Question 830
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. The security reviewer verifies a claimed fix for: A disconnected IPsec peer remains reported as usable for too long because dead-peer detection does not match the service recovery requirement. Which observed outcome BEST demonstrates that the intended correction works?
Explanation
Correct Answer
After a controlled peer failure, the tunnel status changes within the defined detection window and eligible backup routing engages. This outcome validates the intended correction for: A disconnected IPsec peer remains reported as usable for too long because dead-peer detection does not match the service recovery requirement. The associated approved corrective action is: Configure supported dead peer detection timing and tunnel monitoring appropriate to the WAN stability and failover target. The Pinecrest Hotels reviewer can therefore distinguish observable protection from an untested configuration claim.
Incorrect Answers
The routing table references the configured tunnel interface and authorized protected traffic follows that tunnel path. This would verify a separate corrective action: Select the FortiGate-supported route-based IPsec tunnel interface design when explicit interface routing is required. That separate change addresses: A team configures a policy-based VPN but expects an automatically created tunnel interface for independent routing rules. It does not validate the current Pinecrest Hotels issue: A disconnected IPsec peer remains reported as usable for too long because dead-peer detection does not match the service recovery requirement. The relevant acceptance evidence is: After a controlled peer failure, the tunnel status changes within the defined detection window and eligible backup routing engages.
The gateway reports an established Phase 2 security association and a permitted test subnet can exchange packets. This would verify a separate corrective action: Align the supported Phase 2 proposals and relevant perfect forward secrecy settings for the authorized protected networks. That separate change addresses: An IPsec tunnel is established at IKE Phase 1 but protected traffic fails because Phase 2 encryption or integrity proposals differ. It does not validate the current Pinecrest Hotels issue: A disconnected IPsec peer remains reported as usable for too long because dead-peer detection does not match the service recovery requirement. The relevant acceptance evidence is: After a controlled peer failure, the tunnel status changes within the defined detection window and eligible backup routing engages.
A permitted named user authenticates and receives its scoped policy while a separate identity lacking approval is denied. This would verify a separate corrective action: Require supported per-user or certificate-based IPsec authentication in addition to appropriate gateway peer validation. That separate change addresses: A user-based remote-access IPsec deployment allows an unidentified device after shared preshared-secret use, despite a requirement for individual authentication. It does not validate the current Pinecrest Hotels issue: A disconnected IPsec peer remains reported as usable for too long because dead-peer detection does not match the service recovery requirement. The relevant acceptance evidence is: After a controlled peer failure, the tunnel status changes within the defined detection window and eligible backup routing engages.