FCP FortiGate Administrator case studies
FCP FortiGate Administrator · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The FCP in FortiGate Administrator is a professional-level certification from Fortinet's certification program, aimed at network and security professionals who deploy, configure, and administer FortiGate next-generation firewalls running FortiOS. It is intended for administrators who already understand core networking and security concepts and want a credential that reflects hands-on operational skill with FortiGate appliances rather than vendor-neutral theory. The FCP FortiGate Administrator case studies are 5 cases and about 1,962 words.
1Overlapping Subnets After Branch Acquisition
Your FortiGate (FGT-HQ) has an internal interface on 10.10.0.0/16 and a site-to-site IPsec tunnel to a newly acquired branch whose LAN is also 10.10.0.0/16. The branch FortiGate advertises its LAN over the tunnel.
447 words, about 2 min2SSL Inspection Breaking a Business App
You enable a certificate-inspection (deep) SSL profile on the outbound policy for the Sales department. Within an hour, the ticketing SaaS app fails to load, mobile users report certificate errors, and an internal Java client that pins certificates stops authenticating.
395 words, about 2 min3Intermittent VPN Drops Under Load
A dial-up IPsec VPN for 40 remote workers drops randomly during business hours. Logs show 'IPsec phase 2 negotiation' repeats and some tunnels re-establish every few minutes.
390 words, about 2 min4Guest Wi-Fi Users Bypassing the Captive Portal
You deploy a captive portal on the guest SSID. Authentication is local-user with a shared guest account, portal on the guest interface, and a policy allowing guest- WAN only after auth.
385 words, about 2 min5Log Volume Overwhelming the Disk
A FortiGate 100F with a 480 GB SSD is filling its local disk every ~10 days. Logs show the majority is forward-traffic logs from a busy web server VLAN (about 60% of volume), plus UTM logs from an IPS profile set to block+log on all signatures.
345 words, about 2 min