OK here’s a little update.
I ended up taking a little break from CCIE SP study because… let’s be honest CCIE R&S ate up almost two years of my life, not to mention CCNA/CCNP before hand, so I’ve been wanting to live a little.
However, I’ve had the need to pick up some Juniper skills for a few up coming jobs in the real world. Some of the higher ups where I work are feeling a little anti Cisco at the moment, so are pushing out some Juniper gear instead, which is fine compared, to some of the schlock they pushed from other vendors that have just been complete fail, where money talked and bullshit literally walked (no names here
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So over the last few months I’ve been reading some Juniper material, and finally took the plunge and hit out the M/T track for the JNCIS. Which I’ve found to be much more interesting than the ER arm… If you’re already got a CCNP or CCIE under the belt and some real world experience with Juniper this shouldn’t be a hard slog
Juniper make free in PDF format all their M/T track out of print JNCIA/S/P/E Sybex material free to download from their site. I’d recommend reading these. The ER/EX material is available through their fast track program.
My only criticism is the actual test isn’t that much of a experience compared to Cisco Professional series exams for CCxP. The feeling is almost a throw back to the old CompTIA’s (Network+/A+ etc) style format.
I’d probably like to follow through with the JNCIP/E exams afterwards, but Juniper’s Lab availability isn’t anywhere near Cisco CCIE lab availability, with locations, they only set a specific day at a specific world wide location. They’d probably most likely involve international flights to do them in Singapore at this rate, but the pay off for having them might not be all that much.
Still waiting for my CCIE to start paying off $$ wise.
Also I’ve notied the JNCIS-M JN0-303 is due for an update in April 2010.
