Juniper certifications are FREE?? (CCNA alternative)

[@michaelmyers4484]

You can still fail the exam, so there is no devaluation of the certs because they are free, you still have to have the knowledge to pass.

[@Blackfeet]

Are the test proctored with an examiner watching over you like Cisco?

[@CyberLacze]

@@Blackfeet i disagree, the exam is really easy, if you used juniper switch or router before, and know basics of networking you should not have any issues passing.

[@Blackfeet]

@@CyberLacze ok

[@HoloScope]

@@CyberLacze what? He was asking a question not making a statement

[@CyberLacze]

@@HoloScope after a year since i posted the original comment, i have absolutely no clue what i meant back then, lol... I agree, my comment was gibberish

[@somenathsinha210]

"Free certifications make them lose value" -- not really. You know what you know. What you're defining Chuck, is a financial boundary -- which means those who have the money can just throw money to get the certs. P.S. Lookup how easy it is to get certified without knowing your stuff (braindumps, having someone else take your exam) etc are in countries like India! Meanwhile, people like me who can't afford the certs due to financial barriers, who know their shit -- who have put in the time and the effort to learn get screwed by the 'great HR firewall' since on paper, those morons who paid their way look like better investments. Certs are nothing but good gate-passes for hiring managers of good companies, and that's all they should be. Showing that you're aware and know how to deal with networks. Real exp will always come from pain -- from tshooting complex problems with a team of more experienced engineers. I don't believe in artificial boundaries for people trying to get there. P.S. What Cisco does is abhorrent -- not only do you need to pay for their exams, you also have to pay to get the gear to learn their stuff. End of the day all you get is a piece of paper that tells the world you know how to work on their gear. Nothing more. I love free learning opportunities that people like you provide -- helps balance the game for everyone!

[@mariembuenaventura1278]

Yeah experience is still supreme.

[@erelpc]

Abhorrant is a bit of a strong word. All you need is a book, a computer to train yourself on, and you can virtualise the networks. That's not too much to expect.

[@uxfrontier6682]

MaybeNot it’s nice to hear things like this :) we can do it 🤞

[@huajiang8125]

Deeply Agree

[@da_reelbk4500]

@@maybenot7298 Thank you for sharing this. You have just really inspired MANY w/this. if i'm not being too intrusive, What company are you a Red Team leader at? And for those who are not familiar w/certain terms, "What IS a Red Team Leader?"

[@wirelessengineer3821]

Chuck, great video as is usual from you, totally agree about failing Cisco exams rips your heart out at the money wasted. Juniper is a great network vendor and the fact they are offering free training is amazing, keep up the good work.

[@ktay5881]

We have tons of juniper devices all throughout our network. I believe we are 50/50 with Cisco and juniper.

[@pataleno]

This is a great move by Juniper. It will get people interested in their technology and move over.

[@KelvinTran]

Donald and I did that JNCIA challenge in three days-ish. I wanted to make some comments to expand on what was said in this video. Firstly, the JNCIA isn't necessarily comparable to anything in the old or new Cisco certification stack. The JNCIA is less focused in testing you on network fundamentals and more focused to see whether you can implement various technologies on their specific platform. The CCENT/new CCNA were focused on making sure that you understood your network fundamentals and the theory behind what you're doing. For example, with the JNCIA, it jumps straight into configuring export policies in BGP, IS-IS, OSPF, etc., how Juniper handles their device architecture (control/data plane), their specific CLI nuances, etc. That requires that prior to going into it, you have some basic understanding of how to differentiate the control plane, how exporting routes is handled in OSPF, etc. From my perspective with taking the exam, they're expecting you to jump in already knowing what is, in my opinion, a CCNP level of theory. The other tracks besides JUNOS get harder. JNCIA-Cloud, for example, is one of the harder JNCIAs (I actually daresay the hardest), since it expects you to already have some MPLS knowledge (PCEP, RSVP-TE, etc.), some SDN/NFVI knowledge (e.g. OpenStack, Contrail, VMware NSX integration, etc.), which is fairly advanced knowledge in the grand scheme of networking. Also, not *all* Juniper certs are free - it's only the 5 associate certs that are free on Junos Genius. Though Junos Genius has free course materials/practice exams for most of their specialist/professional tracks (none for expert, though that's to be expected), the only JOL courses that have the voucher assessment exam associated with them are the JNCIA-JUNOS/Cloud/Design/DevOps/Security courses.

