How To Become CISM Certified?

ISACA’s Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Certification is an excellent opportunity of growth for professionals involved in IT security management and governance. CISM Course aims to help the professionals to develop excellent skills to manage, design, oversee and assess an organisation’s information security program. 3 to 5 years of work experience is also required for this certification. It is not an easy exam, but once you get through the exam, you will experience the immediate benefits of CISM certification. The entire exam is based on the four domains:

• Information security management
• Information risk management and compliance
• Information security program development and management
• Information security incident management

Thus, this certification helps you to learn the relationship between an information security program and broader business objectives

Practice and planning, plays an important role in getting through this certification. Here are few tips which will help you to successfully get through your CISM Exam.

Get Friendly With CISM Review Manual /Practice Exams

Careful reading of CISM Review Manual can help you to answer almost all the questions. It is available on ISACA’s official site under CISMA Exam Resources. You can choose to use it in its hard copy format as well as in the e book format. Similarly, Review/ self assessment exams are also available on this site.

Keep In Touch With ISACA’s Exam Candidate Information Guide

This guide is updated and published every year by ISACA. It has all the informations regarding the exam like exam registration, deadlines and key details for exam-day administration.  It also has other important informations such as the exam domains, the number of exam questions, exam length and languages.

Plan Your Study Hours

To get your CISM Certification you do not need to study the entire day. But whatever few hours you are planning to study, plan it well and execute accordingly.

• Start preparing3 to 4 months ahead of the exam
• Dedicate 2 to 3 hours of study on daily basis:
• Make sure to cover different parts of preparation: Steps of preparation like coaching, review of manuals offered by ISACA and practice tests all are equally important and should not be ignored .

Experienced Trainer Will Make It Easier

Planned Self study is a good idea but joining an organisation for CISM Exam preparation is a better idea. Organisations like Infosec Train, fulfils all your requirement to prepare for the exam. Besides providing a course content which is quick to learn and understand, the trainers here, would also help with practice exams. Classroom or CISM online training by experts, will help you to learn at your own pace and regular contact with the other aspirants will keep the enthusiasm high.You will be reminded of all the important dates and other informations. For more information visit the official website of InfoSecTrain.

Earning CISM Certification is an assurance for career advancement as CISM is ranked as one of the sought after IT certifications with the highest pay scale. Get yourself enrolled to InfosecTrain for CISM Training and start your wonderful journey of success in the field of Cyber security.

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