CAMS ACAMS Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS7 the 7th edition) Free Practice Exam Questions (2025 Updated)

Gatekeepers have specialized knowledge that can be abused to facilitate the movement of illicit funds and conceal the Involvement of their clients in illicit schemes.

Gatekeeper positions ate of a secretive nature, often making it difficult to verify (heir source of wealth.

Gatekeepers have unique relationship structures, making it difficult to determine beneficial ownership

Gatekeepers are entrusted with prominent functions and code of conduct that can assist laundering Illicit funds.

Independent compliance testing

Qualified and knowledgeable staff

Third-party screening software

An automated monitoring system

Written policy and procedures

Wolfsberg Group

Transparency International

Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

Tax Justice Network

impose sanctions to maintain or restore international peace and security.

impose sanctions on countries that lack AML/CFT controls.

conduct research on and analyze the impacts of sanctions to improve the effectiveness of sanctions regimes.

impose sanctions on economic targets to maintain or restore financial stability within a country.

to force developing nations to adopt liberal or substantive democracies.

to support governments and regimes in the peaceful resolution of conflict.

to punish governments for having weak financial crime controls.

to deter non-democratic and non-constitutional changes within countries.

to support the protection of human rights.

Economic and societal

Political and regulatory

Governance and compliance

Sectoral and jurisdictional

A customer engages an attorney to consult on the issuance of the policy.

A customer transfers the policy to another insurance company unaffiliated with the original policy issuer.

Payments are regularly received from third parties that have no apparent relationship with the policy holder.

A customer names an apparently unrelated third party as a beneficiary.

Advise further clarification is necessary, including which coins or tokens were sold and whether the crypto exchange conducts due diligence on its clients

Advise that the transaction should be stopped because cryptoassets in general are not regulated and by definition pose an unacceptable AML risk for the bank

Confirm to the advisor that the customer can proceed with the transaction if the client's KYC is up to date and a search on a public blockchain explorer does not provide any adverse media hits

Confirm to the advisor that the customer can proceed with the transaction because clients are already correctly onboarded KYC is complete and the source of funds is transparent

A customer changes multiple high-denomination notes to low-denomination notes.

A customer conducts cash transactions using multiple branches of the MSB on the same day.

A customer has a family link to the destination of a money transfer

A customer sends and receives money transfers in equal amounts at or about the same time.

A customer only wants to deal with a particular employee in the MSB.

A customer being hesitant to provide beneficiary name or address information when sending international wire transfers

Cash-intensive businesses, such as convenience stores or restaurants, making large cash deposits

A customer exchanging foreign currency from a higher-risk jurisdiction for domestic currency under the reporting threshold

A customer using multiple accounts under different names to conduct transactions

A customer completing frequent small-dollar international money transfers to their native country

Onsite and offsite reviews, cooperating on an international basis with access to a range of sanctions and outreach

Onsite and offsite reviews, cooperating on an international and domestic basis with access to a range of sanctions and outreach

Offsite reviews, cooperating on a domestic basis with access to a range of sanctions and outreach

Onsite reviews, cooperating on an international and domestic basis with outreach and access to a range of sanctions

include sophisticated and automated controls that use the newest types of technology available (for example, artificial intelligence (Al) and machine learning).

be proportionate with regard to the size and nature of the firm, approved by senior management, and regularly reviewed

be completed by the business and validated by an external firm (for example, an auditing or consulting firm)

be created approved, and owned only by the First Line of Defense business team, and reviewed annually

Ensure that the second line reviews, monitors, and escalates risk-related issues as needed to senior management while maintaining independent oversight from the third line

Have senior management handle risk-related issues directly when possible because they are ultimately responsible for the organisation's overall risk management strategy

Delegate some risk-related issues to the first line to avoid overwhelming the second line and to ensure operational efficiency

Assign risk-related oversight duties to the third line to provide an independent review and address issues more effectively by avoiding conflicts of interest in the first and second lines

These businesses are all cash intensive, increasing the risk of financial crime

KYC challenges arise because e-commerce platforms face global customers making customer due diligence complex and resource intensive

These businesses are highly regulated and therefore have no reason to be non-compliant as this would put them at risk of sanctions and fines

Criminals can make use of identify fraud to fulfill KYC processes for layering purposes

The settlement systems of these businesses are not sophisticated enough to cope with the high transaction volume

Information provided by a prospective customer

Photocopy of a copy of a government-issued identity document

Information obtained from an open-source database

Information obtained directly from a government-managed registry

Purpose and intended use

Liquidity

Age of the beneficiary

Customer anonymity or third-party transactions

Length of waiting period

have informal business arrangements between persons or entities.

are located in geographies that are not accountable to US laws.

include trusts, investment funds, and insurance companies.

have limited organizational disclosure and recordkeeping requirements for establishing these business entities.

Financial crime does enormous damage to society, undermining market integrity and consumers' and market participants' confidence

Financial crime risk incidents always result in fines and losses for the financial firm

Financial crime prevention processes make the onboarding process for clients unnecessarily burdensome and complex but create work

Financial crime prevention is important as it reduces costs and improves customer services.

up to date and reflects all relevant regulatory developments

signed off by the board of directors and regulators

approved by the clients and third parties

clearly communicated and understood by staff