F5F5 Certified Administrator NGINX
The F5 Certified Administrator NGINX certification validates your ability to manage NGINX Open Source as a web server, reverse proxy, and load balancer. This exam, one of four required for the credential, confirms you can install, configure, and troubleshoot NGINX in day-to-day operations. It is ideal for administrators who work with NGINX in Linux environments and want to prove their foundational skills.
299 practice questions · Updated 2026-07-30
4Domains
15Objectives
68Concepts
299Questions
F5N1 Curriculum
Every domain, objective, and concept the F5N1 exam measures.
- Define NGINX web server
- Identify NGINX web server features
- Describe NGINX configuration basics
- Explain NGINX request handling
- Differentiate NGINX from other web servers
- Reverse Proxy Definition
- NGINX as Reverse Proxy
- Use Cases for Reverse Proxy
- Load Balancing Definition
- NGINX Load Balancing Features
- Load Balancing Methods
- Configuration Basics
- Use Case Scenarios
- NGINX caching overview
- Caching mechanisms
- Cache configuration directives
- Cache key and cache bypass
- Cache purging and invalidation
- Cache performance considerations
- API Gateway Definition
- NGINX as API Gateway
- API Gateway Functions
- Deployment Scenarios
- Default NGINX core config file location
- Core config file role
- Identify the main NGINX configuration directory
- Identify the main configuration file
- Identify the conf.d directory
- Identify the sites-available and sites-enabled directories
- Identify the modules directory
- Identify the logs directory
- Identify the mime.types file
- Identify the fastcgi_params and other parameter files
- Include directive semantics
- Merge order of included files
- Context inheritance and override
- Duplicate directive handling
- Directive inheritance
- Overriding inherited directives
- Contexts and inheritance scope
- Inheritance exceptions
- Identify user context in configuration file
- Understand user directive syntax
- Recognize default user context
- Apply user context in different scopes
- Read access
- Write access
- Execute access
- Permission combinations
- Use cases for each permission
- NGINX worker processes user
- Configuring the user directive
- Running NGINX master process as a specific user
- User permissions for NGINX runtime files
- Security implications of running as different user types
- NGINX master and worker processes
- Process ownership and user context
- Configuration directives for user and group
- Impact of user permissions on NGINX functionality
- Security implications of process user
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