FT-FOS FortiOS Administrator (NSE4)

This course will help:
  • Gain fundamental administration skills to implement FortiGate features effectively
  • Explore firewall policies, user authentication, and high availability
  • Understand logging and monitoring on FortiGate
  • Deploy FortiGate in the cloud and use FortiSASE
  • Prepare for the Fortinet NSE 4 certification exam

Course syllabus:

  • System and Network Settings
  • Logging and Monitoring
  • Firewall Policies and NAT
  • Routing
  • Firewall Authentication
  • Fortinet Single Sign-On (FSSO)
  • Certificate Operations
  • Antivirus
  • Web Filtering
  • Intrusion Prevention and Application Control
  • IPsec VPN
  • SD-WAN Configuration and Monitoring
  • High Availability
  • Diagnostics and Troubleshooting
  • FortiGate in the Cloud
  • FortiSASE

You will learn:

  • Configure FortiGate basic networking from factory default settings
  • Configure and control administrator access to FortiGate
  • Use the GUI and CLI for administration
  • Describe methods of device registration
  • View and search for logs on FortiGate and FortiAnalyzer
  • Configure IPv4 firewall policies
  • Apply port forwarding, source NAT, and destination NAT
  • Analyze a FortiGate route table
  • Configure static routing
  • Implement route redundancy and load balancing
  • Configure a remote LDAP and RADIUS authentication server on FortiGate
  • Monitor firewall users from the FortiGate GUI
  • Deploy Fortinet Single Sign-On (FSSO) access to network services, integrated with Microsoft Active Directory (AD)
  • Describe encryption functions and certificates
  • Describe SSL inspection on FortiGate
  • Configure security profiles to neutralize threats and misuse, including viruses, torrents, and inappropriate websites
  • Apply application control techniques to monitor and control network applications that might use standard or non-standard protocols and ports
  • Configure IPsec VPN using the IPsec wizard and manual process
  • Configure SD-WAN and verify traffic distribution
  • Identify the primary and secondary device tasks in an HA cluster
  • Identify the different operation modes for HA with the FortiGate Clustering Protocol (FGCP)
  • Diagnose and correct common problems
  • Identify FortiGate VM and FortiGate CNF in the cloud
  • Identify FortiSASE and various FortiSASE use cases

Pre-requisites:

This course assumes that participants are familiar with the following topics:

  • Knowledge of network protocols 
  • Basic understanding of firewall concepts 
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