A company runs a web application that uses cookies to maintain user sessions. They want to use NGINX as a load balancer, but they need to ensure that a user's session is not lost if the backend server handling their session becomes unavailable. Which approach should they take?

Use round-robin load balancing with a long timeout to keep connections open.

Store session data in a shared external store, such as Redis, and use any load balancing method.

Use IP hash load balancing to ensure the same client always goes to the same server.

Use least connections load balancing to distribute sessions evenly.

Which situation is a strong indicator that NGINX load balancing should be used?

A development team wants to test a new feature on a staging server

An organization wants to block malicious traffic at the network perimeter

A web application is experiencing slow response times because a single server is overwhelmed during peak hours

A company needs to store large files for backup purposes

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1application · medium
A company runs a critical web application that must be highly available. They have two identical application servers in different availability zones. They want to use NGINX to load balance traffic between them and automatically fail over if one server becomes unavailable. Which NGINX feature is essential for automatic failover?
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2application · medium
A company runs a web application that uses cookies to maintain user sessions. They want to use NGINX as a load balancer, but they need to ensure that a user's session is not lost if the backend server handling their session becomes unavailable. Which approach should they take?
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3expert · hard
A company runs a web application that experiences high traffic. They have multiple backend servers, and they want to use NGINX as a load balancer. They also need to protect the backend servers from being overwhelmed by too many requests. Which NGINX feature should they use in addition to load balancing?
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4foundation · easy
Which situation is a strong indicator that NGINX load balancing should be used?
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5foundation · easy
Which NGINX load balancing method is most appropriate when backend servers have different processing capacities and you want to send new requests to the server currently handling the fewest active connections?
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A company runs a web application that uses cookies to maintain user sessions. They want to use NGINX as a load balancer, but they need to ensure that a user's session is not lost if the backend server handling their session becomes unavailable. Which approach should they take?

Which situation is a strong indicator that NGINX load balancing should be used?

Which NGINX load balancing method is most appropriate when backend servers have different processing capacities and you want to send new requests to the server currently handling the fewest active connections?

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