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STATE OF NEVADA NOTARY EXAM | QUESTION
& ANSWERS (VERIFIED) | LATEST UPDATE |
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If a complaint is filed against a Notary, the Notary must respond within: Correct Answer: 10 days. Your Notary bond: Correct Answer: Protects others in the event you make a mistake. You may charge for acknowledgments: Correct Answer: $5 for one document with one signer. If a document signer is 65 years old or older, doesn't have an acceptable ID card and cannot produce a credible witness whom you personally know: Correct Answer: You may identify that signer using an ID card issued by a senior- citizen center. For traveling to perform a notarization, you may change: Correct Answer: $10 per hour for travel between 6 a.m. and 7 p.m., with a two-hour minimum.
Correct Answer: Whenever you notarize someone's signature and whenever you certify a copy of a document. as a commissioned Notary, you may perform notarial acts Correct Answer: Anywhere in the state of Nevada. If your employer paid for your commission, journal and Notary stamp and you leave that place of employment, you must take your: Correct Answer: Commission certificate, journal and stamp with you. The venue on the notarial wording always appears: Correct Answer: In the upper left-hand corner. You are asked to drive to a signer's home and arrive at 7:30 pm. You leave home at 6 pm and arrive right on time. For this first leg of your trip, you may charge a travel fee of: Correct Answer: $ If a Notary-employee makes a mistake while notarizing for an employer, for any damages that result: Correct Answer: Both the Notary and the employer may be liable. Jenny Walkers tells you she needs a certified copy of a handwritten personal letter. In order for you to do so:
Correct Answer: You must add or attach notarial wording for a certified copy. If a document signer is 65 years old or older, doesn't have an acceptable ID card and cannot produce a credible witness whom you personally know: Correct Answer: You may identify that signer using an ID card issued by a government agency. When you identify a signer using an ID card, the card must contain at least: Correct Answer: The signer's photo and signature. If you use a credible witness to identify a document signer: Correct Answer: You must personally know the credible witness, the credible witness must personally know the signer, and the credible witness and the signer must be present for the notarization. If the words "subscribing witness" appears in the notarial wording on the document, you need to perform: Correct Answer: A subscribing-witness jurat. The notarial wording has information preprinted in it that is incorrect: Correct Answer: You must line through the error, write in the correct information, and initial the change.
If preprinted notarial wording names two signers but only one is present before you: Correct Answer: You must line through the absent signer's name and initial the change. If the notarial wording is missing a required element: Correct Answer: You must add the missing element. You may notarize the signature of a subscribing witness only if: Correct Answer: The subscribing witness saw the principal signer sign the document. The subscribing witness personally appears before you, the original notarial act on the document was an acknowledgment. Every journal entry you make must include: Correct Answer: The type of notarial act you performed. If a Notary is found guilty of official misconduct: Correct Answer: The Secretary of State may suspend or revoke the Notary's appointment. You may change an additional fee for travel if: Correct Answer: The request for travel comes from the person requesting the notarization, you tell the person requesting the notarization that a travel fee is not
required by law, and the person requesting the notarization agrees in advance to your hourly rate. You must keep your Notary supplies in: Correct Answer: Your sole control at all times. You always should note it in your journal if: Correct Answer: You refused to perform the notarization, you administered an oath or affirmation as part of the notarial act, and you edited out of the notarial wording the name(s) of any absent signer(s). If the words, "true and correct copy" appear in the notarial wording on the document, you need to perform: Correct Answer: A copy certification. When you perform a standard jurat: Correct Answer: The signer must sign the document in your presence, the signer must swear of affirm that the contents of the document are true, and you must identify the signer. Ways to protect yourself from liability include: Correct Answer: Knowing Nevada's Notary laws, keeping a detailed and accurate journal, and following consistent procedures.
If you use a credible witness to identify a document signer, the witness must: Correct Answer: Personally know the signer. If you perform an acknowledgment for a vice president who is signing on behalf of her corporation, you must complete notarial wording: Correct Answer: For someone signing in a representative capacity. If you must attach notarial wording on a separate piece of paper, you must: Correct Answer: Staple the notarial wording to the document, write a description of the document on the notarial wording, and note on the document that the notarial wording is attached. The venue on the notarial wording is the state and county: Correct Answer: Where the notarization is being performed. T or F: A notarization legalizes a document. Correct Answer: False. T or F: A Notary Public is an official of integrity. Correct Answer: True
T or F: You may identify someone based on personal knowledge, a credible witness, and an approved government issued ID. Correct Answer: True T or F: You may accept a Nevada Driver Authorization Card to verify a document signer's identity. Correct Answer: False T or F: For someone 55 years or older, you may accept an expired ID card or ID issued by a senior citizen center or other government agency. Correct Answer: False T or F: If someone brings you a form that requires a notarization, but that form is missing some information, you can go ahead and write in the information that is missing for the customer. Correct Answer: False T or F: After reviewing a document someone brings to you for notarization, the very next thing you should do is sign and stamp the document. Correct Answer: False T or F: If the document brought to you for notarization is missing some notarial wording, the customer will write it on the document for you.
