2025 Edition

Life & Health Insurance Agent Certification Test

A free Life & Health Insurance Practice Test to help you prepare..... To get certified or licensed to sell life and health insurance as an agent, a candidate has to pass a state licensing exam offered by a state licensing board.  Certification as a life and health insurance agent requires passing an exam and meeting other educational requirements.  

To prepare for your licensing exam, use the full-length Life & Health Insurance Agent Practice Exam with answers fully explained for ideal study. 

The practice exam is written by Susan Wright, CLU, ChFC, RHU, REBC, CSA, CLTC, CCFC, CSS, who has over 20 years of experience in the insurance industry.

The following practice exam is a sample from the full-length test.  

 
 

Life Insurance Basics

1. Which of the following is typically the lowest cost type of life insurance?
2. What is, in part, the primary purpose of insurance regulation?

Types of Life Insurance Policies

3. What are the two primary classes of life insurance?
4. Bob wanted to purchase life insurance coverage. He recently suffered an adverse health condition. Which type of life insurance will Bob have the easiest time qualifying for?

Life Insurance Application and Underwriting

5. Which of the following is considered to determine how a life insurance applicant will be rated by the insurance company as well as the premium that will be charged?
6. Most life insurance applicants fall into which of the following underwriting risk categories?

Selling Life Insurance

7. Insurance agents have a responsibility to all of the following EXCEPT:
I. The insurance company
II. The applicant
III. The policy holder
IV. The beneficiary

 
8. Acceptable methods for delivering a life insurance policy to the newly insured include:
I. In person
II. Mail
III. Email

Life Insurance for Business Owners and in Estate Planning

9. Who names the beneficiary in a split dollar plan?
10. A new start-up internet company, Ecompany, applied for a business loan. The bank was concerned with the company's lack of assets and asked that its executives take out life insurance policies with the bank as a beneficiary. The bank's request violated the Federal Insurance Office Act of 2010 under Dodd-Frank.

Policy Components, Riders and Non-forfeiture Options

11. Which of the following will prevent a life insurance policy from lapsing for failure to pay the premium?
12. On a whole life insurance policy, as time goes on, more of the premium goes towards the cost of providing the ____________.

Claims, Settlement Options and Tax Concepts

13. What kind of expenses are funeral and cemetery costs?
14. When a policy holder uses the cash surrender non-forfeiture option, the insurance company will pay the cash surrender value to the insured. When the insured receives the cash surrender value, it will be taxed as ordinary income.

Living Benefits and Viatical and Life Settlements

15. If a life insurance policy holder accesses a portion of his or her life insurance proceeds, he will be able to use them for which of the following?
16. In many cases, the insured on a life insurance policy must be ____________ before the policy can be sold in a viatical settlement transaction.

Health Insurance Basics

17. Which of the following health insurance policies allow insureds to choose which doctor and hospital they want when they need medical services? 
18. When those who experience greater health risks apply for and continue their coverage in a health insurance plan it is referred to as __________.

Types of Health Insurance Policies and HMO and PPO

19. Which of the following tend to promote healthier life choices and preventive care?
20. Frank is ineligible for a traditional fee-for-service health insurance policy due to his heart disease. Which of the following must accept Frank?

Health Insurance Policy Components and Exclusions

21. Which of the following is a cost to an insured to transfer risk to an insurance company?
22. The parties to an individual health insurance contract include

Selling Health Insurance

23. According to the IRS, if an individual is paying out-of-pocket for employer group health coverage under the COBRA health coverage continuation law, the premium is not considered as a medical expense for tax purposes.
24. Who determines the cost of insurance premiums in an insurance policy?

Deductibles and Copayments

25. In most cases, health insurance policies with higher deductibles will have __________ premiums.
26. If an insurance company requires 20% coinsurance and the total bill comes to $1,500, the policy holder will be required to pay __________ and the insurance company would pay __________.

Health Insurance Claims

27. Which of the following is a stop-loss provision that prevents medical bills from financially devastating consumers?
28. Which type of long-term care insurance policy will pay the policy holder a fixed amount of dollars per day, up to a fixed amount of benefits, regardless of the expense incurred?

Disability and Related Insurance

29. Ed and Erma, a married couple, have recently enrolled in Medicare Parts A and B. Both are age 65, yet both still work full-time. The couple files their income taxes as joint filers. How will their Medicare Part B premium be calculated?
30. Originally, there were __________ Medicare Supplement policies that enrollees could choose from.

Risk Management and Legal Concepts

31. Which of the following is a statement by the issuing insurance company in an insurance contract that sets out the essential elements of insurance?
32. Which of the following could be a predicate for a condition precedent in an insurance contract?

Types of Insurance Entities and HIPAA

33. Under the Affordable Care Act, how long is a health insurance plan allowed to look back for a condition that was present before the start of coverage in a group health insurance plan?
34. HIPAA requires that all employers offer health insurance coverage.

Fraud and Unauthorized Entities

35. Ted deliberately "staged" a soft tissue injury for the purpose of gaining a claim check from his health insurance company. What type of insurance fraud was he involved with?
36. Some examples of insurance fraud include all of the following EXCEPT:

Life & Health Exam

Quality starts with who wrote the material.
Our practice exam writer
s
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Michael Broadway, PMP,
is a Master Certified PMP. He provided writing and editing services to the PMI on the 4th and 5th editions of the PMBOK Guide, as well as created test questions for the CBAP, CCBA and CISSP certification exams.


Donna Kurtz, PMP,
is the Director of Program Management at QuanteqUSA, where she developed the project management office focusing on Agile project management. She is a certified PMP through PMI, a certified ICP-ACC Agile coach and a certified professional scrum master, PSM 1. Donna formerly taught business and technology courses at Concordia University as an adjunct professor and worked as a financial advisor with Morgan Stanley.

The Project Management Institute (PMI) is the professional organization responsible for creating and maintaining the global standards for project management and the project management profession.

The actual PMP Certification Exam consists of 200 multiple choice questions from the nine Knowledge Areas in the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) Guide, including:

Integration Management
Scope Management
Time Management
Cost Management
Quality Management
Human Resource Management
Communications Management
Risk Management
Procurement Management