Title: Student / Explorer learning path | ISO 26262 Academy URL: https://iso26262.academy/path/getting-started Description: A guided tour across all levels: system, software, hardware, analyses and processes. --- **ISO 26262 Academy** · Learning path · open to read # Student / Explorer A guided tour across all levels: system, software, hardware, analyses and processes. [Create a free account to start](https://iso26262.academy/register?plan=free&from=%2Fpath%2Fgetting-started) [Explore Career Path](https://iso26262.academy/features/career-path) - **3** weeks - **20** items - **9.1** hours - **1** free with an account Career Path gives you an assessment and a roadmap based on your experience and goals. This track is the fixed schedule for one role. The schedule ## Week by week. Guides, practice and checks in the order they build on each other. Open a guide to see what it covers; each item shows every plan that includes it. 1. **Week 1** Functional safety foundations → System level 3h 43m - Quiz Calibration: foundations12 questions 20m [Pro](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-basic) [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) - Read [Item definition & concept phase](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/item-definition-concept-phase) 45m [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) - Read [E-Gas monitoring concept](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/e-gas) 1h 10m [Pro](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-basic) [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) - Quiz Quiz: system level10 questions 18m [Pro](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-basic) [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) - Read [Software architecture and unit design](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/software-architectural-unit-design) 20m [Pro](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-basic) [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) - Read [Coding guidelines](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/software-coding-guidelines) 50m [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) 2. **Week 2** Software level → Hardware level 3h 54m - Quiz Quiz: software level10 questions 18m [Pro](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-basic) [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) - Read [Hardware development per Part 5](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/hardware-engineering-iso26262) 15m [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) - Read [FMEDA](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/fmeda) 50m [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) - Quiz Quiz: hardware level10 questions 18m [Pro](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-basic) [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) - Read [Safety analyses compared](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/safety-analyses) 30m [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) - Read [FMEA](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/fmea) 15m [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) - Simulator Simulator: build an FMEA 45m [Pro](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-basic) [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) - Read [STPA](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/stpa) 25m [Pro](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-basic) [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) - Quiz Quiz: analyses10 questions 18m [Pro](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-basic) [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) 3. **Week 3** Processes & management 1h 28m - Read [The Safety Plan](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/safety-plan) 15m [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) - Read [Change impact analysis](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/change-impact-analysis) 10m [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) - Read [Safety Element out of Context](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/seooc) 20m [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) - Read Process: Functional Safety Concept 25m [Free](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-free) [Pro](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-basic) [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) - Quiz Quiz: processes10 questions 18m [Pro](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-basic) [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) Templates ### 120 work-product templates come with this path Ready-to-adapt documents matched to the modules above. Reference material, not extra hours on your schedule. - Functional Safety Concept - HAZOP Worksheet - Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment Report - Item Definition - Motorcycle HARA Verification Report - Motorcycle Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment - Motorcycle Item Definition - Verification Report of the Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment - Hardware-Software Interface Specification (HSI) - Requirements for Production, Operation, Service and Decommissioning (POSD) - SEooC Assumption Validity Report - Calibration Data Specification - +108 more Further reading ## Also on this track. Related guides outside the core schedule, for when you want to go wider. [Browse all guides](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts#library) - Beyond the standard [Automotive Cybersecurity with ISO/SAE 21434](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/automotive-cybersecurity) Learn how ISO/SAE 21434 runs cybersecurity engineering across a vehicle program: the organizational CSMS, item definition and assets, TARA from damage scenarios to risk treatment, cybersecurity goals and CAL, secure development, security testing, and what UNECE R155 and R156 demand after release. [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) 14 chapters - System level [Calibration & Parameter Safety](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/calibration-parameter-safety) The same binary, a thousand behaviors: configuration data vs calibration data, ISO 26262-6 Annex C requirements, A2L and XCP workflows, CRC and plausibility protection in the ECU, dataset release, variant coding risks and tool confidence. [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) 12 chapters - System level [Diagnostics & Remote Service Safety](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/diagnostics-remote-service-safety) The diagnostic connector is a command path, not a data port: UDS, DoIP and DTC mechanics, the shift to service-oriented diagnostics on vehicle computers, which read, write, routine and mode actions can violate a safety goal, and the vehicle-side gating, bounding, containment and evidence mechanisms that keep the path safe. [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) 13 chapters - Beyond the standard [Aerospace Functional Safety](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/aerospace-functional-safety) How civil aviation makes systems safe when no safe state is reachable in flight: 25.1309 failure conditions and probability targets, the FHA, PSSA and SSA chain, development assurance levels, DO-178C and DO-254, common cause analysis, fly-by-wire architectures and integrated modular avionics, then three honest comparison chapters against ISO 26262. [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) 15 chapters - Beyond the standard [Functional Safety in Machinery](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/machinery-safety) How machines that can crush, cut and entangle are engineered so they do not: ISO 12100 risk assessment, PLr and SIL targets, the five ISO 13849 categories, MTTFd, DCavg, CCF and PFHd, safe motion and safe fieldbuses, validation, the CE route, and three chapters comparing the machinery model with ISO 26262. [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) 15 chapters - Beyond the standard [Functional Safety in Railway](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/railway-safety) The CENELEC world explained for automotive engineers: EN 50126 RAMS, EN 50129 safety cases and SIL, EN 50716 software, EN 50159 safe communication, ETCS and interlocking, plus three chapters comparing the railway risk model honestly against ISO 26262. [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) 15 chapters Start this path ## Week one starts _with a free account._ The free plan opens the first items on every track: one full concept guide, 3 templates, 1 process, the Markov and RBD simulators and 5 practice exams a month. Pro and Expert unlock the rest of the schedule. [Start this path](https://iso26262.academy/register?plan=free&from=%2Fpath%2Fgetting-started) [What Pro and Expert unlock](https://iso26262.academy/pricing)