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F5 Certified BIG-IP Administrator (F5-CA) Training.
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The F5 Certified BIG-IP Administrator (F5-CA) certification validates the skills required to deploy, configure, manage, monitor, and troubleshoot F5 BIG-IP Application Delivery Controller (ADC) solutions in modern enterprise environments. Designed for network engineers, system administrators, security professionals, and application delivery specialists, the certification focuses on real-world administration of BIG-IP platforms, including traffic management, load balancing, high availability, networking, SSL/TLS, system administration, and troubleshooting. The updated certification path reflects current industry requirements and ensures candidates are equipped to manage application delivery infrastructure across data center, cloud, and hybrid environments.
At IPRULERS, our F5-CA training program is aligned with the latest F5 certification framework and exam objectives. Through instructor-led sessions, hands-on labs, and real-world deployment scenarios, participants gain practical experience with BIG-IP installation, configuration, traffic processing, control plane administration, and support methodologies. Whether attending online or classroom-based sessions, students receive comprehensive training designed to build confidence, enhance operational expertise, and prepare them for successfully achieving the F5 Certified BIG-IP Administrator credential.
Target Audience:
Network administrators, operators, and engineers responsible for managing the normal day-to-day operation and administration of a BIG-IP application delivery network
- BIG-IP administrators
- Network engineers
- Applications engineers
- Individuals responsible for troubleshooting problems associated with their BIG-IP system
Prerequisite:
Candidates should possess a basic understanding of networking concepts, TCP/IP protocols, routing, switching, and application delivery technologies. Prior experience with load balancing, web applications, SSL/TLS, and network troubleshooting will be beneficial but is not mandatory.
A foundational knowledge of the OSI model, HTTP/HTTPS protocols, DNS, and general network infrastructure is recommended to successfully understand BIG-IP administration concepts and maximize the benefits of this training program.
- The F5 Certified BIG-IP Administrator (F5-CA) credential demonstrates an individual’s ability to effectively manage F5 BIG-IP environments, including installation, configuration, traffic management, system administration, and troubleshooting. It serves as a recognized benchmark for professionals responsible for delivering secure, high-performance applications across enterprise networks.
Duration
40 Hours
Skill Level
Beginner
Certificate
Yes
Modules
5
Language
English
Mode
Online/Offline
Key Highlights
- Live Instructor-Led Training (Online & Classroom)
- 40 Hours of Technology Lectures
- Weekdays (Tue - Fri)
- Friday to Saturday or Saturday to Sunday - Weekend
- Real Equipment and Real World Live Scenarios
- Exam question bank and Preparation
Key Highlights
- 100% Pass Guarantee
- 24/7 Access to the Learning Resources
- Hands-on Lab Practice on physical equipment
- Flexible Installment Plans
- Boot Camp Training for a Fast Track Learning
- Demand-driven recorded video lectures for references
- Eve-ng Set up on the laptop with images
Course Curriculam
- Securing BIG-IP
- Securing Management-IP
- Port lockdown
- Firewall rules for Self-IPs
- Configure DDOS Vectors
- Secure Password Policies
- SSHD ACLs
- HTTPd ACLs
- Identify management connectivity configurations
- Identify the configured management-IP address.
- Interpret 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
- 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)
- Show provisioned modules — CLI/config/TMUI
- Report modules which are licensed for — CLI/config/TMUI
- 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
- 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
- Explain the relationship between interfaces, trunks, VLANs, self-IPs, routes 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 and untagged VLAN
- Compare Interface status (Up/Down)
- Explain the dependencies of interfaces/trunks, VLANs, self-IPs
- Define ADC application objects
- Define load balancing including intelligent load balancing and server selection
- Explain features of an application delivery controller
- Explain benefits of an application delivery controller
- Determine expected traffic behavior based on configuration
- Identify traffic diverted due to persistence
- Consider the packet and/or virtual server processing order (wildcard vips)
- Identify traffic diverted due to status of traffic objects (vs, pool member)
- Determine the egress source IP based on configuration
- Identify when connection/rate limits are reached
- Identify the different virtual server types
- Standard, Forwarding, Stateless, Reject
- Performance (Layer 4) and Performance (HTTP)
- Explain high availability (HA) concepts
- Explain methods of providing HA integrity
- Explain methods of providing HA
- Explain advantages of HA
- Apply procedural concepts required to modify and manage virtual servers
- 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
- 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
- Apply procedural concepts required to manage the state of a high availability pair
- Execute force to standby procedure
- Report current active/standby failover state
- Execute force to offline procedure
Show device trust status
- 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
- Identify and report current device status
- Interpret the LCD panel warning messages
- Use the 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
- Interpret high availability and device trust status
- 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
- Apply procedural concepts required to create, manage, and restore a UCS archive
- 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)
- Explain authentication methods
- Explain how to create a user
- Explain how to user properties
- Explain options for remote authentication provider
- Explain use of groups using remote authentication provider
- Identify configured system services
- Show proper configuration for: DNS, NTP, SNMP, syslog
- 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
- Given a scenario, determine device upgrade eligibility
- Determine when to upgrade software
- Determine when to upgrade platform
- Determine steps to minimize upgrade downtime
- Given a scenario, interpret Service status
- Compare active vs inactive ADC elements
- Infer services for given netstat output
- Determine whether a service is listening on a given based on netstat output
- 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
- 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 and Duplex
- Distinguish TCP profiles (optimized profiles)
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- 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
- Identify the reason a virtual server is not working as expected
- Identify the current availability status of the virtual server
- Identify conflicting/misconfigured profiles
- Identify misconfigured IP address and/or Port
- 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 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
- Given a scenario, review basic stats to confirm functionality
- Interpret traffic object statistics
- Interpret network configuration statistics
- Given a scenario, interpret traffic flow
- Explain application client-server communication
- Interpret traffic graphs (Interpret SNMP results)
Modes Of Training
We provide various modes of training, each catering to different learning styles, preferences, and needs.You can make your choice of training mode.
- Classroom-Based Training
- One-On-One Training
- Online Training
- Corporate Training
- Fast Track Training
- Private Group Training
- Lab Workshop Training
Instructors
MCSE,RHCE,CCNP,CEH,CSA,CCSE,F5-CTS, AWS & Azure
Certified instructor with 20+ years of experience in the field of cloud and cybersecurity. Proven success in leveraging educational theories and methodologies to design, develop, and deliver successful training programs and integrate instructional technology to provide onsite and virtual training. Babu has helped IPRULERS in setting the bar for cloud and cyber security training and helping thousands of engineers to obtain their own certifications. He excels in corporate training and has excellent interpersonal skills that make him stand out. Babu has proven his knowledge and skills in delivering training for the Microsoft, Amazon, f5, Check Point, EC-Council, CompTIA & Cisco etc.
Babu Varghese
Senior Cloud & Security Specialist
