NSE 4 – FortiGate 7.0 — Question 31

An administrator wants to configure timeouts for users. Regardless of the user's behavior, the timer should start as soon as the user authenticates and expire after the configured value.
Which timeout option should be configured on FortiGate?

Answer options

• A. soft-timeout
• B. new-session
• C. idle-timeout
• D. hard-timeout
• E. auth-on-demand

Correct answer: D

Explanation

The correct answer is D, hard-timeout, because it ensures the session is terminated after a specific period regardless of user activity. The other options, such as idle-timeout (C), only terminate sessions after a period of inactivity, which does not meet the requirement of starting the timer upon authentication.