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CISA – Certified Information Systems Auditor

Standardize your team on CISA – Certified Information Systems Auditor with a structured ISACA training path — virtual labs and team admin reporting included on every CBT Nuggets training subscription.

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USD 575 for ISACA members, USD 760 for non-members
Exam cost
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Core skills
Security operations center analysts monitoring threat dashboards
Difficulty
Difficulty: 4 of 5 (Advanced)
Advanced
Exam cost
USD 575 for ISACA members, USD 760 for non-members
Courses on path
1
Official source
Vendor cert page
Exam code
  • CISA

Exam datasheet

Exam length
4 hours
Questions
150
Passing score
450 out of 800
Format
Multiple choice
Prerequisites
None, but five years of professional experience in information systems auditing, control, or security is required for certification
Recommended experience
5 years of professional experience in information systems auditing, control, or security
Recertification
3 years
Hiring-market salary
USD 80,000 - USD 120,000 annually
Certified professionals
Over 150,000
Testing centerExam blueprint

Public hiring-market data — not a CBT Nuggets guarantee.

Skills your team builds

Information Systems AuditingGovernance and Management of ITInformation Systems AcquisitionDevelopmentand ImplementationInformation Systems Operations and Business ResilienceProtection of Information Assets

Training path

Your team's training path

One CBT Nuggets course covers the full CISA – Certified Information Systems Auditor path. Your team can start today and have admin reporting visible from day one.

  1. Start here · primary course

    CISA

    This CISA online training prepares you for the Certified Information Systems Auditor certification. The course follows ISACA’s exam blueprint: you’ll learn audit standards and risk‑based planning, manage IT governance and strategy, guide systems through acquisition, development and implementation, oversee operations and business resilience, and protect information assets. Build hands‑on skills in evidence collection, analytics and reporting through engaging videos, practice exams, and real‑world scenarios, all while preparing for the CISA exam.

    Bob Salmans
    123 videos14h
    Open course

Every certification includes

Expert-led video training
Virtual labs
Certification practice exams
Per-team completion reporting

ISACA career ladder

Where CISA – Certified Information Systems Auditor sits in your team's ISACA progression

The cert your team is on now, plus the levels above and below. Use this to map an engineer's next-step credential or to plan headcount coverage across tiers.

  1. Professional level

    5 certs

    CISA – Certified Information Systems Auditor

    CISA

    You are here

    CISM – Certified Information Security Manager

    CISM

    CRISC – Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control

    CRISC

    ISACA Cybersecurity Fundamentals (ITCA)

    ITCA

    ISACA Data Science Fundamentals (ITCA)

    ITCA

Customer outcome

Make CISA a coverage number your auditor can quote

CISA – Certified Information Systems Auditor certified engineers are easy to count and easy to prove. CBT Nuggets bundles the prep into a single team playlist so leadership sees who's on the path, who finished, and who's exam-ready — without spreadsheets.

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1 path
from foundation to credential — assigned and tracked as one playlist

Coverage proof

Make CISA a number on your team capability sheet, not a single engineer’s certificate.

Standardizing your team on CISA gives leadership and auditors a coverage number they can quote — and gives ISACA incident response a baseline of capability you can predict instead of hoping for.

Credential: CISA – Certified Information Systems Auditor

Exam
  • CISA

Frequently asked questions about CISA – Certified Information Systems Auditor training

Common questions IT directors ask when evaluating CISA – Certified Information Systems Auditor training for their team.

How does CISA – Certified Information Systems Auditor fit into our internal compliance and governance program?

Team reporting in CBT Nuggets documents assigned training, completion, and certification coverage for internal governance or external audit conversations. Pair the CISA – Certified Information Systems Auditor path with your auditor's control crosswalk for the formal compliance mapping your specific framework requires.

What's the ROI of certifying our team on CISA – Certified Information Systems Auditor?

IT Directors typically frame CISA – Certified Information Systems Auditor ROI in operational terms — faster troubleshooting, defensible role coverage, predictable onboarding velocity, and audit-ready training documentation. The metrics that matter aren't seat-time or completion percentages; they're mean time to resolve, time-to-productivity for new ISACA hires, and certification coverage by role.

How does CBT Nuggets CISA – Certified Information Systems Auditor training compare to Pluralsight, LinkedIn Learning, or Udemy Business?

CBT Nuggets CISA – Certified Information Systems Auditor courses are built by named expert trainers (not crowd-sourced contributors), include hands-on virtual labs in many courses, and include certification practice exams mapped to the vendor's published exam objectives. Team admin reporting tracks assignment, completion, and exam-readiness per engineer — the surface managers actually use to manage team training programs. See /compare for the full feature comparison.

How do I assign and track CISA – Certified Information Systems Auditor training for my team?

From the admin console, managers create a training playlist (one or more courses on the CISA – Certified Information Systems Auditor path), assign it to specific engineers or role groups, and track completion + practice-exam scores per learner. Team-wide reporting rolls up to a single dashboard you can export for monthly leadership reviews or quarterly compliance reporting. No spreadsheet, no per-engineer license fiddling.

How long does it take to certify a team on CISA – Certified Information Systems Auditor?

Depends on the cert and the team's starting baseline. Entry-level ISACA certs typically run 4–6 weeks per engineer from a cold start; associate-level certs run 8–12 weeks; professional/expert tracks can run 3–6 months. Most teams budget the full quarter for any associate-level certification so engineers have time to actually apply the lab work before the exam.

What if ISACA updates the CISA – Certified Information Systems Auditor exam objectives?

CBT Nuggets updates ISACA course content as exam objectives refresh — typically within weeks of the vendor's release. When ISACA restructures or renames a track (a common pattern), the assigned training paths stay aligned with the same team training plan; managers don't have to rebuild the playlist from scratch. The training stays current without anyone losing their certification status mid-stream.

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