About Foundation Study Guide
Commercial prep for credentialing exams often costs hundreds of dollars, and a lot of it is built around memorizing facts rather than understanding where you're weak. Foundation Study Guide takes a different approach: short practice sections that follow the official exam outline, followed by a study plan based on exactly what you missed.
How questions are written
Every question is original. Questions are written from each exam's public content outline, such as the Commission on Dietetic Registration's outline for the RD exam the ASPPB's content specifications for the EPPP, CFP Board's Principal Knowledge Topics for the CFP® exam, and CFA Institute's published Level I and Level II topic areas, and from current professional guidelines and ethics codes. We never copy or adapt questions from other prep products or from the exams themselves.
Each question is tagged to a domain and a topic. That tagging is what powers the study plan at the end of every section. Where an exam tests case studies, such as CFA® Level II item sets and CFP® client cases, we write full case studies with their own questions, so you can practice reading a scenario and applying it.
Accuracy and corrections
Guidelines change, and mistakes happen. Every explanation names the rule or guideline behind the answer so you can check it. If you think an answer is wrong or out of date, email [email protected] with the question text. Confirmed errors are corrected and the question bank is updated.
What this is not
Foundation Study Guide is not affiliated with any credentialing body, including the CDR, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, the ASPPB, CFP Board, or CFA Institute, and its questions have not been statistically calibrated against the real exams. Practice scores are percentages, not scaled scores, so they can't predict whether you'll pass. Use them to find what to study.