Get started in AI governance and the fundamentals of an ISO/IEC 42001:2023 Artificial Intelligence Management System. Train your way — flexible Self-Study, a live Online Class, or in-person Classroom in Melbourne & Sydney — from $399 + GST, with the official PECB exam and a free resit included.
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The PECB ISO 42001 Foundation training course costs $399 + GST through Aegentra Academy, an official PECB authorised training partner in Australia. That price includes the official PECB examination voucher, the full course materials, 12 months of myPECB access, and one free exam resit within 12 months. The eLearning format is $449 + GST.
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Nothing extra. The official PECB examination voucher is included in the course price, so there is no separate exam fee to pay later. The ISO 42001 Foundation course costs $399 + GST as flexible Self-Study or $449 + GST as guided eLearning, and both include two exam attempts — the initial sit plus one free resit within 12 months — with 12 months of myPECB access. A 2-day live Online Class is $1,529.10 + GST (10% off; standard price $1,699).
| Course | What it qualifies you to do | Price (+ GST) |
|---|---|---|
| Foundation | Understand the standard — AI governance principles, the AIMS lifecycle, and where ISO 42001 meets ISO 27001 | $399 + GST |
| Lead Implementer | Build the AIMS — scope it, run the AI risk and impact assessments, and take it to certification | $849 + GST |
| Lead Auditor | Audit the AIMS — plan and lead AI management system audits against ISO 19011 and ISO/IEC 17021-1 | $849 + GST |
All ISO 42001 training through Aegentra Academy is official PECB certification training, with the ISO 42001 exam cost included in the course price rather than billed separately.
The optional $89 + GST Aegentra Labs add-on offered on this page is supplementary exam preparation, not a fee for the official PECB examination. The PECB exam voucher is already included in the course price.
PECB does not publish a candidate handbook for the ISO/IEC 42001 Foundation examination, and Aegentra does not invent one. What is published is the credential itself: passing makes you a PECB Certificate Holder in ISO/IEC 42001 Foundation, and no professional experience is required to sit it.
Be careful comparing figures across providers here, because several quote exam specifications that belong to entirely different schemes — question counts and durations vary between certification bodies for the same standard. If an exam detail matters to your planning, ask the provider which scheme the figure comes from.
No. ISO/IEC 42001 is a management system standard in its own right and can be implemented and certified independently. In practice most Australian organisations meet it second, because they already run an ISO 27001 ISMS and an AIMS shares the same Annex SL structure — context, leadership, planning, support, operation, evaluation, improvement — so the clauses line up almost one to one.
What ISO 42001 adds is everything specific to AI: impact assessment on people and society, data and model governance across the AI lifecycle, transparency obligations, and its own Annex A controls. If you already hold ISO 27001, Foundation is the fastest way to see exactly where the two meet — the ISO 27001 Foundation course covers the other side.
Foundation certifies you, not your organisation. Certifying a company to ISO/IEC 42001 is a separate project — the ISO 42001 certification guide for Australia covers what that costs and how long it takes. Ready to go further? Lead Implementer builds the AIMS; Lead Auditor audits one.
Foundation teaches the clause structure and what an AI management system is for. Seeing those ideas applied to a real organisation is the fastest way to make them stick, so we publish the working documents in full and free — no email required.
Both follow the Annex SL structure, so clauses 4 to 10 line up almost one to one — context, leadership, planning, support, operation, evaluation, improvement. If you already know ISO 27001, half of ISO 42001 is familiar the moment you open it.
What is new sits in Annex A, which defines 38 controls across territory an information security standard never had to cover: AI impact assessment, data quality and provenance across the AI lifecycle, third-party AI provider management, human oversight, and transparency to the people an AI system affects.
The single biggest conceptual jump is Clause 8.4, the AI system impact assessment. ISO 27001 asks what could harm the organisation. ISO 42001 also asks what the organisation's AI could do to individuals, groups and society — a different question, pointing outward instead of inward. Newcomers from a security background conflate it with risk assessment more often than any other part of the standard. ISO/IEC 42005 gives detailed guidance on conducting one and ISO/IEC 23894 covers AI risk management; neither is certifiable, but both are worth knowing by name.
