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301 LTM Specialist
The 301a-LTM Specialist: Architect, Set-up & Deploy exam is one of two exams
required to achieve Certified F5 Technology Specialist, LTM status.
Individuals who pass this exam possess an of underlying principles – from SSLbased VPN implementation to symmetric and asymmetric acceleration – and can
draw on that insight to integrate BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) into existing
networks as well as new implementations. This is exam 1 of 2 and is based on
TMOS v11.
Objective 1.01 Given an expected traffic volume, determine the appropriate SNAT
configuration
Explain when SNAT is required
Describe the benefit of using SNAT pools
Objective 1.02 Given a scenario, determine the minimum profiles for an application U/A
Explain security options available for the application
Explain how to use LTM as a service proxy
Describe how a given service is deployed on an LTM
Objective 1.03 Given an application configuration, determine which functions can be
offloaded to the LTM device
Explain how to offload HTTP servers for SSL compression and caching
Objective 1.04 Given an application configuration, determine which functions can be
offloaded to the LTM device
Explain how to create an HTTP configuration to handle an HTTP server error
Objective 1.05 Given an application configuration, determine the appropriate profile and
persistence options
Explain how to create an HTTP configuration for mobile clients
Explain how to create an HTTP configuration to optimize WAN connectivity
Determine when connection mirroring is required
Objective 1.06 Explain the steps necessary to configure AVR U/A
Explain the steps necessary to configure the AVR
Explain how to create an AVR profile and options
Objective 1.07 Given a set of reporting requirements, determine the AVR metrics and entities
to collect
Explain the sizing implications of AVR on the LTM device
Explain the logging and notifications options of AVR
Explain the uses of the collected metrics and entities
Objective 1.08 Given a scenario, determine the appropriate monitor type and parameters to use
Explain how to create an application specific monitor
Given a desired outcome, determine where to apply health monitors
Determine under which circumstances an external monitor is required
Objective 1.09 Given a set of parameters, predict an outcome of a monitor status on other
LTM device objects
Determine the effect of a monitor on the virtual server status
Determine the effect of active versus inline monitors on the application status or on the LTM device
Objective 1.10 Given a set of SSL requirements, determine the appropriate profile options to
create or modify in the SSL profile
Describe the difference between client and server SSL profiles
Describe the difference between client and server SSL processing
Objective 1.11 Given a set of application requirements, describe the steps necessary to
configure SSL
Describe the process to update expired SSL certificates
Describe the steps to incorporate client authentication to the SSL process
Objective 1.12 Given a set of application requirements, determine the appropriate virtual
server type to use
Describe the process to update expired SSL certificates
Describe the steps to incorporate client authentication to the SSL process
Objective 1.13 Given a set of application requirements, determine the appropriate virtual
server configuration settings
Describe which steps are necessary to complete prior to creating the virtual server
Describe the security options when creating a virtual server (i.e., VLAN limitation, route domains, packet
filters, iRules)
Objective 1.14 Explain the matching order of multiple virtual servers U/A
Objective 1.15 Given a scenario, determine the appropriate load balancing method(s) U/A
Identify the behavior of the application to be load balanced
Differentiate different load balancing methods
Explain how to perform outbound load balancing
Explain CARP persistence
Objective 1.16 Explain the effect of LTM device configuration parameters on load balancing
decisions
Differentiate between members and nodes
Explain the effect of the load balancing method on the LTM platform
Explain the effect of CMP on load balancing methods
Explain the effect of OneConnect/MBLB on load balancing
Explain how monitors and load balancing methods interact
Section 2: Set-up, administer, and secure LTM devices Cognitive
Complexity
Objective 2.01 Distinguish between the management interface configuration and application
traffic interface configuration
Explain the requirements for management of the LTM devices
Explain the requirements for the application traffic traversing the LTM devices
Explain how to configure management connectivity options: AOM, serial console, USB & Management
Ethernet Port
Objective 2.02 Given a network diagram, determine the appropriate network and system
settings (i.e., VLANs, selfIPs, trunks, routes, NTP servers, DNS servers,
SNMP receivers and syslog servers)
Explain the requirements for self IPs (including port lockdown)
Explain routing requirements for management and application traffic (including route domains and IPv6)
Explain the effect of system time on LTM devices
