Engineering Cisco Meraki Solutions Learning Path

What you’ll learn

The Engineering Cisco Meraki Solutions learning path helps prepare you for roles focused on implementing, securing, and managing Cisco® Meraki™ based networks from a centralized dashboard.

This learning path prepares you for the 500-220 ECMS exam. If passed, you earn the Cisco Meraki Solutions Specialist certification. This training also earns you 24 Continuing Education (CE) credits towards recertification.

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This training earns you 24 Continuing Education credits towards recertification.

How you'll benefit

This training will help you:

  • Gain a comprehensive understanding of the Cisco Meraki platform
  • Develop expertise in designing, implementing, and securing Cisco Meraki networks
  • Operate and manage networks using Cisco Meraki’s cloud-based tools and features
  • Apply advanced monitoring and troubleshooting techniques
  • Earn 24 credits towards recertification

What to expect in the exam

500-220 ECMS: Cisco Meraki Solutions Specialist is a 90-minute exam associated with the Cisco Meraki Solutions Specialist certification.

The exam tests your knowledge and skills to engineer Meraki solutions, including:

  • Cloud management
  • Design
  • Implementing
  • Monitoring
  • Troubleshooting

Who should enroll

This learning path is designed for anyone seeking the Cisco Meraki Solution Specialist certification. The learning path provides foundational knowledge and skills to engineer Cisco Meraki solutions, including cloud management, design, implementation, monitoring, troubleshooting, and the comprehensive features of the Cisco Meraki product suite.

The job roles best suited to the material in this learning path are:

  • Consulting Systems Engineer
  • Deployment Engineer
  • Network Administrator
  • Network Engineer
  • Network Manager
  • Site Reliability Engineer
  • Systems Engineer
  • Technical Solutions Architect
  • Wireless Design Engineer
  • Wireless Engineer

Technology areas

  • Networking

Training overview

Objectives

  • Describe the process of planning new Cisco Meraki architectures and expanding existing deployments
  • Design networks for scalable management and high availability
  • Implement dynamic routing protocols to expand networks and improve Wide-Area Network (WAN) performance
  • Configure Quality of Service (QoS), policy, and performance-based routing configurations across a Cisco Meraki network
  • Optimize WAN performance through traffic shaping and WAN optimization techniques
  • Deploy secure multi-cloud solutions using the Cisco Meraki platform
  • Implement network security protocols and access control measures
  • Configure and troubleshoot wireless networks using Cisco Meraki wireless solutions
  • Utilize Cisco Meraki Dashboard tools to monitor and troubleshoot network behavior
  • Design and implement Virtual Private Network (VPN) and WAN topologies using Cisco Meraki solutions
  • Automate and scale Cisco Meraki deployments with dashboard tools
  • Describe best practices for network monitoring, logging, and alerting in a Cisco Meraki environment
  • Implement physical security measures and devices using Cisco Meraki solutions
  • Describe endpoint management concepts and practices within a Cisco Meraki network
  • Customize dashboards and alerts for effective network management
  • Generate comprehensive reports on network performance and security
  • Apply troubleshooting techniques to find and resolve network issues promptly

Prerequisites

Before taking this offering, you should have earned a Cisco Certified Networking Associate (CCNA) certification or be familiar with:

  • Basic network fundamentals and building simple Local Area Networks (LANs)
  • Basic network fundamentals, including building simple LANs, Internet Protocol (IP) addressing, and subnetting
  • Routing and switching fundamentals
  • Basic wireless networking concepts and terminology
  • Strong fundamental knowledge of IP addressing, subnetting, and dynamic routing protocols (Open Shortest Path First [OSPF] and Border Gateway Protocol [BGP])
  • Understanding of wired and wireless QoS mechanisms, IPsec VPN technologies, and network security controls
  • Familiarity with Radio Frequency (RF) design principles, wireless security best practices, and standard logging/monitoring protocols (Simple Network Management Protocol [SNMP], syslog, webhooks)
  • Basic knowledge of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and related languages/formats
  • Representational State Transfer [REST], JavaScript Object Notation [JSON])

The following recommended Cisco offering may help you meet these prerequisites:

  • Implementing and Administering Cisco Solutions (CCNA)
  • Implementing and Operating Cisco Enterprise Network Core Technologies (ENCOR)

Lab outline

  • Configuring the Cisco Meraki Dashboard
  • Enable advanced features and optimize networking
  • Troubleshooting the network using the Cisco Meraki Dashboard
  • Configure tags, links aggregation, port mirroring, and high-density SSIDs
  • Configure routing on the Cisco Meraki platform
  • Configure QoS, traffic shaping, and load balancing
  • Configure network security
  • Configure access policies and wireless guest access
  • Configure SSIDs, RF profiles, and Air Marshal
  • Implement endpoint management
  • Deploy and configure physical security devices
  • Enable alerts, and configure monitoring and reporting
  • Enable reporting and auditing, and manage firmware
  • Troubleshoot a Cisco Meraki network