Every ISO 42001 course Aegentra Academy sells is official PECB certification training, and the ISO 42001 exam voucher is included in the course price rather than billed separately — course and exam together. Prices are in Australian dollars, ex-GST, with the tax invoice issued at checkout.
Roughly half. Clauses 4 to 10 follow the same Annex SL structure you already know, so the management system half will feel familiar the moment you open the standard. What is new is Annex A — 38 controls covering AI impact assessment, data provenance across the AI lifecycle, human oversight and transparency — plus Clause 8.4, which has no ISO 27001 equivalent at all.
Foundation is the fastest way to see exactly where the two meet, and most people with an ISO 27001 background finish it in well under the 8–12 hours quoted.
Yes. There is no prerequisite and no technical requirement — you do not need to build or understand models. ISO 42001 is a governance standard, so the work is inventory, assessment, accountability and evidence. What you need is enough understanding of how AI systems behave to ask what evidence should exist, and that is what the course teaches.
The official PECB course and exam package starts at $399 + GST — with no separate exam fee after enrolment. Optional Aegentra Labs exam preparation is clearly priced separately.
The exam voucher is included in your enrolment, and so is one free resit if you don't pass first time. Both the exam and the credential are issued directly by PECB.
On passing, you become a "PECB Certificate Holder" in the Foundation credential for that standard. No professional experience required — Foundation is the entry-level PECB qualification.
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The published price is A$399 for Self-Study or A$449 for eLearning, before tax. It includes the official PECB course materials, 12 months of access, the first exam attempt, one free retake, and the certification application fee. PECB’s partner-course policy also includes the first year of the Annual Maintenance Fee where maintenance applies; Foundation and Provisional credentials are maintenance-exempt. There is no separate first-exam or certification-application charge after enrolment.
No ongoing PECB maintenance fee or CPD submission is required for a Foundation credential. PECB’s current maintenance policy lists Foundation, Provisional, and Transition credentials as maintenance-exempt.
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Self-Study costs A$399 before tax and uses the official PECB slide-based materials. eLearning costs A$449 before tax — A$50 more — and adds recorded trainer-led lessons and interactive learning activities. Both routes lead to the same PECB exam and credential, and both include the same exam package. Choose eLearning if explanations and video guidance help you learn; choose Self-Study if you are comfortable working through standards-based material independently and want the lowest price.
Yes. PECB publishes remote online exam sessions that candidates can take from home or another suitable location through the PECB Exams application. The published course record lists these exam facts: duration — 1 hour; format — Multiple-choice; assessment — 40 multiple-choice questions worth 100 points in total, across 2 competency domains — the fundamental principles and concepts of the standard, and the management system requirements themselves. Each question has one correct answer and two distractors; pass mark — 70%; language — English (other PECB languages available on request). New Zealand candidates should choose a published session that suits their local time, meet PECB’s identity and technical requirements, and complete the system check before exam day. PECB’s general exam policy does not publish a New Zealand restriction.
On passing, you become a "PECB Certificate Holder" in the Foundation credential for that standard. No professional experience required — Foundation is the entry-level PECB qualification. A Foundation certificate does not require professional experience or project hours. After you pass, PECB processes the applicable certificate requirements.
No project or audit hours are required for the Foundation credential, so there is no project-hour evidence to submit.
Yes. You can hold both the ISO 42001 Lead Implementer and ISO 42001 Lead Auditor credentials. They are separate, complementary certifications: Lead Implementer demonstrates that you can build and operate the management system, while Lead Auditor demonstrates that you can audit and verify it. To earn both, complete each course, pass each exam, and apply for each credential. PECB assesses implementation-project experience for the Implementer tier and audit experience for the Auditor tier separately. If you pass an exam before meeting its full experience requirements, you can receive the applicable Provisional credential and upgrade later when those requirements are met; you do not need to retake that exam. Neither credential automatically grants the other.
