Fortinet • NSE6_FVE-6.0
Validates expertise in deploying, configuring, and managing Fortinet FortiVoice solutions. Covers VoIP administration, call routing, dial plan management, and integration with Fortinet security infrastructure.
Questions
597
Duration
60 minutes
Passing Score
70%
Difficulty
ProfessionalLast Updated
May 2026
The Fortinet NSE 6 – FortiVoice Administrator (NSE6_FVE-6.0) is a specialist-level certification exam that validates a candidate's ability to deploy, configure, and manage Fortinet's FortiVoice unified communications platform running version 6.0. The exam assesses practical competency across the full FortiVoice administrative lifecycle, including VoIP system setup, dial plan construction, call routing logic, and day-to-day system management tasks specific to the FortiVoice appliance.
This certification sits within Fortinet's NSE 6 – Network Security Specialist track, which recognizes professionals who have expanded their expertise beyond core firewall administration into Fortinet's broader Secure Fabric product portfolio. Candidates are tested on their ability to integrate FortiVoice within an existing Fortinet security infrastructure, troubleshoot voice environment issues, and maintain system integrity under real-world enterprise conditions. The exam was available until September 30, 2023, and is based on the FortiVoice 6.0 product release.
This certification is designed for network and security professionals who are responsible for administering or supporting enterprise voice communications solutions built on Fortinet's FortiVoice platform. Typical candidates include unified communications administrators, network engineers, and VoIP specialists who work in environments where FortiVoice is deployed alongside other Fortinet security products.
Candidates are expected to have hands-on experience with FortiVoice 6.0 and a working knowledge of VoIP protocols and enterprise telephony concepts. This exam is suited for professionals aiming to formalize their FortiVoice expertise as part of earning the NSE 6 – Network Security Specialist designation, which requires passing a minimum of four NSE 6 exams.
Fortinet does not enforce formal prerequisites for the NSE6_FVE-6.0 exam, but candidates are strongly advised to have at least two years of experience working with network security technologies and practical familiarity with the FortiVoice 6.0 platform. Prior experience with Fortinet products in general—particularly FortiGate and FortiOS—is beneficial for understanding how FortiVoice integrates into the broader Fortinet Secure Fabric.
A solid grounding in VoIP fundamentals, SIP (Session Initiation Protocol), dial plan design, and general IP telephony administration is essential. Candidates who have completed Fortinet's official FortiVoice Administrator training course will be well-positioned, as the exam content aligns closely with that curriculum.
The NSE6_FVE-6.0 exam consists of 30 scored questions and has a total time limit of 60 minutes. Questions are presented in multiple-choice and multiple-response formats. The exam is delivered in English and is available through Pearson VUE, either online with remote proctoring or at an authorized Pearson VUE test center.
Fortinet's NSE 6 exams use a strict scoring method: answers must be 100% correct to receive credit, and no partial credit is awarded for partially correct multiple-response answers. The passing score is 70%. Candidates who do not pass must wait a minimum of 15 days before reattempting the exam. The exam is based on FortiVoice version 6.0.
Earning the NSE6_FVE-6.0 credential validates specialized expertise in enterprise voice communications within a Fortinet environment, making certified professionals more competitive for roles such as unified communications engineer, network security specialist, VoIP administrator, and Fortinet solutions architect. Organizations running Fortinet-centric security infrastructures increasingly look for professionals who can manage voice alongside security, and FortiVoice expertise bridges that gap.
The NSE6_FVE-6.0 contributes toward the Fortinet NSE 6 – Network Security Specialist designation, a recognized industry credential that demonstrates broad Fortinet product proficiency. NSE 6-level certified professionals typically command salaries above $70,000 annually, with compensation varying by region, role, and depth of overall Fortinet expertise. Holding multiple NSE 6 credentials (the designation requires passing at least four exams) further differentiates candidates in the Fortinet partner and enterprise ecosystem.
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1. A Litware Inc. executive boardroom is equipped with FortiPhone-475 endpoints on a high-bandwidth corporate LAN. The IT team wants the highest possible voice call clarity for internal conference calls. Which codec should the administrator configure at the top of the codec preference list for the boardroom extensions? (Select one!)
