
Explore Juniper's JNCIA-Junos exam topics through theory and live-box demonstrations, with visual explanations and screenshot-friendly references to help you certify quickly.
Explore networking fundamentals, including Ethernet basics, collision domains, and the roles of hubs, switches, and routers; learn about duplex, csma/cd, and broadcast domains.
In this lesson we'll be reviewing the categories of devices seen on an enterprise network and the roles they play.
Explore spine and leaf data center topology alongside hub-and-spoke, full and partial mesh WANs, and two-tier to three-tier enterprise LAN designs for redundancy and scalability.
Explore physical cabling, copper and fiber types, connectors like SC and LC, shared media vs point-to-point links, and single versus multimode fiber with guidance on troubleshooting and parts.
Explore IPv4 addressing, binary counting, and subnet masks to distinguish the network and host portions, apply CIDR prefixes like /21 and /24, and review private RFC 1918 ranges.
Explore IPv6 addressing by examining the 128-bit hex address, colon notation, and compression rules, including slash 64 prefixes and subnetting, global unicast, unique local, link local, anycast, and multicast concepts.
Explore how a router uses the longest match and prefix length from the routing table to forward traffic, comparing /30, /32, and default routes on a Juniper device.
Prioritize network traffic using class of service to differentiate layer two traffic, manage queues and buffers, and prevent drops during congestion for critical applications like database transactions.
Contrast tcp as a connection oriented protocol with sequence, acknowledgement, and a three-way handshake, with udp as a connectionless protocol with an 8-byte header and no delivery guarantees.
Explore Junos OS architecture built on a FreeBSD Unix-based kernel, where daemon processes isolate tasks for stability. See how RPD, MGD, and DCCD run in the background to manage routing.
Explore the control and forwarding planes, focusing on the routing engine and the packet forwarding engine. See how the routing table feeds the forwarding table to enable transit traffic.
Differentiate transit traffic, which is handled by the packet forwarding engine using the forwarding table, from exception traffic, which is destined for the device and processed by the routing engine.
Explore the junos cli overview, including the freebsd shell, operational and configuration modes, and prompt recognition. Use show commands to monitor, configure, and navigate the cli prompts effectively.
Learn to navigate Junos CLI hierarchy, enter edit mode, set routing instance types (VRF or VCF), and use the help system and output filtering to compare candidate and active configurations.
Explore how Junos OS differentiates candidate and active configurations, and how commits, commit check, and commit confirm safeguard connectivity in a hands-on lab.
Master Junos configurations by loading and viewing configs, comparing candidate and active, rolling back past commits, and using load options merge and override to manage saved files.
Explore the Junos OS web interface (J-Web) for configuring and monitoring devices, using setup wizards, dashboards, monitoring tabs, and CLI fallback to manage firewall policies, VPN, NAT, and troubleshooting.
Configure the Junos OS initial configuration by identifying factory defaults, setting the host name and root password, and enabling NTP, SNMP, syslog, and a local admin user before committing.
Configure Junos authentication by defining login classes for role based access control, choose authentication methods (radius, tacacs+, local), and manage permissions, command allowances, and order behavior.
Explore Juniper device interfaces, differentiate network and special interfaces, and memorize the five types—permanent, transient, network, service, and container—plus the interface naming scheme fpc pic port unit and related terms.
Explore how Junos logs and traces work, locate log files in /var/log, use syslog facilities and severities, configure log destinations, and create trace options for routing changes.
Explore advanced junos configuration concepts including configuration groups, apply groups, inheritance and excluding inheritance, archiving active configuration, and rescue configuration rollback for resilient device management.
Learn operational monitoring and maintenance by gathering device information with show and monitor commands, and filtering outputs using match, display set, and find in a hands on lab.
Master Junos troubleshooting with practical steps and tools, from interface statistics and duplex checks to BPDU errors, SSH/Telnet access, ping, traceroute, and root password recovery.
Learn to perform software installation and upgrades on Juniper devices, using USB or external sources, validate images, back up with system snapshots, and reboot safely within a maintenance window.
Explore routing tables and forwarding tables in Juniper devices, including the control plane’s role, show route outputs, and how next hops and interfaces are determined.
Explore how Juniper routing tables and routing instances organize unicast and multicast routes, and see how vrf and virtual router instances separate traffic.
Explore how dynamic routing automatically exchanges routes with peers, reroutes around failures, and compares link-state and distance-vector protocols like OSPF, IS-IS, and BGP for scalable networks.
Explore routing policies and firewall filters, focusing on import/export controls that modify routing information, understand top-to-bottom evaluation with from and then statements, and learn tagging and chaining.
Learn how routing policies use match criteria and route filters to control prefixes and attributes, and understand default import and export rules for OSPF, IS-IS, BGP, and RIP.
Explore Junos firewall filters: ingress and egress processing, actions such as accept, deny, reject, and drop; terms from statements, logging, and implicit deny govern filtering.
Learn to configure firewall filters by matching fields like address, port, dhcp, dscp, and icmp, applying them ingress or egress, and using terminating actions like accept, reject, and discard.
Network engineers of today have more demand placed on them than ever before, and often times we're required to be well versed in multiple vendor devices. Having your JNCIA will make you much more valuable to employers!
The JNCIA is the Associate level certification from Juniper Networks. The JNCIA-Junos certification is a pre-requisite to many other certifications, such as JNCIS-ENT, and JNCIS-SP!
With Juniper Networks increasing their market share in the networking world, you'll be well positioned to work on these devices as they become more commonly deployed.
In this course we have over 10hrs of video content covering hardware and software basics for Juniper devices that will allow you to jump into any environment with Juniper devices and hit the ground running. With knowledge checks along the way to ensure your understanding
**February 2024 Update! This course is updated for the new JN0-105 version of the JNCIA-Junos exam!
**October 2023 Update! Now included with this course is a full length practice exam!
We'll be covering all exam topics in Juniper's JN0-105 for the JNCIA-Junos certification blueprint, Including:
Networking Fundamentals
Junos OS Fundamentals
Juniper Device User Interfaces
Junos Configuration Basics
Juniper Device Operational Monitoring and Maintenance
Routing Fundamentals
Overview and Configuration of Routing Policies and Firewall Filters
My goal is to help you pass your certification exam as quickly as possible, and that's exactly how I've designed this course. Pointing out and referencing areas that are common for exam questions and giving you all of the needed information without any of the fluff.
So let's get started on the learning path and have some fun!