CT - Testing with Generative AI Certification

Updated on 23 September 2026. What’s new: the pass mark is 30 of 46 points, ISTQB Foundation Level is a required entry condition, and the syllabus in force is v1.1 of 27 April 2026

ISTQB runs the CT-GenAI exam on syllabus v1.1, dated 27 April 2026. The paper is 40 multiple-choice questions in 60 minutes, marked out of 46 points, and 30 of those points pass you. What that scoring hides is how uneven the module is: one chapter of the five, prompt engineering, is worth 16 points on its own. Study time spread evenly across the syllabus is study time spent badly.

This article works through the module the way the exam is actually built: the version in force, the entry condition, the shape of the paper, the point weight of each chapter, and then the two chapters that decide most results. Every figure below comes from one of three places, and each one is named where it appears -- the ISTQB certification page for CT-GenAI, the ISTQB Exam Structures and Rules tables, and the CT-GenAI syllabus itself. Figures were checked in September 2026.

Which syllabus version does the CT-GenAI exam run on right now?

Version 1.1, released on 27 April 2026. The module first appeared as v1.0 on 25 July 2025, so the certification is barely a year old, and v1.1 is recorded in the syllabus revision history as a minor update rather than a rewrite. The chapter structure survived it: five examinable chapters, the same names, the same recommended teaching minutes. What changed is wording and detail inside the sections, which matters if you are studying from a copy you downloaded last year.