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20 questionsDomain: Advanced VPN and Zero Trust

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Advanced VPN and Zero Trust questions

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Question 1easymultiple choice
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Refer to the exhibit. A FortiGate administrator has configured an IPsec VPN tunnel to a branch office. The tunnel fails to establish. What is the most likely cause?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

config vpn ipsec phase1-interface
    edit "Branch_Tunnel"
        set interface "wan1"
        set peertype any
        set net-device disable
        set proposal aes256-sha256
        set dhgrp 14
        set remote-gw 203.0.113.10
        set psksecret ENC XXXX
    next
end

config vpn ipsec phase2-interface
    edit "Branch_Tunnel_p2"
        set phase1name "Branch_Tunnel"
        set proposal aes256-sha1
        set src-addr-type name
        set dst-addr-type name
        set src-name "local_net"
        set dst-name "remote_net"
    next
end
Question 2mediummultiple choice
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A network admin is configuring a hub-and-spoke ADVPN. The spoke FortiGates are behind NAT. After configuring IKE phase 1 with aggressive mode, the spokes can establish VPN tunnels to the hub, but shortcut tunnels between spokes are not forming. What is the MOST likely cause?

Question 3mediummultiple choice
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A FortiGate is configured with OSPF over an IPsec VPN tunnel to exchange routes with a remote site. The OSPF neighbor states are stuck in 'INIT' and never progress to 'FULL'. What is the MOST likely cause?

Question 4hardmultiple choice
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You run 'diagnose sys session filter dport 443' and see the following output: proto=6 proto_state=01 duration=3600 expire=3599 What does this indicate about the traffic?

Question 5mediummultiple choice
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A FortiGate administrator is configuring OSPF over an IPsec VPN between a hub and a spoke. The OSPF adjacency forms correctly, but routes from the spoke are not being advertised to the hub. The administrator checks the OSPF database on the hub and sees no Type-1 LSAs from the spoke. What is the most likely issue?

Question 6mediummulti select
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A FortiGate administrator needs to ensure that only devices with an updated antivirus can access a sensitive internal application via ZTNA. The administrator has created a ZTNA tag 'AV_Updated' in EMS and configured a ZTNA rule on FortiGate that requires this tag. Which TWO additional steps are necessary to enforce this access control? (Choose two.)

Question 7mediummultiple choice
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A network administrator is configuring a hub-and-spoke ADVPN with FortiGates. The spokes are behind NAT and use dynamic IPs. The hub has a static IP. Which IKEv2 configuration is REQUIRED to allow the spokes to initiate the VPN and receive shortcut tunnels?

Question 8hardmultiple choice
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An administrator configures OSPF over an IPsec VPN overlay between two FortiGates. The OSPF neighbors show a state of 'EXSTART/EXCHANGE' but never reach 'FULL'. The IPsec tunnel is up and passes ICMP traffic. What is the MOST likely cause?

Question 9hardmultiple choice
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A FortiGate administrator is configuring Auto Discovery VPN (ADVPN) in a hub-and-spoke topology. Spokes are FortiGates with dynamic public IPs. Which setting is required on the spoke for it to automatically initiate shortcut tunnels to other spokes when needed?

Question 10mediummultiple choice
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A FortiGate administrator configures a ZTNA rule to allow access to an internal application. The rule uses a ZTNA tag to identify the application server. However, users cannot connect to the application. What is the most likely cause if the ZTNA proxy and firewall policies are correctly configured?

Question 11mediummultiple choice
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In a hub-and-spoke VPN using OSPF over the overlay, the hub FortiGate learns routes from spoke1 and advertises them to spoke2. However, spoke2's routing table shows the route with a next-hop of the hub's tunnel IP, not spoke1's tunnel IP. What should the administrator configure to allow spoke2 to reach spoke1 directly (using ADVPN shortcut)?

Question 12mediummulti select
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An administrator is deploying ADVPN with a hub-and-spoke topology. The hub FortiGate is configured with 'set auto-discovery enable' and 'set add-route enable'. Spokes have 'set auto-discovery-sender enable'. However, shortcut tunnels are not being established. Which two additional conditions must be met for shortcut tunnels to form? (Choose two.)

Question 13mediummultiple choice
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A network administrator configures an IPsec VPN between two FortiGates using IKEv2. The tunnel establishes, but after a period of inactivity, traffic stops passing and the logs show 'IPsec phase 1 down'. The administrator wants to ensure the tunnel is quickly re-established when traffic resumes. Which setting should be configured?

Question 14hardmultiple choice
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An administrator is troubleshooting an ADVPN scenario where spoke FortiGates are behind NAT. The shortcut tunnels are not forming between spokes. The hub has the appropriate ADVPN stage settings. What is the most likely cause of the shortcut failure?

Question 15mediummultiple choice
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A FortiGate is configured as a SAML Identity Provider (IdP) for a remote user accessing a web application via ZTNA. The user authenticates successfully, but the ZTNA proxy logs show 'access denied' for the user. Which configuration element is most likely missing or misconfigured?

Question 16mediummultiple choice
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A FortiGate administrator runs the following diagnostic command: 'diagnose vpn ike gateway list'. The output shows a gateway with state 'down'. The administrator verifies that the peer is reachable and the pre-shared key is correct. What is a possible reason for the gateway state being 'down'?

Question 17hardmultiple choice
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An administrator configures a multi-peer IPsec VPN on FortiGate for redundancy. The primary peer is 10.1.1.1 and secondary is 10.1.1.2. The administrator notices that when the primary peer goes down, the FortiGate does not fail over to the secondary peer until the IKE SA times out (about 60 seconds). Which setting can reduce this failover time?

Question 18mediummultiple choice
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An administrator configures OSPF over an IPsec VPN overlay between two FortiGates. The OSPF neighbors form, but routes learned from the remote site are not appearing in the routing table. What is the most likely cause?

Question 19easymultiple choice
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A FortiGate administrator wants to use PKI certificates for IKEv2 authentication instead of pre-shared keys. Which phase1 configuration parameter must be changed to support certificate-based authentication?

Question 20mediummultiple choice
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An administrator configures a hub-and-spoke ADVPN with IBGP over the VPN overlays. The spokes receive the default route from the hub, but they cannot reach each other directly. The administrator wants spoke-to-spoke traffic to use shortcut tunnels. Which additional configuration is required on the hub?

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