California Funeral Directors Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
funeral director -
correct answer ✅A person engaged in or conducting any of the
following: Preparing or directing the transportation or disposition
of human remains. Maintaining an establishment for the
preparation, transportation, or disposition of human remains. Using
the words "Funeral Director", "Mortician", "Undertaker" or other
title implying he/she is engaged as a funeral director.
Section 7600 Cemetery and Funeral Act
Section 1 Business and Professions Code
Funeral Establishment -
correct answer ✅A business in a building that must: Have a
specific address or location. Activities that take place at that
location must be incident, convenient, or related to the care and
preparation of remains, funerals or disposition of human remains
and must have an embalming or storage room. The
embalming/storage rooms may be at a different location from
where the business activities take place and under certain
conditions an establishment may share another establishments
embalming/ and or storage room if under common ownership, or
there is a contract between them, and in close geographic
proximity.
Section 7600 Cemetery and Funeral Act
Section 1 Business and Professions Code
,California Funeral Directors Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
Criteria for being a funeral director -
correct answer ✅18 years of age or older, Have an AA degree, or
equivalent or higher. Not have committed any acts or been
convicted of crimes pursuant to section 480 of the business and
professions code (Crimes or acts . related to death care activities).
Pass the Funeral Directors Examination given by the cemetery and
funeral bureau.
RESTRICTIONS: Must be employed by a licensed funeral
establishment to engage in activities of a funeral director.
Section 7600 Cemetery and Funeral Act
Section 1 Business and Professions Code
Funeral Directors Test -
correct answer ✅Before an individual is granted a funeral directors
license, he or she shall successfully pass an examination upon the
following subjects:
(a) Signs of Death (HSC 7180)
(b) Manner of death may be determined (HSC 7182)
(c) The laws governing the preparation, burial and disposition of
human remains, and the shipment of bodies dying from infectious
or contagious diseases.
,California Funeral Directors Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
(d) Local health and sanitary ordinances and regulations relating to
funeral directing and embalming.
Funeral Establishment advertising -
correct answer ✅No Funeral establishment may use a name style
that is: Similar to the competitors, so as to constitute an unfair
method of competition, or that might tend to mislead the public.
Assignment -
correct answer ✅Name for the sale of a funeral establishment.
Selling a Funeral Establishment by Assignment -
correct answer ✅Licenses are assigned only after an audit of the
preneed trust funds and any shortages have been funded. License
may be assigned upon receipt of a signed declaration showing the
status of the trust and a bond equal to 150% of the corpus
(balance) of the trust, with approval from the Cemetery and
Funeral Bureau. False or misleading information may be subject to
a fine of up to $5,000.00
Embalming in a funeral establishment -
correct answer ✅Can only be done by:
-California licensed embalmers
, California Funeral Directors Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
-Registered apprentices under the supervision of their supervising
embalmer or
-Students enrolled in an accredited program of mortuary science
under supervision of a licensed embalmer.
Removal of Tissue -
correct answer ✅a licensed embalmer may remove tissue
pursuant to the uniform Anatomical Gift Act, at the request of a
licensed physician if the embalmer has completed a course in tissue
removal approved by the California Medical board.
Arrangement Counselors -
correct answer ✅Anyone who consults with the family or
representatives of the family of a deceased person for the purpose
of arranging for preparation and disposition of a body must receive,
every 3 years, documented training of all federal and state laws,
rules and regulations dealing with:
-Vital Statistics
-The Coroner
-Anatomical Gifts
-Laws relating to the duties of a funeral director
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
funeral director -
correct answer ✅A person engaged in or conducting any of the
following: Preparing or directing the transportation or disposition
of human remains. Maintaining an establishment for the
preparation, transportation, or disposition of human remains. Using
the words "Funeral Director", "Mortician", "Undertaker" or other
title implying he/she is engaged as a funeral director.
Section 7600 Cemetery and Funeral Act
Section 1 Business and Professions Code
Funeral Establishment -
correct answer ✅A business in a building that must: Have a
specific address or location. Activities that take place at that
location must be incident, convenient, or related to the care and
preparation of remains, funerals or disposition of human remains
and must have an embalming or storage room. The
embalming/storage rooms may be at a different location from
where the business activities take place and under certain
conditions an establishment may share another establishments
embalming/ and or storage room if under common ownership, or
there is a contract between them, and in close geographic
proximity.
Section 7600 Cemetery and Funeral Act
Section 1 Business and Professions Code
,California Funeral Directors Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
Criteria for being a funeral director -
correct answer ✅18 years of age or older, Have an AA degree, or
equivalent or higher. Not have committed any acts or been
convicted of crimes pursuant to section 480 of the business and
professions code (Crimes or acts . related to death care activities).
Pass the Funeral Directors Examination given by the cemetery and
funeral bureau.
RESTRICTIONS: Must be employed by a licensed funeral
establishment to engage in activities of a funeral director.
Section 7600 Cemetery and Funeral Act
Section 1 Business and Professions Code
Funeral Directors Test -
correct answer ✅Before an individual is granted a funeral directors
license, he or she shall successfully pass an examination upon the
following subjects:
(a) Signs of Death (HSC 7180)
(b) Manner of death may be determined (HSC 7182)
(c) The laws governing the preparation, burial and disposition of
human remains, and the shipment of bodies dying from infectious
or contagious diseases.
,California Funeral Directors Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
(d) Local health and sanitary ordinances and regulations relating to
funeral directing and embalming.
Funeral Establishment advertising -
correct answer ✅No Funeral establishment may use a name style
that is: Similar to the competitors, so as to constitute an unfair
method of competition, or that might tend to mislead the public.
Assignment -
correct answer ✅Name for the sale of a funeral establishment.
Selling a Funeral Establishment by Assignment -
correct answer ✅Licenses are assigned only after an audit of the
preneed trust funds and any shortages have been funded. License
may be assigned upon receipt of a signed declaration showing the
status of the trust and a bond equal to 150% of the corpus
(balance) of the trust, with approval from the Cemetery and
Funeral Bureau. False or misleading information may be subject to
a fine of up to $5,000.00
Embalming in a funeral establishment -
correct answer ✅Can only be done by:
-California licensed embalmers
, California Funeral Directors Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
-Registered apprentices under the supervision of their supervising
embalmer or
-Students enrolled in an accredited program of mortuary science
under supervision of a licensed embalmer.
Removal of Tissue -
correct answer ✅a licensed embalmer may remove tissue
pursuant to the uniform Anatomical Gift Act, at the request of a
licensed physician if the embalmer has completed a course in tissue
removal approved by the California Medical board.
Arrangement Counselors -
correct answer ✅Anyone who consults with the family or
representatives of the family of a deceased person for the purpose
of arranging for preparation and disposition of a body must receive,
every 3 years, documented training of all federal and state laws,
rules and regulations dealing with:
-Vital Statistics
-The Coroner
-Anatomical Gifts
-Laws relating to the duties of a funeral director