[@CYBERINSIGHT]

I've been doing them and making study/practice test videos for for folks. I think it 's a great training program for new engineers. So far I've passed Junos/Sec/JNCDA. I actually enjoyed the JNCDA the most so far, as I think it covers architecture and design principles that are vendor agnostic and are very helpful to newer engineers. A lot of junior networking material is focused so much on CLI stuff, there isn't much that covers solid design principles. To level set though, I have 10+ years of Juniper experience, and have had a CCNP and passed the CCIE written exam. But from that view point, I think there's a lot of positive content for network engineers, even if they aren't currently using Juniper.

[@its1one]

Are you sure?

[@opoolaakintomiwa6042]

Thanks man. I stumbled on this some weeks ago, so I tried it out and got 75% off the fee. 2 nights ago, I passed the JNCIA, only after paying 50 euros. Thanks for all you do.

[@neutraleyesyoutube695]

Thanks again NetworkChuck, your channel is pure gold right now!

[@charlesbryson3970]

CHUCK!!!! YOUR ANGEL IF NO ONE HASNT TOLD YOU. YOU GIVE GREAT PROVEN THROUGH INFORMATION. AND YOU CHANGE LIVES. YOU A REAL ONE. THANKS!!!!!

[@DheerajYadav-tx7mk]

Thorough*

[@fangboston4997]

I know juniper as the "I wanna be different" networking solution. We use Juniper in various locations.

[@CYBERINSIGHT]

I've been making videos on this, breaking down the program(training resources/virtual labs), and even created a challenge where other folks are doing all five associate level certs with me! So far I’ve done the JNCIA-JUNOS(routing/switching), JNCIA-SEC, and JNCDA (architecture/design). Also done video walkthroughs of all the practice tests and exam study tips. I've used Junipers for years at an ISP and love them! Their firewalls are much better than Cisco, and many large organizations use them on their WAN/backbones. Glad to see you discuss this, it's a great resource. I'd also be interested in talking talking with you about creating content, as I make video/blog content and have co-authored a book!

[@cwmcnutt]

John, your videos are great! I got my JNCIA-JUNOS in a week and a half after watching your first video, but I haven't done the other ones since I am more focused on finishing my CISCO ENCOR right now. Keep up the great work. I would enjoy seeing you and Chuck do something together.

[@CYBERINSIGHT]

@@cwmcnutt , that's awesome. I'm glad you find the videos helpful! Do you know what you are going to do for your CCNP specialization? I just knocked out the Juniper architecture cert last week. Will start up the Cloud one some time next week. Would def. be cool to do something with Chuck.

[@francis2k488]

@@CYBERINSIGHT nice to hear this bro. Does it mean the certifications are free? I will give it a go and I will like to see your vlogs. Any link on this?

[@CYBERINSIGHT]

@@francis2k488 Yes, the 5 associate level certification exams are all free as long as you pass their free voucher exam(then you get a voucher code) , the training is free, and the virtual labs are free. Here's my video breaking it all down...kzbin.info/www/bejne/iajTfnSijqqfnJo

[@francis2k488]

@@CYBERINSIGHT great content you have got bro. I already subbed.

[@djones0105]

I previously worked in an ISP in the US, and they are using Juniper switches for their gateway and Cisco routers as PE routers. We are accessing both of these networking devices and I find Juniper very efficient in remote access.

[@adminrpb7593]

I did try to get into on 13 August and what I found in the agreement (there is a FAQ on three last pages): > You can get 75% off. > 100% off is available only if you have enrolled in the course prior to 5 Aug and claimed for 100% off in the period from 5 Aug to 12 Sep only. HTH P.S. Anyways, it is a good idea to get all these official courses and trial exams for free, and eventually get an opportunity to pass an official exam for a quarter of its regular price.

[@hobgobbling]

looks like we're in the same boat lmao, just came back to say this

[@Alhazarad]

yup, ugh

[@jcollins7593]

Same here

[@Marceloacampos]

4th

[@nandorras]

Yup! According to their Read Me: Q: Does the voucher cover the full cost of the certification exam? A: No, the voucher is good for 75% off of the price of the certification exam.

[@sihlemakhanya6148]

Yes, I'll be looking this certification.

