Today after a long period of study I passed the JN0-102 exam and earned the JNCIA - Junos certification. This is my first Juniper certification and will surely not be my last.
The JNCIA - Junos the first in the Junos certification track from Juniper. It is the precursor to the JNCIS, JNCIP and JNCIE certifications in the Enterprise, Security and Service Provider certification tracks.
During my preparation for the exam, Juniper updated the JN0-101 exam to the JN0-102, removing some topics and introducing others. I chose to take the JN0-102, which I shouldn't have since I hadn't studied the new topics thoroughly enough.
I made the decision to take the JN0-102 based on the fact that Juniper had said the study materials for the old and new exams were the same and the exams were very similar. However, once reading the detailed exam topics the night before the exam I learned otherwise.
I managed to pass the exam, but I know I would have done better on the JN0-101 exam.
Some topics the exam covers are routing, Junos operation, and subnetting.
Some of the resources I used for preparation are as follows;
The Junos platform is more powerful and flexible to Cisco IOS in my opinion. Features such as automatic archiving of configurations to a remote server, scheduled committing of configuration and the ability to rollback configurations to prevent locking one's self out of a device are some key features that I like. The configuration syntax and methodology takes sometime to get used to if you're coming from a Cisco background and the Juniper equivalent to a Cisco configuration is usually longer. But once you get used to it, you'll appreciate the power of Junos.
For those thinking of taking the exam, be sure to take and pass the Pre-Assesment test on Juniper's website. Once doing so you'll be given a 50% discount voucher code for the exam.
The JNCIA - Junos the first in the Junos certification track from Juniper. It is the precursor to the JNCIS, JNCIP and JNCIE certifications in the Enterprise, Security and Service Provider certification tracks.
During my preparation for the exam, Juniper updated the JN0-101 exam to the JN0-102, removing some topics and introducing others. I chose to take the JN0-102, which I shouldn't have since I hadn't studied the new topics thoroughly enough.
I made the decision to take the JN0-102 based on the fact that Juniper had said the study materials for the old and new exams were the same and the exams were very similar. However, once reading the detailed exam topics the night before the exam I learned otherwise.
I managed to pass the exam, but I know I would have done better on the JN0-101 exam.
Some topics the exam covers are routing, Junos operation, and subnetting.
Some of the resources I used for preparation are as follows;
- JNCIA-Junos study guides available for free from Juniper's Learning Portal
- Junos OS For Dummies
- Junosphere along with Juniper's Day One guides
The Junos platform is more powerful and flexible to Cisco IOS in my opinion. Features such as automatic archiving of configurations to a remote server, scheduled committing of configuration and the ability to rollback configurations to prevent locking one's self out of a device are some key features that I like. The configuration syntax and methodology takes sometime to get used to if you're coming from a Cisco background and the Juniper equivalent to a Cisco configuration is usually longer. But once you get used to it, you'll appreciate the power of Junos.
For those thinking of taking the exam, be sure to take and pass the Pre-Assesment test on Juniper's website. Once doing so you'll be given a 50% discount voucher code for the exam.
info is valuable to prospective test takers. thanks for taking out time and writing this.
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