PCI ISA Exam 2024/2025 Questions and Answers

PCI ISA Exam 2024/2025 Questions and Answers AAA - Answer ️️ -Acronym for "authentication, authorization, and accounting." Protocol for authenticating a user based on their verifiable identity, authorizing a user based on their user rights, and accounting for a user's consumption of network resources Access Control - Answer ️️ -Mechanisms that limit availability of information or information- processing resources only to authorized persons or applications Account Data - Answer ️️ -consists of cardholder data and/or sensitive authentication data Acquirer - Answer ️️ -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 Administrative Access - Answer ️️ -Elevated or increased privileges granted to an account in order for that account ot manage systems, networks and/or applications. Adware - Answer ️️ -Type of malicious software that, when installed, forces a computer to automatically display or download advertisements AES - Answer ️️ -Abbreviation for "Advanced Encryption Standard." Block cipher used in symmetric cryptography adopted by NIST in November 2001 ANSI - Answer ️️ -Acronym for "American National Standards Institute" Private, non-profit organization that administers and coordinates the US voluntary standardization and conformity assessment system Anti-Virus - Answer ️️ -Program or software capable of detecting, removing, and protecting against various forms of malicious software including viruses, worms, Trojans AOC - Answer ️️ -Acronym for "attestation of compliance". The AOC is a form for merchants and service providers to attest to the results of a PCI DSS assessment, as documented in the Self- Assessment Questionnaire or Report on Compliance AOV - Answer ️️ -Acronym for "attestation of validation". The AOV is a form for PA_QSAs to attest to the results of a PA_D