Certified Information Systems Auditor Practice Exams

CISA

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ISACA's flagship credential for IS audit, control, and assurance professionals. Validates the ability to plan and execute risk-based audits, assess IT governance, evaluate systems acquisition and development, review operations and resilience, and audit the protection of information assets.

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 CISA (Certified Information Systems Auditor) is the globally recognized standard for IS audit, control, and assurance professionals. It covers five domains: the Information System Auditing Process (18%); Governance and Management of IT (18%); Information Systems Acquisition, Development and Implementation (12%); Information System Operations and Business Resilience (26%); and Protection of Information Assets (26%). The exam is 150 items in 4 hours, scored on a 200–800 scale with 450 required to pass. Candidates need five years of professional IS audit, control, assurance, or security experience, with substitutions and waivers available for education and related credentials.

Why should I take the exam?

What this credential does for your career.

1The benchmark credential for IT audit — frequently required for internal audit, external audit, and assurance roles
2Distinctly audit-oriented: it proves you can evaluate and report on controls, not merely operate them
3Highly valued in regulated industries and by the Big Four, and often tied to salary premiums
4Pairs naturally with CISM (management), CRISC (risk), and the COBIT framework across a governance career

Skills measured

What you need to know to pass this exam.

✓Plan and execute risk-based audits aligned to ITAF standards, with defined objectives, scope, and materiality
✓Apply audit methodology: compliance versus substantive testing, sampling techniques, and evidence sufficiency
✓Document findings and communicate results, including reporting, follow-up, and validation of remediation
✓Evaluate IT governance: strategy alignment, organizational structure, policies, and frameworks such as COBIT
✓Assess IT risk management, performance measurement, and third-party and outsourcing arrangements
✓Review systems acquisition and development: business cases, project controls, SDLC, testing, and migration
✓Evaluate IT operations: service management, change and configuration control, and job scheduling
✓Audit business resilience: business impact analysis, RTO/RPO, backups, and disaster recovery testing
✓Assess protection of information assets: identity and access, physical and environmental, network, and cryptographic controls
✓Use computer-assisted audit techniques (CAATs) and continuous auditing to test populations rather than samples

Prerequisites

Credentials required before you can earn this certification.

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Five years of professional IS audit, control, assurance, or security work experience

Waivers and substitutions are available for degrees and certain credentials; you may pass the exam first and submit the experience application within five years

About our CISA practice exams

Our Certified Information Systems Auditor CISA question bank holds 150 exam-style questions with a written explanation on every answer, mapped to the five exam domains published for CISA, covering Information System Auditing Process, Governance and Management of IT, IS Acquisition, Development and Implementation, IS Operations and Business Resilience and Protection of Information Assets.

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: 5
Timed exams: 2
Pass mark: 70%

How our practice content is created

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

The CISA 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 CISA exam guide

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