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[Skeeve Stevens]

Hey Julien,

Juniper have released a new series of 'Troubleshooting'
exams/certification, which are well written and the first Juniper ones
which require multiple exams to have the cert.

The new one is called JNCSP (as opposed to JNCIP) - Support track.
http://www.juniper.net/us/en/training/certification/certification-tracks/

JNCSP has the same as JNCIP, with Security, Service Provider and Enterprise.

Unlike JNCIP, they have two requirements before you have the cert.

Firstly, you need to pass 'JTNOC' (
https://learningportal.juniper.net/juniper/user_activity_info.aspx?id=4001)
as a pre-req for any JNCSP.

Secondly, you need to pass one of the JNCSP-ENT, -SP or -SEC....

But that is not all.  You also have to have the corresponding JNCIP.  For
example, to get a JNCSP-ENT, you need pass JTNOC, JNCIP-ENT and JNCSP-ENT.

These exams (I've attempted without any prep while at the Juniper Tech
conference in Bangkok) the JTNOC, JNCSP-ENT and S-SP, and they are
awesome... failed all of them because essentially I don't troubleshoot all
day and I was doing them for the taste.  I did manage to pass the JNCIP-SP
and JNCIP-ENT earlier in the week.... so I'm not just stupid - just an
architect these days. The JNCSP exams are VERY detailed and not the sort of
thing to just easily pass if you aren't doing a lot of this all the time.

The best person who knows these exams is Kurt Bales, who passed his JTNOC,
JNCSP-SP and JNCSP-ENT in Bangkok... he luckily did a course for JTNOC,
apparently the hardest of them... I think he has since passed JNCSP-SEC now
as well.... a true Juniper Champion (and why he is a Juniper Ambassador).

Suffice to say, if I saw a resume with JNCSP-*, I'd give it much more
serious consideration.


...Skeeve

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On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 10:26 PM, Julien Goodwin <ausnog at studio442.com.au>wrote:

> On 11/10/13 13:47, Beeson, Ayden wrote:
> > Some Certifications are getting much better IMO, Cisco are redo’ing all
> > of their CCNP tests for example (and others I’m sure) to be much more
> > practical, real world experience based. TSHOOT is one that has been
> > completed, the entire cert test was a series of simulations with things
> > wrong, you are told “this does not work” and have to find the problem.
> > The answer consists of saying what device had the problem, and what it
> > was and should be.
> >
> > It was excellent, much better than my previous experiences (such as the
> > old CCNA tests) with a string of theory questions that anybody with a
> > good memory and notes can remember….
>
> I actually took TSHOOT earlier this week as recert time came up and I
> couldn't be bothered to study to take something new. As troubleshooting,
> root cause identification and the like is a core part of my job I too
> found it by far the best cert exam I've ever taken.
>
> I really wish Juniper would finally take a clue and improve their 100%
> multiple choice exams.
>
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