NEVADA NOTARY PRACTICE EXAM 2025 QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Address change - ✔✔- notify SOS office by certified mail or any means of physical
delivery that produces a receipt
- within 30 days of any change in business or residence address
✔✔Name change - ✔✔notary must file a name-change application with the SOS office
✔✔Resigning - ✔✔The secretary of state requests a written letter of resignation that
includes his or her commission name, commission #, and comm. expiration date and
the county where the Notary filed the oath and bond.
✔✔If any Notary public resigns, is disqualified, removed from office, or allows his or her
appointment to expire without obtaining reappointment within 30 days, he or she must -
✔✔turn in journals and papers to county clerk in the county where they filed their oath,
within 30 days, and they must destroy or deface his or her seal
✔✔Upon the death of a notary, the personal representative of the deceased shall: - ✔✔-
notify the SOS immediately
- turn in journals to the county clerk in the county where the oath was filed, within 30
days
- destroy or deface the seal
✔✔There are two circumstances in which the SOS will make a request of the Notary: -
✔✔1. information about a notarial act
2. A certified copy of a journal entry
✔✔It is the duty of a notary public to respond within _______ upon receiving a written
request sent by certified mail or any other means of physical delivery that provides
receipt from the SOS office asking for info. relating to official acts performed by the
Notary - ✔✔30 days
✔✔Copy certified - ✔✔time is specified!
✔✔5 steps of notarization - ✔✔1. require personal appearance
2. scan the document for completion
3. identify and screen the signor
4. record the journal entry
5. complete the notarial certificate
✔✔3 notarial acts involving notarizing signatures: - ✔✔1. acknowledgments
2. Jurat
, 3. Proofs of execution
✔✔Satisfactory Evidence - ✔✔There must be the absence of info., evidence, or other
circumstances that would lead a reasonable person to believe that the signer is not the
individual he or she claims to be and any ONE of the following:
1 a state approved ID document
2 the oath of 1 credible identifying witness
3 the oaths of 2 credible identifying witnesses
✔✔State-Approved ID Documents - ✔✔- ID card or DL issued by the CA DMV
- US passport
- inmate ID card issued by the CA dept. of Corrections
- any form of inmate ID issued by a sheriff's department
✔✔If a signor does not have one of the State-Approved IDs, Notaries may rely on any
one of the following forms of ID, provided it is current or issued within the last 5 years
and contain these four elements - ✔✔Photograph
Physical description
Signature
Serial number
✔✔CA-approved ID documents group 2 - ✔✔-passport issued by a foreign government
- ID card or DL issued by another US state
- DL issued by an authorized Canadian or Mexican public agency
- US military id card
- employee id card issued by an agency or office of the state of CA, or by an agency or
office of a CA city, county
- consular identification document
- ID card issued by a federally recognized tribal gov't
✔✔Credible Identifying Witness - ✔✔Individual who personally knows the signer,
swears to or affirms the identity of that signer
✔✔any credible identifying witness must: - ✔✔- personally know the signer
- be impartial to the transaction
- take an oath or affirmation vouching for the signer's identity
- present a state-approved ID document to the notary
✔✔In order to use only one credible witness: - ✔✔the notary must personally know that
credible witness
✔✔In order to use two credible witnesses not know to the notary: - ✔✔- the notary must
confirm the identities of the credible witnesses by examining a state-approved ID
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Address change - ✔✔- notify SOS office by certified mail or any means of physical
delivery that produces a receipt
- within 30 days of any change in business or residence address
✔✔Name change - ✔✔notary must file a name-change application with the SOS office
✔✔Resigning - ✔✔The secretary of state requests a written letter of resignation that
includes his or her commission name, commission #, and comm. expiration date and
the county where the Notary filed the oath and bond.
✔✔If any Notary public resigns, is disqualified, removed from office, or allows his or her
appointment to expire without obtaining reappointment within 30 days, he or she must -
✔✔turn in journals and papers to county clerk in the county where they filed their oath,
within 30 days, and they must destroy or deface his or her seal
✔✔Upon the death of a notary, the personal representative of the deceased shall: - ✔✔-
notify the SOS immediately
- turn in journals to the county clerk in the county where the oath was filed, within 30
days
- destroy or deface the seal
✔✔There are two circumstances in which the SOS will make a request of the Notary: -
✔✔1. information about a notarial act
2. A certified copy of a journal entry
✔✔It is the duty of a notary public to respond within _______ upon receiving a written
request sent by certified mail or any other means of physical delivery that provides
receipt from the SOS office asking for info. relating to official acts performed by the
Notary - ✔✔30 days
✔✔Copy certified - ✔✔time is specified!
✔✔5 steps of notarization - ✔✔1. require personal appearance
2. scan the document for completion
3. identify and screen the signor
4. record the journal entry
5. complete the notarial certificate
✔✔3 notarial acts involving notarizing signatures: - ✔✔1. acknowledgments
2. Jurat
, 3. Proofs of execution
✔✔Satisfactory Evidence - ✔✔There must be the absence of info., evidence, or other
circumstances that would lead a reasonable person to believe that the signer is not the
individual he or she claims to be and any ONE of the following:
1 a state approved ID document
2 the oath of 1 credible identifying witness
3 the oaths of 2 credible identifying witnesses
✔✔State-Approved ID Documents - ✔✔- ID card or DL issued by the CA DMV
- US passport
- inmate ID card issued by the CA dept. of Corrections
- any form of inmate ID issued by a sheriff's department
✔✔If a signor does not have one of the State-Approved IDs, Notaries may rely on any
one of the following forms of ID, provided it is current or issued within the last 5 years
and contain these four elements - ✔✔Photograph
Physical description
Signature
Serial number
✔✔CA-approved ID documents group 2 - ✔✔-passport issued by a foreign government
- ID card or DL issued by another US state
- DL issued by an authorized Canadian or Mexican public agency
- US military id card
- employee id card issued by an agency or office of the state of CA, or by an agency or
office of a CA city, county
- consular identification document
- ID card issued by a federally recognized tribal gov't
✔✔Credible Identifying Witness - ✔✔Individual who personally knows the signer,
swears to or affirms the identity of that signer
✔✔any credible identifying witness must: - ✔✔- personally know the signer
- be impartial to the transaction
- take an oath or affirmation vouching for the signer's identity
- present a state-approved ID document to the notary
✔✔In order to use only one credible witness: - ✔✔the notary must personally know that
credible witness
✔✔In order to use two credible witnesses not know to the notary: - ✔✔- the notary must
confirm the identities of the credible witnesses by examining a state-approved ID
