Alaska DMV Practice Test 2026

Not quiteCorrect answer: A — You are on the wrong side of the road

The colours are reversed from normal. Yellow belongs on your left, white on your right; the reverse means you are facing oncoming traffic.

In poor visibility drivers follow whichever line they can see. Knowing which colour belongs on which side turns the markings into an orientation instrument.

Not quiteCorrect answer: C — Red, yellow, green

Red is always at the top and green at the bottom, so the signal can be read by position alone. That is what makes it usable by drivers who cannot reliably tell the colours apart.

Drivers assume they are reading colour and that position is decoration. In fog, in glare, or with colour vision deficiency the position is the only reliable information the signal carries.

Not quiteCorrect answer: B — Only the vehicles and only during the hours stated on the sign beside the lane

The diamond marks the lane as preferential — reserved for a particular class of vehicle. It never says which class or when; the sign beside it carries the conditions, and they differ from road to road.

Drivers learn the diamond as "carpool lane" and stop reading the sign. Diamonds also mark bus and bicycle lanes, and many are restricted only at certain hours, so the symbol alone never answers the question.

Not quiteCorrect answer: C — Come to a complete stop, then yield to pedestrians in the crosswalk and to traffic already on the cross street

The permission to turn on red is an exception granted only after a full stop. You are joining traffic that has the green, so everyone already lawfully in the intersection or crosswalk goes first.

Drivers treat a permitted right on red as a yield sign and roll through it. The stop is the condition of the permission, not a formality — and pedestrians crossing with the walk signal are the ones hit when it is skipped.

Not quiteCorrect answer: C — Fuel is available at this exit

The fuel pump is one of the general service symbols. Blue service signs are grouped at exits so you can plan a stop without reading text at speed.

Symbol signs are skipped in study because they seem obvious. State sign sections test them precisely because they carry no words to guess from.

Not quiteCorrect answer: C — Construction or maintenance work is going on ahead

Orange is used only for temporary traffic control. Crews, equipment, lane shifts or a flagger may be ahead, so the pattern you are used to on this road may not be the pattern you meet.

Reading road work as road closed. The route normally stays open through a work zone; it is the conditions in it, not the road, that change.

Not quiteCorrect answer: A — Motorist services such as hospitals, fuel, food and lodging

Blue is the general-service colour. The H marks a hospital; the same blue background carries fuel, food, lodging and telephone symbols.

Blue and green both look like "information", but blue is about services beside the road and green is about where the road goes.

Not quiteCorrect answer: D — The roadway ahead carries traffic in both directions

Two arrows pointing opposite ways mean the one-way section ends and vehicles will be coming toward you. Stay right of the centre line and stop using the left side as spare room.

Mistaking it for a reversible-lane sign. It marks the permanent end of one-way operation, not a change that depends on the time of day.

Not quiteCorrect answer: D — Put the yield requirement directly in the driver's line of sight

Placing the sign in the lane rather than at the roadside is deliberate: a sign on a pole beside a busy street gets filtered out, one in the road does not.

Some drivers treat it as a temporary or decorative object. It carries a statutory yield requirement.

Not quiteCorrect answer: A — Illegal without the required placard or plate, however briefly

Accessible spaces are reserved by permit, not by duration. There is no short-stay exception, and the fines are among the highest of any parking violation.

Hazard lights are widely believed to legalise a brief stop. They signal a hazard; they do not grant permission.

Not quiteCorrect answer: C — A park, historic site or other recreational or cultural area

Brown is reserved for recreational and cultural interest areas — parks, campgrounds, historic sites and scenic areas.

Brown is easy to skip when studying because it never appears in a rules question. It appears on the sign-identification section of many state tests.

Not quiteCorrect answer: B — At the stop line, before any part of your vehicle crosses it

The octagon requires a full stop, and the stop line marks the point where that stop has to happen. Where there is no stop line you stop before the crosswalk, and where there is neither you stop before entering the intersection. Once stopped you may edge forward far enough to see.

Drivers stop where they can see rather than where the line is. Creeping past the line first is still a failure to stop, and it puts your bumper in the crosswalk.

Not quiteCorrect answer: D — Yield to any train; stop if a train is approaching

The crossbuck is a yield sign for railway crossings. Slow down, look and listen, and be ready to stop. A train needs more than a kilometre to stop — it can never yield to you.

A crossbuck does not require a stop every time, but buses and vehicles carrying hazardous materials must stop at every crossing.

Not quiteCorrect answer: A — The crossing is at this location, not somewhere ahead

The arrow points at the crossing itself. Without it, a crossing sign is an advance warning; with it, the crossing is right where you are.

Read as a direction to steer, the plaque makes no sense. It is pointing at the ground, not telling you where to go.

Not quiteCorrect answer: D — When you can see the whole vehicle you passed in your rear-view mirror

Seeing the entire vehicle in your interior mirror means you have the length to return without forcing them to brake.

Cutting back in early is what turns a completed pass into a side-swipe, usually with the passed driver braking hard.

Not quiteCorrect answer: A — Oncoming traffic returns to the same roadway as you

The median ends and the road becomes two-way. Traffic you had been separated from is now coming toward you in the adjacent lane.

Because a divided highway feels like a freeway, drivers keep freeway habits — including drifting left — right into oncoming traffic.

Not quiteCorrect answer: B — Not turn onto that street at all

The arrow shows the only legal direction of travel. Entering against it is driving the wrong way on a one-way street.

An empty one-way street looks harmless, but oncoming traffic will be travelling at full speed and will not expect you.

Not quiteCorrect answer: D — Yield to all traffic and pedestrians on the road and sidewalk

A vehicle entering a roadway from a driveway, alley or parking lot yields to everything already there, including people on the footpath you cross.

The sidewalk is the part people forget. You cross it before you reach the road, and pedestrians on it have priority.

Not quiteCorrect answer: C — Well before the manoeuvre, so others can react

A signal is a prediction, not a commentary. Most states specify a minimum distance; the underlying point is that it must arrive before you act.

Signalling and turning in the same motion gives following drivers no information they can use.

Not quiteCorrect answer: C — Stop and remain stopped until the lights stop flashing and the arm folds in

Flashing red lights and an extended stop arm mean children are crossing. You stop until the signals are withdrawn, not until you personally see the road is clear.

Children cross in front of the bus where the driver cannot see them and you cannot either. "No children visible" is the condition in which they are struck.