[@markrounds6302]

I work at a large ISP, and we use Juniper and Nokia for a Majority of or PE and P routers. Juniper alone counts for 150 to 200 routers(maybe more), and they are mostly MX960 or higher. We do heavily rely on Cisco for CPE and some Metro Switches. I have a JNCIS-SP at this point. The only Cisco certification I have is the Meraki CMNA(Which is really a sales engineer certification). One thing I did find that was funny is that many questions on the JNCIA, one of the wrong answers on the multiple choice is the correct answer for Cisco.(Because the syntax is slightly different). Also, my company would jump on a Juniper certification where if you came in with a CCNA, the first question we ask is if you are willing to learn another vendor.

[@CYBERINSIGHT]

Similar background coming from the larger MX's also love the high end SRX's

[@lastsilverking]

The local ISP I work for only uses Juniper and Calix equipment. I am definitely going to go for it! Currently working as a customer support tech at the job and want to move up to Network Technician. Although my boss let me take home a Juniper EX2200-C switch to learn on, awesome right!

[@RobertDuvall-np8li]

Did you catch my reply...the juniper EX2200-C switch to learn on, awesome, yes its the learning platform you need to achieve the "know how it works" rule to succeed.

[@saltwaterlou]

I have to respectively disagree that because it's free it's value is less than. By making it free, you're giving opportunities to this who could normally not be able to afford a Cisco-level certs. By making it free, you're increasing the exposure to those how would normally not have the means to afford this type of training. If it provides a high degree of quality of content, then why not :) Anyways, loved this episode!!!

[@NetworkChuck]

I agree that making it free doesn't mean it loses it's value, inherently. BUT, I'd argue that the perception of its value will be lower. We tend to value things more if it costs us more to get it.

[@aviralrastogi]

@@NetworkChuck I agree, it being free means people who don't really care about Juniper would be able to just casually get it, making the market saturated. Maybe if it was like $50 or something, low barrier to entry but only someone who wants to do it specifically will do, not literally everyone. That said I love that Juniper is doing that. For someone who can't afford a cert, this will be amazing, at that point learning is more important than competing for job with someone who has CCNA.

[@martincerveny2284]

@@aviralrastogi I did entire course (not quiz only) in one day and the only things I had to learn was Juniper hardware specifics. General networking, switching, routing is quite simple. I hope higher certs will be more complex and not only simple FW rules, upgrading Junos OS and knowledge of Juniper portfolio. Don't know CCNA but as I watched Chucks series here it shoudn't be so different (and he's natural born teacher :-) ). For me, main difference is - when you mention to C*O (CTO is the only exception) "Juniper" - nothing, noone knows what you talking about, when you say "Cisco" everyone knows it's "something about IT" :-)

[@its1one]

I agree high level training has value. But monetary gatekeeping is simply barbaric. It doesn't cost you anything is someone else has the opportunity to elevate themselves.

[@alphanerd1355]

The secret to Corporate is, 'Do not beg'! State your objective, what you bring to the table and what you also expect from them. Don't Flinch!

[@keithcuster606]

I plan to do this certification as a starting point to get back into the IT world. I am glad I came across your channel as someone wanting to get back to doing IT work again.

[@Mowntandewey]

I was reading the Read Me section and there seems to be stipulations to getting the free voucher: -Can't be a government employee - Have to have registered prior to August 5th - Only have 60 days from registration

[@Blackfeet]

So, it's not free then?

[@Dmn0PT]

@@Blackfeet I need answers to

[@CyberLacze]

@@Dmn0PT Not free, they give 75% discount at least in the UK

[@vitorhugopereiradesousa1721]

@@CyberLacze Cisco offers up to 70% in some cases

[@mick9850]

I have done this and it's pretty great. In the past when I looked in to juniper certification, the training looked pretty crappy and there wasn't a lot of info (that I could find at that time) out there. Junos Genius is pretty rad. Coming from a Cisco background (CCNA + 6years in a NOC), I just wanted to do some training for the SRXs we use at work. So I completed the JNCIA-SEC doing the course work on Junos Genius and then I sat the exam. It helps being well across the fundamentals of networking, that way you can just focus on the vendor specific stuff. I feel like the course work and labs cover everything pretty well. Juniper is pretty popular in my region, so I am getting a lot more interest on linkedin since putting it up. I'm going to buckle down and do a couple more.. totally worth it. Oh and another thing... I always thought the CLI for junos was dumb because I didn't understand it. I was able to fumble my way through junos using a bastardization of their syntax, mixed with some of my linux knowledge. The training alone is worth doing just to understand how the CLI works (even though I still grep everything). Plus there are a lot of traps for new players if you don't understand how the architecture works.. so if you use juniper sometimes, for the love of god, do the training.

