CERT QUIZ -- Evaluate and select system components to meet requirements and technical
limitations for a new or existing environment.
QUESTION: A couple of system administrators are discussing whether a reverse proxy sh
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CERT QUIZ -- Evaluate and select system components to meet requirements and technical
limitations for a new or existing environment.
QUESTION: A couple of system administrators are discussing whether a reverse proxy should
be used for the company's HTTPS encrypted Jira installation. Which statement accurately
describes some of the benefits of using Apache as a non-caching reverse proxy?
A) The reverse proxy will benefit system security by making it possible for the admins to more
easily monitor Jira's outgoing communication.
B) The reverse proxy will improve Jira's performance by reducing the number of requests that
reach the Jira application server.
C) The reverse proxy will improve Jira's performance as SSL termination and gzip compression
can be offloaded from the JVM and can be more efficiently handled by Apache.
D) It is much harder to configure SSL in Apache than it is on Jira's JVM. - ✔✔WHY?
A) The reverse proxy is an incoming proxy and dose not monitor outgoing communication. In
fact, outgoing communication initiated by the Jira application will not use the reverse proxy at
all.
B) Since the question specified that Apache has been configured as a "non-caching" reverse
proxy, each and every request that reaches the proxy will be passed on to Jira.
C) Correct. Apache is much better at handling SSL termination and gzip compression, and
achieves these tasks using far fewer resources.
D) Configuring Apache to use SSL is much easier than doing the same for the JVM/Tomcat. The
knowledge regarding how to do this is also much more wipespread.
CERT QUIZ: Given a scenario, interpret configuration files, identify modification points, and
determine appropriate modifications.
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