Course Overview
In this course, you will learn how to configure and administer the most commonly used features of FortiADC. You will explore Layer 4 and Layer 7 server load balancing, link load balancing, global load balancing, high availability (HA), firewall policies, advanced routing, and more.
This course is intended to help participants prepare for the NSE 6 FortiADC certification exam
Who should attend
Anyone who is responsible for day-to-day management of a FortiADC VM or hardware device.
Prerequisites
- TCP/IP networking experience
- Basic understanding of web applications
System Requirements- If you take the online version of this class, you must have a computer with:
- A high-speed Internet connection
- An up-to-date web browser
- Speakers or headphones
- One of the following:
- HTML 5 support
- An up-to-date Java Runtime Environment (JRE) with the Java Plugin enabled in your web browser
- You should use a wired Ethernet connection, not a Wi-Fi connection. Firewalls, including Windows Firewall or FortiClient, must allow connections to the online labs.
Course Objectives
After completing this course, candidates will be able to:
- Describe the advanced load balancing features of FortiADC VM or hardware platforms
- Deploy FortiADC
- Intelligently distribute traffic among multiple servers based on the content of the TCP or HTTP layer
- Automatically route the traffic to another server if a problem is detected
- Load balance inbound & outbound traffic among multiple redundant Internet uplinks
- Distribute traffic among data centers in different geographical locations
- Improve performance by offloading compression, and encryption and decryption of SSL/TLS traffic to FortiADC
- Protect your servers from connection attempts coming from malicious IP addresses
- Implement HA for failover protection
- Harden the network by using security features on FortiADC
- Leverage the REST API
Outline: FortiADC - NSE 6 (FORTIADC)
- 1. Introduction and Initial Configuration
- 2. Virtual Servers and Load Balancing
- 3. Advanced Server Load Balancing
- 4. Link Load Balancing and Advanced Networking
- 5. Global Load Balancing
- 6. Security
- 7. Advanced Configurations
- 8. Monitoring, Troubleshooting, and System Maintenance