1. Interior Gateway Protocols (IGPs)
Describe the concepts, operation, or functionality of IGPs
- IS-IS
- OSPFv2 and OSPFv3
- Routing Policy
Given a scenario, demonstrate knowledge of how to configure, troubleshoot, or monitor IGPs
Describe the concepts, operation, or functionality of BGP
- BGP route selection process
- Next hop resolution
- BGP attributes: concept and operation
- BGP communities
- Regular expressions
- Load balancing – multipath, multihop, forwarding table
- NLRI families: inet and inet6
- Advanced BGP options
Given a scenario, demonstrate knowledge of how to configure, troubleshoot, or monitor BGP
- Implement BGP routing policy
Describe the concepts, operation, or functionality of IP multicast
- Components of IP multicast, including multicast addressing
- IP multicast traffic flow
- Any-Source Multicast (ASM) vs. Source-Specific Multicast (SSM)
- RPF: concept and operation
- IGMP and IGMP snooping
- PIM dense-mode and sparse-mode
- Rendezvous point (RP): concept, operation, discovery, and election
- SSM: requirements, benefits, address ranges
- Anycast RP
- MSDP
- Routing policy and scoping
Given a scenario, demonstrate knowledge of how to configure, troubleshoot, or monitor IP multicast
- IGMP, PIM-DM, or PIM-SM (including SSM)
- Implement IP multicast routing policy
4. Ethernet Switching and Spanning Tree
Describe the concepts, operation, or functionality of advanced Ethernet switching
- Filter-based VLANs
- Private VLANs
- Dynamic VLAN registration using MVRP
- Tunnel Layer 2 traffic through Ethernet networks
- Junos Fusion Enterprise
- Layer 2 tunneling using Q-in-Q and L2PT
Given a scenario, demonstrate knowledge of how to configure, troubleshoot, or monitor advanced Ethernet switching
- Filter-based VLANs
- Private VLANs
- Dynamic VLAN registration using MVRP
- Tunnel Layer 2 traffic through Ethernet networks
- Junos Fusion Enterprise
- Layer 2 tunneling using Q-in-Q and L2PT
Describe the concepts, operation, or functionality of advanced spanning tree protocols, including MSTP or VSTP
- Given a scenario, demonstrate knowledge of how to configure, troubleshoot, or monitor MSTP or VSTP
5. Layer 2 Authentication and Access Control
Describe the operation of various Layer 2 authentication or access control features
- Authentication process flow
- 802.1x: concepts and functionality
- MAC RADIUS
- Captive portal
- Server fail fallback
- Guest VLAN
- Considerations when using multiple authentication/access control methods
Given a scenario, demonstrate how to configure, troubleshoot, or monitor Layer 2 authentication or access control
Describe the concepts, operation, or functionality of features that facilitate IP telephony deployments
- Power over Ethernet (PoE)
- LLDP and LLDP-MED
- Voice VLAN
Given a scenario, demonstrate how to configure, troubleshoot, or monitor features used to support IP telephony deployments
Describe the concepts, operation, or functionality of Junos CoS for Layer 2 or 3 networks
- CoS processing on Junos devices
- CoS header fields
- Forwarding classes
- Classification
- Packet loss priority
- Policers
- Schedulers
- Drop profiles
- Shaping
- Rewrite rules
Given a scenario, demonstrate knowledge of how to configure, troubleshoot, or monitor CoS for Layer 2 or 3 networks
Describe the concepts, operation, or functionality of Junos EVPN
- VXLAN
- Multi-homing (for example, active route types)
Given a scenario, demonstrate knowledge of how to configure, troubleshoot, or monitor EVPN