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Registration, examinations and renewal: AS 08.18.011 to 08.18.053, 12 AAC 22 32
A home inspector is picked for a continuing competency audit. How soon after notification must the documents be sent?12 AAC 22.330(b)
A home inspector renewing for the first time held the registration for less than one complete calendar year. How many contact hours are owed?12 AAC 22.300(b)
A person exempt from registration inspects homes. Which title may that person use?AS 08.18.053(d)
A registration lapsed two years ago. In place of continuing competency hours, what may the inspector verify to renew?12 AAC 22.200(a)(3)
After a lapse of how long can a home inspector registration no longer be reinstated?12 AAC 22.200(b)
An advertisement only points customers to the inspector's website. When does it satisfy the identification rule?AS 08.18.053(b)
An applicant passed the examination more than three years before applying. What must come with the application?AS 08.18.022(a)(3)
An associate home inspector must be employed by a registered home inspector and meet which other condition?AS 08.18.011(d)
For how many years before applying must an applicant not have been under a sentence for forgery, extortion or a felony involving dishonesty?AS 08.18.022(a)(4)
How is an application for registration as a home inspector submitted?AS 08.18.021(a)
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Registration, examinations and renewal: AS 08.18.011 to 08.18.053, 12 AAC 22, continued
How long must records of continuing competency contact hours be kept after the hours were earned?12 AAC 22.330(c)
How many contact hours does one academic semester credit earn?12 AAC 22.320(a)(2)
How many examinations does 12 AAC 22.030 list for registration to inspect new homes?12 AAC 22.030(a)(2)
How many hours of continuing competency activity must the department require for each licensing period?AS 08.18.031(c)
How must evidence of a passing examination score reach the department?12 AAC 22.030(b)
How must the home inspector who will supervise an associate be registered?12 AAC 22.020(b)
May the same continuing competency activity earn contact hours twice in one licensing period?12 AAC 22.320(b)
One contact hour is awarded for each consecutive block of how many minutes of classroom instruction?12 AAC 22.320(a)(1)
Under which name may a registered individual act as a home inspector?AS 08.18.053(a)
What does a biennial renewal of a home inspector registration cost?12 AAC 02.235(3)
What does a joint registration for home inspection let its holder do?AS 08.18.011(f)
What does AS 08.18.021(b) say about the information in a registration application?AS 08.18.021(b)
What is the nonrefundable application fee for an initial home inspector registration?12 AAC 02.235(1)
What makes a residence an "existing home" in Alaska's home inspector law?AS 08.18.171(6)
What must a home inspector's advertising and business cards show?AS 08.18.053(b)
Which document, signed by the employing home inspector, goes with an associate's application?12 AAC 22.020(a)(3)
Which inspections may an associate home inspector perform?AS 08.18.011(d)(1)
Which of these does AS 08.18.031(c) name as an approver of continuing competency activities?AS 08.18.031(c)
Which of these keeps an individual from being registered as a home inspector?AS 08.18.022(a)(5)
Which registration does an individual need to inspect a home that nobody has lived in yet?AS 08.18.011(c)
Which requirement of a home inspector does NOT apply to an associate home inspector's registration?AS 08.18.022(b)
Who is liable for the work an associate home inspector does?AS 08.18.011(e)
Pre-inspection document, report and definitions: AS 08.18.023, 08.18.171 15
At what point does AS 08.18.023 call for the written document that states the scope of the inspection?AS 08.18.023(a)
Besides the scope of the intended inspection, what must the pre-inspection document include?AS 08.18.023(a)
Can an oral report take the place of the written home inspection report?AS 08.18.023(c)
For how many days is a home inspection report valid under AS 08.18.023(d)?AS 08.18.023(d)
From which date does the validity of a home inspection report run?AS 08.18.023(d)
May the scope in a pre-inspection document cover systems that the statute's definition of home inspection does not list?AS 08.18.023(a)(1)
New construction is the subject of a loan by the Alaska Housing Finance Corporation. What form may the written report take?AS 08.18.023(b)
The pre-inspection document says the inspector will tell the client of defects noted. In what form?AS 08.18.023(a)(2)
What does "visual examination" mean in the chapter?AS 08.18.171(19)
