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Utah MPJE Study Guide Free

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Questions
120
Time limit
150 minutes
Retakes
5 attempts per jurisdiction
Format
Computer-based, adaptive, selected-response questions
Result
Reported as pass or fail
Outline
Four areas: licensure and personnel 22%, pharmacist practice 33%, dispensing requirements 24%, pharmacy operations 21%. A new outline starts March 1, 2027.
Utah rule
R156-17b-303c: pass the NAPLEX and the Utah MPJE, each with a passing score NABP sets, within five years of graduation.

Checked October 14, 2026 against NABP, MPJE/UMPJE Test Day Information. Rules change, so confirm with the agency itself before your test.

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Licensure and personnel 13

  • A pharmacist licensed in another state applies for a Utah license by endorsement. How much recent practice must the applicant show? Answer: 2,000 hours in the four years before applying. Source: Utah Code § 58-17b-303. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 1, Licensure/Personnel.
  • A Utah applicant has failed a required pharmacist examination three times. What must the applicant do to retake it? Answer: Meet with the Board to request up to two more attempts. Source: Utah Admin. Code R156-17b-303c. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 1, Licensure/Personnel.
  • After how many failures must a Utah pharmacist applicant complete another education program before testing again? Answer: Five. Source: Utah Admin. Code R156-17b-303c. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 1, Licensure/Personnel.
  • Besides five pharmacists, who sits on the Utah State Board of Pharmacy? Answer: One pharmacy technician and one member of the general public. Source: Utah Code § 58-17b-201. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 1, Licensure/Personnel.
  • For what term does the Utah division issue a license under the Pharmacy Practice Act, pharmacy intern licenses aside? Answer: Two years. Source: Utah Code § 58-17b-308. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 1, Licensure/Personnel.
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Licensure and personnel, continued

  • How long must a pharmacist member of the Utah board have been a Utah resident? Answer: Continuously for at least three years. Source: Utah Code § 58-17b-201. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 1, Licensure/Personnel.
  • How many continuing education hours must a Utah pharmacist complete in each two-year renewal cycle? Answer: At least 30 hours. Source: Utah Admin. Code R156-17b-309. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 1, Licensure/Personnel.
  • How many continuing education hours must a Utah pharmacy technician complete in each two-year renewal cycle? Answer: At least 20 hours. Source: Utah Admin. Code R156-17b-309. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 1, Licensure/Personnel.
  • How many hours of internship practice must a graduate of a U.S. pharmacy school have for a Utah pharmacist license? Answer: At least 1,740 hours. Source: Utah Admin. Code R156-17b-303b. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 1, Licensure/Personnel.
  • How many of a Utah pharmacist's continuing education hours must be live or technology-enabled lectures, seminars or workshops? Answer: 12 hours. Source: Utah Admin. Code R156-17b-309. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 1, Licensure/Personnel.
  • What happens when a Utah pharmacy intern license reaches its end date? Answer: It may not be renewed, but the division may extend it in collaboration with the board. Source: Utah Code § 58-17b-308. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 1, Licensure/Personnel.
  • With no licensed technician or intern on the shift, how many pharmacy technician trainees may one Utah pharmacist supervise? Answer: One. Source: Utah Admin. Code R156-17b-601. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 1, Licensure/Personnel.
  • Within what time must a Utah pharmacist applicant pass the NAPLEX and the Utah MPJE? Answer: Within five years of graduation. Source: Utah Admin. Code R156-17b-303c. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 1, Licensure/Personnel.