[@clintonspringer6892]

Thank you so much, I'm a single Dad and disabled veteran. An Alumni student of Covered Six Security Academy. Yourself and Mr. Bombal have helped me so much.

[@TXDYLAN]

45:23 hits home for me, the timing I saw this was literally on point, as if it was the sign I needed.

[@heatherryan9820]

It was nice to hear that even you got overwhelmed at times. It's nice to see because I watch you a lot on here, and I see you go go go, which is awesome because it's a great motivation for me. But it's nice to hear that it happens to all of us. Also thank you, and David Bombal, for all of your content, you really are amazing print all this together for free.

[@networkengineer2734]

I thank juniper for allowing everyone giving the platform and motivate to atleast enter into juniper world Its only entry level

[@km4lkx497]

I work for a large communications company. We are Nokia/Juniper/Aruba/Fortinet. We kicked Cisco to the curb years ago.

[@kancerion]

Thanks for the empathy and enlightment. For now, its time to get involved in Juniper stuff.

[@nauxsi]

It doesn't matter if it's free or not. What matters is if you have a genuine interest in learning the material start to finish, you have a history of finishing things you start and you can somehow tie all of that to your future roadmap of where you want to be in a year or two. If you can do this, your brain will say 'THIS is important' and you will retain what you learn.

[@its1one]

Nope

[@macaulayakin2154]

I love what they are doing. KEEP IN MIND, the lecture is free, but the hands on labs are behind a pay wall.

[@tirtheshpawar9614]

Thanks for providing this information chucks!! God bless you

[@toastix6]

As the lead senior network engineer/architect I have had no problem with hiring those without certs in networking. A lot of times they just need to fit into the culture. But I work for an MSP. It was a bit different when I was working enterprise data centers. But again I also have 0 certs and still was able to land the position all of my positions.

[@DominicLacerenza]

Yup. I've been in the industry two decades, my certs expired ages ago and the companies I've worked for never cared as long as you know what you're doing. Hell, most tech companies don't even care if you have a degree anymore except the old guard companies like Oracle, etc.

[@grim.reaper]

Juniper HA is way more advanced then Cisco stuff so you will find them in a lot of data centers and ISP

[@Thrillseeker666]

Really? All datacenters I've seen had Cisco.

[@joedavenport6156]

Disney switched their Data Center crossbar switches to JUniper and were ALways 100% Cisco

[@w7slaith700]

Really? I feel like the name cisco just holds more value and forces people to rather use it and more simple and top data info

[@machinainc5812]

Chuck, the value is in your time. There’s nothing more important. Money is just paper.

[@diegomora8579]

Try purchasing food with time.

[@victorsantana1229]

As a broke college student let me say I have more time than paper

[@TalsonHacks]

With that paper you can do anything. Without it you wouldn’t even be able to post a comment here.

[@machinainc5812]

Diego Mora its called work

[@basadake]

i've heard that so many times. And its always coming from rich or at least finnancially independent people. huge bullshit.

[@gorebrush]

Useful knowledge - I hold an active CCIE, but need to go do the JNCIA Junos as we are a juniper shop (just joined). Am now in the SP space :) props for the content!

[@seouljah760]

I have GIAC, SANS, ISC2, CISCO, EC-council, LPI, Palo Alto, Comptia, OSCP and a few other certs. I hate all of the companies. With the ECU/CEU/CEs and the money-grabbing renewal fees, it's ridiculous. I feel so much industry pressure to maintain them. I haven't touched an IOS box in forever, but heaven forbid I wanna move to another job and I let the cert expire. They say employers won't even look at your resume without your basic A+/Sec+. So stupid.

[@ITevangelist]

I love Juniper! It is awesome. Same CLI for router, switch, and firewall. Rollback feature.

[@Noble569]

Both certifications provide fundamentals to those who are entering into networking. Cisco just so happened to want to charge you for it to possibly go along with what you stated as a barrier to entry. Same thing could be said about Linux and the comparison with Windows.

[@der_noobz]

Thanks for this video and the info! Getting the free cert means being comfortable enough to pay for the CCNA cert. Sometimes the barrier to success is not grit so much as confidence. The company I work for uses Cisco, Juniper, Mikrotik, and ADVA equipment.

[@jontnoneya3404]

So cool - man I love the support you're giving to people searching for a path forward. Your positivity and insights are really helping people man. Keep up the good work and thanks for all the info.

