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Fortinet Certified Network Security Professional Roadmap to Success

Definition

Individuals with the FCNSP designation need to have a solid understanding of the installation and configuration requirements of all FortiGate features and functionality. FCNSP's are expected to be able to configure multiple FortiGates taking advantage of features for large-scale environments such as HA and redundant VPNs. In addition to FortiGate devices Fortinet Certified Network Security Professionals must have a good working knowledge of other Fortinet products such as FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer.

Preparation

Fortinet provides a number of resources ranging from white papers, to classroom training courses, in order to assist candidates in their pursuit of Fortinet Certification. The following steps represent the suggested approach to obtaining the Fortinet Certified Network Security Professional designation:

Highly Recommmended Read the following documents available from the Fortinet website: Product Datasheets http://www.fortinet.com/products/ FortiGuard Subscription Services http://www.fortinet.com/doc/ServiceDS.pdf The Life of a Packet: Whitepaper http://kc.forticare.com/default.asp?id=721 SOHO and SMB Firewall Configuration Example Guide http://kc.forticare.com/default.asp?id=426 FortiGate VLANs & VDOMs Guide: http://kc.forticare.com/default.asp?id=207 FortiGate HA Overview: http://kc.forticare.com/default.asp?id=775 Keep up to date with the latest Fortinet Knowledgebase articles http://kc.forticare.com/ Be familiar with the information in your FortiGate Installation Guide and your FortiGate Administration Guide. Attend course # 201 FortiGate Multi-Threat Security Systems I - Administration and Content Inspection Attend course # 301 FortiGate Multi-Threat Security Systems II - Secured Network Deployment & Virtual Private Networks      Mandatory Successfully complete the FCNSA exam (exam number FCNSA-2V0) Successfully complete the FCNSP exam (exam number FCNSP-2V0X)