DHA Exam Question Bank: Practice Questions for Doctors, Nurses & Pharmacists
What a real DHA (Dubai Health Authority) exam question bank should cover for doctors, nurses and pharmacists — with sample MCQs and how to actually prepare.
DHA licensure exams are run through Prometric on behalf of the Dubai Health Authority, and the question style, subjects and pass mark differ by profession — a Doctor's exam, a Nurse's exam and a Pharmacist's exam are not the same test with different labels. Below is a sample across the three largest applicant groups, in the single-best-answer format Prometric uses.
For Doctors (General Practice)
1. The first-line initial management step for a patient in anaphylactic shock is administration of:
- A) Oral antihistamine
- B) Intramuscular epinephrine ✅
- C) Intravenous fluids alone
- D) Oral corticosteroid
2. Which vital sign parameter is used to calculate the Glasgow Coma Scale?
- A) Blood pressure
- B) Respiratory rate
- C) Eye, verbal and motor response ✅
- D) Oxygen saturation
For Nurses
3. Before administering any medication, a nurse must confirm which of the "rights" of medication administration?
- A) Right patient, right drug, right dose, right route, right time ✅
- B) Right diagnosis only
- C) Right physician's signature only
- D) Right insurance approval
4. The normal adult respiratory rate range is:
- A) 4–8 breaths/min
- B) 12–20 breaths/min ✅
- C) 30–40 breaths/min
- D) 60–80 breaths/min
For Pharmacists
5. Which class of drug interaction occurs when two drugs compete for the same metabolic enzyme?
- A) Pharmaceutical interaction
- B) Pharmacokinetic interaction ✅
- C) Pharmacodynamic interaction
- D) Physical incompatibility
6. Warfarin's anticoagulant effect is most commonly monitored using which lab test?
- A) aPTT
- B) INR (based on PT) ✅
- C) Bleeding time
- D) Platelet count
Why "Past Papers" Alone Don't Prepare You for a Prometric Exam
Prometric-format licensure exams like DHA's draw from a large rotating item bank, not a fixed annual paper — which is exactly why a static "past papers PDF" (even a real one) has limited value here compared to, say, a university's own annually-set exam. What actually transfers is familiarity with the format and reasoning style across a large volume of explained, profession-specific questions — not memorising a specific year's paper.
If You're Looking for a Downloadable PDF
Worth being upfront about: HighYield doesn't sell a static PDF download. What it gives you instead is a growing, explained question bank for your specific profession — timed practice, an explanation for every answer, and progress tracking by topic, which a flat PDF answer key can't do. See our MCQ books vs a digital QBank comparison for the fuller case either way.
Try the first 20 questions of the DHA question bank free, no sign-in required, from the DHA question bank page. For registration, dates and fees, see our DHA exam registration guide.