CISA Sep 2013

matthew2012

Hi all,

I have completed CISA Exam this morning.
I spent less than 3 hours.

The pattern of those questions is similar to the Questions & Answers DB by ISACA, thought I did not have time to do them all.
I only spent about 6 hours yesterday to do about 250 questions.

Besides, I feel CISA is easier than CISSP.

Now i am waiting for the result....

Any one sit the same exam with me today?

AndiSmith

Hi,

i did the CISA test today, too.

Well, i also did not practice too much (about 15 hours, with the Practice QA DB test prep software from ISACA). I think i saw about 500 questions of the sotware.
But I have a M.Sc. Degree in IT-Security and I'm working as an Internal (IT) Auditor for 5 years.

In my opinion, the question were far away from the software. At least, i cant remember to have seen one of those from the cisa exam in the test prep software.

Questions were "ok", the problem is, there were - imho - a plenty of questions where you simply had to guess between 2 possibilities which seemed equal to fit as a correct answer.

I hope i passed .... we will see .... 5 weeks till scores are mailed.

Good luck to others

matthew2012

Totally agreed.
For me, about 20 questions can be guessed (only an answer is reasonable), and i found some questions were asking same things or ideas. e.g. feasibility test, etc.

Good luck to all.

Abi2012

I took the CISA Sept exam too in the US, Its really tricky i will say....This isnt my first attempt and i was able to extesively practice the QA DB test prep software from ISACA this time. The 5 weeks waiting begins.....:). I cant wait to get it over........

I wish everyone best of luck.

Regards

DAVIS NGUYEN

Congrats on the pass

matthew2012

Abi2012 wrote: »

I took the CISA Sept exam too in the US, Its really tricky i will say....This isnt my first attempt and i was able to extesively practice the QA DB test prep software from ISACA this time. The 5 weeks waiting begins.....:). I cant wait to get it over........

I wish everyone best of luck.

Regards

Hi, I took it in Hong Kong, there were about 120 people.

Some were students, and many were working.
I saw at least two from Mainland China.

Franklyn316

Hello all, is the question paper same across the globe or it is different, cause i didnt find much of the question related to the ISACA question database. i found the exam tricky and difficult to choose the correct answer.. its my first attempt and already im already preparing for the december exam..don have any trust that i will pass...

AndiSmith

well at least there are two different version, because the girl sat next to me, had different questions (maybe just different order,i dont know).
i dont remember most questions, .... i just remember that about 50 times within test i said the F* word.

AndiSmith

as for me, i think too, ill have to re-take the exam .... as i already mentioned, i hadnt much preperation ... and sat down .... im not sure ill be lucky enough to pass this .... HOPE SO!

Farida87

Looks like everybody in general has mixed feelings about the exam!! will see in about 4 more weeks!

matthew2012

will see....

AndiSmith : I think the two set papers are only in different order. only the score from same set of questions would have fair scoring to determine pass or fail. (also world-wide for one version)

Bunny229

aaa...it is great to have such a forum to discuss about the exam!! I took the CISA exam last Saturday too. Waiting for the results...pray pray... The database questions actually are somewhat tricky. I just cross my finger to pray that I have good luck in guessing some of the questions in the exam...and some questions are pretty detail.

Good luck to everyone!!

Bunny229

by the way, does anyone know if there is any way to check score online?

diggity801

I took the exam in Los Angeles on September 7th. I believe they said there was about 85 people there, split into two conference rooms at an upscale hotel. I thought it was actually easier than the practice questions database because the questions were way more straight forward. Or at least they tricked me into seeming easier and I failed anyways. I'm studying for CISSP in the meantime while waiting for the results. I realized that when the first 50 questions were taking an hour that I would be there the entire exam. I finished about 10 minutes before the deadline.

manikandanrv

I took the exam on Sep 7th in Chennai, India. I prepared with the CRM and the Q&A Practice DB. I felt the questions in the practice DB was tricky. However, the questions in the exam seemed more straight forward compared to the practice DB. I'm awaiting the results, though not sure what to expect, as people often mentioned they thought they did well but the answers were incorrect. Keeping fingers crossed. Will the email results be automatic or should I set the preference somewhere in ISACA website or somewhere else to receive the results in email?

diggity801

It depends on how you told them to notify you when you signed up. I received an email claiming the results may be posted in as little as five weeks from the exam through email.

newmove

Good luck to you all.

matthew2012

It' s end of Sep...

Hope can have result in 1 - 2 weeks.
^^

Good Luck all.
God bless u.

matthew2012

Bunny229 wrote: »

by the way, does anyone know if there is any way to check score online?

on the ISACA webPage - MyISACA

Certification Status

CISA: Registered for Exam - Results Pending

diggity801

I'm hoping we get the results around next Saturday. I think they may process this quicker because they emailed stating it could be just five weeks to see the results.

I just passed the SSCP exam on Saturday while waiting. Lots of crossover content.

mchlws

Congratulations!!! I was wondering if you or yourself would be interested in selling CISA books to me... Thanks

matt6558

does anybody when the results will be out, I think it should this saturday or something,

matthew2012

I check it everyday this week.
Hope to have result ASAP. (I have guts feeling, the result will be released on Wed)

matthew2012

diggity801 wrote: »

I'm hoping we get the results around next Saturday. I think they may process this quicker because they emailed stating it could be just five weeks to see the results.

I just passed the SSCP exam on Saturday while waiting. Lots of crossover content.

Congratulations!!! ^^

matthew2012

mchlws wrote: »

Congratulations!!! I was wondering if you or yourself would be interested in selling CISA books to me... Thanks

Can find some useful materials in this forum. ^^

Abi2012

matthew2012 wrote: »

I check it everyday this week.
Hope to have result ASAP. (I have guts feeling, the result will be released on Wed)

I am waiting........=) Good luck to everone.

Franklyn316

matthew2012 wrote: »

I check it everyday this week.
Hope to have result ASAP. (I have guts feeling, the result will be released on Wed)

hmmm, my gut feeling says, we will have the result on saturday!

Experienced_and_Tested

I've got a feeling that the scores will be emailed and posted by end-of-business on Friday. They might give the tests on Saturday, but I bet they don't want to work on Saturdays if they don't have to. Since they are based in the Chicago area, and are on Central Time, I'll deduce (wild guess of course) that by 6PM Central, we'll know. Of course this has a very wide margin of error.

I plan to start studying for the CISM as soon as I'm sure that I've passed the CISA (also a wide margin of error!)

matthew2012

can't logon ISACA ...

can't check the status...

Farida87

matthew2012 wrote: »

can't logon ISACA ...

can't check the status...

Same here. Wonder if their system crashed from everybody everybody refreshing their isaca profile screen to see the results. So nervous now!!!

matthew2012

Farida87 wrote: »

Same here. Wonder if their system crashed from everybody everybody refreshing their isaca profile screen to see the results. So nervous now!!!

Surely, it's system bugs.
So, the one who certifies others cannot do well itself. (Lack of testing )