Junos Associate ER&S (JNCIA-Junos)

The JNCIA-Junos certification is designed for networking professionals with beginner-intermediate knowledge of networking. JNCIA-Junos provides a core understanding of the Juniper Networks core operating system, it serves as the baseline certification.

Course Highlights

  • Identify the concepts and functionality of various fundamental elements of networking
  • Identify the concepts, benefits or functionality of the core elements of the Junos OS
  • Identify the concepts, operation or functionality of the Junos OS user interface
  • Identify the main elements for configuring Junos devices
  • Identify methods of monitoring or maintaining Junos devices
  • Identify basic routing concepts or functionality for Junos devices
  • Identify the concepts or functionality of routing policy and firewall filters on Junos devices

Course Schedule

Collision domains and broadcast domains
Function of routers and switches
Ethernet networks
Layer 2 addressing, including address resolution
Layer 3 / IP addressing including subnet masks
IPv4 / IPv6
Subnetting and supernetting
Decimal to binary conversion
Longest match routing
CoS
Connection-oriented vs. connectionless protocols

Software architecture
Control and forwarding planes
Routing Engine and Packet Forwarding Engine
Transit traffic processing
Exception traffic

CLI functionality
CLI modes
CLI navigation
CLI Help
Filtering output
Active versus candidate configuration
Reverting to previous configurations
Modifying, managing, and saving configuration files
Viewing, comparing, and loading configuration files
J-Web (core/common functionality only)

Factory-default state
Initial configuration
User accounts
Login classes
User authentication methods
Interface types and properties
Configuration groups
Additional initial configuration elements, such as NTP, SNMP, and syslog
Configuration archival
Logging and tracing
Rescue configuration
Describe how to configure basic components of a Junos device

Show commands
Monitor commands
Interface statistics and errors
Network tools, such as ping, traceroute, telnet, SSH, and so on
Junos OS installation and upgrades
Powering on and shutting down Junos devices
Root password recovery
Describe monitoring or maintenance procedures for a Junos device

Traffic forwarding concepts
Routing tables
Routing versus forwarding tables
Route preference
Routing instances
Static routing
Advantages of and use cases for dynamic routing protocols
Describe how to configure or monitor basic routing elements for a Junos device

Default routing policies
Import and export policies
Routing policy flow
Effect of policies on routes and routing tables
Policy structure and terms
Policy match criteria, match types, and actions
Firewall filter concepts
Filter structure and terms
Filter match criteria and actions
Effect of filters on packets
Unicast reverse-path-forwarding (RPF)
Describe how to configure or monitor routing policies and firewall filters on a Junos device