Data Center, Expert – JNCIE

Course Description

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

 

Requirements

Here is a high-level view of the skillset required to successfully complete the JNCIE-DC certification exam.

 

What is the target audience?

CURRICULUM

Layer 3 Underlay

In a controllerless data center, a successful candidate will:
  • Build, deploy, and troubleshoot an IP fabric
  • Use routing policies to ensure that only required addresses are advertised
  • Use all available links for forwarding traffic
  • Build, deploy, and troubleshoot an IP fabric
  • Use routing policies to ensure that only required addresses are advertised
  • Create and use custom tags
  • Restrict all fabric device configurations to Apstra
  • Use all available links for forwarding traffic

Overlay

In a controllerless data center, a successful candidate will:
  • Deploy, manage, and troubleshoot an EBGP- or IBGP- signaled EVPN-VXLAN overlay
  • Establish communication between multihomed and single- homed end devices
  • Create multiple separate Layer 2 and Layer 3 tenant environments
  • Enable routing between different Layer 3 tenants
  • Configure and optimize multicast communication
  • Deploy, manage, and troubleshoot an EBGP-signaled EVPN- VXLAN overlay
  • Establish communication between multihomed and single-homed end devices
  • Create multiple separate Layer 3 tenant environments
  • Enable routing between different Layer 3 tenants

Date Center Interconnect (DCI)

A successful candidate will:
  • Deploy, manage, and troubleshoot a DCI solution between a Juniper Apstra-managed data center and a controllerless data center using Type 2 or Type 5 EVPN routes to enable tenant communication between data centers without the use of Apstra configlets
  • Deploy, manage, and troubleshoot a DCI solution between two controllerless data centers using seamless VXLAN-to-VXLAN stitching to enable tenant communication between data centers
  • Identify incoming VXLAN virtual network identifier (VNI) information from an unmanaged preconfigured peer devices

Security

A successful candidate will:
  • Deploy, manage, and troubleshoot security features that protect the data center infrastructure and edge device
  • Restrict device access from unauthorized protocols and networks
  • Monitor and log excessive traffic events
  • Monitor and track various spanning-tree messages and take required actions according to the defined security requirements

Class of Service (CoS)

A successful candidate will:
  • Configure and troubleshoot CoS settings for server traffic connected to leaf nodes

Management

A successful candidate will:
  • Use tags and probes to track critical services and trigger Apstra anomalies when specific conditions are met or exceeded
  • Create and use custom Apstra configlets
  • Enable subsecond link failure detection using Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) between leaf and external devices
  • Implement date and time synchronization for devices
  • Configure local and remote system logging
  • Enable streaming telemetry on custom ports
  • Use SNMP monitoring in the data centers