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CISA Prep

CISA Exam Prep

Last updated — September 6, 2026

Eight live sessions over six weeks, built around how ISACA actually asks its questions. Small cohort, marked drills every week, and a full timed mock before you sit the real thing.

Who it is for

Two ways in, one room.

Neither group is a prerequisite for the other. Both sit through the same sessions, and each session is built to be useful to both.

You already audit for a living

A structured run at the exam

You know the work. You need the credential the job postings ask for, without sitting through fundamentals. Coverage is at exam depth, and every session names where ISACA’s model answer parts company with what real engagements actually do. That gap is what catches experienced candidates out.

You came through the MasterClass

Nothing assumed that you have not done

Every session opens by naming the MasterClass topic this domain re-frames, so new material attaches to something you already hold. The audit process in Session 1 is the one you already ran, restated in ISACA’s vocabulary.

The exam

One paper, one sitting, one number at the end.

Every design decision in this course traces back to these figures.

Questions150multiple choice, all scored the same
Time4 hoursroughly 96 seconds per question
Score scale200 to 800scaled, not a raw percentage
To pass450the same bar for every candidate

How ISACA asks

Almost every question has more than one true answer. The qualifier, BEST or MOST or FIRST or GREATEST, is what separates them, and the winning option is the one an auditor would give rather than the one an engineer would give.

That instinct is trainable, and it is worth more marks than any single domain. It starts in Session 1 and gets drilled in every session after it.

Weighting

Where the exam puts its weight.

Domains 4 and 5 are 52 percent of the paper between them. Four of the seven teaching sessions go there.

D1Information Systems Auditing Process
18% / 1 session
D2Governance and Management of IT
18% / 1 session
D3IS Acquisition, Development and Implementation
12% / 1 session
D4IS Operations and Business Resilience
26% / 2 sessions
D5Protection of Information Assets
26% / 2 sessions
The map

Eight sessions across six weeks.

Weeks 4 and 5 run two sessions each, because Domains 4 and 5 carry the most weight and the most unfamiliar ground.

WeekSessionTopicDomain
Week 11Orientation and the Information Systems Auditing ProcessD1
Week 22Governance and Management of ITD2
Week 33IS Acquisition, Development and ImplementationD3
Week 44Information Systems OperationsD4
5Business ResilienceD4
Week 56Protection of Information Assets, Part AD5
7Protection of Information Assets, Part BD5
Week 68Full mock exam, gap review and exam day planAll
The format

Every session runs the same shape.

Two hours, five blocks, so nobody spends attention working out what is happening.

BlockTimeWhat happens
Drill review20 minLast week’s 40 questions, the misses, and why the right answer is right.
Bridge10 minThe MasterClass topic this domain re-frames, named explicitly.
Domain teaching60 minThe content, at exam depth, in the terminology ISACA uses.
Depth note15 minWhere the exam’s model answer differs from real engagement practice.
Question clinic15 minLive questions, read aloud, decided as a group.

The drills are the course

A 40 question drill follows every session and is marked at the start of the next one. Sixteen hours of class time does not pass this exam on its own. The drills are where the retention happens, and the Week 6 mock measures whether it did.

Price

What it costs, and what you get.

$1,500the same as the IT Audit MasterClass
  • Eight live sessions, two hours each, sixteen hours in total
  • A cohort of six students at most, so your drills get marked by hand
  • 320 drill questions, written in house, reviewed with you every week
  • A full 150 question mock under exam conditions, scored by domain
  • A revision plan built from your own gap analysis, not a generic one

Payment plans available.

Next cohort

The first cohort is forming now.

Reserve a seat and you get the dates before they go public, along with first refusal on one of the six places.

New to IT audit and not sure this is the right first step? The six class IT Audit MasterClass is where most people start, and it is the ground this course builds on.