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NSE 4 · Certificates and encrypted traffic

Practice question 217 of 440 · medium

An administrator receives an issued certificate after generating a CSR. What must be retained to use it as FortiGate's identity?

Choose the single best answer.

  1. A.The matching private key associated with the request.
  2. B.The issued public certificate alone, without its private key.
  3. C.An unrelated private key from another server certificate.
  4. D.A new unrelated CSR key generated after certificate issuance.
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  • The matching private key associated with the request.

The issued certificate matches the key associated with its original request. Its public certificate alone cannot prove possession, and an unrelated or newly generated key does not match it.

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