Juniper Networks Certified Specialist, Security (JNCIS-SEC) — Requirements & Free Practice
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Juniper Networks Certified Specialist, Security (JNCIS-SEC)
Specialist-level Security certification for networking professionals with intermediate knowledge of Junos OS for SRX Series devices.
Licensing authority: HPE Networking
Initial by examination
- Candidate Agreement
- Signing and adhering to the Certification Candidate Agreement is required to be officially certified.
- Evidence Claim Id
- jncis-sec-route-exam-20261024
- Prerequisite Certification
- JNCIA-SEC
- Scope
- Initial certification by passing JN0-336, with the separately stated prerequisite credential retained. The prerequisite examination is not newly investigated or produced.
Security, Specialist (JN0-336)
- Provider
- Pearson VUE
- Format
- Written multiple-choice examination, English
- Exam questions
- Total questions: 65.
- Time limit
- 90 minutes
Examination outline
Intrusion Detection and Prevention (IDP)
- Application IDP concepts
- IDP configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting
IPsec VPN
- IPsec VPN concepts, benefits, and operation
- IPsec VPN configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting
Juniper Advanced Threat Prevention (ATP) Cloud
- Juniper ATP Cloud concepts, benefits, and operation
- Juniper ATP Cloud configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting
High Availability (HA) Clustering
- HA concepts, benefits, and operation
- Clustering configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting
Identity-Aware Security Policies
- Identity-aware security policy concepts, features, and functionality
- Identity-aware security policy configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting
SSL Proxy
- SSL proxy concepts, features, and functionality
- SSL proxy configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting
- Security Director
Examination sources
- Security, Specialist certification overview
Exam objectives, adoption statement
- Security, Specialist certification overview
Exam objectives, complete two-column table, headers and rows 1–7
- Security, Specialist certification overview
Exam details, code and software version
- Security, Specialist certification overview
Exam details, introductory paragraph
- Security, Specialist certification overview
Exam details, Exam type
- Certification Program Policies
Written exam grading
- Certification Program Policies
Provisional written exam scoring
- Security, Specialist certification overview
Exam details, code and delivery
- Certification News
09/15/2026, written exam scheduling
- Pearson VUE HPE Networking Certification
Scheduling panel
- Certification News
07/24/2025, JN0-336 availability announcement