Topic 7 · Insurance and Financial Responsibility
If your license was suspended due to an accident with no insurance, how long must you maintain SR-22 if you reinstate after 1 year?
- Indefinitely
- Just one month
- For the remaining suspension period, usually up to 3 years — correct answer
Why
Through the remainder of the suspension, which is the three-year period following the first year. (Handbook, Section 10.)
Practise this in the real format
Reading one answer is not the same as sitting the test. The simulator runs the first-time adult form: 36 questions, 6 mistakes allowed, 83% to pass.
Source: California Driver's Handbook (DL 600, rev. 6/2025), the document the DMV writes the real test from. Edited by Fernando Aguilera. Aprobify is not affiliated with the California DMV.
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