What kind of examination is a "home inspection" in the statute?AS 08.18.171(8)
What must the written home inspection report review?AS 08.18.023(b)
Which body may approve a method other than personal physical inspection as a visual examination?AS 08.18.171(19)
Which of these is NOT a "residence" in the chapter?AS 08.18.171(15)
Which of these is on the statute's list of systems and components of a home inspection?AS 08.18.171(8)(C)
Who is a "home inspector" under AS 08.18.171?AS 08.18.171(9)
Bond, insurance and claims: AS 08.18.061 to 08.18.121 20
A bonding company cancels a home inspector's bond. What follows?AS 08.18.121(c)
A certificate of deposit is filed instead of a bond. Which words must it bear on its face?12 AAC 22.040(a)(1)
A city licenses a similar occupation. May it make a state-registered home inspector give bond for the city license?AS 08.18.061
A general contractor whose bond is already on file applies to be a registered home inspector. What bond is owed?AS 08.18.071(d)
A home inspector has met the chapter's bond and insurance requirements. May the inspector advertise as "bonded and insured" for that reason?AS 08.18.111
A home inspector works for a registered home inspector whose bond is in order. What may the employee file instead of a bond?AS 08.18.071(e)
A registered home inspector's liability policy is cancelled and not replaced. What does AS 08.18.121 provide?AS 08.18.121(a)
A written notice prohibiting further action is delivered to a home inspector. What must the inspector do?12 AAC 22.090
After a bond is cancelled, how long does a claimant have to commence an action on it?AS 08.18.071(c)
After how many suspensions for failing the bond obligations may a registration be permanently revoked?AS 08.18.121(d)
How else may an employed applicant prove the required insurance coverage?AS 08.18.101(b)
In which court may a person bring suit upon a home inspector's bond?AS 08.18.081(a)
In whose favor is a home inspector's surety bond made out?AS 08.18.071(a)
Pending claims exceed the amount of the bond. Which claims are satisfied first?AS 08.18.081(a)
What is the amount of the surety bond for a home inspector?AS 08.18.071(b)(3)
What is the least insurance required for damage to property?AS 08.18.101(a)(2)
What is the least insurance required for injury, including death, to any one person?AS 08.18.101(a)(2)
What may an applicant file with the commissioner in place of the surety bond?AS 08.18.071(c)
When suit on the bond is filed, on whom is a copy of the complaint served by registered or certified mail?AS 08.18.081(a)
Which of these does the bond promise to pay?AS 08.18.071(a)(3)
Prohibited acts, lawsuits and enforcement: AS 08.18.085, 08.18.116 to 08.18.156 31
A citation has been issued and the violation goes on. How is each further day counted?AS 08.18.117
A contract clause limits the inspector's liability to the cost of the report. What is its effect?AS 08.18.085(d)
A furnace repairer looks over a furnace only to decide what repair to offer. Is that a home inspection under the chapter?AS 08.18.156(b)
A home inspector reported on a property. For how long after is paid repair work on it off limits?AS 08.18.152(1)
A home inspector sues a client for an unpaid inspection fee. What must the inspector allege and prove?AS 08.18.151
A person knowingly inspects homes without registration after a prior conviction for the same thing. What is the offense?AS 08.18.141(a)
A person outside the transaction received the report. What lets that person bring an action?AS 08.18.085(c)(2)
A registered engineer inspects a home without a home inspector registration. What must the engineer do with the written report?AS 08.18.156(a)(3)
Does a criminal prosecution stop the department from seeking civil or administrative remedies?AS 08.18.141(c)
How long after a citation is issued must the time to appear be, at the least?AS 08.18.118(b)
How long after the date of a notice of an administrative fine may a hearing be requested?AS 08.18.125(c)
In which setting may the inspector disclose a report without the client's consent?AS 08.18.152(4)(B)
May the inspection contract waive the time limit for actions based on the report?AS 08.18.085(b)
To which action does the short time limit of AS 08.18.085 NOT apply?AS 08.18.085(b)
Two interested parties each offer to pay for the same home inspection services. What does the inspector need before accepting both?AS 08.18.152(5)
What does a home inspector registration NOT authorize?AS 08.18.154
What is the most the department may fine for a first violation of the registration requirement?AS 08.18.125(a)
What must a home inspector produce when the department demands it?AS 08.18.116(a)
