Online Practice Exam Questions - Notaries Unlimited

1 NOTARY PUBLIC Practice EXAM Questions . Studying these Questions will prepare you to pass the California Notary Exam. Learn the answers to each question and the reasoning behind the question . Answer the Questions without looking at any notes and then review. Do this Practice exam over until you are getting at least 90% correct. Then you will have no trouble with the 30. question state exam. 1. What is one requirement for 6. The agency of the State that will becoming a California Notary give you the new certificate is the: Public? a. Corporation Commissioner a. Be under 18 years of age b. Bureau of Notary Publics b. Have a criminal record c. Secretary of State c. Not pass an exam d. Department of Real Estate d. Be a legal resident of California 7. Using the words notario publico: 2. Your jurisdiction will be: a. Is encouraged a. The entire state of California b. Is legal in California b. The county in which you live c. Is prohibited c.

2 The city in which you work d. Indicates lingual ability d. The entire United States 8. If a notary willingly and knowingly 3. A possible penalty for committing notarizes a real estate document perjury is: that they know to be fraudulent, they are guilty of a: a. 2 years in prison b. 3 years in prison a Misdemeanor c. 4 years in prison b. Lis pendes d. Any of the above c. Carpe diem d. Felony 4. You have how many days to take your oath of office after your 9. Death Certificates: commencement date: a. Must be notarized a. 6 months b. Are not notarized b. 10 days c. Are filed with the IRS. c. 30 days d. All of the above d. None of the above 10. A subscribing witness can bring you a: 5. If you request a new Certificate of Authorization, the State of a. Quit Claim Deed California must respond within: b. Grant Deed c. Mortgage a. One month d. Homestead Declaration b. 5 days c. One year d. 30 days Edition 6 1. 11. The penalty for stating a known 17.

3 The fine for overcharging for a non- false fact as true is now immigration form is: a. $750 a. Up to $10. b. $1,500 b. Up to $1,000. c. $10,000 c. Up to $75,000. d. $75,000 d. Up to $750. 12. Two credible witnesses 18. The fine for failing to notify the State that your stamp or journal was lost is: a. Are not allowed b. Must be over 21 a. Up to $10. c. Must be fingerprinted b. Up to $1,000. d. None of the above c. Up to $1,500. d. Up to $750. 13. When do you officially become a notary? 19. Willful failure to provide a peace officer with a journal when requested is a. When you pass the exam punishable by a civil penalty of up to: b. When the Secretary of State sends your commission a. $750. c. When you do your first b. $1,500. certificate c. $500. d. When your oath and bond are d. $2,500. filed 20. What is the fine for failing to post signs in English and in the other 14. The notary stamp may be: language that you use that you are not an attorney and cannot give a.

4 Triangle legal advice: b. Rectangular c. Only a circle a. Up to $750 fine d. None of the above b. Up to $1,500 fine and at least one year suspension of 15. The size of the stamp could be: commission and on second time revocation of a. A 6-foot diameter commission for life b. 1 inch in width by 2 inches in c. Two four years in prison length d. $75,000 fine c. 2 inches by 6 inches d. One foot square 21. When a regulation states 30 days it means: 16. If you are one of the following concerning a document, you must a. Calendar days not notarize it: b. Business days c. a&b a. Agent d. none of the above b. Employer c. Lawyer d. Trustor or Trustee Edition 6 2. 22. Your commission is dated 9/1/05 28. If you move, you must contact the and you get your oath filed on proper authority within: 9/25/05. Your commission will expire: a. 1 day b. 10 days a. Immediately you were too late c. 30 days b. 8/31/09 d. 6 months c. 9/24/05. d. 9/1/15 29. If you give up your journal to a proper authority, you must notify 23.

5 The fee for notarizing a circulator's the Secretary of State within: affidavit is: a. 1 day a. $0 b. 10 days b. $ c. 30 days c. $ d. 1 month d. Negotiable 30. A commission is valid for _____. 24. A notary can certify a copy of a years: power of attorney according to the: a. 1 year a. Civil Code b. 2 years b. Probate Code c. 4 years c. Bus. & Prof. Code d. 12 years d. Notary Public Code 31. Your 4-year notary bond is worth: 25. You may turn your journal over to: a. $15,000. a. Your Employer b. $750. b. No one c. $75,000. c. A Peace Officer with probable d. $1,500. cause d. An Auditor 32. The statute of limitations for making a statement known to be 26. During the signature by mark false is: process, how many people write the name of the X signer: a. One year b. Two years a. At least three c. Three years b. Two d. Four years c. One d. None 33. To be acceptable, ID's must be current or issued within the past: 27. If you move, you must contact the: a.

