FAC-C Professional

It is the professional-tier Federal Acquisition Certification in Contracting for the civilian acquisition workforce, maintained by FAI within GSA. It signals that a contracting professional has completed the required training and demonstrated on-the-job experience across the full acquisition life cycle. Confirm current requirements directly on FAI's certification pages, since the curriculum is revised.

FAI structures this as a certification program with training and experience components rather than a single standalone test, and the official page content was unavailable when we last checked. Treat our multiple-choice items as practice for the knowledge you must demonstrate, not as a replica of an official test instrument, and verify assessment details with FAI.

Every item is a self-contained multiple-choice question with four options and a full rationale. Nothing depends on an exhibit, image, or external document, so you can drill on a phone between meetings. Questions are tagged to one of the four study domains so you can see which part of the life cycle is costing you points.

FAI announced that effective Nov. 1, 2026, CON 7300V: Price Analysis becomes a mandatory course for civilian agency professionals pursuing FAC-C (Professional) certification, strengthening foundational pricing skills and maintaining reciprocity with Department of War contracting standards. If your certification package is not approved by Oct. 31, you will need to complete the course.

It depends on approval timing, not submission. FAI states that professionals who have not received approval of their certification package by Oct. 31 will need to complete CON 7300V. If your package is still pending as that date approaches, plan on taking the course rather than assuming your submission protects you.

FAI directs learners to FAI CSOD for course access and to its registration portal linked from the FAI site. The site also lists a WarU help desk and a contact page for access problems. Course seats and schedules are published there, so check the FAI site for the current catalog rather than relying on secondhand lists.

Start with acquisition planning and market research, because solicitation and evaluation questions usually assume those decisions are already made. Then move to evaluation and award, and finish with contract administration, which is the largest domain and the one most candidates under-prepare. Cycle back through missed items rather than rereading outlines.

Three recur: choosing the answer that is ethically desirable over the one the regulation requires, confusing pre-award documentation with post-award enforcement, and answering from personal office practice instead of the governing rule. Read the call of the question twice, eliminate options that describe a different phase, and pick the answer tied to the stated authority.

Neither the official exam length, the time allowance, nor the passing threshold was available in the source material we could retrieve, so we do not publish figures we cannot verify. Check FAI's certification pages for the authoritative answer. Our practice sets are untimed and scored by domain so you can track improvement instead.

Yes. Practice sets can be retaken as often as you like, and each attempt reshuffles and re-reports by domain. Official retake rules for the certification process itself were not stated in the material we retrieved, so confirm those with FAI. Use retakes diagnostically: note why each wrong option was attractive before moving on.