Free CISI Global Financial Compliance mock exam
Sit the whole Global Financial Compliance paper: 100 questions across the five elements, under a 120-minute clock. Free, no sign-up, with a weighted score, an element breakdown and a written explanation for every answer.
What is on the CISI Global Financial Compliance mock exam?
One full Global Financial Compliance practice paper: 100 questions in 120 minutes, weighted across the five syllabus elements exactly as the real paper is. Score 70 out of 100 to meet the 70% practice threshold, then review every answer one at a time.
- Questions
- 100 original practice questions
- Time
- 120 minutes
- Practice threshold
- 70%, which is 70 of 100
- Access
- Free, with no account or card
How the paper is weighted
Global Financial Compliance is a standalone Level 3 Award; add a CISI regulatory exam and it becomes the Level 3 Certificate. Its five elements are weighted more closely than on any other paper we cover.
| Element | Questions |
|---|---|
| 1. The International Regulatory Environment | 20 |
| 2. The Compliance Function | 24 |
| 3. Managing the Risk of Financial Crime | 20 |
| 4. Ethics, Integrity and Fairness | 19 |
| 5. Governance, Risk Management and Compliance | 17 |
| Total | 100 |
The Compliance Function is the heaviest at 24 marks, then The International Regulatory Environment and Managing the Risk of Financial Crime at 20 each, Ethics, Integrity and Fairness at nineteen and Governance, Risk Management and Compliance at seventeen. There is no small element to write off here: the lightest is still 17% of the paper.
For the cleanest rehearsal, set aside the full 120 minutes, avoid notes and answer every question. There is no negative marking on the real paper, so a guess is always better than a blank. The mock hides feedback until submission and warns you before handing in a paper with blanks.
Full practice paper
75 questions. 90 minutes. No sign-up.
Sit the paper in one go if you can. Answers and explanations stay hidden until you submit, so the score is a more useful rehearsal than an instant-feedback quiz.
The timer starts when you press the button. Reloading or leaving the page ends this sitting.
Where the marks go on this paper
The density of named legislation in the first element is the commonest problem. GDPR, MiFID II and MiFIR, MAR, EMIR, PSD2, Sarbanes-Oxley, CSDR, the UK Bribery Act, the FCPA, FATCA and the Common Reporting Standard all appear within a few pages, and the exam tests what each one does and to whom it applies extra-territorially, not just the name.
The Compliance Function is 24 marks and the most operational element on the paper: the Basel Committee principles, the compliance monitoring programme, the three lines of defence, outsourcing, and how a compliance function handles the regulator relationship. Working in compliance helps here, but only if you know the framework names as well as the practice.
Managing the Risk of Financial Crime is twenty marks and turns on precision. Placement, layering and integration sound simple until a question describes a transaction and asks which stage it is. Layering is the one candidates under-prepare, because it looks most like ordinary client activity.
Ethics is nineteen marks and it is easy to confuse a code of ethics with a code of conduct, or the CISI Code of Conduct with the CFA Institute Code of Ethics. The exam will ask you to tell named codes apart.
How to use your result
Treat 70% as a practice threshold, not a readiness promise. A stronger signal is a run of timed scores above the threshold with no element repeatedly falling behind. With the weightings this close, an even breakdown is the goal rather than a strong average. A candidate who masters financial crime and ethics but skims governance can still fail on a shortfall in the seventeen-mark element.
Use the answer review to understand each miss, then revisit the relevant part of the Global Financial Compliance exam guide. To drill a single topic rather than sit a whole paper, start with the free Global Financial Compliance practice questions.
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Independent practice material: PasskeyPrep is not affiliated with, endorsed by or accredited by the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment. These questions were written independently against the syllabus. They are not copied from a live CISI exam or official past paper.
Frequently asked questions
Is this Global Financial Compliance mock exam really free?
Yes. All 100 questions are free, with no account, email address or card required. Submit and you get a weighted score, a five-element breakdown and an explanation for every answer.
Does this mock match the real GFC exam format?
It uses 100 questions, a 120-minute timer, a 70% practice threshold and the published weightings across the five syllabus elements. The questions are original PasskeyPrep practice material, not the CISI examination platform or official exam questions.
Is Global Financial Compliance an Award or a Certificate?
On its own the exam earns the standalone Level 3 Award. Add a CISI regulatory exam and you complete the Level 3 Certificate in Global Financial Compliance.
Which element should I revise most?
The Compliance Function at 24 marks. That said, the five elements run from seventeen to 24 questions, so none of them is safe to skip.
Turn the element breakdown into a study plan.
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