168 lessons · 9 sections · Aleric Halden

You already know what a conformity assessment is. The exam asks what you do when a scenario hands you one at four minutes to go.

The book builds the map. These lessons are built for the moment of decision: 489 stated decision rules across the corpus, and 285 named distractors — the wrong answer you will be offered, and why it will sound right.

Definitions do not fail candidates. Plausible wrong answers do. A stem describes a generative system and offers a fix built for a predictive one. A question about an AI Act incident timeline dangles seventy-two hours, because seventy-two hours is the GDPR reflex every reader already has. Recognition of the concept is not enough at that point. What decides the answer is a rule that runs faster than the reflex. That rule is what each lesson is built to leave behind.

168 lessons 310,439 words of script 22.2 h of narration measured 1,514 distinct topics indexed 489 decision rules 285 named distractors

Where the time actually goes

Block width is proportional to measured narration. Duration is a stopwatch reading from the voice masters for 151 of 168 lessons; the remaining 17 are the question banks and checkpoints, whose scripts are stored as transcripts rather than as approved scripts, so their length is reported as declared rather than measured. Click a block to filter the lesson list.

Read 8 lines and decide for yourself

The closing rule of one lesson per section, verbatim and unedited. If the level is not what you need, you have lost thirty seconds instead of a purchase.

Five questions. Every 'no' is a friction the system was supposed to have by design — and does not.
L1.23
Anyone can claim good governance. Forty-two thousand one is how you stop claiming it and start proving it.
L2.11
The plan is the duty. The plan is also the defense. Build it before the incident does the writing for you.
L3.13
The certification skill is separating those functions instead of compressing them into one dramatic headline.
L4.7
Detection is not a tool you point at the model. It is a layer of governance you wrap around the test itself.
L5.13
An auditor cannot inspect an intention. An auditor can only inspect evidence.
L6.1
Your objective is not to finish fastest. It is to preserve sound judgment through the final question.
L7.5
Lifecycle governance is a chain of evidence. A weak link in purpose, data, testing, release, or monitoring can invalidate an otherwise strong technical result.
L8.8

What the book could not do

Not because it is incomplete. Because a book and a timed decision are different objects.

Every lesson, open

Search any topic. Open any lesson and read its closing rule, what it covers, the decision rules it states and the distractors it names. Nothing is behind the purchase.

Where the exam actually weighs

The published Body of Knowledge states how many questions come from each sub-competency. The lessons carry their BoK codes. Both are shown, unedited.

BoK sub-competencyExam questionsLessons taggedShare of exam
IV.C9-111011.8%
III.C8-10810.6%
IV.A6-828.2%
I.C6-878.2%
III.A6-878.2%
III.B6-888.2%
II.C6-8268.2%
IV.B5-757.1%
I.B5-7107.1%
II.A4-665.9%
II.B4-675.9%
I.A4-6135.9%
II.D3-5154.7%

Solo 87 dei 151 script approvati portano un codice BoK. La Sezione 4 mostra solo codici del Dominio II, le Sezioni 7 e 8 nessuno. La matrice e' DIREZIONALE, non definitiva: completare la codifica e' la prima raccomandazione.

The wrong answers, named

One per section, verbatim from the lesson that names it, with the rule that defuses it.

SECTION 0 · L0.5
Right floor, wrong answer is still a wrong answer — Level Four question risposta come se fosse Level One (tecnicamente corretta ma non la più matura/sostenibile/difendibile)
The rule that defuses it. See that pattern, and your job is decided for you: retrieve fast, trust the first instinct your preparation gives you, and do not overthink a question that has exactly one right answer.
SECTION 1 · L1.1
Memorize that sentence and you can pass a vocabulary quiz — and still freeze when the C E O turns to you.
The rule that defuses it. The exam is not hunting for a candidate who memorized the most definitions. It is hunting for someone who can stand in that silent boardroom and think.
SECTION 2 · L2.1
confondere data lineage (dove è stata la data) con data provenance (da dove viene realmente) — teaser esplicito per la lezione seguente
The rule that defuses it. at every phase transition in the A I lifecycle, there is a gate review — readiness, risks, and explicit approval before the next phase begins
SECTION 3 · L3.1
"The borderline cases, the ones that could be High or could be Limited, are exactly where the exam lives" (C13).
The rule that defuses it. Four questions, asked in order, and the first "yes" wins (classification flowchart, top-down, most dangerous question first).
SECTION 4 · L4.1
"No A I Act" does not mean "no federal law" — l'esame pone la trappola esplicitamente nominata in C05
The rule that defuses it. 'No A I Act' non significa 'no federal law': le tre leggi federali esistono ma regolano solo l'uso che il governo fa dell'AI, non i privati
SECTION 5 · L5.2
"Run the two failure cases, because the exam is built from them." Caso 1: cyber-capability weapon-grade ma serve approvazione umana ad ogni mossa → NON è un HACCA. Caso 2: agente pienamente autonomo ma può solo prenotare riunioni e formattare fogli di calcolo
The rule that defuses it. classificazione HACCA = AND, mai OR: serve alta autonomia E alta cyber-capability contemporaneamente sullo stesso agente

How a lesson is built

Not for you if

What a reader of the book usually asks

Is this the book read aloud?
No. The corpus records 489 decision rules and 285 named distractors that do not exist in the book, because they belong to the moment of answering rather than to the exposition of a subject. Where a lesson does restate the book, it says so.
How current is it?
Lessons carry the regulatory events they depend on, with dates: the Omnibus shift of the high-risk deadline, the signed Colorado act, the EU adoption of ISO 42001, the agentic-era updates. Lessons whose content is dated say so in their own text.
Do I have to watch all 168?
No. The coverage table shows which sub-competencies carry the most exam questions, and the lesson list filters by section and topic. A reader with two weeks can work the heaviest domains first and use the question banks as the measure.
Does it tell me what it does not know?
Yes, and that is the part worth checking before you buy. Lessons flag where a source is the course's own synthesis, where a rule of thumb is not a legal rule, and where a construct is a memory aid rather than something the exam tests by name.