[@lehnertz85]

We just went through an evaluation for vendors at my small company. We landed with Aruba for our access switches. We will use Cisco in the Core, for now. At the end of the day, Aruba had a lower cost of ownership, better licensing model, and great features. All Aruba CX line switches have a REST api for all of their configs! So you can script anything on the switch which is pretty cool. Technically, you won't need NAPALM or the other libraries any more. With just plain old Python you can make scripts against your network. I'm excited for it.

[@haydnwalker1044]

Just signed up for this however the voucher only covers 75% of the cost of the exam now... was only 100% free if enrolled before 5th August 2020

[@AMVeduar10]

I did the training exam for the voucher on August 12 and my voucher was 100 % off

[@genlucero2974]

A good long IT discussion to past time during work. Keep it up! More power to you Chuck! Looking forward to the next discussion. Hoping a Fortinet related one. :)

[@TheB1nary]

Thanks for this, Chuck! I will look into Juniper for some free learning!!

[@LifeOfTheViking]

Missed the live my bad. I've been working from home for 5 months now and for the foreseeable future that won't change. I work in a Network Operations center so needless to say I have a good bit of spare time on my hands. New to your channel but I have started learning ceh stuff. I think I'm going to do this as well. Not like I'm going to lose anything.

[@fantomh72]

This is amazing. Thanks for sharing Chuck. IMO, knowledge should be the barrier of entry, not how much you paid for certification.

[@atdhezyhranaj6135]

I see now that Juniper changed that from free to discounted. So sad!!

[@grocerylist]

Juniper is great. At my last job we were removing all the Cisco gear at Branch offices and Call Centers and replacing with Juniper EX/SRX/MX except for voice gateways.

[@catmantech]

Knowledge is power. If you learn and understand what routing and switching is and does, regardless of the hardware you use, that will help you on your way to becoming a network engineer. Heck, I messed around with vlans, inter-vlan routing and firewall rules on openwrt before I moved onto cisco gear for my home lab, years ago.

[@RobertDuvall-np8li]

the juniper EX2200-C switch to learn on, awesome, yes its the learning platform you need to achieve the "know how it works" rule to succeed.

[@walter9826]

When you said "you don't hear about it a lot" it made me think of something else. After 20+ years in IT I'm still surprised by the number of Windows admins that have never seen, let alone interacted with, a Linux system. And just having Linux skills on their CV, even without certification, often raises people's market value. So just cause it's free doesn't mean it can't add value. As for the job ads, I see way more MS jobs than Linux jobs but I'd still recommend everybody to at least look at Linux. And like you said, you learn networking. That in itself is valuable in the job market.

[@CJNC4]

41:30 This is hugely true. I was a supervisor with the ambition to move up to project manager in the future. My Operations Manager would give me projects to gain experience in that role and build stories for interviews

[@a_diamond]

Hi. I'm an ex-foster kid. As you can imagine that means I have seen a fair amount of crap in my life. I didn't do well in school. I just couldn't really retain anything. By now I am an adult with kids. My spouse has cancer. I have been caregiving for half my life to several people. Most doctors I talk to ask me if I have a medical background. Twenty somewhat years of dealing with caring for people with several serious health conditions builds the same kind of experience most nurses learn. I could probably pass an exam by now with relatively little trouble. I have chronic illnesses of my own though. Being a nurse isn't realistic for me, even if I have the knowledge.. It also means that I never finished high school. I went to a local college though, and tested high enough on the entrance exam to get in. I had a 3.7 GPA for most of that associate's degree. I have PTSD. Loss is a trigger. I have lost people violently. My spouse is terminal. He has a lot of issues over the years that happen when an immune system is compromised. It included Menengitis and him ending up in a coma. He is in the wasting stage now. He has had several very close calls. There went my GPA.. I am doing what I can to get stuff straightened back out, so I can go back and finish my degree. It means retaking classes I failed that I normally would have passed with flying colors. That takes cash. We are on a limited income. I fully intend to go on after college, even though I have no idea if I will be able to. I am *also* currently finishing highschool, and finally getting that piece of paper. For someone like me, "grit" has never been lacking. Cash on the other hand has always slammed doors in my face. No. I do not think making courses and certification free for those who actually bother to learn and finish coursework independently lessens the value of the degree. That alone takes more self control and perseverance than most people will ever give self-taught people credit for. I think people *think* it lessens a certificate though, and that that attitude is toxic. Do you honestly believe if I'd been a richer, more fortunate person, for who these doors would have opened decades ago.. I'd have had more grit or perseverance than I do now? That most people who are better off do? Or do they *just* have more cash? Why am I finishing highschool? My son is Autistic. We're doing it together, actually. He will do fantastic in college. His MEAPs have always scored him in the 99th percentile of his classes, but teachers found him difficult to handle. So we ended up having to homeschool. He has been able to pass his GED for well over a year. We have the ready-tests to prove it. He is *finally* old enough to take it. He has spent the time in between volunteering at the local food bank and learning basic coding and graphic design among other things.. If given half the chance, he will shine in college. He has always been a very strong independent learner. In elementary school, that worked against him. In higher education, I know he will do very well. He should have been in college years ago. Had we been rich enough for private education, he probably would have been. I'm glad he found a worthwhile way to spin his wheels. Equating price with value is B.S. It always has been. It won't result in more mediocre people on the job, it just let's people less fortunate than average catch up and be successful.. because it's never been talent or grit that I lacked. Neither does my son. Thank you for your videos, and for pointing to a source of education :) I really do appreciate it. :) Will I learn Juniper? If I can wrap my head around it, yes. I will also direct my kids there. If nothing else.. it is good to have a background in various things that may relate to your chosen field. He's going for an associate's in science first, and hopes to find an IT related field he likes..

