My Experience Taking The Fortinet NSE4 Exam Online | Tips And Study Plan | Q&A

foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] welcome to this live on today Sunday um September 24th 2023 I'm glad you're joining me here today we're going to talk about the nac4 I passed it last Sunday so now I just want to talk about my experience how it was and what to expect how I prepared all kind of things that's what we're going to talk about today hi I don't know is it Jorge Jorge Rebels or Georges horribles I don't know if I should read it in French or in English or in Spanish hi Neil tricks um so you missed the French version of the the exam I mean of the live now I'm here in English so I hope you'll be fine but the French is available on KB trainings in French that's my other channel where I only speak French hi Serge from Europe however everything is good with you thank you so much for joining us so we'll be talking about this exam today um Serge I have a question for you do you also watch me in French or you only wait for the English version [Music] hi Olivia hi everyone and thank you for joining so I'm glad to be here with you and to share my experience on the on the nec4 I just take about just few minutes for people more people to join hi everybody on Facebook and uh uh thank you for joining us and please share the video okay I'm just uh connecting with people on Facebook here my Facebook is mostly full of French speaking people so my lives on uh on Facebook in English don't do that well but still I have a couple people thank you for saying hi in the chat on Facebook thank you so much guys so today just like I said we're going to talk about the nac4 and uh I will primarily try to hit these three points here first of all how I prepared for the exam second thing is how or what I liked about the exam and what I didn't like about the exam so these are the three main topic that we're going to cover today and uh I appreciate your presence here my test is on Monday on site oh nice Monday on site that's great that's great I oh search you're saying only English never in French that's good for you man good for you you and Europe I mean you are in Belgium I think but you still watch me in English which is actually recommended because the tech is in English and uh you you can do this if you know if you're not comfortable in English okay or if you don't um if you don't speak the minimum required that's why even the the certification exam the nse4 it was in English there's no version in French yes I passed look thank you so much I passed last Sunday and actually let me show you my my reports where is it should be here as long as I can find it it's somewhere here okay so um I'm pretty sure you're seeing my screen right now okay this is the email that I received from 40 Gates I can go log into my account and once I do that oh I think the thing is actually downloaded okay I think I have it downloaded somewhere let me just go there and show it to you um oops it's downloaded somewhere I should have it under um documents score report yes I do have it here okay so this is it actually this is what I received after my exam was over I received the link from Pearson VUE and the link brought me to this page here where you can see how I did at the exam please Zoom for us yes I've zoomed in so this is just uh just showing uh that I took the exam on September 17th and uh um as you can see the the grade is passed so I did it and uh if we scroll down here this is the most important thing actually they don't give you the grade like I mean they don't give you the number of points or the amount of points or whatever they don't give you how much you or how how many points you did but they're going to give you the breakdown of your performance at the exam as you can see here it says uh performance by exam section so you can go down and see how you did in all the sections of the exam and let me show you how I did here don't laugh at me I passed the exam that's the most important thing so I passed the exam that that's all I needed but I did um differently on these different sections and uh uh I don't know if I should share this with you but I just want to share because it's about transparency and also it's good for you to to know what's happening and it's also good for anybody to know what are your weak areas where you need to actually improve so this is my deployment and uh system configuration I did slightly over 50 here as you can see and this was my weakest uh point on my weaker section for some reasons but it only gets better from there so the second section is firewall and uh authentication I did a little better and content inspection I kept going high and routing is where I'm like oh man 100 in routing and what did I have in terms of routing it's mostly just like uh finding the default route or finding what would be the the route selected the show your routing table and you need to watch I mean look at the source and the destination what's what's going to be the the route that will be selected to forward the traffic those kind of things for somebody who's really into networking like I am I'm a ccnp in uh Rat switch or Enterprise today so writing for me is like a no no-brainer so that's why I did 100 when it came to to routing and then the last section is VPN I did just well enough but overall all of this doesn't matter this is for you this is not something that anybody that will look at your profile will see but this will just give you your performance and from there I just got the exam uh the past grade that's what's important and at the end you're also going to receive this um oh no no this is actually what you receive after you are done watching the lessons online uh for all FCP uh yes all right so this is what you receive after you you've done everything that you have to do on the website on the 40-gate training website you get that at the end all right so we are going to cover this here first of all how I prepared for the exam and how I'm going to recommend you to prepare what are the tips that I'm going to give you the first thing of course for everybody who's been trying to study for this exam the first page or