For those who took the CISA, how long did you study and how difficult did you think it was?

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One month without assurance background. The key is to digest the questions that you did wrong.

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Taking CISA in Sept. Following.

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OP is taking it to get promoted. Who knows what he or she will end up being in life.

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Disregard D1. Clearly a douche. Pursue what your interested in. Disregard idiots like this one..

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A year into process assurance I spent a Saturday doing questions for 4-6 hours and then passed that Monday. It was not hard at all.

Without the process assurance background it may have been hard.

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Had 1 year of it audit background and a good technical base. Studied 10 hours of questions from DB and got top 10%. You should study but don't stress over it.

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I started studying about 5-6 months before my exam and did a couple hours a week, but at that point I also had about 3-4 years of experience in audit, security, resilience, etc.. The exam itself wasn't terribly difficult especially after having worked through the questions database in the areas I was less strong in.

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It’s not terribly difficult if you have assurance background. Run though practice questions, and understand the basics

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I studied for about 18 hours over 4 weeks. It's more about how to audit in an IT environment, so if you understand the concepts, and do well on practice tests, you'll be fine..

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I had a year in process assurance and studied the multiple choice questions for a couple hours each weekday for 1-2 months. Passed with a lower score but overall the exam isn’t that tough. Think like ISACA and not your firm guidance.

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Bullet to the temple before I become a CISA! I can’t conceive of a more boring, worthless low value add career! Cmon man!

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Thanks for the feedback everybody!

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