Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)

Skill Level: Advanced                            Status: Active                           

Certification Summary:
For individuals who work in the IS audit, control and security industry. Exam fees are discounted for ISACA members and for individulas who register online.

Initial requirements:
Must pass CISA examination and prove a minimum of five years of professional information systems auditing, control or security work experience. You must also adhere to the Code of Professional Ethics and the Information Systems Auditing Standards as adopted by ISACA.

Continuing requirements:
Once certified a CISA must comply with the Continuing Education requirements, annually. Those requirements are: a minimum of 20 continuing professional education (CPE) hours earned that year, pay the continuing education maintenance fee, comply with the ISACA Code of Professional Ethics, and in the third year of the fixed three-year certification cycle, you must also have completed a minimum of 120 CPE hours earned within that fixed three-year certification cycle.

Low Cost: $345   High Cost: $575

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Certification: Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) (United States)

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Online resources:
ISACA's premier CISA exam preparation tool is the web-based CISA Online Review Course — six modules covering the scope of information systems audit and review activity.

A complete CISA certification training series that includes 9 hours of video and covers the 6 major areas every CISA must be proficient in is available from our partner CBT Nuggets.

Offline resources:
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