The F5 101-Application Delivery Fundamentals exam is the first exam required to achieve Certified F5 BIG-IP Administrator .
Since there are no dumps , i want to share my notes below after passing the exam and I recommed to follow the (blueprint ) here, the f5’s questions are very tricky:
To start the F5 1O1 exam, the book written by Philip Jönsson and Steven Iveson “F5 Networks Application Delivery Fundamentals Study Guide” is a good resource to begin your preparation, it’s not enough, but I recommended it to have an overview about the content and definitions about some concepts.
For further deep preparation, the F5 website s’doc, supportF5 and devcentral are awesome you will find the best explanation like the SRND of Cisco.
https://www.f5.com/…/blueprint-app-delivery-fundamentals-ex…
THE MOST IMPORTANT KEY POINT TO SUCCESS IN THE EXAM IS TO PRACTICE MORE AND MORE THE LAB GUIDE of Admin course.
Here a quick notes to get the first exam mandatory to continue with other exams.
quick overview of F5 terminology
• BIG-IP
• Member
• Node
• Pool
• TMOS
• VIPRION
• Virtual Server (VS)
Section 1: OSI model
- – Explain, compare, and contrast the OSI layers
1.2 – Explain Protocols and Technologies Specific to the Data Link Layer
Switch Forwarding Database
ARP
MAC/Ethernet addresses
Broadcast domain
VLANs
Link Aggregation
- – Explain protocols and apply technologies specific to the network layer
Subnetting
Routing Protocols
Fragmentation
TTL
Show source/dest IP/MAC at each hop
- – Explain the features and functionality of protocols and technologies specific to the transport layer
MTU vs. MSS
TCP checksums syn, syn-ack and ack
Three-way handshake: SYN,SYN-ACK,ACK.
UDP
Ports
TCP Reset (RST)
Delayed Binding
tcpdump tool
- – Explain the features and functionality of protocols and technologies specific to the application layer
HTTP versions, methods, codes keep-alive
DNS Hierarchical distributed DNS query
SIP (Session Initiation Protocol)
Active vs Passive FTP
SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)
Cookies and why it there are used
The Name Resolution Process for DNS query
URLs URI
SNMP
Section 2: F5 Solutions and Technology
2.1 – the role of F5 products
Application Acceleration Manager (AAM)
Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)
Access Policy Manager (APM)
Application Security Manager (ASM)
Global Traffic Manager (GTM)
Local Traffic Manager (LTM)
2.2 – Explain the purpose, use, and advantages of iRules
2.3 – Explain the purpose, use, and advantages of iApps and iControl
2.4 – Explain the purpose of and use cases for full proxy and packet forwarding/packet based architectures
Proxies
Forward Proxies
Reverse Proxies
Half Proxies
Full Proxies for example BIG IP
2.5 – Explain the advantages and configurations of high availability (HA)
Active/Active
Active/Standby
Section 3: Load Balancing methods
3.1 – Discuss the purpose of, use cases for, and key considerations related to load balancing
LTM Load Balancing Methods
Round Robin (default)
Ratio (member/node)
Dynamic Ratio (member/node)
Fastest (node/application)
Least connections (member/node)
Weighted least connections (member/node)
Observed (member/node).
Predictive (member/node)
Least sessions
Ratio least sessions
Priority Group
Persistent vs Persistence
Persistence (cookies and source address affinity)
3.2 – Differentiate between a client and server
Section 4: Security
4.1 – Compare and contrast positive and negative security models
4.2 – Explain the purpose of cryptographic services
Signing
Encryption
Certificates/certificate chains
Private/Public keys
Symmetric/Asymmetric encryption
4.3 – Describe the purpose and advantages of authentication
Single Sign On (SSO)
Multifactor authentication (MFA)
AAA (Authentication, Authorization and Accounting)
4.4 – Describe the purpose, advantages, and use cases of IPsec and SSL VPN
IPsec
SSL VPN
Section 5: Application Delivery Platforms
5.1 Describe the purpose, advantages, use cases, and challenges associated with hardware based application delivery platforms and virtual machines
Virtual
Hardware
5.2 – Describe the purpose of the various types of advanced acceleration techniques
TCP Optimization and OneConnect
HTTP Caching
Compression
Pipelining
Demystify and Simplify 