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Housekeeping Test: Room Cleaning and Hotel Standards

Who it is for
Room attendants, housekeeping trainees and floor supervisors
When to run
After training, when hiring an experienced room attendant, and every six months
Size
18 questions · ~14 min
Pass mark
80%
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Guests judge a hotel by its rooms: is the cup clean, is there hair in the shower, are their belongings where they left them, and was the door locked while they were at breakfast. This test covers what a room attendant must get right in every room: cleaning order, separate equipment for the bathroom and for glassware, handling guest belongings, lost and found, safety and signs of pests.

The questions are not tied to a specific hotel and suit hotels, aparthotels and hostels. Two questions are marked as critical — about glassware in the room and about a stranger asking to be let into a room: a mistake there puts guest health and safety at risk. Add questions on your own standards: color coding, room amenities and cleaning time targets.

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Cleaning Order and Hygiene

  1. 1
    Put the steps for cleaning the living area of a room after check-out in the correct order. Put in the right order
    Answer: c → e → a → d → b. Linen is stripped first: the dust and lint raised when changing linen have time to settle before you wipe the surfaces. The floor is cleaned last — everything wiped off from above falls onto it. Whether the bathroom is cleaned and the bed made before or after dusting is set by the hotel standard, so those steps are not included here.
  2. 2
    In which direction should you dust a room? Choose one answer
    Answer: a. Dust and crumbs fall down as you clean. If you start at the bottom, the upper shelves will dirty surfaces you have already cleaned and you'll have to redo the work. That's why you dust from top to bottom and do the floor at the very end.
  3. 3
    There are glasses and cups in the room that the guest has used. What should you do with them? Choose one answer Critical question
    Answer: d. Glassware in the room touches the next guest's lips. Washing it in the bathroom sink and drying it with towels or cloths used to clean the room is unacceptable: this is how intestinal infections spread. Used glassware is replaced with clean items or washed per the hotel standard with a separate sponge and cloth that never touch the bathroom.
  4. 4
    A cloth used to clean the toilet can be used on the sink and mirror if you rinse it well. True or false?
    Answer: False. Rinsing does not remove germs from a cloth. Different cloths are used for the toilet, sink, mirrors and furniture — they usually differ by color. Which color is for what is set by the hotel standard, and you need to know it by heart.
  5. 5
    Stripped linen can be put on the floor or an armchair for a moment while you make the bed. True or false?
    Answer: False. Dirty linen goes straight into the bag on the cart. It leaves hair and soil on the floor and furniture, and fresh linen placed next to it is easy to mix up and contaminate.
  6. 6
    Which rules for handling cleaning chemicals are correct? Select all correct answers. Choose all correct answers
    Answer: a, d, e. Mixing chlorine-based products with acidic ones releases toxic gas. A product in a water bottle may be drunk by a guest or colleague — one of the most common causes of poisoning. Concentration is strictly per the instructions: a stronger solution doesn't clean better, but it damages surfaces and harms skin and airways. Gloves protect your hands during daily work with chemicals.

