● F5 BIG-IP LTM Specialist: Architect, Setup, and Deploy (301a) Exam Materials
Question #1
Question #2
Remote office users are having performance issues with a virtual server hosted on the F5 LTM. The LTM Specialist reviews the configuration for the virtual server and determines that some settings are set with default profiles. Which profile should the LTM Specialist enable to improve virtual server performance? (Choose one answer)
- A. a Fast L4 profile on the virtual server
- B. an HTTP profile for the virtual server
- C. a Stream profile for the remote user networks
- D. a WAN optimized client side profile
Question #3
An LTM Specialist needs to gather website statistics such as latency and throughput on the existing virtual server. This virtual server load balances the backend web servers. Which F5 feature will provide this? (Choose one answer)
- A. the Statistics panel
- B. the Performance panel
- C. the AVR module
- D. the Dashboard
Question #4
An LTM Specialist is administering an HA pair of LTM devices that load balance multiple applications. The LTM Specialist must make sure that users of a critical FTP service receive minimal or no interruption in the event of a failover. (Choose one answer)
- A. Using an internal VLAN, configure a mirroring IP address and enable connection mirroring for the persistence profile
- B. Configure a new VLAN, configure a mirroring IP address and enable connection mirroring for the virtual server
- C. Configure a new VLAN, configure a mirroring IP address, and enable connection mirroring for all persistence profiles
- D. Using an internal VLAN, configure a mirroring IP address, and enable connection mirroring for the SNAT used by the virtual server
Question #5
For what purpose should an LTM Specialist create an iApp template? (Choose one answer)
- A. for a customized consistent configuration that will be deployed multiple times
- B. for a configuration that restricts editing to a specific group of people
- C. for a configuration that would only serve traffic for a specific group of people
- D. for a customized configuration that will only be deployed for a specific service
Question #6
The LTM Specialist is working on a virtual server with a source address persistence profile. Maintenance is needed on one of the pool members attached to that virtual server. The LTM Specialist disables the pool member. Several hours later, the pool member still has active connections. What should the LTM Specialist do? (Choose one answer)
- A. Change the pool configuration “slow ramp time” to zero
- B. Change the pool configuration “action on server down” to reject
- C. Change the pool member state to Forced offline
- D. Change the virtual server state to Disabled
Question #7
An LTM Specialist needs to use a set of addresses to access an Internet website in an outbound configuration. Which feature should the LTM Specialist configure? (Choose one answer)
- A. NAT address
- B. SNAT pool
- C. SNAT address
- D. NAT pool
Question #8
Traffic to a pool of SFTP servers that share storage must be balanced by an LTM device. What are the required profiles and persistence settings for a standard virtual server? (Choose one answer)
- A. tcp-no persistence profile will be used
- B. tcp, ftp-source address persistence
- C. tcp, clientssl, ftp server-side persistence
- D. tcp, clientssl, serverssl persistence
Question #9
A new SSL certificate is being installed for an existing web application. The certificate is signed by an intermediate certificate, and the CA has provided the intermediate certificate. Which action should be taken? (Choose one answer)
- A. Import the intermediate certificate, and add it to the Trusted Certificate Authorities
- B. Import the intermediate certificate, and add it to the server SSL profile
- C. Import the intermediate certificate, and add it to the client SSL profile certificate chain
- D. Import the root CA certificate on the users’ desktops
Question #10
An application is expected to maintain more than 100,000 concurrent TCP connections to a single pool member. What is an appropriate SNAT configuration in this situation? (Choose one answer)
- A. SNAT automap enabled
- B. a SNAT pool with 4 IP addresses
- C. a SNAT pool with 1 IP address
- D. a static SNAT
An LTM Specialist needs to assign a health monitor to a pool with two pool members 10.10.10.101 and 10.10.10.102. Both pool members are listening on port 8080 with TCP. The health of the application depends on the health of another server (10.10.10.100) that runs port 9080 with TCP. Which two custom TCP monitors should be selected as the pool's health monitors? (Choose two answers)