Lesson plan

Moraph Certified Financial Services Specialist: certification training

Prepare for the Moraph Certified Financial Services Specialist exam with condensed reviews of the six required courses, worked scenarios, knowledge checks and a practice exam.

Back to the course

Product: Moraph account
Level: Practitioner
For: Users, Administrators, Implementation partners
Total time: 1 hr 34 min
Lessons: 14 in 5 modules
Assessments: 4

Course objectives

Explain what the Moraph Certified Financial Services Specialist certification covers and how the adaptive exam routes and scores your answers
Build a study plan that maps each required course to its key topics and your own weak spots
Recall the key concepts, roles, approvals and limits of the BSA/AML, third-party risk, bank operations, wealth compliance, model governance and security platform products
Apply separation of duties, confidentiality and "who decides" reasoning to realistic scenarios across all six courses
Recognize where each product's role ends and your institution's judgment, counsel or vendors take over
Test your readiness with a practice exam drawn from all six required courses

Before the course

A free Moraph account
Completion of, or familiarity with, the required courses for the certification

Module 1: The certification and the exam (22 min)

Lesson	Type and time	Learners will be able to	Activity and assessment
The certification at a glance	Reading 5 min	Describe what the Moraph Certified Financial Services Specialist certification shows and who it is for Name the six required courses and the skill each one stands for Recognize the themes that run through every required course	Reading
How the adaptive exam works	Reading 6 min	Explain how the exam routes you between easier and harder sections Calculate an exam score from points earned against an all-medium exam Describe the rules on attempts, repeated questions and your own work	Reading
Planning your preparation and exam day	Reading 6 min	Map each required course to the key topics most likely to appear in exam questions Plan your review so your weakest courses get the most attention Use a consistent strategy for reading and answering scenario questions on exam day	Reading
Practical: build your study plan	Practical exercise 5 min	Rate your confidence in each required course and choose where to start Turn your ratings into a dated plan that ends with the practice exam	Practical exercise with a checklist

Module 2: Review: BSA/AML and third-party risk (18 min)

Lesson	Type and time	Learners will be able to	Activity and assessment
Review: AML & SAR Automation Hub	Reading 6 min	Recall the Hub's record chain, roles and the rules on four-eyes approval and the audit trail Apply triage, recommendation, SAR and continuing-activity rules to new scenarios Avoid the common traps around filing, exporting and confidentiality	Reading
Review: Vendor Risk Management	Reading 6 min	Recall how VRM maps the interagency life cycle to its records, stages and roles Apply tiering, due-diligence, SOC review and issue rules to new scenarios Recognize what VRM and Third-Party Risk Scoring don't do	Reading
Knowledge check: BSA/AML and third-party risk	Assessment 6 min	Check that you can apply the AML & SAR Automation Hub's roles, stages and confidentiality rules Check that you can apply Vendor Risk Management's tiering, review and issue rules	6 questions · pass mark 70% · unlimited attempts

Module 3: Review: bank operations and wealth compliance (17 min)

Lesson	Type and time	Learners will be able to	Activity and assessment
Review: credit union and bank operations products	Reading 6 min	Recall the records, stages, approvals and limits of the six operations products Calculate participation headroom and a construction draw's supported amount Recognize which decisions stay with your officers, counsel and staff	Reading
Review: wealth and capital markets compliance	Reading 5 min	Recall the records, roles and approvals of the seven wealth and capital markets products Choose between approve, return and escalate, and know who decides exceptions, certifications and releases Recognize where each product stops and your firm's judgment or counsel takes over	Reading
Knowledge check: bank operations and wealth compliance	Assessment 6 min	Check that you can apply the operations products' calculations, conditions and approvals Check that you can apply the wealth compliance products' review, certification and release rules	6 questions · pass mark 70% · unlimited attempts

Module 4: Review: model governance and security platforms (17 min)

Lesson	Type and time	Learners will be able to	Activity and assessment
Review: risk, capital and model governance	Reading 6 min	Recall the records, approvals and default controls of the six risk and governance products Apply independence, overlay and maker-checker rules to new scenarios Recognize which conclusions stay with your institution's people and policy	Reading
Review: managed security platforms	Reading 5 min	Recall the three-party model and the vendor behind each of the eight managed security services Apply baselines, change requests, exceptions and emergency procedures to new scenarios Decide who acts and who decides when an alert, incident or examination request comes up	Reading
Knowledge check: model governance and security platforms	Assessment 6 min	Check that you can apply independence, overlay and maker-checker rules in the risk and governance products Check that you can decide who acts and who decides on the managed security platforms	6 questions · pass mark 70% · unlimited attempts

Module 5: Practice exam (20 min)

Lesson	Type and time	Learners will be able to	Activity and assessment
Practice exam	Assessment 20 min	Test your readiness across all six required courses with a mix of easy, medium and hard questions Use the explanations to find the topics to revisit before the certification exam	20 of 40 questions · pass mark 80% · unlimited attempts

Completing the course

Every lesson must be completed: reading lessons are marked complete by the learner, exercises when every checklist item is confirmed, and assessments only when passed. Completing the course issues a certificate of completion with a verification code.