Is anybody familiar with the CIA challenge exam?

I am currently a CPA debating if I should work towards a CIA certification.

If I read this correctly I can forgoe some of the CIA exam since I am already a CPA. Is this correct?

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I just got an email about this today. I had never heard of it before but that was what I gathered from it.

Yes. If you have CPA you qualify for the CIA challenge exam. It’s pretty much all 3 exams compressed into 1 exam and written certain times in a year.

Has anyone here taken it and care to comment what the exam and preparation was like?

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