Well I suppose I will open up here.

The certification is an OPTION for members.  Not a requirement.  If you are a licensed attorney or notary, you most likely don't need to get the Naltea certification, unless you want to add it to your resume.  The certification is for abstractors not notaries.  There are no notary questions at all on the test.
The test is not complete.  We have alot of work to do on it by the conference, which is our goal to have it completed. Yes there will be some differences between states but we are trying to incorporate different terms in the questions.  Such as we will use both the terms of mortgage and deed of trust together as to not confuse anyone.
I for one would love to have a state by state test, but until we have a Naltea member in every state, that won't happen.  As our membership grows, so will the questions for the test.  We will always be adding to it and tweaking it as needed.

But the big question I see here is will we certify you through Naltea without taking the test or meeting the guidelines for the certification.  Right now, no.  But that isn't to say we won't at a later time.  The committee put alot of discussion into this topic.  Raised alot of valid points and decided not to do it.  For several reasons.
Now of course the process hasn't been approved officially by the Naltea board as of right now so I am not sure if they may want to make changes to this concept or not.  So my answers here are not set in stone here.  I just wanted to shed some light on the subject.

Hope this helped a little. Let me know if I can answer anymore questions about this.

Shannon Blatt
Naltea Chair
Education & Training