Detailed Test Plan, based on the 2022 job analysis, read August 8, 2026. Percentages and scale comparisons are Castleport calculations from those official counts.

Read that bottom row again.

EKG is the smallest scored area on the whole CCMA exam. Six questions. Four percent. Everybody panics about EKG. Six questions should not eat the week unless your score report or practice work says EKG is your actual leak.

Meanwhile General Patient Care—the one that sounds vague and boring—is 28 questions. That's more than three entire domains put together. And General Patient Care plus Infection Control (43 items) outweighs Foundational Knowledge, Anatomy and Physiology, Administrative Assisting, and Medical Law and Ethics combined (42).

That's not a small detail. That's the whole reason people study the wrong thing.

One precision point most CCMA pages get wrong

You'll see pages say something like “84 out of 180 questions are Clinical Patient Care.” That's not right, and the distinction matters if you're pacing yourself.

The exam presents 180 items in three hours: 150 scored, plus 30 unscored pretest items NHA uses to trial future questions. You're never told which 30 don't count. The 84 figure comes from the test plan's allocation of the 150 scored items. NHA does not publish a Clinical Patient Care allocation for the 30 pretest items.

So: Clinical Patient Care is 84 of 150 scored. Nobody, including us, can tell you how many of the 180 items in front of you will be Clinical.

Source: NHA CCMA Detailed Test Plan · Verified August 8, 2026

What each of the six Clinical Patient Care subdomains covers

The six subdomains are Patient Intake and Vitals, General Patient Care, Infection Control and Safety, Point of Care Testing and Laboratory Procedures, Phlebotomy, and EKG and Cardiovascular Testing. Each is a separate lettered section of the official test plan with its own scored-item count and its own list of task and knowledge statements.

Below, each subdomain gets its item count, what it covers, and—the part worth your attention—specific things the official plan names that most free Clinical study guides leave out entirely. We found these by reading all 183 numbered statements in Domain 3. The bracketed codes are NHA's own reference numbers so you can check us against the free PDF.

Patient Intake and Vitals — 14 scored items

Verifying patient identity, taking a clinical history, measuring and converting vital signs, taking body measurements, and knowing when a reading should be repeated or reported.

What most reviews skip here: orthostatic vitals [k48], the pain scale as a measured vital [k53], menstrual status and last menstrual period [k54], waist and body circumference [k57], and pediatric growth charts [k58].

If your study guide taught you “the five vital signs” and stopped, you've missed five separate things the plan names.

General Patient Care — 28 scored items

The biggest thing on the exam. Room and patient prep, sterile fields, positioning and draping, assisting with exams and procedures, non-parenteral and parenteral medication administration (not IV), injections, suture and staple removal, ear and eye irrigation, first aid and wound care, emergency recognition, discharge instructions, prescriptions and refills, and clinical documentation in the EHR.

What most reviews skip here: injection logs for controlled substances, TB medications, and immunizations [3B7]; ordering durable medical equipment such as CPAP equipment or wheelchairs [3B16, k88]; computerized physician order entry [3B20, k89]; and conducting screenings inside a telehealth visit [3B21, k90, k91].

Infection Control and Safety — 15 scored items

Standard and universal precautions, hand hygiene, PPE including donning and doffing, disinfection and sterilization, aseptic technique, biohazard disposal, and post-exposure procedure.

What most reviews skip here: Safety Data Sheets [k106], the written exposure control plan [k109], and the maintenance, equipment-servicing, temperature, and quality-control logs you're expected to keep [k110].

Point of Care Testing and Laboratory Procedures — 9 scored items

Non-blood specimen collection, CLIA-waived testing, reading in-range and out-of-range values, requisitions and labeling, and specimen handling and transport.

What most reviews skip here: internal versus external quality controls [k115], preanalytical and postanalytical errors that change results [k117], spirometry and peak flow [3D8, k119], and scratch versus intradermal allergy testing [3D7, k120].

Phlebotomy — 12 scored items

Patient prep, verifying orders, supply and site selection, venipuncture, capillary puncture, post-procedure care, specimen processing, and responding to out-of-range results.

