JNCIP-SP Exam Objectives (Exam: JN0-661)

This list provides a general view of the skill set required to successfully complete the specified
certification exam.

OSPF
IS-IS
BGP
Class of Service (CoS)
IP Multicast
Advanced MPLS
Layer 3 VPNs
Layer 2 VPNs

OSPF
 Describe the concepts, operation and functionality of OSPFv2 or OSPFv3
o OSPF area types and operations
o LSA flooding through an OSPF multi-area network
o DR/BDR operation
o SPF algorithm
o Metrics, including external metric types
o Summarize and restrict routes
o Virtual links
o OSPFv2 vs OSPFv3
 Given a scenario, demonstrate knowledge of how to configure or monitor single-area and multi-
area OSPF
o Implement OSPF routing policy

IS-IS
 Describe the concepts, operation, or functionality of IS-IS
o IS-IS areas/levels and operations
o LSP flooding through an IS-IS multi-area network
o DIS operation
o SPF algorithm
o Metrics, including wide metrics
o Route summarization and route leaking
 Given a scenario, demonstrate knowledge of how to configure or monitor single-area and multi-
area IS-IS
o Implement IS-IS routing policy

BGP
  Describe the concepts, operation, or functionality of BGP
o BGP route selection process
o Next hop resolution
o BGP attributes – concept and operation
o BGP communities
o Regular expressions
o Multipath
o Multihop
o Load balancing
o Advanced BGP options
o BGP route damping
o Multiprotocol BGP
 Describe the concepts, operation or functionality of BGP scaling mechanisms
o Route reflection
o Confederations
 Given a scenario, demonstrate knowledge of how to configure or monitor BGP
o Implement BGP routing policy

Class of Service (CoS)

 Describe the concepts, operation, or functionality of Junos CoS
o CoS processing on Junos devices
o CoS header fields
o Forwarding classes
o Classification
o Packet loss priority
o Policers, including tricolor marking and hierarchical policers
o Schedulers
o Drop profiles
o Shaping
o Rewrite rules
o Hierarchical scheduling (H-CoS) characteristics (high-level only)
 Given a scenario, demonstrate knowledge of how to configure or monitor CoS

IP Multicast
 Describe the concepts, operation, or functionality of IP multicast
o Components of IP multicast, including multicast addressing
o IP multicast traffic flow
o Any-Source Multicast (ASM) versus Source-Specific Multicast (SSM)
o RPF – concept and operation
o IGMP
o PIM dense-mode and sparse-mode
o Rendezvous point (RP) – concept, operation, discovery, election
o SSM – requirements, benefits, address ranges
 o MSDP, including single and multi-PIM domains
o Anycast RP
o Routing policy and scoping
 Given a scenario, demonstrate knowledge of how to configure or monitor IGMP, PIM-DM, PIM-
SM (including SSM) and MSDP
o Implement IP multicast routing policy

Advanced MPLS
 Describe the concepts, operation, or functionality of MPLS
o Routing table integration options for traffic engineering
o Routing policy to control path selection
o Advanced MPLS features
o Administrative groups
o Advanced CSPF options
o Implement MPLS routing policy

Layer 3 VPNs
 Describe the concepts, operation, or functionality of Layer 3 VPNs
o Traffic flow – control and data planes
o Full mesh vs. hub-and-spoke topology
o VPN-IPv4 addressing
o Route distinguishers
o Route targets
o Route distribution
o Site of origin
o Sham links
o vrf-table-label
o Layer 3 VPN scaling
o IPv6 Layer 3 VPNs
o Layer 3 VPN Internet access options
 Given a scenario, demonstrate knowledge of how to configure or monitor the components of
Layer 3 VPNs
 Describe the concepts, operation or functionality of multicast VPNs
o Next-generation MVPNs (NG-MVPN)
o Flow of control and data traffic in an MVPN
 Describe Junos support for carrier-of-carriers or interprovider VPN models

Layer 2 VPNs
 Describe the concepts, operation, or functionality of BGP Layer 2 VPNs
o Traffic flow – control and data planes
o Forwarding tables
 o Connection mapping
o Layer 2 VPN NLRI
o Route distinguishers
o Route targets
o Layer 2 VPN scaling
 Describe the concepts, operation, or functionality of LDP Layer 2 circuits
o Traffic flow – control and data planes
o Virtual circuit label
o Layer 2 interworking
 Describe the concepts, operation, or functionality of VPLS
o Traffic flow – control and data planes
o BGP VPLS label distribution
o LDP VPLS label distribution
o Route targets
o VPLS Multihoming
o Site IDs
 Describe the concepts, operation, or functionality of EVPN
o Traffic flow – control and data planes
o MAC learning and distribution
o EVPN Multihoming
o BGP EVPN label distribution
 Given a scenario, demonstrate knowledge of how to configure or monitor Layer 2 VPNs
o BGP Layer 2 VPNs
o LDP Layer 2 circuits
o EVPNs
o VPLS