F5 Cloud Solutions (402) Certification Sample Questions

02. An application is being modernised so that it can consume managed platform services and scale its components independently. The business accepts a longer programme and a substantial amount of code change. Which migration approach fits those constraints?
a) Repurchasing, which retires the application in favour of a subscription product and forfeits its customisations
b) Rehosting, which relocates the workload unchanged and leaves its internal architecture exactly as it was
c) Replatforming, which makes limited targeted changes without redesigning how the components fit together
d) Refactoring, which reworks the application's components so they can consume platform services natively

03. One deployment template is used for development, test and production, and the three environments differ in size and naming. Which design principle keeps that arrangement manageable?
a) Hard-code the production values into the template, and edit them by hand each time it is used for the other environments.
b) Fork the template once per environment, and keep the three copies aligned by hand as changes are made to any of them.
c) Keep a single template and supply the environment differences as input values, so the logic stays identical everywhere.
d) Build each environment from its own procedure document, so environment-specific detail never enters the template at all.

04. A cloud platform lets application teams request delivery services themselves and receive them within minutes, without raising a request with the infrastructure team. What must the platform's design provide for that to remain sustainable?
a) A larger pool of standing capacity, sized well above the highest request rate observed
b) A published service catalogue with enforced limits, so self-service requests stay inside agreed capacity
c) A weekly review meeting at which the infrastructure team reconciles the requests already granted
d) A separate platform for each requesting team, keeping their configurations wholly independent of one another

05. Which design property lets a cloud environment add application delivery capacity automatically as traffic demand rises?
a) An elastic design whose capacity tracks demand
b) A statically provisioned design sized for the historical peak demand of the application
c) A dedicated appliance design sized for the contracted maximum throughput rate
d) A manually provisioned design changed through the normal change window

06. Application services in a cloud estate are currently created by engineers working through a request queue, and configurations have diverged noticeably between environments. What is the primary architectural argument for placing that work under orchestration?
a) Engineers move through the request queue faster, so the same manual build steps are completed in less elapsed time
b) Each environment is built from the same declared definition, so service and policy configuration are enforced identically rather than rebuilt per request
c) The platform needs fewer instances overall, so licence and infrastructure spend falls as environments are consolidated
d) Differences are detected sooner, so drift between environments is reported to operators shortly after each build completes and can be corrected retrospectively

07. Which consideration matters most when migrating an application whose components make frequent database calls?
a) Data consistency guarantees and the latency between the application tier and its database
b) Link bandwidth between the sites and the compression and deduplication applied to replicated traffic
c) Desktop operating system versions and the browser mix used by end users
d) Instance family selection and the block storage attached to the application database

08. A design distributes traffic across a pool of application servers inside one cloud region, with per-connection health checking and session persistence, while a separate mechanism steers users between regions. Which module role covers the in-region part of that design?
a) Subscriber policy enforcement (PEM), which classifies flows by subscriber rather than by application pool
b) DNS-based global traffic management (BIG-IP DNS), which resolves a user toward a site rather than toward a server
c) Network firewalling (AFM), which enforces layer 3 and layer 4 policy rather than selecting a destination server
d) Local traffic management (LTM), which selects among servers at one site and tracks the health of each pool member

09. Provisioning a delivery instance in a cloud environment touches several systems: the network must exist before the instance, and the instance must be licensed before its service configuration is applied. Which layer is responsible for enforcing that ordering across the systems involved?
a) An orchestration workflow that calls each system in turn and waits for each dependency
b) A configuration template that describes the desired state of one system in isolation
c) A monitoring policy that observes each system and raises an alert when a step is missed
d) A scheduling window agreed with the teams and executed as a sequence of manual tasks

10. Deploying an application delivery service involves several dependent steps that must run in a set order across more than one system. Which orchestration capability addresses that requirement?
a) A device template that renders one system's configuration, and applies it on request
b) A monitoring policy that observes each system, and raises an alert when a step fails
c) A workflow definition that sequences the steps, and handles dependency and failure between them
d) A scheduled job that reruns the same command set on every system, and reports what it changed