Hi F5 Enthusiasts,First of all, I dont have any certifications from F5 and yet I plan to take to help my career grow. I've been managing F5 LTM and APM on my current company so I am quite familiar on their use and basically load balancing. But now I decide to take my career in better path, and I plan to take F5 certification. But I am not particularly sure what exam and study guides i need to read for me to achieve my goal. Can someone help me what should or take first? And where can i find documents to help me pass it?Thanks!

hello! you can start on the exam blueprints: K29900360: F5 certification | Exams and blueprints https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K29900360 there are also the study guides in https://clouddocs.f5.com/training/community/f5cert/html/#unofficial-f5-certification-exam-study-guides-and-labs

F5 - Certification Path - Beginner

7 Replies

ArvinF
SIRT
Jul 07, 2023
hello!

you can start on the exam blueprints: K29900360: F5 certification | Exams and blueprints

https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K29900360

there are also the study guides in https://clouddocs.f5.com/training/community/f5cert/html/#unofficial-f5-certification-exam-study-guides-and-labs
- solhaven
  Altostratus
  Feb 07, 2024
  Hello ArvinF
  I'm also starting the F5 certification journey. I've used F5 Big-IP, industry experience in security and network infrastructure, so I'm good with the basics already.
  As such, I wonder if reading the unofficial guide from '20 is enough to cover the necessary material to take and pass that exam.
  From what I read, 101 is more about the conceptual understanding of networking and application delivery than specific product knowledge.
AlexBCT
Cumulonimbus
Jul 23, 2023
editors note: fixed the tag link and updated the others to remove the "redirect" step. -lz

Hi,

A bit late to reply, but hopefully still useful; a couple of years ago, I wrote a series of articles about this (how to prepare for the exams, how to find materials and all that)

The first article can be found here
F5 Certifications Mega Meta Series: How to take the stress out of the F5 exams | DevCentral

And the full series
Tag:"series-f5-certification-mega-meta-series" | DevCentral

And the one that's specifically about what material you can use
F5 Certifications Mega Meta Series: The art of knowing what you need to know | DevCentral

I'm the first to admit that there's some waffle in the articles as well, but hopefully you'll find some useful tips in there.

Good luck!
- Alex_Madjeski
  Altocumulus
  Jun 19, 2024
  Your second link returns a 404 and the third link "Cannot find community". Do you happen to have updated links?
  - LiefZimmerman
    Admin
    Jun 27, 2024
    Alex_Madjeski
    Sorry bout that.
    The Third link "cannot find community" error may be related to issues we are having with cookies/caches/logins/redirects.
    
    The destination link is: F5 Certifications Mega Meta Series: The art of knowing what you need to know | DevCentral
    
    The second one is a defunct way to reference tagged lists and Article Series'. These old paths will never work but Article Series' will be getting better later this year - easier to find etc.
    The analog to that link is Tag:"series-f5-certification-mega-meta-series" | DevCentral
    
    Hope that helps.
Leslie_Hubertus
Ret. Employee
Oct 02, 2023
Hey chocokoala - how goes the studying? Have you scheduled an exam yet?
T-Trust
Cirrostratus
Oct 05, 2023
Hi Chocokoala,

Before you reach to exam about LTM or APM, You have to exam 101 First, Please find the path below,

101 Application Delivery Fundamentals

201 TMOS Administration

and then you can exam

you can find the document from link below

https://clouddocs.f5.com/training/community/f5cert/html/class1/class1.html

301A
BIG-IP LTM Specialist: Architect, Set up, Deploy

301B
BIG-IP LTM Specialist: Maintain and Troubleshoot

304
BIG-IP APM Specialist