Recently I passed the Juniper Networks Certified Specialist - Security exam, JNCIS-SEC.
I spent several months studying off and on for the exam and finally bit the bullet and wrote it.
The exam was straight forward with only multiple choice questions. The exam solely covers the SRX series of security gateways. If you study the Fast Track guides provided by Juniper you should be able to pass with little issue.
Fortunately for me, the company I am employed by is under going a significant infrastructure upgrade which involved implementing Juniper SRX550 firewalls in a chassis cluster configuration. This allowed me to get significant hands on experience with the SRX and all of it's security features.
The major plus about Juniper certifications is that only one exam is required to obtain a certification unlike other vendors who require multiple exams.
For prepartion I used the Fast Track study guides available for free on Juniper's website and the SRX Series book by O'Reilly along with hands on experience.
Juniper provides a pre-assement test on their website. If you pass it, you receive a 50% discount voucher for the exam.
Juniper doesn't have the market share that Cisco and other vendors may have. However, their devices offer significant advantages and features that other vendor's don't. Also, Juniper is well known in the service provider sector.
Having knowledge and experience with Juniper and/or other vendors will give you a niche advantage that others won't have.
Coming from a Cisco background myself, I prefer Juniper due to the bang for your buck that you get. Juniper offers features on their low-end to mid-range products that other vendor reserve for their higher end products. Also, Junos offers several advantages over Cisco IOS such as batch configuration, automatic archiving of configurations and the ability to rollback to a previous configuration to name a few.
Networking isn't my career focus but it's an area that I do enjoy working in and you can't get really far in the IT field without having at least some basic networking knowledge.
I spent several months studying off and on for the exam and finally bit the bullet and wrote it.
The exam was straight forward with only multiple choice questions. The exam solely covers the SRX series of security gateways. If you study the Fast Track guides provided by Juniper you should be able to pass with little issue.
Fortunately for me, the company I am employed by is under going a significant infrastructure upgrade which involved implementing Juniper SRX550 firewalls in a chassis cluster configuration. This allowed me to get significant hands on experience with the SRX and all of it's security features.
The major plus about Juniper certifications is that only one exam is required to obtain a certification unlike other vendors who require multiple exams.
For prepartion I used the Fast Track study guides available for free on Juniper's website and the SRX Series book by O'Reilly along with hands on experience.
Juniper provides a pre-assement test on their website. If you pass it, you receive a 50% discount voucher for the exam.
Juniper doesn't have the market share that Cisco and other vendors may have. However, their devices offer significant advantages and features that other vendor's don't. Also, Juniper is well known in the service provider sector.
Having knowledge and experience with Juniper and/or other vendors will give you a niche advantage that others won't have.
Coming from a Cisco background myself, I prefer Juniper due to the bang for your buck that you get. Juniper offers features on their low-end to mid-range products that other vendor reserve for their higher end products. Also, Junos offers several advantages over Cisco IOS such as batch configuration, automatic archiving of configurations and the ability to rollback to a previous configuration to name a few.
Networking isn't my career focus but it's an area that I do enjoy working in and you can't get really far in the IT field without having at least some basic networking knowledge.
