Certified Export Specialist study plan
Certified Export Specialist · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 7 hours per week
Export Administration Regulations
Create a supported item-to-transaction decision map, distinguishing software, technology, later transfers, and authorization conditions.
Explain the decisive evidence and why each plausible alternative fails before reading the answer key.
Your checkpoint
A checked case worksheet and error log for jurisdiction, classification, and ear transaction requirements.
International Traffic in Arms Regulations
Map the scope of a defense-related activity, distinguish registration from permission, and identify actual recipients and rights.
Explain the decisive evidence and why each plausible alternative fails before reading the answer key.
Your checkpoint
A checked case worksheet and error log for defense articles, data, services, and agreements.
Foreign Trade Regulations and EEI
Reconcile commodity descriptions, classifications, quantities, parties, authorization data, filing status, and corrections.
Explain the decisive evidence and why each plausible alternative fails before reading the answer key.
Your checkpoint
A checked case worksheet and error log for accurate reporting and transaction roles.
OFAC sanctions
Resolve practice matches with evidence and apply ownership examples while separating different authorizations and required responses.
Explain the decisive evidence and why each plausible alternative fails before reading the answer key.
Your checkpoint
A checked case worksheet and error log for sanctions identity, ownership, and activity.
Incoterms and commercial delivery
Analyze named-place and rule-version examples, identifying separate title, payment, insurance, and legal-capacity issues.
Explain the decisive evidence and why each plausible alternative fails before reading the answer key.
Your checkpoint
A checked case worksheet and error log for delivery, risk, cost, and contract gaps.
U.S. antiboycott foundations
Compare exact commercial clauses and distinguish prohibited conduct, reportable receipt, factual origin information, and applicable exceptions.
Explain the decisive evidence and why each plausible alternative fails before reading the answer key.
Your checkpoint
A checked case worksheet and error log for requests, responses, and reporting.
Export compliance programs
Design role assignments, operational release controls, risk-based tests, traceable records, and verified corrective actions.
Explain the decisive evidence and why each plausible alternative fails before reading the answer key.
Your checkpoint
A checked case worksheet and error log for controls, testing, and remediation.
Credential identity and study logistics
Complete blind mixed practice, explain every error, and confirm current NCBFAA instructions without importing facts from unrelated credentials.
Explain the decisive evidence and why each plausible alternative fails before reading the answer key.
Your checkpoint
A checked case worksheet and error log for integrated practice and issuer verification.
Milestones
Week 4: Separate jurisdiction, classification, export permission, reporting status, and financial sanctions in an integrated case.
Week 8: Complete an integrated transaction review and current-primary-source gap check, with independently recomputed scenario arithmetic.