the first place you have to go is Fortinet I mean training.49.com that's the website where you find the actual course so there is a course on here um it's basically free you don't have to pay anything it's already created for you and it's it's well done but all I have to say that it's not all you need that's a good place for you to have an idea about the exam how you should study and everything but that's not all you need also somewhere on the website you can download the course objectives let me let me show it to you here so this is the course objective that you can download on the website it's just going to show you exactly what you need to study what you need to know um I think it's on this second page here why does it show like this huh uh let's see no this is the infrastructure maybe this is a different one forget this guys but uh you can take the ghost objectives from there or you can just follow whatever is on this lesson here you have about 11 modules that you can watch from the website they're not very long look at this one the lesson number one is just 37 minutes and this lesson is covering all the introduction and the initial configurations there is a lot to cover there but it's covered in 37 minutes only the other section is the firewall policies only 34 minutes and what I'm saying is this is not enough because you need to go deep this will give you basic information but you need to go deep as a ccnp or if you are a ccnp or if you have a CCNA of whatever security you may think you know what I am good enough I just need to quickly browse and then I can go take the exam no it doesn't work that way Fortinet is also very serious there are questions are challenging you have to know what to pick otherwise you can be in trouble like me for my exam I can tell you frankly that at the end of the exam when I finished all the 60 Questions I wasn't sure where I was standing it's not it was not like a win like I do on other certifications like right now at this point I take the CCNA every I don't know every three months or something because I'm creating a course about it oh talking about the course I have a question on kbtrends.com going from zero to engineer that will teach you the CCNA certification like it's going to prepare you to take the exam oh this shouldn't be here so if you are interested go on capitrans.com that's where the course is and you can study with me after studying you don't need to you're not going to complain at the exam frankly because I go deep in all the topics and I've taken the exam so many times that I kind of know what to focus on and I'm going to teach you what you you need to go and get that certification and also it's not about the certification that's why we spend a lot of time studying it's about the career it's about what you're going to do in the future the knowledge you are acquiring that's what's the most important thing and that's what I'm covering uh largely in that course over 400 lessons like 140 or something each of them are very thorough so I'm really really glad for that course so anyway um it's basically the same thing with the 40net you need also to go deep you need to be good in your craft in your knowledge um so after watching this lesson here from the website the first time you can just go through it without doing much but then I recommend you to come and watch it the second time then the second time you're watching it because you can watch it in a day and finish the whole thing but the second time you're watching it you need to focus on every lesson and go deep what do I mean by going deep first of all you need to have some Labs not even some Labs you need to have some kind of lab configuration just like I do here I have I have the 4D Gates built in my gen S3 it's right here you've seen it many times in my previous lives so this is my lab I build all kind of topologies here a bit all kinds of stuff and you also beside the labs you also know you need to know how to go in the documentation from for the net this is actually the document Library fortinety is very good at that oh my God I'm not showing my screen I'm so sorry so this is my screen so I was talking about gen S3 I have gen S3 this is where I do all my labs this is where I go deep into everything that I study I'm trying to understand it and make sense of it and then when I read something or when I'm covering the topic in the lessons that I have on the website I also go and look at the documentation from 40gate you can do some search here uh you can say let's say VPN or maybe let's talk about proxy based um proxy based firewall for example so this will show you a proxy based inspection you can go and read about it most of those questions are coming from this documentation here guys so they're not trying to trick you or anything everything is here just take your time to read take your time to cover the topic and to understand you are going to be fine but then when you're reviewing the second time depending on your level of knowledge I would say spend at least two weeks on every lesson yes yeah I mean it two weeks on every lesson that means that you have time to do a lot of lab way too many Labs you will have a 40 gate like I do here this is one of my 40 Gates that I have in the lab I was doing something here for the French live that I had before so this is where you can come and try every single thing that you are reading you come here you try it you test it it works you go to the next one and you are going to be fine at the exam if you do it that way so um you read the lessons and also when you're reading the lessons let me show you something here when you open these lessons you can of course just just read the video or listen to whatever or you can also go under the notes section here so when you open your your lessons you can go under the notes section I usually like to read the note sections that are here because some of those things can be uh you know it's trying it's like an AI reading the course so you don't have to only rely on The Voice you can come here and read whatever is here sometime you have some links that you can follow and get more information so this is a very good resource