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F5 Certifications Mega Meta Series: You need to study? Stop reading and start building

In this series of articles, I will go into the details of how the exams are developed (...as far as I know at least), and how I think you can improve your chances of passing them. One of the biggest ...
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Christ Follower, Husband, Father, Technologist. I love community and I especially love THIS community. My background is networking, but I've dabbled in all the F5 iStuff, I'm a recovering Perl guy, and am very much a python enthusiast. Learning alongside all of you in this accelerating industry toward modern apps and architectures.
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Jul 07, 2021

I can't recommend having a personal lab enough, and bargainhardware for the servers. There is no substitute for hands on experience and getting a couple of F5 lab licences to build / create / destroy to your hearts content with no risk. Fire up docker, run a bunch of containers, learn load balancing, security, authentication end everything in between in a controlled and

replicable manner.