You can see it againUnder pressure people bring back shapes and positions long after the wording has gone.
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ISTQBCertified Tester Gambling Industry Tester
The ISTQB® Certified Tester Gambling Industry Tester (CT-GT) certification validates your ability to test software in the gambling industry, covering the industry ecosystem, compliance testing, math testing, and player-perspective testing. It is designed for testers and testing professionals working in or entering this specialized domain. Earning it demonstrates that you understand the unique quality attributes and regulatory landscape that set gambling software testing apart.
Exam formatMultiple choice
Duration60 minutes
DeliveryISTQB Member Boards
Passing score26 out of 40
Free questions357
Content last reviewed 30 July 2026 · Up to date
The certification
What Certified Tester Gambling Industry Tester 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.
3domains
13objectives
88concepts
What it is
What this certification is
What it validates, who it is written for, and the experience it assumes.
About this certification
The ISTQB® Certified Tester Gambling Industry Tester (CT-GT) certification equips testing professionals with the specialized knowledge required to work effectively within the gambling industry. It covers the key concepts of the gambling industry, its ecosystem, and the different test types common to this domain, including compliance testing, fun factor or player perspective testing, math testing, audio testing, multiplayer testing, and interoperability testing.
The certification is built on the Foundation Level syllabus and extends it with gambling-specific content. It prepares candidates to understand the gambling software development lifecycle, the role of jurisdictions and regulatory bodies, and the hardware and software certification processes that are a main differentiator of this industry. Holders of this certification are expected to have acquired the necessary skills to work effectively within a gambling industry testing team and environment.
Who it’s for
The Gambling Industry Tester certification is aimed at anyone involved in software testing in the gambling industry, including testers, test analysts, test engineers, test consultants, test managers, user acceptance testers, and software developers. It may also be useful to people in roles such as project manager, quality manager, software development manager, system analyst (business analyst), IT manager, or management consultant who wish to acquire a deeper understanding of software testing in the gambling industry.
Recommended experience
While not mandatory, ISTQB recommends attending accredited training to ensure materials are assessed for relevance and consistency against the syllabus. Self-study using the syllabus and recommended reading is also an option. Attending accredited training (classroom, virtual, or e-learning) is highly recommended; Self-study using the official syllabus and recommended reading material is an option
The syllabus
What you’ll learn
Every domain and objective ISTQB measures, with the weight they carry on the exam.
The official ISTQB exam outline · checked 30 July 2026 · See the source
Domain 1: Introduction to the Gambling Industry
- Industry Overview and Regulatory Framework
- Gambling Activities and Artifacts
- Technical Foundations and Fairness
- Metrics, Development, and Testing
Domain 2: The Gambling Industry Ecosystems
- Test types during the gambling quality assurance phase
- Compliance testing
- The gambling industry ecosystem overview
- Video lottery terminals and their ecosystem
- Slot machines and their ecosystem
- Lottery and its ecosystem
Domain 3: Testing in the Gambling Industry
- Land-Based Casino Testing
- Online and Remote Gambling Testing
- Security Testing
On the day
The exam itself
Everything ISTQB publishes about sitting it, and nothing we inferred.
Prerequisites
Hold the Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL) certificate.
CertificationCertified Tester Gambling Industry Tester
Exam formatMultiple choice
Duration60 minutes
Questions40 questions
Passing score26 out of 40
DeliveryISTQB Member Boards
LanguagesEnglish
After you pass
Where this credential goes next
The path ISTQB lays out, how the credential is kept, and where to book.
Step-by-step path to Certified Tester Gambling Industry Tester
PrerequisiteHold the Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL) certificate.
Credential earnedCertified Tester Gambling Industry Tester Certification Renewal and maintenance
ISTQB certifications do not require renewal except for Expert Level. Stay current with the latest technologies and maintain your certification.
Learn more about renewal requirements Lifecycle status
This certification is currently active and available. ISTQB maintains this certification to validate current skills and industry relevance.
Exam status: ActiveMaintained by ISTQB
Exam registration
Register for the exam through ISTQB Member Boards, ISTQB’s authorized testing partner.
Schedule your examVisit the official ISTQB certification page for exam policies and requirements.
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And when you are serious, your coach Pip takes over
Your coach in the app reads what you have answered with the book closed and tells you one thing to do tonight. It will not count an answer you gave with the page open, and it will tell you when you are not ready.
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Questions people ask
How does the CT-GT certification relate to the Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL)?
CT-GT is a Specialist-level certification that builds on the Foundation Level. You must hold the CTFL certificate to earn the CT-GT certification.
Is the CT-GT exam available in languages other than English?
The official exam structure notes that non-native language speakers receive 25% additional time, implying the exam may be offered in multiple languages. Contact your local ISTQB Member Board for specific language availability.
What testing areas are unique to the gambling industry covered in CT-GT?
The certification covers gambling-specific testing such as math testing, platform testing, casino system testing, protocol testing, hardware testing, remote gambling testing, jackpot controller testing, and online gambling testing, in addition to compliance and player-perspective testing.
Can I take the CT-GT exam without attending accredited training?
Yes, self-study using the official syllabus and recommended reading material is an option. However, ISTQB highly recommends attending accredited training to ensure materials are assessed for relevance and consistency.
What job roles does the CT-GT certification map to?
It is aimed at testers, test analysts, test engineers, test consultants, test managers, user acceptance testers, and software developers in the gambling industry, as well as project managers, quality managers, and IT managers seeking deeper understanding.
Are there other ISTQB certifications I can pursue after CT-GT?
Holders of this certification may choose to proceed to other Core, Agile, or Specialist stream certifications.
Information freshness · Content last reviewed on 2026-07-30 Up to date
Practice free questions 357 questions, free, no account needed.
The curriculum
The whole exam, mapped and written
Every domain, every objective, and every concept ISTQB measures — each one written out.
3domains
13objectives
88concepts
78free 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 ISTQB exam outline · checked 30 July 2026 · See the source
1Domain 1: Introduction to the Gambling Industry103 questions
2Domain 2: The Gambling Industry Ecosystems164 questions
Test types during the gambling quality assurance phase4 concepts · 4 pagesOpen →Compliance testing8 concepts · 5 pagesOpen →The gambling industry ecosystem overview7 concepts · 7 pagesOpen →Video lottery terminals and their ecosystem9 concepts · 7 pagesOpen →Slot machines and their ecosystem7 concepts · 7 pagesOpen →Lottery and its ecosystem8 concepts · 7 pagesOpen →
3Domain 3: Testing in the Gambling Industry90 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.
Industry Overview and Regulatory Framework5 pagesOpen →
Free in front of it
23 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
357 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.
357questions
78pages
13objectives
Freealways
Browse by domain
Every objective, and every page range, is a link — so you can pick up exactly where you left off.
1Domain 1: Introduction to the Gambling Industry103 questions
2Domain 2: The Gambling Industry Ecosystems164 questions
3Domain 3: Testing in the Gambling Industry90 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.
88concepts
357free 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 ISTQB
Where the exam is defined, scheduled and scored.
2official links
88concepts mapped
The source
ISTQB’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 ISTQB outline already has questions here
We build from the official skills outline, not from a summary of it — 13 objectives, 88 concepts written under them, and free questions against every one. When ISTQB changes the outline, this page changes with it.
13objectives on the outline→88concepts written→357free 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.