CISA Exam Changes

New Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Syllabus in 2016

In August 2015, the new syllabus was announced, changing the weighting of the 5 domains:

 Domains

Before

After

1. The process of auditing information systems

14%

21%

2. Governance and management of IT

14%

16%

3. Information systems acquisition, development, and implementation

19%

18%

4. Information systems operations, maintenance and support

23%

20%

5. Protection of information assets

30%

25%

new CISA syllabus changes in 2016

Other CISA Exam Changes

The number of exam questions is reduced from 200 to 150. The duration remains to be 4 hours.

This means that candidates can now spend, on average, 1.6 minutes on each question instead of 1.2 minutes previously. I wonder if this implies the exam questions are becoming more complex…