Design, Associate (JNCIA-Design)
The Design track enables you to demonstrate competence with Juniper Networks design principles and associated technologies. JNCIA-Design, the associate-level certification in this track, is designed for networking professionals and designers with beginner knowledge of network design, theory, and best practices. The written exam verifies your understanding of network design fundamentals.
This track includes one certification:
JNCIA-Design: Design, Associate. For details, see the sections below.
Exams & Recommended Training
| Objective | Details |
| Customer Network Design Requirements | Identify initial network design requirements for:- Juniper Networks life-cycle service approach
- Proposal boundaries and considerations
- Greenfield and brownfield deployments
- Top-down networks
- Capacity planning
Identify the roles of different Juniper products and solutions, including: - Routers
- Switches
- Security
- WLAN
- Software-defined networking (SDN)
- Network management
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| Securing the Network | Identify security design principles for:- General security design and considerations
- Securing a data center
- Securing the campus WAN
- Zero-trust security
- Secure access service edge (SASE)
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| Network Management or Reliability | Identify network design considerations for business continuity, including:- High-resiliency design
- Link- and device-level redundancy
- Multihomed Ethernet Segment Identifier Link Aggregation Groups (ESI LAGs)
- Juniper Networks SRX Firewalls redundancy
- Virtual chassis
- Campus redundancy best practices
Identify design considerations for network automation, including: - Benefits of network automation
- Juniper automation products
- Junos® XML, Representational State Transfer (REST), JSD APIs
- Junos OS on-box and off-box automation
Identify design considerations for network management strategies, including: - Network management methodologies
- Separation of production and management traffic
- Configuration backups
- Remote console access
- Juniper network management strategies
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| Campus and Branch LAN Design | Identify considerations for a wired campus or branch LAN, including:- Campus LAN design best practices
- Modular design
- Subnet and VLAN design
- Access control design
- Ethernet VPN-Virtual Extensible LAN (EVPN-VXLAN) architecture
- Campus oversubscription ratios
- Campus design architectures
Identify considerations for a wireless LAN, including: - WLAN design phases
- Gathering business requirements
- Gathering technical requirements
- Device types
- Designing secondary coverage
- Designing real-time location services
- Access point (AP) coverage patterns
- Co-channel contention
- Gathering RF requirements
- RF modeling
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| Campus and Branch WAN Design | Identify considerations for a campus or branch WAN, including:- Campus or branch WAN connectivity functions
- Best practices for designing the campus or branch WAN
- Campus WAN performance
- Campus WAN VPN design
- Campus active/active and active/passive high availability (HA)
Identify considerations for an SD-WAN, including: - SD-WAN design considerations
- SD-WAN devices
- Assurance models
- SD-WAN intersite connectivity
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| Data Center Network Design | Identify considerations for general data center network, including:- Data center design best practices
- Traffic patterns
- Virtual chassis
- Environmental considerations
- Data center fabric architectures
Identify considerations for IP fabric-based data center network, including: - Benefits of IP fabric over other data center architectures
- Design options with IP fabrics
- Spine-and-leaf device placement recommendations
- Underlay and overlay design
- Routing protocol selection
- IP fabric best practices
- IP fabric scaling
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Recertification
Juniper certifications are valid for three years.
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