from from Fortinet and it's very helpful when it comes to this exam I was planning to create I'm planning to create something on on KB trainings on this channel on my website but it's going to be more like it's going to be it's going to be complementary but it's and it's also going not going to be for the nse4 because as you know the nac4 is expiring next next week pretty much the the Saturday next Saturday the what day is it today is the 24th so on the 30th is the last day for you to take the nac4 beyond that on October 1st we are going to have uh new exams the FCA FCP and so on so um I will create some things just to help you it might be a bunch of labs or a bunch of complementary explanations on all these lessons all kind of things that I can help you with I will let you know when it's ready so you can go on the website kibbytrains.com make sure you subscribe I mean you sign up to the mailing list so that when it's here you will be the first to know okay so I did that I did the labs and then at the end you also need to complete let me show you also need to complete some less or some questions and answers it's just for practice so you have some practice questions if I go here under completed the practice questions are here and these we've got we also give you a good Insight on the exam itself you have a sample of 35 questions so these 35 questions will look like they'll look at the exam so just like I said they're not trying to trick you or anything it's just about making sure you are ready so this is also another resource that you can use try to do all the 35 questions make sure you succeed to all of them also make sure that if there is any question that you don't you don't understand you have no clue about go back to the documentation go back to the related video make sure you also review that it's going to help you a lot and uh like in this in this case we have a we have a quick question here just asking which statement about firewall policy nut is true and we have different uh selection that you hit you need to pick from and actually all the questions are multi-choice questions so it can be easy but also tricky so you need to know what the right answer is if you don't know go with your best judgment but the method that I can tell you is that you can go by eliminations that means you can if you are sure of something you can read through all the different uh answers and eliminate the one that do not make any sense like in this case which statement about firewall policy nut is true dnat can automatically apply to multiple firewall I'm sorry I'm so sorry I'm not sharing my screen right now maybe I should just stay on the screen instead of going back and forth and then forgetting so which statement about firewall policy nut is true um is through dnat can automatically apply to multiple firewall policies based on dnat rules this is not true and doesn't make sense dnat is not supported no it's definitely supported so I eliminate this one you must configure s Nat or Source not for each firewall policy this sound true because we are talking about policy not here we are not talking about Central not so there is policy not the central nut policy not every firewall policy has s naught or not options configured in it so I already have this answer that I can secure as being the best answer but the good tip is to keep going try to read the remaining assertions or the remaining questions I mean the remaining responses because you may have something that will ring the bell louder and that will probably be true so go that go that way and you'll be fine um and then do all the 35 questions I did it many times and this is actually what I have here this is what I meant to show you so I have this different uh printings here these are these same questions that you have on the website after because right here when you are taking it they don't show you if you did well or not so after at the end when you are done with all the questions they will show you the answers they will only show you the good answers that you you had the one that you did well they will not show you the wrong answers so you need to figure it you need to still figure within those wrong questions I mean the wrong answer is which one is the best answer you can go read the material just like I said the documentation or you can also try your next best option and then redo the whole 35 questions again so that's why I did it like three or four times the first time I didn't um I didn't get most of them well so I went again I went and printed the responses and I reviewed everything with uh with the highlighter as you can see here and as I was going through the material starting again and all of that so that's why you need time you can do this in a day or two or a week you need to take your time to make sure that you are really in sync with whatever knowledge is on the website and what they need to test you on so that's what I did I did it like three or four times and then by the fourth time I was a hundred percent uh right on all the questions and I was feeling good enough for the exam so this is a good very good resource that you have from uh from Fortinet over here so next I think I should be talking about what I liked about the exam so first of all there is a problem with Pearson VUE there's a problem with on view I feel like they don't have a lot of questions I mean what am I talking about I don't have I don't have a lot of Proctors to for the exam when I took my exam the very first day I scheduled it for was um September September 20 let's say I took it on I swear over here so I took it last Sunday on the 17th it was initially scheduled for the 16th but on the 16th when I went online ready to take the exam it was canceled for those of you that are following me on Facebook or YouTube you saw the post that I shared with you so I didn't do my exam on the 16th because it was canceled for some reasons and the reason is most likely because they didn't have anybody to take care of me online and that's a problem on on view because I've had the same experience with my most recent Cisco certification exams that I did I spent pretty much two hours just