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Which techology can be used on a BIG-IP device to accelerate the delivery of the same content to multiple user?
The correct answer is D. caching. Caching on BIG-IP accelerates delivery of the same content to multiple users by storing responses locally and serving them without contacting origin servers on each request.
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Which techology can be used on a BIG-IP device to accelerate the delivery of the same content to multiple user?
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- Apersistence
- BSSL offloading
- CCompression
- Dcaching
How the community answered
(39 responses)- A3% (1)
- B5% (2)
- C3% (1)
- D90% (35)
Why each option
Caching on BIG-IP accelerates delivery of the same content to multiple users by storing responses locally and serving them without contacting origin servers on each request.
Persistence (sticky sessions) ensures a specific client is repeatedly sent to the same backend server, but it does not store or reuse content - each request still reaches the server.
SSL offloading moves TLS handshake and decryption processing from backend servers to the BIG-IP, reducing server CPU usage but not storing or reusing content for multiple users.
Compression reduces the byte size of HTTP responses in transit to save bandwidth, but every request still triggers a fresh response from the origin server rather than serving cached content.
BIG-IP RAM Cache and disk-based caching store HTTP responses from backend servers so that identical subsequent requests from any user are served directly from the cache. This directly accelerates delivery of the same content to multiple users while reducing backend server load and round-trip latency. The other options process individual connections but do not reuse stored content across multiple users.
Concept tested: BIG-IP HTTP content caching for multi-user acceleration
Source: https://techdocs.f5.com/en-us/bigip-14-0-0/big-ip-local-traffic-manager-implementations/caching-frequently-requested-web-content.html
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