ONCC AOCNP Certification Sample Questions

The ONCC Advanced Oncology Certified Nurse Practitioner Certification Sample Question Set on this page is designed to familiarize you with the actual ONCC AOCNP exam format and question types. These sample questions help you understand how questions are structured and what to expect on test day. While they provide a useful starting point, they represent only a limited preview of the real exam experience.

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ONCC AOCNP Sample Questions:

01. A 38-year-old man receiving chemotherapy says he is afraid of losing his job because of frequent absences, and that his employer has asked when he will be back to full duties. He wants to keep working.
Which action is most useful?
a) Provide documentation of his treatment schedule and functional limitations, and refer him for guidance on workplace protections
b) Offer to speak with his employer directly to explain his diagnosis and prognosis
c) Advise him to take a full medical leave so that he can concentrate on his treatment and his recovery
d) Reassure him that employers cannot dismiss an employee who is receiving cancer treatment

02. A 52-year-old woman who emigrated from a region where hepatitis B is endemic has had chronic hepatitis B infection documented since her twenties. She is asymptomatic, her liver enzymes are normal, imaging has never shown cirrhosis, and she takes no antiviral therapy.
What does her history most directly indicate about her cancer risk?
a) Her normal liver enzymes indicate inactive infection, so no cancer surveillance applies to her at present
b) She belongs to a group for whom liver cancer surveillance is advised even in the absence of cirrhosis
c) Surveillance becomes appropriate only once cirrhosis has been confirmed by imaging or by liver biopsy
d) Her risk is managed by periodic liver enzyme testing rather than by an imaging-based surveillance program

03. A 69-year-old woman with a node-positive breast cancer has known heart failure with reduced ejection fraction, managed on optimal medical therapy and stable for two years. An anthracycline-containing adjuvant regimen would ordinarily be considered.
How should the treatment plan be constructed?
a) Withhold adjuvant chemotherapy and treat with endocrine therapy alone, as her cardiac disease limits her life expectancy regardless
b) Proceed with the standard anthracycline regimen alongside a cardioprotective agent, as prophylaxis permits the preferred treatment to be given
c) Proceed with the anthracycline at a reduced cumulative dose, with cardiac monitoring repeated through the course
d) Proceed with a non-anthracycline regimen of equivalent intent, planned jointly with cardiology and with cardiac function monitored

04. A man with metastatic prostate cancer has a painful lesion in the left femur causing pain on weight bearing. Imaging shows a lytic lesion without cortical breach. He has a limited prognosis and travels two hours to the cancer center.
Which radiation approach best fits his situation?
a) Deferral of radiation in favor of opioid titration, since radiation would not act quickly enough to help him
b) A prolonged conventionally fractionated course, which produces more durable pain control than shorter schedules in metastatic bone disease, and the additional visits are justified by that durability
c) A short palliative course, which relieves pain comparably while minimizing his travel and treatment burden
d) Stereotactic body radiation therapy, which is the standard of care for all painful bone metastases

05. A patient fourteen months past allogeneic transplant reports dry, gritty eyes, difficulty opening her mouth fully, tight and thickened skin over her forearms, and shortness of breath on exertion that has developed gradually.
Which process best explains this combination?
a) Late effects of total body irradiation producing progressive fibrosis in exposed tissues
b) Recurrent malignancy with paraneoplastic connective tissue involvement requiring immunologic workup
c) Cumulative toxicity of long-term calcineurin inhibitor therapy taken since transplant
d) Chronic graft-versus-host disease with sclerotic and mucosal manifestations

06. A patient with advanced disease says that she has stopped attending the church that was central to her life, and that she no longer knows what her illness means. She is not tearful and denies feeling depressed.
How should the nurse practitioner assess this further?
a) Administer a depression screening instrument, as loss of engagement in valued activities is a core feature of depressive illness
b) Explore her practical barriers to attendance, as transport and fatigue commonly explain withdrawal from community activities
c) Use a structured spiritual assessment to explore her sources of meaning, her beliefs, and what support she would find helpful
d) Refer her to the chaplaincy service, document the referral, and treat spiritual concerns as outside the scope of the oncology assessment

07. A patient with suspected metastatic cancer of unknown primary undergoes a core biopsy of an accessible node. The pathologist reports that the tissue is limited and asks the team to prioritize which studies to run before the block is exhausted.
Which principle should direct that prioritization?
a) Tests that establish lineage and identify treatment-defining alterations take precedence over prognostic or research studies
b) Studies should run in the order the specimen was requested, so that each clinician's question receives an answer
c) Any further testing should wait until a repeat biopsy provides ample material and a complete diagnostic panel can be run
d) The broadest available genomic panel should run first, because it subsumes the information the individual stains provide

08. A woman with advanced cervical cancer and a pelvic mass has a rising creatinine noted on routine laboratory studies. She has reduced urine output and mild flank discomfort but is otherwise stable. Her potassium is at the upper limit of normal.
What is the priority assessment?
a) Review of her recent medications for nephrotoxic agents, with cessation of any contributing drug and reassessment in two days
b) Urgent imaging of the urinary tract for hydronephrosis, as obstruction from the pelvic mass is reversible if relieved promptly
c) Assessment of volume status with a fluid challenge, as prerenal failure from reduced intake is the commonest cause in advanced cancer
d) Urinalysis and microscopy for casts and protein, as intrinsic renal disease should be characterized before imaging is arranged

09. In several hematologic malignancies, response is now assessed by measurable residual disease testing in addition to conventional morphologic remission.
What does a measurable residual disease result add that morphologic assessment cannot provide?
a) It measures the immune reconstitution that follows treatment, indicating whether the patient can control residual disease themselves
b) It predicts which patients will tolerate further consolidation, allowing treatment intensity to be matched to physiologic reserve
c) It identifies the specific mutation driving the disease, allowing targeted therapy to be selected at the point of response assessment
d) It quantifies disease below the threshold the microscope can detect, giving a measure of the depth of remission

10. Tumor-only next-generation sequencing on a 47-year-old woman's ovarian carcinoma reports a pathogenic BRCA1 variant at a high variant allele fraction. The report notes that germline status cannot be determined from this assay. She has one sister and a 20-year-old daughter.
Which action is most appropriate?
a) Arrange confirmatory germline testing, which will determine whether the variant is inherited and whether relatives are at risk
b) Treat the result as somatic only, and take no further action regarding her family
c) Repeat the tumor assay with a higher-depth panel to establish whether the variant is inherited
d) Report the finding as germline and initiate cascade testing of her sister and daughter

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