ISO-42001 Practice Test

ISO-42001 practice test: what's covered

• AIMS
• risk assessment
• Annex A
• impact assessment
• audit
• governance

Free ISO-42001 sample questions

1. ISO/IEC 42001:2023 is the world's first international standard specifying requirements for what?

   • A. AI quality
   • B. An AI Management System (AIMS) — the org-wide governance framework for responsibly developing, deploying, and operating AI systems
   • C. AI testing
   • D. Just ethics
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   Correct: B. Published Dec 2023. Certifiable like ISO 27001/9001. Provides organizational structure for AI governance covering risk, transparency, oversight, lifecycle. Aligns with EU AI Act direction.

2. An AI governance lead maps ISO/IEC 42001 onto an existing ISO 27001-style management system. Which two planning facts should they preserve? (Choose two.)

   • A. Clauses 4 through 10 cover context, leadership, planning, support, operation, performance evaluation, and improvement
   • B. Annex A provides AI-specific controls while Annex B gives implementation guidance for applying those controls
   • C. The standard replaces all security, privacy, and quality management system controls with one AI checklist
   • D. The organization can skip management review if the model owner keeps a local risk register
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   Correct: A and B. ISO/IEC 42001 follows the harmonized management-system structure, so existing ISO 27001 or ISO 9001 governance practices can be reused. Annex A adds AI control objectives and Annex B explains implementation. It does not replace other management systems, and leadership review remains required evidence.

3. ISO 42001 recognizes that organizations may have multiple AI roles. Key roles include:

   • A. Just user
   • B. AI Provider (develops AI), AI Producer (designs/builds), AI User/Customer (deploys/uses), AI Subject (data subject affected by AI), AI Partner — same org may be in multiple roles
   • C. Just dev
   • D. Random configuration
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   Correct: B. Role-based requirements vary. An org buying GPT-4 (User/Customer) has different obligations than OpenAI (Provider). Identify which roles apply, scope AIMS accordingly. Multiple roles common.

4. Clause 4 requires understanding 'the context of the organization'. For AI this includes:

   • A. Just users
   • B. Internal/external issues affecting AI, interested parties (regulators, customers, employees, AI subjects), scope of AIMS, AI systems within scope
   • C. Just systems
   • D. Random configuration
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   Correct: B. Context = foundation. Internal: org strategy, AI maturity, resources. External: regulations (EU AI Act, DPDP), market expectations, supply chain. Output: scope statement defining what's in AIMS.

5. Top management responsibilities for AIMS (Clause 5) include:

   • A. Just budget
   • B. AI policy (approved by leadership), assign roles/authority, ensure AI policy aligned with strategic direction, integrate AIMS into business processes, provide resources
   • C. Operational only
   • D. Just approval
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   Correct: B. Leadership = mandatory. AI policy must be owned at top. Like ISMS — without leadership commitment, AIMS is a compliance theatre. Auditors will interview executives.

Last updated: 2026-10-19

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