A court finds a person in contempt for violating an injunction issued under chapter 18.235 RCW. Up to what civil penalty may the court order?RCW 18.235.160
A licensee appeals the director's disciplinary order to superior court. What cash bond must the appellant give?RCW 18.85.390
A managing broker served with a statement of charges requests a hearing. No summary suspension has been issued. What is the earliest the hearing may be held?RCW 18.235.050(2)
How often does the Washington Real Estate Commission meet under RCW 18.85.025?RCW 18.85.025
Into which account is money from fines imposed under chapter 18.85 RCW deposited?RCW 18.85.061
Of the six appointed commission members, how many must come from the part of Washington east of the Cascade mountain range?RCW 18.85.021
When may the department require a licensee to repay the cost of investigating the matter?RCW 18.235.110(2)
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Licensing requirements 10
A candidate approved for the managing broker examination on alternative qualifications fails it. What does WAC 308-124A-715 say about a retake?WAC 308-124A-715
A license was canceled for nonpayment 14 months ago. Without retaking the examination, what course work must the former licensee show to be reinstated?WAC 308-124A-780(1)
An active managing broker wants to revert to a broker's license. What is needed besides the department's form and any fees?WAC 308-124A-726
An applicant lacks three years as a full-time broker but has worked as a licensed loan originator in good standing. How much full-time experience in that work may qualify instead?WAC 308-124A-713
How often is a fingerprint background check required for the renewal of an active license?WAC 308-124A-700(3)
How recent, and how long, must each course be that an applicant counts toward the managing broker's license examination?RCW 18.85.111(1)(d)
May one person serve as designated broker for more than one real estate firm?RCW 18.85.121
Which of these keeps a business from receiving a real estate firm license?RCW 18.85.091(1)(b)
Which three courses must the 90 hours of instruction for a managing broker's license include?RCW 18.85.111(1)(d)
With the director's approval and in cooperation with a Washington designated broker, an out-of-state licensee may perform licensed acts in Washington for which kind of property?RCW 18.85.131(1)
Statutes and rules governing licensee activity 20
A broker at a branch office violates chapter 18.85 RCW. Who bears responsibility for that broker's conduct?RCW 18.85.201
A buyer deposits $25,000 in earnest money with the firm. What must the licensee disclose in writing to the buyer?WAC 308-124E-110(1)(b)
A designated broker is closing the firm. Within how long must the department receive a closing firm affidavit?WAC 308-124C-125(13)
A firm ends a broker's services because the broker violated chapter 18.85 RCW. What must the firm do?RCW 18.85.291
A firm moves its office. Within how many days must the designated broker submit a change of address application with the licenses?WAC 308-124B-205
A firm wants to do business under three assumed names besides the name on its license. What must it obtain first?RCW 18.85.221
A managing broker wants to market under a team brand that is not a licensed assumed name. Whose advance written approval does the rule require?WAC 308-124B-210(2)(d)
A property management trust account holds tenant security deposits. May the bank make preauthorized deductions from it for an owner's mortgage payment?WAC 308-124E-115(3)
An owner entitled to money held in trust demands it, and the licensee does not return it. After how long is that failure prima facie evidence of conversion?RCW 18.85.361(5)
Bank fees exceed the interest earned and leave a trust account below its liability to clients. How soon after notice must the designated broker restore the balance from the firm's business account?WAC 308-124E-110(1)(d)
Before closing, and before any condition in the purchase and sale agreement has happened, what is needed to disburse earnest money from the trust account?WAC 308-124E-110(3)
From which account may a firm pay the commission it owes to a cooperating firm?WAC 308-124E-105(14)
Funds arrive in the trust account by wire. When may the firm disburse against them?WAC 308-124E-105(12)(a)
How often must a firm's trust bank accounts be reconciled and a trial balance of the client ledgers prepared?WAC 308-124E-105(11)
How often, at the least, must a firm withdraw its property management commissions from the trust account?WAC 308-124E-115(4)
To whom may a designated broker delegate supervision of brokers and the handling of trust accounts?WAC 308-124C-125(8)
Under RCW 18.85.275(2), when does the designated broker become responsible for funds and records the firm must hold?RCW 18.85.275(2)
When may a firm keep a transaction's records at one central facility in Washington, away from its licensed office?WAC 308-124C-110(2)
Who must manage a branch office of a real estate firm?RCW 18.85.241
Who must sign a designated broker's written delegation of duties?WAC 308-124C-125(8)
Real estate brokerage relationships (agency) 8
A broker represents a buyer solely for commercial real estate, and the firm has no services agreement with the buyer. What may the broker give the buyer instead, before the buyer signs an offer?RCW 18.86.080(8)
A house is under contract when a second written offer arrives. What must the seller's broker do with it?RCW 18.86.030(1)(c)
