Certification
Resources - JNCIP-M Objectives
This list is intended to provide a general view of the skill set required to successfully complete the specified certification exam. Topics listed are subject to change.
- IP Unicast Routing Protocols
- Routing Policy
- Network Management
- Miscellaneous Juniper Networks Hardware and Software Features
- General Troubleshooting and Fault Isolation
IP Unicast Routing Protocols
- Routing Information Protocol (RIP), version 1 and 2.
- Theory of operation, design principles
- Metrics
- JUNOS Internet software implementation
- Open Shortest Path First (OSPF).
- Metrics
- Area Border Router (ABR)
- Theory of operation, design principles
- Autonomous System Boundary Router (ASBR)
- Address summarization, restricting LSAs
- Authentication
- Stub Areas, NSSAs, and Totally Stubby Areas
- Network types
- Virtual Links
- Multiple instances
- JUNOS Internet software implementation
- Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS).
- Theory of operation, design principles
- Network types
- Metrics
- Router types
- Authentication
- Route Leaking
- Address summarization
- JUNOS Internet software implementations
- Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP).
- Theory of operation, design principles
- BGP attributes
- IBGP vs. EBGP
- Route selection algorithm
- Route Reflectors, confederations
- Load balancing
- Authentication
- JUNOS Internet software implementation
Routing Policy
- Policy creation and application.
- Route filters.
- Regular expressions (AS path and community).
Network Management
- Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).
- JUNOS Internet software implementation.
Miscellaneous Juniper Networks hardware and software features
- Product architecture and packet processing.
- Packet flow
- M5, M10, M20, M40, and M160 Internet router hardware
- Redundancy and maintenance
- Interfaces types and configuration, layer 2 encapsulation options.
- The JUNOS Internet software file system and upgrade procedures.
- System logging.
- VRRP.
- NTP.
- Statistical sampling, cflowd export.
- GRE and IP tunnels.
- Rate-limiting.
General troubleshooting and fault isolation
- Protocol tracing, log analysis, use of show commands, etc.







