Advisory folks... how long did you study for the cisa? Trying to take it at the end of September with 50 hour work weeks. Thoughts?

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CISA is dumb easy

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One week of time off to study and take the exam, if you've been in IT audit for a bit with enough IT knowledge.

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I started studying for a few hours a week from March - April, then started studying more during May and took the exam late May. The Q&A database had about 50 hours logged, reading the study guide was a few more hours on top of that.

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Studied an hour a night for the week leading up to the exam. Passed easily.

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6 hours

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Not sure how much experience you guys who studied for one weekend have but there's no way I would've passed it having studied for just 1 weekend. My friend tried that and failed. I wasn't going to repeat her mistake.

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I did about 40 hours

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Again... it depends on years of experience in the field. That helps a lot.

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If you are even a moderately good test taker or just fairly smart, you should be able to do it with one solid weekend of studying. Taking a week off seems like overkill unless you just don't do well on tests. I know probably a dozen people that studied for about 10-12 hours the weekend before and passed easily.

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Bought the test bank the night before and did practice problems for 4 hours. Got a ~550 score. You have to know if you're a good test taker though.

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