WRES - Wyoming Real Estate Salesperson

Question 1: Ordinarily a licensee may seek district-court review of a commission decision, but one situation cuts off that route entirely. When the Department of Family Services obtains a court-ordered license withholding for unpaid child support, which of the following BEST states the licensee's appeal rights?

District court review still applies

Appeal goes to the supreme court

Commission rehearing is the only remedy

No administrative appeal is allowed

Question 2: A Wyoming licensee disciplined by the commission wants to challenge the decision in court under the Administrative Procedure Act. A candidate must identify the correct forum for that judicial review and where geographically it may be brought. Which of the following states the proper route?

Supreme court in Cheyenne

District court where licensee resides

District court where violation occurred

Circuit court in any county

Question 3: The Wyoming commission contracts an outside hearing officer to hear a contested case. To keep the proceeding neutral, the statute bars certain people from serving in that role. Which of the following would the statute disqualify from acting as the hearing officer?

A sitting commission member

A retired Wyoming judge

An out-of-state attorney

A licensed appraiser

Question 4: An independent hearing officer presides over a contested disciplinary case under the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act. When the hearing closes, a candidate must identify what the hearing officer does with the outcome rather than issuing the final disciplinary order himself. Which of the following describes that action?

Issues the final disciplinary order

Refers the case to district court

Imposes the fine directly himself

Forwards findings and conclusions to commission

Question 5: A consumer wants to start a disciplinary action against a Wyoming salesperson and asks the commission office what a formal complaint requires. The staff explains the mandatory form the rules demand before a complaint can proceed. Which of the following best describes that requirement?

A sworn written notarized complaint

An oral complaint by phone

An anonymous emailed complaint

A verbal complaint at hearing

Question 6: An attorney in fact sells a ranch near Cody for an absent owner under a written power of attorney that was signed and notarized but never filed with the county. He claims the licensing exemption. Which statement BEST explains whether the exemption applies?

It applies once notarized

It applies to any agent

It fails without recording

Recording is never required

Question 7: A salesperson has kept the license on inactive status for some time and now wants it reactivated to active status. Under Wyoming law, which factor determines whether the licensee must first meet the educational requirements before the license can be reissued active?

Whether inactive more than one year

Whether inactive more than five years

Whether any fees remain unpaid

Whether inactive more than three years

Question 8: An instructor warns students not to confuse the number appearing in the statute with the number they actually owe, because the legislature capped mandatory continuing education at a level higher than the requirement. What does the sixty-hour figure in the statute represent?

The salesperson's required hours

The responsible broker's total hours

The statutory ceiling, not the requirement

The elective hours alone

Question 9: A salesperson has arranged to move to a new responsible broker in Cody and is eager to begin producing right away for the new firm. Under Wyoming law, at what point may the salesperson lawfully begin working for the new responsible broker?

Only after the new license issues

As soon as the transfer is requested

Immediately upon leaving the former broker

While the new license is pending

Question 10: An individual lives on site and, as part of the job, manages a Rock Springs apartment complex for its owner, showing units and signing leases with tenants without holding a real estate license. Which provision most directly accounts for the absence of a license?

The owner exemption

The attorney in fact exemption

The single-act rule

The resident manager exemption

Question 11: When a salesperson's contractual relationship with a responsible broker ends, Wyoming law places a specific and immediate duty on the broker regarding the departing salesperson's license. Which action must the responsible broker promptly take upon that termination of the association?

Wait thirty days then notify

Immediately notify the Commission for cancellation

File a transfer form for the salesperson

Notify the salesperson's next broker

Question 12: A salesperson who parked the license on inactive status is preparing to submit the renewal application during the normal cycle and asks whether continuing education must be completed for that inactive renewal. Which statement reflects the Wyoming rule for inactive renewals?

Full continuing education is still required

No fees and no education required

Only elective hours are required

Fees apply but no education required

Question 13: An office hires a helper to collect rent from tenants on behalf of property owners, for a fee, believing back-office tasks fall outside licensing. The helper personally solicits and receives the rent payments. Under Wyoming's definition of real estate activity, what does this require?

A real estate license

Only a property manager permit

Nothing, as clerical work

A resident manager exemption

Question 14: A person in Gillette, expecting a fee, agrees to negotiate the lease of a warehouse for an acquaintance but the deal never closes. He argues no license was needed because nothing was completed. How does Wyoming law characterize his conduct?

Lawful because nothing closed

Exempt as a single favor

Acting as a licensee

An unregulated referral only

Question 15: A salesperson reviewing the continuing-education rule sees that the forty-five hours split into a required category and an elective category. Which breakdown correctly states the number of required and elective hours a Wyoming salesperson must complete during each renewal cycle?

Twenty-one required, twenty-four elective

Thirty required, fifteen elective

Forty-five required, none elective

Twenty-four required, twenty-one elective

Question 16: A sale collapses and the buyer and seller both demand the earnest money the broker still holds in trust. They cannot agree on who gets it, and neither will release the funds. Absent a written release, what are the broker's only lawful ways to part with the disputed deposit?

Award it to the seller

Split it evenly between parties

Await a filed suit or interpleader

Return it after thirty days

Question 17: A buyer moving to Wyoming expects the seller to complete a mandatory residential property condition disclosure form like her prior state used. Setting aside the vacant-land statute, what actually supplies the broad obligation to reveal problems in an ordinary Wyoming home sale?

A mandatory residential seller disclosure form

The licensee's duty to disclose known defects

The vacant-land disclosure statement

A national property condition report

Question 18: Wyoming makes group errors and omissions coverage available to licensees and lets the Commission charge an administrative fee on top of the premium for those in the group program. A licensee asks how large that administrative fee may be. What limit does the statute set?

No more than ten percent of premium

No more than five percent

A flat three hundred dollars

No more than twenty percent

Question 19: Selling rural acreage outside any town near Pinedale, a seller must address severed-estate disclosures. Wyoming attaches one disclosure to vacant land and another, more broadly, to any land outside city and town limits. Which pairing correctly matches each severed estate to its disclosure trigger?

Wind on vacant land, mineral outside towns

Both only on platted subdivisions

Both only on parcels over 140 acres

Mineral on vacant land, wind outside towns

Question 20: A licensee comparing errors and omissions policies wants to be sure the deductible meets Wyoming's minimum standard. She asks what the rule allows as the maximum deductible for each occurrence, plus any additional deductible permitted for defense and investigation. What are those figures?

Five hundred dollars plus five hundred

One thousand dollars plus one thousand

Two thousand five hundred dollars total

One thousand dollars with no addition

WRES Wyoming Real Estate Salesperson - Set 1 - Part 1