Worth knowing: this is the most heavily detailed subdomain in the entire plan relative to its size—15 task statements and 25 knowledge statements for 12 questions.

What most reviews skip here: order of draw with microtubes specifically [k130], tube inversions and fill ratios [k135], centrifuge and aliquot procedure [k140], and equipment calibration [k142].

EKG and Cardiovascular Testing — 6 scored items

Patient prep, lead and electrode placement, running the test, recognizing abnormal or emergent results versus artifact, assisting with Holter and event monitoring, and transmitting results.

Six questions. Learn it properly, then move on. And read the section below before you decide interpretation isn't tested.

Source: NHA CCMA Detailed Test Plan · Domain 3 task and knowledge statements · Verified August 8, 2026

What your NHA score report can—and cannot—tell you about Clinical Patient Care

The NHA Individual Scaled Score Report format reviewed for this page lists Clinical Patient Care and all six Clinical subdomains as separate performance rows. It still does not show exact subdomain scores, missed questions, or the task statements behind your misses. Each row is an Above, Near, or Below range.

That corrects a mistake repeated on some prep pages: Clinical Patient Care does not necessarily collapse into one word.

Castleport reviewed a candidate-issued NHA CCMA Individual Scaled Score Report generated February 16, 2025. Candidate-identifying details are not reproduced here. The report listed all of these rows separately: Clinical Patient Care, Patient Intake and Vitals, General Patient Care, Infection Control and Safety, Point of Care Testing and Laboratory Procedures, Phlebotomy, and EKG and Cardiovascular Testing. NHA's current Help Center says the downloadable individual report shows the candidate's score plus more detail across the test plan.

So a retaker is not starting from one word. But the report still stops one level before the answer you actually want: what did I misunderstand?

Use the lowest subdomain row, open that section of the current test plan, and work through new questions with rationales. Do not keep rereading the exact practice set you already remember.

Sources: NHA exam-results Help Center · NHA Candidate Handbook · Candidate-issued NHA CCMA Individual Scaled Score Report generated February 16, 2025, reviewed by Castleport with identifying details omitted · Verified August 8, 2026

→ Use the CCMA exam hub for the current retake timeline, fee guidance, and study plan.

How many CCMA Clinical Patient Care practice questions do you need before the result means anything?

NHA publishes no minimum third-party practice-test length that guarantees psychometric reliability. Its handbook reports N/A for an official content area with five or fewer questions because limited item counts create statistical reliability concerns. We use six as a conservative coverage floor—not a readiness guarantee and not NHA validation of this tool.

First: how much can a mixed CCMA test cover?

These are Castleport calculations under proportional blueprint weighting. They show expected coverage, not the undisclosed item mix of any specific practice test.

On a 25-question blueprint-proportional test, only Clinical Patient Care reaches six expected items. Small-domain results are directional, not stand-alone verdicts. Our free test is intentionally short for first-pass triage; use a longer test for broader coverage and a timed 180-item simulation for pacing and stamina.

Then: what happens inside Clinical Patient Care?

If a Clinical practice set is weighted to the official 84-item split, EKG makes up only 7.1% of it—so a 20-question Clinical drill produces roughly one EKG item. Using six questions as a conservative floor, 84 items is the shortest blueprint-proportional Clinical drill at which all six subdomains reach that threshold.

The honest admission

Look at that last row. Our own free 25-question mixed diagnostic cannot give you a defensible six-way Clinical Patient Care diagnosis. It can tell you Clinical is a problem. It cannot tell you whether the leak is General Patient Care, phlebotomy, infection control, or EKG.

We also have fewer total free questions than several larger banks. That's true and we're not going to pretend otherwise.

Here's the trade we made. Twenty-five original questions with immediate rationales and transparent limitations can tell you which top-level domain to open tonight. It cannot replace a longer bank or a full-length simulation. Use a long test for breadth, pacing, and stamina. Use this one for first-pass triage.

