How to book the F5 101 Exam

These are following steps for registering the F5 101 exam. Step 1: Visit to F5 Candidate Portal Exam Registration Step 2: Signup/Login to F5 account Step 3: After creating F5 account Select your testing center from PearsonVUE Step 4: Select Date, time and confirm with payment method

What Next after F5 101 Exam?

Having passed your F5 101 test, you now have the green light to move on with the next exam based on what certification you would wish to achieve. These are the two certifications to attain after passing the required tests:

• F5 CTP Sales (with F5 101 and 202 exams).
• F5 Certified BIG-IP Administrator (with F5 101 and 201 exams);

The benefit in Obtaining the F5 101 Exam Certification

After passing F5 Application Delivery Fundamentals 101 Exam candidates can get F5 Certified Administrator and Certified Sales Professional certification. After getting F5 Certification candidates can get a job as an F5 Certified BIG-IP Administrator Network Engineer, F5 Certified BIG-IP Administrator Load Balancer/ADC, F5 Certified BIG-IP Administrator Architect and F5 Certified BIG-IP Administrator Engineer. Candidate can earn $74,000 per month.

Reference: https://techdocs.f5.com/dam/f5/kb/global/solutions/K29900360.html/101_-_Application_Delivery_Fundamentals.pdf

Knowledge Domains for F5 101 Test

The main concepts and topics discussed within the F5 101 exam are as follows:

• Open System Interconnection Basic Reference Model (OSI Model)

Among the particulars of this test is the issue concerning OSI layers. This captures its functions, differences between various layers of OSI, and their address types. The next thing represents technologies and protocols associated with the layer called data link. This covers the switch forwarding database, the functionalities alongside the purposes of ARP, MAC addresses, broadcast domain, VLANS, and link aggregation. The parts on protocols and application of technologies linked with the network layer, transport layer, and application layer are the next areas to be covered. 

• F5 Products, Solutions, and Technology

This F5 101 exam domain starts with identifying the role played by the F5 products. It then goes to the uses and benefits of iRules as well as iApps. Also, to interact with is the issue of the function of full proxy as well as packet forwarding or packet-based infrastructures including the scenarios where they can be used. Besides these sections, there is also the discovery of what advantages as well as configurations targeting high availability exist. Finally, you will as well discover BIG-IP devices, APM, and will have to cover active/standby.

• Load Balancing Fundamentals

This section referring to fundamentals of load balancing is captured in two ways. The first one targets load balancing in relation to its purpose, use cases, and core considerations, where you will need to explain this notion across numerous servers. The second element concerns the differences occurring between a server and client, where candidates will need to identify as well as explain the roles of both.

• Security

As concerns security, the F5 101 exam first looks at the positive in addition to negative models of security. It also checks the advantages of these models. What follows next is the functions of various cryptographic services such as signing, encryption, certificates as well as certificate chains, and private as well as public keys. The next step requires a candidate to know the description of the function and benefits of authentication. In this, captured are issues including single sign on, multifactor authentication, and the role played by authentication in AAA. This part ends by looking at the function, benefits, and scenarios where IPsec as well as SSL VPN are used.

• Application Delivery Platforms

This portion is sectioned into two. In the first instance, exam-takers should take cognizance of the purpose, benefits, use cases as well as challenges related to platforms of hardware app delivery in addition to virtual machines. This investigates the appropriateness of these solutions. The second segment refers to the function of varied advanced acceleration methodologies. Examples include TCP optimization, HTTP keepalives, compression, caching, and pipelining.