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This free, self-paced, digital curriculum introduces you to the world of F5 technology products, solutions, and terminology. These courses are designed for students with practical network knowledge and skills, but no previous experience working with F5 technology.
Intro
In this series, choose from digital, self-paced courses and instructor-led, real-time courses. Some courses in this series are free; access to others can be purchased using F5 Training Units. At this level, you will get in-depth information about F5 products and solutions with interactive, hands-on training that covers core topics and use cases. Many of these courses serve as prerequisites for our expert-level Digital Education II curriculum.
Core
This free, self-paced, digital curriculum was built for individuals with little or no experience working with network technology. It covers essential network topics in a way that is not specific to F5 technology, giving you the basic vocabulary you need to be successful in our other curriculum modules.
Essential
Like our Digital Education Series I, you can choose either self-paced or instructor-led courses. These expert-level courses are designed for students with substantial experience working with F5 products. In these courses, you’ll focus on expert topics and complex use cases that build on the information you learned in our series I curricula.
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Essential network topics
Intro to F5 technology solutions
Core F5 topics and use cases
Expert topics, complex use cases
Essential network topics
ESSENTIAL
INTRO
CORE
ADVANCED
This free, self-paced, digital curriculum was built for individuals with little or no experience working with network technology. It covers essential network topics in a way that is not specific to F5 technology, giving you the basic vocabulary you need to be successful in our other curriculum modules.
Essential
This free, self-paced, digital curriculum introduces you to the world of F5 technology products, solutions, and terminology. These courses are designed for students with practical network knowledge and skills, but no previous experience working with F5 technology.
Intro
In this series, choose from digital, self-paced courses and instructor-led, real-time courses. Some courses in this series are free; access to others can be purchased using F5 Training Units. At this level, you will get in-depth information about F5 products and solutions with interactive, hands-on training that covers core topics and use cases. Many of these courses serve as prerequisites for our expert-level Digital Education II curriculum.
Core
Like our Digital Education Series I, you can choose either self-paced or instructor-led courses. These expert-level courses are designed for students with substantial experience working with F5 products. In these courses, you’ll focus on expert topics and complex use cases that build on the information you learned in our series I curricula.
Advanced
F5 NGINX
Self-Directed Training
Introductory
Core
Gain familiarity with the core features of the F5 VELOS platform. (FREE)
Getting Started with VELOS
Learn how to create a new enforcement policy using PEM, allowing you to implement a new service. (FREE)
Getting Started with BIG-IP Policy Enforcement Manager (PEM)
Gain familiarity with VIPRION platform hardware and software features such as Virtualized Clustered Multiprocessing and hot swappable components. (FREE)
Getting Started with VIPRION
Learn more about network address translation at service provider scale with BIG-IP CGNAT. (FREE)
Getting Started with BIG-IP Carrier-Grade NAT (CGNAT)
Intro to the core features and functionality of BIG-IP AFM. (FREE)
Getting Started with BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)
Getting Started with BIG-IP iHealth
Learn how to provide Active-Directory-based authentication and create an SSL VPN policy using F5 BIG-IP APM. (FREE)
Getting Started with BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM)
Learn more about Programmability within the context of BIG-IP, including iControl REST. (FREE)
Getting Started with BIG-IP Programmability
Learn the role of F5 BIG-IP DNS and how to configure many aspects of global server load balancing. (FREE)
Getting Started with BIG-IP DNS
Learn how to accelerate web application delivery using Symmetric Optimization services. (FREE)
Getting Started with BIG-IP Application Acceleration Manager (AAM)
5 classes
Mitigating Vulnerabilities/ Attacks/Threats
Advanced WAF
2 classes
Defending Bots/Automated Attacks
Advanced WAF
4 classes
Fundamentals
Advanced WAF
5 classes
Configuring
F5 Products
Advanced WAF
7 classes
Local Traffic Basics