A 36-question Clinical set with six questions in every subdomain would compare the six areas more evenly, but it would deliberately over-sample EKG and under-sample General Patient Care. An 84-question set could preserve the official Clinical mix and still give every subdomain at least six items. Castleport does not currently offer either Clinical mode on this page.

That's the line between a useful calculation and a product claim. We publish the calculation now. We do not pretend the product exists before it does.

Three things popular CCMA Clinical study guides get wrong

Three claims appear repeatedly on Clinical Patient Care study pages that do not match the currently published NHA test plan. Each is checked below against the plan's own numbered task and knowledge statements, which are free to download and verify.

One more worth flagging because it is still circulating: a widely shared flashcard deck labels General Patient Care as roughly 46–47 questions and 31% of the exam. That matches the older plan based on the 2016 job analysis. The current CCMA 3.0 plan puts General Patient Care at 28 scored items, 18.7% of the scored exam.

We're not saying don't use flashcards. We're saying check the numbers on the deck against the free PDF before you build a study plan on them. A deck's title tells you nothing about whether its weights are current.

Sources: Current NHA CCMA Detailed Test Plan · Older NHA CCMA plan based on the 2016 job analysis · Verified August 8, 2026

Can this practice test tell you whether you'll pass the CCMA?

No. NHA reports the CCMA on a scaled score of 200 to 500 with 390 as the passing standard, and it does not publish a universal raw-to-scaled conversion. No third-party practice percentage—ours included—can be translated into a predicted 390.

Four specific reasons, not just a disclaimer:

1. This is a 25-question sample. It cannot reproduce the breadth or psychometric design of the live exam.
2. The real exam includes 30 unidentified pretest items. You won't know which items do not count.
3. NHA uses scaled scoring and a modified Angoff cut-score process for the current CCMA. The scale accounts for differences in form difficulty. There is no fixed published raw-correct count that equals 390 across every form.
4. NHA says it directly. Its certification page says using NHA prep does not guarantee a passing score, and the handbook warns that a high practice-test score does not guarantee a certification-exam pass.

While we're here: 390 is not 78%

500 is the top of the score scale, not the number of questions. There are 150 scored questions, not 500. Dividing 390 by 500 produces a number that means nothing about how many questions you need correct.

And a 387 is not “three questions short.” A scaled-score gap cannot be converted into a count of questions.

Don't chase a magic practice percentage. Chase repeatable reasoning: can you explain why the right answer is best, why each wrong answer is wrong, and then do it again on a question you've never seen? That's the thing that transfers to test day.

Sources: NHA Candidate Handbook · NHA CCMA standard-setting summary · NHA CCMA certification page · Verified August 8, 2026

Full scoring explanation, retake rules, and current fee guidance: → the CCMA exam hub

Are these real NHA CCMA questions?

No—and be suspicious of anyone who implies otherwise. Every Castleport question is an original item written from the publicly available NHA test plan. Live exam content is confidential, and the NHA registration attestation binds candidates not to memorize, reproduce, solicit, discuss, or disclose exam questions.

Exam integrity: We have no access to NHA's item bank. We don't use braindumps, recalled questions, or reconstructed content. Every practice item is written from scratch against the published test plan.

The consequences aren't theoretical. NHA reserves the right to invalidate scores, suspend or revoke credentials, and deem a candidate ineligible for that exam or other NHA exams after a finding of exam-content theft or disclosure.

On Quizlet specifically: we're not going to tell you to avoid it. Repetition works and some decks are fine. But a deck title does not tell you its blueprint version, its answer-key quality, or where its questions came from. Check the domain weights against the free NHA test plan before you trust a deck's structure. If a set is marketed as real or recalled exam content, close it.

Source: NHA Candidate Handbook · Exam conduct, candidate attestations, and disciplinary rules · Verified August 8, 2026

Does NHA offer a free CCMA practice test?

No. NHA's current public CCMA pages do not list a free practice test. The free resource NHA links is the Detailed Test Plan. Its practice tests, study guide, and preparation package are paid products, and NHA states that buying prep is not required and does not guarantee a passing score.

