GACS Academy
Free practice exams
Study before you sit a final. Each practice exam has questions with answers, short explanations and a link back to the matching study-book chapter. Practice questions are separate from the graded exams.
Online Intelligence Analyst (OIA)
Practise open-source intelligence basics: the collection cycle, safe investigative set-up, social media, images, domains and reporting.
Start 15 practice questionsCertified Fraud Prevention Specialist (CFPS)
Practise fraud prevention fundamentals: how fraudsters think, common scam patterns, victim psychology, triage and evidence.
Start 15 practice questionsCrypto & Blockchain Investigator (CBI)
Practise blockchain tracing: Bitcoin-style and Ethereum-style chains, bridges and mixers, privacy tools, and how freezes and reports work.
Start 15 practice questionsMaster Intelligence & Counter-Fraud Analyst (MICA)
Practise the integrated master-level skills: intelligence foundations, fraud and crypto crime, OSINT attribution, tradecraft, and legal and ethical limits.
Start 15 practice questionsSurveillance & Counter-Surveillance Specialist (SCS)
Practise personal protective intelligence: threat models, reading your environment, spotting surveillance, digital pattern-of-life, and documenting incidents.
Start 15 practice questionsSCS Advanced — Protective Operations
Practise protective operations concepts: advance work, venue surveys, arrivals and departures, surveillance detection routes, attack cycles and travel safety.
Start 15 practice questionsLarge Language Model Engineering (LLM)
Practise large language model fundamentals: tokens and embeddings, transformers, training and fine-tuning, evaluation, retrieval, safety and cost.
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Authoritative sources
Independent primary sources used to check and corroborate the guidance on this page.
NIST National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE)US national framework for cybersecurity work roles and competencies.
Financial Action Task Force (FATF)Global AML/CFT standards referenced by financial-crime curricula.
FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center — Annual ReportsPrimary loss and typology data used in fraud-investigation training.
US Federal Trade Commission — Consumer Sentinel Data BookOfficial complaint statistics for teaching fraud trend analysis.