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PCI ISA Exam 2024 Questions and Answers 2024 / 2025 (Verified Answers by Expert)
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PCI ISA.pdf file:///C:/Users/HP/Desktop/TYPA%20NEW/PCI%20ISAPCI ISA
1. AAA: Acronym for "authentication, authorization, and accounting." Protocol for
authenticating a user based on their verifiable identity, authorizing a user based ontheir user
rights, and accounting for a user's consumption of network resources
2. Access Control: Mechanisms that limit availability of information or informa-tion-
processing resources only to authorized persons or applications
3. Account Data: consists of cardholder data and/or sensitive authentication data
4. Acquirer: Also referred to as "merchant bank," "acquiring bank," or "acquiring financial
institution". Entity, typically a financial institution, that processes payment card transactions for
merchants and is defined by a payment brand as an acquirer.Acquirers are subject to payment
brand rules and procedures regarding merchant compliance
5. Administrative Access: Elevated or increased privileges granted to an accountin order for
that account ot manage systems, networks and/or applications.
6. Adware: Type of malicious software that, when installed, forces a computer to
automatically display or download advertisements
7. AES: Abbreviation for "Advanced Encryption Standard." Block cipher used insymmetric
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cryptography adopted by NIST in November 2001
8. ANSI: Acronym for "American National Standards Institute" Private, non-profit organization
that administers and coordinates the US voluntary standardization andconformity assessment
system
9. Anti-Virus: Program or software capable of detecting, removing, and protectingagainst
various forms of malicious software including viruses, worms, Trojans
10. AOC: Acronym for "attestation of compliance".The AOC is a form for merchantsand service
providers to attest to the results of a PCI DSS assessment, as docu- mented in the Self-
Assessment Questionnaire or Report on Compliance
11. AOV: Acronym for "attestation of validation". The AOV is a form for PA_QSAs toattest to the
results of a PA_DSS assessment, as documented in the PA-DSS Reporton Validation.
12. Application: Includes all purchased and custom software programs or groupsof programs,
including both internal and external applications.
13. ASV: Acronym for "approved Scanning Vendor". Company approved by the PCI SSC to
conduct external vulnerability scanning services.
14. Audit Log: Also referred to as audit trail. Chronological record of system activ-ities.
Provides an independently verifiable trail sufficient to permit reconstruction, review, and
examination of sequence of environments and activities surrounding or leading to operation,
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