There is also a live discrepancy worth knowing before you pay. Official NHA pages checked August 8, 2026:

Those two official pages describe the package differently. Check the live store listing before you buy so you know what you're getting.

→ Download NHA's free CCMA Test Plan — it is the official free blueprint and the document this page is built on.

What do other free CCMA practice tests actually give you?

Free CCMA practice tests vary widely in question count, sign-up requirements, explanation quality, blueprint accuracy, and how they frame a result. Commercial pages change; these observations describe live pages read on August 8, 2026.

Some of these are genuinely useful tools. CareerEmployer's volume beats ours. OpenExamPrep advertises a much larger bank. If you want hundreds of reps, use a large bank.

Castleport's wedge is different: 25 original questions, no gate, full rationales, a named current blueprint, and the limitation stated before you click. We will not turn a short diagnostic into a fake pass prediction just because the promise converts better.

Where do you find a free full-length 180-question CCMA practice test?

Castleport does not offer a free full-length 180-question simulation. NHA sells practice products, and some third parties offer larger free banks—but a large bank is not the same thing as one timed, blueprint-balanced form.

Use a full-length test for pacing and stamina, not for prediction. The exam presents 180 items in 180 minutes: plan on about 60 seconds per presented item, not 70 seconds per scored item. Pacing at 70 seconds per item would require 210 minutes — 30 minutes more than the exam allows.

A practical sequence: short diagnostic first, domain drills in the middle weeks, then one timed full-length run near the end.

→ Join the CCMA Exam System launch list for the study guide and question bank now in development.

What to do after the free NHA CCMA practice test

Review every missed rationale before answering anything new. Then take your weakest top-level domain into the current test plan and work the highest-weight area inside it. Once the gap narrows, answer fresh questions rather than repeating a set you remember.

A seven-day Clinical Patient Care rebuild

1. Day 1 — Take the 25-question diagnostic. Read every rationale, including the ones you got right.
2. Day 2 — Open your NHA score report, if you have one, and map every Near or Below Clinical row to the current test plan.
3. Day 3 — General Patient Care. It is 28 scored items; it goes first unless your report gives you a stronger reason not to.
4. Day 4 — Infection Control and Safety, then Patient Intake and Vitals.
5. Day 5 — Phlebotomy, then Point of Care Testing and Laboratory Procedures.
6. Day 6 — EKG and Cardiovascular Testing, then return to the weakest area from Days 3–5.
7. Day 7 — Take a longer mixed set or timed simulation. Do not reuse a set whose answers you remember.

One honest note for retakers: every retake means re-registering and paying the full examination price. NHA requires 30 days between the first three attempts; after a third failed attempt, the waiting period is one year. Current fee guidance and the complete retake timeline are on the → CCMA exam hub, sourced to NHA.

Take the free diagnostic — Then leave with one domain to work on, not a fake readiness label.

How Castleport wrote and checked these questions

Every question in this diagnostic is written from scratch against the current official blueprint and carries a full rationale. These questions are not scraped, purchased from recycled banks, paraphrased from competitors, or reconstructed from live exam content.

For this page, the Castleport Test Prep Editorial Team:

1. Read the current NHA CCMA Detailed Test Plan and Candidate Handbook directly.
2. Verified the current CCMA 3.0 version and effective date against NHA's announcement.
3. Counted the task and knowledge statements in Domain 3 and recalculated every percentage and comparison from the official item counts.
4. Separated official facts, Castleport calculations, candidate-report observations, and commercial-page observations instead of blending them together.
5. Checked every product claim against the live Castleport practice-test and Exam System pages.
6. Confirmed that every feature described on this page is live for this exam.
7. Published the limitations: no score prediction, no readiness verdict, no pass guarantee, no live-item access, and no six-subdomain Clinical diagnostic.

Review status: This page does not carry a named “Reviewed by” attribution because no named credentialed CCMA reviewer has completed review yet. Castleport's public reviewer page lists CCMA review as pending. We will not invent a reviewer, borrow credentials, or put a stock name on the page to make it look finished.

