Which signed certificate is less administration in environments with many servers, such as CCE?

Question

Options

• ASelf-signed
• BCertificate Authority (CA)
• C3rd party signed
• DSecurity Authority (SA)

• A
  86% (31)
• B
  3% (1)
• C
  3% (1)
• D
  8% (3)

Explanation

Self-signed certificates require less administration in large server environments like CCE because each server generates and signs its own certificate locally - no external requests, approval processes, or fees are needed, making deployment fast and straightforward at scale.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• B (CA-signed): A Certificate Authority involves submitting certificate signing requests, waiting for issuance, managing renewals, and paying per certificate - all of which multiply with each additional server.
• C (3rd-party signed): Third-party CAs add even more overhead: vendor relationships, costs, and external dependencies that grow linearly with server count.
• D (SA / Security Authority): "Security Authority" is not a standard certificate signing entity - this is a distractor option designed to test whether you recognize real PKI terminology.

Memory tip: Think "self = simple." Self-signed certificates skip the middleman entirely - no external CA means no external process, which is why they win on administrative simplicity (though they lose on trustworthiness in public-facing contexts).

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