For people who took the CISA, How long did you study for? When balancing working full-time, family life and studying.

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3-4 months should be sufficient with other obligations. I’d say to use the isaca QAE DB. I also used the cissp all in one for better/easier understanding of things I didn’t know. Also Hemang Doshi has good free resources as well.

If u have enough security experience, just go through the QAE, read the questions and the answers. Once u get the ISACA way it should be easy to clear. I have seen some people spending more than 3 months, some people studying for a week. CISA is comparatively easy if u have the required expr.

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