BIG-IP Fundamentals
5 classes
Administering BIG-IP
BIG-IP Fundamentals
5 classes
Configuring
F5 Products
Advanced WAF
2 classes
Automating
BIG-IP
Advanced WAF
4 bundles
Digital
Education Curriculum Bundles
Advanced WAF
10 classes
Additional Deployment Options
Advanced
WAF Series
2 classes
Additional Advanced Courses
Advanced
WAF Series
20 classes
FREE
Getting Started
5 classes
FREE
BIG-IP Setup
BIG-IP Fundamentals
Advanced
Getting Started classes
Learn how proactively maintain and troubleshoot your BIG-IP systems with BIG-IP iHealth. (FREE)
Gain familiarity with how F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management helps you manage multiple BIG-IP devices. (FREE)
Getting Started with BIG-IQ
Learn how to mitigate DDoS and other web application vulnerabilities using F5 Silverline. (FREE)
Getting Started with F5 Silverline Services
Learn to implement/deploy the F5 DNS Load Balancer Cloud Server. (FREE)
Getting Started with F5 DNS Load Balancer
Learn about basic administrative activities on the F5 BIG-IP system and the basic building blocks needed to support application delivery. (FREE)
Getting Started with BIG-IP
Learn how to build a solution where corporate users’ access to the internet is controlled by F5 BIG-IP APM Secure Web Gateway. (FREE)
Getting Started with BIG-IP Secure Web Gateway (SWG)
Learn how to identify common threats to a web application, and create and deploy a web application security policy to mitigate common threats. (FREE)
Getting Started with F5 Advanced WAF
Learn how to implement the high availability feature, how to load balance web app traffic, how to use an iRule to customize traffic flow, and how to decrease existing server load using OneConnect. (FREE)
Getting Started with Local Traffic Manager (LTM)
Gain familiarity with the core features of F5 BIG-IP SSL Orchestrator. (FREE)
Getting Started with SSL Orchestrator (SSLO)
Gain familiarity with the core features of the F5 rSeries. (FREE)
Getting Started with rSeries
BIG-IP Fundamentals – BIG-IP Setup
Learn to configure device service clustering (DSC) communications settings, establish device trust, and establish a sync-failover group. (FREE)
BIG-IP Fundamentals: Creating a High Availability Deployment
Learn more about F5 solutions, including how BIG-IP supports application delivery. (FREE)
BIG-IP Fundamentals: Introducing F5 Solutions and the BIG-IP System
Learn how to set up a BIG-IP system, including configuring the management interface and port, activating the software license, provisioning modules and resources, and importing a device certificate. (FREE)
BIG-IP Fundamentals: Setting Up a Standalone BIG-IP System
Backup and restore BIG-IP system configuration data using a User Configuration Set (UCS). (FREE)
BIG-IP Fundamentals: Backing Up and Restoring BIG-IP Configuration Data System
Learn how you can improve the security of your BIG-IP system with system hardening and user monitoring. (FREE)
BIG-IP Fundamentals: Hardening the BIG-IP System
Advanced WAF – Fundamentals
Learn how to create and deploy an application security policy, including workflow explanations of both security policy properties and local traffic objects. $250 USD | 5 TUs
Advanced WAF: Deploying an Application Security Policy
Learn to tune and adjust a security policy after it has been deployed and is processing traffic, including staging, enforcement, and the process of learning. $450 USD | 9 TUs
Advanced WAF: Tuning an Application Security Policy and Managing Violations
Review HTTP communication, the components of a URL, and request and response methods, and key vulnerabilities in these systems that can be protected with F5 Advanced WAF. $100 USD | 2 TUs
Advanced WAF: Understanding Web Application Communication Elements
Learn about the inherent vulnerabilities of the web application delivery system, the OWASP Top 10, and how to protect against threats using F5 Advanced WAF. $100 USD | 2 TUs
Advanced WAF: Understanding Web Application Firewall Fundamentals
Advanced WAF – Mitigating Vulnerabilities, Attacks, and Threats
Learn how to deploy DataSafe to secure client-side data. $100 | 2TUs
Learn how to use Data Guard to mask sensitive data and prevent accidental exposure. $50 USD | 1 TU
Advanced WAF: Protecting Information Leakage with the Data Guard Feature
Learn about the elements of an attack signature, how F5 Advanced WAF uses attack signatures, and how to create your own custom attack signatures. $200 USD | 4 TUs
Advanced WAF: Mitigating Known Attacks and Threats
Learn how to choose and configure the right logging method for your needs, including providing proof of compliance with PCI security council standards. $250 USD | 5 TUs
Advanced WAF: Reporting and Logging
