F5Certified Administrator, BIG-IP
Domain 1Objective 1
Distinguish Between Control Plane and Data Plane Resources F5CAB5 Practice Questions (Page 4)
Part of the Determine resource utilization domain, which makes up ~20% of our current practice bank. F5 does not publish an official question count, but from its 30-minute exam (~10–20 total, ~2–4 in this domain), expect 1–1 from this objective — we provide 25 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)
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Questions 16–20
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In an F5 BIG-IP system, which plane is responsible for making decisions about how to handle traffic, such as applying security policies or selecting a pool member?
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An administrator notices that the BIG-IP management interface is slow to respond to HTTPS requests, but the data plane is functioning normally. Which resource is most likely the bottleneck?
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Which component is primarily responsible for processing and forwarding data plane traffic on an F5 BIG-IP?
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A BIG-IP is experiencing packet drops during peak traffic. The administrator runs `tmsh show sys tmm-info` and sees that the TMM CPU is at 60% but the memory is at 95%. Which action would most likely resolve the packet drops?
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Which F5 BIG-IP command or tool provides metrics that can be used to distinguish control plane CPU usage from data plane CPU usage?
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