Passing CISA

Tried and Tested Method.

Based on interviews
conducted in the United Arab
Emirates
Anil Babladi

CISA?

Certified Information Systems Auditor

Exam owners: ISACA
Pre-Req for Exam: None
Pre-Req for Certification: 5 years of
Audit experience.
Waivers for certification: Please visit
ISACA.org

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Exam Details
Held every year twice (June and
Dec). Percentile based exam. Results
released after 8 weeks.
Do not bother about calculation for
marks, just aim to study hard and
smart.
200 questions. MC Questions. 4 hrs.
No eatables, phones allowed.
Hydrate yourself so that you can
think properly.
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CISA EXAM, WHAT IS

NEEDED..
FROM ISACA
CISA REVIEW
MANUAL, LATEST.
QUESTION AND
ANSWERS. LATEST.

FROM OUTSIDE
WIKIPEDIA

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CISA Review Manual (RM)

A gold mine of information. Make sure you do not
even leave a single sentence unread. Attempt all
questions in the RM and all scenario based
questions.
Do not cram. This is not a cramming exam.
Full six months preparation gives you time to
assimilate the material. Four months to be
dedicated completely to RM.
Order of preference: Well, it may be based on
the person but the best way to pass the exam is
to cover those which are higher marks in exam.
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CISA Review Manual (RM)

Order of preference: Chapter 5 to start with. Finish each and every
line and understand it. Do all questions and review all answers
and explanations. Sometimes questions are framed from the
explanations you study. Hence make sure all questions are done.
Then CISA QnA. Chapter 5. Finish all QnA and explanations. Do all
of them until you get 100%. If you get in excess of 500/800 in this
and score decent in other chapters then you are mostly thru.
Then Chapter 3,4 as above.
Then Chapter 6 and that finishes technical chapters.
Chapter 2, last but one and chapter 1 final. 1,2, & 6 are scoring
chapters and aim is to score 100% in those chapters.
Try to finish everything above in 4 months.
These 4 months might be too long, but it gives you optimum
experience to be able to attend to interviews also after you pass
exams.
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CISA Final Two months

Even though QnA has been done one
complete time, it has to be done at least
three times before the exam.
Take the first exam. Finish 200 questions. Do
not take more than 4 hours. Go through
explanations of both right and wrong
answers.
Identify which chapters you are falling short.
Then review CISA RM and then QnA for that
chapter.
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CISA A month before

Second and third exams in the same way.
Finally there are 825 questions in the QnA.
Attempt 100 at a time after third exam.
Although this entire presentation says more
about ISACA and ISACA products alone,
believe me, you do not need anything more.
Wiki is only used when you do not
understand a basic concept like Encryption.
A word of note: All copyright terms belong to
respective companies.
Anil Babladi