EMEA-Advanced-Support Premium Exam Questions

Stateful inspection requires a complete TCP three-way handshake (SYN, SYN-ACK, ACK) to establish a session in the firewall’s state table. If the handshake is incomplete (e.g., missing ACK), the session is not established, and traffic is dropped. The question implies a stateful firewall scenario where traffic is blocked, likely due to an incomplete handshake. Asymmetric traffic (B) or incorrect ACK (A) are not indicated without further context, and C is incorrect if the handshake fails. Exact extract: "Stateful inspection ensures that a TCP three-way handshake is completed before allowing traffic... If the handshake is not completed, FortiGate drops the packets as invalid."

A hybrid cloud combines on-premises infrastructure (local datacenter) with public cloud resources, allowing workloads to operate across both environments for flexibility and scalability. Fortinet solutions like FortiGate-VM support hybrid cloud deployments. Option A refers to hardware diversity, C to OS variety, and D to architecture types, none of which define hybrid cloud. Exact extract: "Hybrid cloud is the combination of public cloud services with an on-premises private cloud or datacenter... This allows customers to run some systems in the public cloud and others in their local datacenter, managed seamlessly."

Link aggregation, also known as IEEE 802.3ad or 802.1ax, enables the binding of multiple physical interfaces to form a single logical interface, which increases the overall bandwidth and provides redundancy. This is achieved by combining the bandwidth of the individual links into one aggregated link. For example, if two 1Gbps interfaces are aggregated, the logical link can provide up to 2Gbps bandwidth. This configuration is commonly used in FortiGate devices to enhance network performance without replacing hardware. The option B correctly describes this by stating "Increase bandwidth by binding physical interfaces into a single channel," which aligns with the official description. Incorrect options include A, which is vague and does not specify the method of binding multiple interfaces; C, which is the opposite of the purpose; and D, which is invalid. Exact extract: Link aggregation (IEEE 802.3ad/802.1ax) enables you to bind two or more physical interfaces together to form an aggregated (combined) link. This new link ... Link aggregation combines multiple physical interfaces into a single logical interface, increasing bandwidth and link redundancy. Traffic is distributed evenly.

The ‘set webfilter-profile’ command applies a web filtering profile to a firewall policy, enabling URL blocking or allowing based on categories or specific URLs. It does not enable DPI (B), configure proxies (C), or set authentication (D). Exact extract: "The ‘set webfilter-profile’ command applies a web filtering profile to a firewall policy, controlling access to websites based on URL categories or specific URLs."