waiting for somebody to take care of me so please prison view or on view or whatever I think it's personal view please make sure that you have enough people online to take care of us we actually pay for these exams this is like a 400 exam I think the resources should be made ready for me when I'm ready for the exam instead of doing what I what happened to me last time my exam was canceled without any notice and I had to spend another day but which it's it's not bad per se but when you are ready for something it's just good to do it instead of being pumped up and ready to take the exam and you don't do it because our person view doesn't have people available to to take care of me that that wasn't good so besides that I think that that was the only thing I really didn't like the fact that I couldn't take the exam on the day I scheduled I was even trying to go take it on site but I also um couldn't because there was nothing available on the following day I had to wait like the the coming week which I didn't want to do so I had to schedule it again online on Sunday when I was taking the exam itself the time was good enough I think I had an hour 40 minutes or two hours something along those lines I don't remember well I think it's 120 minutes if I look at the at the email here um yeah I'm not sure about it around those those numbers it's either 120 Minutes or one hour 40 minutes or 100 minutes so that was good enough because you have 60 questions that you need to answer correctly too and um you will have time to finish those 60 Questions and to go back and review that was a great thing because when you're taking the exam every question has a flag section um at the top the upper right I think so if there is a question where you are not sure you could go and click that to flag the question at the end of the exam you have the possibility to return and review all the questions you flagged so if you don't want to spend a lot of time if you think a question is kind of tricky you can just flag it and move on and once you do next you can also do previews to go back to the previous question you were working on so that's something that was really really um interesting at the exam I like that so I was able to finish my exam within um I don't know more like uh like 50 minutes to an hour I was done with the exam and I also went back and reviewed all the questions that I flagged and uh it was it gave me a chance to change things or change answers or think more on something and pick the best answer hi how can I have your books about this I don't have a book about the CCNA all I have is uh all I have on my videos that I available on kbtrends.com that will go from zero to engineer and teach you everything you have to know okay so people are asking for the exam I hope I pass through this might be more long and stronger yeah so but good good luck no tricks with your exam how about the question the questions I can't remember the actual questions even if I did I wouldn't give you the question here that's not ethical but I can tell you that the kind of questions that I I showed you the kind that you have on uh on the on this here that's the kind of question if I go to the next page to the next question which three actions are valid for static URL filtering and when you face something like this if you have no idea what options are available you pull up your 40 gate you go under static URL filtering you check what's there or you go under the documentation you go read it but um I've I've you know I've checked out I know that so I know that the options that are available are blog exempts and hello yes these are the three options that are available and then you go next and and so on so this is this is something you can really use to to study and to assess your knowledge and if you have to go back to reading you just go back and read more that's that's how you should prepare and you'll be fine after that um somebody's asking for the exam blueprint let me see if I can find it here just a moment I'm going on the website and I need to go on the nsc4 and uh it's exam description yes the exam description is here so this is going to give you everything you have to know oh it's actually 105 minutes I don't know I'm not sure I don't remember password is available on piston view account and you can only take it in French English and Japanese and uh this is what you actually have to cover for every for every section at the exam routing it just says configure and Route packet using static and policy based routes and you have the training resources and so on this is something you can find on the website and just like uh I mean I don't have to send you a link to this or let me just put it in the chat but you can find it on your own on the 40net website again this this exam is going to expire um next week but we'll have some other uh some other structure of exams that will be available so it's it's it's still always it's still a good idea to go and review all of this uh because it's not going to change the knowledge itself is not changing water changing just the format of the exam and the examination or certification um what else well yeah I think I pretty much covered everything if you have any questions you can ask me your questions in the chat I'll be able to glad to respond and um yeah that was my my uh my experience guys the thing was actually kind of heavy but I did it that's that's what I'm telling you at the end of the exam I wasn't sure when I hit my last um response so my last one I submitted everything I wasn't sure if I succeeded or if I passed or not so that's when uh when I saw the the past thing I just jumped I'm like yes I don't have to go back on this anymore I don't have to spend another 400 because I passed the exam and that was uh that was what I wanted so make sure you take your time to study I have a ccnp it took me about two months to study everything you may need more or you may need less depending on your level of experience and everything um I had been working with 40net or 40 Gates since like 2018 when I started a job at one of the managed service providers here so I was really vested I mean really invested into