• There is no official book to study for the exam

• There is no dump for the exam, only practice exam offered by F5 to give you idea about exam questions

• Watching Videos @ CBT nuggets, YouTube etc... can help to speed up your learning, but not guaranteed to pass the exam you need to do a lot of reading and practice

• Download all DevCentral videos on YouTube!

• Download 201 bootcamp Videos on YouTube, it's for old exam version but it's still extremely useful for this exam

• Register for LearnF5 - Bunch of free good courses by F5

• Download TMSH Command Reference , you don't have to read it all, only read related topics i.e how to create self-ip or vlan (net_self.html) & (net_vlan.html)

• Download BIG-IP virtual edition from F5 Downloads and request 2 licenses for HA from Free Trials

• you can practice on VMware or F5 201 - TMOS Administration Labs

• You have to learn Linux Basics, you can find really good free English / Arabic courses on YouTube, and can read Linux journey

• Yes, there are a lot of links, the goal is not only pass the exam but to be a good F5 admin

• Special thanks to (Eric Mitchell, Jason Rahm, John Wagnon and Peter Silva)

1.01 - Explain the relationship between interfaces, trunks, VLANs, self-IPs, route and their status / statistics:

• Illustrate the use of a trunk in a BIG-IP solution

• Demonstrate ability to assign VLAN to interface and/or trunk

• Identify, based on traffic, which VLAN/route/egress IP would be used

• Distinguish between tagged vs untagged VLAN

• Compare Interface status (Up/Down)

• Explain the dependencies of interfaces/trunks, vlans, self-IPs

1.02 - Determine expected traffic behavior based on configuration:

• Consider the packet and/or virtual server processing order (wildcard vips)

• Identify traffic diverted due to status of traffic objects (vs, pool, pool member)

• Identify traffic diverted due to persistence

• Determine the egress source IP based on configuration

• Identify when connection/rate limits are reached

1.03 - Identify the reason a virtual server is not working as expected:

• Identify the current configured state of the virtual server

• Identify the current availability status of the virtual server

• Identify conflicting/misconfigured profiles

• Identify misconfigured IP address and/or Port

1.04 - Identify the reason a pool is not working as expected:

• Identify the reason a pool member has been marked down by health monitors

• Identify a pool member not in the active priority group

• Identify the current configured state of the pool/pool member

• Identify the current availability status of the pool/pool member

2.01 - Determine resource utilization:

• Distinguish between control plane and data plane resources

• Identify CPU statistics per virtual server

• Interpret Statistics for interfaces

• Determine Disk utilization and Memory utilization

2.02 - Identify the different virtual server types:

• Standard, Forwarding, Stateless, Reject

• Performance (Layer 4) and Performance (HTTP)

2.03 - Identify network level performance issues:

• Identify when a packet capture is needed within the context of a performance issue

• Interpret availability status of interfaces

• Identify when drops are occurring

• Identify Speed and Duplex

• Distinguish TCP profiles (optimized profiles)

2.04 - Identify the reason load balancing is not working as expected:

• Consider persistence, priority group activation, rate/connection limits

• Identify misconfigurations (incorrect health checks, action on service down, etc.)

• Identify current availability status

3.01 - Identify and report current device status:

• Interpret the LCD panel warning messages

• Use the dashboard to gauge the current running status of the system

• Review the Network Map in order to determine the status of objects

• Interpret current systems status via GUI or TMSH

3.02 - Apply procedural concepts required to manage the state of a high availability pair:

• Interpret high availability and device trust status

• Execute force to standby procedure

• Report current active/standby failover state

• Execute force to offline procedure

3.10 - Explain config sync:

• Demonstrate config sync procedure

• Report errors which occur during config sync

• Explain when a config sync is necessary

• Show config sync status

• Compare configuration timestamp

3.03 - Identify management connectivity configurations:

• Identify the configured management-IP address

• Interpret port lockdown settings to Self-IP

• Show remote connectivity to the BIG-IP Management interface

• Explain management IP connectivity issue

• Identify HTTP/SSH access list to management-IP address

3.04 - List which log files could be used to find events and/or hardware issues:

• Identify use of /var/log/ltm, var/log/secure, /var/log/audit

• Identify severity log level of an event

• Identify event from a log message

3.05 - List which log files could be used to find events and/or hardware issues:

• Execute UCS backup procedure

• Execute UCS restore procedure

• Summarize the use case of a UCS backup

• Explain proper long-term storage of UCS backup file

• Explain the contents of the UCS file (private keys)

3.06 - Apply procedural concepts required to manage software images:

• Given an HA pair, describe the appropriate strategy for deploying a new software image

• Perform procedure to upload new software image

• Show currently configured boot location

• Demonstrate creating new volume for software images

3.07 - Identify which modules are licensed and/or provisioned:

• Show provisioned modules

• Report modules which are licensed

• Show resource utilization of provisioned modules

• Report modules which are provisioned but not licensed

3.08 - Explain authentication methods:

• Explain how to create a user

• Explain how to modify user properties

• Explain options for remote authentication provider

• Explain use of groups using remote authentication provider

3.09 - Identify configured system services:

• Show proper configuration for: DNS, NTP, SNMP, syslog

4.01 - Identify configured system services:

• Apply appropriate persistence profile

• Apply appropriate HTTPS encryption profile

• Apply appropriate protocol specific profile

• Identify iApp configured objects

• Report use of iRules

• Show default pool configuration

4.02 - Apply procedural concepts required to modify and manage pools:

• Determine configured health monitor

• Determine the load balancing method for a pool

• Determine the active nodes in a priority group configuration

• Determine pool member service port configuration

• Apply appropriate health monitor

• Apply load balancing method for a pool

• Apply pool member service port configuration

5.01 - Define characteristics of a support ticket with F5:

• List ways to open support ticket with F5

• List where to open a support ticket with F5

• List severity levels of a support ticket with F5

• List what to include in a support ticket with F5

5.02 - Explain the processes of licensing, license reactivation, and license modification:

• Show where to license (activate.F5.com)

• Identify license issues

• Identify Service Check Date (upgrade)

5.03 - Apply procedural concepts required to perform an End User Diagnostic:

• Understand impact of running EUD

• Understand requirements of EUD

• Understand how to collect EUD output (console/log)

• Identify methods of booting the EUD

5.04 - Apply procedural concepts required to generate a qkview and collect results from

iHealth

• Identify methods of running qkview

• Identify method of retrieving qkview

• Understand information contained in qkview

• Identify when appropriate to run qkview

• Understand where to upload qkview (iHealth)

5.05 - Identify which online support resource/tool to use

• DevCentral

• AskF5.com

• iHealth

• Support Portal

Good luck and all the best!

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