F5 BIG-IP LTM (201 & 301)
F5 load balancers sit in front of the world's biggest applications — banks, e-commerce, government portals. Learn BIG-IP LTM the production way: virtual servers, iRules, SSL offload and HA, on live BIG-IP VE labs, with the troubleshooting methodology used by F5 support itself.
Training Highlights
- 1-on-1 live training with Aviraj Sharma (Cisco Systems (Ex-TAC), Ex-Juniper Networks)
- 40+ Hours of live instructor-led sessions — flexible timing, your pace
- Live class recordings with timestamped notes — revise anytime
- 24x7 dedicated lab pod — 8+ guided hands-on labs
- Trainer-written PDF notes, workbooks & cheat sheets
- Mock interviews, resume building & placement assistance
- Course completion certificate with unique ID
- Free demo session before you pay anything
Course Content
What You Will Learn — Topic by Topic
- TMOS architecture, full-proxy & packet flow
- Initial setup — licensing, platform & network config
- VLANs, self-IPs, trunks & route domains
- Nodes, pools, members & priority groups
- Virtual server types (standard, forwarding, stateless)
- Load balancing methods — round-robin, least-conn, ratio
- Health monitors — HTTP, TCP, custom & transparent
- Persistence — source address, cookie, SSL & universal
- Client/Server SSL profiles & certificate chains
- SSL offloading & SSL bridging designs
- iRule events, commands & operators
- SNAT automap vs SNAT pools vs NAT
- OneConnect & HTTP profile tuning
- High availability — device groups & traffic groups
- Connection mirroring & failback behaviour
- tcpdump flags & qkview diagnostics on BIG-IP
Hands-on Labs You Will Perform
Deploy BIG-IP VE & complete base configuration
HTTP/HTTPS VIP with layered health monitors
iRule lab — redirects, header inserts & pool selection
SSL offload with enterprise certificates
SNAT behaviour comparison scenarios
HA pair sync-failover & mirroring test
tcpdump client/server-side flow analysis
201/301-style configuration scenarios
Certification Exam Details
Exam Code
F5 201 & 301
Duration
90 Minutes each
Format
80 Questions each
Validity
2 Years
Exam Fee
$135 per exam
Prerequisites
- Networking fundamentals
- TCP handshake & TLS basics
- CLI comfort
Who Can Do This Course
- Network engineers
- Application delivery engineers
- NOC engineers handling L4-L7 devices
Career Opportunities & Salary
F5 Load Balancer Engineer
Application Delivery Specialist
Network Operations Engineer
Frequently Asked Questions
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