I took and passed them both. I took CISSP first. If you take CISA first, it contributes nothing to taking CISSP. CISSP is very useful for CISA. The CISA is audit and control orientated and some of the questions are fairly technical but nothing compared to CISSP. CISA is also pretty narrow. I am also told that most people fail CISA on the technical parts since the main initial audience (accountants) know little about this stuff.
Take CISSP first - great, broad foundation
stuart
CISSP,CISA and a few other things..!

On Sun, 06 January 2002, Michael.Tang@i21.com.hk wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> If we want to find a well-know and globally recognized security
> certification or qualification, the answer should not out of CISSP or
> CISA. In fact, one is more on technical while the other is more on audit
> and control, when comparing with CISSP and CISA. But I would like to ask,
> - which one is more useful?
> - which one is more famous?
> - Which one should be better?
> - Which one should be target first, if we plan to obtain both
> certifications as one by one?
>
> Thanks,
> Michael

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