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1. A system of identification which was used earlier than the fingerprint system, made by measuring various bony
structure of human body. Developed by Alphonse Bertillion.
a. Portrait Parle b. Anthropometry c. Tattoo d. Photography
Note: Portrait Parle, Tattoo and photography did not served the purpse of identification using bone measurement.
2. Is the distance of recognition in broad daylight of a person who is almost a stranger.
a. 100 yards b. 25 yards c. 16-17 yards d. 10-13 yards
3. Is the basic principle involve in personal Identification which states that the greater the number of similarity or
difference the greater the probability for the identity or non identity to be conclusive.
a. Law of individuality c. Law of infallibility
b. Law of multiplicity of evidence d. Law of constancy
4. Which of the following personal Identification is not easy to change?
a. Hair b. Dress c. Speech d. personal pharapernalia
5. Considered to be one of the most infallible means of Identification.
a. DNA fingerprinting b. Fingerprint Identification c. Dactyloscopy d. Photography
6. Identification of person can be done either by Comparison or by____?
a. Exclusion b. Experimentation c. Examination d. Inclusion
7. A system of Identification best used in case of burned body.
a. Fingerprint b. Odontology c. Skeletal Identification d. Photography
8. The first conviction in the Philippine Case which gives recognition to the science of fingerprint?
a. People Vs. Medina c. People Vs. Jennings
b. Miranda Vs. Arizona d. West Case
9. Known as the Father of Modern Fingerprint, whose system of classification was spread in almost all English speaking
country.
a. Juan Vucitich b. Francis Galton c. Sir Edward Richard Henry d. William Herschel
10. Is the person who discover the two main layer of the friction skin (Epidermis and Dermis) and to whom one of the thin
layer of the friction skin was named.
a. Herman Welcker b. Nehemiah Grew c. Marcelo Malpighe d. Dr. Henry Faulds
11. Anew Mexico Geologist who adopted the first individual use of fingerprints in August 8, 1882, by using his own
thumb mark as a protection to prevent tampering with the pay order he issued.
a. Sgt John Kenneth Ferrier b. Capt James Parke c. Gilbert Thompson d. Dr. Henry P. De Forest
12. Is the person known for being the U.S. public enemy number one, who attempt to destroy his friction by applying a
corrosive acid.
a. Robert James Pitts b. John Dillenger c. Roscoe Pitts d. John Augustus
13. Is the scientific study of the prints of the soles of the feet?
a. Poroscopy b. Chiroscopy c. Podoscopy d. Dactyloscopy
14. Is the science of fingerprint identification
a. dactyloscopy b. dactylography c. dactylomancy d. dactylo-analysis
15. The word finger was derived from what Latin word?
a. dermis b. dactyl c. digitus d. Skopien
16. The principle in fingerprint study that states that fingerprint cannot be forged. Fingerprint is a reliable and a positive
means of identification.
a. principle of infallibility b. principle of permanency c. principle of individuality
17. What is the main layer of the epidermis, which covers the surface on which ridges are visible?
a. dermis b. stratum mucusom c. stratum corneoum d. sanguinal stratum
18. Friction skin (Epidermal skin/ Papillary skin) may be damage permanently when which of its layer was damage?
a. dermis b. epidermis c. dermal papillae d. generating layer
19. How deep is the cut in order to produced permanent scar?
a. more than 1 cm b. more than 1mm c. 1 m d. 1dm
20. Is that appears as tiny black line with white dots (called pores) in an inked finger impression?
a. sweat pores b. ridges c. furrows d. sweat duct
21. What are the depressed portions or canal structure of the friction skin (found between ridges).
a. pores b. furrows c. indentions d. duct
22. How many standard fingerprint patterns are there? (types)
a. three b. two c. eight d. nine
23. What pattern type has the ridges that enter on one side of the pattern and flow to the other side with a rise in the
center?
a. loop b. plain arch c. tented arch d. exceptional arch
24. What type of a pattern possesses an angle, an uptrust, or two of the three basic characteristics of the loop?
a. Plain arch b. tented arch c. central pocket loop d. accidental whorl

25. In order for a pattern to be considered as loop it should have _______ridge count.
a. 1 b. at least 1 c. 2 d. 3
26. What type of a pattern has two deltas in which at least one ridges makes a turn through one complete circuit?
a. arch b. accidental whorl c. loop d. whorl
27. What is the type of a pattern in which the looping or slanting ridges flows towards the little finger?
a. loop b. ulnar loop c. radial loop d. tented arch
28. The diagonal sign / means ________.
a. right hand ulnar b. left hand ulnar c. left hand radial d. none
29. What type of a pattern consisting of two ore more deltas, one or more ridge forming a complete circuitry and when an
imaginary line is drawn from left delta to right delta it touches or cross the circuiting ridge/s considered as the most
common type of whorl.
