F5 Load Balancer - Interview

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F5 LOAD BALANCER

Interview Questions

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Category

Category 1 : Based on Theory


Category 2 : Based on Real Time

Versions

Ver1.0 24 Aug 2017


Category 1

Based on Theory
Questions

Q) What is VIP, Pool, Pool Member, Node, Services?

Q) What is SSL Off Loading? What are the steps to perform SSL Off Loading?

Q) What is One Connect?

Q) What is I-Rule? Is it predefined or we need to define?

Q) What is SNAT? What are the steps to configure SNAT?

Q) What do we mean by Auto NAT, Source NAT and Double NAT?

Q) What is HTTP Inspection?

Q) What is Cookie Load Balancing ?

Q) What is Persistence ?

Q) What is difference between Persistent and QoS Cookie policy in array network loadbalancer?

Q) What is Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) ?

Q) What is the purpose of LTM, GTM and APM?

Q) Explain Health check perfomed by F5 ?

Q) What is the purpose of Traffic Management shell ?

Q) What do we mean by Self IP ?

Q) What is the full and half proxy in F5


Category 2

Based on Real Time


Questions

Q) From Core switch, if unable to ping the VIP assigned to Load Balancer. How to troubleshoot ?

Q) Consider Railway ticket booking scenario,


If we try to book lot of tickets from same IP booking is not allowed.
It means Load Balancer will identify the Source IP and then restrict the number of ticket bookings.
But actually Load Balancer performs the SNAT which simply hides the User IP.
So How user is identfied and restricted from multiple bookings?

Q) I-Rule should be implemented on VIP or Pool?

Q) What all are the models you have worked upon?

Q) Explain the Deployment setup of F5 in your current network?

Q) How to troubleshoot if F5 stops doing load balancing for few applications?

Q) What should be the default gateway when reverse traffic is passing from Server to the User ?

Q) How many TCP connections are formed in below connectivity ?


Connectivity : Client ------ Load Balancer ------- Servers
Case 1 - SNAT is enabled on Load Balancer
Case 2 – SNAT is not enabled on Load Balancer

Q) Can we perform Load Balancing based on Node (like Server IP - 172.10.1.1 ) ?

Q) Can we perform Load Balancing based on Services (like Server IP and Port - 172.10.1.1:80 ) ?

Q) How many Physical and Virtual Interfaces are present on Load Balancer?

Q) What is the impact of Asymmetric Routing over F5?

Q) If we want to direct traffic coming from Country 1 to server A and traffic coming from Country 2 to
server B and rest of the traffic to server C. How to achieve this?

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