BIG-IP Administration Data Plane Configuration (F5CAB3) Online Training

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UPDATED: April 16, 2025

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Master the practical skills needed to configure BIG-IP virtual servers and manage pools with this F5CAB3 training. You’ll learn to apply procedural concepts that support real-world data plane traffic management in BIG-IP environments. After completing this F5 training, you’ll be able to confidently deploy, modify, and maintain core BIG-IP traffic objects in production networks.

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What you'll learn

Configuring BIG-IP virtual servers for application delivery
Managing and modifying BIG-IP pool settings
Applying traffic management procedures in BIG-IP
Implementing data plane configurations for reliability
Adjusting application routing with BIG-IP tools
Maintaining virtual server and pool health in BIG-IP

FAQs

Is the F5CAB3 exam hard?

The difficulty of the F5CAB3 exam depends on your experience with BIG-IP systems and traffic management. If you’ve never configured virtual servers or pools in BIG-IP before, this exam might be tough. But for network engineers or sysadmins who’ve worked in F5 environments, the exam reinforces skills you probably already use. Expect hands-on, real-world questions rather than trivia.

Is the F5CAB3 exam worth taking?

If you're managing application delivery with F5 BIG-IP or looking to step into a network engineer or load balancing role, the F5CAB3 is absolutely worth it. It validates your ability to configure real-world traffic handling in BIG-IP environments and is part of the F5 Certified Administrator (F5-CA) credential—a respected cert in the network and infrastructure world.

What’s the difference between F5CAB2 and F5CAB3?

F5CAB2 is all about data plane concepts—things like how interfaces, trunks, and VLANs relate, and what traffic behavior you can expect. F5CAB3 takes that a step further and asks you to actually configure those data plane components, especially virtual servers and pools. Think of CAB2 as “what it is,” and CAB3 as “how to build it.”

What are BIG-IP pools and why are they important for this exam?

Pools in BIG-IP are groups of servers that a virtual server can forward traffic to. They're a core part of how BIG-IP balances load and ensures availability. For the F5CAB3 exam, you’ll need to know how to configure, modify, and monitor pools to handle traffic intelligently and maintain uptime.

Do I need to pass other exams before taking F5CAB3?

No. The F5CAB3 exam can be taken in any order alongside the other four exams that make up the F5 Certified Administrator credential. You don’t need to complete F5CAB1 or F5CAB2 first, but having some background in BIG-IP fundamentals definitely helps.

Who is this for?

This networking training is ideal for network engineers, system administrators, and DevOps professionals working with BIG-IP traffic delivery or managing application load balancing in enterprise environments.

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Download the free F5CAB3 study plan to complete this course in about 2 hours.

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