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EC-COUNCILEC-Council Certified Responsible AI Governance and Ethics
The EC-Council Certified Responsible AI Governance & Ethics (CRAGE) certification validates your ability to lead responsible AI governance programs across the enterprise. It equips professionals to embed AI ethics, compliance, and risk management throughout the AI life cycle, aligned with NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001. Earning CRAGE proves you can build audit-ready programs, advise executives on responsible AI, and help organizations scale AI with accountability.
Exam formatMultiple choice
DeliveryPearson VUE
Free questions1002
Content last reviewed 1 January 2025 · Up to date
The certification
What EC-Council Certified Responsible AI Governance and Ethics proves, and what it asks of you
What this certification covers, who it is written for, and what the exam itself looks like on the day.
6domains
21objectives
147concepts
Starting at $999exam fee
What it is
What this certification is
What it validates, who it is written for, and the experience it assumes.
About this certification
The EC-Council Certified Responsible AI Governance & Ethics (CRAGE) certification is designed for professionals who lead AI governance, compliance, and risk management initiatives. It operationalizes expertise in responsible AI governance aligned with the NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001, enabling compliant, scalable AI and risk management. The credential validates your ability to embed governance across the AI life cycle—from ideation to deployment—so organizations can scale AI with accountability and meet regulatory requirements.
CRAGE covers 11 comprehensive modules spanning AI foundations, ethical principles, governance frameworks, regulatory compliance, risk and threat management, third-party risk, security architecture, privacy and trust, incident response, and AI assurance and auditing. The curriculum is framework-driven and regulation-aligned, with scenario-based governance and risk analysis. Earning CRAGE demonstrates that you can lead enterprise-wide AI accountability initiatives, ensure regulatory readiness with audit-ready programs, and bridge the gap between technical execution and business impact.
Who it’s for
The CRAGE certification is for professionals involved in AI governance, GRC, compliance, or policy who need to validate their skills in building ethical frameworks, ensuring regulatory compliance, and managing AI risk across the organization. It is also suited for leaders who must advise executives on responsible AI and stand behind AI decisions. If your role involves AI governance, risk management, compliance, or policy, this program helps you validate those skills. It is designed for those who need to bridge the gap between technical AI execution and business impact, and who are accountable for embedding governance throughout the AI life cycle.
Recommended experience
EC-Council recommends that candidates have a foundational understanding of AI concepts and enterprise risk management, though no formal prerequisites are published. Familiarity with AI technologies and the AI project life cycle; Understanding of enterprise risk management and compliance concepts; Experience in governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) roles; Awareness of AI ethics principles and regulatory frameworks
The syllabus
What you’ll learn
Every domain and objective EC-Council measures, with the weight they carry on the exam.
The official EC-Council exam outline · checked 1 January 2025 · See the source
AI Foundations and Responsible AI Principles
- AI Foundations and Technology Ecosystem
- AI Concerns, Ethical Principles, and Responsible AI
- Ethics frameworks
- Bias detection
AI Strategy, Governance, and Frameworks
- AI Strategy and Planning
- AI Governance and Frameworks
- NIST AI RMF alignment
- ISO/IEC 42001 alignment
AI Regulatory Compliance
- AI Regulatory Compliance
- Compliance auditing
- Policy design
AI Risk and Third-Party Supply Chain Management
- AI Risk and Threat Management
- Risk assessment
- Third-Party AI Risk Management and Supply Chain Security
AI Security Architecture, Privacy, and Trust
- AI Security Architecture and Controls
- Building Privacy, Trust, and Safety in AI Systems
- Data privacy
- Transparency
AI Incident Response, Assurance, and Auditing
- AI Incident Response and Business Continuity
- AI Assurance, Testing, and Auditing
- Audit readiness
On the day
The exam itself
Everything EC-Council publishes about sitting it, and nothing we inferred.
Prerequisites
No mandatory prerequisites — this certification has no required predecessor exam or credential.
CertificationEC-Council Certified Responsible AI Governance and Ethics
Exam formatMultiple choice
DeliveryPearson VUE
LanguagesEnglish
PricingStarting at $999
After you pass
Where this credential goes next
The path EC-Council lays out, how the credential is kept, and where to book.
Step-by-step path to EC-Council Certified Responsible AI Governance and Ethics
Credential earnedEC-Council Certified Responsible AI Governance and Ethics Certification Renewal and maintenance
EC-Council certifications require renewal through continuing education credits. Specific renewal requirements for CRAGE are not published on the official exam page. Stay current with the latest technologies and maintain your certification.
Learn more about renewal requirements Lifecycle status
This certification is currently active and available. EC-Council maintains this certification to validate current skills and industry relevance.
Exam status: ActiveMaintained by EC-Council
Exam registration
Register for the exam through Pearson VUE, EC-Council’s authorized testing partner.
Schedule your examVisit the official EC-Council certification page for exam policies and requirements.
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Questions people ask
How does CRAGE relate to other EC-Council AI certifications like C|AIPM or C|OASP?
CRAGE focuses specifically on AI governance, ethics, and compliance, while C|AIPM covers AI program management and C|OASP focuses on offensive AI security. They are separate credentials within EC-Council's AI Security and Management track.
Is there a hands-on or lab component in the CRAGE exam?
The official exam page does not specify a hands-on or lab component for the CRAGE exam. It describes the curriculum as scenario-based governance and risk analysis, but the exam format is not detailed.
