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Juniper certification

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  • 22-07-2008 11:17pm
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    Stky10
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    Anyone here Juniper certified?.

    I'm just wondering if they could give any qualification as to their difficulty of the exams as opposed to the Cisco ones?.

    I'm already a CCNP for the last 5 years or so, and I'll be getting a decent amount of Juniper exposure over the next few months, but I'd like to know what I'd be letting myself in for with the Juniper exams before I start to buy the books, and do the hard grind of studying.

    I'm guessing that since I already know about how most networking protocols work, I should have a decent start, but any help/suggestions would be appreciated.


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    _CreeD_
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    I havent worked with them at all but this might come in handy http://www.juniper.net/training/fasttrack/?gclid=CIjh-bzWmZECFTgrOAodGinCOw


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    FruitLover
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    Which certification track are you looking at? I have the JNCIA-FWV, which is a joke. You could guess at most of the questions without ever having seen a Juniper firewall. I'm planning to take the JNCIP-FWV soon, and I don't expect to have any problems (I work with Juniper firewalls regularly though), then the JNCIA-IDP.

    The I know people who have passed the JNCIA-ER without ever even logging onto a Juniper router. The ER track goes all the way up to JNCIE though, which I would imagine is a different kettle of fish. I've heard on the grapevine that the firewall track will soon get a JNCIE exam.


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    Stky10
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    I'd be interested primarily in the routing and switching tracks. If I had some time left over, I'd probably look at the firewall track after that. But to be honest, it depends on how much exposure I get to them and how difficult they are.

    Like in the routing track, there's the JNCIA-ER, JNCIS-ER, and JNCIE-ER, which I presume is analagous to the Cisco CCNA, CCNP and CCIE. Since I've got a decent amount of exposure to the protocols already, I'd hope that I could get the JNCIS relatively easily enough, but thats why I asked the question I suppose.


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    FruitLover
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    I'm not sure if they really correlate to the Cisco exams - I don't think they're as broad. I'd imagine the JNCIP-ER should be easy enough for you once you know the Juniper-specific commands etc (although I haven't sat a Juniper routing exam yet).

    JunOS is nice to work with though - Cisco IOS feels pretty clunky when you're used to the Juniper way of things. The switching track is brand new, so I have no experience with it. I believe the switches also run JunOS.


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