PA WRITTEN PRACTICAL FUNERAL
DIRECTOR EXAM SCRIPT 2026
COMPREHENSIVE PROFESSIONAL
PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
100 PERCENT CORRECT
◉ 'Board'
Answer: The State Board of Funeral Directors of the Department of
State of the Commonwealth.
◉ Bureau
Answer: The Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs of the
Department of State of the Commonwealth.
◉ Commissioner
Answer: The Commissioner of Professional and Occupational Affairs
of the Department of State of the Commonwealth.
◉ Funeral Entity
,Answer: A restricted business corporation, professional corporation,
pre-1935 corporation, partnership, sole proprietorship, widow,
widower or estate authorized by the Board to practice the
profession of funeral director.
◉ Funeral establishment
Answer: A place or premise approved by the Board wherein a
licensed funeral director conducts the professional practice of
funeral directing, including the preparation, care and funeral
services for the human dead.
◉ Hour of continuing education
Answer: Sixty minutes of actual instruction in an approved course of
continuing education.
◉ Licensed funeral director
Answer: An individual who has met the educational requirements
and passed the examinations required by the act.
◉ Limited license
Answer: A license issued by the Board that authorizes a person
licensed to practice funeral directing in a reciprocal state to practice
funeral directing in this Commonwealth in accordance with section
9(c) of the act (63 P. S. § 479.9(c)).
,◉ Preceptor
Answer: A licensed funeral director under or with whom a resident
intern is registered and operates.
◉ Premises
Answer: The property on which the funeral establishment is located
which consists of a tract of land not intersected by a public highway
or thoroughfare.
◉ Prepaid burial account
Answer: An account in which moneys are deposited by the funeral
director during the lifetime of an individual in accordance with a
contract executed between the parties for funeral merchandise and
services to be performed and delivered at a future time.
◉ Prepaid burial contract
Answer: A contract executed between a consumer and a licensed
funeral director which provides that the funeral director will
provide funeral merchandise and render services to the consumer
upon the consumer's death or the death of another designated
individual and for which the consumer pays to the funeral director
moneys at the time of the contract or at a time prior to the rendition
of these services.
◉ Profession
, Answer: The aggregate of all funeral service licensees and their
duties and responsibilities in connection with the funeral as funeral
directors licensed under the act.
◉ Reciprocal state
Answer: The District of Columbia or a state or territory of the United
States of America whose agency that is authorized to license persons
to practice the profession of funeral director in that jurisdiction has
entered into an agreement with the Board under which persons
licensed in that jurisdiction may receive a limited license in this
Commonwealth.
◉ Restricted business corporation
Answer: business corporation formed under 15 Pa.C.S. (relating to
the Associations Code) and authorized under the act.
◉ What are the General Requirements for licensure?
Answer: (21 years of age or older, of good moral character and shall
present satisfactory evidence to the Board that the applicant has
satisfied the educational and training requirements of the act and
this chapter.pass a combined oral, practical and written examination.
A limited exception will be the granting of a restricted license to
estates, widow's or widower's of deceased funeral directors.
◉ What is the initial registration fee for student trainee?
DIRECTOR EXAM SCRIPT 2026
COMPREHENSIVE PROFESSIONAL
PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
100 PERCENT CORRECT
◉ 'Board'
Answer: The State Board of Funeral Directors of the Department of
State of the Commonwealth.
◉ Bureau
Answer: The Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs of the
Department of State of the Commonwealth.
◉ Commissioner
Answer: The Commissioner of Professional and Occupational Affairs
of the Department of State of the Commonwealth.
◉ Funeral Entity
,Answer: A restricted business corporation, professional corporation,
pre-1935 corporation, partnership, sole proprietorship, widow,
widower or estate authorized by the Board to practice the
profession of funeral director.
◉ Funeral establishment
Answer: A place or premise approved by the Board wherein a
licensed funeral director conducts the professional practice of
funeral directing, including the preparation, care and funeral
services for the human dead.
◉ Hour of continuing education
Answer: Sixty minutes of actual instruction in an approved course of
continuing education.
◉ Licensed funeral director
Answer: An individual who has met the educational requirements
and passed the examinations required by the act.
◉ Limited license
Answer: A license issued by the Board that authorizes a person
licensed to practice funeral directing in a reciprocal state to practice
funeral directing in this Commonwealth in accordance with section
9(c) of the act (63 P. S. § 479.9(c)).
,◉ Preceptor
Answer: A licensed funeral director under or with whom a resident
intern is registered and operates.
◉ Premises
Answer: The property on which the funeral establishment is located
which consists of a tract of land not intersected by a public highway
or thoroughfare.
◉ Prepaid burial account
Answer: An account in which moneys are deposited by the funeral
director during the lifetime of an individual in accordance with a
contract executed between the parties for funeral merchandise and
services to be performed and delivered at a future time.
◉ Prepaid burial contract
Answer: A contract executed between a consumer and a licensed
funeral director which provides that the funeral director will
provide funeral merchandise and render services to the consumer
upon the consumer's death or the death of another designated
individual and for which the consumer pays to the funeral director
moneys at the time of the contract or at a time prior to the rendition
of these services.
◉ Profession
, Answer: The aggregate of all funeral service licensees and their
duties and responsibilities in connection with the funeral as funeral
directors licensed under the act.
◉ Reciprocal state
Answer: The District of Columbia or a state or territory of the United
States of America whose agency that is authorized to license persons
to practice the profession of funeral director in that jurisdiction has
entered into an agreement with the Board under which persons
licensed in that jurisdiction may receive a limited license in this
Commonwealth.
◉ Restricted business corporation
Answer: business corporation formed under 15 Pa.C.S. (relating to
the Associations Code) and authorized under the act.
◉ What are the General Requirements for licensure?
Answer: (21 years of age or older, of good moral character and shall
present satisfactory evidence to the Board that the applicant has
satisfied the educational and training requirements of the act and
this chapter.pass a combined oral, practical and written examination.
A limited exception will be the granting of a restricted license to
estates, widow's or widower's of deceased funeral directors.
◉ What is the initial registration fee for student trainee?
