Study Guides Overview
Overview of AI red teaming study guides covering fundamentals, professional practice, and advanced topics to support assessment preparation.
Study Guides
These study guides distill the most important concepts from the curriculum into focused reference materials. Each guide summarizes key topics, highlights common pitfalls, and provides tables that consolidate information you need to retain.
How to Use These Guides
Before an assessment: Read the relevant study guide to refresh key concepts and fill gaps. Pay special attention to the "Common Pitfalls" sections -- these highlight the misconceptions that most frequently lead to wrong answers.
After an assessment: For any questions you missed, find the corresponding topic in the study guide and review it. The summary tables are designed to reinforce the relationships between concepts.
During engagements: The summary tables and checklists serve as quick references during active red teaming work.
Available Study Guides
| Guide | Covers | Best For |
|---|---|---|
| Fundamentals Study Guide | LLM architecture, security terminology, threat models, attack categories, OWASP LLM Top 10 | Preparing for the Foundations and Prompt Injection assessments |
| Professional Practice Study Guide | Methodology, scoping, reporting, governance, ethics, client engagement | Preparing for the Governance and Professional Skills assessments |
| Advanced Topics Study Guide | Research techniques, automation, forensics, emerging attacks, tool development | Deepening expertise after completing the core curriculum |
Study Tips
- Active recall over passive reading. After reading a section, close the guide and write down what you remember. Check what you missed.
- Teach it back. Explaining a concept to someone else (or writing it in your own words) reveals gaps in understanding that reading alone does not surface.
- Connect concepts across domains. The best red teamers understand how prompt injection relates to agent exploitation, how agent exploitation relates to cloud security, and how all of it connects to governance. Look for these connections.
- Build a personal attack library. As you study, start collecting your own examples, prompts, and techniques in a personal reference. The act of organizing knowledge reinforces retention.