Suffolk County Home Improvement License
EXAM 2026 with 100% proven answers
1. Includes occupation, profession, trade, craft, or any other calling for hireAnswer:
BUSINESS
2. The Commissioner of the Department of Labor, Licensing and Consumer
AffairsAnswer: COMMISSIONER or DIRECTOR
3. An individual who buys or leases or agrees to buy or lease consumer goods or
services or credit, including a co-guarantor or suretyAnswer: CONSUMER
4. Those which are primarily for personal, household or family purposesAnswer: CON-
SUMER GOODS, SERVICES, CREDIT AND DEBTS
5. An oral or written agreement contained in one or more documents for the
performance of work and includes all labor, goods and servicesAnswer: CONTRACT
6. Any false, falsely disparaging or misleading oral or written statement, visual
description, or other representation of any kind, which has the capacity, tendency or
effect of deceiving or misleading consumers or the consuming public and is made in
connection with a contract, preparation of or performance of a work estimate or
invoice, in the extension of consumer credit, or in the collection of consumer
debtsAnswer: DECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICES
7. Goods or services have sponsorship, approval, accessories, characteristics, uses,
benefits, or quantities that they do not haveAnswer: Representations regarding
goods or services
8. The seller has a sponsorship, approval, status, affiliation, or connection that he/she
does not haveAnswer: Seller's false claims
9. Goods are original or new if they are deteriorated, altered, reconditioned, reclaimed,
or secondhandAnswer: Misrepresentation of goods
10. Goods or services are of a particular standard, quality, grade, style, or model, if
they are of anotherAnswer: Quality misrepresentation
11. The use, in any oral or written representation, of exaggeration, innuendo or
ambiguity as to a material factAnswer: Use of exaggeration
12. Failure to state a material fact if such failure deceived or tends to deceive.-
: Failure to state a material fact
13. Disparaging the goods, services, or business of another by false or misleading
representations of material factsAnswer: Disparaging
,14. Offering goods or services without intent to sell themAnswer: Intent to Sell
15 Offering goods or services without intent to supply reasonably expectable public
demand unless the offer disclosed the limitationAnswer: Public Demand Limitation 16.
Making false or misleading representations of facts concerning the reason for, existence
of or amounts of price reductions, or the price in comparison to prices of competitors or
one's own price at a past or future timeAnswer: False Price
Representations
17. Falsely stating that a consumer transaction involves consumer rights, remedies, or
obligationsAnswer: Consumer Rights Misrepresentation
18. Falsely stating that services, replacements, or repairs are neededAnswer:
Unneeded
Services Misrepresentation
19. Falsely stating the reasons for offering or supplying goods or services at sale or
discount pricesAnswer: Sale Price Misrepresentation
20. The failure by any person engaged in the delivery, pickup, inspection, or repair of
consumer goods and/or services in the home to keep an appointment to perform the
delivery of consumer goods and/or services on the day agreed upon with the
consumer unless the consumer has received written or verbal notice of delay or
cancellation before the end of the preceding business dayAnswer: Appointment
Failure
21. The Department of Labor, Licensing and Consumer AffairsAnswer: Department or
Office 22. The undertaking, offering to undertake, solicitation or agreement to
perform a contractAnswer: Engages
23. A person permitted to engage in a business licensed pursuant to the provisions of
the appropriate article of this chapterAnswer: Licensee
24. Includes the definition contained in § 37 of the General Construction Law of the
State of New York, as well as an individual, partnership, or other entityAnswer: Person
25. A license issued to a person for a period of time to perform work in accordance
with the conditions as specified by the Director, provided that the holder thereof pays
the required license feeAnswer: Temporary License
, 26. Any act that unfairly takes advantage of a consumer's lack of knowledge, ability,
experience, or results in a gross disparity between value received and price paidAnswer:
What constitutes an unconscionable trade practice?
27 Natural disasters such as hurricanes, tornadoes, flooding, blizzards, explosions,
airplane crashes, earthquakes, nuclear war, and civil unrestAnswer: What types of
disasters can lead to unconscionable trade practices?
28. A written declaration by either the County Executive or a majority of the
County LegislatureAnswer: Who can establish the existence of a disaster for investigating
unconscionable trade practices?
29. Obtaining a license from the Office in accordance with the provisions of the
chapterAnswer: What is required to engage in business regulated by the chapter on
unconscionable trade practices?
30. It does not authorize the licensee to perform work reserved for qualified licensees
under separate provisions of state or local lawAnswer: What does a license issued
under this chapter not authorize?
31. Employees of federal, state, or local governments performing work on behalf of a
government entity or public authorityAnswer: Who is exempt from needing a license
under this chapter?
32. No, if they are performing work on behalf of their respective corporations.-
: Are employees of gas or electric corporations required to obtain a license?
33. It is the date when the definition of unconscionable trade practices was
added to the legislationAnswer: What is the significance of the date March 6, 2007, in
relation to unconscionable trade practices?
34. To initiate an investigation immediately after any natural disaster or act of God
that may lead to such practicesAnswer: What is the purpose of the Director in
relation to unconscionable trade practices?
35. A written declaration confirming the occurrence of the disasterAnswer: What must
be established to investigate unconscionable trade practices after a disaster?
36. It is unlawful to do so unless exempt under specific provisionsAnswer: What is the
legal consequence of engaging in business without a required license?