Pharmacist practice 20

  • A class D pharmacy mails a prescription drug to a Utah patient. What must it give the patient for counseling? Answer: A toll-free telephone number for reaching a pharmacist or pharmacy intern. Source: Utah Code § 58-17b-613. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 2, Pharmacist Practice.
  • A patient hands a prescription to a Utah pharmacist in person. What must the pharmacy do about counseling? Answer: Verbally offer to counsel the patient face to face. Source: Utah Code § 58-17b-613. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 2, Pharmacist Practice.
  • A patient's attorney asks a Utah pharmacist for the patient's medication profile. What must the attorney present? Answer: A written authorization signed by the patient before a notary public. Source: Utah Code § 58-17b-604. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 2, Pharmacist Practice.
  • A Utah pharmacist has completed the training to administer a long-acting injectable. Whose direction is still required? Answer: That of the physician who issues the prescription. Source: Utah Code § 58-17b-625. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 2, Pharmacist Practice.
  • A Utah pharmacist receives a legend drug prescription written by a practitioner licensed in another state. May it be filled? Answer: Yes, if the pharmacist verifies that the prescription is valid. Source: Utah Code § 58-17b-609. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 2, Pharmacist Practice.
  • A Utah pharmacy repackages a prescription drug for sale to a practitioner who will administer it in the office. How must it be labeled? Answer: "For office use only". Source: Utah Code § 58-17b-624. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 2, Pharmacist Practice.
  • A Utah prescription is authorized to be refilled. After what time from the original issue date may it no longer be refilled? Answer: Two years. Source: Utah Code § 58-17b-609. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 2, Pharmacist Practice.
  • After how long from the date it was initiated may a Utah prescription no longer be dispensed, the Controlled Substances chapter and two listed exceptions aside? Answer: One year. Source: Utah Code § 58-17b-609. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 2, Pharmacist Practice.
  • An out-of-state mail service pharmacy substitutes a drug product equivalent on a prescription sent into Utah. What must it do? Answer: Notify the patient of the substitution by telephone or in writing. Source: Utah Code § 58-17b-605. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 2, Pharmacist Practice.
  • Before a Utah pharmacist substitutes a drug product equivalent for a brand name drug, what is needed from the purchaser? Answer: A specific request for, or consent to, the substitution. Source: Utah Code § 58-17b-605. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 2, Pharmacist Practice.
  • For a patient who is not in a long-term care facility and not terminally ill, at whose request may a Schedule II prescription be partially filled in Utah? Answer: The prescribing practitioner's or the patient's. Source: Utah Code § 58-17b-610.7. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 2, Pharmacist Practice.
  • How long must a Utah pharmacy keep its documentation of the offer to counsel? Answer: Five years. Source: Utah Admin. Code R156-17b-610. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 2, Pharmacist Practice.
  • Under the Utah Pharmacy Practice Act, on what condition may a pharmacist dispense on a practitioner's oral prescription for a drug that is not in Schedule II? Answer: The oral prescription is promptly reduced to writing. Source: Utah Code § 58-17b-602. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 2, Pharmacist Practice.
  • What must a Utah prescriber write, or otherwise indicate, before a pharmacist may substitute a therapeutically similar drug product? Answer: "Similar substitution authorized". Source: Utah Code § 58-17b-605. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 2, Pharmacist Practice.
  • When may a Utah pharmacist alter or add to a prescription? Answer: After receiving permission of the prescriber. Source: Utah Code § 58-17b-602. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 2, Pharmacist Practice.
  • Which drugs may a Utah pharmacist never prescribe under the pharmacist prescribing section? Answer: Controlled substances in Schedules I, II, III or IV. Source: Utah Code § 58-17b-627. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 2, Pharmacist Practice.
  • Which of these may a Utah practitioner not hand out as a drug sample for a patient's immediate need? Answer: A benzodiazepine. Source: Utah Code § 58-17b-610. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 2, Pharmacist Practice.
  • Who designates the prescription drugs and devices that a Utah pharmacist may prescribe? Answer: The division, by rule. Source: Utah Code § 58-17b-627. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 2, Pharmacist Practice.
  • Who may orally counsel a patient and answer questions about a prescription drug in a Utah pharmacy? Answer: Only a pharmacist, pharmacy intern or dispensing medical practitioner. Source: Utah Admin. Code R156-17b-610. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 2, Pharmacist Practice.
  • Without the prescriber's specific authorization, when may a Utah pharmacist dispense a quantity different from the quantity prescribed? Answer: When the prescribed quantity or package size is not commercially available. Source: Utah Code § 58-17b-602.1. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 2, Pharmacist Practice.

