phew! still a jncie for 2 more years :)

zoidberg · February 2010

man these juniper certs seem to expire way tooooo fast. i still can't believe it's been nearly 2 years since i did the lab, and the anniversary could not have picked worse timing! just moved, new country, new city, new job, currently homeless, have a gazillion other things to learn. (side note: i am officially aldur's coworker now, same team and all (sigh :P ). but i have a much better customer to support

hehe, while he's stuck supporting my former employer.)

so, with days slipping away and the deadline looming, i woke up today thinking today's the day, ready or not, i need to give it a shot so i have time to retake if needed. as you may surmise from the thread title, it worked out for the best. within 45 minutes after my test started, i had already driven home, jumped on the couch, lost the pants, started beer #1, and was breathing a satisfied sigh of relief. haha, i kid! pants are still on. sorry for that

ya, i kinda raced thru the test as i'm pvr-less and am a slave to live tv programming once again. all that and house was a rerun! doh. at least i'll be ready for 24. but, i'm happy. stress gone and i owned that exam.

that being said, i still think it's a pretty easy test, provided you're comfortable with a lot of different technologies; mpls, l2vpn, l3vpn, mcast, isis, ospf, v6. so glad i've been a service provider networking dude.

how i prepared: sybex jncis-m cd. did all the practice tests; chapters, bonus chapters, assessment, bonus exams. i did every one of those questions today, and reviewed the answers/explanations. i also knew my weak points and quickly reviewed those topics in the sybex book. i found the assessment and bonus exams a lot more challenging than the actual exam. if you're acing the practice, then the real one will be easy. i for one, did not do well on the practice exams at all and was pretty worried about the real one :S. real one, way easier. killed it. didn't get the 100% i got 2-years ago, but i can live with the 96% for the time i put into study and writing. and i know exactly which silly is-is and mcast mistakes i made. i'll get those 2-years from now

now i just need to worry about the enterprise routing in a couple months. sigh. that one i do not feel as confident about. give me mpls and ppvpns over ipsec, gre, and nat any day

sorry, i guess beer makes me ramble

. in closing...

if you have access to the sybex cd, use it! if you don't have access to the cd seeing these books are sadly out of print, bummer :S i know you can download the pdfs from juniper.net, but i don't believe you can get the cd content and i doubt they'll ever release that for free online. i'll try suggesting it to someone, but i don't see it happening

if you're preparing for the exam, feel free to hit me up for help, but i will adhere to the nda.

beer #2!

hoogen82 · February 2010

Congrats ...

zoidberg · February 2010

thanks buddy! looking forward to seeing you add jncie-m to your list, and i'll buy you a beer to celebrate next time i hit sunnyvale

let me know if there's anything i can do to help!

hoogen82 · February 2010

Thanks Zoidberg..

I think you and Zach would definitely love the weather here

zoidberg · February 2010

yes i would! the bay area is beautiful.

i moved out of canada to escape the winter and i've seen more of it in the last 3 weeks than i have all season. doh!

Aldur · February 2010

zoidberg wrote: »

side note: i am officially aldur's coworker now, same team and all (sigh :P ). but i have a much better customer to support hehe, while he's stuck supporting my former employer.)

I know, I did everything I could to keep you off the team! But really I think it was my strong opposition that convinced everybody that you'd be perfect!

zoidberg wrote: »

i still think it's a pretty easy test, provided you're comfortable with a lot of different technologies; mpls, l2vpn, l3vpn, mcast, isis, ospf, v6. so glad i've been a service provider networking dude.

Heh, back in the day when I was studying for this test I thought it was pretty though, then again I'd been only working with the routers for about a month at the time

It's my turn come October

Me thinks it will be somewhat easier this time around though

zoidberg wrote: »

now i just need to worry about the enterprise routing in a couple months. sigh. that one i do not feel as confident about. give me mpls and ppvpns over ipsec, gre, and nat any day

I dunno man, just setup a SSM MVPN today, that was fun... Actually setting up the provider side of things was the easy part. But getting the Spirent working was a whole other deal. After 2 days of beating my head against my screen I finally broke down and used the wizard, had it working 10 mins later....

And yes my wife gets mad at me for not stopping and asking for directions

hoogen82 wrote: »

Thanks Zoidberg.. I think you and Zach would definitely love the weather here

Oh man, don't tempt me. Some beautiful sunny weather sounds sooooooooo good right now. Winters are long and cold up here.

zoidberg wrote: »

i moved out of canada to escape the winter and i've seen more of it in the last 3 weeks than i have all season. doh!

I let John know that you brought that crappy weather down there for him to enjoy

mikej412 · February 2010

Congrats on the recert.

ccie15672 · February 2010

Damn I need to be in your shoes. I think I'm just going to break down and schedule the JNCIP-M like three months from now. This will force me to study my ass off between now and then.

I'm not sharp on policy subroutines. I need to hammer that out.

seraphus · February 2010

Nice to know you still got it

Congrats!

phew! still a jncie for 2 more years :)

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