PCI QUESTIONS WITH ACCURATE
ANSWERS
Payment Card Industry correct answer PCI stands for what?
PCI-Data Security Standards correct answer a worldwide information security standard defined by the
Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council.
Jan 2007; TJ MAXX/Marshalls correct answer What company is the posterchild for credit card fraud?
date?
suspected hacking of computers storing cc info correct answer what happened at TJ Maxx/Marshalls?
between 45 and 94 million accounts correct answer how many accounts were hacked?
$139 million; pretax income=$,1247 million correct answer how much was the loss? compared to pretax
income?
the PCI Security Standards Council was formed by the big 5 cc companies:
Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discovery, JCN correct answer What was formed in September of
2006? by who/whom?
the PCI-Data Security Standards correct answer what are now the starting point for determining liability
when a breach occurs?
securely dispose of unneeded data, perform inventory of services, databases, transactions and activity
logs, identify all physical and logical entry and exit points, use data encryption, log off all network
activity, train staff correct answer What 6 things must companies now do to keep cc info secure?
level 1 merchant, level of requirement is higher 65% correct answer do more than 6 billion transactions
per year:
