Juniper

Juniper Certification Training

The Juniper Networks Certification Program (JNCP) consists of Junos-based and platform-specific, multi-tiered tracks that enable you to demonstrate competence with Juniper's technology in the areas most pertinent to your job function and experience.

Curriculum

Junos OS Fundamentals

• Explain the Junos OS architecture

• Describe the functions of the control and forwarding planes

User Interface Options

• Describe the functions of the CLI modes

• List options for getting help and filtering output

• Explain options for moving around in the CLI

• Explain the Junos batch configuration model

• Modify and manage configuration files

• Describe the J-Web user interface 

Junos Configuration Basics

• Describe initial configuration steps and system maintenance

• Save and restore a rescue configuration

• Describe network interfaces and their associated properties

• Configure various types of interfaces

• List and describe user authentication methods

• Configure user accounts with default and custom login classes

• Describe, configure and monitor syslog and tracing

• Describe, configure and monitor configuration tasks, such as NTP, SNMP, and configuration archival 

Operational Monitoring and Maintenance

• Explain how to view relevant interface statistics and errors in the CLI

• List ways of gathering state and health information for a Junos device

• Explain the purpose and syntax for various network utilities such as ping, traceroute, telnet, ssh, etc.

• Identify the procedure for installing or upgrading Junos

• Explain how to reset a lost root password 

Routing Fundamentals

• Define route preference and list some default route preferences

• Explain how to view the contents of the routing tables

• Explain how the routing and forwarding tables differ

• Describe and configure static routing

• List the advantages and applications of a dynamic routing protocol

Routing Policy and Firewall Filters

• Define a term

• Explain when import and export policies are evaluated in relation to the learning and advertising of prefixes

• List several match criteria and actions for firewall filters and routing policy

• Explain some common match criteria and

• Identify the results of a route or packet with a given filter or policy

• Configure a routing policy and firewall filters

Class of Service

• Describe class of service

Networking Fundamentals

• Convert decimal to binary and binary to decimal

• Define the term broadcast domain and the purpose of a router

• Describe Ethernet operation

• Describe the purpose of the subnet mask

• Compare and contrast connection-oriented and connectionless protocols

• Explain how to segment large networks into smaller ones

• Identify the longest match from a routing table for a given destination