FortiGate Administrator (FCP Exam prep)

Objectives

After completing this course, you will be able to:

• Configure FortiGate basic networking from factory default settings
• Configure and control administrator access to FortiGate
• Use the GUI and CLI for administration
• Control network access to configured networks using firewall policies
• Apply port forwarding, source NAT, and destination NAT
• Analyze a FortiGate route table
• Route packets using policy-based and static routes for multi-path and load-balanced deployments
• Authenticate users using firewall policies
• Monitor firewall users from the FortiGate GUI
• Offer Fortinet Single Sign-On (FSSO) access to network services, integrated with Microsoft Active Directory (AD)
• Understand encryption functions and certificates
• Inspect SSL/TLS-secured traffic to prevent encryption used to bypass security policies
• 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
• Offer an SSL VPN for secure access to your private network
• Establish an IPsec VPN tunnel between two FortiGate devices
• Configure static routing
• Configure SD-WAN underlay, overlay, and local breakout
• Identify the characteristics of the Fortinet Security Fabric
• Deploy FortiGate devices as an HA cluster for fault tolerance and high performance
• Diagnose and correct common problems

Outline

1. System and Network Settings
2. Firewall Policies and NAT
3. Routing
4. Firewall Authentication
5. Fortinet Single Sign-On (FSSO)
6. Certificate Operations
7. Antivirus
8. Web Filtering
9. Intrusion Prevention and Application Control
10. SSL VPN
11. IPsec VPN
12. SD-WAN Configuration and Monitoring
13. Security Fabric
14. High Availability
15. Diagnostics and Troubleshooting