Dispensing requirements 14

  • A Utah hospital pharmacy wants to send a patient home with a multidose container used during the stay. What must the pharmacy receive first? Answer: A discharge order for the patient. Source: Utah Code § 58-17b-602. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 3, Dispensing Requirements.
  • A Utah legend drug prescription authorizes refills and the drug is not a controlled substance. When refills are dispensed along with the first fill, what is the cap? Answer: A 100-day supply in all. Source: Utah Code § 58-17b-608.1. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 3, Dispensing Requirements.
  • A Utah patient's insulin prescription is exhausted. On an emergency basis, how much may a pharmacist dispense? Answer: Up to a supply for 60 days. Source: Utah Code § 58-17b-608.2. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 3, Dispensing Requirements.
  • A Utah pharmacist judges that a different dosage form is in the patient's best interest. Which notation by the prescriber rules that change out? Answer: "Dispense as written". Source: Utah Code § 58-17b-602.1. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 3, Dispensing Requirements.
  • A Utah pharmacy sends a prescription drug by a licensed common carrier. What does the Act require of the pharmacy? Answer: Reasonable precautions so the drug is delivered to the patient or agent, or returned to the pharmacy. Source: Utah Code § 58-17b-602. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 3, Dispensing Requirements.
  • After an emergency refill, when must a Utah pharmacist inform the prescribing practitioner? Answer: As soon as practicable. Source: Utah Code § 58-17b-608. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 3, Dispensing Requirements.
  • After dispensing insulin for an exhausted prescription, how soon must a Utah pharmacist tell the prescriber the amount and type dispensed? Answer: Within 30 days. Source: Utah Code § 58-17b-608.2. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 3, Dispensing Requirements.
  • How many emergency refills may a Utah pharmacy dispense for the same prescription under the emergency refill section? Answer: One. Source: Utah Code § 58-17b-608. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 3, Dispensing Requirements.
  • The prescription is on file and expired within the past 30 days. What is the most a Utah pharmacist may dispense as an emergency refill? Answer: The lesser of a 30-day supply or the quantity last dispensed. Source: Utah Code § 58-17b-608. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 3, Dispensing Requirements.
  • What must a Utah prescription order for a controlled substance include that other orders need not? Answer: The patient's age and the prescriber's DEA number. Source: Utah Code § 58-17b-602. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 3, Dispensing Requirements.
  • When is the drug's name left off a Utah prescription label? Answer: When the prescriber specifically indicates the name should not appear. Source: Utah Code § 58-17b-602. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 3, Dispensing Requirements.
  • When may a Utah pharmacist refill a liquid legend drug administered to the eye? Answer: Once the patient should have used 70% of the dosage units. Source: Utah Code § 58-17b-608.1. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 3, Dispensing Requirements.
  • Which item is on Utah's list of minimum information for a prescription container label? Answer: The beyond use date. Source: Utah Code § 58-17b-602. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 3, Dispensing Requirements.
  • Which prescription may a Utah pharmacist never refill under the emergency refill section? Answer: One for a controlled substance. Source: Utah Code § 58-17b-608. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 3, Dispensing Requirements.

Pharmacy operations 13

  • A flood may have affected the purity of drugs in a Utah pharmacy. When must the pharmacy report it to the division in writing? Answer: Immediately upon the occurrence. Source: Utah Code § 58-17b-614. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 4, Pharmacy Operations.
  • After a Utah inventory is completed, how soon must the pharmacist-in-charge's signature and the date be documented? Answer: Within 72 hours or three working days. Source: Utah Admin. Code R156-17b-605. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 4, Pharmacy Operations.
  • After a Utah pharmacy closes, how soon must the surrender notice reach the Division? Answer: Within ten days of the closing. Source: Utah Admin. Code R156-17b-604. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 4, Pharmacy Operations.
  • How far ahead must a Utah pharmacy report in writing a permanent closure, a change of ownership or a change of location? Answer: Not later than 10 business days before. Source: Utah Code § 58-17b-614. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 4, Pharmacy Operations.
  • How long must a Utah pharmacy keep a copy of a notification it made to the division under the notification section? Answer: Two years. Source: Utah Code § 58-17b-614. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 4, Pharmacy Operations.
  • How long must a Utah pharmacy keep its controlled substance inventory records? Answer: Five years. Source: Utah Admin. Code R156-17b-605. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 4, Pharmacy Operations.
  • In a Utah inventory, Schedule III, IV and V drugs may be estimated. When is an exact count of a container still required? Answer: When it holds more than 1,000 tablets or capsules. Source: Utah Admin. Code R156-17b-605. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 4, Pharmacy Operations.
  • Two pharmacies operate at the same Utah address. How many pharmacy licenses are required? Answer: A separate license for each pharmacy. Source: Utah Code § 58-17b-302. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 4, Pharmacy Operations.
  • Under Utah's telepharmacy supervision exception, how many pharmacies may one supervising pharmacist supervise at the same time? Answer: No more than two. Source: Utah Code § 58-17b-612. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 4, Pharmacy Operations.
  • Utah's annual controlled substances inventory may be taken within how many days of the specified inventory date? Answer: Four days. Source: Utah Admin. Code R156-17b-605. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 4, Pharmacy Operations.
  • What must the identification worn by Utah pharmacy staff who deal with the public show? Answer: The individual's name and position. Source: Utah Code § 58-17b-603. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 4, Pharmacy Operations.
  • When a Utah statute or rule requires action by a pharmacy, who is responsible for all activities of the pharmacy? Answer: The pharmacist-in-charge and the owner. Source: Utah Code § 58-17b-302. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 4, Pharmacy Operations.
  • Which inventory must a Utah pharmacy keep on a perpetual basis? Answer: Schedule II controlled substances. Source: Utah Admin. Code R156-17b-605. Outline: NABP MPJE Competency Statements, Area 4, Pharmacy Operations.

