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ARM Sample Course
- Topics
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- The Broken Supply Chain: What Would You Do?
- Identifying Risks: What Would You Do?
- Assessing an Organization’s Risks: What Would You Do?
- The Botched Software Rollout: What Would You Do?
- Protecting the Secret Recipe: What Would You Do?
- When the Warning is Ignored: What Would You Do?
- The Earthquake: What Would You Do?
- Average Completion Time
- 30-45 Minutes
Prepare for Today's Risk Landscape
Build practical risk management skills to improve decision-making, strengthen organizational resilience, and navigate emerging risks and technologies.
What You'll Gain With ARM
ARM Will Help You:
- Understand risk management techniques to make confident, business-focused decisions.
- Identify and assess organizational risks to strengthen resilience and preparedness.
- Apply emerging technology insights to navigate evolving risks with confidence.
- Recommend risk strategies to improve decision-making and reduce organizational impact.
Top 3 Reasons to Take ARM
Risk management skills are becoming more valuable than ever as organizations face increasingly complex and interconnected risks. Check out the top 3 reasons you should take ARM.
Top 3 Reasons to Take ARM
Strengthen Your Strategic Influence
Organizations increasingly expect risk professionals to help guide business decisions, improve preparedness, and communicate risk across the enterprise. ARM helps you build practical skills that strengthen your influence and organizational impact.
Build More Resilient Risk Strategies
As operational, cyber, reputational, and compliance risks become more interconnected, organizations need professionals who can strengthen resilience and respond proactively. ARM helps you develop practical frameworks for managing risk in today's evolving business environment.
Stay Ahead of Emerging Risks and Technologies
AI, data analytics, automation, and other emerging technologies are transforming how organizations identify and manage risk. ARM helps you understand these changes and apply risk management strategies with confidence.
The Risk Advantage for Agents & Brokers
Your clients rely on advisors who understand risk from every angle. See how ARM can help you bring deeper insights to every conversation.
Become the Partner Your Clients Need
The Institutes Designations' Associate in Risk Management (ARM™) equips agents and brokers with practical skills to identify emerging risks, evaluate business vulnerabilities, and help clients build more resilient organizations in a rapidly changing environment.
Through realistic business scenarios and applied learning, you'll strengthen your ability to:
- Guide more strategic client conversations
- Identify interconnected business risks beyond insurance
- Recommend risk management approaches that improve resilience
- Bring greater value to every client relationship
ARM at a Glance
Gain practical skills you can use right away with the ARM designation. Program details include:
- 3 courses, plus ethics
- 6-9 month completion time
- 100% online courses
- Virtual exams for all courses
- Diploma upon completion
Ready-Made Career Skills:
- Risk Management
- Risk Analysis
- Organizational Resilience
- Risk Assessment
- Business Continuity
- Emerging Technologies
- Risk Governance
- Strategic Thinking
- Better communicate the value of risk management to stakeholders by connecting it to key business performance indicators, including profitability, growth, and organizational responsibility.
- Build a more resilient risk culture so you can strengthen governance, ownership, communication, continuity planning, and organizational preparedness.
- Understand and assess how emerging technologies such as AI, automation, and more are reshaping modern risk management strategies and priorities.
- Learn how to apply data analytics techniques and strategies so you can better identify exposures, quantify potential losses, monitor trends, and support risk-based decisions.
- Evaluate critical vulnerabilities to strengthen strategies for business interruption, cybersecurity, supply chain, and workforce exposures to limit organizational disruptions
- Recommend and develop risk management strategies to address operational, compliance, reputational, and other emerging risks while strengthening organizational resilience.
Once you complete the ARM designation, you’ve knocked out 3 of 5 core courses for CPCU. Keep your momentum going and earn 2 of The Institutes’ most popular designations in as little as 2 years. Learn more about the ARM Path to CPCU.
Are you looking to become a more strategic risk advisor? Today's clients need more than insurance solutions—they need advisors who can help them understand risk, strengthen resilience, and make more informed business decisions. With ARM, you'll learn how to:
- Identify emerging and interconnected business risks
- Evaluate AI, technology, cyber, and operational exposures
- Recommend practical risk treatment and financing strategies
- Support stronger business decisions through strategic risk management
- Communicate risk effectively across business functions
Looking for more? The Institutes Agent & Broker Path to Success is a structured pathway to earn your Professional Risk Consultant (PRC), ARM, and CPCU designations in as little as two years. All program requirements are 100% online so you can study at your own pace.
Want a quick preview? The free ARM sample course lets you experience the structure, content, and learning tools firsthand.
In just 30-45 minutes, you’ll walk through actual course material from ARM to get a feel for how the program fits your professional goals.
Still Wondering if ARM is Right for You?
Here are some final facts to help you decide if this is the right designation for your role as well as your future career goals.
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Who should take ARM?
ARM is designed for risk management professionals working in both insurance and other business sectors who want to strengthen their strategic influence, improve organizational resilience, and stay ahead of emerging risks and technologies. ARM helps professionals build practical, business-focused skills that improve decision-making, leadership credibility, and organizational impact.
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Does earning this designation give me credit toward others?
Completing this program may earn you credit toward:
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What's included in the course materials?
- Online Interactive Course: Learn at your own pace through modules featuring animations, videos, interactions, and question/answer scenarios.
- Printable Study Outline: ARM students have access to a printable study outline, which provides each assignment’s key points and review questions.
- AI Learning Support: Ask questions, get explanations, and stay focused with an AI-powered tool built directly in your course.
- Exam Practice Questions: Test your knowledge and build confidence with hundreds of interactive practice questions based on your course materials.
- Simulated Exam: This is a timed exam that can only be taken once and mirrors the format, timing, and question style of the credentialing exam.
- Mobile App: A flexible and convenient way for you to take practice quizzes anytime, anywhere.
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How do virtual exams and testing windows work?
ARM virtual exams are timed and online, allowing you 65 minutes to complete 50 questions. To ensure a smooth experience, please use a web-enabled device with reliable internet access and one of the following browsers: Chrome, Firefox, Edge, or Safari. When you purchase your exam, you’ll select a testing window to take it at your convenience.
We offer 4 testing windows throughout the year.* Access your exam from your account when the window opens and complete it any time until 11:59 p.m. ET on the final day of the window.
- Quarter 1: January 15 – March 15
- Quarter 2: April 15 – June 15
- Quarter 3: July 15 – September 15
- Quarter 4: October 15 – December 15
*Exam windows that close on a weekend will be extended to the following business day.
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Are ARM courses filed for state continuing education (CE) credit?
CE filing for ARM courses is currently in progress and pending state approvals. Please check back soon.
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.Confidently serve your customers with an understanding of basic risk management and insurance principles. Build a foundation in insurance functions and regulation, the risk management process, and the claims and underwriting decision processes.
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.Select the program path that matches your career goals and gain foundational knowledge in risk management and insurance.