PECB Certified Lead AI Risk Manager
Course & exam bundle.

At a glance

The course
in brief.

Built on

The NIST AI Risk Management Framework, the EU AI Act and the MIT AI Risk Repository.

Length

Five days in PECB’s curriculum, the fifth for the exam. Self-Study runs at your own pace within 12 months.

Materials

Over 450 pages of official PECB material, with practical examples, exercises and quizzes.

Exam

Three hours, 80 multiple-choice questions, open book, 70% to pass. English only.

Entry

No formal prerequisite; PECB expects a basic grasp of AI concepts and risk management principles.

Credential

From Provisional Manager to Senior Lead, depending on your experience.

Upkeep

Valid three years, with CPD and an annual maintenance fee. The first year is included.

Price

£415 + VAT, Self-Study.

In the bundle

What PECB
includes.

Bought as Self-Study from Aegentra, an official PECB authorised training partner, the bundle includes:

• The official PECB Lead AI Risk Manager course: over 450 pages of information, practical examples, exercises and quizzes, delivered digitally through myPECB.
• 12 months of myPECB access from the date of purchase.
• The PECB Certified Lead AI Risk Manager exam: your first attempt and one free retake if you need it. PECB says the certification fee is included in the exam price.
• The certification application fee.
• The first year’s annual maintenance fee for a credential that needs one. The Provisional tier needs none.

The exam, the retake if you need it and the certification application must all fall within 12 months of purchase. Self-Study means the official materials only: there are no recorded lectures or live classes.

Why take it

What the course
does for you.

• A structured method for the whole AI risk cycle: setting context and governance, then identifying, analysing, evaluating, treating, monitoring and reporting AI risks.
• Practice on real cases: you analyse AI risk scenarios drawn from the MIT AI Risk Repository.
• Working knowledge of the NIST AI RMF, a voluntary US framework, and the EU AI Act, which reaches UK organisations that place AI systems on the EU market.
• Specific risks covered by name: bias, security vulnerabilities, transparency issues and ethical concerns, with mitigation strategies and incident response.
• A credential that grows with you: PECB awards the tier your experience supports, from Provisional Manager to Senior Lead.

What it is built on

Three frameworks,
one risk process.

PECB says the course is “based on leading frameworks such as the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, the EU AI Act, and insights from the MIT AI Risk Repository”.

NIST AI Risk Management Framework

A voluntary framework published by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology for managing the risks of AI systems. The course uses it as a working method.

EU AI Act

The EU regulation that sets risk-based obligations for AI systems. It matters to UK organisations that place AI systems on the EU market.

MIT AI Risk Repository

A public collection of documented AI risks maintained at MIT. On the course you analyse real-world AI risk scenarios taken from it.

Standards the exam also covers

The candidate handbook’s first domain expects knowledge of “key international standards and frameworks such as ISO/IEC 42001, ISO/IEC 22989, ISO/IEC 23894, and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework”. ISO/IEC 23894:2023 gives guidance on AI risk management; it is not a requirements standard an organisation certifies against. The course covers it, but is not based on it.

Regulation across regions, the UK included

The same domain covers AI regulation across major regions, including the EU AI Act, GDPR, UK and US AI laws, sector-specific regulations and emerging frameworks in other regions. Check the official materials for how far each jurisdiction is covered.

Is this your next step?

Who this course
suits best.

• Risk professionals extending their practice to AI systems
• IT and security professionals responsible for AI systems and their controls
• Data scientists, data engineers and AI developers
• Consultants advising organisations on AI risk
• Legal and ethical advisers
• Managers overseeing AI projects, and executives accountable for them

Building an AI management system to a certifiable standard? Compare ISO/IEC 42001 Lead Implementer. Focused on the EU AI Act itself? See EU AI Governance Professional.

Inside the course

The curriculum.

PECB’s five-day curriculum, studied at your own pace. Day labels describe the learning sequence, not scheduled live classes.

From knowledge to a working decision

A customer-facing AI assistant goes live

Take a fictional UK retailer about to put a generative AI assistant in front of customers. Name three risks, for example a bias, a security vulnerability and a transparency issue, set evaluation and acceptance criteria and choose a treatment for each.

For each risk, record a decision, owner, evidence requirement and review trigger. Explain your assumptions and what remains outside the exercise.

Original optional study prompt, not an official PECB exam question, an additional included lab or evidence of professional experience. Use fictional information.

Your questions

Before you choose.