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The Practice Questions & Sample Exam help to familiarize Candidates with the structure and format of questions on the FDP exam. It is recommended these are only reviewed once you have completed your initial studies. Practice Questions & Sample Exam will be available to exam registrants for the Q2-2025 exam from end Jan. |
Exercise 1 - Practice Questions: The practice questions are intended to familiarize yourself with the types of questions. These questions are based on lessons in the curriculum to help you evaluate your topic-level strengths and weaknesses. All questions are rooted in the current curriculum, and in the same format as the questions on the actual exam. Please note, this exercise is not designed to represent the replication of an actual exam. - 92 Multiple choice questions |
Exercise 2 - Sample Exam:
The sample exam replicates the structure of the actual FDP exam. In terms of structure, the sample exam consists of the topic area weights and level of difficulty as the actual exam. Questions are based on the current curriculum for the exam.
- 80 Multiple choice questions |
Candidates are prohibited from bringing their personal calculator to their exam. Please take advantage of using the online calculator to be prepared on exam day.
Following the exercises you will receive:
- your response summary
- a link to the "Answer Key" (where you can find the answer. Example: LO 1.3.3, p 36. Interpretation: Topic 1, Reading 3. Learning Objective 3.)
Unless otherwise noted, if a problem requires the use of a logarithm, use the natural log. This convention will apply to the actual exam.
Natural logarithm (ln) should be used for all questions that require log. Calculation of IDF should also be done using the natural logarithm. This means anytime log appears in a formula in the books or in any article, it should be replaced with the natural log. This also applies to the TF IDF formula.