101 · Question #336
Administrators can configure which three of the following load balancing options in GTM? (Choose three.)
The correct answer is A. Alternate B. Fallback D. Preferred. GTM Wide IPs support three ordered load balancing tiers - Preferred, Alternate, and Fallback - which provide a cascading approach to DNS-based load balancing and failover.
Question
Administrators can configure which three of the following load balancing options in GTM? (Choose three.)
Options
- AAlternate
- BFallback
- CRequired
- DPreferred
- EBackup
- FOptional
How the community answered
(38 responses)- A95% (36)
- C3% (1)
- E3% (1)
Why each option
GTM Wide IPs support three ordered load balancing tiers - Preferred, Alternate, and Fallback - which provide a cascading approach to DNS-based load balancing and failover.
Alternate is one of the three valid load balancing options on a GTM Wide IP, used when the Preferred method cannot return a result.
Fallback is the third valid tier, acting as a last-resort load balancing method when both Preferred and Alternate methods fail to return a usable resource.
Required is not a named load balancing tier in GTM Wide IP configuration; GTM uses Preferred, Alternate, and Fallback as its three tiers.
Preferred is the primary load balancing method configured on a Wide IP and is the first method GTM attempts when resolving a DNS query.
Backup is not a valid GTM load balancing tier name; the three valid options are Preferred, Alternate, and Fallback.
Optional is not a valid GTM load balancing option; it does not correspond to any of the three configurable tiers on a Wide IP object.
Concept tested: GTM Wide IP Preferred Alternate Fallback load balancing tiers
Source: https://techdocs.f5.com/en-us/bigip-17-1-0/big-ip-dns-implementations/load-balancing-modes-for-wide-ips.html
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