Topic 2 · Requirements and Process
When you buy a vehicle, you have how long to transfer ownership into your name?
- Ten days — correct answer
- Twenty days
- Five days
Why
Ten days to transfer when you buy; five days to notify the DMV when you sell. (Section 11, Buying or Selling a Vehicle.)
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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