Course overview
Build your Citrix ADC knowledge and skills by enrolling in this five-day course.
It covers Citrix ADC essentials– platforms, architecture, licensing and functionality
– and also focuses on traffic management, including content switching, traffic
optimization and global server load balancing (GSLB). You will learn about key ADC
capabilities such as high availability, security and performance, and explore SSL
offload, load balancing and monitoring. The traffic management curriculum will
cover the AppExpert policy engine, the Rewrite and Responder features, and
Content Switching

Course Description

Module 1: Getting Started
• Introduction to Citrix ADC
• Feature and Platform Overview
• Deployment Options
• Architectural Overview
• Setup and Management

Module 2: Basic Networking
• Networking Topology
• Citrix ADC Components
• Routing
• Access Control Lists

Module 3: ADC Platforms
• Citrix ADC MPX
• Citrix ADC VPX
• Citrix ADC CPX
• Citrix ADC SDX
• Citrix ADC BLX

Module 4: High Availability
• Citrix ADC High Availability
• High Availability Configuration
• Managing High Availability
• In Service Software Upgrade
• Troubleshooting High Availability

Module 5: Load balancing
• Load Balancing Overview
• Load Balancing Methods and Monitors
• Load Balancing Traffic Types
• Load Balancing Protection
• Priority Load Balancing
• Load Balancing Troubleshooting

Module 6: SSL Offloading
• SSL Overview
• SSL Configuration
• SSL Offload
• Troubleshooting SSL Offload
• SSL Vulnerabilities and Protections

Module 7: Security
• Authentication, Authorization, and Auditing
• Configuring External Authentication
• Admin Partitions

Module 8: Monitoring and Troubleshooting
• Citrix ADC Logging
• Monitoring with SNMP
• Reporting and Diagnostics
• AppFlow Functions
• Citrix Application Delivery Management
• Troubleshooting

Module 9: Advanced Policies
• Default Policy Overview
• Default Expression Syntax
• Policy Bindings
• AppExpert Additional Features

Module 10: Rewrite Responder URL
Transformation
• Rewrite Policies
• Responder Policies
• DNS Rewrite and Responder
• URL Transformation

Module 11: Content Switching
• Content Switching Overview
• Content Switching Configuration

Module 12: Optimization
• Citrix ADC Optimization Overview
• HTTP Compression
• Integrated Caching
• Front-End Optimization

Module 13: Global Server Load Balancing
• GSLB Overview
• GSLB Architecture
• Content-Switching GSLB
• GSLB MEP and Monitoring
• Customizing GSLB