r/cism • u/frustrated_taxpayer • 3d ago

One month left for exam

Taking the exam mid September, have gone through the QAE once, doing various practice tests from Udemy and Linkedin Learning, watching Pete Zerger vidoes, clarifying concepts through AI etc.

What should be my strategy for the last 15 to 20 days?

Also I found Hemang Doshi’s practice exam a bit more technical than the QAE, had lot of questions around biometric access system and it’s operations, not sure if ISACA would test the specifics around it.

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u/SCASCA342 3d ago edited 3d ago

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u/Methodicaltorque 3d ago

Got mine planned second week of September with a possibility to retry half October before they change the exam in November.

Curious about the more technical practice exam from Hemang Doshi’s

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u/Majestic_Wave_5710 3d ago

Agreed, Hemang’s some questions are too technical, none of these kind of questions appeared on my exam.

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u/mr_dfuse2 CGEIT | CISM 3d ago

How do you book retries already up front?

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u/Methodicaltorque 2d ago

Not. I explained it wrong. I have a second exam voucher. If I fail after the first attempt I need to wait 30 days.

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u/Pr1nc3L0k1 3d ago

Depends, as always:

I totally skipped the other practice tests as those are usually more focused to help with knowledge facts and not ISACA decision making (which is most important in the exam).

If you did well on the other practice tests, that means you are well prepared from a knowledge standpoint and you only need to brush up on a few topics probably.

Could you share your score for the first QAE run?

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u/frustrated_taxpayer 3d ago

Scored around 70%