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Most writing about certification exams is written from other writing about certification exams. These guides are written from the exam board's own published blueprint, the Official Journal text of the regulation, or the standards body's own publication. Every one of them lists what it was written from.

Everything published so far

Six guides, and each one says what it was written from.

Liability

Software is now a product: what the revised EU Product Liability Directive means for AI

Someone shipping an AI system into the EU who has only been thinking about the AI Act.

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Standards

ISO/IEC 42001 explained: what it is, and whether you can actually be certified against it

Someone told to get ISO 42001 certified who wants to know what the standard is and whether certification is even a thing.

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EU AI Act

Is your AI system high risk? Article 6 and Annex III, in the Act's own words

Someone who needs to know whether the EU AI Act's heavy compliance regime lands on their system.

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EU AI Act

Does the EU AI Act apply to your company? The scope test in Article 2

A non-EU company that does not know whether the Regulation reaches it.

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EU AI Act

EU AI Act incident reporting: the two, ten and 15 day deadlines, and which one applies

Someone building an incident process who needs the actual statutory clock, not a summary of it.

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AIGP

What is on the AIGP exam: the 2026 blueprint, domain by domain

Someone searching for what the AIGP exam actually covers, before deciding whether to sit it.

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EU AI Act

Provider or deployer? How the EU AI Act assigns roles, and why it decides your obligations

Someone who does not know which role their organization occupies, which changes everything downstream.

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EU AI Act

The eight prohibited AI practices under Article 5, and the exceptions written into them

Someone checking whether a system they are building or buying is outright banned in the EU.

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Frameworks

The NIST AI Risk Management Framework, explained in the order you would actually use it

Someone told to adopt the NIST AI RMF who wants to know what it is and where to start.

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EU AI Act

EU AI Act: every application date and every fine tier, from the Regulation itself

Someone who needs the compliance deadlines and the penalty exposure, correctly, in one place.

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AIGP

An AIGP study plan built from the item weights, not from habit

Someone with limited evenings who wants to know where to spend them.

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