ACAMS CGSS Certified Global Sanctions Specialist Online Training
ACAMS CGSS Online Training
The questions for CGSS were last updated at May 10,2025.
- Exam Code: CGSS
- Exam Name: Certified Global Sanctions Specialist
- Certification Provider: ACAMS
- Latest update: May 10,2025
Which of the following could affect the pursuit and implementation of incentive policies?
- A . Institutional struggle
- B . Partisan struggle
- C . Individual Struggle
- D . Factional struggle
- E . National Struggle
How can a state, even during peaceful relations, bring pressure on another state without actual war?
- A . Through Pacific Blockade
- B . Through Round Table Conference
- C . Through Article 12
- D . Through necessary determinations
- E . By using any of the above options
Asset freezing legislation generally permits a person to make which of the following payments into a frozen account without the need for a license from OFSI, so long as those funds are frozen after being paid in:
- A . Any interest or earnings on the account
- B . Any payments due to a designated person under contracts, agreement or obligations that were concluded or arose before the date the person became sanctioned
- C . Any interest or earnings that is not on the account
- D . Any payment from an unknown source
In Resolution 661 (1990), the Council requested all States to avoid:
- A . Availability of any funds or other cash flow assets to the Iraqi Government, any commercial or public service undertaking in Iraq or Kuwait, or to persons or bodies within Iraq or Kuwait.
- B . Importation of all goods and services originating in Malaysia.
- C . Exports of goods and services to Iraq.
- D . Activities intended to promote the export of some goods or services from Iraq.
- E . Exports of goods and services to Malaysia.
Under what objective does the Security Council has imposed sanctions to facilitate the return of refugees and displaced persons in the Former Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY)?
- A . Promoting good governance
- B . Facilitating the establishment and consolidation of peace
- C . Bringing about disarmament or arms control
- D . Facilitating the exercise or protection of human rights
- E . Ending a rebellion, invasion, or external interference
If there is going to be a member state resorting to war in breach of the Covenant then state the final judgment for them?
- A . It would be subject to automatic sanctions
- B . There will be reprisal blockade for it
- C . All economic or financial ties for this will be cut
- D . Forms of violence would fall short of the use of force envisaged for it
- E . There will be reprisal blockade for it and all economic or financial ties for this will be cut
When requesting information from you, OFSI will not specify which of the following:
- A . The legislative basis for the request
- B . The time period within which the information is to be provided to us
- C . The manner in which the information should be provided
- D . The importance of the request
- E . The dispute surrounding the request
How the offending party can withdraw or correct defective filings?
- A . The safe harbor provision offers the offending party an opportunity to withdraw or correct defective filings
- B . By appealing to the court
- C . By correlating the response, in hours and funds expended, to the merit of the claims
- D . Through mitigating factor resulting in a lesser sanction
- E . Through mitigate expenses to a reasonable extent
Which acts were born of a sense of frustration and necessity in Congress?
- A . Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995
- B . National Banking Act of 1963
- C . Helms-Burton Act of 1996
- D . CDA of 1992
- E . Militia Act of 1991
Which of the following is/are international initiatives that have been undertaken to develop and hone political approaches to the targeting of sanctions?
- A . The Interlaken Process
- B . The UN Security Council Process
- C . The Bonn-Berlin Process
- D . The Stockholm Process on the Implementation of Targeted UN Sanctions
- E . The Targeted Financial Sanctions Process