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Free, and in about a minute. Choose your certification, enter your email address and a password. No card, no commitment. Then take the assessment: 24 questions, fifteen minutes. The moment you finish, you know where you stand in every domain and how long it will take you to be ready, and your first lesson is open. Do not spend weeks wondering where to begin or whether you are good enough. You can know today, for nothing. Create your free account and judge the course for yourself before you spend a cent.

Because a measurement you can repeat is no measurement. The assessment shows where you really start, and that is what makes everything after it work: your plan, your estimate and the order in which the course trains you. Take it honestly and the course never wastes an hour on what you already know. That is time you get back and money you do not spend. You will not miss a second attempt either: from the first lesson on, the course tests you constantly, so you always know how far you have come.

The most useful fifteen minutes of your preparation. Your starting picture shows your score in every domain, what the course will do about it and when you can be ready at the hours you have. No guessing and no generic twelve-week plan: you get a route built on what you know and what you do not. Weak domains get the attention, strong ones get out of your way. From the first week the estimate follows your real pace. At the end you see it again next to your final results, which is a satisfying sight. It is free: get yours now.

The five that open doors in privacy and AI governance: AIGP for AI governance, CIPP/E for European data protection law, CIPP/US for United States privacy law, CIPM for running a privacy programme and CIPT for privacy in technology. Each comes with a complete course, a study guide with every exam fact you need and a full trial exam. Not sure which one will do most for your career? The career plan shows which certifications lead to which role, in which order to take them and what those roles pay. Start with the one that fits you today: the assessment is free for each of them.

Yes, where it helps you and nowhere else. Every lesson, concept and question is written by us and checked against the law, the guidelines or the body of knowledge. On top of that, AI gives you three extra ways into every concept: a longer explanation, a real-life example and a plain-language version. It works only from our own verified texts, so it explains what we have checked and not what it found somewhere on the internet. It never uses your personal information, and you can switch it off whenever you like. The questions you are tested on are never written by AI. You get the speed of AI with the reliability of a checked source.

More than a thousand per course, and every one of them written by us for this exam. No recycled dumps and no questions that test a definition and call it a day. Our questions come in the shapes the real exam uses, at the level the real exam asks, and each one is tied to a concept in the course, so a wrong answer takes you straight to what you need to learn. Lesson checks, module tests, domain tests, repetition and a full trial exam: you practise until the exam format holds no surprises. Open the first lesson for free and judge the questions yourself.

Yes, and that is the whole idea. You are a professional with a job, so the course does not march you through material you already know. Every lesson is open from the day you subscribe. Go where your results say the marks are, skip what you have mastered and let the tests tell you if you skipped too much. Your progress page shows exactly what is left and which module deserves your next hour. The result is a shorter route to the exam, and a cheaper one: you pay by the week or the month, so time saved is money saved.

Yes, and it is one of the smartest ways to use 22Academy. Failed by a few marks, or strong everywhere except one domain? Take a single week for €37, go straight to that domain and work through its lessons and tests. Nothing is locked and nothing has to be done first. The domain test at the end tells you whether the gap is closed. Compare that with paying for a whole course again, or with the price of another retake. One week, one domain, job done. You can start today and be ready well before your next exam date.

Most courses can be finished in a month or less. That follows from how the course is built: the assessment finds what you already know, and the course spends your time only on the rest. Straight after the assessment you get your own estimate, based on your score and the hours a day you have. From the first week it follows your real pace, so you always know your finish date. A month of focused study beats a year of good intentions, and it costs a great deal less. Take the free assessment and see your own number.

The part of exam preparation that textbooks skip, and the part where marks are lost. Exam questions come in a small number of shapes: two statements to judge separately, a best answer among several defensible ones, a condition hidden in the question, a sequence, a definition with one word changed. Each has its own traps, and candidates who know the material perfectly well still walk into them. We teach you the technique for every shape, right on the question, and every test shows your score per type of question. You learn the subject and you learn how the exam asks about it. That is what sets 22Academy apart.

Always current. Every explanation is stored once and linked to its source, so when a law, a guideline, a decision or a body of knowledge changes, we change it in one place and every lesson that uses it is right from that moment. No waiting for next year’s edition. That matters more than you might think: AI governance and United States privacy law keep changing, and an exam gives no marks for last year’s answer. With 22Academy you never have to wonder whether your material is still correct. You open the course and you study the current state of the law.

Yes, and that is how studying fits into a working week. A lesson on the train, a lesson check between two meetings, a round of repetition on the sofa: the course works on your phone exactly as it does on your laptop, and your progress follows you from one to the other. You do not need to clear your diary to prepare for this exam. Twenty minutes here and half an hour there add up faster than you think, and the course keeps track of all of it. Only the trial exam deserves a larger screen and a quiet room.

Yes, and we show you how to get the most out of it. Your AI app is a good sparring partner, if you know how to use it. Our study cards give you ready-made prompts: how to have it quiz you properly, which sources to feed it and how to check what it gives back. Then use the course for the part an AI app cannot do: measuring where you really stand, with questions checked against the source. An AI app can be confidently wrong about exactly the details an exam asks for. Ours are checked. Use both and you get the best of each.

€37 a week or €117 a month per certification, and the monthly plan includes a full trial exam worth €42. That is the whole price: no sign-up fee, no minimum term, no expensive bundle. Official training for these exams costs many times more, and it does not adapt to what you already know. Since most courses can be finished in a month or less, you can be ready for the price of a single month. A second certification alongside costs €12 a week or €47 a month. Everything for a year costs €1,497. Prices include VAT or sales tax where it applies. Start free and pay when you are convinced.

