F5 402 Exam reading list and notes

thanks Juergen_Mang . I'll see if I can create one for F5 401 exam. 🙂

what I used in the past for the F5 401 is the same contents as this https://clouddocs.f5.com/training/community/f5cert/html/class17/class17.html

It should give you enough material to review for the 401.

Thanks, Arvin, this is great information! I'd also recommend candidates study up on licensing (GBB, CLP, BYOD, etc) and autoscaling options.

Thanks for sharing this. There are a way too less information about the 40x exams. I wish this article exists for 401 also 😉

thanks Jim-PedleyF5 , indeed, F5 402 exam will also test on licensing and autoscaling

for licensing, we can look at:

K14810: Overview of BIG-IP VE license and throughput limits 
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K14810

K49243459: BIG-IP VE BYOL product listings on public cloud marketplaces
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K49243459 

and also be familiar with each cloud's BIG-IP VE images in their marketplaces

example: 

https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-v2lgyijcawiti?sr=0-2&ref_=beagle&applicationId=AWSMPContessa

in https://clouddocs.f5.com/cloud/public/v1/aws_index.html , there is an autoscaling section that points to https://github.com/F5Networks/f5-aws-cloudformation-v2/tree/main/examples and shares information how the AWS CFT will do Autoscaling.

Also, review how each cloud provider implement their auto scaling features. 

Thanks for sharing this! I see that the exam is still on 12.1 and this is strange to me as now even 13.1 is not supported 😐

hi Nikoolayy1 , like you, im a test taker 🙂 so I don't have an authoritative answer for this. 

I will borrow an answer from the linkedin F5 certified professionals group from our F5 certification team - https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:groupPost:85832-7030945536094420992?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28groupPost%3A85832-7030945536094420992%2C7044705577926557697%29

where it says

F5 exams are designed to be version agnostic, with the shipping version listed at the time of the last major update solely as a courtesy. However, since we focus the exams on the "what" (concepts/ideas) rather than the specific "how" (check boxes, specific syntax), the exams are not dependent on that version number.  

So while I agree that the F5 402 exam was based of v12, from what I remember from my previous attempt, the concept/syllabus have not changed until I took the exam where I passed it, the features/concepts in them also remain in the current F5 products. So indeed, the exam is version agnostic. what we knew before on previous version of F5 products are still applicable today.  Similarly, the cloud and container orchestration concepts have barely changed and if we are updated on these, it will help in the exam preparation.

I hope this helps.  

ArvinF 

Hi is there any update for this exam this year? Planning to take it soon. Any tips?

Thanks!

I took the 402 Exam and I can't say that it is not a version specific as there were many questions about 12.1. Is an update planned for the exam?

As an extra note APM is involved in the exam so reading the APM operations guide and the APM getting started will help and maybe ASM/AWAF getting started doc and videos.