Update on IIA Certification Exam Seat Time Reduction

Since January 2012, The IIA has been implementing, on a language-by-language basis, two key changes that enhance the certification candidate’s exam experience:

• The removal of the computer-based testing (CBT) tutorial from the examination process
• A reduction in the number of unscored questions on exams

These two changes are enabling The IIA to reduce the candidate’s exam seat time and avoid an impending price increase from the testing vendor.

Status of Certification Exams

CIA Exam

Currently, all four parts of the CIA exam are available in the new format in the following languages: English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese (Unsimplified), French, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai, and Czech. The Russian CIA exams will be available on August 3, 2012. The Turkish and Hebrew CIA exams are planned to be published by the end of September.

Specialty Exams

The roll-out of the specialty exams (CCSA, CFSA, and CGAP) began in July. Just as all four CIA parts for each language were published concurrently in the new format, all of the specialty exams in a supported language are being published concurrently.

The specialty exams are being implemented on a language-by-language basis according to the following preliminary schedule:

 IMPORTANT: This is a tentative schedule and exam availability dates may shift. Please check this page regularly for the latest information on CIA and specialty exam/language availability.

For further information or questions, please contact us at iia@iia.nl