The NGINX Test mirrors the challenges administrators and developers face when deploying and managing web infrastructure. From installing and managing services to handling traffic at scale, each question pushes you to apply practical expertise with NGINX in production environments.

You’ll be evaluated across four critical skill areas:

• Installation and Service Management
  Demonstrate your ability to install, configure, and manage NGINX as a system service, including start/stop operations, reloads, and upgrades.

• Core Configuration
  Apply best practices for configuring NGINX, including directives, location matching, static file serving, proxying, and SSL/TLS setup.

• Server Blocks and Virtual Hosts
  Show how you configure multiple domains and applications using server blocks (virtual hosts), and properly manage routing and separation.

• Logging, Performance, and Advanced Concepts
  Configure access/error logs, tune performance with caching, compression, and load balancing, and explore advanced use cases like reverse proxying and security hardening.

This is where system administration meets optimization — ensuring web services remain fast, secure, and reliable under load.