Yes. The price you see is the price you pay: VAT or sales tax is included where it applies, and nothing is added at checkout. No surprises on the last screen. You get a proper receipt for every payment, with the tax on it, which you can hand straight to your employer or your accountant. So €37 a week means €37 a week, and €117 a month means €117 a month with a trial exam included. The only thing you pay elsewhere is the fee for the real exam, which goes to the organisation that runs it. Our part is the preparation, at a price you can see in advance.

Yes, yourself, from your account page. No notice period, no phone call, no questions. Your plan simply runs until you stop it, and you keep your access to the end of the week or month you paid for. We make leaving this easy because we want you to stay for one reason only: the course is working for you. If you come back, for a retake or for your next certification, your progress is still there for a year. There is no risk in starting: the first step is free and every step after it can be stopped whenever you like.

Yes, whenever it suits you. Started with a week to try it out and want to carry on? Switch to monthly on your account page. The monthly plan starts when your week ends, so you never pay twice for the same days, your progress carries over and you get the trial exam that comes with it. Per week, the monthly plan is clearly the better deal. Prefer to go the other way? Let the month run out and start a weekly plan. You are never locked into a choice you made on day one. Start small and move up when you see it works.

Everything we have, for a full year, for €1,497: every course on the platform, including the ones that open during your year. It is made for professionals who want more than one certification, and for those who want reliable, current material at hand in their daily work. No adding up and no choosing: you study what you need when you need it, you move between courses whenever you like, and your progress is kept in each of them. Trial exams are bought separately, per sitting, when you are ready for one. One payment, and your whole certification path is covered.

Yes, and it is an easy case to make: a certified colleague for a fraction of what classroom training costs. You get a receipt for every payment, with the tax on it, ready to hand in. Need more people trained? Then your employer wants Future Prep, which runs the same learning system for organisations on futureprep.eu. It invoices the company directly, and its library has some of the same certification courses plus many more for staff and leadership. Same method, same quality, built for teams. Either way, the bill for getting certified does not have to land on your own desk.

The closest you can get to the real exam without booking it. Same number of questions, same time limit, same kinds of question, and harder on purpose, so the real thing feels manageable by comparison. The real value comes afterwards. You get a full analysis: your knowledge per domain, your exam skills per type of question and the concepts to review first, in a report you can download. You stop hoping you are ready and start knowing it. And if our trial exam says you are ready and the real exam disagrees, you get a free trial exam or your money back.

€42 on its own, €27 if you have a subscription, and one is included in your first month on the monthly plan. Now compare that with what is at stake. The real exam costs hundreds, a retake costs hundreds more, and failing costs you weeks. Ten trial exams cost less than one retake. For the price of a dinner you find out, under real conditions, whether you are ready and exactly what to fix if you are not. You do not even need a subscription: if you studied somewhere else, buy a single sitting and get your answer.

When your progress page says you are close, usually a week or two before you want to book. Do it properly: one sitting, no notes, clock running. That is what makes the result worth having. Then let the result decide. Ready? Book the real exam with confidence. Not yet? You know exactly which domain or which type of question to work on, and a second sitting costs €27. Booking first and hoping for the best is the expensive way round. With a trial exam, your exam date stops being a gamble and becomes a decision.

Yes, as often as you like, and it is a good idea. Every sitting is drawn again from the exam questions for that certification, so each one measures you afresh. Sit one to find your weak spots, fix them and sit another to see the difference before you book. At €27 a sitting it is cheap insurance against an expensive retake. A sitting counts once you start it, so set the time aside and treat it like the real thing. Each one comes with its own full analysis and its own report to download.

Yes. Pass our trial exam at your first attempt, sit the real exam within two weeks and fail it, and you get a free trial exam or your money back for the one you paid for. Just email us within 14 days of your result. We can make that promise because our trial exam is harder than the real one, and because we have been preparing candidates for these exams since 2018. We know what a pass on our trial exam is worth. The risk is ours: you get a full-length exam, a complete analysis and a second chance or your money back if we got you wrong.

Nothing: it waits for you. We keep your progress for a full year after your last paid period, at no cost. Exam moved? Life got in the way? Need a retake, or a break before your next certification? Come back within the year and everything is where you left it: your results, your flagged questions, your plan. You carry on without paying for a single week you did not use. That is the advantage of paying by the week or the month: you study when you can and you stop when you cannot. We email you a week before the year is up.

Yourself, in a moment, from your account page. No forms, no emails, no waiting for someone to get round to it. Your personal data is removed, and a running subscription is cancelled with it, so nothing more is charged. Want a copy first? You can download your account details and your scores from the same place. A certificate you earned stays verifiable, without your name. We teach privacy for a living, so we would be embarrassed to make this difficult. You are in control of your data from the first day to the last.

No, and that works in your favour. The IAPP issues the certification and runs the exam, and you book the exam with them. 22Academy is independent and not affiliated with the IAPP, which is exactly why our prices are this low. We are here for everyone who cannot or will not pay the high fees for official training, and who wants a better preparation for the exam. Everything in our courses is written by us, for one purpose: getting you ready for exam day. We have been doing that since 2018.

Bas Hennis, who has worked with professional certification courses since 1999 and builds the platform himself. 22Academy has prepared candidates for these exams since 2018, and everything learned in those years is in the platform you see today. This is a specialist’s work, built by someone who knows these exams inside out, and it shows in the questions. Got a question about your study, your planning or when to book? Email info@22academy.com. Support is free, and the answer comes from a person who knows the exams.