Question 700
At Pinecrest Hotels, the corporate firewall engineering team administers FortiGate-based protection for regional hotels and shared service centers under requirements for controlled remote connectivity and predictable recovery. Following the approved change, the team must validate: An auditor reads the FortiGate routing table but cannot identify why a specific route won over two alternatives. Which observed outcome BEST demonstrates that the intended correction works?
Explanation
Correct Answer
A before-and-after route comparison documents the selected destination prefix and next hop for the controlled target. This outcome validates the intended correction for: An auditor reads the FortiGate routing table but cannot identify why a specific route won over two alternatives. The associated approved corrective action is: Inspect prefix specificity, administrative distance and priority for installed static routes before changing policy objects. The Pinecrest Hotels reviewer can therefore distinguish observable protection from an untested configuration claim.
Incorrect Answers
New authorized sessions follow the SD-WAN route and the routing table no longer bypasses the intended zone. This would verify a separate corrective action: Align static default routing and eligible SD-WAN members with the documented FortiOS forwarding behavior. That separate change addresses: An SD-WAN rule has healthy members but traffic uses an old default route outside the SD-WAN architecture. It does not validate the current Pinecrest Hotels issue: An auditor reads the FortiGate routing table but cannot identify why a specific route won over two alternatives. The relevant acceptance evidence is: A before-and-after route comparison documents the selected destination prefix and next hop for the controlled target.
A controlled application test produces attributable steering and link-quality data rather than relying solely on the configured rule text. This would verify a separate corrective action: Enable suitable SD-WAN event logging and monitor rule matches, member health and performance SLA outcomes during representative traffic. That separate change addresses: Network staff claim an SD-WAN rule improves application service but never check the link-health or service matching telemetry for its test sessions. It does not validate the current Pinecrest Hotels issue: An auditor reads the FortiGate routing table but cannot identify why a specific route won over two alternatives. The relevant acceptance evidence is: A before-and-after route comparison documents the selected destination prefix and next hop for the controlled target.
The selected branch flow is steered to its intended member and unrelated clients follow their ordinary SD-WAN routing policy. This would verify a separate corrective action: Narrow the SD-WAN service rule's source and destination selectors to the approved application traffic. That separate change addresses: An SD-WAN application steering rule matches every source address because a broad firewall source group replaced the intended branch subnet. It does not validate the current Pinecrest Hotels issue: An auditor reads the FortiGate routing table but cannot identify why a specific route won over two alternatives. The relevant acceptance evidence is: A before-and-after route comparison documents the selected destination prefix and next hop for the controlled target.