CQC persone quiz: how the exam works if you drive a bus for work

The letters CQC stand for the qualification card of people who drive as a job. It concerns you if you carry passengers, for work and on roads open to the public, with a vehicle for which you need the patente D1, D1E, D or DE. For this work the law asks for two things: the initial qualification and then periodic training (D.Lgs. 286/2005, art. 14).

In practice the patente D lets you drive the bus, while you need the CQC persone to do it as a job, with passengers on board.

The exam has 70 statements that you answer True or False:

• 40 from the common part, the same one studied by people who take the CQC merci (CQC for goods)
• 30 from the specialist part on the transport of passengers

You have 90 minutes. You pass the exam with at most 7 mistakes, and the mistakes are counted over all 70 statements together: there is no separate limit for each part.

The CQC list of questions has 16 sections. Sections 1 to 10 make up the common part, from 11 to 13 there is the transport of goods and from 14 to 16 the transport of passengers. So for the CQC persone you study the common part and these 3 sections:

• 14. Ability to ensure the safety and comfort of passengers (Capacità di assicurare la sicurezza e il comfort dei passeggeri)
• 15. Loading the vehicle, rules on the transport of passengers (Caricare il veicolo, regolamentazione relativa al trasporto di persone)
• 16. Economic context of road passenger transport and of the organisation of the market (Contesto economico dell'autotrasporto di persone e dell'organizzazione del mercato)

Sections 11 to 13, the ones on goods, are not part of your exam.

The CQC exam is only in Italian and in the languages of the protected minorities.

In the statements on the transport of passengers, words such as passengers (passeggeri), safety (sicurezza), comfort or rules (regolamentazione) come back often. If Italian is not your first language, learn these words together with their meaning: it helps you understand straight away what each sentence is about.

You get the carta di qualificazione del conducente after an initial qualification course (corso di qualificazione iniziale), standard or accelerated, and after passing the exam (D.Lgs. 286/2005, art. 19). First comes the course, then the exam.

To practise for the exam:

• study one section at a time, from the common part to sections 14, 15 and 16
• then do full simulations: 70 statements in 90 minutes
• after each simulation, review the sections where you made mistakes

With PatenteInTasca you find explanations and exam simulations (simulazioni d'esame) for the CQC persone. PatenteInTasca is not affiliated with the Ministero delle Infrastrutture e dei Trasporti (MIT, the Italian Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport) or with the Motorizzazione (the vehicle licensing office), it is not a driving school and it does not replace the initial qualification course.