What the real Part 107 exam actually looks like
The Unmanned Aircraft General — Small (UAG) knowledge test is 60 multiple-choice questions in 120 minutes, taken in person at a PSI testing center. There is no penalty for guessing, the pass mark is 70% — 42 correct out of 60 — and you get your result before you leave the building. This simulation mirrors that structure, including the FAA's published area weighting.
The five knowledge areas and what each is worth
The FAA publishes how heavily each area is weighted, and those percentages are what the 60-question draw above is built from. They are also the single most useful thing to know before you decide where to spend your study time.
| Knowledge area | Share of the exam | Roughly, out of 60 | Our written question set |
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| Regulations | 15–25% | 9–15 questions | 41 questions |
| Airspace & requirements | 15–25% | 9–15 questions | 38 questions |
| Weather | 11–16% | 7–10 questions | 20 questions |
| Loading & performance | 7–11% | 4–7 questions | 15 questions |
| Operations | 35–45% | 21–27 questions | 46 questions |
Two subjects sit inside those buckets rather than beside them, and both are recent enough that second-hand study notes often miss them: night operations, tested since the 2021 rule change that lifted the daylight-only restriction, and Remote ID, tested since the 2023 compliance deadline. We keep them as separate 10-question drills for exactly that reason.
Operations is where the exam is won or lost
Read the table again. Operations alone can be 45% of your test — more than regulations and airspace combined. It is also the area candidates under-study, because it looks like common sense: aeronautical decision making, the five hazardous attitudes and their antidotes, crew resource management, fitness for flight, radio phraseology, and emergency procedures. That resemblance to common sense is the trap. These questions are written so that two options both sound sensible and only one matches the FAA's published doctrine. Answer as the handbook would, not as you would.
Why our drills give four choices when the real test gives three
The live FAA exam presents three answer choices per question. Ours present four. That is deliberate: a fourth plausible distractor cuts the odds of a blind guess from one in three to one in four, so your practice score reflects what you actually know rather than what you got away with. If you are consistently clearing 85% here, the real paper's three-choice format works in your favour, not against you.
How to use this simulation
Run it cold the first time — timer on, notes away, no pausing. The score matters less than the per-area breakdown you get at the end, because that breakdown is your study plan. Whatever area comes back weakest, read its study guide, work through that topic's full written question set, then draw a fresh 60.
Timing is rarely the constraint. Two hours for 60 questions is two minutes each, and most candidates finish with time to spare. Use the surplus: flag anything you were unsure of, finish the paper, then go back to the flags. Changing an answer on review is not the mistake folklore claims it is — changing it without a reason is.
A practical readiness bar is two consecutive mocks at 85% or better. That leaves a 15-point cushion over the 70% pass mark, which is about the margin you want for test-day nerves and for the handful of questions phrased in a way you have not seen before. If you would rather work on paper first, the free 50-question practice exam PDF uses the same question style with a full answer key.
Where these questions come from
Every question is written by us against the FAA's own published sources: 14 CFR Part 107, the Remote Pilot Airman Certification Standards (FAA-S-ACS-10), and the FAA's remote pilot study guide. Every explanation names the rule it rests on, so you can check us. Nobody outside the FAA testing system holds the live question bank, and a site offering to sell you "the real questions" is offering something it does not have. What we can do is write to the same published specification the exam is built from — and show our work on every answer.
Prefer reading to drilling? All 180 questions are written out in full, with answers and references, on the topic pages linked in the table above.