After completing this course, you should be able to:

• Describe the advanced load balancing features of FortiADC VM or hardware platforms
• Deploy FortiADC
• Intelligently distribute traffic among multiple servers based on the content of the TCP or HTTP layer
• Automatically route the traffic to another server if a problem is detected
• Load balance inbound and outbound traffic among multiple redundant Internet uplinks
• Distribute traffic among data centers in two different geographical locations
• Improve performance by offloading compression and encryption/decryption of SSL/TLS traffic to FortiADC
• Protect your servers from connection attempts coming from malicious IP addresses
• Implement HA for failover protection
• Harden the network by using security features on FortiADC
• Leverage the REST API

If you take the online format of this class, you must use a computer that has the following:

• A high-speed Internet connection
• An up-to-date web browser
• A PDF viewer
• Speakers or headphones
• One of the following:
  • HTML 5 support
  • An up-to-date Java Runtime Environment (JRE) with Java Plugin enabled on your web browser

You should use a wired Ethernet connection, not a WiFi connection. Firewalls, including Windows Firewall or FortiClient, mustallow connections to the online labs.