NNA CALIFONIA EXAM 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔If a Notary dies, the personal representative must: Do what to the seal? -
✔✔Destroy it
✔✔If requested by a peace officer, how soon must you surrender your journals? -
✔✔Immediately
✔✔How many days to notify the Secretary of State that you surrendered your journal? -
✔✔Secretary of State -- 10 days
✔✔Failure to surrender your journal to a peace officer could result in a civil penalty of
$__________? - ✔✔$2,500
✔✔If your journal is seized by a peace officer, what information do you need to report? -
✔✔1. Commission number and expiration date
2. Time period covered by the journal
3. Copy of the receipt from the officer
✔✔If a journal is returned to you that has been surrendered to a peace officer, or has
been lost or stolen, can you use it? - ✔✔NO. You must start a new journal.
✔✔If you lose your journal or if it is stolen, what's the first thing you need to do? -
✔✔IMMEDIATELY notify the Secretary of State
✔✔How do you always notify the Secretary of State? - ✔✔By Certified Mail or any
means of physical delivery with receipt
✔✔If an employer has paid for commission and supplies, the Notary and employer may
enter into a Limited Service Agreement, which means..... - ✔✔Company documents on
company time
✔✔If a private-employee Notary resigns from his job, what must he do with his
commission? - ✔✔Take it with him.
✔✔If a private-employee Notary resigns from his job, must he leave the journal and seal
with the employer who paid for them? - ✔✔No. The Notary's commission and tools
belong to the Notary.
✔✔What can Military-Base Notaries charge for notarizations? - ✔✔Nothing
,✔✔Can a Military-Base Notary notarize if transferred to another reserve? - ✔✔No. That
Notary must resign on the old base and reapply on the new base.
✔✔Can a Notary working for the Public school District notarize privately after retiring
from the public agency? - ✔✔No. For a Public Employee Notary, commission ends
when employment ends.
✔✔Can Public-Employee Notaries charge fees? - ✔✔Yes. But the fees are remitted
back to the agency.
✔✔What must be used to establish the identity of a signer for an ACKNOWLEDGMENT
or a JURAT? - ✔✔Satisfactory Evidence
✔✔What 3 types of identification constitute Satisfactory Evidence? - ✔✔1. ID
Documents
2. One credible witness known by the Notary
3. Two credible witnesses
✔✔What must the credible witness(es) present to qualify? - ✔✔A valid ID document
✔✔The civil penalty for not seeing the ID is? - ✔✔$10,000 [No ID - 10 G's']
✔✔Approved ID documents must be current, or if expired, ISSUED within the previous
__________? - ✔✔5 years
✔✔Approved ID documents must have _________? - ✔✔[PPSS]
Photo
Physical Description
Signature
Serial Number
✔✔The following IDs are acceptable as satisfactory evidence except which one?
A. Expired Washington DL issued in 2015
B. Foreign passport stamped by USCIS six years ago
C. Current Mexican driver's license
, D. Current driver's license from Puerto Rico - ✔✔D. Current driver's license from Puerto
Rico
✔✔Which of these would NOT be acceptable?
A. Federal employee ID with PPSS
B. LAPD Employee ID with PPSS
C. Tribal ID from federally recognized tribe with PPSS - ✔✔A. Federal employee ID with
PPSS
✔✔May an acknowledgment be executed if the document has blank spaces or missing
pages? - ✔✔No. The document must be completed.
✔✔Who is responsible for completing the document for an acknowledgment to be
executed? - ✔✔The signer
✔✔The following are required journal entries EXCEPT which one?
