What is the primary purpose of a static route in a FortiGate configuration?

To provide a backup path that is only used when the primary route fails.

To balance traffic across multiple equal-cost paths automatically.

To manually define a path to a specific destination network through a specified gateway and interface.

To automatically discover the best path to a destination using a routing protocol.

An admin has configured two default static routes with the same distance and metric for load balancing. However, they notice that traffic is not evenly distributed. What could be the reason?

The admin needs to enable 'load-balance' on the interfaces.

ECMP uses per-destination load balancing, so traffic to a single destination may use only one link.

The FortiGate does not support ECMP.

The routes have different metrics.

A FortiGate has a static route and an OSPF route to the same destination. The static route has an administrative distance of 10, and the OSPF route has an administrative distance of 110. Which route will be used?

The static route, because it has a lower administrative distance.

The route with the higher metric will be used.

Both routes will be used for load balancing.

The OSPF route, because dynamic routes are always preferred over static routes.

An admin needs to configure a static route on a FortiGate to reach 10.10.10.0/24 via gateway 192.168.1.1 on port1. The admin also wants to ensure that if the gateway becomes unreachable, the route is removed from the routing table. What should the admin configure?

Enable link health monitoring on the static route with a ping to the gateway.

Set the administrative distance to 255.

Configure a policy route to the same destination.

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Configure and Route Packets Using Static Routes NSE4-FORTIOS-ADMINISTRATOR Practice Questions (Page 1)

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1foundation · easy
What is the primary purpose of a static route in a FortiGate configuration?
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2expert · hard
An admin has configured two default static routes with the same distance and metric for load balancing. However, they notice that traffic is not evenly distributed. What could be the reason?
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3foundation · easy
A FortiGate has a static route and an OSPF route to the same destination. The static route has an administrative distance of 10, and the OSPF route has an administrative distance of 110. Which route will be used?
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4expert · hard
An admin needs to configure a static route on a FortiGate to reach 10.10.10.0/24 via gateway 192.168.1.1 on port1. The admin also wants to ensure that if the gateway becomes unreachable, the route is removed from the routing table. What should the admin configure?
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5application · medium
An admin runs 'get router info routing-table all' on a FortiGate and sees the following entry: 'S 10.10.10.0/24 [10/0] via 192.168.1.1, port1'. What does the '10' in '[10/0]' represent?
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