JNCIE-Cloud case studies

JNCIA-Cloud - published under exam code JN0-214 as the Cloud, Associate certification - is the associate-level credential in the cloud certification track, and the source states that the track includes one certification. It is aimed at networking professionals with introductory-level knowledge of cloud-based networking architectures, theory, and best practices, and the written exam verifies understanding of cloud-based networking principles and technologies. The published objectives span seven areas: cloud fundamentals (deployment and service models, cloud-native architectures, automation tools); cloud infrastructure covering NFV architecture, orchestration and VNFs plus SDN architecture, controllers and solutions; network virtualization (virtual network types, underlay and overlay, encapsulation and tunneling including MPLS over GRE, MPLS over UDP, VXLAN, EVPN with VXLAN and GENEVE); cloud virtualization (Linux architecture, hypervisor types and operations, KVM/QEMU, creating VMs, containers versus VMs, Docker); and orchestration with OpenStack, Kubernetes and OpenShift. The exam is 65 multiple-choice questions in 90 minutes, delivered by Pearson VUE, in English only, with no prerequisite certification; listed software versions are Contrail 22.4, OpenStack Zed, Kubernetes 1.24 and OpenShift 4.10. The JNCIE-Cloud case studies are 5 cases and about 2,435 words.