Description
Who should attend
The primary target audiences for the bootcamp are:
- Networking and security professionals involved in the management, configuration, administration, and monitoring of FortiGate devices used to secure their organizations’ networks should attend this workshop.
- This workshop is intended for students who have some experience operating FortiGate devices and want to refresh their skills.
- This workshop is ideal for students who have already taken the NSE 4 FortiGate Security and NSE 4 FortiGate Infrastructure courses, or who have equivalent working experience, and want to get more hands-on lab practice before taking the NSE 4 Certification Exam.
Prerequisites
Students should have already taken the following courses:
- Knowledge of network protocols
- Basic understanding of firewall concepts
Outline: Fortinet NSE 4 Partner Bootcamp (NSE4-PBC)
Successful candidates of the NSE4 Certification Exam will have applied knowledge and skills in the following areas and tasks:
- FortiGate deployment
- Perform initial configuration
- Implement the Fortinet Security Fabric
- Configure log settings and diagnose problems using the logs
- Describe and configure VDOMs to split a FortiGate into multiple virtual devices
- Identify and configure different operation modes for an FGCP HA cluster
- Diagnose resource and connectivity problems
- Firewall and authentication
- Identify and configure how firewall policy NAT and central NAT works
- Identify and configure different methods of firewall authentication
- Explain FSSO deployment and configuration
- Content inspection
- Describe and inspect encrypted traffic using certificates
- Identify FortiGate inspection modes and configure web and DNS filtering
- Configure application control to monitor and control network applications
- Explain and configure antivirus scanning modes to neutralize malware threats
- Configure IPS, DoS, and WAF to protect the network from hacking and DDoS attacks
- Routing and Layer 2 switching
- Configure and route packets using static and policy-based routes
- Configure SD-WAN to load balance traffic between multiple WAN links effectively
- Configure FortiGate interfaces or VDOMs to operate as Layer 2 devices
- VPN
- Configure and implement different SSL-VPN modes to provide secure access to the private network
- Implement a meshed or partially redundant IPsec VPN
