This week I spent with my foot in my mouth after last week’s post included me going on and on about how I didn’t know what to fill the next 2 weeks with to finish our the SD-WAN phase. Turns out there’s a lot more, and it was all under the SD-WAN Architecture section of the pre-release notes topic outline.
It turns out these 4 topics were a weeks worth of deep notes (and a little bit of labbing). From there, this weekend I began the SD-WAN 7.6 Hands-on Lab from the Fortinet Developer Network and it’s probably going to fill the next week on its own. Let’s just say the lab documentation is somewhere around 200 pages. I spent 4 hours on the first of 6-7 labs included in the HOL, although the first 2 hours were wasted on me getting stuck because of a simple typo while importing the Fortinet-provided Jinja template.
I did also spend some time this past week re-labbing ADVPN 2.0, just because I almost know for a fact it will be on the exam (it’s right there in the pre-release notes and it’s just a big offering for Fortinet in general). I still don’t feel perfectly comfortable, so I imagine I’ll do this at least 2 more times before I sit the exam.
In terms of timing I think I will probably do at least another 1.5 weeks with SD-WAN before a quick 2-4 day review of SD-WAN and Traffic Shaping. Then we’re moving right along to Authentication and Access Control and I’ll be excited to get the FortiAuthenticator VM spun up and poke around for the first time.
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