F5-302 case studies
F5-302 · Put your knowledge to work in context.
F5-302 is a BIG-IP administrator certification exam offered by F5, aimed at network, security, and platform engineers who deploy and operate BIG-IP Application Delivery Controllers in production. It suits candidates who already understand load balancing concepts and want formal recognition of hands-on TMOS skills, and it is often taken by people supporting application delivery, web security, and DNS services in enterprise or service-provider environments. The F5-302 case studies are 5 cases and about 3,490 words.
1ASM False Positives on a JSON API While Keeping Checkout Blocking
A retail platform runs BIG-IP ASM 16.1.4 on the same instance as LTM. The security policy api-prod protects api.example.com (virtual server 10.20.5.10:443, pool of eight Node.js servers) and was built by Automatic Policy Builder from 21 days of staging traffic totaling 1.1 million requests.
765 words, about 4 min2Legacy TLS Clients, ECDSA Certificates, and PCI Segmentation
A payment platform runs BIG-IP 16.1.2 with two virtual servers. vs payments (203.0.113.10:443) carries cardholder data and uses Client SSL profile clientssl-hardened : TLS 1.2 and 1.3 only, ECDHE cipher suites, and an ECDSA P-256 certificate.
715 words, about 4 min3Global Traffic Manager Keeps Returning a Degraded Data Center
BIG-IP DNS 16.1 hosts wide IP www.example.com with two pools: dc1 pool (ten members, 10 Gbps of usable capacity) and dc2 pool (ten members). The wide IP uses Topology load balancing: source region Europe resolves to dc1 pool , North America resolves to dc2 pool , and the fallback is Global Availability.
714 words, about 4 min4APM Nested Groups, Session Limits, and Timeout Confusion
An enterprise runs BIG-IP APM 16.1 for 12,000 employees. The access policy is: Start → Logon Page → AD Auth (AAA server) → AD Query for group APP-USERS → SSO Credential Mapping (Kerberos) → Allow.
682 words, about 3 min5OneConnect with NTLM Causes Cross-User Authentication Failures
An intranet virtual server vs intranet on BIG-IP 15.1 uses an HTTP profile and a OneConnect profile, with a pool of six IIS servers. The application uses NTLM authentication and sets an application session cookie.
614 words, about 3 min