F5Certified Technology Specialist, BIG-IP APM
Domain 4Objective 4
Objective 4.04 Explain How to Use Capture Utilities (e.g., SSLDump and TCPDump) 304 Practice Questions (Page 1)
Part of the Section 4: Identify and resolve APM issues domain, which makes up ~18% of our current practice bank. F5 does not publish an official question count, but from its 90-minute exam (~35–60 total, ~6–11 in this domain), expect 1–1 from this objective — we provide 20 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)
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Which TCPDump option limits the number of packets captured, which is useful when troubleshooting an APM issue without generating a massive capture file?
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An APM administrator needs to troubleshoot an SSL/TLS issue where the client and server negotiate a session, but the application data appears corrupted. The administrator has access to the server's private key. Which SSLDump command would allow the administrator to view the decrypted application data to diagnose the issue?
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In SSLDump output, what does the 'ClientHello' message indicate?
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An APM administrator is troubleshooting an SSL/TLS handshake failure where clients cannot establish a secure session with the APM virtual server. The administrator wants to capture only the SSL/TLS handshake messages (ClientHello, ServerHello, Certificate, etc.) and exclude the encrypted application data that follows. Which SSLDump option should be used?
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An administrator runs SSLDump on the external interface and sees the following output: 'ClientHello', 'ServerHello', 'Certificate', 'ServerHelloDone', then the client sends 'Alert' with description 'certificate_unknown'. What does this sequence indicate?
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