101PD
PCS

Safety, Transportation & Consumer Services

California statewide coverage directory

Personal, Cemetery and Funeral Services: qualification, exams, and education

Written-exam preparation, health and safety, consumer protection, preneed rules, ethics, and professional development.

Review the learning pathways

Regulated credentials

Who this California guide covers

Licenses and credentials

  • - Barber
  • - Cosmetologist
  • - Esthetician
  • - Manicurist
  • - Funeral Director
  • - Embalmer
  • - Cemetery Manager and Salesperson

What 101PD may provide

  • - Written licensing-exam preparation
  • - Health, safety, and establishment law
  • - Cemetery, funeral, preneed, and consumer-protection education

Provider qualification route

How 101PD can become authorized

Exam prep may be independent. Qualifying education must use the exact approved school or provider path for that profession.

Non-substitution boundary

What online training cannot replace

Online prep cannot replace school curriculum, practical instruction, apprenticeship, mortuary education, or experience.

Possible learning formats

California-focused learning options

Exam prep

California Barber and Cosmetology Written Exam Prep

This is a researched pathway, not a promise that 101PD currently offers this course. Any future product page must show its exact price, enrollment status, and credit eligibility.

Research guide only

Exam prep

California Funeral Director and Embalmer Exam Prep

This is a researched pathway, not a promise that 101PD currently offers this course. Any future product page must show its exact price, enrollment status, and credit eligibility.

Research guide only

Professional development

Salon and Preneed Compliance Updates

This is a researched pathway, not a promise that 101PD currently offers this course. Any future product page must show its exact price, enrollment status, and credit eligibility.

Research guide only

Official sources

Verify before acting

The regulator controls eligibility, fees, applications, examinations, and credit. These are the sources used for this page.

Sources checked July 22, 2026. Confirm current regulator requirements before acting.