NSE8/FCX Certification
Documenting the processes followed in preparation for the FCX/NSE8 Fortinet expert certification.
Category: NSE8 Blog
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We’re coming up on the beginning of the third week of studies. We’ll start right up with the updated time tracker. As you can see, we finished up BGP deep notes and labbing in about 1.5 weeks. To clarify, that is only dedicated study time. I just finished up reading the BGP sections of some…
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Good morning, network nerds! Welcome to Routing Week 1! We made a lot of good progress since my last post. I have a lot of good structure built out in my study plan and some great resources, at least to get started with. Something you’ll learn as you follow this series is that I have…
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After a couple of months of half-assed studying I finally sat and passed the AZ-104 exam this past week. With this as well as the start of the new year I can’t think of a better time to make the big push for the FCX/NSE8. As we get back into this topic I again cannot…
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It’s been a couple of months, I imagine, since I’ve provided an update regarding my FCX journey. In the style of the last update, things have again pivoted. I have spent the better part of the last two months focusing on Azure. The only reason for this being the current project I have been assigned…
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Monday – back to work. Yesterday I fit a good 3 or so hours of studying in between the coffee shop and common area on the first floor of our apartment building. Later in the day, after finishing the Study Guide for Fortinet Azure Cloud and beginning to pull up the newly released SD-WAN Core…
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It’s a Saturday, which is usually a study day. I’d like to get all of the background information for this blog out of the way pretty quickly so I can focus on simply documenting my daily/weekly steps and progress. Let’s start with what I have so far in terms of discovery of resources. Here’s the…
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It’s July of 2025. I’m one month past finishing the Fortinet FCSS and FCP certifications and just about 2 years into working with Fortinet gear. There’s a small physical homelab sitting under the TV in the living room, hosting the apartment’s WiFi and a wired connections for an Xbox One. I’ve decided to begin studying…
NSE8/FCX Certification 