[@yeahok9165]

Thank you for sharing your experience with the community.

[@yeahok9165]

I have developed PTSD when I was a kid as well because of not having enough money which caused me to be violently abused by my coach for years. I can't go into more details about it. Being born in India in a community that the government calls 'Other Caste', meant that everyone other than me gets special privilages like opportunities in education, low fee and qualification for worse ranks. Now I'm 17 and I'm serious about becoming a good network engineer and earn more than those who were born with money and privilages. Good luck with your career.

[@djinfamousone]

I actually used this to study for my JNCIA ... where my job gave me a $2500 bonus for passing 🙃

[@alihabib3201]

Thanks a lot for the information netchuck. I completed the course got the voucher and passed the test. Now will go for JNCIA-SEC.

[@siddharthtadury5612]

Juniper has best products. Its OS is rich in features.

[@ViciousXUSMC]

Let my CCNA R&S and CCNA Cyber Ops laps due to time and cost and because I got put into a Server role for a while. Looking to get back into a Network Engineer job, so this would be a good bolster to my resume and also refresh me in stuff I might have forgotten. So thanks for this Chuck.

[@dogstar2020]

Thx for the tip on the open learning on the Juniper site! In the comments section it looks like several people had trouble getting their vouchers. In any case you still get the learning!

[@CYBERINSIGHT]

The issue is there is a button you need to hit on the page that it gives you your score on the voucher test. If you don't see it or miss it, you'll be waiting for an email that won't come. That being said, if you shoot them an email or contact them on Twitter, they will get you the voucher ASAP (I know, I did this the first voucher test I passed lol).

[@tarekokail]

On the other hand, because it is free, it is also much easier to drop / ignore / say 'I'll do it another day' / abandon. And that is also a barrier of its own.

[@justsomeguy7926]

It might be debatable whether this certification is going to lead to a specific job, whether it's a marketable cert, or whether it has a big future. I will say though, the process of going through the certification process will be of value. I used lots of free resources when I was first learning Linux. I didn't get certified for some of the courses I took. I didn't even finish some courses, but specific topics within those courses helped "add more color" to my knowledge base. Shoot, better believe I'll be checking this out.

[@jinxtacy]

have seen Juniper at IBM

[@aidenwalker1152]

A life changing Episode thank you

[@scounty]

SOB! I wish I had known this 2 years ago. I started my AAS in IT networking for routing and switching after seeing some of your videos and needing to switch to a less physically demanding career and of course in the middle of my degree cisco changed their CCNA program. Now I am graduating next month and I have been seeing Juniper on applications and I wondered what it was but didn't have time with full time school and a full time job. Now I have something to work on to keep my skills sharp while I look for my new career. Just signed up with Juniper and I'm excited to see how the security classes go.

[@u2be4evr]

We use Cisco, Juniper, Alcatel, and Rad devices at my workplace. BTW, the quality of an exam is determined not by cost but by the content that is tested and the means by which that content is tested.

[@gabrieln5357]

Awesome! Man, you're the best!

[@eugenebeema9034]

You are awesome, Chuck! Thanks a lot for sharing.

[@ericschnuphase852]

Most definitely going to look into it... just now getting back into computer work, been out for years and need to get my certs...