Learn how to use F5 Advanced WAF to define and enforce login pages, and how Advanced WAF can help mitigate brute force attacks. $500 USD | 10 TUs
Advanced WAF: Using the Login Enforcement, Brute Force Mitigation, and Session Tracking Features
Advanced WAF: Protecting Application Delivery on the Client with DataSafe
Advanced WAF – Defending Against Bots and Other Automated Attacks
Learn how to deploy DataSafe to secure client-side data. $100 | 2TUs
Advanced WAF: Protecting Application Delivery on the Client with DataSafe
Learn how to use Data Guard to mask sensitive data and prevent accidental exposure. $50 USD | 1 TU
Advanced WAF: Protecting Information Leakage with the Data Guard Feature
Learn the differences between common denial of service attacks and how Advanced WAF can be used to mitigate these attacks. $250 USD | 5 TUs
Advanced WAF: Applying Layer 7 DoS Protections
Get a detailed look at how F5 Advanced WAF classifies and verifies clients, including an overview of the bot defense workflow and reporting options.
$800 | 16 TUs
Advanced WAF: Deploying Advanced Bot Protections
BIG-IP Fundamentals – Local Traffic Basics
Learn how to monitor the health and performance of applications delivered through the BIG-IP system. $100 USD | 2 TUs
BIG-IP Fundamentals: Monitoring Application Health
Learn what profiles are and how they can be used to modify traffic behavior in support of application delivery. $100 USD | 2 TUs
BIG-IP Fundamentals: Modifying Traffic Behavior with Profiles
Learn the difference between the running configuration and stored configuration, and how changes made using TMSH and the Configuration utility impact configuration data. $100 USD | 2TUs
BIG-IP Fundamentals: Managing Configuration State and Files
Learn the functions provided by BIG-IP local traffic configuration objects, including virtual servers, pools, pool members, and nodes. $150 USD | 3TUs
BIG-IP Fundamentals: Understanding Local Traffic Processing
Learn how to use TMOS shell to perform administrative activities on a BIG-IP system. (FREE)
BIG-IP Fundamentals: Using the TMOS Shell (TMSH)
Explore how network address translation (NAT) and source network address translation (SNAT) can be used to enable client communication. $100 USD | 2TUs
BIG-IP Fundamentals: Using NAT and SNAT
Learn which application types require persistence and what persistent types are available on a BIG-IP system. $150 USD | 3 TUs
BIG-IP Fundamentals: Modifying Traffic Behavior with Persistence
BIG-IP Fundamentals – Administering BIG-IP
Review the permissions for different BIG-IP administrative user roles and learn how partitions modify access to configuration data. $100 | 2TUs
BIG-IP Fundamentals: Defining User Roles and Administrative Partitions
Learn how to plan, prepare for, and perform an upgrade to your BIG-IP system, including upgrading a sync-failover device group. (FREE)
BIG-IP Fundamentals: Upgrading a BIG-IP System
Maintain a good operating state and prepare for upgrades using iHealth. $50 USD | 1 TU
BIG-IP Fundamentals: Leveraging the BIG-IP iHealth System
Learn how to capture and analyze traffic information with TCPDUMP. (FREE)
BIG-IP Fundamentals: Using TCPDUMP on the BIG-IP System
Learn implementation techniques and best practices for using BIG-IP logging capabilities. $100 USD | 2TUs
BIG-IP Fundamentals: Configuring Logging
Configuring F5 Products
Learn to build, configure, and reset the BIG-IQ system, and review additional configuration options like high availability pairs, and multiple BIG-IP device clusters. $2000 USD | 40 TUs
Configuring BIG-IQ
Learn to deploy, tune, and operate SSL Orchestrator, covering multiple security device deployments in varying topologies. $2000 USD | 40 TUs
Configuring F5 SSL Orchestrator (SSLO)
In this course, you will review the chassis, hardware options, clustered multiprocessing (CMP), and virtual CMP (vCMP) deployment options. $300 | 6 TUs
Configuring BIG-IP on VIPRION
Learn about BIG-IP AFM, review the user interface, then complete a series of lab exercises that will teach you how configure your BIG-IP AFM system. $2150 USD | 43 TUs
Configuring BIG-IP AFM (Advanced Firewall Manager)
In this course, networking professionals learn to configure and manage BIG-IP DNS. $1900 USD | 38 TUs
Configuring BIG-IP DNS
Automating BIG-IP
Learn how to deploy DataSafe to secure client-side data. $100 | 2TUs
Advanced WAF: Protecting Application Delivery on the Client with DataSafe
Learn how to use Data Guard to mask sensitive data and prevent accidental exposure. $50 USD | 1 TU
Advanced WAF: Protecting Information Leakage with the Data Guard Feature
This course introduces network administrators, operators, and DevOps engineers to the F5-specific technologies required to automate BIG-IP.