37. Events beyond human control that can lead to unfair trade practices, such
EXAM 2026 with 100% proven answers
1. Includes occupation, profession, trade, craft, or any other calling for hireAnswer:
BUSINESS
2. The Commissioner of the Department of Labor, Licensing and Consumer
AffairsAnswer: COMMISSIONER or DIRECTOR
3. An individual who buys or leases or agrees to buy or lease consumer goods or
services or credit, including a co-guarantor or suretyAnswer: CONSUMER
4. Those which are primarily for personal, household or family purposesAnswer: CON-
SUMER GOODS, SERVICES, CREDIT AND DEBTS
5. An oral or written agreement contained in one or more documents for the
performance of work and includes all labor, goods and servicesAnswer: CONTRACT
6. Any false, falsely disparaging or misleading oral or written statement, visual
description, or other representation of any kind, which has the capacity, tendency or
effect of deceiving or misleading consumers or the consuming public and is made in
connection with a contract, preparation of or performance of a work estimate or
invoice, in the extension of consumer credit, or in the collection of consumer
debtsAnswer: DECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICES
7. Goods or services have sponsorship, approval, accessories, characteristics, uses,
benefits, or quantities that they do not haveAnswer: Representations regarding
goods or services
8. The seller has a sponsorship, approval, status, affiliation, or connection that he/she
does not haveAnswer: Seller's false claims
9. Goods are original or new if they are deteriorated, altered, reconditioned, reclaimed,
or secondhandAnswer: Misrepresentation of goods
10. Goods or services are of a particular standard, quality, grade, style, or model, if
they are of anotherAnswer: Quality misrepresentation
11. The use, in any oral or written representation, of exaggeration, innuendo or
ambiguity as to a material factAnswer: Use of exaggeration
12. Failure to state a material fact if such failure deceived or tends to deceive.-
: Failure to state a material fact
13. Disparaging the goods, services, or business of another by false or misleading
representations of material factsAnswer: Disparaging
,14. Offering goods or services without intent to sell themAnswer: Intent to Sell
15 Offering goods or services without intent to supply reasonably expectable public
demand unless the offer disclosed the limitationAnswer: Public Demand Limitation 16.
Making false or misleading representations of facts concerning the reason for, existence
of or amounts of price reductions, or the price in comparison to prices of competitors or
one's own price at a past or future timeAnswer: False Price
Representations
17. Falsely stating that a consumer transaction involves consumer rights, remedies, or
obligationsAnswer: Consumer Rights Misrepresentation
18. Falsely stating that services, replacements, or repairs are neededAnswer:
Unneeded
Services Misrepresentation
19. Falsely stating the reasons for offering or supplying goods or services at sale or
discount pricesAnswer: Sale Price Misrepresentation
20. The failure by any person engaged in the delivery, pickup, inspection, or repair of
consumer goods and/or services in the home to keep an appointment to perform the
delivery of consumer goods and/or services on the day agreed upon with the
consumer unless the consumer has received written or verbal notice of delay or
cancellation before the end of the preceding business dayAnswer: Appointment
Failure
21. The Department of Labor, Licensing and Consumer AffairsAnswer: Department or
Office 22. The undertaking, offering to undertake, solicitation or agreement to
perform a contractAnswer: Engages
23. A person permitted to engage in a business licensed pursuant to the provisions of
the appropriate article of this chapterAnswer: Licensee
24. Includes the definition contained in § 37 of the General Construction Law of the
State of New York, as well as an individual, partnership, or other entityAnswer: Person
25. A license issued to a person for a period of time to perform work in accordance
with the conditions as specified by the Director, provided that the holder thereof pays
the required license feeAnswer: Temporary License
, 26. Any act that unfairly takes advantage of a consumer's lack of knowledge, ability,
experience, or results in a gross disparity between value received and price paidAnswer:
What constitutes an unconscionable trade practice?
27 Natural disasters such as hurricanes, tornadoes, flooding, blizzards, explosions,
airplane crashes, earthquakes, nuclear war, and civil unrestAnswer: What types of
disasters can lead to unconscionable trade practices?
28. A written declaration by either the County Executive or a majority of the
County LegislatureAnswer: Who can establish the existence of a disaster for investigating
unconscionable trade practices?
29. Obtaining a license from the Office in accordance with the provisions of the
chapterAnswer: What is required to engage in business regulated by the chapter on
unconscionable trade practices?
30. It does not authorize the licensee to perform work reserved for qualified licensees
under separate provisions of state or local lawAnswer: What does a license issued
under this chapter not authorize?
31. Employees of federal, state, or local governments performing work on behalf of a
government entity or public authorityAnswer: Who is exempt from needing a license
under this chapter?
32. No, if they are performing work on behalf of their respective corporations.-
: Are employees of gas or electric corporations required to obtain a license?
33. It is the date when the definition of unconscionable trade practices was
added to the legislationAnswer: What is the significance of the date March 6, 2007, in
relation to unconscionable trade practices?
34. To initiate an investigation immediately after any natural disaster or act of God
that may lead to such practicesAnswer: What is the purpose of the Director in
relation to unconscionable trade practices?
35. A written declaration confirming the occurrence of the disasterAnswer: What must
be established to investigate unconscionable trade practices after a disaster?
36. It is unlawful to do so unless exempt under specific provisionsAnswer: What is the
legal consequence of engaging in business without a required license?
37. Events beyond human control that can lead to unfair trade practices, such
