FCP-FortiGate 7.6 Administrator Training Part 1/2 | Udemy

Course Description:

Are you ready to master FortiGate firewalls and earn your FCP – FortiGate 7.6 Administrator certification?

This course is designed to take you from foundational concepts to advanced configurations, using real-world scenarios and hands-on labs. Whether you’re an IT professional, network engineer, or cybersecurity student, this course will give you the skills and confidence to deploy, manage, and troubleshoot FortiGate devices running FortiOS 7.6.

You’ll learn how to set up FortiGate firewalls in EVE-NG for your own lab environment, ensuring practical, job-ready knowledge every step of the way. Through step-by-step guidance, we’ll cover everything from basic policy creation to VPNs, high availability, and threat protection features like antivirus, IPS, and application control.

By the end of this course, you will be fully prepared to take the Fortinet Certified Professional (FCP) – FortiGate 7.6 Administrator exam and apply your skills confidently in real-world networks.

FortiGate Administrator Certification:

I recommend this course for network and security professionals who are involved in the day-to-day management, implementation, and administration of a security infrastructure using FortiGate devices.

Course Description:

In this course, you will learn how to use the most common FortiGate features. In interactive labs, you will explore firewall policies, user authentication, high availability, SSL VPN, site-to-site IPsec VPN, Fortinet Security Fabric, and how to protect your network using security profiles, such as IPS, antivirus, web filtering, application control, and more. These administration fundamentals will provide you with a solid understanding of how to implement the most common FortiGate features.

Agenda:

01. System and Network Settings

02. Firewall Policies and NAT

03. Routing

04. Firewall Authentication

05. Fortinet Single Sign-On (FSSO)

06. Certificate Operations

07. Antivirus

08. Web Filtering

09. IPS and Application Control

10. SSL VPN

11. IPsec VPN

12. SD-WAN Configuration & Monitoring

13. Security Fabric

14. High Availability

15. Diagnostics and Troubleshooting

Certification:
This course is intended to help you prepare for the FCP – FortiGate 7.6 Administrator exam. This exam is part of the following certification tracks:

o Fortinet Certified Professional – Network Security

o Fortinet Certified Professional – Public Cloud Security

o Fortinet Certified Professional – Security Operations

Product Versions:

FortiOS 7.6

Objectives:
After completing this course, you will be able to:

o Configure FortiGate basic networking from factory default settings

o Configure and control administrator access to FortiGate

o Use the GUI and CLI for administration

o Control network access to configured networks using firewall policies

o Apply port forwarding, source NAT, and destination NAT

o Analyze a FortiGate route table

o Route packets using policy-based and static routes for multi-path and load-balanced

o Authenticate users using firewall policies

o Monitor firewall users from the FortiGate GUI

o Offer Fortinet Single Sign-On (FSSO) access to network services, integrated with AD

o Understand encryption functions and certificates

o Inspect SSL/TLS-secured traffic to prevent encryption used to bypass security policies

o Configure security profiles including viruses, torrents, and inappropriate websites

o Apply application control techniques to monitor and control network applications

o Offer an SSL VPN for secure access to your private network

o Establish an IPsec VPN tunnel between two FortiGate devices

o Divide FortiGate into two or more virtual devices, (VDOMs)

o Configure static routing

o Configure SD-WAN to load balance traffic between multiple WAN links effectively

o Identify the characteristics of the Fortinet Security Fabric

o Deploy FortiGate devices as an HA cluster for fault tolerance and high performance

o Diagnose and correct common problems

Who This Course is For:

• Network/security professionals aiming for FCP certification
• Students and IT admins seeking hands-on FortiGate experience
• Anyone interested in Fortinet firewall technologies