If you find an error, tell us. Castleport re-verifies disputed facts against the official source and logs material corrections publicly. → Read the corrections policy and report an error

What we actually verified for this page

We separate official facts, primary artifacts, commercial-page observations, and our own calculations. Read directly on August 8, 2026:

Official NHA sources:

• NHA CCMA Detailed Test Plan — 150 scored items, 30 pretest items, three-hour limit, seven domains, the 84-item Clinical Patient Care domain, all six subdomain counts, and every task and knowledge statement in Domain 3
• NHA Candidate Handbook, revision dated June 1, 2026 — scaled scoring, the 390 standard, performance-category definitions, the five-or-fewer N/A rule, retakes, practice-test caution, exam conduct, and disciplinary consequences
• NHA CCMA standard-setting summary — modified Angoff process and transformation of the current raw cut to 390/500
• NHA CCMA certification page and NHA Store listing — no free official practice test listed and the current package-description conflict
• NHA CCMA 3.0 announcement — January 10, 2024 availability
• NHA exam-results Help Center — individual result report access and detail across the test plan

Primary score-report artifact:

• A candidate-issued NHA CCMA Individual Scaled Score Report generated February 16, 2025 — it listed Clinical Patient Care and all six Clinical subdomains as separate performance rows. Candidate-identifying details are intentionally omitted from this page.

Castleport product pages:

• Live free CCMA practice test — 25 questions, top-level domain breakdown, rationales, and no email gate
• CCMA Exam System — still in development; launch list live; no product price or purchase claim on this page
• Castleport reviewers — CCMA reviewer engagement pending
• Castleport methodology and editorial standards — official-source mapping, original questions, version control, no fabricated social proof, and no pass guarantees

Castleport calculations, labeled as ours:

• Every domain's share of the 150 scored items
• Every Clinical subdomain's share of the scored exam and the 84-item Clinical domain
• The comparisons against whole domains
• Expected proportional coverage at each mixed-test and Clinical-drill length
• The six-question editorial design floor borrowed from NHA's official score-reporting rule
• 60 seconds per presented item

What we do not claim: access to live or recalled exam questions; a raw-to-scaled conversion; a readiness cutoff; a first-attempt or domain-level pass rate; your odds of passing; a pass guarantee; a live 36-question Clinical mode; a live 84-question Clinical mode; or a current Castleport score broken into all six Clinical subdomains.

Free NHA CCMA practice test: FAQ

Is this free NHA CCMA practice test really free?

Yes. Twenty-five original questions, instant score by top-level domain, full rationales, and no email address required to see your result. There is nothing to buy on this page.

Does NHA have a free CCMA practice test?

No free practice test is listed on NHA's current public CCMA pages. NHA links a free Detailed Test Plan and sells its practice products. Its certification page says three tests with two attempts each, while its current store listing says four unique 150-item tests with up to six total attempts, so verify the package on the live store before buying.

Are these real NHA exam questions?

No. They're original Castleport items written to the published test plan. Live exam content is confidential, and NHA prohibits memorizing, reproducing, soliciting, discussing, or disclosing it.

How many questions are on the real NHA CCMA exam?

The current test plan specifies 150 scored items and 30 unscored pretest items, with a three-hour limit—180 presented items in all.

What's a passing score on the CCMA?

A scaled score of 390 on a 200–500 scale. NHA accounts for differences in exam-form difficulty so the passing scaled score remains the standard across forms.

Is 390 out of 500 the same as 78% correct?

No. 500 is the top of the score scale, not the number of questions. NHA does not publish a universal raw-to-scaled conversion, so no raw practice percentage can be converted directly into a 390.

Can a free practice test tell me whether I'll pass?

No. A practice test can expose gaps and show you what to study next. It cannot predict your live scaled score, and neither NHA nor Castleport guarantees a pass from practice performance.

How many Clinical Patient Care questions are on the CCMA exam?

Eighty-four of the 150 scored items. The exam also presents 30 unscored pretest items, and NHA does not publish how those are distributed—so nobody can tell you exactly how many of the 180 items you see will be Clinical.