Where may the department NOT impose an administrative fine on a person acting as a home inspector?AS 08.18.125(e)
Which court may enjoin a person from acting as a home inspector in violation of the chapter?AS 08.18.131
Which department may investigate alleged violations relating to home inspection activities?AS 08.18.116(a)
Which fee arrangement may a home inspector not accept?AS 08.18.152(7)
Which finding lets the department suspend or revoke a home inspector registration?AS 08.18.123(a)
Which individual needs no registration to inspect a home?AS 08.18.156(a)(2)
Which law governs proceedings to deny, suspend or revoke a home inspector registration?AS 08.18.123(b)
Which license holder is exempt while doing only what that license covers?AS 08.18.156(a)(5)
Which payment by a home inspector is a prohibited act?AS 08.18.152(3)
Which property may a registered home inspector not inspect for a fee?AS 08.18.152(2)
Who may bring an action for damages that arise from a home inspection?AS 08.18.085(c)
Within what time must an action based on a home inspection report be commenced against a registered individual?AS 08.18.085(a)
Without the client's written consent, to whom may a home inspector disclose information from a report?AS 08.18.152(4)
How this list was compiled: Alaska Statutes, Title 8, Chapter 18, Construction Contractors and Home Inspectors (Alaska Statutes 2025 on the Alaska Legislature's site, https://www.akleg.gov/basis/statutes.asp#08.18), and the Alaska Administrative Code, 12 AAC 22, Home Inspectors, with the fee section 12 AAC 02.235 (https://www.akleg.gov/basis/aac.asp#12.22), both read on October 16, 2026. The Home Inspectors Program's application form 08-4001, revised January 2, 2026 (https://www.commerce.alaska.gov/web/portals/5/pub/hin4001.pdf), was read the same day. Each question names its section and links to it. Licence: Own work. Every question, wrong choice and explanation was written for this site from the text of the statute and the regulations. Nothing comes from an examination, a course provider, a prep course or a question pool.
How it works
Alaska calls the credential a registration. This unofficial Alaska home inspector license practice test has 98 of our own questions on AS 08.18 and 12 AAC 22. Not affiliated with the Alaska Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development.
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What the questions cover
Who must register, and in which kind: new homes, existing homes or joint. Then the written pre-inspection document and the report, the $10,000 bond and the insurance, the acts a registrant may not do, the exemptions, the fines, and the one-year limit on lawsuits over a report.
What is left out
How building systems work and fail, which the outside examinations ask. Alaska's statute refers to standards of practice adopted by the department, and 12 AAC 22 prints none, so no question here is about inspection technique. The chapter's contractor sections are left out too.
A home inspection report is valid for 180 days after the inspector signs and dates it (AS 08.18.023).
A lawsuit based on a report must start within one year, and a contract cannot waive that limit (AS 08.18.085).
The pre-inspection document and the report each carry the inspector's registration number (AS 08.18.023).
Questions and answers
Does Alaska license home inspectors?
Alaska registers them. Under AS 08.18.011 an individual may not inspect a home without a certificate of registration for new homes, existing homes or both, issued by the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development. Associate home inspectors register too.
What exam does Alaska require for home inspector registration?
For existing homes, the department's application form of January 2026 points to the National Home Inspector Examination, the first one 12 AAC 22.030 lists. For new homes or a joint registration, the rule requires four International Code Council residential inspector examinations.
Does Alaska have its own home inspector exam?
No. Passing scores come from outside examination bodies and are sent straight to the department (12 AAC 22.030). The 50-question exam on this page is our own round on Alaska law and copies no real test.
How much does Alaska home inspector registration cost?
12 AAC 02.235 sets a $100 nonrefundable application fee, $250 for the registration and $250 for each biennial renewal. The department's form, revised January 2026, shows the same $350 total to apply.
How long does an Alaska home inspector registration last?
Two years. The department's application form says registrations expire on June 30 of even-numbered years. Renewal takes at least eight contact hours of continuing competency (AS 08.18.031, 12 AAC 22.300).