F5F5 Certified Administrator NGINX - Configuration:Knowledge
The F5 Certified Administrator NGINX - Configuration: Knowledge certification validates your ability to perform day-to-day administration of NGINX Open Source as a web server, reverse proxy, and load balancer. It is designed for administrators who manage NGINX in production and need to prove their foundational skills. Earning this credential demonstrates you can install, configure, verify, and troubleshoot NGINX deployments with confidence.
430 practice questions · Updated 2026-07-30
4Domains
23Objectives
135Concepts
430Questions
F5N2 Curriculum
Every domain, objective, and concept the F5N2 exam measures.
- Load Balancing Pools
- Pool Configuration
- Round Robin Algorithm
- Least Connections Algorithm
- IP Hash Algorithm
- Generic Hash Algorithm
- Least Time Algorithm
- Random Algorithm
- Server Removal Process
- Server Down Behavior
- NGINX unique load balancing features
- Configuring security in NGINX load balancer
- Tuning memory zone configuration
- Configuring NGINX as a mirroring server
- Layer 4 load balancing basics
- Configuring stream context
- Layer 4 load balancing methods
- Layer 4 health checks
- API Gateway fundamentals
- API routing configuration
- API authentication and authorization
- API rate limiting and throttling
- Minimum retention policy definition
- Configuration directives for retention
- Interaction with cache expiration
- Path regex routing basics
- Regex syntax for location blocks
- Location matching precedence
- Named regex captures
- Case sensitivity and modifiers
- Testing and debugging regex routes
- Purpose of caching
- Caching workflow
- Cache key
- Cache validity
- Cache benefits and trade-offs
- Cache directive placement
- Cache path parameters
- Cache key definition
- Cache validity settings
- Cache bypass and methods
- Cache enablement syntax
- Cache key definition
- Cache validity control
- Cache bypass conditions
- Cache lock and revalidation
- Cache key definition
- Cache methods and status codes
- Cache bypass conditions
- Cache min/max usage limits
- Cache types overview
- Content caching
- Microcaching
- Proxy caching
- Cache key and validity
- NGINX cache architecture
- Cache key composition
- Cache validity and revalidation
- Cache bypass and exceptions
- Cache purging and invalidation
- Performance and resource management
- Comparison with other caching solutions
- HTTP vs HTTPS
- TLS/SSL Certificates
- Configuring SSL/TLS in NGINX
- HTTP to HTTPS Redirection
- Secure Server Block Configuration
- TLS Protocols and Ciphers
- Serving Static Content over HTTPS
- Static Content Serving
- Dynamic Content Handling
- Static vs. Dynamic Comparison
- Regular Expressions in NGINX
- Server block basics
- Location block basics
- Server block selection
- Location block matching
- Nested locations
- Interaction between server and location
- NGINX event-driven architecture
- NGINX master-worker processes
- Static content serving efficiency
- Reverse proxy and load balancing capabilities
- High concurrency and low memory footprint
- Modular and configurable architecture
- Location block matching
- Proxy_pass directive
- Upstream server groups
- Load balancing methods
- URI rewriting in proxy
- Traffic routing flow
- NGINX event-driven architecture
- NGINX as a software load balancer
- NGINX caching capabilities
- NGINX flexible configuration
- NGINX SSL/TLS termination
- NGINX health checks and resilience
- TLS/SSL termination
- Certificate and key management
- HTTPS server block configuration
- HTTP to HTTPS redirection
- SSL protocols and ciphers
- Upstream SSL configuration
- Client certificate authentication
- Header manipulation basics
- Setting headers
- Modifying request headers
- Removing headers
- Conditional header manipulation
- Header inheritance and context
- Testing and verification
- Purpose of proxy_set_header
- Purpose of add_header
- Scope of headers
- Configuration syntax
- Inheritance and override
- Common use cases
- Memory zone fundamentals
- Identifying memory zone parameters
- Tuning zone size
- Modifying zone parameters
- Reloading configuration
- Verifying zone behavior
- Socket proxy configuration
- Proxy pass to upstream servers
- Load balancing for socket proxies
- Health checks for socket proxies
- Connection handling and timeouts
- TLS termination for socket proxies
- Logging and monitoring socket proxies
- Health check basics
- Passive health checks
- Active health checks
- Configuration for passive checks
- Behavior in different situations
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