Exam Vouchers: Design, Associate (JNCIA-Design) (JN0-1103)

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.

Exam Length

- 90 minutes

Exam Type

- 65 multiple-choice questions

Recertification

- Juniper certifications are valid for three years.

Identify initial network design requirements

Identify the roles of different Juniper products and solutions

Identify security design principles

Identify network design considerations for business continuity

Identify design considerations for network automation

Identify design considerations for network management strategies

Identify considerations for a wired campus or branch LAN

Identify considerations for a wireless LAN

Identify considerations for a campus or branch WAN

Identify considerations for an SD-WAN

Identify considerations for general data center network design

Identify considerations for IP fabric-based data center network design

1. Customer Network Design Requirements

• Juniper Networks life-cycle service approach
• Proposal boundaries and considerations
• Greenfield and brownfield deployments
• Top-down networks
• Capacity planning

2. Juniper Products and Solutions

• Routers
• Switches
• Security
• WLAN
• Software-defined networking (SDN)
• Network management

3. Securing the Network

• General security design and considerations
• Securing a data center
• Securing the campus WAN
• Zero-trust security
• Secure access service edge (SASE)

4. Network Management and Reliability Business Continuity

• 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

Network Automation

• Benefits of network automation
• Juniper automation products
• Junos XML, REST, JSD APIs
• Junos OS on-box and off-box automation

Network Management Strategies

• Network management methodologies
• Separation of production and management traffic
• Configuration backups
• Remote console access
• Juniper network management strategies

5. Campus and Branch LAN Design Wired LAN

• Campus LAN design best practices
• Modular design
• Subnet and VLAN design
• Access control design
• EVPN-VXLAN architecture
• Campus oversubscription ratios
• Campus design architectures

Wireless LAN

• 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

6. Campus and Branch WAN Design Campus or Branch WAN

• WAN connectivity functions
• Best practices for designing the WAN
• WAN performance
• WAN VPN design
• Active/active and active/passive high availability (HA)

SD-WAN

• SD-WAN design considerations
• SD-WAN devices
• Assurance models
• SD-WAN intersite connectivity

7. Data Center Network Design General Data Center Design

• Data center design best practices
• Traffic patterns
• Virtual chassis
• Environmental considerations
• Data center fabric architectures

IP Fabric-Based Data Center

• Benefits of IP fabric over other 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

Recommended Training

• Juniper Networks® Design Fundamentals