a. plain whorl b. double loop whorl c. central pocket loop whorl d. accidental whorl
30. In an accidental whorl type of pattern, what pattern is not included in the combination?
a. ulnar loop b. plain whorl c. tented arch d. plain arch
31. The core and delta are also termed as _____?
a. inner terminus b. focal point c. outer terminus d. pattern area
32. Is a point along a ridge formation, which is found in front or near the center of the diverging typelines.
a. core b. delta c. island ridge d. convergence
33. What is the rule where there are two or more possible bifurcation deltas which conform to the definition of delta?
a. the one nearest the core should be chosen
b. the one away from the core should be counted
c. the one which does not open towards the core is counted
d. the one towards the core should be counted
34. When a ridge bifurcates, sending two ridges across the imaginary line, how is it counted?
a. one b. two c. three d. Six
35. What is that spreading of two ridges that previously running side by side?
a. bifurcation b. divergence c. convergence d. enclosure
36. What kind of a ridge resembles a dot, fragment or a period?
a. lake b. island ridge c. ending ridge d. incipient ridge
37. What ridge divides itself into or more branches that meets to form the original figure?
a. bifurcation b. lake ridge c. island ridge d. convergence
38. What type of a ridge is that which curves back to the direction from which it started.
a. diverging ridge b. converging ridge c. recurving ridge d. bifurcation
39. Is a point along the recurving ridge in which the ridge curves inward.
a. sufficient recurve b. obstruction ridge c. appendage d. shoulder of loop
40. Is a short horizontal ridge found inside a recurving ridge which has spoiled the inner line of flow from the inner delta
to the center of the pattern. This is also found in the second type of central pocket loop.
a. bar b. appendage c. uptrust d. obstruction
41. Is the type of pattern in which the course is traced the line flow below the right delta and there are three intervening
ridge.
a. meeting whorl b. inner whorl c. outer whorl d. central pocket loop whorl
42. A ridge that is so thin or fine compare to other regular ridge which is not included as a ridge count even if it has been
cross by the imaginary line.
a. ending ridge b. intervening ridge c. incipient ridge d. enclosure
43. What is that ridge that divides into two ridges and which resembles a fork structure
a. divergence b. bifurcation c. convergence d. enclosure
44. Ridge forms in the person’s fingers and feet during its infants stage which usually starts:
a. 3rd to 4th months of the fetus life c. 5th to 6th months of the fetus life
 b. 4th to 5th months of the fetus life d. 5th to 6th months before birth
45. Is the process of counting the ridges which intervene between the delta and core of a loop?
a. ridge tracing b. ridge tracking c. ridge counting d. ridge summing
46. What fingers are rolled towards the body in taking a rolled impression?
a. both little finger c. both thumb finger
b. all finger except thumb d. both index finger
47. Is an instrument used for the spreading of the fingerprint ink to the slab?
a. Fingerprint brush b. Fingerprint roller c. Fingerprint lifting tape d. fingerprint card
48. Is the process of placing the letter symbols under each pattern as the results of the interpretation of all ten fingers.
a. classification formula c. blocking out
b. reference classification d. fingerprint identification
49. Is the symbol used to represent a plain arch.
a. T b. A c. P d. W
50. Is the division in the classification formula which is always represented by numerical value depending upon a whorl
pattern appearing in each finger.
a. primary b. key c. final d. Major
51. In assigning a number value to whorl pattern, what finger should be given a value of 4 when a whorl pattern appears
therein:
a. left little finger and right thumb c. right little finger and left thumb
b. right thumb and left little finger d. left thumb and right
52. If all the fingers in the right hand are whorls and all the fingers of the left hand are loops, what will be the primary
division?
a. 25/29 b. 29/25 c. 24/28 d. 28/24
53. What patterns are included in the secondary division in deriving the small letter category.
a. ulnar loop, plain arch and tented arch c. radial, plain arch and tented arch
b. radial loop, ulnar and arch d. radial, ulnar, plain arch
54. What would be the secondary divisions if all the right hand fingers are radial loops while all the left hand fingers are
tented arches.
a. 3Rr b. rR3r c. R3r d. R4r
3Tt tT3t T3t T4t
55. What is the interpretation for a ridge count on the left index that reaches 8.
a. exceptional b. inner loop c. radial loop d. outer loop
56. In interpreting a loop pattern, what is the numerical value of S in the left hand?
a. 1 to 11 b. 18 to 22 c. 1 to 17 d. 12 to 16
57. In a loop pattern, when the number of the ridges on the left thumb is 17 or more, it constitutes as:
a. exceptional b. alteration c. isolation d. Conditional
58. In ridge counting a plain whorl or central pocket loop whorl in the little finger it is derived by:
a. getting the ridge count of the top loop (double loop whorl)
b. treating it as ulnar loop
c. getting the least ridge count (accidental whorl)
d. getting the delta opposite each hand
59. What division in the classification formula is derived from both little finger and is place at the extreme right of the
classification formula.
a. key b. final c. major d. secondary
60. The key division is the division in the classification which is located at the extreme left of the classification formula
and it is taken by getting the ridge count of _______?
a. loop pattern b. first radial loop c. first loop d. first whorl
61. In case of a missing digits or an amputated finger, what will be the classification of said missing finger?
a. The same as the corresponding digit of the other hand c. Mutilated finger
b. Plain whorl with meeting tracing d. None
62. Prints found at the scene of the crime.
a. suspected prints c. latent prints
b. molded prints d. prints made by contamination with colored substance.
63. Prints which were left in the place accidentally or unconsciously?
a. chance prints b. smudge prints c. fragmentary prints d. latent prints
64. What method of developing latent prints in paper is best to be used being easy to apply and less destructive to the
paper.
a. iodine fuming b. silver nitrate method c. ninhydrin method d. dusting method
65. What kind of a filter should a photographer use to improve the contrast of a latent fingerprint impression dusted with
black powder on a green background?
a. yellow filter b. green filter c. red filter d. blue filter