Every AIGP question is multiple choice, some have more than one correct answer, and some begin with a scenario. That is as much as the IAPP says about the questions in public, and it keeps the questions themselves confidential under an agreement every candidate signs before the exam starts. So a search for AIGP exam questions returns two kinds of page: sites claiming to have the real ones, which the IAPP's handbook says "have obtained or reproduced them without permission", and practice questions written to the Body of Knowledge in the exam's format. This guide shows what the format is, with the IAPP's own example questions as the model, gives four original questions in that format with their rationales, explains the rule on dumps in the IAPP's words, and says where practice that is both legitimate and useful can be found.
Three shapes
The handbook describes the exam's questions in two sentences: "All IAPP exams are comprised of multiple choice questions with one or more correct answers. It will be indicated on the question if there are multiple correct answers." And: "Test takers may be asked to read a scenario and then answer questions relating to it." The study guide adds that the questions "include case studies that present real-world challenges for AI model development and use. There are no essay questions. Each correct answer is worth one point."
Single-answer. A stem, four options, one correct. The IAPP's study guide prints two examples of this shape. The first asks when an AI system counts as explainable; the second asks for the primary purpose of an AI impact assessment. Both stems are a single clause that ends in a question mark, and each option is a short phrase ending in a period. They are definitional: one tests a term from the responsible-AI principles in I.A, the other a task from III.A and IV.B.
Multi-select. The FAQs describe the shape precisely: "Multi-select questions ask test takers to select a specific number of correct responses from the options provided (for example, 'Select 3 of the 5 options below'). These questions are clearly labeled on the exam. Test takers must select the exact number of correct responses indicated in order to receive credit. No partial credit is awarded." The study guide's third example question is one: it asks which metrics should be tracked when monitoring a model in production, offers five options, and carries the label "MULTI-SELECT: Please select 3 of the 5 options below. No partial credit will be given."
Scenario. A situation, then a question about it. The Body of Knowledge tells you how far these go: "IAPP exam questions mostly focus on the remember/understand and apply/analyze levels" of Bloom's taxonomy. A scenario at the apply level asks you to "Use information in new situations"; at the analyze level, to "Draw connection among ideas". It does not ask you to evaluate a governance program or create one.
How many of each? The IAPP does not say. The exam information page gives 85 scored and 15 unscored questions; the FAQs say "some are scenario-based"; nothing gives the count of multi-select questions. Prepare for all three shapes in every domain.
What the verbs tell you
The Body of Knowledge says that "The verbs that begin the skill and task statements (identify, evaluate, implement, define) signal the level of complexity of the exam questions." Every indicator in Domain II begins with "Understand", so Domain II's 19 to 23 questions are mostly recognition: which risk class, which obligation, which standard. Domains III and IV are led by "Govern", "Perform", "Conduct" and "Document", which is where the scenarios live: a system at a stage of its life, and the question of what the governance professional does next.
The four questions below follow that pattern, one per domain. Each is original, written for this guide in the exam's shape from the documents the Body of Knowledge names, and each ends with the reasoning, as our practice questions do.
Domain I: a definition applied
This is the remember-and-understand level: a scenario dressed around a definition. Note what the distractors are: the other principles from the same list. On the real exam, the wrong options are usually true things from the same competency, so knowing the list is not enough; you need to know which item each situation points to.
Domain II: a law applied to AI
II.A's third indicator names "automated decision making" among the controller obligations to understand as they apply to AI. The question is an "Understand how" question in a scenario's clothing: the fact tested is the threshold in the article, and the scenario exists to make you find it.
Domain III: a multi-select on incidents
The multi-select discipline is to judge each option on its own. Three of the five are in the indicator's list; two are not. A candidate who picks A and B and then guesses D earns nothing, because "No partial credit is awarded." Count to three, check each against the list, and move on.
Domain IV: what should already exist
This is the apply level. The stem gives both of the indicator's own examples, a regulatory requirement and a performance issue, and the distractors are correct governance tasks from the wrong stage. The question tests whether you can place a situation in the life cycle.
The rule on dumps
The handbook's integrity section lists what the IAPP treats as cheating, and among the items is "Unsanctioned possession, distribution or use of any IAPP exam related materials, including, but not limited to reproductions of IAPP certification exams and exam questions." Then it addresses the dump sites directly:
The sanctions the handbook lists are "Invalidation of exam results", "Prohibition from future exams", "Revocation of existing certifications" and "Revocation of IAPP membership". The agreement the dumps violate is the Candidate Confidentiality Agreement, signed "immediately before each exam is administered", in which the candidate agrees "That the questions and answers of the exam are the exclusive and confidential property of the IAPP" and "That I will not sell, license, distribute, give away or obtain from any other source other than the IAPP the exam materials, questions or answers."
Two practical points follow. First, any page offering real AIGP questions is offering something that is either stolen or invented; the handbook's statement covers both. Second, the questions change: "Approximately 10% to 15% of the exam content is changed during annual updates", and the IAPP writes new questions after every Body of Knowledge revision. A dump, even a genuine one, is a copy of an old exam.
The handbook also sets the limit on everyone else's practice questions, including ours. "Any exam preparation materials produced or distributed by any enterprise or individual other than the IAPP and its official training partners (OTPs) are not endorsed by the IAPP, and we cannot guarantee that these materials adequately prepare candidates for certification." QualExam is not an official training partner, and nothing here is endorsed by the IAPP. What practice questions can honestly offer is the format and the Body of Knowledge's content, with a rationale and a source for each answer.
Where real practice is
The IAPP's practice exam. US$50 for members and US$60 for others, "100 practice questions (presented in a PDF) similar in format and content to the AIGP exam", with "Correct answers with explanations provided for each question." The study guide calls it the same format as the exam. It is a document rather than a timed sitting, so it teaches the wording more than the clock.
The IAPP's example questions. Three of them, free, on page 6 of the study guide, with the answers on page 8. They are the only questions in the IAPP's own words that you will see before the exam, so read them for their shape: the length of a stem, the length of an option, the multi-select label.
Our question bank. Every question is original, written in the exam's format to a performance indicator, with its rationale. None is public: no question on this site is shown outside the app.
| What | Questions |
|---|---|
| Free in the app with an account, the whole of I.A | 100 |
| In the full course, across all 13 competencies | 1,364 |
| Of which multi-select, in the IAPP's 3-of-5 format | 114 |
None of them is printed on the site: practice is in the app, and a free account opens I.A's lessons, questions and flashcards in full, the "Select 3 of the 5 options" label among them. The full course adds the rest of the bank and a mock exam that runs as the real one does, in two halves on half the time each with the break between them, because the handbook says "The candidate cannot return to the first half after submission" and that is worth rehearsing.
How to use practice questions
The handbook warns that "Certification exams are not a reflection of the candidate's ability to recall by memory the preparation materials." That is the right way to use any question bank, including this one: not to memorize answers but to find the indicators you cannot yet apply. Three habits make the difference.
- Read the rationale when you are right, too. A correct guess is a gap you have not found yet.
- Name the indicator before the answer. Every question here says which indicator it tests; on the exam, finding the indicator in a long stem is the skill.
- Treat multi-select options one at a time. Yes or no for each, then count.
Then use the section breakdown the IAPP gives after the exam, "the percentage of your correct answers per each blueprint domain", the same way if you need a second attempt. How to study for the AIGP sets the 30 hours out week by week, and The AIGP exam: format, multi-select and the 300 explains the scale the questions turn into.
By QualExam editorial. Written against the certifying body’s published documents, pinned by hash so a revised edition shows up as a change.