JNCIS - Epic Win (Again)

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000

I spent the last of my Juniper exam vouchers on the JNCIS-SEC exam and passed by the skin of my teeth today. Since I took a new job last month that’s 100% Cisco, this is the last Juniper exam I’ll take for the foreseeable future. Too bad, too. I really like the Juniper exams.

At my previous job, we were 90% Juniper with a whole mess of SRX firewalls around the world. Since this exam is really about that platform, it was pretty logical that I should do alright on it. Of course, a large part of the blueprint was on IDS and UTM, and I have no experience there. For my entire career, those type of devices have been handled by other groups, so I had some studying to do. That’s where I ran into problems. I have absolutely no interest in IDS. I have no interest in UTM. There’s nothing about content scanning and analysis that interests me at all. I promise you all that I tried my best to read up on these topics, but I was asleep after 10 words every time I tried. After rescheduling the exam twice to try and study a bit more, I finally decided it wasn’t worth the trouble and just took the exam…and passed.

JNCIS - Epic Win!

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000

I quit my job…by design. I start a new gig on Tuesday and am getting back to the world of Cisco. As a last nod to Juniper, I decided to use an exam voucher I had and take the JNCIS-ENT exam. Easy pass.

The content was right along with the exam objectives, so there were no surprises. Most of the topics are things I’ve done a thousand times on the job. There were some things, though, that were beyond my experience. IS-IS was the big one. The very first question I got was about IS-IS metrics, and I had absolutely no clue what the answer was. Nor did I have any clue about the other IS-IS questions. I went 0-for-3 on those guys. The only other problematic topic was HA, which didn’t really surprised me. I was able to answer the VRRP questions, but I’ve never done any GRES, ISSUe, RTG, etc., at any point in my career. It wasn’t surprising that I didn’t do too well on those. Everything else was cake, and I only missed 6 questions in my comfort zone.

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JNCIS - Epic Win (Again)

JNCIS - Epic Win!