PECB Certified Artificial Intelligence Professional study guide
PECB Certified Artificial Intelligence Professional · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The PECB Certified Artificial Intelligence Professional is an individual certification offered by PECB, the Professional Evaluation and Certification Board, within its AI and Digital Transformation training portfolio. It sits alongside related PECB AI credentials such as AI Risk Management, AI Manager, ISO/IEC 42001, EU AI Governance, and Artificial Intelligence Security, and it is aimed at professionals who need a working, management-level command of AI concepts rather than deep engineering skill - for example risk, compliance, privacy, security, and transformation roles moving into AI work. Based on the published domain structure, the exam is evenly balanced across four areas: Artificial Intelligence fundamentals (25%), AI Risk Management (25%), AI Governance and Digital Transformation (25%), and AI Security and Data Protection (25%). Preparation typically combines the official PECB training course materials with the exam rules and policies, the online exam manual, and the certification rules published on PECB's site, plus hands-on reading around AI risk, governance, and data protection frameworks. The PECB Certified Artificial Intelligence Professional study guide has 4 sections and about 1,119 words.
01Artificial Intelligence: Concepts, Systems and Lifecycle
Domain 1 - Artificial Intelligence. The exam tests whether you can use ISO/IEC 22989 vocabulary precisely and reason about the AI system lifecycle, not just recite model types.
331 words, about 2 min02AI Risk Management: Identification, Assessment and Treatment
Domain 2 - AI Risk Management. The exam tests ISO/IEC 23894 and NIST AI RMF reasoning: how to establish context, identify AI-specific risks, evaluate them against criteria, treat them and monitor residual risk.
262 words, about 1 min03AI Governance and Digital Transformation: Direction, Accountability and Value
Domain 3 - AI Governance and Digital Transformation. The exam tests whether you can separate governance from management, apply ISO/IEC 38507 and ISO/IEC 42001, and connect AI use to measurable transformation rather than tool adoption.
264 words, about 1 min04AI Security and Data Protection: Threats, Controls and Privacy
Domain 4 - AI Security and Data Protection. The exam tests AI-specific threat modelling alongside ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO/IEC 27701 controls, and whether you can connect privacy principles to training, inference and logging.
262 words, about 1 min