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PECB credentials stack — Foundation establishes the language, Lead Implementer builds the system, Lead Auditor verifies it. Pick the level that matches the work you will actually be doing.
AI management system fundamentals — governance, lifecycle controls, and risk treatment.
8–12 hours · self-paced
Stand up an ISO/IEC 42001 AI Management System and integrate it with the management systems you already run.
30–40 hours · self-paced
Audit ISO 42001 AIMS implementations — scoping, evidence, conformity.
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PECB ISO 42001 Foundation tells a hiring manager you understand the world’s first international management system standard for Artificial Intelligence. As AI procurement questionnaires become routine in Australian enterprise and government tenders, demand for staff who can speak the language of AI governance — risk treatment, human oversight, model lifecycle, supplier diligence for AI vendors — is outpacing supply. Foundation is the lowest-friction way to put a credentialled AI governance signal on a CV.
AI Governance Lead, Responsible AI Manager, AI Risk Analyst, AI Compliance Officer, AI Ethics Lead, Privacy and AI Counsel — roles that did not exist in their current form 24 months ago are now being hired in Australia at consistent pace. SaaS companies shipping AI features, government agencies operationalising the DTA AI policy, healthcare and TGA-regulated vendors, and APRA-regulated entities using algorithmic decisioning all list ISO 42001 awareness as a competitive advantage.
Foundation is not a substitute for Lead Implementer or Lead Auditor — it is the on-ramp. The AI Annex A control vocabulary, the AIMS lifecycle, and the relationship to ISO 27001 (information security) and ISO 27701 (privacy) are assumed knowledge in every Aegentra Lead course. Many Foundation alumni progress to Lead Implementer within twelve months, often once they are assigned to a real AI governance programme.
Foundation stacks with ISO 27001 (information security), ISO 27701 (privacy — particularly when AI processes personal data), ISO 9001 (quality management), and emerging AI assurance frameworks (NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act-aligned schemes). For practitioners building a credential portfolio in AI governance, Foundation is the cheapest internationally recognised AI-specific entry point.
Foundation-credentialled staff on the account and solutions-engineering team reduce the volume of AI-specific escalations to security and product during enterprise procurement. For SaaS companies pursuing the organisational ISO 42001 certificate, Foundation is the minimum literacy for engineers and product managers contributing to the readiness programme.
The DTA Policy for the responsible use of AI in government (2024) puts AI governance squarely inside Commonwealth procurement. State governments (NSW AI Assurance Framework, Victoria) follow similar lines. Suppliers building or embedding AI for government use Foundation as the minimum literacy for staff producing AI governance evidence in tenders.
Software as a Medical Device using machine learning is regulated by the TGA. Clinical decision-support tools, AI-powered diagnostics, and digital-health AI products all face documented governance expectations. Foundation gives clinical, product, and quality staff the vocabulary to follow AI governance discussions and respond to TGA or ADHA findings without needing a translator.
AI in credit decisioning, fraud detection, insurance underwriting, and customer-service automation is increasingly scrutinised under CPS 230 (operational risk), CPS 234 (information security), and ASIC guidance on algorithmic decision-making. Foundation is the minimum bar for risk and compliance staff who participate in AI governance reviews.
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The course teaches the standard; this shows the method applied. Our ISO 42001 implementation record — an illustrative composite scenario rather than a client engagement — works through eight AI governance mistakes we see repeatedly, why the AI inventory has to exist before the policy, and how human oversight is measured rather than asserted. The scope decisions, the impact assessments and the order the work runs in are set out in full.
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Yes. PECB certifications are internationally accredited and are accepted on Australian resumes, tender responses and procurement panels. Australia has no separate national licence for ISO 42001 Foundation — the recognition comes from the accreditation behind the credential, which is international.
PECB’s Foundation certificate programs are accredited by ANAB (ANSI National Accreditation Board) under ANSI/ASTM E2659 — the standard for certificate programs. Its professional certifications are separately accredited under ISO/IEC 17024, the international standard for bodies certifying persons, by IAS, UKAS, KAB and COFRAC.
