Anyone taken the CISA exam from home? Any pros and cons?

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I rather do it from home. I get to prepare myself up to the last min. No commute. Using my own bathroom. Set my own comfortable environment.

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Office is closed in my area sadly. Gonna keep studying during my time off as planned. If nothing changes by mid/december, I will bite and do the exam from home. Just wanna get this over with. Been studying this since Feb.

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Overall it was fine, but it did crash once during the exam. However, I was able to log in again pretty quickly. The proctor also took awhile to join, so be prepared for that.

That’s what is making me hesitant. Was supposed to be taking the exam at the test center this this Thursday (took 2 weeks off from work to prepare) only to get notified yesterday that the place had to close down due to covid. No dates to reschedule announced yet 😞. My options are to either wait until dates are announced, which could be into 2021, or tough it and do the exam from home and hope for the best.

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I took it at home 2 months ago and it was fine. The only issue I faced was that my SO started playing YouTube videos during in another room and it was rather loud and I couldn’t tell him to turn it off or else the proctor would’ve stopped my exam.

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