6 1 year a. Secretary of State b. 2 years b. Your employer c. 5 years c. County Clerk d. 10 years d. Department of Notary Public Edition 6 3. 34. What does not need to be on a 40. If you fail to file the oath and bond passport? on time: a. Picture of holder a. Your commission is void b. Holder's signature b. You must pay $20 to reapply c. Notary's signature c. You must complete a new d. Date of issue application d. All of the above 35. Notary certificates are signed by: 41. A notary seeking reappointment a. Notary must retake the notary exam: b. Secretary of State c. Client a. Any time after you have to pay d. Lender a fine b. Never 36. An ID needs the holder's: c. Every 4 years d. None of the above a. Picture b. Signature 42. The fine for willful failure to notify c. Physical Description the Secretary of State of an d. All of the above address or name change is: 37. When taking an oath: a. $500. b. $750. a. Signer must raise right hand c.

7 $1,500. b. Signer must pay extra fee d. $15,000. c. Signer must repeat oath d. Raising right hand is not 43. Notaries can withhold services: required a. When their employer limits 38. Notaries must: services to transactions related to the employer's business a. Keep a photocopy of every b. When a document is incomplete document notarized c. When they believe someone b. Keep their stamp and journal does not understand what they under their direct control are signing c. Refuse service to a homeless d. All of the above individual d. None of the above 44. Which is the true statement? 39. When you resign a commission, a. It is the notary's duty to draft you deliver all your papers to: power of attorney, mortgages and deeds when requested a. Secretary of State b. A notary does not have to b. County Clerk where your charge a fee current oath is on file c. Holographic wills must be c. Your employer notarized to be valid d. None of the above d.

8 Holographic wills are typewritten Edition 6 4. 45. A notary may: 50. A notary may not notarize: a. Notarize a document in a a. When they are the attorney who foreign language drafted the papers b. Not notarize documents that he b. When they are a real estate or she will sign as corporate agent who sold the property officers c. For a spouse c. Notarize relative's documents d. When they are a mortgagor in a d. All of the above transaction 46. Signers of the following documents 51. For a first-time applicant to get a must leave a right thumbprint: commission they: a. Homestead Declaration a. Must pass an exam b. Power of Attorney b. Be fingerprinted c. Trust Deed for real estate c. Be at least 18 years of age d. b&c d. All of the above 47. A notary is obligated to: 52. A certificate of authorization may be gotten: a. Reimburse a surety company for bond funds paid out a. From the governor's office b. Determine whether a signer has b. From the Department of Real authority to sign as a corporate Estate officer c.

9 From the Secretary of State c. Let their employer hold their d. None of the above seal if they paid for it d. Use the all-purpose certificate 53. Satisfactory evidence of identity for a jurat means relying on either: 48. An affirmation is: a. ID cards b. Credible identifying witnesses a. Jurat c. Business card photos b. Legal equivalent of an oath but d. a and b has no referral to a Supreme Being 54. A California Notary may: c. Never used d. All of the above a. Advertise they are immigration consultants 49. A non-attorney notary (qualified & b. Take depositions and affidavits bonded as an immigration c. Certify a copy of a foreign birth consultant) may charge up to $10 certificate for: d. Normally notarize a will a. Completing a person's 55. An oath is: immigration application b. Oaths and affirmation a. An affirmation c. Per signature on a Jurat b. Never used d. All of the above c. A solemn spoken pledge d. a and c Edition 6 5. 56.

10 A certified copy certifies that the 61. A man inherits a property in reproduction: Alabama with his sister and they must send an affidavit to the court. a. Is accurate He can have a friend notarize his b. Is never done signature and: c. Can be charged $30. d. None of the above a. He can notarize his sister's signature 57. Influencing a notary to perform b. He can notarize both signatures improperly is a: c. He can never notarize an Alabama document a. Moral Turpitude Felony d. He can't do either notarization b. Misdemeanor c. Felony 62. Notaries obtain their seals from d. Infraction the: 58. Notaries shall not perform notary a. Secretary of State actions if they are: b. County Clerk c. Approved vendors or a. An Attorney manufacturers b. An Employee d. Their employer c. Named as a principal in a financial transaction 63. When a subscribing witness brings d. An Agent a document the action is called: 59. Which of the following is signed in a.