Aegentra Academy is an official PECB authorised training partner in Australia, which is what allows this course to include the official PECB examination voucher rather than billing it separately. You can confirm that directly with PECB through the official PECB partner directory.
This official PECB course is sold and supported by Aegentra Academy. PECB supplies the course material, examination and professional credential scheme. Aegentra's wider practice also runs ISO 42001 AI governance engagements and Microsoft 365 hardening for Australian organisations. Named eLearning trainers are credited separately on this page when the course record supplies them.
Courses run online and self-paced through the myPECB platform, so professionals across Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra and New Zealand enrol online. Instructor-led cohorts and in-person delivery in Melbourne and Sydney are available on request. Multi-seat team pricing is available for five or more seats — email Academy@aegentra.com.au for an enterprise quote. Tax invoices with GST and ABN are issued automatically at checkout.
Five modules covering the structure of ISO/IEC 42001:2023, the relationship between an AIMS and an ISO 27001 ISMS, the AI lifecycle, the new AI Annex A controls, the integration with ISO 27701 (when AI processes personal data), and exam preparation. Total effort is 8-12 hours of self-paced study.
Yes. PECB is accredited by UKAS, IAS and COFRAC under ISO/IEC 17024 for personnel certification — the same accreditation framework JAS-ANZ uses in Australia. The credential is recognised by Australian Commonwealth and state government tenders, financial-services hiring, and certification bodies operating in Australia.
Not required, but helpful. ISO 42001 is structurally similar to ISO 27001 — both follow the Annex SL High-Level Structure. If you have already learned ISO 27001 vocabulary, ISO 42001 builds on it. If not, Foundation is written to be approachable from a cold start.
Any AI system the organisation chooses to bring into scope — LLM-powered features, classifiers, recommendation engines, decision-support tools, computer vision, and the data pipelines feeding them. The standard is technology-agnostic; it governs how AI is managed, not which AI technology is used.
One-hour, multiple-choice, online-proctored. The exam covers two competency domains — fundamental concepts of an AIMS, and AI management based on ISO/IEC 42001. Pass mark is 70%. You receive your PECB digital certificate within a few business days of passing.
Every authorised PECB Foundation course leads to the same credential — the certificate is identical wherever you buy it. The differences are price, format, and who supports you. Aegentra delivers Foundation at $399 + GST with the exam, one free resit, and 12 months access included. Aegentra is also an active Australian security and AI governance consultancy, so Academy support is informed by current AIMS practice.
The DISR Voluntary AI Safety Standard (2024) sets out ten voluntary guardrails for organisations developing or deploying AI. ISO 42001 is the certifiable international companion — the guardrails map onto ISO 42001 clauses and Annex A controls. For Australian organisations adopting the Voluntary Standard, ISO 42001 is the most efficient evidence base.
ISO 42001 is not formal EU AI Act compliance — that is determined by EU regulators. But the Act explicitly references harmonised standards and ISO 42001 is widely expected to be one of them. For Australian SaaS companies selling AI products into the EU, an ISO 42001 certificate is the most credible third-party evidence base for the governance obligations.
Indirectly. Procurement teams typically ask whether the organisation holds the ISO 42001 certificate. What Foundation does is make the staff completing AI procurement questionnaires meaningfully faster and more accurate — they understand the question being asked and the evidence that satisfies it.
PECB awards 14 CPD credits on completion of the ISO 42001 Foundation course. These count toward CPD requirements at ISACA, (ISC)², IAPP, AISA, and other professional bodies on submission.
The Foundation credential does not expire and does not require renewal. The certificate is dated and refers to the ISO/IEC 42001:2023 edition; if the standard is significantly revised in future you may choose to take a refresher course, but there is no mandatory recertification.
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Stand up an ISO/IEC 42001 AI Management System and integrate it with the management systems you already run.
Audit ISO 42001 AIMS implementations — scoping, evidence, conformity.