Explain How Traffic Routing Is Handled in NGINX as a Reverse Proxy F5N2 Practice Questions (Page 1)

Questions 1–5

1. 1application · medium

   A company has an upstream block with three servers. The admin wants to ensure that requests from the same client are always sent to the same backend server, but also wants to distribute load evenly across all servers. Which configuration should be used?

   • AUse round-robin with weights;
   • BUse hash $request_uri;
   • CUse ip_hash;
   • DUse least_conn;
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2. 2foundation · easy

   Which NGINX directive is used to define a location block that matches a specific URI prefix?

   • Alisten
   • Blocation
   • Cserver_name
   • Dupstream
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4. 3application · easy

   An admin has a location /api/ block with proxy_pass http://backend/v2/;. A request for /api/users is received. What URI will the backend receive?

   • A/api/users
   • B/v2/api/users
   • C/v2/users
   • D/users
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5. 4foundation · easy

   What is the default load balancing method used by NGINX when distributing traffic among servers in an upstream group?

   • ARound-robin
   • BIP hash
   • CRandom
   • DLeast connections
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6. 5foundation · easy

   After NGINX selects a server block, what does it do next to route the request?

   • AIt immediately forwards the request to the upstream server
   • BIt checks the request headers for authentication information
   • CIt rewrites the request URI based on the server_name
   • DIt evaluates location blocks to find a matching URI pattern
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