NSE7 Enterprise Firewall and VDOMs Practice Question
A FortiGate has two VDOMs: Sales and Engineering. The admin wants to allow the Engineering VDOM to manage the Sales VDOM's administrator accounts. What configuration is required?
⚠ Common exam trap
A common mix-up: candidates confuse inter-VDOM routing (data plane) with management-plane cross-VDOM admin access, leading them to select Option B, or they assume a super_admin account in the target VDOM is sufficient, missing the requirement for the management VDOM to be set on the source VDOM.
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Set the management VDOM to Engineering and configure Sales to accept admin connections from Engineering's IP
To allow the Engineering VDOM to manage the Sales VDOM's administrator accounts, the management VDOM must be set to Engineering, and the Sales VDOM must be configured to accept admin connections from Engineering's IP address. This is done via the 'set management-vdom' command under the Sales VDOM and ensuring the Sales VDOM's local-in policy permits HTTPS/SSH traffic from the Engineering VDOM's management IP. This enables cross-VDOM administrative management without requiring inter-VDOM routing or shared policies.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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Set the management VDOM to Engineering and configure Sales to accept admin connections from Engineering's IP
Why this is correct
This allows Engineering to manage Sales admins.
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Use inter-VDOM routing to forward admin traffic
Why it's wrong here
Inter-VDOM routing forwards data traffic, not administrative access.
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Enable VDOM sharing on the local-in policy
Why it's wrong here
Local-in policies control access to the FortiGate itself, not inter-VDOM admin.
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Create a super_admin account in Sales VDOM
Why it's wrong here
A super_admin account would have full access within Sales but does not enable cross-VDOM management.
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