Correct Answer: False. T or F: The notarial language/wording always appears above the document signers signature on a document. Correct Answer: False T or F: Your journal must be spiral bound and have pre-printed page numbers. Correct Answer: False T or F: If you keep your notary journal and stamp at your work desk, you must keep them in a locked drawer where other employees would not have access to them. Correct Answer: True T or F: If your employer pays for your notary supplies and you should leave employment with them at some point, your employer would keep all the notary supplies you were using because they paid for them. Correct Answer: False. T or F: You must keep your notary journal for the entire time you are an active notary and for seven (7) years after you cease to be a commissioned notary. Correct Answer: True. T or F: It is not necessary that you record every notarization you perform.
Correct Answer: False T or F: In an acknowledgment, the notary is acknowledging that the signer of the document was in the notary's presence, that the notary lawfully ID'd the signer, and that the signer verbally acknowledged that they were willing and able to execute the contents of the document. Correct Answer: True T or F: Nevada recognizes three different types of acknowledments. Correct Answer: False T or F: You can tell you are dealing with an acknowledgment if you see the words, "Acknowledged before me.." in the notarial wording on the document. Correct Answer: True T or F: "Blocking" in the document signer's signature on the byline in the notarial wording helps to prevent another person from adding their name on the byline after the notarization has been done. Correct Answer: True T or F: If someone brings you a document and claims to have the ability to sign the document because they hold a Power of Attorney, you can take their word for it and perform the notarization.
T or F: If someone wants a certified copy of their Marriage Certificate, a notary can provide one for them. Correct Answer: False T or F: During a copy certification of a college diploma, the notary would put the notarial wording directly on the original diploma. Correct Answer: False T or F: The notary does not need to sign and stamp a copy certification. Correct Answer: False T or F: A Credible Witness is someone personally known by both the notary and the document signer. Correct Answer: True T or F: The notary must ID the credible witness by using a government issued ID. Correct Answer: False T or F: When using a credible witness, the notary will need to have the signature of the document signer and the credible witness in their notary journal for that one entry. Correct Answer: True
T or F: The notary does not need to give the credible witness an oath when performing the notarization using a credible witness. Correct Answer: False. T or F: On the Acknowledgment of Credible Witness, there will be two bylines, one for the document signer and one for the credible witness. Correct Answer: True T or F: If you are brought a document with no notarial wording present, you can tell the customer what type of wording you think they need. Correct Answer: False T or F: If someone brings you a document with multiple document signers, but only one of them is present, you cannot notarize the document until all of them are present at once. Correct Answer: False T or F: If a document has multiple document signers, each document signer can take the document to be notarized by a different notary. Correct Answer: True
T or F: You may charge whatever you feel is fair for a notarization. Correct Answer: False T or F: For an acknowledgment, you may charge $5 for the first signature on one document. Correct Answer: True T or F: Jurats are always $2. Correct Answer: False, $ T or F: You must charge for each notarization you perform. Correct Answer: False T or F: You are not required to charge a travel fee if you travel for a notarization. Correct Answer: True T or F: You can surprise your customer with the travel fee once you arrive at their location. Correct Answer: False T or F: There is a two hour minimum for traveling to a customer, but not for returning. Correct Answer: True
T or F: If you travel for a notarization, you must record your times of travel in the notes column of your notary journal in order to explain the fee you charged. Correct Answer: True T or F: Correct Answer: T or F: You can't notarize for blood relatives, but you can for those only related to you by marriage. Correct Answer: False T or F: It's a good idea to make a habit of notarizing for friends. Correct Answer: False. T or F: You may notarize a document that you are named in. Correct Answer: False T or F: You may notarize a document that your spouse in named in. Correct Answer: False T or F: Your surety bond protects you in the case a third party is harmed by a notarization you perform. Correct Answer: False