[@ftnetops4264]

Jobs in top tier companies with stock, retirement, and interesting networks, will likely require Junos skills. Most places with a DR setup will have Juniper devices as perimeter, and DC to DC devices. In my particular case, we're replacing a certain amount of cisco 9k's with Juniper QFX. Nice thing about junos, is if you learn the switching and CLI in general, you'll also be able to get around in the firewalls. I'm just seeing less and less Cisco in security in larger companies.

[@plasmar1]

I am but a simple home lab type user but juniper ex3300-48p has been awesome and although I heard apparently unifi is suppose to simplify setting things up like vlans(having not used unifi switches, but having used HP, and D-Link), I have yet to see anything that isn't straight forward to setup on this thing(haven't had to really resort to console/ssh/putty for anything)..... only really impressed me more realizing it uses BSD

[@phaledax3661]

Purchased the JNCIA learning course and I will do this due to this video. Never even knew they provided certs.

[@mrdelCastillo]

Oh btw, the vouchers are no longer for FREE Tests, they are for now for 75% off. If you started your training track before August 5th, you can still get the voucher for free if you make the request before September 12, 2020.

[@genghiskhan2068]

I work for a major isp and the backbone of our network is made up of juniper devices, mainly mx routers and qfx data center switches. We still have quite a bit of cisco too (used to be predominately cisco).

[@thetechdudemc]

Verizon and AT&T are pretty big Juniper customers now, nice to see more diversity instead of just all Cisco

[@marcuslindberg1861]

Thank you for this I've studied ccna could not afford the certification. This can help me get there

[@MarinhoParera]

Which one is the alternative for CCNA?

[@marcuslindberg1861]

@@MarinhoParera 8:18

[@jennifert464]

I totally agree with you. Knowledge should be free to all!

[@Luk3yTheL1on]

These certs are no longer free and the link for Junos does not work either. Is there any other free cert recourses similar to the CCNA?

[@user-jm2yl2sg9t]

Is only free if you enrolled prior to August 5th. Currently the voucher covers 75%...still a good deal. Thanks for the video.

[@domhamai]

We use juniper for our ISP back bone… I actually think it’s a great move from juniper. They are increasing the amount of engineers certified to work on Juniper which might make other companies more prepared to incorporate their equipment.

[@c.h.3500]

I have had Cisco certification. I have also known MANY people who have IT certifications. In all honesty I do not believe in them. They do not tell whether a person knows the materials. And having my Cisco certification, I moved a major Cisco shop in my location to Juniper (plus others) for a MAJOR savings. It is nice that Juniper is giving theirs away for free.

[@currentresident7760]

I have just gotten one step closer to being the smartest man on Earth,Thanks for the video

[@robertp178]

Thanks bro. I'm going for it.

[@shahwaadkhan675]

Thank you, Chuck, you are doing a great JOB

[@renrieu]

I totally agree with what you're saying about CISCO, I achieved the CCNA many years ago, but when I was made redundant I trie to get another job, but because I didn't keep the CCNA up to date it mean't that I then had to retrain, and being unemployed made this ALMOST impossible! But, thankfully people like yourself started showing the course structure FREE, so I studied hard and what happens, CISCO change the course structure, and this isn't the first time that this has happened with CISCO and thats really annoying. Now my thinking is if CCNA can cross train to JNCIA, then it will still give me the same experience in the area ad it will give me the hands on learning especially if the exam is free. FYI - if you get an APPLE engineer qualification and you're working in an APPLE envirnment you have access to the latest learning and all this is free and so are the exams, maybe this is an avenue that CISCO should consider going down to make the effort of getting the qualifiaction and then keeping it going instead of thnnking about money, and more about keeping the quality of those who have commited to CISCO going and upto date. Just my thoughts. Great channel though.

[@francoispierrerousseau9500]

i worked in a data center with junos core, distribution and access it is rock solid, os is bsd based and i think they split planes way before anyone thought of it...

[@robertlemonsjr]

Yup. Thanks again man

[@buckroberts1776]

Cool. Might go ahead and get these certs.

[@BH-JN]

I work with global telco and we use predominantly Juniper in all our global data centres with the biggest tech players Networking,cloud,IOT,Security, you name it . So juniper is no joke plus their free certs are amazing plus you will have free access for their vertual labas where you can literally practice everything, doing design now.

