Understand How to Enable and Optimize Keep-Alives for the NGINX Server and Its Upstreams F5N3 Practice Questions (Page 3)

Questions 11–13

1. 11application · medium · select all that apply

   A company is planning to deploy NGINX as a reverse proxy. They want to ensure that both client connections and upstream connections benefit from keep-alive. Which of the following statements about keep-alive are true? (Select all that apply.)

   • AThe keepalive directive in the upstream block sets the maximum number of idle connections to maintain.
   • BThe keepalive_timeout directive controls the maximum number of requests that can be sent over a single connection.
   • CKeep-alive reduces latency by allowing multiple requests to be sent over the same TCP connection.
   • DTo enable keep-alive to upstream servers, the proxy_http_version must be set to 1.1.
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2. 12foundation · easy

   To use keep-alive connections to upstream servers, which HTTP version must be specified in the proxy_http_version directive?

   • A1.0 or 1.1
   • B1.0
   • C1.1
   • D2.0
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3. 13foundation · easy

   Which NGINX directive controls how long a client keep-alive connection can remain idle before NGINX closes it?

   • Asend_timeout
   • Bkeepalive_timeout
   • Cclient_body_timeout
   • Dkeepalive_requests
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