Juniper JNCIP-SP: Service Provider Routing and Switching Professional (JN0-664)

Service provider networks carry business-critical traffic, and configuration drift across routing, multicast, VPN, and MPLS services can turn routine changes into outages. IT Directors should assign this JNCIP-SP (JN0-664) training to experienced Network Engineers or Team Leads who support Junos-based service provider environments and need professional-level certification readiness.

The course is advanced and totals about 32 hours of curriculum per learner, so it fits best as a planned enablement track rather than ad hoc onboarding. Teams should sequence it by operational domain — OSPF/IS-IS, BGP, multicast, CoS, MPLS VPNs, VPLS, and EVPN — and align practice with current change windows and network standards.

For Training Managers, CBT Nuggets capabilities such as Playlists can structure assignments by role, Practice Exams can support JN0-664 readiness, and Team Reporting can help track progress across network engineering teams.

IT teams complete this training to strengthen the skills needed to operate complex Juniper service provider networks where routing policy, VPN design, and multicast behavior directly affect customer experience.

• Stabilize routing domains: Engineers build deeper operational knowledge of advanced OSPF, IS-IS, and BGP foundations, configurations, policies, attributes, communities, scaling, FlowSpec, and route damping.
• Support high-impact change work: Teams practice the concepts behind Junos deployments for MPLS L3VPNs, BGP and LDP Layer 2 VPNs, VPLS, EVPN-MPLS, and NG-MVPN.
• Reduce troubleshooting time: Multicast fundamentals, RPF loop prevention, and multicast topology manipulation help teams isolate traffic-flow issues faster.
• Improve service consistency: Class of Service coverage helps teams understand how Junos CoS deployments support predictable forwarding behavior across provider networks.

Knowledge

• Advanced OSPF and IS-IS concepts used in service provider routing designs
• BGP policy, attribute, community, scaling, FlowSpec, and route damping behavior
• Multicast routing fundamentals, including RPF-based loop prevention and topology control
• Junos Class of Service deployment concepts
• MPLS L3VPN, L2VPN, VPLS, NG-MVPN, and EVPN-MPLS components and operations

Ability

• Configure and troubleshoot advanced OSPF, IS-IS, and BGP scenarios on Junos
• Apply BGP policies and manipulate attributes and communities for provider routing outcomes
• Deploy and validate multicast configurations, including RPF controls
• Implement MPLS L3VPN and Layer 2 VPN designs on Junos
• Work with VPLS and EVPN-MPLS deployment patterns in service provider environments