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Configuring BIG-IP AFM

Advanced Firewall Manager

Durée2 daysFormatÀ distance ou en présentielPublished versionNot stated publicly

À propos de ce cours

Advanced Firewall Manager adds a high-performance, data-centre-grade network firewall to BIG-IP, built to protect the network layer in front of applications. This course covers configuring AFM firewall rules and policies, the order in which they are evaluated, and how AFM works with the traffic-processing objects of LTM. It addresses network-layer DoS and DDoS protection, IP Intelligence, and logging and reporting, building the skill to defend the network perimeter of an application delivery environment.

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Prerequisites

  • F5's course page states no formal prerequisite.

Certification relevance

Not exam-specific

F5's public certification list (education.f5.com, read 25 October 2026) has no credential specific to this product. The course builds operational skill rather than preparing for a particular exam.

No course awards a certification by itself: a credential comes only from passing the vendor's exam or assessment.

Recommended next course

No fixed next course.

F5 publishes no fixed course to follow this one. The module courses build on the same BIG-IP base, so the next course is the one for the module your team runs.

Course outline (summary)

  1. 01Setting up the BIG-IP system
  2. 02Introducing Advanced Firewall Manager
  3. 03Network firewall rules and policies
  4. 04Rule evaluation and ordering
  5. 05Network address translation with AFM
  6. 06Detecting and mitigating DoS and DDoS
  7. 07Using IP Intelligence
  8. 08Logging, reporting and monitoring

This outline is a summary in my own words, not the vendor's agenda. The official outline is the vendor's own page: Configuring BIG-IP AFM: Advanced Firewall Manager.

F5's course page publishes the description and objectives (and the online edition's running time), not a module list or a courseware version.

Vendor course identifier: F5-TRG-BIG-AFM-CFG-SDT

Source read on 25 octobre 2026: verified.

Last successful verification of this course: 25 octobre 2026.

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