Fortinet stuff and uh I think I was good but even though I had all that exposure to 48 I still needed to really sit down and study and grind for the exam do all these things here print the questions and make sure I read everything make sure I read the cookbooks I read the docs and I respond correctly to all the questions available on the website and that's how I passed the exam and follow the same path and you'll be fine thank you so much Network bro I appreciate you thank you and uh that's what I had for you today guys unless you have any other questions I was also prepared to answer any of your questions that you might have on this exam or anything else but if you don't have many questions I will be just mumbling here and waiting if there's anything else that comes to mind that I can discuss with you um yeah just like I said during the exam itself everything was cool there was a lady on the other hand looking at my video feed I did it online and if you have a chance to do it on site it's also kind of better I would say online and unless you have no other option or you want just to be in the comfort of your own home but I think on site also brings some type of of calm where you don't have to do all those video things and you don't have to move too much because someone somebody's watching you with the video the exam cost four hundred dollars that's that's that's a lot of money so that's why you need to make sure you are ready for it when you go take it but it's also possible that you fail the first time so it it's not the end of the world it just means that go back to your study material and make sure that you review everything again before going and attempting another uh another exam uh their sd1 questions yes I saw some sd1 questions more like um sd1 configuration and NFS members they they had questions on like uh okay I can't really tell exactly this type of questions but there are just basic questions for somebody who had time to configure sd1 to read about sd1 to know how to manipulate the different members inside the sd1 interfaces so yeah those are the kind of questions qos no I didn't see any question on qos specifically that I can remember so yeah that's uh that's what I can tell you guys thank you for your question Luke and funk I think I can keep this short so it's going to be about 30 minutes that that's good enough for anybody who want to prepare for the exam so if you are preparing for it good luck to you and uh if you are on this channel for the first time make sure you subscribe and you follow me also uh follow me on Facebook as well I share a lot of things there Facebook and Instagram and if you are studying for the CCNA that's the only course that's the only training I have now available on the kbtrends.com the CCNA 200 301 going from zero to engineer it will teach you all you have to know to study and go past the CCNA certification all right guys if there is no more questions I think we are good for today hi nice to follow you live show I want to pass my CCNA exam how can you help me thanks in advance Crystal shorty how can I help you with the CCNA my course is the best of course it's me saying it my course is the best I've never had any kind of negative or bad feedback or anything because I really lay down on all the topics I just extend my knowledge on the topic and I even usually go beyond what the CCNA requires because to me I feel like for the understanding of a certain topic just seeing the overview of it will not give you a good idea about the thing you need actually to go a little deeper a little more than what the CCNA is asking you to do that will be good for you that's what I usually going to do in my in my course and I have about 140 lessons already available so it's something that you can find on kebitrons.com thank you so much for subscribing so okay.com is there but that is just me saying there are also tips that I can give you that are General that apply to everything you want to learn and and take like a certification like the CCNA because it's not tough but it's deep and it's complex like you really really need to pass you I mean to take your time to do the labs so you need to have a good lab packet trouser can be good but I recommend gns3 if you can build the Gen X3 lab have your devices in there do as many Labs as possible on each topic so that you know it you master it you do some packet capture you look what's inside it's actually preparing you to a career you're trying to become or you're trying to boost your career into network engineering or security or cloud or whatever those things will be useful so do them uh in depth and you'll be fine that's how I can help you that's the kind of tips I can give you but I've I've done it many times it's a it's an exam that I can take I closed at this point because I've been working in the industry and also I've been teaching it and studying for a long time so those things will just make sense and it's actually a world that I'm really into I have my lab right behind me where I do some uh some VMware whole bunch of stuff but networking is part of everything I do so the system will give you all the basic thank you guys um another question maybe not I think if that's it I will cut it for today and uh we'll see you next Sunday for another live at 2PM Denver time which is pretty much what time is it in New York like four no no yeah 4 P.M in New York or whatever you are now we started about um 55 minutes ago so join me next Sunday otherwise I'll launch a video a new video during the week uh to talk about my Synology Nas and synchronization not much of stuff that's what I'm planning hopefully I'll get to it but thank you for watching guys and this was a short one I'll see you next Sunday thank you and have a good rest of your day bye

Channel: KBTrainings

Views: 5,053

Keywords: kbtrainings, kb trainings, kb training, cisco, ccna, ccnp, ccie, networking, security, routing, switching, nas, qnap, vpn, site to site, configuration, fortios, ha, high availability, fgcp, nat, central nat, SNAT, DNAT, nse4, pass the nse4

Id: -j6vRhZYupc

Length: 39min 40sec (2380 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 25 2023