CIA Part 2 Pass Rate, Format & Study Guide

The certifying body does not publicly publish an official pass rate for this exam. Be wary of third-party sites citing a specific number here — treat any pass-rate claim you see elsewhere for this exam as unverified.

Same program-wide IIA policy as Part 1: a 30-day wait after a failed attempt, a fresh registration and exam-fee payment for each retake, and a cap of 8 attempts per exam part within your 3-year program eligibility window.

Part 2 uses the same scale-score system as the rest of the CIA program: a passing score of 600, set through The IIA's standard-setting process, applied consistently even though the specific cut score (in raw questions) varies part to part based on question difficulty. A failed attempt gets you domain-level performance feedback; a pass shows no numeric score.

• Managing the Internal Audit Activity20%
• Planning the Engagement20%
• Performing the Engagement40%
• Communicating Results & Monitoring Progress20%

Part 2 is 100 questions in 2 hours, and Performing the Engagement carries 40% of the exam — double the weight of any other domain (Managing the Internal Audit Activity, Planning the Engagement, and Communicating Results & Monitoring Progress are 20% each). Because Performing the Engagement is scenario-heavy (audit evidence, sampling, analysis techniques), prioritize practice questions that simulate mid-engagement judgment calls over rote recall, and budget the remaining even-weighted domains roughly equally rather than over-indexing on any one of them.