Objective 2.03 Given a network diagram, determine the appropriate physical connectivity U/A
Explain physical network connectivity options of LTM devices
Objective 2.04 Explain how to configure remote authentication and multiple administration
roles on the LTM device
Explain the relationship between route domains, user roles and administrative partitions
Explain the mapping between remote users and remote role groups
Explain the options for partition access and terminal access
Objective 2.05 Given a scenario, determine an appropriate high availability configuration (i.e.,
failsafe, failover and timers)
Explain the relationship between route domains, user roles and administrative partitions
Explain the mapping between remote users and remote role groups
Explain the options for partition access and terminal access
Objective 2.06 Given a scenario, describe the steps necessary to set up a device group,
traffic group and HA group
Explain how to set up sync-only and sync-failover device service cluster
Explain how to configure HA groups
Explain how to assign virtual servers to traffic groups
Objective 2.07 Predict the behavior of an LTM device group or traffic groups in a given failure
scenario
Objective 2.08 Determine the effect of LTM features and/or modules on LTM device
performance and/or memory
Determine the effect of iRules on performance
Determine the effect of RAM cache on performance and memory
Determine the effect of compression on performance
Determine the effect of modules on performance and memory
Objective 2.09 Determine the effect of traffic flow on LTM device performance and/or
utilization
Explain how to use traffic groups to maximize capacity
Objective 2.10 Determine the effect of virtual server settings on LTM device performance
and/or utilization
Determine the effect of connection mirroring on performance
Objective 2.11 Describe how to deploy vCMP guests and how the resources are distributed R
Identify platforms that support vCMP
Identify the limitations of vCMP
Describe the effect of licensing and/or provisioning on the vCMP host and vCMP guest
Describe how to deploy vCMP guests
Explain how resources are assigned to vCMP guests (e.g., SSL, memory, CPU, disk)
Objective 2.12 Determine the appropriate LTM device security configuration to protect
against a security threat
Explain the implications of SNAT and NAT on network promiscuity
Explain the implications of forwarding virtual servers on the environment security
Describe how to disable services
Describe how to disable ARP
Explain how to set up logging for security events on the LTM device
Explain how route domains can be used to enforce network segmentation
Section 3: Deploy applications Cognitive
Complexity
Objective 3.01 Describe how to deploy and modify applications using existing and/or updated
iApp application templates
Identify the appropriate application template to use to deploy the application
Describe how to locate, retrieve and import new and updated application templates
Identify use cases for deploying the application templates
Objective 3.02 Given application requirements, determine the appropriate profiles and profile
settings to use
Describe the connections between profiles and virtual servers
Describe profile inheritance
Explain how to configure the different SSL profile settings
Explain the effect of changing protocol settings
Explain the use cases for the fast protocols (e.g. fastL4, fastHTTP)
Explain the persistence overrides
Describe the use of HTTP classes and profiles
Describe the link between iRules and statistics, iRules and stream, and iRule events and profiles
Describe the link between iRules and persistence
Describe hashing persistence methods
Describe the cookie persistence options
Determine which profiles are appropriate for a given application
Determine when an iRule is preferred over a profile or vice versa
Explain how to manipulate the packet contents using profiles
Objective 3.03 Determine the effect of traffic flow on LTM device performance and/or
utilization
Describe the effect of priority groups on load balancing
Explain the effects of SNAT settings on pools
Explain how persistence settings can override connection limits
Describe the relationship between monitors and state
Describe the functionality of Action On Service Down
Describe the functionality of Priority Group Activation
Describe the persistence across pools and services (e.g., Match Across Services, Match Across vs Match
Across Pools)
Describe how connection limits are affected by node, pool and virtual server settings
Describe how priority groups are affected by connection limits
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Question: 47
A BIG-IP has two SNATs, a pool of DNS servers and a virtual server configured to
load-balance UDP traffic to the DNS servers. One SNAT's address is 64.100.130.10;
this SNAT is defined for all addresses. The second SNAT's address is
64.100.130.20; this SNAT is defined for three specific addresses, 172.16.3.54,
172.16.3.55, and 172.16.3.56. The virtual server's destination is
64.100.130.30:53. The SNATs and virtual server have default VLAN associations. If
a client with IP address 172.16.3.55 initiates a request to the virtual server, what is the
source IP address of the packet as it reaches the chosen DNS server?