What percentage of the CCMA exam is Clinical Patient Care?

56% of the scored items. That percentage applies to the 150 scored questions, not automatically to the 30 pretest questions.

What are the six Clinical Patient Care subdomains?

Patient Intake and Vitals (14 items), General Patient Care (28), Infection Control and Safety (15), Point of Care Testing and Laboratory Procedures (9), Phlebotomy (12), and EKG and Cardiovascular Testing (6).

Does my NHA score report show the six Clinical subdomains?

The NHA Individual Scaled Score Report format reviewed for this page did. It listed Clinical Patient Care and all six subdomains separately, each with an Above, Near, or Below category. It did not show exact subdomain percentages, missed questions, or task-level errors. Report formats can be confirmed in your NHA account through the downloadable Individual Result Report.

Is “Near the passing standard” good enough?

No. The Candidate Handbook states that Near does not indicate satisfactory performance in that content area. It is a diagnostic category, not a separate pass, and NHA directs candidates to review the tasks in areas rated Near or Below.

Which Clinical subdomain has the most questions?

General Patient Care, at 28 scored items—18.7% of the whole scored exam and more than Anatomy and Physiology, Administrative Assisting, and Medical Law and Ethics combined.

How many EKG questions are on the CCMA?

Six. It is the smallest scored area on the entire exam—smaller than Medical Law and Ethics, which is the smallest top-level domain.

Is EKG interpretation tested on the CCMA?

Partly. The plan lists recognizing abnormal or emergent results and distinguishing them from artifact (task 3F4), plus knowledge of abnormal rhythms (k155) and waveforms, intervals, and segments (k156). It does not ask a medical assistant to diagnose. Pages saying interpretation is not tested at all go further than the document does.

How many phlebotomy questions are on the CCMA?

Twelve—the same size as the entire Administrative Assisting, Patient Care Coordination and Education, or Communication and Customer Service domain.

How many questions should a CCMA practice test have?

Depends what you want from it. NHA publishes no validated minimum for third-party practice-test reliability. Under a proportional blueprint model, 129 questions is the first mixed-test length where all seven domains reach six expected items—a conservative coverage floor borrowed from NHA's score-reporting rule, not a readiness guarantee.

How many Clinical practice questions should I do?

For broad Clinical exposure, more is better. Under proportional weighting, 84 is the shortest Clinical-only length where all six subdomains reach six expected items. A 36-question set with six per subdomain could compare the six areas more evenly, but it would not simulate the real Clinical weights. Castleport does not currently offer either mode.

Do I need to memorize the “six rights” of medication administration?

The current plan says “rights of medication administration” without a number (k22, k69). Different textbooks teach different counts. Learn the underlying safety checks rather than treating one numbered list as NHA's official wording.

Is Clinical Patient Care the hardest part of the CCMA?

NHA publishes no difficulty or pass data at the domain level, so nobody can honestly say. It is the largest part—56% of scored items—which is a different thing.

Is CCMA 3.0 still the current version in 2026?

As of August 8, 2026, yes. CCMA 3.0 remains the current publicly posted NHA version and became available January 10, 2024. Check NHA's test-plan page before your test date because exams do change.

What happens if I fail the CCMA?

You must wait 30 days before another attempt. NHA permits three attempts with at least 30 days between them. After a third failed attempt, the waiting period is one year. Every retake requires re-registering and paying the full examination price.

Is the CCMA the same as the CMA?

No. The CCMA comes from NHA; the CMA comes from AAMA. Different organizations, different exams, different eligibility rules, and different blueprints.

Where should I go after the diagnostic?

Take your weakest top-level domain into the study plan on the CCMA exam hub. It has the full blueprint, scoring explanation, pacing checkpoints, retake rules, and current fee guidance.

Not sure where you stand?

Twenty-five original questions, a top-level domain breakdown, and full rationales: a directional baseline, not an official NHA score, and an honest answer to “what should I study tonight?”

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Last verified: August 8, 2026 · By the Castleport Test Prep Editorial Team