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Study guide · 10 min CPEng / RPEQ — Australia

Credential header - Credential: Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) — Engineers Australia; Registered Professional Engineer of Queensland (RPEQ) — Board of Profession…

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Study guide · 11 min Chartered Engineer (CEng) — UK Engineering Council

Credential header - Credential: Chartered Engineer (CEng), a protected professional title registered by the UK Engineering Council - Issuing body: The Engineering Council…

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Study guide · 12 min CISSP — ISC2

Credential header - Credential: Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) - Issuing body: ISC2 (International Information System Security Certification …

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Study guide · 12 min FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot Certificate

Credential header - Credential: Remote Pilot Certificate with Small UAS Rating (14 CFR Part 107) - Issuing body: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) - Jurisdiction: Uni…

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Study guide · 13 min PE License (NCEES FE → PE) — US Professional Engineer Licensure

Credential header - Credential: Professional Engineer (PE) license - Issuing body: US state/territorial engineering licensing boards; the two gateway examinations (FE and…

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Study guide · 11 min Professional Engineer (P.Eng) — Canada

Credential header - Credential: Professional Engineer (P.Eng) licence - Issuing body: Provincial/territorial regulators — e.g., Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO), Engi…

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Study guide · 11 min Project Management Professional (PMP) — PMI

Credential header - Credential: Project Management Professional (PMP) - Issuing body: Project Management Institute (PMI) - Jurisdiction: International/global - Level: Exp…

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Study guide · 3 min Shared Study Guides — Index

These nine guides are the canonical study guides for credentials that appear across multiple disciplines. Each is written once, here, and linked from every discipline fol…

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Study guide · 12 min Six Sigma Green Belt / Black Belt — ASQ

Credential header - Credential: Certified Six Sigma Green Belt (CSSGB) / Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB) - Issuing body: American Society for Quality (ASQ); ANAB-a…

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Study guide · 12 min Functional Safety Engineer — TÜV / IEC 61508 family

Credential header - Credential: Functional Safety Engineer (FS Engineer) — personnel certification - Issuing body: TÜV Rheinland (PersCert) — SIS and HW/SW Design tracks;…

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Compliance brief · 6 min ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code (BPVC) — Canonical Brief

Records covered (merged here): chemical-process-std-010 (Chemical/Process, flagship standard — Section VIII, Rules for Construction of Pressure Vessels). Nuclear Section …

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Compliance brief · 4 min CALEA — Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (47 U.S.C. 1001–1010)

Issuing body / enforcer: U.S. Congress (1994); implemented by the FCC (47 CFR Part 64, Subpart V); enforced through federal courts at the request of the Department of Jus…

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Compliance brief · 6 min Clean Water Act + NPDES Framework (incl. CAFO Requirements)

Brief type: Shared compliance brief (cross-discipline; serves Environmental + Agricultural records) Record IDs: environmental-cert-017 (Environmental · regulation · flags…

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Compliance brief · 5 min EAR — Export Administration Regulations (15 CFR 730–774)

Issuing body / enforcer: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), under the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 (ECRA). Jurisdiction: United Stat…

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Compliance brief · 7 min EASA Part 21 — Airworthiness and Environmental Certification

Issuing body / enforcer: European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), under the EU Basic Regulation 2018/1139. Legal substance: Commission Regulation (EU) No 748/2012, A…

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Compliance brief · 5 min EPA Risk Management Program (RMP) — 40 CFR Part 68 (Clean Air Act §112(r))

Records covered (merged here): chemical-process-reg-018 (Chemical/Process, flagship regulation). Safety/HSE sibling records point here as well. Companion: the shared OSHA…

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Compliance brief · 6 min EU Machinery Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 — Compliance Brief

Records covered: mechanical-reg-003 · manufacturing-reg-003 · industrial-systems-reg-024 · robotics-cert-021 · agricultural-cert-022 (Agricultural) · controls-automation-…

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Compliance brief · 5 min EU Medical Devices Regulation (EU) 2017/745 (MDR)

Brief type: Shared compliance brief (Biomedical flagship record; the EU market-access regime for medical devices) Record ID: biomedical-reg-004 (Biomedical · regulation ·…

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Compliance brief · 6 min FCC Part 15 — Radio Frequency Devices / Equipment Authorization (47 CFR Part 15)

Issuing body / enforcer: U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Office of Engineering and Technology (OET). Jurisdiction: United States — any RF device marketed, i…

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Compliance brief · 5 min FDA Quality Management System Regulation (QMSR), 21 CFR Part 820

