Confused with online training track

[3d1l]

Hi there! My apologies if this is not the right sub-forum. I just enroll to take the NS1 online course and I' m quickly redirected to take a quiz or test. Were I' m supposed to go to read the material before taking the test/quiz? Thanks.

[Courtney_Schwartz]

Hi everybody,

A clarified track is now on Fortinet's web site:

http://www.fortinet.com/training/courses/index.html

Note: If you are a network administrator, NSE 1-3 is probably *not* for you. It covers networking basics and pre-sales considerations such as solutions. If you previously took FCNSA and/or FCNSP, those are equivalent to the new NSE 4.

[emnoc]

Anything  changing on FCESP track? And do you plan on a new marticula in 2015? I was told some changes where going to come about but I didn't follow back with an email  to bonnie/connie ( can't recall name ) in training.

[Courtney_Schwartz]

Sorry. Currently, there's nobody with that name in Training. (Was a few years ago.)

Whether we will maintain the separate Specialist certifications, I will double check.

But at minimum, FortiMail *is* part of the new NSE track (as FortiWeb and a couple of the other major new products). And this affects NSE 8, too, if you choose to take that exam. In order to do well on the NSE 8 certification, for example, you need to know at least a couple of the products covered in NSE 6 (plus, of course, expert knowledge and topics from NSE 4, 5, and 7).

See new equivalent names and differences here:

http://www.fortinet.com/training/overview.html

http://www.fortinet.com/training/courses/index.html

[emnoc]

Thanks

That  overview really helped out . I now see in NSE6 that it's really a bundling of platform/technologies.

[Courtney_Schwartz]

You're welcome.

Regarding the specialist courses:

[ol]

Specialist certifications will be going away.FortiMail will be one of the options in NSE 6. Requirement is to take/pass 4 of the (currently 9) courses for specialized appliances.[/ol]You can still take the individual FortiMail-specific course, like before, regardless of whether you want to go for the NSE 6 certification exam or not. I believe a course completion certificate is still possible for this. This is *not* a result of passing a Pearson VUE proctored exam, and that's why it's not technically called a "certification." (The terms sound alike, unfortunately.)

[emnoc]

tcp-ack I understand.

So those like myself who have taken FCESP previously , do we have anything to gain from the past certification track? or was this pretty much a wasted certification? Basically does it apply anywhere in the newer certification outline?

[Courtney_Schwartz]

emnoc, as you've probably noticed, the certification team addressed that. FCESP has become "FortiMail Specialist." However, FortiMail also meets part of the criteria for NSE 6: passing any 4 Specialist exams = NSE 6.

If you have any other certification questions, please contact:

nse@fortinet.com

[Courtney_Schwartz]

Jay, if you're having difficulty getting your NSE 1 certificate, please contact our operations team:

training@fortinet.com

[emnoc]

Courtney thanks for the new info.

Ken

[Courtney_Schwartz]

You're welcome.