Advice for studying for CISA? I’ve purchased the CRM, QAE, and Hemang Doshi’s book. So far I’m having trouble reading through the CRM because it’s so detailed that everything seems important and difficult to retain. I’m an incoming new hire so I think I should read the book even though I know people who have passed with only QAE (they were previous b4 interns)

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It’s gonna be a tough test without at least a year of experience in IT audit. But at the end of the day, to replace that, I would just break up those manuals into bite-sized chunks and take your time studying. And even with experience, I had to hammer the QAE bank for like 30 hours to familiarize myself with the test question format and just way the CISA exam asks a question. Good luck!

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Thanks for your insight! I previously interned in IT internal audit in industry so I’m familiar with a lot of the terms. But yeah I’m trying my best to get through the manual right now. My strategy is to read a chapter, then do the QAE for it. And once I’m done with that I’ll do heavy QAE sessions

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I’ve been told that the CISA is a total joke of an exam. Purchase the test bank, and pound MCQ. CISA may not be worth it, depending which group you’re in-

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Lol hopefully it’s that easy. I am going to be in IT audit so it’s relevant

I just did the test bank. It’ll give you insight to how the actual test is. The test had a lot of questions with right answers but you needed to choose the one that was “most right”. The test bank will help explain why an answer was the “most right”.

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