ISACA®'s new Information Technology Certified Associate™ (ITCA™) puts you in the driver’s seat. Build your IT knowledge and skills in five essential work-related domains—with five knowledge and performance-enhancing certificate programs that stack up to one career-advancing ISACA certification.
Training for the certificate exams consists of a combination of knowledge-based and hands-on lab-based training.
Wherever you are today, the ITCA's stackable certificates and final certification can prove you have a solid foundation in information technology that can get you started or reskilled in your IT Career. The program is ideal for:
Students or Recent Graduates
Candidates who have little or no experience in IT
Candidates looking to reskill or upskill
Professionals in non-IT roles looking to build-up baseline skills
Five Domains
Five individual certificates in five domains are required to earn the ITCA certification. Each certificate is valuable on its own, but together they make a strong statement affirming both the depth and breadth of your knowledge, skills and professional drive—all qualities that employers want to see in their hires.
Applying for the Certification
To attain the ITCA certification and digital badge, you need to pass all of the above five stackable certificate exams. Once you have done so, follow the path below to certification.
Pay the $25 application fee
Payment is required before you can apply for certification
PAY APPLICATION FEES
Download application
Download the PDF and fill in your details
DOWNLOAD APPLICATION
Submit application
You'll be notified when your application has been approved
SUBMIT APPLICATION
View your certificate
Once approved, your official certification will be available in MyISACA
Maintain Your Certification
10 CPE
skills-based training/lab
activities anually.
20 CPE
knowledge-based activities plus
skills-based activities annually.
120 CPE
to be earned over
a 3-year period.
The goal of this continuing professional education (CPE) policy is to ensure that all ISACA® Information Technology Certified Associate (ITCA™) maintain an adequate level of current knowledge and proficiency in information technology.
The responsibility for setting the CPE requirements rests with the ISACA ITCA Certification Working Group. The Working Group oversees the continuing professional education process and requirements to ensure their applicability.
Certification Requirements
The ITCA CPE policy requires the attainment of CPE hours over an annual and three-year certification period. ISACA ITCAs must comply with the following requirements to retain certification:
Attain and report an annual minimum of twenty (20) CPE hours. Qualifying learning activities must align to the skills and knowledge required to perform tasks related to the ISACA ITCA certification. Of the 20 annually required CPE hours, a minimum of 10 hours must be attained by participating in skills-based training/labs*. The use of these hours towards meeting the CPE requirements for multiple ISACA certifications is permissible when the professional activity is applicable to satisfying the job- related knowledge of each certification.
Attain and report a minimum of one hundred and twenty (120) CPE hours for a three-year reporting cycle period (a minimum of 30 CPEs must be skills-based training/lab activities*).
Submit annual renewal fees to ISACA Global in full.
Respond and submit required documentation of CPE activities if selected for the annual audit.
Comply with ISACA’s Code of Professional Ethics.
* When reporting skills-based training/lab activities for CPE, be sure to select a qualifying activity that says: “Skills-Based Activities – Must Contain Lab Exercises”. The CPE reporting system will not apply the hours towards your skills-based requirement unless a skills-based qualifying activity is selected.
To get full details on maintaining your ISACA ITCA please download our CPE Policy.