A seller pays the compensation of the firm whose broker represents the buyer. What does that payment do to the agency relationships?RCW 18.86.080(2)
Besides the amount of compensation, what must a services agreement with a buyer say about showings?RCW 18.86.080(7)(b)
For which of these may a firm be paid without a services agreement?RCW 18.86.080(9)
Under chapter 18.86 RCW, who is an "agent" of a principal besides the broker appointed to represent that principal?RCW 18.86.010(2)
Unless otherwise agreed in writing, which duties does a broker still owe after the agency relationship has ended?RCW 18.86.070(2)
When is a principal liable for an agent's act, error or omission arising out of the agency relationship?RCW 18.86.090
Scenarios in real estate practice 5
Scenario: a broker licensed for eight months is asked to negotiate a ground lease for a shopping center, work beyond the broker's level of expertise. You are the managing broker appointed to supervise. What does the rule expect of the broker?WAC 308-124C-145(2)(c)
Scenario: a department auditor arrives unannounced at your branch at 10 a.m. on a Tuesday and asks for the records the firm is required to keep. What does WAC 308-124I-050 say?WAC 308-124I-050(6)
Scenario: a firm that manages rental houses wants to send the owners' repair work to a repair company it has a relationship with. What does the rule require first?WAC 308-124D-215(4)
Scenario: the firm's designated broker is retiring and you will take over as designated broker. What statement does the rule call for?WAC 308-124A-825
Scenario: your firm has managed a 20-unit building for five years and holds the tenants' security deposits in trust. The owner ends the management agreement and hires another firm. What happens to the deposits?WAC 308-124E-115(6)
How this list was compiled: Written from chapters 18.85, 18.86 and 18.235 of the Revised Code of Washington and chapters 308-124A, 308-124B, 308-124C, 308-124D, 308-124E and 308-124I of the Washington Administrative Code, as published by the Washington State Legislature at https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=18.85 and https://app.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=308-124C, all read 2026-10-13. The spread of topics follows the managing broker counts of the State Content Outline for Broker and Managing Broker Examinations in the Washington Real Estate Commission Candidate Information Bulletin (https://test-takers.psiexams.com/api/content/bulletin/4658, dated 3/28/2024), issued for the Washington State Department of Licensing, whose real estate page is https://dol.wa.gov/professional-licenses/real-estate-brokers. Licence: Own work. Questions, answer choices and explanations were written for this site from the statute and rule text; nothing is copied from another practice test, a prep book or the state exam. Short quotations from the statutes and rules are marked.
How it works
This unofficial Washington state real estate managing broker practice test has 50 of our own state-portion questions from RCW 18.85, 18.86 and 18.235 and WAC 308-124A to 308-124I. It is not affiliated with the Washington State Department of Licensing.
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The managing broker's state outline
The state content outline in the Candidate Information Bulletin gives managing brokers 44 questions worth 48 points: general rules 6, licensing requirements 9, statutes and rules governing licensee activity 18, brokerage relationships 7, and 4 scenarios on property management, supervision and two other topics.
What the managing broker exam adds
Supervision is the managing broker's own subject: written delegations from the designated broker, branch managers, monthly trust reconciliations, closing a firm. The real scenario questions score each option zero, one or two points; the five scenarios here have one right answer each.
Who may sit the exam
RCW 18.85.111 asks three years as a full-time broker within the last five, or related experience accepted under WAC 308-124A-713, plus 90 hours of courses.
Only a managing broker licensed to the firm can take on a designated broker's delegated duties (WAC 308-124C-125).
A trust account left short by bank fees is brought back into balance within one banking day (WAC 308-124E-110).
Paying a firm's compensation does not by itself create an agency relationship (RCW 18.86.080).
Questions and answers
How many questions are on the Washington managing broker exam?
The Candidate Information Bulletin lists 90 national questions worth 100 points in 150 minutes and 44 state questions worth 48 points in 90 minutes. Five to ten unscored experimental questions may be added.
What score passes the managing broker exam in Washington?
A scaled score of 75 on each portion (WAC 308-124A-760). A scaled score is not a percent of questions, so this page counts right answers and names no pass mark. A passed portion stays valid for six months.
Is the Washington managing broker exam a simulation?
Partly. The bulletin says the national portion includes scenario-based questions with more than four options, each option worth zero, one or two points. The state portion is multiple choice, with four scenario questions worth eight points.
Are these the real Washington managing broker exam questions?
No. They are ours, written from the statutes and rules cited under each answer. The exam itself is closed to us, and no Washington managing broker or attorney has reviewed this bank. The national portion and its scenarios are not here.