Cisco Management Console (FMC) Basics & Logging Overview-Beginner Level

Course Overview

This 2-day instructor-led training program introduces participants to Cisco Firepower Management Center (FMC) with a focus on basic administration, policy management, logging, and monitoring. The course explains how FMC centrally manages Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) physical and virtual firewalls, enabling security teams to control access policies, view security events, analyze logs, and perform basic troubleshooting. Designed for beginners, the program emphasizes conceptual clarity and hands-on familiarity with FMC dashboards, logging workflows, and common operational tasks, preparing participants for day-to-day firewall monitoring and entry-level security operations roles.

Course Outcomes

• By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
• • Understand the role of FMC in Cisco NGFW environments
• • Navigate FMC UI and manage basic configurations
• • Create and deploy basic access control policies
• • Enable and analyze logs and security events
• • Perform basic monitoring and troubleshooting tasks