A. 64.100.130.30
B. 172.16.3.55
C. 64.100.130.20
D. 64.100.130.10
Answer: C
Question: 48
A, steaming profile will do which of the following?
A. Search and replace all occurrences of a specified string only is responses processed
by a virtual server.
B. Search and replace all occurrences of a specified string only in request processed
by a virtual server.
C. Search and replace all occurrences of a specified string in requests and responses
processed by a virtual server.
D. Search and replace the first occurrence of a specified of a specified string in either
a request or response processed by a virtual server.
Answer: C
Question: 49
A monitor has been defined using the HTTP monitor template. The send and receive
strings were customized, but all other settings were left at their defaults. Which
resources can the monitor be assigned to?
A. only specific pool members
B. most virtual severs
C. most nodes
D. most pools
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Answer: D
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Network application delivery and security specialist F5 Networks (NASDAQ:FFIV) will be reporting earnings tomorrow after market close. Here's what to expect.
Last quarter F5 Networks reported revenues of $702.6 million, up 4.17% year on year, in line with analyst expectations. It was a mixed quarter for the company, with revenue exceeding expectations, albeit by a small magnitude. Gross margin also improved. On the other hand, its underwhelming revenue guidance for the next quarter was disappointing (although next quarter's EPS guidance was in-line).
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This quarter analysts are expecting F5 Networks's revenue to grow 0.32% year on year to $702.3 million, slowing down from the 2.64% year-over-year increase in revenue the company had recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $3.21 per share.
Majority of analysts covering the company have reconfirmed their estimates over the last thirty days, suggesting they are expecting the business to stay the course heading into the earnings. The company only missed Wall St's revenue estimates once over the last two years, and has on average exceeded top line expectations by 0.76%.
With F5 Networks being the first among its peers to report earnings this season, we don't have anywhere else to look at to get a hint at how this quarter will unravel for software stocks, but the segment has been facing declining investor sentiment following the fears around raising interest rates, with the stocks down on average 3.3% over the last month. F5 Networks is down 7.7% during the same time, and is heading into the earnings with an analyst price target of $168.15, compared to share price of $146.31.
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F5 (FFIV -2.25%) stock gained in Wednesday's daily trading. The company's share price ended the day up more than 2%, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence.
After the market closed Tuesday, F5 published results for the fourth quarter of its 2023 fiscal year -- which ended Sept. 30. Sales and earnings performance for the period came in ahead of market expectations and helped to send the software specialist's share price higher.
Why are investors excited about F5's Q4 results?
F5 reported non-GAAP (adjusted) earnings per share of $3.50 on sales of $706.97 million. For comparison, the average analyst estimate had called for per-share earnings of $3.21 on sales of roughly $702.25 million. F5's sales were up roughly 1% year over year in the quarter, and its adjusted earnings per share were up roughly 33.6% compared to the prior-year period.
The company delivered a significant performance beat on both the top and bottom lines. Management's forward guidance also seems to be pleasing investors.
What comes next for F5 stock?
For its next fiscal year, F5 is guiding for sales to come in somewhere between flat and a low-single-digit decline. While that might not sound like a particularly exciting projection, the company is facing caution from customers amid macroeconomic uncertainty -- and its earnings and stock buyback forecasts are more encouraging.
F5 expects to grow adjusted earnings per share somewhere between 5% and 7% on an annual basis. The company also plans to commit at least 50% of its annual free cash flow to repurchasing shares. As the company buys back stock, that will reduce its total number of shares outstanding. In turn, that should create positive catalysts for earnings per share in subsequent years. It may also signal that the company believes that its stock is undervalued at current prices.
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Network application delivery and security specialist F5 Networks (NASDAQ:FFIV) reported results in line with analysts' expectations in Q4 FY2023, with revenue flat year on year at $707 million. However, next quarter's revenue guidance of $685 million was less impressive, coming in 1.69% below analysts' estimates. Turning to EPS, F5 Networks made a non-GAAP profit of $3.50 per share, improving from its profit of $2.62 per share in the same quarter last year.