What job roles does the CRAGE credential map to?
CRAGE is designed for professionals in AI governance, GRC, compliance, and policy roles. It validates skills for those who lead AI governance programs, build regulatory-compliant AI programs, and assess AI risks.
Can I recertify by passing a different EC-Council exam?
EC-Council certifications require renewal through continuing education credits. Passing a higher-level exam may renew lower-level credentials, but specific policies for CRAGE are not published on the official page.
Are there regional differences in CRAGE exam delivery?
EC-Council delivers exams through Pearson VUE, which offers online and onsite testing globally. Specific regional availability is not detailed on the official exam page.
Information freshness · Content last reviewed on 2025-01-01 Up to date
Practice free questions 1002 questions, free, no account needed.
The curriculum
The whole exam, mapped and written
Every domain, every objective, and every concept EC-Council measures — each one written out.
6domains
21objectives
147concepts
208free pages
The domains, and what sits inside them
Every objective below is a page you can open and practise now, without an account.
The official EC-Council exam outline · checked 1 January 2025 · See the source
1AI Foundations and Responsible AI Principles151 questions
2AI Strategy, Governance, and Frameworks204 questions
3AI Regulatory Compliance142 questions
4AI Risk and Third-Party Supply Chain Management152 questions
5AI Security Architecture, Privacy, and Trust194 questions
6AI Incident Response, Assurance, and Auditing159 questions
Not a table of contents
Every line on this map already opens
In front of every objective the practice pages are already there, free and without an account. This is one objective, opened.
AI Foundations and Technology Ecosystem9 pagesOpen →
Free in front of it
44 questions on this objective, five to a page. Every range above is a real page, open now, with no account.
Reading the map is not the same as knowing the ground
The curriculum tells you what is on the exam. Proving you know it is a different job — and it is the one the closed-book run does.
Free questions
1002 questions. No account, no card.
The whole bank is open. 5 questions to a page, every answer explained, and a discussion thread on each one.
1002questions
208pages
21objectives
Freealways
Browse by domain
Every objective, and every page range, is a link — so you can pick up exactly where you left off.
1AI Foundations and Responsible AI Principles151 questions
2AI Strategy, Governance, and Frameworks204 questions
3AI Regulatory Compliance142 questions
4AI Risk and Third-Party Supply Chain Management152 questions
5AI Security Architecture, Privacy, and Trust194 questions
6AI Incident Response, Assurance, and Auditing159 questions
What a practice page gives you
1Five to a page
Short enough to finish, long enough to matter.
2Every answer explained
Not only which one is right — why the others are wrong.
3A discussion on each
Ask, answer, and vote. Every question has its own thread.
A question, and the idea behind it
Every question comes from a concept
These are not trivia. Each one is written against a concept in the book, so when you get one wrong there is somewhere to go and find out why.
The visual book
See it once. Carry it into the exam.
The pages shown here come from our AI-900 book — an example of how each concept is written in plain language and, where the idea needs one, drawn as a full page you can take in at a glance.
147concepts
1002free questions
Why a picture, and not another paragraph
Three reasons, and each one is a real finding rather than a slogan.
You can see it againThe whole idea at onceWhere it starts, what happens in the middle, what comes out, and the mistake to avoid.
Multimedia principle · MayerThe look-alikes sit togetherThe pairs the exam tests are drawn side by side, so the difference is seen, not told.
Dual coding · PaivioWhat one page is made of
You are never asked to read a poster here — only to see how one is built. After that, every other page is legible at a glance.
1A numbered strip on top
The idea as a sequence, followed with a finger before a word is read.
2Panels for the parts
What it is, how the machine learns it, when it is the right tool.
3The trap, framed
The distinction the exam tests, given its own box instead of buried in prose.
4One line at the bottom
The sentence to carry into the exam room.
Open book, on purpose
Answer it with the picture beside you
This is the part that teaches. The illustration and the written explanation stay where they are while you work, so a scenario stops being a memory test and becomes something you can simply look at.
It teaches · it does not count
A smartphone uses AI to unlock when the owner looks at the camera. Which AI capability is being used?
AImage classification
BFacial recognition
COptical character recognition
DObject detection
Look at the five steps. Detect finds a face, align straightens it, encode turns it into numbers, search compares it with a stored face, and decide answers one question: is this the same person? Classification would only say “a face”. Detection would only draw a box. Neither decides whose.
Then the page shuts, and it starts counting
The same questions come back with the book closed — that run is the one that counts. After it, your coach picks one thing for tonight, sized to the time you have, and brings pages back before you lose them.
Testing effect · Roediger & Karpicke 2006 · spacing effect · Cepeda et al. 2006
Official resources
Straight from EC-Council
Where the exam is defined, scheduled and scored.
2official links
147concepts mapped
The source
EC-Council’s own pages
We link to them rather than repeat them, so nothing here goes stale behind them.
Checked against the source
Every objective on the official EC-Council outline already has questions here
We build from the official skills outline, not from a summary of it — 21 objectives, 147 concepts written under them, and free questions against every one. When EC-Council changes the outline, this page changes with it.
21objectives on the outline→147concepts written→1002free questions
An official page tells you what will be asked. It cannot tell you what you will get right.
That is the only question worth answering the night before, and no link answers it. You answer it by taking the questions with the book closed, and seeing what comes back.