$2000 USD | 40 TUs
Automating BIG-IP with Ansible
This course provides an end-to-end review of everything you need to automate BIG-IP with AS3, with hands-on labs for everything from Linux command line to onboarding BIG-IP. $2000 USD | 40 TUs
Automating BIG-IP with AS3
Digital Education Curriculum Bundles
This curriculum expands on our Digital Education: BIG-IP Fundamentals with a detailed review of local traffic management concepts and is the complete LTM set. $3100 USD | 62 TUs
Digital Education: Intelligently Managing Application Traffic with BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)
This curriculum bundle gives Application Security Administrators everything they need to secure applications using F5 Advanced WAF. $5000 | 100 TUs
Deploying F5 Advanced WAF
This complete set is aimed at BIG-IP administrators, this curriculum covers the setup and administration of the BIG-IP system for application delivery. $1000 USD | 20 TUs
Digital Education: BIG-IP Fundamentals
Get the complete set of our course offerings. $6750 USD | 135 TUs
Digital Education: All Access
Additional Core Courses
Learn about the different management roles and associated tasks needed to configure a VELOS chassis, partition, and tenant. $200 USD | 4 TUs
Setting Up VELOS
This course demonstrates how to setup the F5 rSeries platform. (FREE)
Setting Up rSeries
Review and expand on concepts associated with monitoring the health of application delivery resources in a BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) environment. $450 | 9 TUs
LTM: Monitoring Application Delivery Health
This course offers a detailed exploration of the most commonly used protocol, services, and persistence profiles. $900 USD | 18 TUs
LTM: Modifying Local Traffic Behavior with Profiles and Persistence
Explore local traffic management concepts in more detail with hands-on labs to demonstrate key concepts. $900 USD | 18 TUs
LTM: Building on Local Traffic Basics
Advanced WAF Series: Additional Deployment Options
Review the iRule configuration workflow and explore common uses for iRules in F5 Advanced WAF. $250 USD | 5 TUs
Advanced WAF: Using iRules with an Application Security Policy
Learn how to configure F5 Advanced WAF to allow or disallow HTTP requests from different locations. $150 | 3 TUs
Advanced WAF: Implementing Geolocation Enforcement and IP Address Exceptions
Create a security policy for a single page application and then test its effectiveness using F5-supplied attack signatures. $250 USD | 5 TUs
Advanced WAF: Securing a Modern Single Page Application
Learn how to apply attack signatures to parameters as part of an overall security stance. $250 USD | 5 TUs
Advanced WAF: Protecting Parameters from Tampering
Learn which policy building processes can be automated and how automatic policy building can create an accurate policy over time. $100 | 2 TUs
Advanced WAF: Using Automatic Policy Building
Learn the differences between positive and negative security and how to build and enforce a positive security policy using Advanced WAF. $350 USD | 7 TUs
Advanced WAF: Building an Application Security Policy Using a Positive Security Model
Learn about proprietary cookies used by F5 Advanced WAF and how Advanced WAF protects against header-based attacks. $350 USD | 7 TUs
Advanced WAF: Securing System Cookies and HTTP Headers
Learn how to create a baseline, blueprint policy, create parent and child policies, and configure protection settings that pass from parent policy to child policy. $100 USD | 2 TUs
Advanced WAF: Deploying Layered Application Security Policies
Learn how to import a vulnerability scan from Qualys and build a security policy using data from the scan. $50 | 1 TU
Advanced WAF: Integrating Web Application Vulnerability Scanning
Learn how to create local traffic policies based on granular attributes so security processing only is activated under specific, pre-set conditions. $50 USD | 1 TU
Advanced WAF: Using Local Traffic Policies to Selectively Apply Application Security Protections
5 courses
Additional Core Courses
Advanced WAF
Additional Advanced Courses
Explore the use of iRules and local traffic policies to customize the way applications are delivered through the BIG-IP system. $600 USD | 12 TUs
LTM: Additional BIG-IP Deployment Options
Learn how to manage F5 products from a centralized point using BIG-IQ.