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F5 Networks (FFIV) Q4 FY2023 Highlights:
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Revenue: $707 million vs analyst estimates of $702.3 million (small beat)
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EPS (non-GAAP): $3.50 vs analyst estimates of $3.21 (9.08% beat)
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Revenue Guidance for Q1 2024 is $685 million at the midpoint, below analyst estimates of $696.8 million
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Free Cash Flow of $174.4 million, up 16.2% from the previous quarter
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Gross Margin (GAAP): 80.1%, up from 78.9% in the same quarter last year
“In our fourth quarter, we delivered 11% software revenue growth, operating margin improvement, and double-digit earnings per share growth,” said François Locoh-Donou, F5’s President and CEO.
Initially started as a hardware appliances company in the late 1990s, F5 Networks (NASDAQ:FFIV) makes software that helps large enterprises ensure their web applications are always available by distributing network traffic and protecting them from cyberattacks.
Content Delivery
The amount of content on the internet is exploding, whether it is music, movies and or e-commerce stores. Consumer demand for this content creates network congestion, much like a digital traffic jam which drives demand for specialized content delivery networks (CDN) services that alleviate potential network bottlenecks.
Sales Growth
As you can see below, F5 Networks's revenue growth has been unimpressive over the last two years, growing from $682 million in Q4 FY2021 to $707 million this quarter.
F5 Networks's quarterly revenue was only up 0.99% year on year, which might disappoint some shareholders. However, its revenue increased $4.33 million quarter on quarter, a strong improvement from the $533 thousand decrease in Q3 2023. This is a sign of acceleration of growth and very nice to see indeed.
Next quarter, F5 Networks is guiding for a 2.2% year-on-year revenue decline to $685 million, a further deceleration from the 1.93% year-on-year decrease it recorded in the same quarter last year.
The pandemic fundamentally changed several consumer habits. There is a founder-led company that is massively benefiting from this shift. The business has grown astonishingly fast, with 40%+ free cash flow margins. Its fundamentals are undoubtedly best-in-class. Still, the total addressable market is so big that the company has room to grow many times in size. You can find it on our platform for free.
Profitability
What makes the software as a service business so attractive is that once the software is developed, it typically shouldn't cost much to provide it as an ongoing service to customers. F5 Networks's gross profit margin, an important metric measuring how much money there's left after paying for servers, licenses, technical support, and other necessary running expenses, was 80.1% in Q4.
That means that for every $1 in revenue the company had $0.80 left to spend on developing new products, sales and marketing, and general administrative overhead. F5 Networks's excellent gross margin allows it to fund large investments in product and sales during periods of rapid growth and achieve profitability when reaching maturity. It's also comforting to see its gross margin remain stable, indicating that F5 Networks is controlling its costs and not under pressure from its competitors to lower prices.
Key Takeaways from F5 Networks's Q4 Results
Sporting a market capitalization of $8.68 billion, F5 Networks is among smaller companies, but its more than $803.3 million in cash on hand and positive free cash flow over the last 12 months puts it in an attractive position to invest in growth.
We struggled to find many strong positives in these results. Its revenue guidance for next quarter underwhelmed, driven by some customer caution given the uncertain macroeconomic environment. Furthermore, the company has a $180 million headwind from strong backlog fulfillment in fiscal year 2023 that tempers its 2024 revenue growth expectations. Overall, this was a mediocre quarter for F5 Networks. The company is down 2.21% on the results and currently trades at $145 per share.
F5 Networks may have had a tough quarter, but does that actually create an opportunity to invest right now? When making that decision, it's important to consider its valuation, business qualities, as well as what has happened in the latest quarter. We cover that in our actionable full research report which you can read here, it's free.
One way to find opportunities in the market is to watch for generational shifts in the economy. Almost every company is slowly finding itself becoming a technology company and facing cybersecurity risks and as a result, the demand for cloud-native cybersecurity is skyrocketing. This company is leading a massive technological shift in the industry and with revenue growth of 50% year on year and best-in-class SaaS metrics it should definitely be on your radar.
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