Exam F5CAB4 Topic 8 Question 63 Discussion

Actual exam question for F5's F5CAB4 exam
Question #: 63
Topic #: 8
A BIG-IP Administrator reviews the Plane CPU Usage performance chart and discovers a high percentage of Control Plane utilization. Which type of traffic does this indicate a higher usage of?

Suggested Answer: A Vote an answer

F5 architecture distinguishes between the Data Plane (TMM processing application traffic) and the Control Plane (Linux host processing management tasks). High Control Plane CPU utilization typically points to administrative activities such as heavy GUI usage, complex API calls (iControl), large-scale configuration synchronizations, or intensive logging/monitoring tasks rather than the actual switching or load balancing of application data.

by Polly at Apr 16, 2026, 03:12 AM

Comments

Chosen Answer:
This is a voting comment (?) , you can switch to a simple comment.
Switch to a voting comment New
Nick name: Submit Cancel
A voting comment increases the vote count for the chosen answer by one.

Upvoting a comment with a selected answer will also increase the vote count towards that answer by one. So if you see a comment that you already agree with, you can upvote it instead of posting a new comment.

0
0
0
10