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Free CISA Practice Test (Certified Information Systems Auditor)

Not sure if you are ready for CISA? Take a free, timed CISA practice test for the Certified Information Systems Auditor exam. This 25-question diagnostic is spread across all five domains at the official weighting, so your result maps to where the real exam will test you. You get your score and a domain-by-domain breakdown immediately, so you can see exactly where you stand before you spend a cent.

By PrepClubs Editorial Team, updated April 18, 2026

Questions

150

Time Limit

240 min

Difficulty

High

Access

30 days

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What this free CISA practice includes

A timed, 25-question diagnostic drawn from the same original bank as the full product. The 25 items are distributed to mirror the real CISA outline: heavier on Operations and Business Resilience and on Protection of Information Assets, lighter on Acquisition and Development, so the mix reflects the live exam rather than a random sample.

At the end you get a score, a domain-by-domain breakdown, and a clear rationale for every question that explains why the correct answer is correct and why the others are wrong. That is the point of a real diagnostic: it shows you which two domains to attack first, not just a number.

All five domains sampled

Information Systems Auditing Process, Governance and Management of IT, Acquisition Development and Implementation, Operations and Business Resilience, and Protection of Information Assets, at the official weighting.

Original questions, current outline

Written by PrepClubs to the ISACA CISA Exam Content Outline effective 1 August 2024. Not real exam items and not scraped dumps.

Instant domain breakdown

See your score split by domain the moment you finish, so you know exactly where to focus.

A rationale for every answer

We explain the audit reasoning, not just the letter, so you build exam judgment rather than memorizing.

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Three sample CISA questions with walkthroughs

CISA rewards reading the qualifier carefully and ranking options on the axis it names, not just picking a correct one. Read every option, and never let the auditor be the one who fixes the control.

Sample 1: Information Systems Auditing Process

Partway through an engagement, management denies an IS auditor access to a key set of system logs needed to complete testing of a critical control. Which of the following should the auditor do FIRST?

A.Issue an unqualified report based on the procedures that could be completed.
B.Immediately obtain the logs through an alternative technical route without informing management.
C.Determine and document the effect of the restriction on the ability to meet the engagement objectives.
D.Terminate the engagement and remove all mention of the affected control area.

Answer and walkthrough

C. When a scope restriction arises, the auditor first assesses and documents how it affects the ability to achieve the engagement objectives, so the limitation can then be communicated to the right parties. This turns on understand-before-conclude: the impact must be evaluated before deciding how to report or escalate. Issuing an unqualified report ignores the limitation, obtaining logs covertly oversteps the auditor role and breaks independence, and quietly dropping the control area conceals a material scope issue. On CISA, FIRST selects the earliest correct step, which is to assess and document, not to conclude or remediate.

Sample 2: Information Systems Operations and Business Resilience

During an operations review, an IS auditor finds that operators legitimately need to run privileged utilities occasionally, but the organization wants assurance that this power is not abused. Which of the following provides the BEST ongoing assurance?

A.Independent review of logs capturing each privileged utility execution against the operational reason for it.
B.A written policy stating that privileged utilities may only be used when necessary.
C.A one-time training session explaining the risks of privileged utilities.
D.Removing the utilities from every operator workstation.

Answer and walkthrough

A. When a privileged capability is genuinely needed, the strongest ongoing assurance is a detective control: independent, after-the-fact review of a reliable log of each use against its justification. It provides continuing evidence rather than a one-time or paper control. A policy states intent but does not detect misuse, a single training session does not provide ongoing assurance, and removing utilities the operators legitimately need is not workable. On CISA, BEST selects the most complete, most reliable control in context, which here is monitored, accountable access.

Sample 3: Protection of Information Assets

An IS auditor finds that remote workers connect through a VPN configured with split tunneling, so their laptops reach internal systems over the VPN while simultaneously accessing the public internet directly, bypassing the corporate security stack. Which of the following is the GREATEST risk?

A.Split tunneling slightly increases the laptop battery consumption.
B.A laptop compromised through its unfiltered direct internet path can become a bridge for an attacker into the internal network over the VPN.
C.Users may notice faster browsing of public websites.
D.The VPN concentrator may need a firmware update.

Answer and walkthrough

B. Split tunneling lets the endpoint touch the open internet without passing through corporate inspection, so a compromise there can pivot into internal systems over the live VPN tunnel, bridging the untrusted and trusted networks. That is the highest-impact weakness here. Battery use and browsing speed are trivial, and a firmware update is routine maintenance, not a security risk of this pattern. On CISA, GREATEST risk selects the highest business-impact weakness among several real observations, so match the stated goal to the control or exposure designed for it.

What the real CISA exam feels like

The CISA exam is delivered at a PSI test center or through remote proctoring. You face 150 single-best-answer multiple-choice questions in 4 hours (240 minutes), with four options each and no multi-select, drag-and-drop, or simulation items. The passing score is 450 on a scaled range of 200 to 800, decided on the total scaled score, so a strong domain can offset a weaker one.

Time is rarely the binding constraint at roughly 1 minute 36 seconds per item. The real difficulty is wording. Most items make several options technically true, then use a single qualifier such as PRIMARY, BEST, FIRST, or GREATEST to decide the answer. The signature trap is the option where the auditor personally fixes or configures the control: it is almost always wrong because it destroys independence. This free diagnostic is multiple-choice so you can benchmark fast, and the full bank drills the same qualifier patterns across 1,500 questions.

Operations and Business Resilience and Protection of Information Assets are the two heaviest domains at 26 percent each, 52 percent of the exam combined. If your free diagnostic breakdown shows a gap in either of those, that is where the most exam points are and where your prep time pays back the most.