Article Directory :: Reference & Education Articles What Are the Requirements for Passing the CIA Exam? By Jon Harwokey Republish: EasyPublish™ Published: 23Aug2010 Word count: 412 Viewed: 882 time(s) Get Free Content For Your Site After you spend thousands of dollars, several years of your life, and a whole lot of sweat and tears on something, you want to have some confidence about what lies ahead. You want to achieve your goal of becoming a certified internal auditor. In pursuit of that goal, you must know the requirements for passing the CIA exam. - Educational Requirements The first set of requirements for taking and passing the CIA exam are educational requirements. To apply for the Certified Internal Auditor exam, the candidate must hold at least a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university. As is customary, the candidate should submit proof of degree, such as an official transcript from the school. - Reference Requirements All CIA exam candidates must be referred by a current CIA (or CGAP, CCSA, CFSA). The candidate's work supervisor or college professor will also be allowed to provide a letter of reference. The Institute of Internal Auditors provides the form for the referrer to complete. - Relevant Work Experience Requirements The final set of requirements for taking the CIA exam is work experience. The Institute of Internal Auditors requires that candidates have at least two years of internal auditing experience. The professional experience validates the candidate's auditing ability and provides additional training in preparation for the exam. The candidate should also fill out a form that verifies his or her completion of the work experience requirements. Passing the CIA exam means that the candidate must successfully complete each of the four sections of the test. Those four test components cover all of the relevant areas of internal auditing: 1) The internal audit activity's role in governance, risk, and control, 2) conducting the internal audit engagement, 3) business analyst and information technology, and 4) business management skills. The CIA exam is a multiple-choice test. Passing the CIA exam sounds easy until you realize that each of the multiple choices are skillfully arranged to seem like viable answers. Unfortunately, while most will seem like they could be answers, only one will be. Passing the CIA exam requires that you know your material thoroughly. Finding a software that will prepare you for the test is one of the best ways to see what it is like to actually take the test. The exact number of questions on the test changes slightly from test to test, but there will be approximately five hundred questions. Each one of the four sections has an equal number of questions. A passing grade is 75%. Jon Harwokey, software developer, enjoys writing about economics and technology. Becoming a certified internal auditor is a trend he has noticed in recent years. CIA review exam software from ExamMatrix offers one of the most efficient learning environments available with personalized study programs and a Pass or Refund guarantee. EasyPublish™ this article - publishers click here More articles by Jon Harwokey

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