[@NastyStingray]

Hello Chuck, I enjoyed your KZbin video on Juniper Networks. I immediately signed up for their certification program. I have several questions for you. Is feasible to start looking for Juniper Lab Kits to help with studying for Juniper's JNCIA-Junos? Second question, I was studying for my CCNA R&S but stopped due to my employment as a first responder. I have a n 2940 switch, an 3750 PoE level 3 switch, an 2811 router, (2) 1841 routers and (2) 7945g IP phones. My issue is with getting my 7945g phones to work. They keep trying to do an update. How do I fixed this problem? Thanks in advance, Ray...

[@CYBERINSIGHT]

Their Juniper vLabs are free, and are actually fully licensed virtual versions of their hardware. It is more than sufficient to really get some good lab/study stuff. The free classes have labs at the end of them, and you can replicate those labs in the vLabs.

[@NastyStingray]

@@CYBERINSIGHT Thanks for the information! :)

[@dennisdjy]

Great! Not looking for a job but looking to learn more IT for myself and my business. You rock!!!

[@Kgokhul]

About time Chuck 👍👍👍 I am currently studying for this bad boy, I have my exam schedule in October.....I work with Juniper SRX line

[@okowit]

At the moment You need to go through teh Junos Genius course, watch all that, pass the unproctored voucher exam and afterward it's 75% off at PearsonVue online. Juniper gear is usually all around ISPs cause it's cheaper than Cisco, it has commit confirmed/rollback feature and it's scriptable. Judging by the quality of the Junos Genius JNCIA content it does not differ in any way from their authorised, instructor led courses - their educational value is the same in my opinion (I've got a couple of authorised ones done). Soooo... go get'em ;)

[@rohitchaturvedi2271]

We have many Juniper switches in our organisation. Recently many Hirschmann switches were also installed.

[@SG-kb5wi]

Hi, where are you from?

[@paulsccna2964]

Network Chuck. Thanks for turning me onto the Juniper content. I might never go back go Cisco. I started digging into the Juniper Video content and it was interesting, when the instructor, mentioned the routing protocols, and listed them all off, and did NOT mention, EIGRP. Smirk.

[@gentugo]

I learned more on my own than I did in any college class. I was looking at my old class books for networking and it was pathetic.

[@chinedum.]

Interesting! From selling plumbing supplies to IT Network Developer/Engineer | Ethical Hacker and my new fav teacher.

[@HIpigoRE1]

Actually the majority of the ISP providers and mainly the tier 1 and tier 2 with higher funds to spent for their backbone use Juniper in their core network as it proven to be more reliable in some scenarios moving heavy loads of traffic. Cisco is used for the metro segment and basically the access part where the customers are concentrated. So having CCNA or JNCIA it depends in which company you send your CV. Better having both and move up the ladder further with Juniper. But CCNA wouldn't move you further as you are covering the basics only and there is a vast space of knowledge to gain in order to become a good engineer.

[@ValcoBayrunner]

I worked for an ISP that used Cisco for years and then on the enterprise business side they switched to juniper cpe routers. junipers QOS sucks for voip integration into Cisco call manager. Juniper routers take a lot longer to load configs into compared to cisco, but the costs are much lower. Lots of business customers are switching to Meraki devices to put private IP over the internet now instead of private IP mpls connectivity or layer 2 VPLS service.

[@Enzu-j8j]

I just passed my Jncia yesterday! I now plan on getting my JNCP.

[@udirt]

Exactly! If you save on the basic cert then please dear god - use it to pay forward on the next level!

[@alhassandumbuyajr1275]

Hi can we connect

[@alhassandumbuyajr1275]

Hit me on this contact [phone]

[@da_baracus4280]

Not free a 75% discount voucher is what you get. And the exam is product based.

[@abowers]

Definitely going to check this out. Was learning CompTIA Network+ right now.

[@CYBERINSIGHT]

Out of the five free ones, check out the JNCDA one first. It is their design and architecture one and doesn't require any Juniper CLI knowledge. It would build nicely on top of your Net+ experience. The JNCIA-JUNOS is they're routing/switching one and is great but will have a bit of a higher learning curve compared to the JNCDA.

[@abowers]

@@CYBERINSIGHT Thanks good information.

[@JuanRodriguez-mx5ih]

Thanks Chuck! After watching this video, I prepared to take the JNCIA-Junos exam and passed.

[@nassersserebe1]

How did u manage juan ...any advise am just new in the industry taking on my diploma in information technology in science almost done with it.. my email [e-mail] will b glad for any advise

[@terrencegarrison7442]

We use Juniper & Cisco and so many others. Juniper is widely used in the enterprise. Cisco is used more widely obviously and not just in the enterprise. I think Juniper is worth learning about....