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CAS-005 · Question #112

A security administrator has been provided with three separate certificates and is trying to organize them into a single chain of trust to deploy on a website. Given the following certificate properti

The correct answer is D. SuperTrust RSA 2018 is an intermediate CA. E. BudgetCert is the top-level CA. Based on the certificate information: BudgetCert has the same issuer and subject, meaning it is self-signed → this makes it the root SuperTrust RSA 2018 is issued by BudgetCert, so it is an intermediate CA.

Submitted by zhang_li· Mar 6, 2026Security Engineering

Question

A security administrator has been provided with three separate certificates and is trying to organize them into a single chain of trust to deploy on a website. Given the following certificate properties:

Which of the following are true about the PKI hierarchy? (Choose two.)

Exhibits

CAS-005 question #112 exhibit 1
CAS-005 question #112 exhibit 2

Options

  • CSuperTrust RSA 2018 is the top-level CA.
  • DSuperTrust RSA 2018 is an intermediate CA.
  • EBudgetCert is the top-level CA
  • FBudgetCert is an intermediate CA.

How the community answered

(36 responses)
  • C
    14% (5)
  • D
    78% (28)
  • F
    8% (3)

Explanation

Based on the certificate information: BudgetCert has the same issuer and subject, meaning it is self-signed → this makes it the root SuperTrust RSA 2018 is issued by BudgetCert, so it is an intermediate CA.

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