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eLearning Courses

SonicWALL offers a wide-range of high-quality, in-depth eLearning courses. Each course is designed to teach you key security technology fundamentals, along with specific SonicWALL design, configuration, implementation and troubleshooting topics.

SonicWALL Networking Foundations eLearning Courses:

In order to better meet your training needs, SonicWALL has developed a series of free on-line eLearning courses.  These courses are designed to provide you with knowledge and practice necessary to install and configure a number of our solutions.  These courses, when coupled with the optional certification exam, can also be used to meet your CSSA certification needs.

Network Security Overview

For those of you that are new to network security, Sonicwall offers a Network Security Overview course.  This optional course provides the student with and introduction to the key concepts and fundamentals of Network Security.  While this course is not mandatory, it is strongly suggested.

The Network Security Overview course contains the following four modules:

Network Security Essentials

This eLearning course is a prerequisite to Network Security Essentials instructor-led Administrator Training.  The Network Security Essentials modules provide critical foundational information concerning firewall technology, security risks and remediation, as well as network security design and implementation considerations.

Additionally, you learn how to configure and implement SonicWALL firewall appliances, and extend firewall capabilities using rules, security applications and other network specific functions, and troubleshooting techniques. You will practice key activities through online simulations. This eLearning course contains the following 10 modules.

Virtual Private Networking with SonicOS

This course is a prerequisite to Network Security Essentials instructor-led Administrator Training. A critical follow-on to Network Security Essentials, Virtual Private Networking with SonicOS gives you a comprehensive education in core VPN technology, design and implementation considerations. You also learn about SonicWALL-specific configuration and deployment, as well as troubleshooting techniques. This eLearning course contains the following 4 modules.

Securing SonicWALL Wireless Networks

Wireless networks are inherently insecure and SonicWALL Wireless Solutions provides a truly secure solution. In Securing SonicWALL Wireless Networks, you learn about key wireless technology fundamentals, including wireless foundations, LAN communications, security risks and remediation, as well as wireless LAN design and architecture considerations. You also learn about SonicWALL-specific wireless configurations and deployment scenarios, in addition to troubleshooting techniques. Key activities and exercises are available through online simulations. This eLearning course contains the following 5 modules.

How to Access Technical eLearning Courses

All SonicWALL eLearning courses are free for all SonicWALL end-users and partners.

You can begin any eLearning course listed above by clicking an individual module. Each module can be taken in any order and over several days.

All other free eLearning courses can be accessed by logging in to MySonicWALL and going to My Training > eLearning. Each SonicWALL user must log in using their individual MySonicWALL account.

Each Technical eLearning course is self-paced (approximately 6-8 hours). However, courses do not need to be completed in one session. You have unlimited access to all SonicWALL eLearning courses.

SonicWALL eLearning Certification Courses:

In order to better meet your training needs, SonicWALL has developed a series of free on-line eLearning courses.  These courses are designed to provide you with knowledge and practice necessary to install and configure a number of our solutions.  These courses, when coupled with the optional certification exam, can also be used to meet your CSSA certification needs.

Advanced Networking and Security with SonicOS
Email Security Certification Training
Global Management System Certification Training

Advanced Networking and Security with SonicOS

This 8 module online training was designed by industry leading networking experts to utilize advanced features of SonicWALL’s UTM products.  Most modules consists of three parts:

  1. A lecture portion that deals with the theory involved with a specific subject.
  2. A demonstration on how to configure the feature using SonicOS.
  3. An end-of-module quiz preparing you for taking the comprehensive end-of course quiz.  This comprehensive quiz is intended to prepare you for the on-line Certification Exam for this course.

Periodically the student will be provided with the opportunity to prove their mastery of previous subjects through a series of built-in quizzes.

Those that want to prove their mastery can purchase an optional on-line certification exam.

Module 1:  VLANs
  Presentation
  Demonstration 
  Quiz
Module 2: Multicast
  Presentation
  Demonstration
  Quiz
Module 3:  Dynamic Routing
  Presentation
  Demonstration
  Quiz
Module 4: VoIP
  Presentation
  Demonstration
  Quiz
Module 5:  QoS
  Presentation
  Demonstration
  Quiz
Module 6: SSL
  Presentation
  Demonstration
  Quiz
Module 7: High-Availability
  Presentation
  Demonstration  -- Currently not available
  Quiz
Module 8: Application Intelligence
  Presentation
  Demonstration
  Quiz

End-of-Course Quiz

Email Security Training

This class instructs students on how to deploy, configure, and maintain SonicWALL's Email Security solution:

  • Protect a company from email threats such as spam, phishing and viruses
  • Implement and enforce corporate email policies
  • Ensure email compliance requirements are met

Multiple email threat techniques are covered as well as the prevention mechanisms implemented by SonicWALL Email Security. Students also learn about the protocols involved in mail delivery (DNS, SMTP, POP and IMAP), as well as LDAP used by email security. Both basic theory and diagnostics tools are covered.

Periodically the student will be provided with the opportunity to prove their mastery of previous subjects through a series of built-in quizzes.

Those that want to prove their mastery can purchase an optional on-line certification exam.

Global Management System (GMS)

SonicWALL’s Global Management System solution provides a comprehensive architecture for centrally creating and managing security policies, providing real-time monitoring and alerts, and delivering intuitive compliance and usage reports, all from a single management interface. Whether your organization is a small or medium-sized business, a distributed enterprise, or a managed service provider, SonicWALL offers software and appliance solutions to meet your needs.  These lessons provide the fundamental instructions for those who are new to SonicWALL products and services. As a self-paced training, these online courses are meant to help you understand the basic concepts that must be refined through hands-on experience with the SonicWALL products. To make the most of your studies, you need to have as much background on, and experience with, both common operating systems and network environments.  The best way to do this is to combine studying this course with hands-on work in our SonicWALL Live Demo site.

Those that want to prove their mastery can purchase an optional on-line certification exam.

SonicWALL GMS eLearning

  1. Overview
  2. GMS Installation
  3. GMS Communication
  4. Appliance Acquisition and Management
  5. Reporting
  6. Alert and Monitoring
  7. GMS and SRA
  8. GMS and CDP
  9. GMS and ES
  10. GMS Management
  11. GMS Miscellaneous Features
  12. GMS Troubleshooting
  13. Advanced GMS Topics

All SonicWALL eLearning courses are free for all SonicWALL end-users and partners.

You can begin any eLearning course listed above by clicking an individual module. Each module can be taken in any order and over several days.

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