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Study Notes for F5 101v2-Application Delivery

Fundamentals exam
As i said before i got an opportunity to test my knowledge (101v2 beta) and o course learn more about F5
ADC and other stu. The information you need to learn is published in the ocial Blueprint Application
Delivery Fundamentals. This new version will be available on Q1 2015.

F5 doesnt have any guide (book,etc) like most of the vendors have, so you need to do it by your self. But i
found a nice compilation did by Philip Jnsson (direct link) and another one by Rich Hill

A good tool is F5 University where you have free WBTs of LTM&APM (and more!!!), and hands-on on a virtual
lab (code 10.x and 11.x). I think the most important are:

Getting Started with BIG-IP: Part 1 Administration

Getting Started with BIG-IP: Part 2 Application Delivery

Getting Started with BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM)

Getting Started with BIG-IP LTM: Part 1 High Availability and Trac Processing

Getting Started with BIG-IP LTM: Part 2 iRules and Accelerating Trac

Viprion Basics

HTTP Basics I

HTTP Basics II

A few facts:

The exam is based on 11.4.0 code

Exam cost 105 euros + VAT
The exam 101v2 will have 80 questions (70 scored and 10 unscored), and a minimum of 69% to pass it
Pre-requirement to go to the next level Exam 201 TMOS Administration and be a F5 Certied BIG-IP
Administrator (F5-CA)
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All questions are scored equally

Passing the exam will be valid for 2 years
Most people agree that the v2 practice exam is much harder than the v1 production exam (mostly
because of the number of questions).

I took the followed information from http://veritablenetworks.blogspot.pt/(Rich Hill) and change a few
things for the renewed exam (101v2).

You can download my personal notes here.

Section 1 OSI

Most of this information is common knowledge in the networking industry, but you probably dont a few
things especially when you get to the application layer protocols (sorry if i undervalue you!). The Wikipedia
articles play a big role here, and yes Wikipedia Rulez!

Objective 1.01 Explain, compare and contrast the OSI layers

OSI Model Wiki

Another OSI Model Overview

Objective 1.02 Explain protocols and technologies specic to the data-link layer

Explain the purpose of a switchs forwarding database

ARP
ARP on F5
MAC Address
Broadcast Domain
VLANs
Link Aggregation Wiki
Big IP Link Aggregation

Objective 1.03 Explain protocols and apply technologies specic to the network layer

Routing on F5
TCP/IP Overview
IP Addressing & Subnetting
Routing Protocols
IP Packet Fragmentation
IP TTL (Time to Live)

Objective 1.04 Explain the features and functionality of protocols and technologies specic to the
transport layer

MTU / MSS
TCP Functionality
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UDP Functionality
TCP Connection Setup by Virtual Server Type
TCP Prole Settings (Tunables)
UDP Prole Settings (Tunables)
TCPDUMP on F5
Retransmissions
Functionality of ports in general
Process of a reset

Objective 1.05 Explain the features and functionality of protocols and technologies specic to the
application layer

Application Layer Trac Managment on F5

HTTP Functionality
HTTP Status Codes
HTTP Headers
F5 HTTP White Paper
DNS Functionality
DNS Record Types
SIP Functionality
F5 SIP White Paper
FTP Functionality
SMTP Functionality
HTTP Cookies
My Name is URL

Section 2 F5 Solutions and Technology

In this section, we get into the actual F5 Solutions. Most engineers taking this exam will be experienced with
LTM and iRules, but little else. Hopefully, the familiarity gained from the F5 datasheets and white papers
shown below will help you to understand the breadth of the F5 oerings. Prepare to take the rst step into
a larger world.

Objective 2.01 Articulate the role of F5 products

Access Policy Manager (APM)

Application Security Manager (ASM)
Local Trac Manager (LTM)
Global Trac Manager (GTM)
Enterprise Manager
BIG-IQ and ADN Management
F5 White Papers
F5 Datasheets

Objective 2.02 Explain the purpose, use and advantages of iRules

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iRule Wiki (Requires Devcentral Login)

Objective 2.03 Explain the purpose, use and advantages of iApps

iApp Wiki (Requires Devcentral Login)

Objective 2.05 Explain the purpose of and use cases for full proxy and packet forwarding/packet
based architectures

Full Proxy Architecture (Lori MacVittie rules!)

Packet-Based vs Full Proxy
SNAT
Virtual Server Types

Objective 2.06 Explain the advantages and congurations of high availability (HA)

F5 HA Basics
Cong Sync
Big IP HA Features
Mirroring
VLAN Failsafe

Section 3 Load Balancing Essentials

This section is a short one compared to the previous two. If youre going after an F5 certication, youre
probably already familiar with much of this material, so you probably wont have to study as much for this
section. It never hurts to brush up on the algorithms and persistence methods.

Objective 3.01 Discuss the purpose of, use cases for, and key considerations related to load
balancing

Load Balancing Wiki

Load Balancing 101
Load Balancing Algorithms (Devcentral)
More on Load Balancing Algorithms
Another Load Balancing Algorithm Article
Yet Another Load Balancing Algorithm Article
Persistence

Objective 3.02 Dierentiate between a client and a server

Client / Server on Wiki Yes, Im surprised this is even a question.

Section 4 Security

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Positive Security Model

Positive vs Negative Security

Objective 4.02 Explain the purpose and cryptographic services

Cryptography
SSL Certicates (Devcentral)
Certicate Chains
Public-Key Cryptography
Symmetric vs Asymmetric Encryption
Client SSL Proles
Server SSL Proles
SSLDUMP Utility

Objective 4.03 Describe the purpose and advantages of authentication

F5 Authentication 101
AAA
Single Sign On
Multi-factor Authentication

Objective 4.04 Describe the purpose, advantages and use cases of IPsec and SSL VPN

SSL VPN
IPsec VPN
IPSEC vs SSL VPN

Section 5 Application Delivery Platforms

Objective 5.01 Describe the purpose, advantages, use cases, and challenges associated with
hardware-based application delivery platforms and virtual machines

Virtualization
Virtualization Platforms

Objective 5.02 Describe the purpose of the various types of advanced acceleration techniques.

Application Performance Optimization

TCP Optimization
Oneconnect
Caching
Compression
Pipelining
Acceleration 101

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This is everything you need to know, but try learn deep something more!

References:

BIG-IP LTM 11.4.0 Documentation

Exam 101 Application Delivery Fundamentals

Exam 201 TMOS Administration

F5 Certication Program

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5 thoughts on Study Notes for F5 101v2-Application Delivery Fundamentals exam

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vithudo
16 de March de 2016 at 0:40

That document is updated?

Ruben Post author

16 de March de 2016 at 9:24

Yes, i think so.

Sathya Kumar
4 de January de 2017 at 8:13

I have cleared 101 exam. Thanks for the guidance.

Ruben Post author

6 de January de 2017 at 22:16

Im really glad you passed the exam! Thanks for sharing your results!

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