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CRCM study plan

CRCM · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Deposit Products and Services & Compliance Management and Regulatory Environment

  • Map each core deposit regulation (Reg DD, Reg CC, Reg D, Reg E, FDIC insurance rules) to its disclosure trigger, delivery timing, and retention requirement

  • Outline a compliance management system covering board oversight, policies, training, monitoring, audit, and complaint handling

  • Compute funds-availability schedules for 10 check-deposit scenarios using Reg CC hold and exception rules

  • Draft a one-page deposit disclosure event timeline from account opening through change-in-terms and renewal

Your checkpoint

A regulation-to-trigger matrix covering 12 deposit rules plus a 25-question self-test scored at 80% or better

Week 2

Deposit Products and Services & Compliance Management and Regulatory Environment

  • Classify 15 overdraft and NSF scenarios as compliant or deficient against Reg DD, the Reg E opt-in, and UDAAP standards

  • Trace Reg E error-resolution timelines (10 business days, provisional credit, 45- and 90-day extensions) across dispute fact patterns

  • Apply FDIC deposit insurance limits to 10 ownership-category scenarios including joint, POD, revocable trust, and retirement accounts

  • Write a complaint-response memo for a fee dispute that names the rule, the consumer-harm risk, and the remediation

Your checkpoint

A decision log for 15 overdraft and error-resolution cases, each with a regulatory citation, scored against an answer key

Week 3

Loan Products and Services

  • Diagram the TRID disclosure sequence from application to consummation, including the 3-business-day and 7-business-day waiting periods

  • Calculate APR, finance charge, and tolerance-cure amounts for 8 closed-end consumer loans

  • Apply Reg B adverse-action and notification requirements to 10 credit decisions, including counteroffers

  • Determine flood insurance and appraisal obligations for 6 collateral scenarios

  • Map HMDA reportable data fields and the LAR entries triggered by each loan type

Your checkpoint

A loan-file audit checklist spanning Reg Z, Reg B, RESPA, flood, and HMDA, completed against 3 sample files

Week 4

Loan Products and Services & Compliance Management and Regulatory Environment

  • Distinguish disparate treatment from disparate impact across pricing, steering, and redlining fact patterns

  • Apply SCRA, Military Lending Act, and ECOA spousal-signature rules to 10 borrower scenarios

  • Explain how insider-lending limits and commercial credit risk intersect with consumer compliance obligations

  • Convert a loan-file finding into a root cause, corrective action, and validation test in an issue-tracking log

Your checkpoint

A timed 50-question practice set on Domains 1, 2, and 5 scored at 75% or better, with a written remediation note for every miss

Week 5

Marketing and Advertising

  • Screen 12 ad samples across print, web, email, and social channels against UDAAP, Reg Z advertising, Reg DD trigger terms, and deposit-insurance misrepresentation rules

  • Identify required disclosures for HELOC and closed-end credit advertising, including trigger-term and actual-terms requirements

  • Map TCPA consent, CAN-SPAM, and telemarketing rules onto a loan-solicitation campaign workflow

  • Apply FCRA pre-screened solicitation requirements (firm offer, opt-out notice, permissible purpose) to a direct-mail campaign

Your checkpoint

A redline of three mock advertisements, with every deficiency cited to its regulation and a corrected version attached

Week 6

Specific Financial Products and Services (e.g., trust, insurance, securities)

  • Differentiate fiduciary duties, Reg 9, and ERISA obligations across trust and retirement account types

  • Apply GLBA privacy notice, opt-out, and safeguarding requirements to a third-party data-sharing scenario

  • Classify securities, insurance, and annuity products by the licensing, disclosure, and suitability regime governing each

  • Evaluate bank referral and networking arrangements against Reg R and the broker-dealer exceptions

  • Outline identity-theft red-flag procedures under Reg S-ID for a new-account opening workflow

Your checkpoint

A two-page product-to-regulation reference table covering trust, insurance, annuities, securities, and privacy

Week 7

Deposit Products and Services & Loan Products and Services & Marketing and Advertising & Specific Financial Products and Services (e.g., trust, insurance, securities) & Compliance Management and Regulatory Environment

  • Solve 20 cross-domain vignettes that each require naming two or more applicable regulations

  • Re-teach your three weakest sub-topics in written teach-back summaries with no notes

  • Rebuild your regulation index into a decision tree that answers which rule applies first

  • Re-attempt every previously missed question type from your running error log

Your checkpoint

A weak-spot dossier tracking at least 30 misses, each re-answered correctly and cited to its source

Week 8

Deposit Products and Services & Loan Products and Services & Marketing and Advertising & Specific Financial Products and Services (e.g., trust, insurance, securities) & Compliance Management and Regulatory Environment

  • Complete two full-length timed practice exams under exam-day conditions

  • Drill rapid recall on timing thresholds, dollar limits, and notice periods

  • Rehearse exam-day logistics including scheduling, identification, breaks, and question-pacing benchmarks

  • Write a one-page numbers-and-deadlines sheet from memory, then verify each entry against source material

Your checkpoint

Two full-length practice scores at 80% or better plus a verified 20-item numbers-and-deadlines sheet at 95% accuracy

Milestones

Week 2: Can state the disclosure trigger and timing for any deposit regulation without notes, and score 80%+ on the 25-question deposit self-test

Week 4: Score 75%+ on the timed 50-question set covering Domains 1, 2, and 5, with every miss converted to a written remediation item

Week 6: Explain the governing regime for any trust, insurance, annuity, or securities product in under 60 seconds, and pass a self-quiz on GLBA and Reg R exceptions

Week 8: Two consecutive full-length practice exams at 80%+ with no domain below 70%, and the numbers-and-deadlines sheet reproduced from memory