Advanced-CAMS-FCI Exam Information and Outline
ACAMS Certified AFC Investigator
Syllabus Update Checked on: November 6, 2026
Advanced-CAMS-FCI Exam Syllabus & Study Guide
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- Exam Format
- 90 multiple-choice, multiple-selection and scenario questions
- Duration: 175 minutes; passing score 75
- Module 1: Governance of an AFC Investigations Unit (20%)
- Investigation program structure and risk-based decision-making
- Transaction monitoring, customer profiling and tools
- Metrics, effectiveness and board reporting
- Roles of FIUs, law enforcement and regulators; public-private information sharing
- Module 2: Leading Complex Investigations (30%)
- Escalating sensitive cases; avoiding tipping off
- Privacy rules and investigation documentation
- Data sources, reliability and cross-border considerations
- Scoping and concluding investigations; unusual vs. suspicious activity
- Analytical software and complex ML schemes
- Module 3: Financial Crime Typologies, Intermediate (30%)
- High-risk products: correspondent banking, trusts, private banking
- High-risk customers: shell companies, MSBs, DNFBPs, cash-intensive businesses
- Bribery and corruption; predicate offences
- Proliferation and terrorism financing
- Cyber-enabled crime: BEC, ransomware
- Human trafficking, environmental crime and online platform misuse
- Module 4: Reporting Suspicious Activity (20%)
- SAR/STR process and narrative content
- Presenting facts, analysis, chronology and bottom line
- SAR quality evaluation and jurisdictional filing requirements