JNCIE-ENT – I tried it again…

You either become a JNCIE-ENT or you tried long enough to see yourself cursing on that damn exam 😀 😀 😀
After quite some time I tried the next attempt of my JNCIE-ENT today – and I will never get used to these exams… Remote exams always stress me out: Will Zoom work? Will my provider be stable? Will the postman see the message I left at the front door (no, he ignored it) and not ring a thousand times to see if I’m home? Ah – such a lovely remote experience 😉 And the Blueprint for this exam is so… HUGE!
Fancy UI-Fabrics that build themselves through AI Magic? Nope, Sir – do this by hand!

Exclusive for you all I managed to get a sneak peek out of the exam room:

Jokes aside – I love this exam and I hate it at the same time so hopefully this will finally be my last time.
I do feel like I get faster with each attempt and know more and more about what shenanigans I have to do (although I would do some things a bit differently in a real-life scenario) but it starts to get frustrating…
But hey: this isn’t a “make a wish” – this is the JNCIE-Level so I’m thankful it’s not easy to obtain!

If everything goes well, I will know next week if I passed (and trust me everybody will know then) or if I have the delightful “opportunity” to do it again 😉 #NeverGiveUp

If it works, I will take a bit of a vacation until next year (because all the constant learning is finally taking it’s toll on my brain) and then go for the DC and SP – and yes – I’m still aiming for all the JNCIE’s 🙂

Wanna check out what the JNCIE-ENT means?
Here’s the Blueprint to get a glimpse of what I’ve been preparing for the past 2 years: https://www.juniper.net/us/en/training/certification/tracks/enterprise-routing-switching/jncie-ent.html

Have a wonderful week folks!

Update 25.09.2024:
Unfortunately, this attempt (#3 to be precise) was also a “not passed” and I have really HARD de-ja-vu vibes (I got my JNCIE-SEC in attempt #4 back in 2018) – At this point, it’s unsure if I may go for a 4th attempt and for the first time I’m asking myself if I should proceed or just say “well – It was fun but seems like this exam is not for me” – have to re-think some things and the scorecard is not helping at all with the results being too “generic” (something I’ve been criticizing for the past 6 years). When you know you have improved in some areas but the score in that section is still the same it hits like a truck… The worst part is that after every attempt you start to ask yourself if it was a typo, a wrong concept, a wrong applied whatever, or just “bad luck”… Although I’m not Batman (or am I? You’ll never know…) I remembered this quote when I read through that “fail mail” for a second time:

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