$1800 USD | 36 TUs
Managing BIG-IP Products with BIG-IQ
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Configuring
F5 VIPRION
Setting Up F5 Advanced WAF
Troubleshooting BIG-IP
Configuring
BIG-IP DNS
Configuring
BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)
Configuring
BIG-IQ
Configuring F5 Advanced WAF
Configuring
F5 SSL Orchestrator
Administering BIG-IP
Automating
BIG-IP with Ansible
Automating
BIG-IP with
AS3
Configuring
BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM)
Advanced WAF
Configuring
BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)
Core
Advanced
Developing iRules
for BIG-IP
F5 BIG-IP/BIG-IQ
Self-Directed Training
F5 BIG-IP/BIG-IQ
Instructor-Led Training
F5 NGINX
Instructor-Led Training
F5 NGINX
Self-Directed Training
F5 BIG-IP/BIG-IQ
Self-Directed Training
F5 (BIG-IP/BIG-IQ) Instructor-Led Training
F5 NGINX
Instructor-Led Training
F5 NGINX
Self-Directed Training
Core Level: Administering BIG-IP
This course introduces students to the BIG-IP system, its configuration objects, how it processes traffic, and how typical administrative and operational activities are performed.
This course introduces network administrators, operators, and DevOps engineers to the F5-specific technologies required to automate BIG-IP.
Automating BIG-IP with Ansible
This course introduces network administrators, operators, and DevOps engineers to the F5-specific technologies required to automate BIG-IP.
Automating BIG-IP with AS3
Learn about BIG-IP Access Policy Manager, its configuration objects, how it is commonly deployed, and how typical administrative and operational activities are performed.
Configuring BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM)
Get real-time experience setting up and configuring the BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager system.
Configuring BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)
In this course, networking professionals learn to configure and manage BIG-IP DNS.
Configuring BIG-IP DNS
Gain a functional understanding of both common and advanced BIG-IP LTM features and functionality.
Configuring BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)
Build, configure, and administer a BIG-IQ system in this hands-on class.
Configuring BIG-IQ
Learn about the F5 Advanced Web Application Firewall tools and how you can use those tools detect and mitigate threats from multiple attack vectors.
Configuring F5 Advanced WAF
In this course, you will review the chassis, hardware options, clustered multiprocessing (CMP), and virtual CMP (vCMP) deployment options.
Configuring F5 VIPRION
Identify and mitigate client- and application-side vulnerabilities and learn how you can use F5 Advanced WAF to quickly configure advanced protection against common layer 7 vulnerabilities.
Setting Up F5 Advanced WAF
Learn troubleshooting techniques and tools in this hands-on examination of how to troubleshoot a BIG-IP system.
Troubleshooting BIG-IP
Learn how to logically plan and write iRules to aid in the monitoring and management of common BIG-IP traffic processing tasks.
Developing iRules for BIG-IP
Learn to deploy, tune, and operate SSL Orchestrator to optimize the SSL infrastructure.
Configuring F5 SSL Orchestrator
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