How this list was compiled: Our own questions, written to the four areas of the MPJE Competency Statements that the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy publishes at https://nabp.pharmacy/programs/examinations/mpje/competency-statements/ (opened 2026-10-14): Area 1 Licensure/Personnel 22%, Area 2 Pharmacist Practice 33%, Area 3 Dispensing Requirements 24%, Area 4 Pharmacy Operations 21%. The 60 questions are 13, 20, 14 and 13. Every fact was read on 2026-10-14 in the two texts the Utah Division of Professional Licensing links from its pharmacy Laws and Rules page (https://commerce.utah.gov/dopl/pharmacy/laws-and-rules/): the Pharmacy Practice Act, Utah Code Title 58, Chapter 17b, on the Legislature's site (https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title58/Chapter17B/58-17b.html, with the amendments of the 2026 General Session), and the Pharmacy Practice Act Rule, Utah Administrative Code R156-17b, effective August 8, 2025 (https://adminrules.utah.gov/public/rule/R156-17b/Current%20Rules). Each question names its section. Licence: Questions, choices and explanations are original work of this site, written from the public text of the Utah statute and rule. Nothing is taken from the MPJE, the Pre-MPJE, NABP's sample items, a prep company or a review book.

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This free, unofficial Utah MPJE study guide is a practice test: 60 of our own pharmacy law questions. The National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) owns the exam; this page is not affiliated with it or any Utah agency.

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A Utah pharmacy law study guide in question form

Every question was written from two public texts read October 14, 2026: the Pharmacy Practice Act, Utah Code Title 58, Chapter 17b, on the Legislature's site, and the Pharmacy Practice Act Rule, R156-17b, effective August 8, 2025. The Division of Professional Licensing links both from its pharmacy page. The four areas, and how many questions each gets, follow the MPJE Competency Statements on NABP's site.

Utah law only

NABP's list of Uniform MPJE jurisdictions, read October 14, 2026, does not include Utah, and the rule still names the Utah MPJE. No question here comes from the Utah Controlled Substances Act. Federal law is practiced on the federal pharmacy law page. This is practice for an exam and not medical advice.

  • A prescription may not be dispensed after one year from the date it was initiated, or refilled after two years (58-17b-609).
  • Emergency refill: never a controlled substance; with the prescription on file, the lesser of a 30-day supply or the last quantity (58-17b-608).
  • Numbers in the rule: 1,740 intern hours, 30 CE hours each two years, inventory records five years, a surrender notice within ten days of closing.

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Is this Utah MPJE study guide free?

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How many questions are on the Utah MPJE?

The real exam has 120 questions and lasts 2.5 hours, on a computer that adapts to your answers, according to NABP's test day page. The timed run on this page is 60 questions in 75 minutes: half the length, the same pace.

What is the passing score for the Utah MPJE?

Rule R156-17b-303c asks for the Utah MPJE with a passing score established by NABP, within five years of graduation. Because NABP reports only pass or fail, your result here is a percent with no verdict.

How many times can you take the Utah MPJE?

NABP allows five attempts per jurisdiction. Under R156-17b-303c, an applicant who has failed a required examination three times meets with the Board to request up to two more attempts.

Are these real Utah MPJE questions?

No. Every one of the 60 was written for this site from the Utah statute and rule as published. The MPJE, the Pre-MPJE and NABP's sample items were not used, and no Utah agency has looked at them.

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