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ISO 9001:2026 Internal Auditor, assignment Part C. Criteria: ISO 9001:2026 and the site’s own procedures, with ISO 19011:2026 as guidance. Your work saves on this device as you go.

Start here: the brief

This is Part C of the assessment and carries 100 marks. You build the 2027 internal audit programme, plan two audits, run them on an evidence pack of 14 exhibits, hold the meetings, report, and decide on two corrective action responses, the way you would on a real site. Parts A and B are the two online quizzes in the same module. You need 70 percent in each part to pass.

The case study

The case is a training scenario built from real audit patterns. No real company is named.

The people on site

Name	Role	Department	Audit training

How Part C is marked

Step	What is checked	Marks
1. Observations	The auditing principles at risk in the steering meeting, and what the site should do about them, in your own words.	8
2. Audit programme	Frequency from the site’s own scoring rule; the right number of audits scheduled; trained auditors who do not audit their own work or department; approval details.	8
3. Audit plans	Objectives, criteria and scope for each audit; opening meeting first and closing meeting last; times in order; every source of evidence planned; the night shift seen on night shift.	8
4. Opening meetings	Every item completed for both audits; the classification of findings explained; closing meeting times that match your plans.	4
5. Evidence pack	A decision on all 14 exhibits; the planted nonconformities found against the right clause; no finding where the site conforms; the out of scope matter referred; evidence and a statement in your own words.	40
6. Closing meetings	Every item completed; the number of findings matching your evidence pack; the corrective action route and who verifies closure.	4
7. Report and corrective action	Report sections, conclusion and distribution; an owner and a due date on every nonconformity; the two corrective action responses decided and reasoned against 10.2.	18
Consistency	Your programme, plans, meetings and report describe the same two audits, against the same criteria, on the same dates.	10

Three conditions every pass must meet, whatever the other sections score: at least 8 of the 10 nonconformities in the evidence pack found; the corrective action response that blames operator error rejected; and no process owner auditing her or his own process in your programme.

You have three attempts. Each attempt returns your mark and feedback within a minute, naming what to fix and which lesson to go back to. Pass mark: 70. Nothing is uploaded and nobody marks by hand: the mark goes onto your course record by itself.

Your own work only. An ASC certificate is issued on work that can be shown to be yours. Use the facts of this case and the exhibits, in your own words. Do not use ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini or any other AI tool. A submission that shows no detail from the case, or reads as machine written, is returned unmarked and still uses an attempt. A second such submission ends the enrolment without a certificate.

Your name as it should appear on the report

Step 1: Observations on the steering meeting

Read the fourth paragraph of the case again. Which principles of auditing (ISO 19011:2026, 4.2 to 4.8) are put at risk by what Nomvula and Anneke proposed? Select only the ones that apply.

Your observations (100 to 250 words)

Step 2: Internal audit programme for 2027

Score each process 1 to 3 for importance, previous results and changes, using the facts in the table. The frequency follows from the site’s rule and appears beside your scores. Tick that many months. Choose a trained auditor who does not own the process and does not work in the department that runs it.

Document number

Compiled by

Approved by

Date

Revision

Swipe the table sideways for more columns.

Process and facts	Owner	Imp.	Prev.	Chg.	Audits a year	Auditor	J	F	M	A	M	J	J	A	S	O	N	D

Step 3: Audit plans

You are the auditor for both audits. Write the objectives, criteria and scope in full: the opening meeting, the closing meeting and the report must repeat them. Plan every source of evidence you will use, in time order.

Step 4: Opening meetings

Write what you would say or confirm for each item, in short sentences.

Step 5: The evidence pack

Fourteen exhibits: seven from each audit. Read each one as the auditor on the day. Decide: nonconformity, observation, opportunity for improvement, no finding, or refer outside this audit. For a nonconformity, give the clause of ISO 9001:2026 it breaches (for example 7.1.5.2 or 8.5.1 f)), the evidence in your own words with the record numbers and dates you saw, and a statement of the gap. For no finding, say in a line why the site conforms.

Step 6: Closing meetings

Step 7: Audit report and corrective action

1. Objectives

2. Criteria

3. Scope, dates, auditor and auditees

4. Summary of the audits

5. Nonconformities and corrective action requests (built from step 5)

Ref	Exhibit	Clause	Statement	Owner	Due date

6. Conclusion, for each process against its objectives

7. Other matters seen during the audits

8. Distribution

Two corrective action responses

Two process owners have sent back responses on earlier requests. Neither comes from your evidence pack. Test each against 10.2.1 line by line, decide Accept or Reject, and give your reasoning in at least 20 words, naming the clause. For a response you accept, give the date on which you will verify effectiveness.

Step 8: Review and submit

There is nothing to download and nothing to upload. Your mark and feedback appear here within a minute and go onto your course record by themselves. We email you the same feedback with your completed audit document attached, so you can keep it or print it.