Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT Practice Exams

CGEIT

AdvancedExpertIT Governance Professional

ISACA's credential for professionals who govern enterprise IT. Validates the ability to establish a governance framework, align IT with enterprise strategy, optimize IT resources and risk, and ensure that IT-enabled investments actually deliver the business value used to justify them.

240

minutes

70%

passing score

$760

exam fee

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5 flashcard sets · 5 learning tests · 2 timed exams · 150-question bank

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Overview

What this certification is and how the exam works.

The CGEIT (Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT) is ISACA's credential for professionals who direct and oversee enterprise IT rather than manage it day to day. It is the most board-facing of ISACA's certifications: questions are framed from the perspective of a governing body deciding how IT decision rights are allocated, how investments are prioritized, and how value is measured. The exam covers four domains: Governance of Enterprise IT (40%); IT Resources (15%); Benefits Realization (26%); and Risk Optimization (19%). The exam is 150 items in 4 hours, scored on a 200–800 scale with 450 required to pass. Candidates need five years of experience managing, serving in an advisory role for, or otherwise supporting the governance of enterprise IT, at least one year of which must be in Domain 1. No experience waivers are available.

Why should I take the exam?

What this credential does for your career.

1The only major credential focused specifically on the governance rather than the management of enterprise IT
2Positions holders for board advisory, IT strategy, portfolio, and enterprise architecture leadership roles
3Consistently among the highest-paying IT certifications, reflecting its small and senior holder population
4Built on COBIT, the framework most widely used to structure enterprise IT governance in regulated industries

Skills measured

What you need to know to pass this exam.

✓Establish and maintain an enterprise IT governance framework with defined decision rights and accountability
✓Align the IT strategy with enterprise strategy, and structure the bodies through which that alignment is directed
✓Define governance policies, standards, and processes, and evaluate governance maturity against a target
✓Allocate IT decision rights between corporate, business unit, and IT stakeholders using an appropriate model
✓Optimize IT resources — people, information, infrastructure, and applications — against enterprise priorities
✓Manage the IT investment portfolio, sequencing initiatives by value contribution and strategic fit
✓Build and evaluate business cases, including the benefits, assumptions, and dependencies they rest on
✓Realize and sustain benefits after delivery through ownership, measurement, and post-implementation review
✓Optimize enterprise IT risk within appetite, integrating IT risk into enterprise risk management
✓Report IT value, performance, and risk to the board using measures that support governance decisions

Prerequisites

Credentials required before you can earn this certification.

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Five years of experience in the governance of enterprise IT

At least one year must be in Domain 1 (Governance of Enterprise IT); the remaining four may come from any of the four domains. Experience must be in managing, serving in an advisory or oversight role for, or otherwise supporting IT governance. No experience substitutions or waivers are available; the exam may be passed first and experience submitted within five years

About our CGEIT practice exams

Our Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT CGEIT question bank holds 150 exam-style questions with a written explanation on every answer, mapped to the four exam domains published for CGEIT, covering Governance of Enterprise IT, IT Resources, Benefits Realization and Risk Optimization.

Alongside the bank there are two full-length timed exams at the real 240-minute limit and 70% pass mark, plus five topic-based learning tests for working a single domain at a time. Randomised mock exams are dealt on demand from the full 150-question pool, so you never run out of fresh papers.

Questions: 150
Exam domains: 4
Timed exams: 2
Pass mark: 70%

How our practice content is created

Practice questions are independently developed using the official ISACA CGEIT exam guide and ISACA documentation. Each question is checked for alignment with the current exam objectives and reviewed for technical accuracy before publication.

The CGEIT bank cites 1 distinct ISACA documentation page, and every question links the source it was written against — so you can check any answer at first hand.

Official CGEIT exam guide

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