Brief type: Shared compliance brief (Biomedical flagship record; the U.S. QMS regime) Record ID: biomedical-reg-001 (Biomedical · regulation · license) Issuing body / enf…

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Compliance brief · 6 min FERC Jurisdiction — Wholesale Power and Interstate Transmission — Compliance Brief

Covers records: electrical-power-cert-022 (Electrical/Power), energy-renewable-reg-020 (Energy/Renewable) Record type: Regulation — federal agency jurisdiction (not a sin…

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Compliance brief · 5 min GDPR — General Data Protection Regulation

- Record: General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) - Issuing body / enforcer: EU legislature; enforcement by Member State supervisory authorities (DP…

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Compliance brief · 6 min IEEE 1547 — Interconnection and Interoperability of Distributed Energy Resources — Compliance Brief

Covers records: electrical-power-cert-013 (Electrical/Power), energy-renewable-std-012 (Energy/Renewable) Record type: Standard (consensus standard with regulatory adopti…

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Compliance brief · 4 min IEEE 802.11 — Wireless LAN (Wi-Fi)

Issuing body: IEEE Standards Association, IEEE 802.11 Working Group. Interoperability certification is run separately by the Wi-Fi Alliance (Wi-Fi CERTIFIED programs). Ju…

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Compliance brief · 3 min IEEE 802.3 — Ethernet

Issuing body: IEEE Standards Association, IEEE 802.3 Working Group. Jurisdiction: Global — a voluntary international standard; market-mandatory in practice (interoperabil…

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Compliance brief · 4 min IPC-A-610 — Acceptability of Electronic Assemblies

Issuing body: IPC (formerly the Institute for Interconnecting and Packaging Electronic Circuits), developed by the IPC-A-610 Task Group (7-31b) with international partici…

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Compliance brief · 5 min ISO 13485:2016 — Quality Management Systems for Medical Devices

Brief type: Shared compliance brief (cross-discipline; serves Biomedical and Quality/Reliability records) Record ID: biomedical-std-001 (Biomedical · standard · flagship)…

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Compliance brief · 5 min ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems — Compliance Brief (canonical, incl. ISO 9001:2026)

Records covered: industrial-systems-std-015 · manufacturing-std-001 · quality-reliability-std-001 (Quality/Reliability) Brief type: Shared cross-discipline brief — canoni…

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Compliance brief · 4 min ISO/IEC 27001:2022 — Information Security Management

Issuing body: ISO and IEC, developed by subcommittee ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27. Certification is performed by accredited certification bodies (registrars), not by ISO itself. J…

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Compliance brief · 5 min ITAR — International Traffic in Arms Regulations (22 CFR 120–130)

Issuing body / enforcer: U.S. Department of State, Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC), under the Arms Export Control Act (AECA), 22 U.S.C. 2778. Jurisdiction: U…

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Compliance brief · 7 min NERC Reliability Standards — Compliance Brief

Covers records: electrical-power-cert-021 (Electrical/Power), energy-renewable-reg-021 (Energy/Renewable) Record type: Regulation — mandatory federal reliability regime, …

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Compliance brief · 6 min OSH Act General Duty Clause (Section 5(a)(1)) + 29 CFR 1910/1926 Framework — Compliance Brief

Records covered: safety-hse-reg-001 (Safety/HSE) · robotics-cert-020 · industrial-systems-reg-023 Brief type: Shared cross-discipline brief — canonical version. Disciplin…

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Compliance brief · 6 min OSHA Process Safety Management (PSM) — 29 CFR 1910.119

Records covered (merged here): chemical-process-reg-017 (Chemical/Process, flagship regulation). Controls/Automation and Mechanical sibling records point here as well. Co…

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Compliance brief · 5 min EU Pressure Equipment Directive 2014/68/EU (PED)

Records covered (merged here): chemical-process-reg-020 (Chemical/Process, flagship regulation — full PED), materials-reg-001 (Materials, flagship regulation — material-r…

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Compliance brief · 6 min REACH — Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals, Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006

Records covered (merged here): chemical-process-reg-022 (Chemical/Process, flagship regulation), materials-reg-002 (Materials, flagship regulation), plastics-polymer-cert…

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Compliance brief · 5 min RoHS — Restriction of Hazardous Substances, Directive 2011/65/EU (as amended by 2015/863)

Records covered (merged here): materials-reg-003 (Materials, flagship regulation), plastics-polymer-cert-027 (Plastics/Polymer, license regulation). Electronics/Embedded …

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