Describe the Difference Between Serving Static Content and Dynamic Content. (REGEX, And F5N2 Practice Questions (Page 1)

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1. 1application · medium

   A developer wants to serve versioned static files like /static/js/app.123.js and /static/css/main.456.css directly from disk. The filenames contain a hash. Which location block correctly matches these files using a regular expression?

   • Alocation ^~ /static/ { root /var/www; }
   • Blocation ~ ^/static/.+\.(js|css)$ { root /var/www; }
   • Clocation ~* \.(js|css)$ { root /var/www/static; }
   • Dlocation = /static/ { root /var/www; }
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2. 2foundation · easy

   Which directive is used to forward requests to an application server for dynamic content processing?

   • Aroot
   • Bindex
   • Cproxy_pass
   • Dalias
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4. 3application · medium

   A company wants to compare the performance of serving static files versus dynamic content. Which statement accurately describes the key difference?

   • AStatic content requires more CPU because of compression, while dynamic content is faster
   • BDynamic content is always faster because it is generated on the fly
   • CStatic content is served directly from disk by NGINX, while dynamic content requires proxying to an application server
   • DStatic content cannot be cached, while dynamic content is always cached
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5. 4application · medium

   A team hosts documentation at /docs/ but the files are stored in /srv/manuals/ on the filesystem. The URL /docs/install.html must map to /srv/manuals/install.html. Which configuration correctly serves these files?

   • Alocation /docs/ { root /srv/manuals; }
   • Blocation /docs/ { alias /srv/manuals/; }
   • Clocation /docs/ { rewrite ^/docs/(.*)$ /srv/manuals/$1 break; }
   • Dlocation /docs/ { proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080/srv/manuals/; }
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6. 5foundation · easy

   In NGINX configuration, what does the '~' prefix in a location directive indicate?

   • AAn exact match
   • BA case-insensitive regular expression match
   • CA case-sensitive regular expression match
   • DA prefix match
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