OVERVIEW

F5 loadbalancer also called BIG IP is a Load balancer product from F5 which provides Load balancing to Clusters of servers.They are offering free Trainings for certifications. I have heard that they have very robust and granular options but didn't get chance to work with it yet. Cisco also having ACE for same purpose.

An F5 Professional Certification represents a new breed of technologist capable of manipulating the entire application stack from traditional network knowledge all the way to advanced application layer understanding, with a unique capability to integrate the two. The ability to bridge these two worlds is critical to the increasingly mobile and cloud-based solutions being implemented around the world today.

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LTM - LOCAL TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT (Course Content BIGIP_F5 LTM)

⇒ Introducing Local Traffic Management ⇒ Configuring Virtual Servers ⇒ Configuring Nodes ⇒ Configuring Load Balancing Pools ⇒ Understanding Profiles ⇒ Managing HTTP and FTP Traffic ⇒ Managing Application-Layer Traffic ⇒ Enabling Session Persistence ⇒ Managing Protocol Profile s⇒ Managing SSL Certificates for Local Traffic ⇒ Managing SSL Traffic ⇒ Authenticating Application Traffic Using a Remote Server ⇒ Using Additional Profiles ⇒ Configuring Monitors ⇒ Configuring NATs ⇒ Configuring SNATs ⇒ Configuring Traffic Classes ⇒ Writing iRules ⇒ Health and Performance Monitors ⇒ Configuring Dynamic Ratio Load Balancing⇒ Working with the OpenSSL Utility

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GTM- GLOBAL TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT (Course Content BIGIP_F5 GTM)

⇒ Overview of the Global Traffic Manager⇒ Introducing Global Traffic Manager Coponents ⇒ Setting Up and Configuring the Global Traffic Manager ⇒ Working with Listeners ⇒ Defining the Physical Network ⇒ Defining the Logical Network⇒ Load Balancing with the Global Traffic Manager ⇒ Managing Connections⇒ Load Balancing Connection Requests Using Topologies ⇒ Working with DNSSEC Keys and Zones ⇒ Configuring Monitors ⇒ Viewing Statistics ⇒ Collecting Metrics ⇒ Viewing Performance Data ⇒ Managing iRules ⇒ Managing DNS Files with Zone Runner.