Finally achieved my NSE6!

 Quick post today.

I passed the final exam for the NSE6 today, so once that gets passed on from Pearson Vue to Fortinet I will finally have my NSE6 certification.

Quick thoughts on the exam:

  • Its a fair exam - no questions written in a confusing manner, and no questions where there were multiple "right" answers that just came down to opinion

  • Questions are written in quite a concise manner, so there's no reading through mountains of text to finally get to the point.

  • A lot of cross over with the FortiWeb - they are similar products, but having done the previous study on the FortiWeb certainly helped for this exam

 My only gripe with the process today was that side scrolling wasnt working on my mac for some reason, so I wasnt able to scroll to see the full exhibit for some of the questions. I could see all the information I *think* I needed to answer correctly, but in the end it didnt matter as I passed.

Next step from here is to start my NSE8 study in earnest. Im aiming to complete the written in Q1 next calendar year.

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