JNCIA JNO-201 materials help

sendalot

JNCIA JNO-201 is the first entry cert in Juniper world, correct?

Where can I find the link of that free pdf textbook for the materials?

I can't find the link on Juniper's website.

Thanks.

NetworkVeteran

Free materials for Juniper's current JNCIA-JUNOS associate-level exam (JNO-101) and a couple specialist-level exams can be found on the following page. You'll need to register first for full access--

Fast Track Program - Routing and Switching Certification - Juniper Networks

sendalot

Learning Portal -> Training? JNCIA-Junos Study Guide—Part 1 and 2?

Are these two PDFs sufficient enough to pass the exam?

Thanks.

NetworkVeteran

To have a good shot at passing, you should do all four steps that they recommend. If you only do step two, and you don't have much networking experience, I can almost assure you that you will fail the exam.

Associate (JNCIA-Junos) Certification Steps:
1. Take the Networking Fundamentals eLearning course
2. Review Study Resources
3. Take the pre-assessment exam
4. Take the live exam at a Pearson VUE testing center

To clarify, step 1 covers basic networking, while step 2 covers basic JunOS.

sendalot

Is "Networking Fundamentals - WBT" the only video I need to review? on top of PDFs and step 3 and 4.

In training portal, there are many more videos like "switches," "Junos as second language," etc.

NetworkVeteran

I suspect you are on a different webpage? If you are log in.. and click on the link I presented.. you should see precisely the four steps I quoted above. Those should be all you see, and they're all you need.

Well, besides some hands-on practice of course.

I do recommend CBT Nuggets for a quick review. At only $24/day it's a bargain!

sendalot

For hands-on practice, did you find a simulator or buy the actual equipment? For either answer, could you list what you have bought?

Thank you very much!!

NetworkVeteran

I used Junosphere. The hardware is simulated. The OS is precisely the full-blown real JunOS and supported by JTAC. I reserved a two-router topology for two days ($20) and mirrored what they were doing on CBT Nuggets ($24).

A few hours of practice was sufficient and extremely helpful.

sendalot

Could you describe which option you chose when buying and which commands you ran?

Thanks.

NetworkVeteran

For CBT Nuggets and Junosphere, I chose their cheapest purchase options. As far as what commands I ran, as I said, I mirrored what they were showing in the CBT Nuggets videos. I also did minimal RIP and OSPF configurations.

sendalot

Did you simply rent 2 Juniper routers and copied CBT commands?

2 routers are enough for all?

Thanks.

NetworkVeteran

sendalot wrote: »

Did you simply rent 2 Juniper routers and copied CBT commands?

Thanks.

Yes, I activated two Junosphere routers for two days. You purchase credits for $5 each, and that cost me four credits.

I mostly typed the commands I saw in CBT nuggets, sometimes with minor variation or a ? to see other options. I explored where the folks in the video said, "This would be a good area to explore on your own." I also setup minimal RIP and OSPF configurations to explore import/export policies, one area that seemed somewhat different in a counter-intuitive way from what I was familiar with working with other vendors. I suspect this gave me a better feel for JunOS and helped improve my retention.

sendalot

Did you use any manual for this?

NetworkVeteran

sendalot wrote: »

Did you use any manual for this?

No. This is only an associate-level exam.

sendalot

Thank you very much for the kind guides!

JDMurray

I just posted a blog article on the JNCIA-Junos. You should find some useful information in there.

ShamPOW

I just passed mine a month ago, and I have to say that I probably got more out of the "JunOS for dummies" book than anything else I found. The "Day One" series put out by Juniper was a good supplement to that. My company has quite a bit of Juniper gear in our core, so I was able to poke around a little bit to get familiar with the CLI without Junosphere.

sendalot

Are we supposed to know how to setup RIP2 and OSPF?

Thanks.