California's Best Notary Practice Exam

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  • Current Practice Exam
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  • CA Notary Fines Cheat Sheet


Disclaimer: This package contains supplemental study materials only and does not fulfill the educational requirements mandated by the Secretary of State.

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The full Practice exam pulls from a pool of hundreds of questions and randomizes them with the exact number of questions on each category the real state exam uses. Creating a challenging Notary exam that can be taken over and over agian.

California Notary Practice Exam Sample

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Jim is a paralegal and works at the law offices of Smith and Smith. His employer asks him to become a Notary public and pays for his education, supplies and filing fees. Jim agrees and becomes a commissioned Notary Public. His employer has him sign an agreement that says he will not charge any fees to the law office for Notarial services and will remit any fees from clients to the law office. Jim's sister asks him to come over to acknowledge an Interspousal Transfer Deed she signed.

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A person may sign with a “mark” in place of a signature if that’s the only way they can sign. To correctly execute such a notarization, the following must be true:

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The 3 types of satisfactory evidence are:

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If by review of your journal it is discovered that you failed to obtain a thumbprint from the signer for a deed of trust, what would the financial penalty be?

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A California Notary Public who is also a bonded immigration consultant may Notarize an immigration document that they helped complete?