Hi,
CISA is CERTIFIED INFORMATION SYSTEMS AUDITOR its a certification for control professionals,business managers,information systems consultants, and as many that aspire to see that Information technology investments are maximised.it positions you to ensure that investments in IT yields the required output and most importantly that IT supports your business strategy.it very broad, its a 200 scenerio based objective exam tested over 4hours.its written twice a year, second weekends in june and deceber.
its devided into 6 modules
1 is on information systems audit process, takes you thru wat u need to know and how to carry out an audit.
2 is on IT governance, takes you thru governance of IT ,corporate governance,a litte of HR,understanding organisational policies and procedures bla bla bla..... a lot of managemant jargons
3 is on systems and infracture life circle management, takes u thru IT project management, change management, a lot of stuffs on e-commerce and e-business e.tc
4 is on IT service delivery and support, takes you thru change management,incident management,cofiguration management, a lot on IT networking u know the technical part of IT ETC
5 is on protection of information asset, which happens to be the core of the certification.talks a lot on IT SECURITY.
6 is on business continuity and disaster recovery planning,takes u thrui wat u do wen yr business hits the rock,sudden changes occur like a service down in telecoms and banks etc
all the modules are interrelated and as such u wont know which is which in the exam cos they are all included in the exam.the pass mark is having a score of 450 out of a total of 800.
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