A. Date, time and type of each official act
B. Character of every instrument
C. Signature of the signer
D. Name and address of signer - ✔✔D. Name and address of signer
✔✔Do you need the signer's thumbprint in your journal for: A Quitclaim Deed? - ✔✔Yes
✔✔Do you need the signer's thumbprint in your journal for: A Power of Attorney? -
✔✔Yes
✔✔Do you need the signer's thumbprint in your journal for: Documents related to Real
Estate? - ✔✔Yes
✔✔A thumbprint is NOT required for which two deeds? - ✔✔1. Trustee's Deed of
Foreclosure
2. Deed of Reconveyance
✔✔The penalty for failing to secure a required thumbprint is ________? - ✔✔$2,500
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔If a Notary dies, the personal representative must: Do what to the seal? -
✔✔Destroy it
✔✔If requested by a peace officer, how soon must you surrender your journals? -
✔✔Immediately
✔✔How many days to notify the Secretary of State that you surrendered your journal? -
✔✔Secretary of State -- 10 days
✔✔Failure to surrender your journal to a peace officer could result in a civil penalty of
$__________? - ✔✔$2,500
✔✔If your journal is seized by a peace officer, what information do you need to report? -
✔✔1. Commission number and expiration date
2. Time period covered by the journal
3. Copy of the receipt from the officer
✔✔If a journal is returned to you that has been surrendered to a peace officer, or has
been lost or stolen, can you use it? - ✔✔NO. You must start a new journal.
✔✔If you lose your journal or if it is stolen, what's the first thing you need to do? -
✔✔IMMEDIATELY notify the Secretary of State
✔✔How do you always notify the Secretary of State? - ✔✔By Certified Mail or any
means of physical delivery with receipt
✔✔If an employer has paid for commission and supplies, the Notary and employer may
enter into a Limited Service Agreement, which means..... - ✔✔Company documents on
company time
✔✔If a private-employee Notary resigns from his job, what must he do with his
commission? - ✔✔Take it with him.
✔✔If a private-employee Notary resigns from his job, must he leave the journal and seal
with the employer who paid for them? - ✔✔No. The Notary's commission and tools
belong to the Notary.
✔✔What can Military-Base Notaries charge for notarizations? - ✔✔Nothing
,✔✔Can a Military-Base Notary notarize if transferred to another reserve? - ✔✔No. That
Notary must resign on the old base and reapply on the new base.
✔✔Can a Notary working for the Public school District notarize privately after retiring
from the public agency? - ✔✔No. For a Public Employee Notary, commission ends
when employment ends.
✔✔Can Public-Employee Notaries charge fees? - ✔✔Yes. But the fees are remitted
back to the agency.
✔✔What must be used to establish the identity of a signer for an ACKNOWLEDGMENT
or a JURAT? - ✔✔Satisfactory Evidence
✔✔What 3 types of identification constitute Satisfactory Evidence? - ✔✔1. ID
Documents
2. One credible witness known by the Notary
3. Two credible witnesses
✔✔What must the credible witness(es) present to qualify? - ✔✔A valid ID document
✔✔The civil penalty for not seeing the ID is? - ✔✔$10,000 [No ID - 10 G's']
✔✔Approved ID documents must be current, or if expired, ISSUED within the previous
__________? - ✔✔5 years
✔✔Approved ID documents must have _________? - ✔✔[PPSS]
Photo
Physical Description
Signature
Serial Number
✔✔The following IDs are acceptable as satisfactory evidence except which one?
A. Expired Washington DL issued in 2015
B. Foreign passport stamped by USCIS six years ago
C. Current Mexican driver's license
, D. Current driver's license from Puerto Rico - ✔✔D. Current driver's license from Puerto
Rico
✔✔Which of these would NOT be acceptable?
A. Federal employee ID with PPSS
B. LAPD Employee ID with PPSS
C. Tribal ID from federally recognized tribe with PPSS - ✔✔A. Federal employee ID with
PPSS
✔✔May an acknowledgment be executed if the document has blank spaces or missing
pages? - ✔✔No. The document must be completed.
✔✔Who is responsible for completing the document for an acknowledgment to be
executed? - ✔✔The signer
✔✔The following are required journal entries EXCEPT which one?
A. Date, time and type of each official act
B. Character of every instrument
C. Signature of the signer
D. Name and address of signer - ✔✔D. Name and address of signer
✔✔Do you need the signer's thumbprint in your journal for: A Quitclaim Deed? - ✔✔Yes
✔✔Do you need the signer's thumbprint in your journal for: A Power of Attorney? -
✔✔Yes
✔✔Do you need the signer's thumbprint in your journal for: Documents related to Real
Estate? - ✔✔Yes
✔✔A thumbprint is NOT required for which two deeds? - ✔✔1. Trustee's Deed of
Foreclosure
2. Deed of Reconveyance
✔✔The penalty for failing to secure a required thumbprint is ________? - ✔✔$2,500
