JNCIE-M Exam

Some people asked me to share my experience when taking JNCIE-M exam 2 months ago. In this post I would like to share what I’ve been done before – during and after the exam. Not to break the NDA, I will share my preparation and time management during the exam. JNCIE-M exam is definitely challenging exam for Juniper engineer who works in ISP environment. Most of topic in this exam is covers what we need to build the ISP network, and so its interesting for me when preparing this exam.

Below is the information of JNCIE-M certification path. Passing JNCIP-M exam is required before taking JNCIE-M exam.

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JNCIE-M exam covers in-dept Junos software and its application. Its cover IGP/BGP/MPLS/Multicast/IPv6/Filtering and L2/L3VPN. It does not cover VPLS/metro, MVPN/Rossen draft topic.

You could see exam topic on Juniper.net website.

My preparation to take this exam was around 6 months, but its not continue every day/week since I had many jobs to be done in customer while preparing this exam. JNCIE-M exam needs real router on several topic, I.E L2VPN, Multicast etc. Single Juniper router with logical router is enough to preparing all topics of this exam. However, many interface needed to support that.

I started preparation using JNCIE Study Guide from Sybex book (Thanks to Harry Reynolds who making this good book). Read it carefully and do debug when facing some issues. This book is best resource to preparing the exam. Beside this book, I’ve also read Documentation CD and Training material (AJNR and AVPN). For me, both AJNR and AVPN is considered as the best training from Juniper
I impressed with all peoples who taking JNCIE exam before Sybex book release. Most of them only use documentation CD and RFC beside his/her real world experience.

JNCIE and JNCIP has similar topic in the IGP and BGP section. If you already pass JNCIP-M exam and prepare to take JNCIE exam, my suggestion is do not forget JNCIP topic. You will face JNCIP topic in the JNCIE exam. It would be good if you have a time to read IGP/BGP topic from this book again just in case you need to refresh your brain.
If you will take JNCIP exam, please prepare and understand on each topic carefully, you will need to remember it when taking JNCIE exam. In my opinion, JNCIP is one hardest part in the JNCIE exam and much more difficult in the JNCIE exam. You need to understand ISIS/OSPF/RIP/BGP behavior in depth.

IMHO, Sybex JNCIE book alone is not enough to pass the exam. I read from groupstudy.com forum, there is a guy who only prepares the exam from JNCIE book. When he took the exam at the first time, he was surprised with the questions and requirements. He got stuck at many topics and has run out of time before finishing all. Then, He failed!!! I was also get stuck in the BGP requirements, I don’t understand it correctly. I asked my proctor many times just to clarify BGP requirements. So, please be careful, there is a chapters trap during the exam.

At the lunch break, I could not eat anything and only enjoy my cigarettes. I’m not feeling hungry at the moment. I have finished IGP/BGP part in this time, but not 100% verified.

I was finished all topics at one hour before time limit. I have 1 hour remaining time to checked my work and verify everything. Here, I found some mistakes and was able to rectify some issues. Lucky me

After the exam finished, I went to restaurant and ate some foods with my friends. I relax at this time.

My proctor is a big guy from Singapore (originally from US), I knew him since 4 years ago at 2005 when he came to Jakarta and gave me some training. His name is Gary Hauser, nice to know you dude, highly appreciated for you!!!

Actually I was stressed before taking this exam. At the last 2 weeks before exam, there was a flood at my house. I have to evacuate my family going to the safe place for two weeks.
During that week, I could not prepare it well. Every rain coming, I always stuck and got paranoid. After flood has gone, I have to clean everything. At this situation, I wasn’t too confident to take this exam, but I believe that God blessing me… hehe… thanks God, I have passed this exam. Its a milestone for me.

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