The Room and Guest Belongings

  1. 7
    A "Do Not Disturb" sign is hanging on the room door. What should you do? Choose one answer
    Answer: d. The sign is always respected: you may not enter, even if the room is on your cleaning plan. But if it stays up for a very long time, the guest may be unwell, so such rooms are reported to the supervisor — after that, the hotel's procedure applies.
  2. 8
    In an occupied room there are newspapers, notes and a half-finished bottle of water on the desk. What can you throw away? Choose one answer
    Answer: b. A note may be important, a newspaper may be needed, and the guest was going to finish the water. Only bin contents and items obviously left as trash are thrown away. Guest belongings are not moved into wardrobes or drawers, and bags, documents and papers are never opened or read.
  3. 9
    What needs to be checked when cleaning a room after check-out? Select all correct answers. Choose all correct answers
    Answer: a, b, d. The room attendant is the first to see the room after the guest leaves. If the minibar and damage aren't recorded in time, the hotel can't charge for them, and items left in the safe or under the bed will be found by the next guest.
  4. 10
    You need to step out of the room for a couple of minutes to fetch linen from another floor. What should you do with the room? Choose one answer
    Answer: b. During cleaning the door is open and you are inside the room. As soon as you leave, the room must be locked: an unattended open door is a direct path to theft of guest belongings, for which the hotel is liable.
  5. 11
    While you are cleaning, a person walks into the room and says they are staying here but forgot their key. What should you do? Choose one answer Critical question
    Answer: c. A room attendant cannot verify a guest's identity — the front desk does that using ID and registration data. A stranger can easily find out a room number and surname, and by letting them in you give access to someone else's belongings and documents.
  6. 12
    The master key can be left on the cart so you don't lose it in the room. True or false?
    Answer: False. The cart stands in the corridor, and anyone can take a key from it. The master key opens every room on the floor, so it is always kept on your person, and a loss is reported to the supervisor immediately so the key can be deactivated.

Lost Items, Safety and Confidentiality

  1. 13
    After a guest checks out, you find a phone charger in the room. What should you do? Choose one answer
    Answer: b. Every found item, even an inexpensive one, is logged: guests often call from home or from their next hotel. A record of where and when the item was found protects both the guest and the room attendant from suspicion.
  2. 14
    You notice small dark spots on the mattress and in the bed joints — they look like signs of bed bugs. What should you do? Choose one answer
    Answer: d. Bed bugs easily travel to neighboring rooms on the cart, in linen and on equipment. The room is taken out of sale until a pest control specialist inspects it, and linen and items are removed only when bagged — following the hotel's procedure.
  3. 15
    There's a broken glass under the bed. How should you clean up the shards? Choose one answer
    Answer: b. Shards are collected with a brush and dustpan, small ones with a damp cloth. They are disposed of in a box or heavy-duty bag so whoever takes out the trash doesn't get cut. Large shards break a vacuum cleaner, and a room towel is hotel property that may be sent to the laundry with the glass still in it.
  4. 16
    An item that looks like a weapon or illegal drugs is lying in plain sight in the room. What should you do? Choose one answer
    Answer: a. Security must decide what the item is and what to do with it, following hotel rules. It must not be touched or moved, and a photo in a group chat violates the guest's privacy and may harm an investigation.
  5. 17
    You may tell friends which famous people are staying at the hotel and what you saw in their room, as long as you don't name the room number. True or false?
    Answer: False. Everything a room attendant sees in a room is the guest's private life. Stories about guests, photos and social media posts violate confidentiality and hotel rules, and sometimes data protection law.
  6. 18
    The room is clean. What should you do before marking it as ready? Choose one answer
    Answer: a. A final inspection takes a minute and catches what guests complain about: a burnt-out bulb, missing towels, hair on the shower floor. The supervisor spot-checks rooms, but the room attendant is responsible for the room being ready.
Your result

· Pass mark is 80%. Correct answers and explanations are shown below. A mistake in a critical question fails the test regardless of the score.

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Answer key · Housekeeping Test: Room Cleaning and Hotel Standards

  1. c → e → a → d → b
  2. a
  3. d
  4. False
  5. False
  6. a, d, e
  7. d
  8. b
  9. a, b, d
  10. b
  11. c
  12. False
  13. b
  14. d
  15. b
  16. a
  17. False
  18. a

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Frequently asked questions

The test has 18 questions and takes about 14 minutes. The pass mark is 80%; a mistake in either of the two critical questions means the test is failed.

Yes, and it's worth doing: add questions on equipment color coding, room amenities, the minibar and cleaning time targets. In jeCheck you can edit the test and assign it to room attendants at all your properties.

New staff — after training, before working independently. Everyone else — every six months, and also after guest complaints or issues found during room inspections.

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