Juniper Networks Certified Specialist – JNCIS

Course Description

The Data Center track enables you to demonstrate competence with advanced data center technologies and related configuration and troubleshooting skills. JNCIS-DC is at the pinnacle of the data center certification track.

 

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CURRICULUM

Protocol-Independent Routing

Identify the concepts, operation, or functionality of various protocol-independent routing components:
  • Static, aggregate, and generated routes
  • Martian addresses
  • Routing instances, including routing information base (RIB) (also known as routing table) group
  • Load balancing
  • Filter-based forwarding
  • Static, aggregate, and generated routes
  • Load balancing
  • Filter-based forwarding

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)

Identify the concepts, operation, or functionality of OSPF:
  • Link-state database
  • OSPF packet types
  • Router ID
  • Adjacencies and neighbors
  • Designated router and backup designated router
  • OSPF area and router types
  • Link-state advertisement (LSA) packet type
  • Areas, interfaces and neighbors
  • Additional basic options
  • Routing policy application
  • Troubleshooting tools

Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS)

Identify the concepts, operation, or functionality of IS-IS:
  • Link-state database
  • IS-IS protocol data units (PDUs)
  • Type, length, values (TLVs)
  • Adjacencies and neighbors
  • Levels and areas
  • Designated intermediate system (DIS)
  • Metrics
  • Levels, interfaces and adjacencies
  • Additional basic options
  • Routing policy application
  • Troubleshooting tools

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)

Identify the concepts, operation, or functionality of BGP:
  • BGP basic operation
  • BGP message types
  • Attributes
  • Route/path selection process
  • Internal and external BGP (IBGP and EBGP) functionality and interaction
  • Groups and peers
  • Additional basic options
  • Routing policy application

Layer 2 Bridging or VLANs

Identify the concepts, operation, or functionality of Layer 2 bridging for the Junos OS:
  • Service provider switching platforms
  • Bridging elements and terminology
  • Frame processing
  • Virtual Switches
  • Provider bridging (Q-in-Q tunneling)
  • Port modes
  • Tagging
  • Integrated Routing and
  • Bridging (IRB)
  • Interfaces and ports
  • VLANs
  • IRB
  • Provider bridging

Spanning-Tree Protocols

Identify the concepts, benefits, operation, or functionality of Spanning Tree Protocol and its variants:
  • Spanning Tree Protocol (STP), Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP), Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP), and VLAN Spanning Tree Protocol (VSTP) concepts
  • Port roles and states
    Bridge Protocol Data Units (BPDUs)
  • Convergence and reconvergence
  • Spanning-tree security
  • Spanning-tree protocols (STP, RSTP, MSTP, VSTP)
  • BPDU, loop and root protection

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)

Identify the concepts, operation, or functionality of MPLS:
  • MPLS terminology
  • MPLS packet header
  • End-to-end packet flow and forwarding
  • Labels and the label information base
  • MPLS and routing tables
  • RSVP
  • LDP
  • Segment routing
  • MPLS forwarding
  • RSVP-signaled and LDP-signaled Label-Switched Paths (LSPs)

IPv6

Identify the concepts, operation, or functionality of IPv6:
  • IPv4 versus IPv6
  • Address types, notation, and format
  • Address scopes
  • Autoconfiguration
  • Tunneling
  • Interfaces
  • Static routes
  • Dynamic routing (OSPFv3, IS-IS, BGP)
  • IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling

Tunnels

Identify the concepts, requirements, or functionality of IP tunneling:
  • Tunneling applications and considerations

  • Generic routing encapsulation (GRE)
    Demonstrate knowledge of how to configure, monitor, or troubleshoot IP tunnels:

     

  • GRE

High Availability

Identify the concepts, benefits, applications, or requirements of high availability:
  • Link aggregation groups (LAGs) and multichassis LAGs (MC- LAGs)

  • Graceful restart (GR)

  • Graceful Routing Engine switchover (GRES)

  • Nonstop bridging (NSB)

  • Nonstop active routing (NSR)

  • Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)

  • Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)

  • Unified In-Service Software Upgrade (ISSU)

  • LAG

  • Graceful restart, GRES, NSB, and NSR

  • Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)