Pass your F5 BIG-IP exam

Why F5 certifications?

F5 BIG-IP sits in the data path of a huge share of enterprise applications, terminating connections, balancing traffic and offloading SSL. The F5 Certified BIG-IP Administrator (F5-CA) credential — earned by passing exams 101 and 201 — proves you can deploy, operate and troubleshoot TMOS in production, a skill set that maps directly to network, systems and application-delivery engineering roles.

CertQuests covers the 201 TMOS Administration objectives with practical traffic-management and troubleshooting scenarios.

201 TMOS Administration exam topics

• TMOS architecture and the packet/connection flow through the BIG-IP
• Virtual servers, profiles and load-balancing methods
• Pools, pool members and health monitors
• SNAT, NAT and source/destination address translation
• Persistence (cookie, source-address) and SSL offload
• High availability, failover and config sync
• Administration and troubleshooting with the GUI, tmsh and logs

Getting hands-on

F5 offers a free BIG-IP Virtual Edition trial you can run in a lab — build a virtual server, attach a pool and monitor, then watch traffic in the statistics and logs to practice alongside CertQuests.