F5F5 Certified Administrator, BIG-IP
The F5 BIG-IP Administration Data Plane Configuration exam validates your ability to perform day-to-day operations and basic deployment, management, security, and support of BIG-IP in various application environments. It is one of five exams required to earn the F5 Certified Administrator, BIG-IP credential. Passing this exam demonstrates your competence in configuring and managing virtual servers and pools, essential for any BIG-IP administrator.
222 practice questions · Updated 2026-07-30
2Domains
13Objectives
73Concepts
222Questions
F5CAB3 Curriculum
Every domain, objective, and concept the F5CAB3 exam measures.
- Persistence profile overview
- Types of persistence profiles
- Configuring persistence profiles
- Applying persistence to virtual servers
- Testing and verifying persistence
- Managing persistence profiles
- HTTPS encryption profile basics
- Selecting appropriate encryption profile
- Configuring HTTPS encryption profile
- Applying HTTPS encryption profile to virtual server
- Verifying HTTPS encryption profile
- Identify protocol-specific profiles
- Select appropriate profile for service
- Apply profile to virtual server
- Modify profile settings
- Manage profile inheritance
- Troubleshoot profile-related issues
- Identify iApp objects in configuration
- Understand iApp template and instance relationship
- Distinguish iApp-managed objects from manually created ones
- Use tmsh to list iApp objects
- Use Configuration utility to view iApp objects
- Interpret iApp object naming conventions
- iRule basics
- iRule syntax and structure
- Common iRule events
- iRule commands and functions
- iRule application to virtual servers
- iRule logging and debugging
- iRule impact on traffic flow
- Identify default pool configuration
- Interpret pool member status
- Navigate to pool configuration
- Identify health monitor configuration
- Determine monitor status
- Verify monitor effectiveness
- Load balancing method overview
- Round Robin method
- Least Connections method
- Ratio methods
- Fastest method
- Observed method
- Predictive methods
- Dynamic ratio methods
- Priority group activation
- Selecting a load balancing method
- Priority group configuration overview
- Active node determination
- Priority group activation logic
- Failover behavior
- Configuration steps
- Monitoring and verification
- Pool member service port definition
- Default service port behavior
- Service port configuration methods
- Service port validation
- Service port and health monitoring
- Service port and load balancing
- Health monitor types
- Monitor configuration parameters
- Associating monitors with pools
- Monitor behavior and pool member status
- Troubleshooting monitor issues
- Load balancing method overview
- Static load balancing methods
- Dynamic load balancing methods
- Selecting a load balancing method
- Configuring load balancing method
- Pool member service port definition
- Service port configuration methods
- Service port and pool default port relationship
- Service port validation and constraints
- Service port modification impact
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