F5 offers extensive, expert training on F5 products for IT professionals. We help you achieve success through career certifications while keeping you one step ahead of rapidly changing networking and Internet technologies. Courses are presented in a hands-on lab format, combining theoretical content with highly interactive exercises to help IT professionals experience real-world applications and solutions. These services are delivered through F5 and F5-authorized training centers located around the world. Following is a list of available courses along with a brief description of each one:
BIG-IP LTM - ADVANCED TOPICS (Prerequisite: BIG-IP LTM Essentials)
This two-day course builds on the foundation of the BIG-IP LTM Essentials course to give networking professionals an in-depth understanding of the BIG-IPLTM system. It also covers less commonly used but more powerful ways of using the many features of the BIG-IP LTM system.
In addition, significant time is spent using the command line tools to configure the BIG-IP LTM system. This hands-on course includes lectures, labs and discussions. Students will learn about command line functions, advanced configurations, and advanced troubleshooting.
TROUBLESHOOTING BIG-IP LTM (Prerequisite: BIG-IP LTM Essentials)
This two-day course gives networking professionals hands-on knowledge of how to troubleshoot a BIG-IP LTM system using a number of troubleshooting techniques and troubleshooting and system tools. This course includes lectures, labs, and discussions.
CONFIGURING BIG-IP WITH IRULES (Prerequisite: BIG-IP LTM Essentials)
This three-day course gives networking professionals an understanding of how to configure a BIG-IP system with iRules. The course builds on the foundation of the BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) Essentials course, demonstrating how to logically plan and write iRules to help monitor and manage common tasks involved with processing traffic on the BIG-IP. Course Labs consist of writing, applying and evaluating the effect of iRules on LTM traffic. This hands-on course includes lectures, labs, and discussions.
BIG-IP GLOBAL TRAFFIC MANAGER (GTM) (Prerequisite: None but LTM Essentials helps) The BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager course is designed for networking professionals to renew their understanding of DNS network systems and wide-area networks, master pre-installation information gathering, and apply this information to the process of installing a GTM System.
Utilizing both simulated installation activities and hands-on exercises, participants gain real-time experience setting up and configuring both primary and secondary GTM Systems, WAN systems, integrating multiple GTM Systems, and migrating DNS systems to a GTM. Participants will also gain knowledge of the essential GTM management interfaces that assist network managers. In addition, this course covers configuring, monitoring and testing GTM Systems and networks, as well as dynamic and static load balancing, and GTM report screens.
BIG-IP APPLICATION SECURITY MANAGER (ASM) (Prerequisite: None)
This four-day course covers ways to manage Web-based and XML application attacks and the use of Application Security Manager to defend against these attacks. The course covers installation, configuration, management, security policy building, traffic learning, and implementation of Application Security Manager in both stand-alone and modular configurations. This class includes lectures, labs, demonstrations, and discussions.
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ARCHITECTING BIG-IP IN AN APPLICATION DELIVERY NETWORK (Prereq: LTM – Adv Topics) This two-day course gives networking professionals an understanding of how to architect and design BIG-IP devices into an application delivery network. The course builds on the foundation of the BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) Essentials and Advanced Topics courses,
demonstrating the next steps for implementing BIG-IP in a way that effectively delivers your client applications. The labs for the course involve design exercises and group discussions. Based on the knowledge gained in other BIG-IP LTM courses, you will work with other students to build network designs that incorporate BIG-IP LTM to accomplish customer goals. The course will cover many network design options, as well as best practices for given customer scenarios. The course will also explore other design options available using BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager, BIG-IP Link Controller, BIG-IP Application Security Manager, BIG-IP Message Security Module, and BIG-IP WebAccelerator.
BIG-IP ACCESS POLICY MANAGER (APM) (Prerequisite: None)
This two and ½ -day course provides security and network professionals with a functional understanding of the BIG-IP® Access Policy Manager (APM). The course includes installation, configuration, management and troubleshooting on a BIG-IP® APM. Students will build many different Access Policies representing different customer scenarios using the Visual Policy Editor.
This hands-on course includes lectures, labs, and discussions.
BIG-IP WEBACCELERATOR (WAM) (Prerequisite: None)
This one day course is designed to help network professionals improve web site customer experience using the WebAccelerator product. The course focuses on typical HTTP processes and how the WebAccelerator Module can take advantage of those processes to decrease response time while ensuring data accuracy and integrity. Using lectures and hands-on exercises, participants gain real-time experience configuring WebAccelerator settings including editing standard policies to affect how the traffic is manipulated as it is processed by the system.
BIG-IP WAN OPTIMIZATION (WOM) (Prerequisite: None)
This half day course is designed to help network professionals improve the performance of WAN connections between Data Centers or Central and Remote Offices using the WAN Optimization product. Using lectures and hands-on exercises, participants gain real-time experience configuring WAN Optimization Module settings. In addition, students will edit the Quick Start template and optimization policies to effect how the traffic is optimized as it is processed by the system.
BIG-IP LINK CONTROLLER (LC) (Prerequisite: None)
BIG-IP Link Controller is a two-day course that provides network professionals an understanding of how to define, monitor, and load balance bi-directional traffic flow between multiple links to meet business performance and cost priorities. Participants will gain knowledge of essential BIG-IP LC features such as virtual servers, pools, monitors and SNATs along with BIG-BIG-IP GTM features such as DNS, WideIPs, and Listeners and how these integrate into the Link Controller System. This hands-on course includes lectures, labs and discussions.
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CONFIGURING & ADMINISTERING ARX (Prerequisite: None)
This three-day course is designed to help students learn about the architecture, configuration, administration and basic troubleshooting of the ARX product family. Students will learn to pre-qualify storage to be virtualized, design namespaces for CIFS, NFS or multiprotocol
environments, configure file, age, and load balancing, etc. This hands-on course includes lectures, labs, and discussions.
TROUBLESHOOTING & MONITORING ARX (Prerequisite: Configuring and Administering ARX) This two-day course provides students with a solid understanding of monitoring and
troubleshooting techniques for the ARX product family using the CLI and ARX Manager (GUI).
Students will learn to upgrade, monitor and troubleshoot namespaces, policies and authentication in CIFS, NFS or multiprotocol environments with an emphasis on both problem determination and avoidance. Students will also learn how to collect diagnostic information and packet captures that will be useful when escalating issues to the F5 Support team. This hands-on course includes lectures, labs, and discussions.
FIREPASS V6.X (Prerequisite: None)
This three-day course provides security and network professionals with a functional understanding of the FirePass® Controller. The course includes installation, configuration, management and troubleshooting on a FirePass system. Lectures, demonstrations, hands-on labs and discussions will be incorporated.
For more details about course offerings, pricing, schedules, and registration, see the following web site: http://www.f5.com/training-support/global-training/
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