What Is a Digital Certificate

question 17

Multiple Choice

What is a digital certificate?

• A) The key to unlock information into a readable format
• B) Technology used to verify a user's identity
• C) The process of scrambling information so that it cannot be read
• D) A growing trend used to combine multiple types of authentication

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Definitions:

Credited

An accounting entry that increases a liability or equity account, or decreases an asset or expense account.

Future Payments

Obligations that are due to be paid at a future date.

Liabilities

Debts or obligations that arise during the course of business operations, which must eventually be paid off or settled.

Contingent Liabilities

Potential liabilities that may occur depending on the outcome of a future event.