F5F5 Certified Administrator, BIG-IP
The F5 BIG-IP Administration Support and Troubleshooting exam (F5CAB5) validates your ability to perform day-to-day operations, basic deployment, management, security, and support of BIG-IP in various application environments. It is designed for administrators who can determine resource utilization, identify network-level performance issues, and diagnose load balancing, virtual server, or pool problems. Earning this exam brings you one step closer to the F5 Certified Administrator, BIG-IP credential.
417 practice questions · Updated 2026-07-30
7Domains
23Objectives
114Concepts
417Questions
F5CAB5 Curriculum
Every domain, objective, and concept the F5CAB5 exam measures.
- Control plane vs data plane definition
- Control plane resources
- Data plane resources
- Resource allocation and sharing
- Monitoring and distinguishing resource usage
- CPU statistics per virtual server
- Accessing CPU statistics
- Interpreting CPU statistics
- Interface statistics overview
- Reading interface counters
- Utilization calculation
- Troubleshooting with statistics
- Identify disk utilization metrics
- Interpret disk utilization output
- Identify memory utilization metrics
- Interpret memory utilization output
- Correlate disk and memory utilization with system performance
- Purpose of packet capture
- Indicators for packet capture
- Packet capture tools
- Capture scope and timing
- Interpreting capture results
- Interface status interpretation
- Interface status indicators
- Troubleshooting interface issues
- Packet drop detection
- Drop location analysis
- Interface drop statistics
- Connection table drops
- Congestion and queue drops
- Drop correlation with performance
- Speed and Duplex Basics
- Auto-Negotiation
- Mismatch Symptoms
- Troubleshooting Steps
- Configuration Verification
- TCP profile basics
- Optimized TCP profiles
- Profile selection criteria
- Impact on performance
- Configuration considerations
- Persistence Mechanisms
- Priority Group Activation
- Rate and Connection Limits
- Health check misconfigurations
- Action on service down misconfigurations
- Pool member and pool misconfigurations
- Virtual server misconfigurations
- Monitor association and status
- Load balancing method misconfigurations
- Persistence and fallback misconfigurations
- SNAT and routing misconfigurations
- Node availability status
- Pool member availability status
- Pool availability status
- Virtual server availability status
- Interpreting availability statuses
- Virtual server availability states
- Monitoring and health checks
- Pool member status impact
- Using tmsh to check status
- Using the Configuration utility to check status
- Interpreting status indicators
- Profile conflict detection
- Profile misconfiguration analysis
- Profile assignment verification
- Virtual Server IP Configuration
- Virtual Server Port Configuration
- IP and Port Combination Verification
- Health monitor basics
- Monitor configuration and association
- Monitor interval and timeout settings
- Monitor success and failure criteria
- Marking down process
- Monitoring states and status
- Troubleshooting monitor failures
- Priority group configuration
- Active priority group logic
- Identifying inactive priority group members
- Troubleshooting priority group issues
- Pool Configuration States
- Pool Member States
- Monitoring and Availability
- Viewing State via GUI and CLI
- Pool member availability status
- Pool availability status
- Availability status sources
- Interpreting status values
- Using the Configuration utility
- Using the command line
- Traffic object statistics overview
- Accessing traffic statistics
- Interpreting key metrics
- Using statistics for troubleshooting
- Resetting and refreshing statistics
- Identify network configuration statistics
- Access statistics in the Configuration utility
- Interpret interface statistics
- Interpret VLAN statistics
- Interpret self-IP statistics
- Correlate statistics with configuration
- Identify abnormal statistics
- Client-Server Model
- HTTP/HTTPS Communication
- TCP/IP Handshake
- DNS Resolution
- Ports and Protocols
- Connection Persistence
- Proxy and Load Balancing
- SNMP basics
- SNMP data collection
- Interpreting SNMP graphs
- Key SNMP metrics
- Troubleshooting with SNMP graphs
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