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Certification Terms - QQualified Security Assessor (QSA) - (individual providing an independent assessment of compliance with the payment card industry data security standard (PCI DSS))
Quality Assurance (QA) - (a process that ensures that activities meet prescribed standards through a mechanism involving documentation, training, and enforcement)
Quality Control (QC) - (method of ensuring that activities, services, equipment, and personnel operate within established standards)
Quality of Service (QoS) - (a capability which allows a protocol to distinguish between different classes of messages and to assign a defined measure of service within a network system)
Query language (QL) - (a programming language which enables users to make requests of a database)