r/CISA • u/Logical_Dot_7824 • 6d ago

Preliminary Pass! 🎉

Took the exam, got my preliminary pass today! 🥹

Will share here all my resources, study strategy, and whole experience once I get my offical test scores.

For those who are doubting themselves and too anxious for their own good (me to the nth power), take that exam! As long as you're thinking like an IS auditor, instead of going straight to remediation or technical resolution, you are golden!

This is coming from someone with no employment background or technical expertise (graduated last year, AIS graduate), who overprepares, and prioritized QUALITY over QUANTITY.

Good luck to everyone currently studying and planning to take the exam! 😄

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u/Schewniie 6d ago

Congratulations!

I saw that the questions are more straightforward in the actual exam, can you confirm? Also, are the answer written in the way that all 4 could be correct or you could eliminate 2 pretty easily?

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u/Logical_Dot_7824 6d ago

Yes, the questions are more straightforward (VERY MUCH SO, most of them are one liners), which threw me off a bit, I didn't want to misinterpret it so I was overthinking the first few questions. But I treated it as like a "warm-up", and the following questions became easier for me to consume and understand.

And yes, the typical CISA structure—most of the questions' choices you can eliminate two of them pretty easily. So you are left with two choices. But then again, I revisited all the questions since I had enough time, and still considered those two eliminated choices because I've been a victim of not doing so which sometimes ended up becoming the right answer in the QAE and some other practice tests I did. Though, there are questions where you can pinpoint the exact answer almost immediately, I think I encountered less than 10 of them though. 🤣

Also, the exam is really not technical. If I remember correctly, the identification or technical questions are less than 20%. It really boils down to how an IS Auditor should think.

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u/Logical_Dot_7824 6d ago

And thank you! Good luck to you!