FortiOS Administrator - FG01

This course will help:

Gain fundamental administration skills to implement the most common FortiGate features effectively
Configure firewall policies, user authentication, and high availability
Manage logging and monitoring on FortiGate
Configure site-to-site IPsec VPN, FortiGate in the cloud, and FortiSASE
Prepare for the Fortinet NSE 4 certification exam

Pre-requisites:

This course assumes that participants are familiar with the following topics:
Knowledge of network protocols<
Basic understanding of firewall concepts

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