Juniper Networks Certified Specialist, Automation and DevOps (JNCIS-DevOps) — Requirements & Free Practice
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Juniper Networks Certified Specialist, Automation and DevOps (JNCIS-DevOps)
Specialist-level certification for networking professionals with intermediate knowledge of automation tools and best practices.
Licensing authority: HPE Networking
Initial by examination
- Evidence Claim Ids
- ["jncis-devops-route-current"]
- Exam Order
- Written exams may be taken in any order; all certification prerequisites must be fulfilled.
- Prerequisite Certification
- JNCIA-DevOps
- Prerequisite Requirements Waived
- false
- Prerequisite Status
- active
- Scope Boundary
- The prerequisite is an existing certification qualification, not a newly researched or produced examination in this bounded task.
Automation and DevOps, Specialist (JN0-423)
- Provider
- Pearson VUE
- Format
- Written multiple-choice examination; English
- Exam questions
- Total questions: 65.
- Time limit
- 90 minutes
Examination outline
Platform Automation Overview
- Management process (MGD-based) automation
- Terraform
- Juniper Extension Toolkit (JECT) service process (JSD-based) automation
gRPC
- gRPC/gNMI for automating Junos
- gRPC/gNMI for Junos telemetry
Ansible
- Supported files
- Play books
- Vault
- JSNAPy
- Templates (Jinja2)
Junos Automation Scripts
- Commit scripts
- Op scripts
- Event scripts
- SNMP scripts
YANG
- Implementation concepts
- OpenConfig
- YANG syntax and data types
Examination sources
- Automation and DevOps, Specialist (JNCIS-DevOps) Certification Overview
Exam objectives — controlling introductory statement and table headers
- Automation and DevOps, Specialist (JNCIS-DevOps) Certification Overview
Exam objectives table — Platform Automation Overview row
- Automation and DevOps, Specialist (JNCIS-DevOps) Certification Overview
Exam objectives table — gRPC row, both automation and telemetry lists
- Automation and DevOps, Specialist (JNCIS-DevOps) Certification Overview
Exam objectives table — Ansible row
- Automation and DevOps, Specialist (JNCIS-DevOps) Certification Overview
Exam objectives table — Junos Automation Scripts row
- Automation and DevOps, Specialist (JNCIS-DevOps) Certification Overview
Exam objectives table — YANG row
- Automation and DevOps, Specialist (JNCIS-DevOps) Certification Overview
Exam details — code, prerequisite, delivery, length, type and software
- Automation and DevOps, Specialist (JNCIS-DevOps) Certification Overview
Exam details — question derivation and result
- Automation and DevOps, Specialist (JNCIS-DevOps) Certification Overview
Exam preparation — recommended resources disclaimer
- Certification News
08/05/2025 — New Automation and DevOps, Specialist Exam
- Automation and DevOps, Specialist (JNCIS-DevOps) Certification Overview
Introduction — specialist certification and written examination
- Certification News
09/15/2026 — written exam scheduling
- HPE Networking Certification (formerly Juniper Networks)
HPE Networking Certification — program description