At the pinnacle of the Data Center certification track is the 1-day JNCIE-DC practical exam. This exam is designed to validate the networking professionals’ ability to deploy, configure, manage, and troubleshoot Junos-based platforms. Throughout this 8-hour practical exam, candidates will build a data center network consisting of multiple MX Series and QFX Series devices. Successful candidates will perform system configuration on all devices including management capabilities, a Clos IP fabric, EVPN/VXVLAN, DCI, and CoS features.
The JNCIE-DC is valid for three years. Recertification is achieved by passing the current version of the JNCIP-DC exam or by attending a corresponding course.
Exam Overview
Exam code: JPR-980
Lab Exam (Hands-on Lab)
Held at selected Juniper Networks testing centers
Exam length: 8 hours
Prerequisite certification: JNCIP-DC
The lab will be available 3 April 2017
Junos Software Release:
- MX80 3D Universal Edge Router: 16.1
- QFX5100 Ethernet Switch: 14.1
- vMX 3D Universal Edge Router: 15.1
- vSRX Services Gateway: 12.1
Topics for the Exam
Management
- On-box Scripts
- Event scripts
- Commit scripts
- Operation scripts
- Junos Space
- Auto discover
- Configuration management
- ZTP
- Initial provisioning of QFX switches using a CentOS DHCP server
- NETCONF
Layer 2 Underlay
- VCF configurations
- Master and backup RE
- Inactive state VCF member
- VCP port setup
- Convert interface speed
- 40G to 4x10G
- MC-LAG
- Interchassis link (ICL) redundancy
- IRB MAC Sync
- Layer 3 gateway function
- ICCP
Layer 3 Underlay
- BGP for an IP Clos fabric
- Clos IP fabric
- Loopback interface for routing updates
- EBGP in an IP fabric
- Avoid blackholing traffic
- Routing policies
Controllerless Overlay
- EVPN control plane
- EVPN signaling
- EVPN routes
- VNI target communities
- Prevent suboptimal routing
- Inter-VRF routing
- Automatic route-target
- Load balancing
- Anycast Gateway
- EVPN/VXLAN
- Virtual tunnel end point function
- VXLAN learning process
- MAC address learning
- Passing traffic between VNIs
Data Center Interconnect (DCI)
- DCI
- EVPN signaled VXLAN
- L3VPN implementation
- EVPN MPLS
Security
- Control plane protection
- Firewall filters
- Role-base access control (RBAC)
- SRX Series device as a gateway
- Security zones
- Security policies
Class of Service (CoS)
- CoS features
- Loss priority
- Rewrite rules
- Shaping and policing
- Scheduling
- BA and MF classification
- Drop profiles
- Traffic control profiles