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The Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), which administers the certification exams for Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified in Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT), Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC), and Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), is currently offering their suite of exams remotely, as well as the Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) exam [ ]the profession will continue to have a steady pool of future CPAs ready to enter the workforce;the longer that candidates are required to delay the exam as testing centers remain closed, the closer they approach a return to normal work-life and the approaching busy seasons To ensure the integrity of the certification that the CPA exam confers, the testing partners can go further and require all, or some combination of, best practices used in other exams and testing platforms (e g , the CFE exam, Blackboard, Respondus Lockdown Browser and Monitor): * Use of facial recognition or other software to match an exam candidate in their remote environment to the photo submitted with their application * Use of retina scanners or remote fingerprint readers to verify a candidate\'s identity * Requirement that the exam candidate to show their government-approved photo identification to the web camera for verification from a live agent in real time * Unique one-time PIN sent to the candidate\'s cell phone directly prior to beginning the exam;the candidate would then show the phone being powered down after entering the PIN * Remote ability to cease or halt the exam if the candidate is observed to be cheating or attempting to copy confidential exam content * Designated timed breaks between sections, similar to the current testing environment in Prometric testing centers
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