101 · Question #106
Which three can be a part of a pool's definition? (Choose three.)
The correct answer is B. Monitors D. Persistence F. Virtual Servers. A GTM pool's definition includes monitors for health checking, persistence for session continuity, and virtual servers as the actual load-balanced endpoints that receive client traffic.
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Which three can be a part of a pool's definition? (Choose three.)
Options
- ALink
- BMonitors
- CWide IPs
- DPersistence
- EData Centers
- FVirtual Servers
How the community answered
(22 responses)- A5% (1)
- B86% (19)
- E9% (2)
Why each option
A GTM pool's definition includes monitors for health checking, persistence for session continuity, and virtual servers as the actual load-balanced endpoints that receive client traffic.
Links are separate top-level GTM objects used for inbound link load balancing and are not components defined within a pool.
Monitors are assigned to pools to continuously verify the health and availability of the virtual servers within the pool, ensuring GTM only sends traffic to responsive resources.
Wide IPs reference pools in their own definitions; the relationship is one-directional and pools do not contain Wide IPs.
Persistence settings within a pool allow GTM to maintain client-to-resource affinity, directing repeat requests from the same client to the same virtual server across DNS queries.
Data Centers are top-level GTM container objects that organize servers and virtual servers, but they are not included as components within a pool's definition.
Virtual servers are the primary members of a GTM pool, representing the actual application endpoints - often hosted on LTM devices across data centers - that receive distributed client traffic.
Concept tested: F5 GTM pool definition required and optional components
Source: https://techdocs.f5.com/en-us/bigip-14-1-0/big-ip-dns-implementations/managing-big-ip-dns-pools.html
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