Explanation
G.722 provides the highest audio quality among the standard FortiVoice-supported codecs when bandwidth is not a constraint. G.722 delivers wideband audio by sampling at 16,000 Hz compared to 8,000 Hz for G.711, covering a frequency range of 50 to 7,000 Hz versus the 300 to 3,400 Hz range of narrowband codecs. This wideband coverage produces noticeably clearer and more natural-sounding speech with a MOS score of approximately 4.5. G.722 achieves this quality at the same 64 kbps payload bitrate as G.711, making it an excellent choice when bandwidth is plentiful and endpoints support it. G.711 provides good quality at MOS 4.1 but at narrowband frequency. G.729 provides lower quality at MOS 3.92 and is optimized for bandwidth-constrained WAN links. Opus is optimized for WebRTC and variable-bandwidth softphone scenarios, not for fixed desk phone boardroom deployments.
2. Adatum Corp operates a FortiVoice system that records 100% of calls across 50 concurrent call center seats running at full capacity for 8 hours per day, 5 days per week. All recordings use G.711 WAV format. Approximately how much storage capacity is needed to retain one full week of call recordings? (Select one!)
Explanation
G.711 WAV recording consumes approximately 1 MB of storage per recorded call-minute. Calculating for this deployment: 50 concurrent calls multiplied by 60 minutes per hour multiplied by 8 hours per day equals 24,000 call-minutes per day. Over 5 working days this totals 120,000 call-minutes per week. At 1 MB per call-minute, weekly storage consumption is approximately 120,000 MB or 120 GB. The 24 GB figure represents only a single day of recordings rather than a full week. This calculation is critical for storage capacity planning because standard FortiVoice configuration backups do not include call recordings — recordings require a separate backup process to external NFS or CIFS storage.
3. Adatum Corp is deploying FortiVoice for a contact center and must ensure voice quality meets international telecommunications standards. A network administrator asks which maximum one-way end-to-end delay threshold is defined by ITU-T G.114 as the boundary for acceptable voice quality. Which value is correct? (Select one!)
Explanation
ITU-T G.114 defines 150 milliseconds as the maximum recommended one-way end-to-end delay for satisfactory voice quality. Within this threshold, the propagation delay is imperceptible during natural conversation. Between 150 ms and 300 ms, users begin to notice the delay and conversations become slightly awkward. Beyond 300 ms one-way delay (equivalent to the round-trip experienced on a satellite call), conversation quality degrades significantly and users frequently talk over each other. FortiVoice targets less than 150 ms one-way delay, less than 30 ms jitter, and less than 1% packet loss to achieve enterprise-grade MOS scores of 4.0 or higher.
4. An administrator at Tailspin Toys is troubleshooting a call setup failure and needs to capture complete SIP messages including the SDP body to examine codec negotiation and media address information exchanged between FortiVoice and the ITSP. Which two CLI commands must be executed to enable full SIP message debugging including SDP body content? (Select two!)
Multiple correct answersExplanation
Two commands are required together to capture full SIP debug output including SDP bodies. The diagnose debug enable command activates the debug output subsystem globally; without it, no debug messages are displayed regardless of application-level settings. The diagnose debug application sip 3 command sets the SIP debug verbosity to level 3, which captures complete SIP messages including the full SDP body showing codec preferences, media addresses, packetization time, and DTMF configuration. Level 1 provides only basic SIP message summaries without SDP body content. The diagnose voip sip session list command shows current session state snapshots but does not capture live message exchange. The packet sniffer captures raw network frames rather than processed application-layer debug output and requires separate Wireshark analysis.
5. An Adatum administrator must configure the FortiVoice outbound dial plan to comply with Kari's Law requirements. The existing dial plan requires users to prefix all external calls with '9' as an access code. Kari's Law mandates that 911 can be dialed directly without any prefix. The organization must also accommodate users who habitually dial '9' before all numbers including emergency calls. Which TWO dial plan rules are required? (Select two!)
Multiple correct answersExplanation
Kari's Law, which took effect in the United States on February 16, 2020, mandates that users can reach emergency services by dialing 911 directly without any access code or prefix. To comply, the administrator must create a highest-priority dial plan rule matching the pattern '911' with no permission restrictions so all extensions can reach emergency services regardless of their class of service. A second rule matching pattern '9911' addresses users who habitually add the access code before any external call, stripping the leading '9' before routing to the PSTN trunk. Both rules must have the highest dial plan priority to ensure they are matched before any other outbound rule. Removing the '9' access code from all existing rules would require extensive redesign and is not required for Kari's Law compliance. Emergency calls must never be gated by auto-attendant verification or permission level restrictions.
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