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SIE Practice Exam Study Questions and
Answers 2025
A broker-dealer is permitted to accept payment for a new issue from a new customer
when the: -Correct Answer ✔registration is effective
Which of the following actions is required when a firm receives cash in excess of
$10,000 from one customer in one business day? -Correct Answer ✔File a Currency
Transaction Report (CTR)
A transaction in which a writer covers a position by purchasing on option is called? -
Correct Answer ✔a closing purchase
A customer has a cash balance in her account together with long positions in several
securities. She has made no securities transactions in the account during the past 18
months. How often must the firm send her an account statement? -Correct Answer
✔Quarterly
To offer its shareholders a privilege to obtain its shares at a fixed price, which of the
following products does a corporation issue? -Correct Answer ✔Rights
Which of the following responses describes an advantage of index funds? -Correct
Answer ✔Lower management fees due to passive management of the fund
Blue-sky laws are regulated by which of the following entities? -Correct Answer ✔State
securities regulators
Company ABC announces a 20% stock dividend for its common shareholders. If a
customer holds 1,000 shares at $50.00, what is the new price and number of shares
following the payment of the stock dividend? -Correct Answer ✔1,200 shares at $41.67
An associated person who is not a registered representative is permitted to engage in
which of the following activities? -Correct Answer ✔Provide account opening forms to a
new customer
Which of the following security types provides investors with a stated maturity date, a
floating interest rate, and an option to put the security back to a financial intermediary
on a daily weekly basis? -Correct Answer ✔Variable rate demand note
The primary purpose of a syndicate desk in the context of an equity offering is to: -
Correct Answer ✔Build an order book and allocate the stock
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At the time of issuance, which of the following securities normally has the longest period
to expiration? -Correct Answer ✔Warrants
All of the following risks apply to both foreign and domestic debt instruments except: -
Correct Answer ✔Exchange
A savings account at a bank is guaranteed by which of the following entities? -Correct
Answer ✔FDIC
Which of the following stakeholders has first claim priority in a Chapter 11 proceeding? -
Correct Answer ✔Secured debt holders
Broker-dealer ABC seeks to underwrite a municipal securities offering by a local town in
which the mayor is currently seeking re-election. A municipal finance professor who
resides in the town and works for ABC contributed $200 to the mayor's re-election
campaign 13 months ago. If the employee wants to support the campaign further
without impacting the municipal securities business of the firm., he is permitted to make
an additional contribution of up to what amount? -Correct Answer ✔$50
Upon expiration, all in-the-money S&P 100 index call options are settled by the delivery
of which of the following? -Correct Answer ✔Cash
Which of the following statements is true about treasury stock? -Correct Answer ✔It is
issued stock that has been subsequently required by the corporation.
What is the cost basis of an inherited mutual fund? -Correct Answer ✔The net asset
value (NAV) of the shares when the owner dies
At issue, which of the following debt securities mature in one year or less? -Correct
Answer ✔Money market instruments
Which of the following investment risks is the greatest risk in a variable life insurance
policy? -Correct Answer ✔Market risk
Under normal circumstances, a customer's letter of intent on a mutual fund purchase is
valid for what maximum period of time? -Correct Answer ✔13 months
Under SEC Regulation S-P (Consumer Privacy). which of the following information must
a firm include in its customer privacy and opt-out notices? -Correct Answer ✔The
policies to protect the security of nonpublic information
In the over-the-counter market, the term "spread" refers to the difference between the: -
Correct Answer ✔Bid and asked prices
SIE Exam
SIE Practice Exam Study Questions and
Answers 2025
A broker-dealer is permitted to accept payment for a new issue from a new customer
when the: -Correct Answer ✔registration is effective
Which of the following actions is required when a firm receives cash in excess of
$10,000 from one customer in one business day? -Correct Answer ✔File a Currency
Transaction Report (CTR)
A transaction in which a writer covers a position by purchasing on option is called? -
Correct Answer ✔a closing purchase
A customer has a cash balance in her account together with long positions in several
securities. She has made no securities transactions in the account during the past 18
months. How often must the firm send her an account statement? -Correct Answer
✔Quarterly
To offer its shareholders a privilege to obtain its shares at a fixed price, which of the
following products does a corporation issue? -Correct Answer ✔Rights
Which of the following responses describes an advantage of index funds? -Correct
Answer ✔Lower management fees due to passive management of the fund
Blue-sky laws are regulated by which of the following entities? -Correct Answer ✔State
securities regulators
Company ABC announces a 20% stock dividend for its common shareholders. If a
customer holds 1,000 shares at $50.00, what is the new price and number of shares
following the payment of the stock dividend? -Correct Answer ✔1,200 shares at $41.67
An associated person who is not a registered representative is permitted to engage in
which of the following activities? -Correct Answer ✔Provide account opening forms to a
new customer
Which of the following security types provides investors with a stated maturity date, a
floating interest rate, and an option to put the security back to a financial intermediary
on a daily weekly basis? -Correct Answer ✔Variable rate demand note
The primary purpose of a syndicate desk in the context of an equity offering is to: -
Correct Answer ✔Build an order book and allocate the stock
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At the time of issuance, which of the following securities normally has the longest period
to expiration? -Correct Answer ✔Warrants
All of the following risks apply to both foreign and domestic debt instruments except: -
Correct Answer ✔Exchange
A savings account at a bank is guaranteed by which of the following entities? -Correct
Answer ✔FDIC
Which of the following stakeholders has first claim priority in a Chapter 11 proceeding? -
Correct Answer ✔Secured debt holders
Broker-dealer ABC seeks to underwrite a municipal securities offering by a local town in
which the mayor is currently seeking re-election. A municipal finance professor who
resides in the town and works for ABC contributed $200 to the mayor's re-election
campaign 13 months ago. If the employee wants to support the campaign further
without impacting the municipal securities business of the firm., he is permitted to make
an additional contribution of up to what amount? -Correct Answer ✔$50
Upon expiration, all in-the-money S&P 100 index call options are settled by the delivery
of which of the following? -Correct Answer ✔Cash
Which of the following statements is true about treasury stock? -Correct Answer ✔It is
issued stock that has been subsequently required by the corporation.
What is the cost basis of an inherited mutual fund? -Correct Answer ✔The net asset
value (NAV) of the shares when the owner dies
At issue, which of the following debt securities mature in one year or less? -Correct
Answer ✔Money market instruments
Which of the following investment risks is the greatest risk in a variable life insurance
policy? -Correct Answer ✔Market risk
Under normal circumstances, a customer's letter of intent on a mutual fund purchase is
valid for what maximum period of time? -Correct Answer ✔13 months
Under SEC Regulation S-P (Consumer Privacy). which of the following information must
a firm include in its customer privacy and opt-out notices? -Correct Answer ✔The
policies to protect the security of nonpublic information
In the over-the-counter market, the term "spread" refers to the difference between the: -
Correct Answer ✔Bid and asked prices
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