Your certification goals for 2015?

[wintermute000]

JNCIS-SP down. Very easy relative to JNCIA, at least in my eyes.
It really helped that I know all the BGP/OSPF/MPLS theory already from CCIE reading. As usual labbing like crazy helps a lot.


Also the JunOS Genius app is great - at least 100+ sample questions - really helped me ID my weak points

Can't but help feel that Juniper are short changing the value of their certifications by making it too easy i.e. 1 exam, even with 70 questions, is not enough to properly cover the breath of the topic, maybe not CCNP-V crazy 5 exams but at least 2 - e.g. IGP/HA/bridging as exam 1, MPLS/BGP as exam 2.

[Network2501]

I've heard the JNCIP-SP is pretty challenging but then again the guy wasn't studying for his CCIE.

[Dekoo]

I would like to pass the CCNP R&S (already ordered the books) and MCSA but I am afraid that it will not help me improve my skills by a lot due to not having any "real world" experience with Cisco environment (God bless GNS3 and CPT..)

[SimonV]

JNCIS-SP down. Very easy relative to JNCIA, at least in my eyes.

Congrats! 

[wintermute000]

I've heard the JNCIP-SP is pretty challenging but then again the guy wasn't studying for his CCIE.

Thanks, but TBH any CCIP/CCNP-SP would say the same thing, its more that I'd already covered MPLS material as part of CCIE prep/general interest.
In fact JNCIS-SP goes far more into MPLS and MPLS-VPN technologies than CCIE does, though there are no labs lol

One thing to note is that the JNCIS-SP material for MPLS is the same as the JNCIP material - they don't give you any guidance as to where the cutoff is, so I basically over-prepared on MPLS (judging from the exam questions anyway!). If you google it, the suggested training for the MPLS topic is the same course (JMV) rofl

https://learningportal.juniper.net/juniper/user_activity_info.aspx?id=3799


I am itching to crack on to the JNCIP immediately but I have resolved to take the CCIE seriously (finally) so the only thing I am allowing myself to do is DCUFI, purely because I've actively requested it for training from my company, so if I do the training then obviously do the exam.

[config t]

I am itching to crack on to the JNCIP immediately but I have resolved to take the CCIE seriously (finally) so the only thing I am allowing myself to do is DCUFI, purely because I've actively requested it for training from my company, so if I do the training then obviously do the exam.

It's only January 30th and you are already snappin' necks and cashin' checks!

[icecream-guy]

I am itching to crack on to the JNCIP immediately but I have resolved to take the CCIE seriously (finally) so the only thing I am allowing myself to do is DCUFI, purely because I've actively requested it for training from my company, so if I do the training then obviously do the exam.

It's only January 30th and you are already snappin' necks and cashin' checks!

and here I've done absolutely nothing to achieve my 2015 certification goals 

[deanwebb]

I looked at a firewall today.

[config t]

I looked at a firewall today.

in Soviet Russia, firewall looks at YOUU!

[wintermute000]

protip: when someone is going hard @ certs, it means they are bored out of their minds @ work

[deanwebb]

protip: when someone is going hard @ certs, it means they are bored out of their minds @ work

True dat. I'm up to my asbestos in projects with really cool stuff. I'll get a basic ForeScout cert after I finish the vendor course. I'd like to go for their top-level cert one day, after I've done more work with the product... and if I still like it. But for now, I am looking at basic certs from vendors and keeping my CCNP active - after taking the Cisco course for the test I'm going to take.

[config t]

After I finish a Brocade course this week I need to schedule my second attempt at TSHOOT. I failed that sucker by 10 points. It figures, because I flew through the test in 20 minutes. I was over-confident. But I know what I did wrong, so I will lick my wounds and take my time on the next attempt. From what I hear the 300 series TSHOOT is almost exactly the same as the 642 series, with the exception of a couple more IPv6 tickets thrown in the mix.

[SimonV]

Passed the JNCIA this morning with 81%. Had been labbing all weekend on my SRX's so I was pretty confident about all the topics covered in the Self Study guide.
Those PDF's didn't cover the Networking Fundamentals though, so I lost some points on questions about different standards and their technical specifications. Also a couple of gotchas related to firewall filters and routing policies.



Anyway, a pass is a pass and I learned some neat routing-instance stuff over the last weeks. Replaced my Cisco 1841 ZBFW with an SRX and must say I'm very impressed with JunOS so far. Now I'll need a week to catch up on paperwork and then I'll start hitting the JNCIS-SEC study guides.

[wintermute000]

congratulations!

[config t]

Hmm.. speaking of certification goals for 2015..




<------------- POW! CCNP

Passed the JNCIA this morning with 81%.

Congrats Simon!!